#uhhh ig I should tag this since I talked abt them for way longer than I meant to

[chisatowo]

I think that my biggest thing with naegami and what separates the good naegami from the bad naegami is weather or not they're able to get to a point of seeing each other as equals. That's why I only really like post game naegami, since with how I personally characterise them they would need to know each other for a lot longer than they do in game to get to that point. In game, Byakuya feels like he's above Makoto, even if he is lugging around a big ol crush, and most of the time Makoto either feels somewhat intimidated by him or just. Straight up doesn't give a shit abt him. I'm not necessarily saying that a relationship that early on would be unhealthy (although that's also true) I'm mainly saying that I don't think they'd even try to date at that point dhdbdv. Byakuya is waiting for Makoto to start being a big suck up and confess to him and the most Makoto thinks about Byakuya is to just be kind of confused by him. Even without my own personal biases, I just feel like for their relationship to work, Byakuya would need to be able to stop being a pompous asshole for five minutes and learn to stop treating Makoto like he's his servant or something.

#rat rambles #so apparently I had more thoughts about this than I thought I did #I personally tend to write their dynamic as being byakuya trying to flirt by being an ass and makoto not giving a shit abt him #up until post game when byakuya is able to start realising that he cant just be a huge peice of shit all the time #and the survivors just start getting closer in general #byakuya ends up having to do some self reflection and work on those aspects of himself without needing to be forced to #at which point surprise surprise makoto is actually willing to hang out with him more #the thing is. makoto isnt stupid. #he could tell before that byakuya wouldnt respect him no matter what he did so he just didnt bother too much with him #but once byakuya starts showing that hes willing to be better makoto feels a lot more comfortable interacting with him as just a person #if he had tried before he knows it would have gone no where #uhhh ig I should tag this since I talked abt them for way longer than I meant to #naegami #also uhh dont take all of this as me saying this is cold hard facts these are just my opinions fhdbdnf