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I think just Dusk and Champion unless I am horribly mistaken...

Dusk is superfond of Champion! Like, if Valiant is the younger brother and Ferris is his twin sister, then Champion is his cousin of the same age that is like a brother... if that makes sense... They're not particularly close, since Tiger's Eye closest people are all on other teams anyway I think, but they do get along really well and Dusk does appreciate having another steady-minded person on the team, so he's really pleased to have Champion there with them. Loooots of trust and respect for Champion right now.

Reverse!

He knows Dino a little but only through some group quests.

And for Dusk, it's pretty much the same! After Kite, Dusk is probably the person on Tiger's Eye Josh has the best relationship with -- it's a really strong, steady working relationship, and Josh trusts Dusk more than almost anyone. "Cousins that are the same age as brothers" is actually a great way to put it. He knows Dusk has his back and Dusk knows he has his and he's completely confident in that, and he doesn't mind that they don't have the same quality of emotional closeness that, say, he and Kite have; what they have is totally solid.

How's Dusk doing after all the Events?

I would say he's okay but not great? He's really concentrating himself on Mitchell and Tiger's Eye now, and as a result not really talking as much with people off team aside from like Konatsu which is pretty bad for him because he keeps getting stuck in his own thoughts. But he is doing pretty steadily, just not at the best place he could be?

Champion's thoughts on his team as a whole?

He's actually internalized the team-as-family thing more than I thought he would! Not completely, but a lot more strongly than I thought he was going to go. Part of that is because he doesn't remember Sophie very much -- he's got a lot of late-canon memories, so his perception of her as his rock (and vice versa) isn't set -- but part of it is just that team tends to hit the right buttons. Honestly, he loves Tiger's Eye; he likes that they treat everyone like adults, even the "kids" (him and Valiant and Lark, though he'd protest the description for himself if it ever came up) and that they go for consensus rather than hiding things from each other. Especially since people tend to come to Tiger's Eye when they need a break from their teams, so he's seen that some other teams don't talk things out reasonably. It's important to Josh that everyone get a chance to have their say, and that nobody makes decisions for anyone else.

(At the moment, he's pretty :// at Mitchell for exactly that reason, but family can fight and still be family.)

So yeah, I don't think he'd call it family per se -- it would feel weird to him -- but he has pretty well internalized that.

Dusk's thoughts on the meeting, if any?

I am handwaving that Dusk attended the meeting with the other TEs that did, but kept to himself so he could just listen to everything and make sure Mitchell didn't get himself magically killed somehow.

It... didn't go as well as he had hoped for, largely for lack of leadership and organization he thought. Not so much a leader of all the teams, but a leader for the meeting in general, to keep people on topic and kind of recall attention to tasks at hand rather than letting everyone spin off into their own thing. Teams should have all had a set, equal number of representatives, including Onyx and Sterling, who should have taken place as the meeting leaders and mostly this meeting was all just kind of badly positioned from the get-go, from his view as someone who was tutored in politics/political meetings/etc etc. He does realize though that it could have gone just as badly even with organization and that no one should expect things to have been completely settled upon with just a single meeting. This was more or less just feeling out the other teams, something that's never been done before, and it'll take a few times until they start to get some sort of cohesion in working together as a community.

... Except a couple of teams walked out and didn't look very interested in coming back and that's a pretty bad thing. 8|a

SO YEAH he was kind of hopeful for the beginning of some sort of... social organization among the teams in uniting for common interests, but if all the teams don't show up, it kind of ruins the point. :\

How's Champion feeling after this Three game?

Copypasting from the big meme:

Right now he's kind of in shock. ;; He was braced to get hurt and it didn't happen, so he's kind of off-balance, and then a lot of other people did and that sucks. He's kind of...he thinks he SHOULD be guilty for not throwing the game, and he is a little, but the fact that Carnelian didn't get as badly mauled as a lot of other teams is kind of messing with that, and he...doesn't really know Carnelian that well? So it doesn't have quite as much personal impact as it might if he was playing against, say, Sapphire or Citrine. He also kind of...instinctively grasped that if both teams play to win, they'll match each other and minimize casualties, even if he doesn't really consciously realize that's what he was doing. So he doesn't really feel bad about playing to win but he's not sure why he doesn't feel bad. (Part of this is the cognitive imprint of a skill he doesn't have back yet; in certain types of situation, he'll start to think in strategic ways without really realizing it.)

That said, it's really the first time he's had to watch people get injured, and he desperately wants to do something about it but there's nothing for him to do. Josh always feels better when he's doing something; he hates being helpless or useless. So the aftermath was bad, but more "soldier on his first battlefield" bad than "crisis of conscience" bad. All in all, he's taking it a lot better than I expected!

Same for Dusk?

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