TL;CR MEME

[fullthottle]

1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Endure everyone else reading your comment like the vultures they are.

Comments

[applechemist]

I said briefly in chat that Escha's "type" is "people she can interact comfortably with," and I think that's largely how things were with Junpei!

She and him and Dick all just settled into each other so easily, and I super loved their CR. I died early, so it was def my highlight of the game!!! lmao. I know that I complained about being dragged into being a braincell, but I also really loved it; it let me get Escha focused and in her work mindset, which is how she usually operates back home. She's a total workaholic, so even if I died of being stupid and trying to keep up with her, it was super helpful for characterization and fun to, like, have something she could consider 'work' that was also as casually sociable as she's used to her work being.

She was always really impressed with how hard Junpei was working to get information, but he never seemed cold or distant even if he was a calculating person. And he always managed to frame things in a way that didn't bother her - if he had put more emphasis on wanting certain things secret or if they had been a more, idk, sneaky group? I don't think she would have been as into it. But Junpei and Dick really motivated Escha to do her best to learn things, and they were both very patient with having to stop and explain things to her constantly...

Ultimately, she always felt that she wasn't bringing enough to their meetings, and she did feel a little bad about it... But she also didn't get too consumed by that because the two of them were always so supportive, and she felt that she was helping out in the ways that she could - like organizing notes or cooking for them, etc.

I think it kind of speaks to how much she liked Dick and Junpei that she held a little grudge against Kagachi, but not them. Once she wasn't cursed with stupid anymore and remembered all of the stuff, she kind of realized, "Hey wait, I told all these people that Tamamo was safe and even discussed framing her as a potential thing that could be done! People would have listened to them, too, if the three of them had tried to steer people towards voting that way! They should have known to help do that! They should have done that to help me!"

... And so with Kagachi, who she kind of had negative interactions with, she was like, not angry, but... Disappointed and frustrated. But with Dick and Junpei she was kind of like, immediately dismissing any negative feelings that gave her, because it wasn't worth holding onto, and she loved them both too much to want to hold onto it.

She would be a lot more devastated by this outcome if Dick and Junpei had been on her side and become demons etc, but because her two favorite (new) people on the ship get to make it out okay, she's much more at peace with it.