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[reckoner]

Oᴜᴛ-ᴏғ-Cʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ

ʙᴀᴄᴋᴛᴀɢɢɪɴɢ: always and forever -- to the extent I will exhaust patience, so obviously ignore anything you feel is too old
ᴛᴀɢɢɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴇᴅ: so, I'm in law school, last year, etc. I apologize, but my speed is extremely spotty!!! i very much hope to not take longer than a week in between tags, but there is a chance that at certain peak moments that may happen.
ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅᴊᴀᴄᴋɪɴɢ: generally fine, but read the mood
ғᴏᴜʀᴛʜᴡᴀʟʟɪɴɢ: depends, probably not? he's got a tenuous grasp as is
ᴏғғᴇɴsɪᴠᴇ sᴜʙᴊᴇᴄᴛs: if IC, yeah, I mean... side-eyes IBO which is one big offensive subject
ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀᴄᴛ: PM, idiotequed#3937 discord, scuttles plurk

ɪɴ-ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ

ʜᴜɢɢɪɴɢ: sure, but his reaction may be, uh, variable
ᴋɪssɪɴɢ: see above
ғʟɪʀᴛɪɴɢ: see above (at least at this time... he's in a Place he is not a presently entirely uh, regularly functioning guy, ok)
ғɪɢʜᴛɪɴɢ: please punch him just do it
ɪɴᴊᴜʀɪɴɢ: totally, but if it's very serious please ask directly and let's discuss
ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ: probably not, but let's talk
ᴛᴇʟᴇᴘᴀᴛʜʏ/ᴍɪɴᴅ ʀᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ: probably fine especially for just thoughts, but uh, still probably worth hitting me up about because chances are his brain is a bit of a special place these days, like charlie thought he was going to candy mountain which was cool (whatever), but then, you know, kidneys. ...trust me trying to explain the actuality here would make exactly as much sense as that sentence.

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proper telepathy/mind reading explanation [SPOILER ALERT]

[reckoner]

surface/superficial:
Largely lowkey, serious, philosophical, maybe faintly amused depending on the topic. Focused on said topic. Either highly rigid or extremely noncommittal and ambivalent, attachment difficult.

go deeper:
Bristling frustration, fury, hurt, (yearning), hatred and its aching contrapositive, crazed desperation to understand, all erratic whiplash emotion around one man: McGillis Fareed. (Surface level if McGillis is present). If any words come through, thoughts, they vacillate between why-- and I have to--!!

go deeper/generally:
Whipping between the sense of being a disposable corpse who had failed to reach the person who most mattered and thus it's entirely his fault that they all died //&// intense responsibility, sense of he, Gaelio Bauduin, lives only to kill that man, and he bears the weight of their lives and all respectable emotions and ideals in striving furiously (and miserably) to that end.

go deeper:
Here comes the true mess. After his "death," he was paralyzed and in Bad Shape. He evidently chose to have a modified A-V implant in his neck. This was connected remotely to an AI system containing and very much designed on the remnant brain of the subordinate who sacrificed himself for him, Ein.

This system not only allowed him to walk/took over his body when piloting the Gundam, to fight through him, but the mechanic in charge of all this says for that time, "he's never been alone." Not even once. Gaelio, too, says his subordinate is "very close to me right now," and when piloting, these gems: "Ein, use me as you wish, I hand over my body to you." / "Ein, I'm counting on you. Make him understand!" / "Ein! Use all of me to rob everything from McGillis." / "This battle in which I am not alone."

Word of God says he absorbed Ein's brain (and that Ein's ego died in xyz battle before this), so........... get down enough? If he's alone/lonely? He'll be talking to Ein in his head and feeling responses, real or not. Ein was kind of. An intense guy.