Anything Goes Meme

[the_ex_in_xp]

So Ramona hit 6k haha balance what is that and I haven't done this thing in over a year + lots of stuff happening = an anything goes meme. Relationships, some ecards or otherwise, dumb art, headcanon stuff, songs she thinks fits your character, idk stats card. Anything pretty much goes! Multiple questions also okay because I like to ramble and stuff.

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[aspeedydelivery]

IDK relationship stuff? And/or ecards?

[the_ex_in_xp]

I'm going to stick with Ramona and Roy's relationship right now because that's the doozy but I WANT TO HAVE ALL MY CHARACTERS PLAY WITH ALL OF YOURS. ALL THE CR.


So, uh, Ramona is a little bit in love with Roy. Tiny bit. Feelings snuck up on her unfairly. He is definitely in her "I would put real effort into doing things for you" group and he vies with Wendy as her least terrible/most decent friend. But where Wendy is practical, Roy is sort of idealized. When she first got to know him the major things she took away is how serious he is about being a Good Person who saves buses full of nuns and rescues kittens from trees. At the same time he was grumpy and often unapproachable and snarky, basically the type of person she can hang out with, it's just beneath all that surliness there is a genuinely good guy there and not someone who is actually worse than how they appear. Prior to her time at camp, she considered it a win to associate people who weren't actively evil, and he's someone who is so far out of her scope of general moral dealings she still had some weirdness dealing with it.

Of course, he's really attractive, likeable and a bit of a stuffed shirt, so she flirted with him. Mostly because how could she not? And she thought he was the kind of guy to sort of to stoically put up with it and banter back. Her understanding of hero types is they keep their interest to the nice Lois Lanes, only semi-flirt back with the less than altruistic Catwoman types (Ramona...honestly zoned out of most of Scott's X-Men lessons). And she loved being around him. He actually made her want to be a better person and all that sentimental stuff. Which is why she took up archery and actually handled her shit better (Scott leaving, fighting with Roxie, hating herself a lot) than she would have otherwise. So it wasn't rescuing her from a burning building but it was basically being something she could hold onto as an anchor from a downward spiral of bad decisions.

Then stuff got complicated. Because Ramona legitimately sucks at all relationship interaction and being responsible about her own failures. So contextually, Hanna asked her out and she agreed because he asked and he was nice so maybe this would be a chance for her to not be terrible. The date went awkward but well until he ended up busting his nose and bleeding all over, reaffirming Ramona's whole latent guilt of "...okay I can never let anyone else go through what Scott went through because I will end up hurting them terribly and letting it happen once is bad but twice is just unforgivably shitty of me." She didn't think Roy was actually interested because Serious Hero, Serious Obligations so that was okay and safe, but she knew if he learned about the League stuff he'd probably want to do the big dumb hero thing. And she knew she really didn't want him to know how bad she used to be, because he's the guy she's really looking toward to be better around so that might undermine things if he knew she was the catalyst for seven people joining a league of evil. It would be devastating if he actually knew what kind of person she was and then found her lacking.

...then he wandered around her subconscious and basically voiced aloud everything she had most feared. At the same time, she could not actually fault him because oh god he was right and she was terrible and even though she was kind of in between being better and doing her best to change it he was like "wow this place is fucked up." So when it ended with her telling him about her brother, which he is still the only one in camp she willingly told because that is her deepest, most personal tragedy, it was sort of her moment of thinking that if she's ruined everything she might as well give up. So she pretty much thought Roy was done with her, and in the midst of her self-loathing low place Roxie reached out to her and they agreed to try the dating thing again because...well they basically already ran the gamut of being awful at each other. And she already knew, having played a part in it, at what messed up situations Ramona's life entailed.

Then shortly after that whole thing Roy and Ramona had actual conversations and there was the understanding that he didn't actually despise her and judge her (well, enough to wash his hands of her) so she was pretty much okay with doing almost anything to not ruin stuff between them. Like. Mention she was dating someone who was previously in an evil league, and also because Ramona is just so bad at admitting anything without direct prompting. Plus, it was okay to try and mimic things the way they were--until it wasn't with the mistletoe and the dance and now she's realizing she may have misjudged feelings and she knows she has to come completely clean (or as clean as she can get) but she reeeeeeeeeeeeally doesn't want to because she's got mixed results so far (one loss, one semi-victory) in explaining herself. And, despite being the poster girl for cut and run issues, she is desperate to do whatever she can to hold onto him because he is the best guy she has ever really known. She put the most fragile thing about herself into his hands. And she's saving up all her "don't bail" XP into not failing at this mess. But Ramona Flowers apparently can never like somebody without ruining things in the worst way, so...aw hell I'll just repost this again:

[say_thee_nay]

I wholly support us re/establishing ALL THE CR, like, once I get back from Hiatusville.

Also that was an awesome state of the Ramona.