1 and 6 for the Sidestep questions for Amor? If you feel like answering!
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1. How do they feel when they hear “Sidestep”?
when they just overhear people talk about Sidestep as a person unrelated to them, Amor mostly feels… wistful, I think? they’re always surprised that anybody still remembers him at all.. they’re so far removed from this person who they, like most people besides the Rangers, think is long dead that they can still think of him fondly. it feels right, in a way, because the good always die young in this city, don’t they? so maybe he, too, was good. maybe he mattered, just a little bit. they don’t really perceive it as a loss? they never expected to live very long, and this way, his story ends neatly
whenever the name is used to refer to them, though? Amor is starkly reminded that the story did not end when it should have. the primary feeling I think is just dread, it feels… wrong. like he’s doing something wrong? but they’re not, they have and will keep insisting that they’re not that person anymore, almost desperately, but they’re very aware of the fact that the people who knew Sidestep still see him in them despite that? and that can’t be right… sure, they’ve been an impostor in the past, but now that role is almost forced onto them. they never wanted to pretend they still are that person. they never knew they’d have a legacy that would still last to this day and they find themselves quite reluctant to ruin it; it’s the one thing left to remember him by, after all. the person that they used to be. then you can also add a weird sort of betrayal to this mess of emotions, with the Rangers as the traitors for once. Sidestep fought alongside them for years, they got to see his face, got to know him, how could they look at this shell in front of them and say ‘yeah that’s good enough, that’s still the same person’? sure, Herald and Argent never met him, and maybe Steel never cared, but Ortega…? and she has the nerve to still call him her best friend
6. Is their villain persona closer to who they are or who they pretend to be?
if you asked them, Amor would absolutely say it reflects their real self, but they are a liar with zero self awareness so we’ll just pretend we didn’t hear that okay… if anything, it reflects who they think they are, or what they think is left: a monster. a thing that was born from someone’s pain and can therefore only bring about pain in turn (<- guy who hasn’t killed anyone yet. btw), the pinnacle of their desperate need to do something right for once and then disappear. so I guess the answer is that Chord is who they pretend to be, but their self-hatred and need to justify their actions convinced them this is who they’ve always been all along
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