For Jakira: What's a moment your OC is ashamed to remember?
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The single main reason Jakira had no friends before Alex (whom she didn't meet until she was 13) is that she has a difficult time reading people, having empathy, and picking up on social cues. She wanted a friend very badly, but didn't understand what she was doing wrong, why people kept calling her insensitive, etc.
And Alex, especially when she first met him, is a very closed off person who's ten times harder to read than the average person.
Jakira had to LEARN some things, shall we say, as she tried to befriend Alex. (At this time, they were Night and Sunray; they didn't meet irl until years later.) Night was at the lowest point of his life when they met, and he did not want to be friends. She spent months trying to show him kindness and get him to open up to her.
And one fateful day, after a traumatizing event for both of them, Night broke down and did spill everything to her. Not out of an express desire for help, moreso that he couldn't hold it in anymore. He was depressed and suicidal. And when he finally did tell her that day that he wanted to die, the first thing she said was, "You shouldn't think like that."
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Which is, well, not a good thing to say to someone struggling the way Night was. Of course, she wasn't doing it with bad intentions, but she was struggling to figure out how to handle the situation. But it only escalated and ended with Night panicking and running off and attempting suicide anyway. As they've moved on and become close and really gotten to know each other inside out over the years, Jakira still hates thinking of what she said in that moment.
