Yeah, and I think I've said before that I'm totally aware that you guys (you, Kitten, Sari, etc) are all more used to the introspection, long-tags that I tend to not do in favor of comment-spam, but I do try to do more introspection for you guys if only because I know it's the style you like -- whereas I don't with JL because we both favor the comment-spam style and tend to ramble to each other about what's going on (and I am notoriously B A D about remembering that other people read my threads lmao). So I can see how it could be easy to misread things, especially if you're not used to the tagging style. I think that it's difficult to adapt to that, even being here since April (I've gone into games that had more of your tagging style and didn't last long if only because it tended to overwhelm me).
And in the future, too, if you ever are curious about a tag between us, or elsewhere, and need clarification, please please please don't hesitate to poke me on plurk about it and I can either clarify or rewrite the tag. :|b I have a tendency to just assume people know what's going on with my characters, kind of a carry-over from when we were CLAMP-only and everyone was basically aware of each other's canon. Especially moving to panfandom, with more people who are canonblind, it's so easy to just forget that, well, someone's not going to get the significance of the icon + "...", which I used to be able to rely on.
And I apologize if my reply came across as kind of snappy (as I reread it, it does come across that way and it wasn't my intention at all). Sometimes it's tough with popular characters who can be more open to interpretation, because if there's enough vagueness in canon or implications, you can logically take it in several directions. And I'm still brand-new with him, too, so likely there'll be some elbow room and liberties taken as I get used to playing him (like, in a few months from now, I'll probably cringe at all the threads happening this month lol).
I'm super super happy that you enjoy him ;^; admittedly I was super worried about crit time coming up cause I was like OH NO SHE'S GOING TO TOTALLY RIP ME APART AAAAAH so ahaha, I've had a lot of fun threading with Ichiru (and being able to thread with him more, too, since I've been kinda crummy tagging him in the past).
And I'm a punk who didn't say it before, but: thank you so much for taking the time to write this all out for me.