<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=13067.msg575854#msg575854">Quote from: WyzardWhately on 16-04-2008, 01:50:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'd be pretty down with that.  We'd have to consult on just how messed up you want that to end up being - they've both got issues, so such a relationship, even if it was really short term, might not be objectively healthy.  Just a thought.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ichigo is pretty much emotional stunted, and even more worrying...  As I said before, politely asking her to do anything will have her complying easily.  But then again, she may turn the tables on him, and turn him into something of a doll for herself...  I say it turns destructive.  The best mental I has is them dancing in full formal Western attire, tied to each other's wrists with ribbons, both with a weapon, possibly an athame for Matt and a sculptor's knife in Ichigo's hand, their expressions perfectly blank in different ways...<br/><br/>Ichigo's childhood had very, very little male interaction other than emotionless Dolls.  She went to a girls' school up until high school.  She has only had close male interaction since she was 12, and even then, she knew they were Dolls.  She was a first-class<em>bitch</em>to Sanro and Nisen when they first came into her life, believing them not real.  In fact, at one point, in a fit of anger, she told them that...  But it's most likely that also came from her grief at her mother's death.<br/><br/>Ichigo's view of the world is strange.  Golems and creation of human beings is very normal to her.  Arcane symbols for life are like looking at everyday photographs to her.  She has an easy time of disregarding people, due to being around dolls so much.  Academically, she knows people leave corpses, but Dolls don't, and she hasn't told her mother, but... She has cut up some of the temporary dolls before, and just before they are due to fade away, she has pretty much killed them and watched the pretty lights go.  She has gotten SOME empathy now and doesn't do it anymore, but she has a bit of a streak still there.  However, she was taught by Ayane that you have to be nice, it makes things easier, and Ichigo believes it.<br/><br/>Finding out that she is half-doll... She actually will recover pretty easily.  It makes sense to her, and it will make her more at ease with herself.  Granted, she won't be too happy about realizing that it is at root of her complacency at times as well, and probably will fight viciously to mask it.  Control over herself will be something that she has to protect, and she may do horrible things to ensure her automony... or someone will have to convince her otherwise.<br/><br/>Hikari and Masato are puzzles to her, that she wants to poke at and see what happens.  Granted, once she learns how to, she will use dolls to push and shove at them.  Matt may play people chess, but Ichigo will just play games using her dolls as proxies.  One can't say who is better...  Ichigo is willing to let her dolls die.  Once she learns what Masato is, she will send a doll to him as a stress valve.  Once she learns about Hikari and her attraction to Sanro...  Let's say things may get strange.<br/><br/>Jessica is a puzzle as well.  Once Ichigo learns about the Catholic rituals, she'll begin asking about them and trying to understand them, to see if she can add more to the Kimekomi archives.<br/><br/>I think that's enough of my rambling.