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NANAMI…

Nanami is, without a doubt, the person who Sebastian’s opinion of changed the most drastically as well as the most frequently. Towards the beginning of the game, everyone had to have a sort of “trigger” so to speak for Sebastian to actually take notice and interest in them, and for Nanami, hers was getting into that argument with Maya on Week 4. That was pretty much what set everything about the eventual Report into motion, and after chatting it over with Kaoru that week, he did think that Nanami was the leader of the group, though he wouldn’t know to call her the Mastermind until later. It wasn’t anything particularly suspicious about her as a person, just noticing that with the other people he suspected, they tended to all respect and like her the most, so it was just sort of a logical, working perception that she might be a leader of a group if it existed. It wasn’t until later that he actually started to suspect this group as being dangerous. Like at first, he really just thought they had a bit more information than everyone else, and there was a sort of daisychain sort of thing going on.

Though obviously, eventually he started to perceive them as a threat, which also made Nanami a big threat. Just based on the personalities of the DKs, he really didn’t seriously consider that any of them were putting on a persona and were actually axe-happy murderers, and it was the same for Nanami! He genuinely thought they were very likely all good people but into a bad situation outside of their control. Yet, where normal people would be sympathetic and would go about things way differently, Sebastian absolutely was not.

This is because the way Sebastian thinks about things tends to be very black and white, and Chizuru even commented on it in one of their conversations. He’s such a logical person that even though he knows there are shades of grey and it isn’t as if he overlooks them completely, Sebastian operates with a ruthless sort of efficiency. His goal was to survive and return to Ciel—to accomplish this goal, he was willing to do whatever was necessary, and for a while, it seemed like taking out the group was the best way to do it. Nanami was the Mastermind, so he did plot a lot to take her out somehow, but he also guessed that it wouldn’t be as simple as targeting her, which is what got him moving towards smoking her out instead. He was doing that with the Report, since he was fairly sure she was the Mastermind at that point, and then further with his failed plan to actually get them all working on the same side.

Which, to that end, Sebastian was never meant that he wanted the DKs to turn against Nanami, because he knew they would have already if they were going to! His idea was actually more along the lines of forcing them into a corner and accepting an alliance with the rest of the group, because like remember, Sebastian had no idea how the DKs actually worked and didn’t think he ever would… He totally thought they were being manipulated, so this was sort of to cover their asses too, like making it so that they didn’t have a choice but to work with Sebastian. It was still underhanded and ineffective, but. Sebastian is underhanded as a person…

But to this point, Sebastian really had no real concept or perception of Nanami as a person, but rather, she was a threat that had to be neutralized somehow for him to accomplish his goal, and that was it. As soon as it became clear that killing Nanami wasn’t the way to accomplish the goal, he dropped the idea immediately. The turning point of thinking of her in a different light was when she revealed what she was and how she worked. If Nanami hadn’t been an AI, Sebastian still would have distrusted her a lot, since he would have expected a doublecross, but he was surprised to find them to actually have a pretty similar existence, and it also helped him to calm down a lot, since he understood immediately why she acted the way she did and didn’t hold it against her in the slightest. It becomes a very black and white issue for him again, but not in the sense of it being right or wrong. He just gets it and doesn’t hold it against her.

Then after that, he warmed up to her significantly mostly because she wasn’t something he had to fight against anymore. By the time he warmed up to her, it was also clear that everyone was going to have to live to survive, so it just so happened at the same time that his perception of her also shifted to something very close to “like” as he took on a more protective role. He doesn’t really get how she processes things emotionally, since a lot of her actions throughout the game were still ridiculous to him, but at the very least, in this, Sebastian won’t dwell on it at all. He really doesn’t hold grudges longterm, so as soon as they passed the bridge of “oh so you’re the Mastermind? Okay, cool, I was right” he was willing to just look out for in line with the rest of the group that made it towards the end.

Which, by the way, he’s definitely biased towards the people that survived towards the end + Athena and Chizuru, so… welcome to that club. Sebastian is definitely more likely to listen to Nanami and protect her by virtue of being in this exclusive club, so there’s that.