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is there any new relationship stuff for Julian and Vic?

Yes! The whole assigning them to the same room has made Julian both more and less wary. He's got no problems with Victor as a rule; they get along well enough and that excluding camp's dumping them in the same bed (which weirds him out more than Victor can imagine) it's just like being back at the school, to be honest.

The thing is, it also freaks him out a bit because for a while there, his room was his "safe" space, or at least somewhere where he didn't feel like he had to pretend to be "okay". He's always kind of "on", in the sense that he is pretending that he's functioning! He's okay! He totally is not always pretending that he is coping when he really, really isn't and just wants to shut everything off until he's ready to deal with it again. In a way, this is good for him because hiding in his room is not a good psychological coping mechanism by any stretch of the imagination. But it's also bad because he's not ready for being on all the time, so he's probably prone to just shutting down at some points and just staring at the ceiling for hours at a time.

It's probably unsettling as fuck to poor Vic, to be honest.

Do you have any headcanon for Noel yet?

Nah. I generally only come up with headcanon as I have to.

UM...idk tell me things about Julian I want to know them.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF THINGS give me a topic.

TELL ME THINGS I WANT TO KNOW THEM.

Hope probably was a little in love with Vanille between the end of FFXIII and the beginning of FFXIII-2. It was less in love with Vanille as it was in love with the idea of her and what she represented and what he just couldn't have as a combination of his own natural reticence and his father's political position. He loved all the party, but they weren't as accessible to a lonely sixteen year old boy as Vanille was. He eventually fell out of love with her but still loves her like the rest of the party.
He does genuinely love his job. Even notwithstanding the whole part where he can use it to save his loved ones (which is a big bloody draw to him), Hope just wants to understand the world he lives in and how it works. He is a natural scientist, it just gets lost a lot in his desire to save his loved ones.
Hope is aware that Alyssa loves him. He thinks she should find someone who can give her what she needs, because he is not that person.
He never wrote to Elida outside of business. She and he went on one lunch date to organise her appearance at the opening, but they were so different now that they didn't have anything to talk about. He hasn't spoken to Kai at all.
I have no clue what sexuality Hope is, other than "extremely repressed". I don't think it matters, because Hope is so tangled up that it won't ever be untangled in camp.
He doesn't change his outfit in camp because he doesn't have one to change into. In canon, his uniform is a kind of armour. It tends to work too well, with people just seeing the Director and not Hope.
He feels personally responsible for the fate of the human race.
He has never gotten lost in Academia. This just adds to the mystery of The Director.
Hope does remember Alyssa. He started to get really disturbed when no-one else does, but has learned to keep his mouth shut about it in case they think he's nuts.
It's a requirement in Academia 400AF for everyone to be tested for magic potential and be trained in its use. Hope was tested and scored the highest they'd ever seen. He passes it off as being an ex-l'Cie and that it's really not a big deal. This does nothing to diminish the sheer worship the city gives him.
On that note, he finds the devotion creepy as hell, and insists that he's just Hope or Mister Estheim if they must be formal. He is a little dismayed at how no-one listens to him.
He lives alone. He wanted to have a pet cat or something, but there's no pet animals in Academia; they're all virtual. He doesn't really like the virtual pets, as they're not the same thing.
He does not have a duplicate AI. He finds the idea unsettling.
Hope's dreams are pretty messed up. He remembers some of the altered timelines in his dreams. He dreams of his deaths a lot, which unsettle him when he's awake. They feel so real. This is why he doesn't sleep that much ... well that and he's so stressed he wakes up after a few hours anyway.

YOU TELL ME THINGS. I COULD KEEP AT THIS ALL DAY.

IS THAT A CHALLENGE

The night after Fang and Vanille became l'Cie, they were thrown a celebratory party. It lasted until morning and everyone in Oerba came to see them off. Even though she drown herself in the night's events, Vanille sobbed as they left and Oerba disappeared from sight.

There was a big spat between Fang and Vanille about their Focus when Fang became Ragnarok and Vanille ran away. She very literally ran away, saying she couldn't do it. It was then that Fang resolved to save her no matter what. Vanille can't even pull flowers from the ground there was NO WAY THAT SHE WAS GOING TO KILL ALL THOSE PEOPLE even if she believed they sucked.

Vanille will pick flowers/plants only for celebratory reasons, or for use in food. When they wilt, she mourns their loss. :(( If they're in the ground, she mostly she just ends up talking to them. SHE LOVES THEM, THEY'RE LIKE HER BUDDIES IN THE GROUND.

On that note, Vanille is very spiritual! She could probably roll around in the grass all day and be happy. She doesn't do it nearly as much anymore, but she used to pray to Gran Pulse a lot. It was a little before she realized that she had to do more to help herself, rather than pray for the gods to do it for her. It's one of the reasons she got all fussy at Hope for making a fal'Cie. Not necessarily just the fal'Cie part, but the idea that people could create something that only gods should really bothered her.

When Vanille loves, she loves unabashedly. There are very loose boundaries when it comes to loving people and wanting to be close regardless of gender or age. It's one of the reasons she comes off so suggestive sometimes. She's very pansexual, and has a tendency of falling in love with people a little bit when she meets them.

Despite being a crybaby, she's not a bad hunter. She can justify it because dude, people need to eat. SHE ALSO KILLED THIS BEAR HERSELF.

When she was with Hope when his mom died, it hit a lot of emotions, many of them close to home. She remembers her own parents dying in a similar fashion, and Fang snapping her out of it. The Hanging Edge reminded her so much of the own warzone that she got caught in that it was more the draw to keep the poor, suddenly motherless boy aware enough not to die in the battle. It was one of the reasons she stuck with him, otherwise she would've left him before she went into the vestige. She was very aware that he needed someone.

Actualllly, there were a lot of times during their travels that she realized Hope needed someone. She sort of volunteered herself, since a lot of the other people in the party were stupid. It was one of the reasons he got lots of touchings/handholdings/nappings together.

Vanille can do a lot of different things but there's not a lot of hobbies she's amazing at. She knows the basics of taking and putting a toaster together, and could probably find a problem if something minor happened with the microwave, but if it gets more complicated than that she'll take it all apart and fuss when she realizes she can't put it back together. It's the same with hunting. She's better than you'd expect, but she's not on Fang or Noel's level. The same is with cooking, sewing, and household repairs.

Fang is the one who snapped her out of her depression when her village was destroyed, and Fang is the one who stayed with her when she needed emotional stability without asking anything in return. She admires her a lot for it, but it took Fang a while to convince her that she didn't need to do anything for her in return..

I have more but i have to go shopping. So more later.

When she killed the bear she wears on her skirt, she prayed for it after it died.

When she lived in Oerba, she actually did usually go house to house depending on where it was convenient to sleep! Her favorite memory was sleeping out in the garden on top of the school house curled next to Fang.

All the children in Oerba got taught together! But there were only a small amount of children in each class, all at varying ages depending on what subject was being taught. Though the school was split into several different classes, the system of education was closer to what we'd call a university then what we would call middle-high school. There were classes that everyone was expected to take, and those that were catered toward individuals who wanted to take on specific roles in the community.

Oerba, despite being small, was relatively self-sufficient. They could hunt, forage, and cultivate their own food. They utilized both hydroelectirc and wind turbines to harvest energy. Their patron, Anima, kept more of the undesirable wildlife away. Their imports varied on what was needed to further the community at the time. Their main import line came through Paddra.

Fang and Vanille had been to Paddra on several trips to pick up certain materials.

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL TIMES WHERE TINY VANILLE had run off and gotten lost. One time she had the whole village in a tizzy looking for her.

When she dreamed in crystal, it was of many things. The goddess Etro, her Focus, Fang, and the people she used to share her life with that were gone. There were also many dreams that she shared with the ones that would be l'Cie, and even one with Serah, but most of them are left forgotten. There are a few, however, that she can remember.

ANNIE AND JULIAN

He goes back and forth on her! Firstly, Annie is hot (if neurotic) and Julian can dig that, okay. However, there's a part of him that isn't emotionally numb yet that hates that she knows him as this fucked up mess that he is; he is, in essence, ashamed that this is how she knows him, a fucked up mess who can't even get his life back together. He's also ashamed at how he knows he needs her in his life too, to fuss over him and clean up and just be as normal as she can be. It's this weird mix of depressive guilt, shame and need. He hates that he's like that, he hates that he's doing that, and he hates that this is how she knows him rather than the confident mutant he used to be, so it is just. FML all around.

Which one of mine should meet Rebekah for hilarity?

I'M THINKING HOPE OR ELLIOT simply because I don't have any cr with either of them yet.

Edited (i splel gud) 2012-02-26 17:24 (UTC)

EXPLAIN YOUR FEELINGS TO ME JULIAN.

Short version: He can't cope with this.

Long version: It's hard to describe just how thoroughly broken Julian is by Scott in comics continuity. As frightening as the mutant events are for the adults, they are even more frightening for a teenager who is utterly helpless to change his own destiny, as the X-Men are his legal guardians and no-one cares enough to investigate their care of the teenagers. Scott has quite openly stated that the teenagers are child soldiers in the war between mutants and humans and that he will deploy them if he thinks their mutant talents are necessary to preserve the species. He doesn't really prioritise their sanity at all. For Julian, he canonically stays in his room for weeks at a time, can't get up the inclination to take care of basic personal hygiene stuff and is so depressed that Wolverine stages an intervention because he thinks that Julian may kill himself. He hates and despises himself for what he has become and what he has done, hates that he's a double amputee, and he blames Scott for putting him in that position. He blames Scott for putting his friends into that position, and he blames himself for not being smart enough, good enough, strong enough to keep everyone safe. He is a massive ball of self-loathing and hatred that he manages to wrangle into some kind of functionality by hating Scott Summers, with a healthy streak of fear that he will try to kill him if he comes to camp and notices that he's not in the school or Utopia. I mean, Julian knows not only that X-Force kills people but has watched it; he was pretty ill at the time, but he's entirely coherent and aware of what's going on around him, so he knows that it's a definite possibility.

Then he meets movie Scott! A Scott who is wryly self-aware, who values people over the species as a whole, who actually wants to train the kids in a safe way. He's still a dick, but he is nowhere near the spectacularly douchey levels of comics Scott. Someone who is horrified at the idea of using children as child soldiers. And Julian just can't cope with this. His entire coping mechanism was hating Scott! Scott is someone worthy of his ire and hatred and now this one isn't. Which begs the question: what's wrong with him? There's a part of Julian that's broken enough to believe that he deserves everything he gets because he was put in a position where he killed someone to protect everyone else, and so he dwells on the part where this is his punishment. Everything that happens to him, how miserable his life is and how much it lacks any kind of meaning or joy in it? That's his punishment. He earned this. Normally he can function through this. Movie Scott not being his Scott (and therefore not being someone who he can lash out at) means he can't.

He probably checked out on his bed for a few days, to be honest, in that weird depressive state where time passes and you don't even notice.

SO SCOTT. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE THESE DYSFUNCTIONAL TEENAGERS AS ADOPTED CHILDREN? What does he think is even up with Julian?

Haha, okay so.

X-men = Family. That's pretty much Scott's creed. Scott makes sure they have enough Oreos. Scott sits down and watch their TV shows with them. Scott patrols the school at night to make sure no one's having nightmares.

So now in some weird alternate universe, they are fighting a war and used as soldiers. That is not what X-Men are about, to Scott. His sole purpose was to protect the X-Men, keep them safe. He knows this! Despite loving the Professor and seeing the justness in his case, Scott is always going to be for the X-Men first before anyone else.

So Scott isn't hurt that much by the accusations. He understands that he would have done the same. But now he's terrified of becoming the person where he sends kids to war. He cannot comprehend this scenario at all. Even with Jean's death, the X-Men are his life. He would have never given that up.

Therefore, Scott will take it slow. He won't press and push. He's trying hard to adapt to the situation and be a different person in their eyes. He doesn't know what happened and really, he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to have any connection with the Scott they know.

I HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION.

Five things the mutant-teachers should do!

1. Arrange for the babymutants to see some kind of therapist or to just talk to them about their problems after a while so that they are able to break this creepy codependence that the NXM kids have.

2. LOTS OF STUPID MUTANT GAMES

3. ...actual school.

4. SET SOME RULES IN THIS CABIN for serious it is anarchy in there.

5. NO TURNING INTO STUFFED ANIMALS WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THAT.

(also man, I just remembered that Julian should probably see Jean about his prosthetics and getting them adjusted.)

Five things that Scott wants to do in camp?

1. Start arranging regular lessons; So far, lessons will be mandatory for Jubilee, Kurt and Rogue since he know they'll come. Everyone else gets to choose.

2. LOTS OF STUPID MUTANT GAMES.

3. Bonding! If there's a dumb movie we're watching, he'll watch. If there's a stupid game that needs to be play, he'll be in, just to show the kids he's around in a positive capacity.

4. Therapy is on his mind, but he's not sure how to do that. Beyond that, he does want to have Jean arrange counselings sessions since she is a doctor, and get the mutants to talk to someone he trusts. (Magneto and Wolverine are out. Forever)

5. Give them rides on his bike, no matter how much it kills him inside :(

Hmm. If Ronan knew that Rex is into manslaughter what would he say/do?

By "into" I hope you don't mean "gets off on it".

Ronan would be more dismayed for Rex's moral health than anything. Ronan understands that you do have to kill sometimes - he was the One's Champion and has been dropped into two combat zones that I know of where he has had to basically kill his way to his goal, and while he grieves their deaths, he understands that it was necessary. What would concern Ronan more is if Rex became apathetic to killing people, or enjoyed it. If he does it because he must and understands that a life is a weighty thing to bear then Ronan would be understanding but also not be that worried. It's if that's not the case he would be worried.

DOES REX HAVE A BRONER FOR RONAN AND TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Yes.

Okay, so, Rex doesn't really have broners, except for Ben Tennyson and that's more of a hero worship thing towards the end. Rex respects Ben, wants to be just like him, would copy any of his habits just to be closer. His feelings for Ben Tennyson are through the roof.

It's different with Ronan. Ronan was Rex's first friend in camp and someone Rex believed he could have a good time with. Have fun, relax, be a kid. And it helped that Ronan believed in him and understood him! That made a huge difference, because Rex was extremely relaxed with Ronan and never tried to hide anything. Ronan is Rex's friend and Rex believes that wholeheartedly.

Of course, S3 came along and ruined everything. Rex is finding it harder and harder to believe that Ronan understands because he doesn't know anything about Ronan! He's Irish, he has parents, he likes the sea and is a geek is about it and that's not enough for Rex anymore. But he doesn't want to dislike Ronan for keeping to himself. He's trying hard to understand that part of Ronan's personality and he worries that ultimately, he's just not that much of a friend to Ronan as Ronan is to him. IT'S GIVING HIM A BIT OF A COMPLEX.

But Rex does and thoroughly adore Ronan.

WHAT ABOUT YOUR BRONER

Ronan does love Rex because Ronan loves everyone, flaws and all. It's part of what makes him a wizard, that unconditional ability to love, because that's what wizardry is about at the core of it all: the sheer fierce joy at being alive and loving people can help you do the impossible. Also as part of his wizardry Ronan has to know himself completely: the consequence of this is that he knows that he is superficially open but mostly opaque about his past, his thoughts and what he dreams of. He knows this! But he also knows that it's not about him. In camp, Ronan has the most well adjusted background around, practically. He therefore doesn't really like to talk about his background because, well, it's bragging.

He also dislikes it when people tell him he must do a certain thing. Rex's efforts to force him to reveal more than he wanted to annoyed Ronan because Ronan makes his own choices when he chooses to and not a minute before. Someone forcing him to do something gets his back up because Ronan is someone who fiercely values his own independence.

All that aside, he is genuinely a friend of Rex. He likes him! He does wish that Rex would spend less time trying to pry into his life and more focusing on the here and now because he thinks that Rex needs is less dwelling on the past and more destressing by doing stuff that is entirely not about combat. he just has a short temper.

Name a character who should meet one of mine and why?

Elliot and Belus - for mindfuckery
Elliot and Rex - because I think Rex needs a friend who can be as angry as he can be.
Ronan and Optimus Prime - IDK Optimus is a librarian, he'd love Ronan okay.
Hope and Kell-El - because I enjoyed it!
Hope and Yuri - WHY NOT let's snark.

Reverse!

...i have been sitting here for ages trying to remember who you play. WHO DO YOU PLAY.

Pfft.

Dean Winchester, Leto Atreides the II, James T. Kirk, Yuri Lowell, Stefan Salvatore, Sherlock Holmes, Albert Heinrich, Kell-El, Rex Salazar, Optimus Prime, Belus and Scott.

Hope and Leto just to crush his spirit into tiny little pieces and make him miserable just through Hope (and now Noel) existing.

You know this would go terribly.

Yes, but it would be great.

YES BUT THEN HE WOULD HAVE TO ANSWER TO ALL OF LETO'S HAREM.

AND.

HOPE WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT EVEN IS.

one day we will get the doctor who will sit them down and explain how they broke time. each and every one of them.

who is even in Leto's harem, anyway

It's cool, Leto doesn't know he has a harem anyway.

Uh, Rain, Machika, Erik, Charles, Peter, Josh? I think it's more but I've forgotten already.

Ronan and Garrus maybe I'll think of interesting questions while waiting for your reply

Ronan is kind of pretty zen at the moment with Garrus! It's like ... Garrus is this guardian figure that also respects his own capabilities and knows that he can handle himself ... while also being there when he can't be. For all that Ronan carries himself as very self-assured and confident, he is very much a teenaged boy with his own insecurities still. So the fact that Garrus is able to let him go and trusts him while still backing him up is a Big Deal. He thinks Garrus is awesome incarnate, okay.

Give me some headcanon on Garrus and Elena!

Talk to me about Ronan and Jaime's living arrangements -- household habits, routines, things they do that would probably annoy each other, things they do that probably complement each other, etc!

Ronan probably wakes up whenever Jaime is having one of his weird dreams in case Jaime wants to talk about them, or just hear someone talk about something inane and inconsequential. He used to have a wizardry that did this for him but now he just intuits when this happens and wakes up.
There have been a few times where Jaime has come to the cabin and Ronan has passed out on the couch in the common area, because he couldn't get any further. Jaime wakes him up because he looks uncomfortable and also he wants his damned couch back. Ronan tries to appreciate this.
The fridge is full of Ronan, Jaime and Nita's stuff in individual shelves. Ronan knows if Jaime has taken something of his. He doesn't say anything but he knows.
Jaime has a shower after Ronan chats up the pipes to make sure they don't splurt blood everywhere.
They cut each other's hair. It used to be embarrassing but now it's just god i am sick of not being able to see what I'm doing. It's a kind of resigned annoyance rather than the dumb stuff they used to pull.
Jaime bans Ronan from leaving his books outside of his room, knowing full well that they would take over the cabin. He's right.
Jaime hates Ronan's taste of music. The dislike is mutual.
Ronan does the cabin's laundry. Jaime used to find it weird until he realised that Ronan liked the downtime in the laundromat to think about stuff without being expected to be on errantry, per se.
Jaime is this close to banning Ronan and Nita talking about errantry in the cabin.
He is even closer to banning Ronan from being utterly selfless to the point of forgetting his own limits.
There is a chores chart. It has never been followed.

Tell me five things that Jaime actually admires about Ronan go.

- his sense of "good" about things - he wishes he felt that certain about where he was and what he did in that sense for sure. he feels like ronan has (or at least projects) a very sure moral sense wrt his decisions and actions, and that's kind of reinforced to him by the fact that his powers are essentially based on preserving life.
- his sense of determination/dedication - once he really puts his mind to an idea p. much nothing anyone says will change it, lol. this is simultaneously frustrating and something he admires in a kind of grudging sense because he knows that sometimes the hardest and most necessary decisions are things nobody wants to see done. he knows that as much as he gives him grief about the barrier, he saw a solution, took it, and implemented it so that there was something.
- Ronan is way better at not... being completely awkward... all the time ever... than he is... 8( he admires the fact that he's kind of charismatic and just better at social situations in general and also manages to not look like a doofus ha ha... ha. there are a lot of times where Jaime wishes he could be a lot more like him (basically every time he inserts his foot into his mouth). and then he remembers Ronan is actually also kind of a nerd and really not that cool but. THERE ARE MOMENTS.
- his ability to wear aviator sunglasses without looking 100% dumb (it's only about 80%)

hypothetical projects you think they've done out of boredom!

Edited 2012-03-03 01:33 (UTC)

I'm super late, but any new relationship stuff for Ronan and Vanya?

Yes! Actually, the most recent thread with Ronan and Vanya neatly encapsulates everything that is going on with Ronan and his view on Vanya.

First up, and I don't think this would come as a surprise, but Vanya is a very draining person to talk to, emotionally. As we saw in the thread, Vanya consistently takes the worst meaning away from any given conversation. He can never change that. He can never get her to believe that he wouldn't say the things she keeps saying he is saying, and it frustrates him that he has spent years on this and she keeps ascribing these horrible things to him.

Secondly, Ronan actually feels a great amount of shame about how Vanya talks and acts. He's from a canon where the writer was a psychology nurse who specialised in children and adolescents with psychological illnesses, and this feeds into her work - the characters, in essence, act their age and when they start acting abnormally, it's a sign of concern! The series canonically talks about self-identity, actualisation, memory loss, autism, depression ... this is not a series that shies away from examining the Big Stuff and the characters are savvy enough to get it when they see it. Anyway. Ronan knows that Vanya is not acting like a twelve year old girl by any stretch of the imagination. When he sees her act in a way that would better suit a six to eight year old, he feels great shame for his part in this. He also thinks that anyone who encourages this behaviour is abusing her just as badly as Hargreeves, but in a different way: the behaviour has the consequence of forcing her to be dependent on a group of people for her own self-esteem, but it's done to be "kind" rather than "to help her". It was always his goal to get her to a point where she could be her own person, but all that he's done is made her dependent on people in a different way and he hates what he's done to her. Further, he can't undo it because it's reinforced by all of camp; how do you undo a behaviour that is encouraged by everyone else as being cute and sweet but is actually terribly destructive?

This leads into my final point: Ronan has become more aggressive about it lately because Ronan honestly thinks that his work on the barrier has a very good chance of killing him and Nita both. When he told her about how he doesn't want his legacy to be her dead, he means, basically, one of his goals prior to his death is to get Vanya into a positon where she isn't in this horrible codependent abusive cycle and she can stand up on her own, and he has a very short timeframe to do this in. He is getting to the point where he thinks he can't do it because she doesn't want it and instead wants to stay in this comfortable cycle of abuse.

When he sees Vanya, basically, he sees his failure and how he fucked her up beyond belief. He will never tell her this, but right now she is the person he can't save because she doesn't want to be saved. She's happy in this abusive cycle because she is not ready to leave it, and there is nothing he can to do to rescue her.

Welp! That sure was heavy going. What does Vanya think of Hope?

The sad thing is is that Vanya tries her hardest to nor assume the worst when she's talking to Ronan because he's one of screw people that explains to her how it hurts people. Vanya is also actively trying to be like a "normal" twelve-year old but she's struggling with it. If she knew how Ronan was feeling she would most definitely be upset, maybe even angry since she thinks she's trying, but she would also try to make changes to her behavior. Vanya is big on making herself "better", she's just not always correct when it comes to determining how and what she should change.

For Hope, Vanya likes him! A huge part of that is that Hope is Vanille's friend and Vanya adores Vanille so she trusts Hope more than she usually would. Hope's research sounds interesting and Vanya is definitely going to ask him more questions about it because time issues in Camp worry her a lot and she's a bit freaked out that she doesn't age, though she'd be more freaked out if she did. Basically, she wants to get to know Hope better and once she does she'll likely start worrying about him working too much or not having fun, since Vanille's already mentioned it. Vanya is also super glad to have another person she knows in the labs and definitely visits him frequently. The labs used to be a terrifying place Vanta never wanted to go, but slowly with having her darkroom and meeting nice people that work there she's overcoming that feat. Hope should expect lots of visits!

Edited 2012-02-27 17:08 (UTC)

... And I forgot a question! Reverse for Hope and Vanya and/or what's Hope's lab setup like?

So Vanya has externalised her issues to a huge extent - Hope has spoken to her a few times and is pretty much able to pick them all up: she's afraid of science; she wants to be useful and to have a purpose; she thinks she's unlikeable and she lacks self-awareness. This is why he is taking their threads very carefully; he is working on establishing boundaries for their relationship. For example, the ear piece! if he cannot talk to her for whatever reason, he's just going to say so. (This is in part Ronan's problem - he won't tell her that he can't cope right now whereas Hope would simply request that she come back later so that he can give her his full attention). If he's busy he will say so, but also give her a time when she can talk to him again. Basically, he's kind of very aware that Vanya could go from needing reassurance to being kind of a leech on him, emotionally, and he thinks the latter is a very bad idea. So he's setting up boundaries.

They're not friends as that would be kind of the definition of creepy. But they are some kind of guardian/charge relationship.

As for Hope's lab! It's locked to him, and if you go inside it doesn't look that flash. There's a really comfortable chair though, because Hope canonically never sleeps so he needs a comfortable chair to pass out on for a few hours.

But on a serious note there's a bunch of datapads lying around that light up because that's what Academia uses all the time man. The white board on the wall is covered with scientific equations and notes to himself that make no sense to anyone except him given that he and Alyssa invented time-space theory. There's always at least one moogle in his office, old coffee cups lying around and on the desk are a bunch of prototypes that he's working on. He has tools in the drawers and basically his office is kind of crazily cluttered.

One thing you want to do with each of your characters?

Julian's thoughts on Nana and Ronan's on Accelerator.

I am so unoriginal.