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Aather: Yuri Lowell and Dirk Strider
Decollage: Dave Strider/Gil and Yuri Lowell/Bailey
Thoughtformed: Dirk Strider and Guillaume Gerard
Soul Campaign: Dirk Strider

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SION...

Dirk has a difficult time with him sometimes >O HE SEES THAT they are kindred souls, in a way, but I think Sion has the edge of being older and a bit more mature, not to mention being better socialized. So Sion makes Dirk feel like he’s floundering a bit when he’s normally the master of the conversations he enters. But despite that, he feels pretty comfortable around himIt’s nice to have another partner to have a sort of playful conversation with.

He’s very curious about Sion, but he’s kind of shy about pulling his normal BE AS AWKWARDLY DIRECT AS POSSIBLE because he doesn’t feel like he has a handle on him...

Also who even are you thinking I'm cute what even is that.

Reverse?

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Sion is actually really comfortable with Dirk, probably because Dirk doesn't have a lot of obvious feelings and expectations so Sion feels fairly relaxed just having playful conversations or talking to him or whatever. Dirk is easy for him to interact with because he answers deadpan and he knows how to joke with it. Sion likes him! He enjoys finding ways to fluster him, as much as Dirk flusters, because, look, Dirk IS adorable, undeniable fact.

So while he doesn't feel he and Dirk are really close yet, he does feel that they're fairly comfortable, and he appreciates that.

Basically he's pretty chill at developing their friendship at whatever pace it goes, he finds Dirk pretty easy to be around.

Hm... Dirk's thoughts on games?

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Dirk is surprisingly passive about games! Mostly because not very many of them entertain him. He doesn't like games with forced interaction (like social bingo, etc.) because he DOES like interacting--but only on his own terms. Dirk gives off the appearance of being social because he has a decent number of solid acquaintances, but most of the people (Like Naha, and Maleficient, and Cass, and Rose) he only talked to in the first place because he had an angle to approach them on. Dirk doesn't like casually exchanging intimacy, because it's so important to him, but he'll play the games anyway just to win.

And trauma games don't really phase him. Dirk has never solidly been MUST PROTECT HELIODOR AT ALL COSTS or MUST SACRIFICE SELF TO PROTECT OTHERS. He recognizes that some people on Heliodor need to do the latter, and some the former, and since everyone gets healed after it's kind of pointless to wring hands over it. Now that Dave is around Dirk will absolutely bus anyone to protect both Dave and himself, but that's for the future. Jason usually takes point on trauma games and Dirk generally agrees with him, so he's not super motivated to voice an opinion.

Dirk likes games that stimulate his strategy boner and his intellectual curiosity, like the first game he played in (Peter Pan's Battle Royale with the knights) and Three's exploradora game. A lot of the time games are kind of awkward for him and he feels he's not pulling his weight, though it doesn't bother him overmuch, cause they sure still win a bunch.

What does Sion think about games?

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Sion has basically one goal in games: protect Heliodor (and Turquoise, Yuki and Kazuki if they're playing, he will bus other knights or the rest of Sapphire though). That means in non-dangerous games he generally doesn't give any fucks about anything, so won't comment much usually. This'll change when he unlocks his gaming/competitive streak skill, but for now if it's a non-dangerous game he is content to let the rest of the team do whatever they want and maybe add his input a little. He finds it hard to relax in games, but now and then he's found he can have fun with Heliodor in them, and that's actually nice, and he does like winning memories even if he hates his memories. But for the normal games he just typically is apathetic to them.

For games with potential injury and death he is also not really one to take charge, his role in canon is "support/guardian/adviser" so he'll definitely argue his stance but he won't usually push for his way unless he sees someone being self-sacrificial or one of his things is in danger.

In general his stance on games is "this is just like home only the mechanics are different but the end goal is kind of sadistic/voyeuristic enjoyment of watching us dance" because in his world the beings that run death games basically outright say it's purely for their own pleasure and Sion can't disassociate the Personae from those beings so he absolutely correlates the motives as well. Another reason he doesn't put much effort in on the normal games, not wanting to give the Personae any satisfaction (which does conflict with his desire to win).