should you date my characters?

Jedao Two - a strong maybe! for one thing he is actually very nice! he's an extremely romantic sap and eager to please in bed. but he's also low-key manipulative, Young in the 'everything is a Big Deal' way, and constantly horny for upwards of 75-80% of other men in the vicinity even if he does nothing about

also got some weird trauma circling

but on the plus side (especially for everyone on the barge who's got grief trauma) he is VERY durable

so you could do worse

Jedao One - honestly an excellent, quality boyfriend post-redemption IF your tolerance for having a boyfriend who shockingly resembles a border collie in his interpersonal style is high

he has So Much Energy. He is doing So Many Things and also So Many Other People. he will push you around to get you were he thinks it's best for you to go with a blithe bull-headed well-intentioned relentlessness

the sex will be dynamite. he will possibly give you a planet, between 5 and 20 children, a spaceship, or anything else he thinks will let you live your best life

he's exhausting. thank goodness he has other people to focus on most of the time

he is also genuinely very emotionally intuitive, good at listening, seeing things from your perspective and also presenting new ones, and solving problems. he has put a Lot of Work In. his appreciation for people is unflinching

but like. he's SO much

pre-barge Jedao is a good fling, but cannot be dated for more than that unless forced by a local mind-controlling dictator. him not dating you is also for your own good. see above

Reddix don't date Reddix. he is an absolute nutcase who will never show any affection. stalker tendencies. tried to poison his whole city. will remember EVERYTHING you ever said perfectly and throw it back at you passive aggressively in a monotone voice

also he's probably still in love with samara

Gestalt also pretty bad, but way better than reddix!

is kind of a magic SWAT team all by himself, with the accompanying fascistic tendencies

has never had a long term connection to anybody, including like. a friend. that wasn't mired in weird personas and identity issues and resentment. he truly does not know how to do it

and at 38 this is a lot less forgivable

even though he definitely ended up like this for reasons that aren't entirely his fault

he can gangbang you all by himself though so there's that

Gonou strongly believes that Jedao's the best date available.

Karelian: honestly if 'hot poly pagan witch-priest from the 10th century' sounds like your jam, you should totally date karelian

he's....steady. he's someone with strong convictions who is old enough that he knows how to handle his own shit, but also listens to people and can change his mind when he needs to. cares about honor but not in a stupid way. swords

also he is canonically bi and extremely chill about it, considering

his very devout squire loses his shit about this for like. 50 years

because Paul is the Worst™

lol, what's he from?

also, Fives has come around to agreeing that, yes, you should date Jedao. (Though he still demands to be the focus of a VERY SIGNIFICANT amount of that hyper border collie attention, b/c he's not much better)

a book called The Black Chalice, by Marie Jakober

it's rich and strange and quite good

hmmm /adds to list