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CUZ THE BARS ESPECIALLY ARE SO CONFUSING A LOT OF THE TIME
DISCLOSURE is a rough measure of how much Kavinsky tends to reveal about himself. This varies from his genuine feels and vulnerabilities day-to-day, to his sordid past in canon.
LOVE includes all types of affection, be they sexual, romantic, or purely platonic. HATE includes all types of chagrin, including (most commonly) envy, suspicion, fear, and straight up resentment. These bars would have been a lot higher for everyone a year ago. GENERAL NOTE— This code is so tedious to maintain and probably a terrible decision. As a result, only CR that has been active in the 2 months prior to the update, which has totaled (over at most the past year) at least 100+ comments and/or significant subjective 'impact' will go here. LAST UPDATED 1/13/17 when Chinatown became brain-fried and just could not remember who else deserves to go on here due to coding exhaustion. Feel free to remind her if your character meets the criteria, either by commenting to this post or shooting her a PM/private Plurk. I know that makes the compliment less spontaneous and fun but I'M SORRY this is the hardest part for me. Please also let me know if you catch errors! ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} vexy SOME SAY YOU'RE TROUBLE BOY JUST BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO DESTROY
Vex is one of the people Kavinsky loves best in Eudio, and feels he actually understands. Sure, Vex is a hundreds-of-years-old elvish kinkster who used to murder for a living, and never went to high school. Yet, in a world where emotional restraint and impulse control are supposed to make life easier and safer for its residents, these two violent and petty little assholes struggle to be safe for others to be around. They struggle to feel safe, themselves.
They have a sense of kinship based on being melodramatic dicks who enjoy violent sex. But nobody is ever that simple, and nothing stays the same. Over time, Kavinsky has seen Vex grow into a loving partnership with his boyfriend, sustaining the kind of love that Kavinsky has always envied. He's seen Vex win the affection of vampire kings and demigods. He's also seen Vex throw down on behalf of Kavinsky himself, demonstrating the kind of blind idiot loyalty that Kavinsky never drew from his friends back home. Kavinsky knows that Vex's advice isn't always the wisest or the most prudent, but he knows that the faerie offers it with as much selfless interest in his happiness as he's capable of. Kavinsky's pretty sure that the way Vex is learning and growing means they'll eventually grow apart. However, he has to admit: if Vex can do it, probably anybody can. Perhaps most importantly of all, Vex instills in Kavinsky the hope that happiness is possible even for those of us whose misery is couched in our own doing. mordacita AS IT DRIPS DOWN YOUR LIPS LIKE A KISS FROM THE ONE YOU LOVE
Mostly, Rafaello is "mom" because it's a gross joke and the grosser the joke, the more hilarious Kavinsky tends to find it. Sorry, Nico.
But for Kavinsky, the vampire does actually take on the traditional maternal role in the least traditional way. Rafa has a unique gift of providing empathy without getting recruited into Kavinsky's stupid hypermasculine rage, and is able to challenge his preconceptions using a deft and diplomatic touch. Even his moral judgments leave Kavinsky feeling like there is a path for improvement, instead of fuck you somebody gotta get kidnapped. (Obviously, this is mostly in regards to Kavinsky's love life, which is forever a mess.) Kavinsky admires him because he's a motherfucking vampire king with forty seven husbands and a long game that lasts centuries, and how cool is that? Rafaello clearly prefers to make love rather than war, but all's fair either way. The main difference— and it took Kavinsky awhile to start to wrap his lobes around this-- is that the objective of war is actually war, and the objective of love is actually love, the two of which ought not be confused for one's own health and happiness. Rafa's genius is not in the fact he discovered this information some time ago, but in his ability to teach it to the most obstinate and impatient pupil in the world. Rafa has made the dubious commitment to turn Kavinsky into a vampire if and when Kavinsky desires it. Under Rafaello's guidance, the multiverse may not actually end. siaw MY BODY IS A CAGE THAT KEEPS ME FROM DANCING WITH THE ONE I LOVE
Caleb was the first person Kavinsky fell in love with again after Ronan, and we say this acknowledging Kavinsky probably wasn't 'in love' with Ronan in any sensible way. Needless to say, it went very badly! Their relationship started out as an exchange of sex for drugs, and ended a year later ostensibly because Caleb is polyamorous (and actively in love with two or three other people) and Kavinsky was monstrously clingy, if not as monstrously as usual. Also: it was not actually a relationship. But the sex was so good.
In reality, their underlying problems were probably more complex, and numerous, but less irreparably extreme than that. Unfortunately, talking is difficult when you don't understand much about diversity in human sexuality or each other or yourself. It becomes even more difficult after the parties have punched and stalked each other, and moved on to having sex with and dating other people, who certainly appear to be attractive and competent replacements. At a certain point, shit feels too broken to fix, or at least too different to reset to how they used to be. The upside continues to be that at least Kavinsky didn't kidnap anybody this time. Selling a gift dog to kind and responsible folks on the Internet isn't nearly as bad, if you ask him. A step in the right direction. Also new and incredible: Kavinsky has even made friends with him. And not just the bitchy, guilt-riddled, tense relationship that he's had with Ronan, but with some interest in Caleb's happiness-- even if that happiness is with someone else. It used to drive him crazy, that Caleb seemed comparatively unaffected by any of their problems. However, it's taught Kavinsky a thing or five about loyalty, forgiveness, drying your whiny ass up and letting shit go. tstop FORTY NIGHTS I WAITED FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU TO COME AND SAVE MY LIFE
Bliss and Kavinsky were friends for a long time, but then he asked her to be his girlfriend after he was sad about a boy he was in love with and she agreed. She didn't know about the boy. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it turned out okay, mostly because they broke up amicably before she found out about his shittiness. However, deceit where it's due: he did a pretty good job faking it until he kind of sort of made it with her.
Kavinsky likes Bliss a lot. She is stronger than she looks in every sense of the word, and has no trouble setting boundaries with him or telling him off when he screws up. She also has no trouble cutting him some slack, doing weird fun shit with dragons, or breaking down normal human behavior into small words so that he can understand (and argue about it but then actually understand). Sometimes, this means Kavinsky just ends up with enough rope to hang himself, but there's always been another chance. While sometimes this felt condescending for him, she also let him touch her boobs, and that was important. Shut up, Vex. She has boobs. Mind you, Bliss seems a little naive and untested at times. It's easy to be good when your life has been easy, right? What with his having much more worldly experience, as well as difficulty with positive emotions/behavior/beliefs/everything, Kavinsky doesn't always give the greatest weight to her words. However, she does make him want to make this shitty multiverse less shitty for people like her to live in, and that's incredible. alacritously WHEN I'M WITH YOU ALL MY BROTHERS OH I FEEL LIKE A KING
Kavinsky met Minho on the Internet and had sex with him then they became roommates and do shirtless parkour together sometimes, which is probably the plot of any number of short LGBTQ films featuring talentless but beautiful young actors somewhere. But those films probably do not have context such as zombie apocalypses, water dragons, massive lightning scars, unsympathetic reactions to angsty backstories, and hitting people with oranges from the second floor.
Kavinsky is a terrible roommate, but Minho has definitely survived worse. Also, Kavinsky is a slightly less terrible roommate, and getting to be around Minho is a good motivator to work on his roommating skills. Minho is a lot of fun to be around. Unlike most of Kavinsky's friends from the old world, he's athletic and doofy about modern technology and doesn't do drugs. However, he has enough of an adrenaline junkie habit that they have a lot of ways to kill time together. Apart from the parkour, Kavinsky's taught him how to drive, and how to be on the bottom for buttsex, and these are important life skills to have in Eudio. They have been able to laugh off most of their roommate bickering. Minho will probably also be able to shrug off most of Kavinsky's egregious past sins, just because he's seen so much worse in his world and time, but this remains to be seen. subroutined HERE COMES THE WARM MACHINE
Ash is the robot roommate. Kavinsky's relationship with him has been almost as uneventful as my song choice is obvious and boring, mostly because Ash is super laid back and not the kind of machine that you can hop into and drive around. It's a good song anyway.
Kavinsky likes him. A lot of this has to do with the fact Ash lets him do whatever he wants, including hog the biggest bedroom and pelt other roomates with fruit. But also, Ash trusts him with such delicate matters as his robot brain software upgrades. This might not have been a big deal to Ash himself, who is very durable both psychologically and physically, but Kavinsky is not exactly a trustworthy fellow and the opportunity to practice is rare and flattering (and super inadvisable but shh nobody tell the little bot). Furthermore, Ash seems to quietly enjoy Kavinsky's company for Kavinsky's Kavinsky-like qualities as well. He accepts lessons on how to drive, and agrees to be recruited into drunken beach parties, street car races, and decorating the house with mildly scandalous pinups of girls they've both had sex with. Occasionally, being a bad influence is a good influence. Granted, it probably helps that Kavinsky doesn't really bother trying to offend him, or suck him into the carnivorous vortex of gay drama that is his life otherwise. coy YOU KEEP MY SECRETS HOPE TO DIE PROMISES SWEAR THEM TO THE SKY
Kavinsky is one of the more recent additions of Caroline's collection of criminally disturbed young man friends who have superpowers that led to multiple deaths in their original homeworlds. Kavinsky hasn't told her much, but considering he accidentally created a dream monster that terrorized the city last year, and they met because he was originally using her against Gansey, she knows some of the worst elements of his personality. Further, she has a keen intuition for his sadness.
Burdened by guilt for her own sins, Caroline walks a dangerously fine line between enabling him and telling his nasty ass what's up. He takes her semi-seriously because she is actually a terrifying vampire with a bunch of murder in her past. She doesn't think he should become a vampire, but she was there for him when he lost his powers, so evenstevens. Perhaps the most significant milestone for Kavinsky with this friendship is the fact that he tries to comfort her when she's sad. Race her in a car, talk fond trash about her new business, make her a car. There's no doubt that she's led by example, giving him dinosaur-shaped lights and explaining the value of apology. From anyone else, it would be super lame. From Caroline, it's just the right kind and amount of lame for a smart comeback and some later serious thought in the privacy of his own mind. Admittedly, misery loves company, and it's kind of nice for him to sometimes have a break from all the happy fucking couples in Eudio. exteriors LOVE MUST BE FORGOTTEN, LIFE CAN ALWAYS START UP ANEW
Apart from Kavinsky's felony history, he and Ivy are strangely similar. Beautiful and superficial and over-privileged jerks who were ostensibly popular at home, and secretly hated by most of the people who knew them— including themselves. Further, they're beautiful and superficial jerks who've come to Communist Eudio to low-key try and turn over a new leaf in the interest of their own eventual happiness.
They kind of instinctively disliked each other, and wanted to do each other. They then did each other and accidentally called out other names at the time of orgasm, highlighting yet another similarity. Suffice to say, Kavinsky and Ivy have an unspoken agreement to never talk about a lot of their personal lives in detail. Or maybe that's just Kavinsky, who almost never talks about anything to anybody unless it's total garbage. Nonetheless, he's comfortable around Ivy because she's familiar, and doesn't care too much about him, but just enough— a Goldilocks sweet spot of casual intimacy and attraction and cynicism that he sometimes has trouble finding in this light-and-sweetness-fueled city. She is also completely hilarious and excruciatingly hot, which cannot be discounted when his requests for nude pix come back in rumpled bedhead and pajama t-shirts. He secretly hopes she's going to be better than okay. browsers STEALING AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE, EVERYONE'S USED TO IT BY NOW
Joe and Kavinsky made each other crazy. It's hard to tell whether the chicken or the egg came first, but one can reliably say that no one else in Joe's acquaintance has ever summoned a murderous fire dragon out to try to murder him out of subconscious rage, internalized homophobia, poorly repressed lust, abstract jealousy, terror of intimacy, and egocentric nonsense, so it's mostly Kavinsky's fault for sure. Also, some less accidental harassment.
Joe was the first person Kavinsky ever told he was seeing a psychotherapist, as well as the first to see Kavinsky's mood problems snowball into symptoms that couldn't be masked with stupid swear words and power moves. The privilege was definitely not worth the cost, but what's done is done. They went into a period of cold estrangement that, technically, was Kavinsky respecting the older man's space. This Cold War sort of returned to lukewarm after Joe canon updated. Apparently after five years of homeworld angst, not even the world's shittiest 18-year-old magician can stay at the top of the public enemies list. Besides, that 18-year-old magician is now 20, and objectively less of a jackass. Also: still partially depowered! These days, Kavinsky regards Joe with less resentment and shame. From afar, he admires the older man for overcoming a hard life, fraught with neglect and discrimination; for being hard enough to survive abuse, soft enough to care for his stable of (hilariously) young (on average) lovers, and strong enough to channel his ambition into making the world a better place with knowledge and skill. That is, all this without any superpowers. satchels I KNOW A PLACE WHERE NO PLANES GO
Wylan showed up while Caleb and Kavinsky were doing it. When Caleb took a shine to the young man and began to pursue him romantically, it immediately highlighted differences or even deficits in what he and Kavinsky had. Caleb didn't mind, but Kavinsky did. In fact, he had minded for a long time. In fact, he minded so much that he proceeded to stalk and harass and semi-regularly talk shit at the two.
The situation was awkward. But funnily enough, when you take Caleb out of the equation, Wylan and Kavinsky get along great— and now that the conflict between Caleb and Kavinsky has stabilized, there's no doubt that the two will continue to get along great. They both like fire and explosions, enjoy the adrenaline thrills of fast cars and reckless stunts. Indeed, this was the basis of their initial friendship, when Kavinsky taught him to drive by helping him flip the Mitsubishi over deliberately, a strategy advised by no one. In exchange, Wylan even taught Kavinsky to ride a horse. They achieved a little more depth in their relationship when they talked about Caleb, and later when Wylan shared his reading disability, and Kavinsky, in true Kavinsky style, apologized for his terrible behavior by giving him a car. At this point, Kavinsky no longer experiences the regular urge to bite the younger boy. Polyamory is weird. But he does have a vested interest in Wylan's happiness, and their friendship was so valuable that he didn't actually try to kidnap Wylan at any point. Love is real, believe in Jesus. mindmeld IF YOU'RE GONNA CRY, KEEP YOUR SHADES ON
Spock is super logical. Kavinsky is extremely illogical. But they definitely are both quite bad at feelings, and that's what's important in a friendship.
It may or may not surprise viewers to learn that these two haven't had sex. It shouldn't technically surprise anyone that they met in person for the first time while conducting (very safe, harmless) scientific experiments on the water dragon that Kavinsky had created with his magical superpowers. Most of their interactions have consisted of yelling on the Internet about subjects that they sorely disagree about— the cost-effectiveness of correcting one's typographical errors, whether or not group sex creates interpersonal friction, and what constitutes quality dirty talk. Their intellectual debates don't look very intellectual when you read Kavinsky's side of things, but it definitely stays within the topical boundaries that they're most comfortable with: nothing feely or personal. Apart from their shitty dads, that one time. Generally, Kavinsky finds Spock incredibly easy to be around. He's very annoying in a way that is very funny, but also full of arbitrary and peculiar topics that Kavinsky enjoys. Between the two of them, they could probably turn complaining into a national sport. miss_brilliant THERE'S A HOUSE ACROSS THE RIVER, BUT ALAS I CANNOT SWIM
Kavinsky met Amanda Perry because she accidentally got his superpowers for a short time. Despite being a nebbish and quiet scientist over ten years his senior, she turned out to be an excellent padawan as far as dream theft goes, able to discipline her mind and tolerate his shitty nonsense with aplomb. He later learned that she used to be physically disabled. His sympathy came as a surprise to himself, and as people do when they start to feel uncomfortable, he retreated into humor.
Unfortunately, his humor involves a lot of ableist jokes, though he oddly skirts direct insults. In any other world, it would have gone utterly atrociously, but in Eudio, it's worked out surprisingly well. Kavinsky has gifted her a car and invited her to races. In return, she has taught him alien swears, and a little bit about seizing the day, himself. Moreover, Amanda has made surprisingly enthusiastic use of much of his advice, with regard to getting laid and putting herself out there in the dating/fucking/etc. world. Kavinsky is unaccustomed to being helpful in this manner, but where Amanda's previous lifestyle was concerned, it's obvious that he has much to offer so long as she takes everything he says with a quart of salt. Or maybe less than that. Perhaps shockingly, he isn't deliberately try to steer her directly toward disaster. They say that it isn't helpful to make comparisons about people's suffering, but Kavinsky's problem is usually that he gives few fucks about what everyone else going on, and measures them as tiny versions of his own drama. Amanda is perhaps the first exception to this rule, and he now appreciates the miracles that Eudio offers in a way he didn't before he met her. agoodsoul HATE ON ME, HATER
Kavinsky mostly knows Dennis because he made fun of Dennis' body, then set Dennis' boyfriend on fire after harassing him a bunch out of something similar to gay jealousy. Understandably, Dennis punched him in the face and hasn't really liked him since. The feeling is mutual. Kavinsky had always found Dennis' pudgy-bellied (no) cinnamon roll, good-guy, good-firefighter persona irritating and false, and the self-righteous violence he threw out seemed to prove hypocrisy somewhere in the mushy mess of Dennis' soul.
However, it's been about a year, and at this point most of the edge of Kavinsky's animosity has worn off. Further, most of Dennis' animosity has worn off too, which is certainly more than Kavinsky deserves. At this point, Kavinsky can recognize that Dennis is probably kind of sort of an okay dude, with 'a troubled past,' or whatever, and his cinnamon roll whatever innocence or whatever is probably attractive to whoever for whatever reason. At least he doesn't have doe eyes. Actually, his eyes are kind of small and squinty. (And cute, but you'll never catch Kavinsky admitting that out loud.) At the very least, Dennis has been a good friend to Kavinsky's ex, Bliss, as well as support to the fire-injured boyfriend in question. At this rate, Kavinsky may actually have to admit that there is probably not much wrong with Dennis and he's probably just looking for excuses to hate everything as usual. deathkid I HAD TO SCREAM LAST NIGHT LORD OF LOVE
Kavinsky would probably dislike Nico more if he knew he was everyone's darling or whatever, but it's okay, they have enough silly bickering affront to last awhile. Most of this is because Kavinsky is an irreverent dick. Nico has never met anybody who is deliberately offensive on the regular and picks fights out of thin air for no particular reason. It's sort of reassuring for Kavinsky, who's noticed himself turning almost likable of late. He's sure the quality of his insults has deteriorated, but at least somebody's still mad.
Nico and Kavinsky met at a friendly neighborhood orgy, and then proceeded to have sex in a dream. Funny coincidence that they both have powers relating to the unconscious processes of sleep. When they are doing it, their conflicts and differences don't exactly disappear... in a sense, they kind of enhance the dynamic. Nico is only the second person that Kavinsky's ever actually had angry (or at least irritated) sex with, and it's a lot of fun. It doesn't hurt that he's adorable when he's mad. And honestly, Kavinsky thinks that a haircut would be tactically beneficial. He's given to understand that the Greek/Latin/whatever pantheon goes to war a lot, and he imagines it's harder to land hits on enemy demons or slime hydras or whatever if you literally cannot see jack shit through your uncut bangs. His endless poking is definitely helpful. (no.) Kavinsky also thinks Nico is sweet and impressively powerful and generous with his Christmas presents even to people who frustrate him, whatever. |
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