7: Is tough. He definitely isn't a sharer. Where's the "Nobody, if he can help it" option?
10: It's tough to point at a single benchmark, but by and large, there are certain people he trusts to have his back in battle and certain people he will always spare an eye toward when he works with them. The former are the real friends.
14: Honestly, the fact that the two have such a playful element to their relationship is delightful and I love it about them. They spend a lot of their time just having fun and being goofy, y'know? It's the best. Also Aladdin shows off his best recipes for her.
20: Honestly, he saw pretty quickly that she was sweet and kind just from watching her in the marketplace, but he was very impressed with how clever and brave she was.
2: So. Absent other factors, her default behavior is to find other powerful/formidable people and try to arrange a social hierarchy where those people are one step below her.
She thinks in terms of social capital and soft power as much as military power; it's not a mistake that in The Beach, the subject of her (disastrous) experimentation was the most socially central guy in the community of teenage nobility.
Her actual social connection to them is almost exclusively an afterthought (and even in RP, her most successful social connections have always been accidental encounters rather than the people she targeted)
5: She tries hard not to think about emotional connections. At a start, she tends to be very locked in a utilitarian power-dynamic-focused view of personal connection.
When something does force her into a position of, let's say social openness, it very rapidly puts her on her back foot. That way lies trouble. It lets the self-loathing in.
9: Ahahahahahaha no. She "expresses affection" by tolerating you, and perhaps if you do something she finds useful or gratifying she might thank you for it, but she is not expressive.
She doesn't reject affection. If she's decided you're in her circle, she'll allow things like hugs and so forth, but she's terrible at expressing herself sincerely.
7: Is tough. He definitely isn't a sharer. Where's the "Nobody, if he can help it" option?
10: It's tough to point at a single benchmark, but by and large, there are certain people he trusts to have his back in battle and certain people he will always spare an eye toward when he works with them. The former are the real friends.
14: Honestly, the fact that the two have such a playful element to their relationship is delightful and I love it about them. They spend a lot of their time just having fun and being goofy, y'know? It's the best. Also Aladdin shows off his best recipes for her.
made her even hotterWhen something does force her into a position of, let's say social openness, it very rapidly puts her on her back foot. That way lies trouble. It lets the self-loathing in.
She doesn't reject affection. If she's decided you're in her circle, she'll allow things like hugs and so forth, but she's terrible at expressing herself sincerely.