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[tenebraecious]

Awwright, I'm in the mood for a ~question meme~ for Glacies and John Doe! Let's go back and forth until we're exhausted from words. I will also accept thread planning and CR plotting, because I've been remiss on that front, oops.

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[softlyfalling]

The big thing about Paloma is that her origin society has a take on morality that is at best detached from making imperative moral judgments about a person's behavior (e.g. if someone is doing something incorrectly and they stop and potentially make restitution, well, it's fine) and at worst can get very ends-justify-the-means.

Therefore, while she'll tease John about the new leaf he's turned over (because he reacts to it), she doesn't argue with him playing the part. After all, if someone's heart isn't in performing their societal role but they're still adequately doing it, she doesn't see anything wrong with that. Like, her current impression is "huh, he's actually doing something instead of being a drain on resources, as it is meant to be." Of course, it's always better to lean into it and exceed expectations, in her book.

In general she likes, as a hobby, picking people apart and seeing what makes them tick—in a metaphorical sense, of course, not Dr. Muraki bullshit. She has so many questions and thinks it'd be a shame and also boring if they went unanswered.

The other thing is that a lot of people don't really provide her a conversational challenge, and she spent a lot of time learning the ropes of socialization in cutthroat upper-crust society, so she feels like he's at a good level for keeping herself sharp, as it were.