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Kazoo on Athena and Gundam!!

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I WILL COME BACK TO GUNDAM IN A BIT because lord knows there is going to be more to say there. So for now, Athena!

For the most part, Kuzuryuu didn't really have any strong opinions on Athena because they didn't really talk much. Which I think might have something to do with their respective needs to be treated like an adult instead of a child, just going off of what I've seen you say on Plurk about Athena and how she treated younger characters vs. adults BECAUSE I HAVE NOT PLAYED DUAL DESTINIES YET. Meanwhile Kazoo wants to be treated like an adult but at the same time he wants friends who are his own age and basically Kazoo is a hot mess who wants to have his cake and eat it too. But he didn't really dislike her or anything, he just never really had an interaction with her that cause him to really bond with her like he did with BASICALLY EVERY OTHER TEENAGE GIRL IN THE CASTLE. He was a little wary of her at first owing to his role as a DK and her bullshit lawyer lie detecting. But that kind of went away when it became obvious that that actually wouldn't be as much of a problem as he first assumed.

It wasn't till w6/7 that he really kind of started to form more of a concrete opinion on Athena. The fact that she was the one to track down and comfort Feferi after the whole smoking room fiasco earned her big points with Kuzuryuu. Because he likes Feferi and she was his teammate and Apollo is a jackass who upset her and Kuzuryuu kind of MISSED MOST OF THAT FIASCO. Then there was Rin's trial though. Her whole not voting suicide plan kind of put him in a weird place where he had to face his own hypocrisy a little bit. Because that was when he'd sort of been considering attacking somebody he knew he had no chance of killing and getting killed in self defense. Because he really didn't want to kill anybody and he EXTRA REALLY did not want to scapegoat anybody. So he was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place of his inevitable death and just kind of wanting to have some degree of control over it. Because the idea of killing somebody with no intention of getting away with it just to prevent his failure incentive didn't sit right with him at all. So like...in a way he sort of got where Athena was coming from? But at the same time he found it really selfish of her because her dying due to failure to vote helped nobody but herself. It got her out of the game so she didn't have to deal with it anymore, but then it still left everybody else stuck. Plus, she'd proven herself to be a fairly smart and capable young woman so like...that's one less person to help them try and find a way out of this? So yeah, he really probably was the worst person to try and help her with that whole thing because he was trying to come from two different angles at once and failing miserably. But he's glad somebody with better people skills than him talked her out of it.

Then came the report, and while it was nice that Athena took it from the angle of "we need to help these four instead of killing them or something" he was kind of annoyed that she didn't...really seem to have a plan for how to DO that. Granted, nobody did beyond Apollo's stupid "let's have a no kill week!" plan which obviously they couldn't do? SO AT LEAST HE WASN'T AS IRRITATED WITH HER AS HE WAS WITH APOLLO. Like he wasn't thrilled that she was saying one thing and then not following through with it, but at least she was trying to make an effort to understand their position and she wasn't suggesting things they obviously couldn't do.

She kind of dropped off his radar again until after he died. He was really touched by the whole pajama party thing? Mostly for Nanami's sake but he also just thought it was nice that somebody was trying to do something to keep everyone's spirits up. ALSO ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH. Then she wound up dead, which he was initially kind of miffed because HE DIED SO YOU FUCKERS COULD HAVE A NO KILL WEEK and he seriously thought at first that one of the other players killed her. Because he kind of thought that there really WAS a true mastermind thanks to that dumb trivia question about the host's name. He just wasn't sure if it WAS the true mastermind who did it or if the true mastermind was set up or if it was just somebody trying to expose them or wtf was going on there but it all worked out in the end. One the one hand: he feels kind of bad for her because she totally got the short end of the stick. But at the same time, he feels like she should be proud of the fact that they killed her because she pissed them off. Be...cause he's Kuzuryuu and he's weird like that.

He might try and get to know her a little better from here on out SINCE THEY'RE GOING TO BE STUCK HERE FOR A WHILE and she's really not so bad. She's okay in Feferi's book and he's pretty sure she's okay in Nanami's because of the whole AI thing and Athena's love of technology and that's good enough for him, really.

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Okay I lied, I didn't stop and think about the fact that Gundam wasn't actually around to Kuzuryuu's knowledge until the very end so LESS TO SAY ABOUT HIM THAN I THOUGHT. But still things to say about him because holy hell, Gundam.

Okay so obviously Kuzuryuu didn't remember who he was until he died and then he was kinda like "no wonder they made me dress up like that fucker, it's because we know each other." And of course some of his classmates were involved in this shit in other rounds. Of course. That's just their luck! He kind of vaguely wondered what happened to Gundam and Sonia in their game and afterwards (especially with Kanaya, Annie, and Rapture in the graveyard) but with everything that happened in the game after his execution, their fates kind of took a backseat for a while.

THEN GUNDAM SHOWED UP AS THE HOST. Which I was fully expecting but Kuzuryuu definitely wasn't. He'd figured out that Kaoru was an inside man but he hadn't really stopped to think about the possibility of the host being one as well. And he especially wouldn't have guessed Gundam because, like he told Yuyuko, Gundam was not...subtle enough to pull that off for an extended period. If Gundam had been the host the whole time, HE'S FAIRLY SURE HE WOULD HAVE REALIZED IT THE MINUTE HE GOT HIS MEMORIES BACK. Sorry, Gundam, but your subtlety and acting abilities are not the qualities Kuzuryuu has faith in. That being said though, after he got over the shock of NOBODY EXPECTS GUNDAM TANAKA, he was actually really relieved. Because while he had faith that Kaoru wanted to wreck the game as badly as he did, Kaoru was still largely an unknown. Gundam, however, was someone he knew he could trust unless something REALLY drastic had happened during s47. Which didn't seem to be the case because Gundam was still...very much Gundam, as far as he could tell without actually talking to him himself. So he felt a lot better about their chances in all this since Gundam was involved. Especially since that also meant that Sonia was probably involved in some way that was yet to be made apparent. And Sonia has survivor-tier trust. Granted, he still worried because EVERYTHING WAS TRYING TO KILL THEM and if they made so much as one wrong move or luck wasn't on their side, they'd all be screwed.

That fucking note though...I'm so glad that was Gundam and not the producers because that just made the whole thing even better. And I'm so glad Stiles told Kuzuryuu that was the case because he had such an inflated ego over the note. He did feel bad about the murder, even though it was for the greater good but at least he had that one thing that he could feel good about. HE TOTALLY STUCK IT TO THE PRODUCERS. HAHA. WHO THINKS TOO HIGHLY OF HIMSELF NOW, HUH?? THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR TELLING FUYUHIKO KUZURYUU WHAT TO DO. But it was Gundam all along. Which he was touched by! Because there were plenty of other people he could have given that information to. Obviously that meant Gundam not only trusted him but thought that he was actually capable of doing something. Which was honestly an even bigger deal than just trusting him. Because prior to murder island/castle, Kuzuryuu really didn't have a lot of people who believed in him and his abilities. His sister was always the more capable one, and everyone in the family knew it to the point where a lot of people wanted HER to be in charge instead of him. And even Peko was like "yeah but he's too soft for this. I believe in him, but he really isn't cut out for this life." So having someone (who wasn't his sister) take a leap of faith on him like that was actually a BIG DEAL? Not that he'd ever admit it to Gundam, but it really did mean a lot.

Though he still hates being called predictable and he can't help but feel that he DID sort of get played there. Since he thought he was doing the opposite of what the producers wanted. Which technically, he was! But since the information never came from them in the first place, in a way he felt like he ended up being a pawn after all. But confronting Gundam about it actually helped. Because putting it as "you only needed information" made it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was just trying to nudge him in the right direction, not outright tell him what to do. And that made it seem more like his plan was his own after all and not Gundam having called exactly what he was going to do. BUT HE STILL CAN'T ADMIT THAT HE WAS TOUCHED BY THE WHOLE THING. It's not like he appreciates what you did, b-baka! And he's not quite sure what to make of the whole MAYBE ONE DAY I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS A RIVAL thing. Because as much as he trusts Gundam, he still has a ways to go when it comes to understanding him because Gundam Tanaka is an enigma shrouded in oddities wrapped up in a dumb scarf. so he's kind of simultaneously like "you dumbass" and "wait this is a good thing, right?"

That being said, he's going to spend a fair bit of time on the base trying to get to know Gundam better. Because even when this is all over and everyone gets to go back home, the two of them are going to be stuck together. And they'll still have stuff to do when they get there! Getting back home is JUST ANOTHER GODDAMN BEGINNING FOR THE DANGANS. Will they ever get a chance to rest? We just don't know but the answer is looking like a pretty solid "no" for all of the foreseeable future. BUT LET'S GET HOPE SHARDS, TANAKA, COME ON. WE CAN'T LET HINATA BE THE ONLY ONE WITH FULL STARS and underwear.