What you try to explain here and what you wrote back there are two very different things. What you described seems frighteningly close to a Hikaru Genji Plan. I am incredibly leery, and disgusted, of anything even approaching such a plan.
So true, honesty I felt her positive mindset would have a good impact on Mathilde after a long day, as for her fears that would disappear as long she interact and understand Mathilde.
While that's true but the issue is Johann is work and you don't bring your work home, otherwise you end up talking about work which is not good for long term so no he's better off as friends
Perhaps on the surface, but throughout my original post, and the ones preceeding it, I was constantly mentioning the personal relationships, the experience, and the responsibilities we would have. In no way am I trying to find a perfect political partner or anything like that. I was simply giving my opinions on who would fit both the narrative of the story and Mathilde's personal abilities, character, and goals in life.
As I'm trying to explain, it's not the rank that gets me, but what that rank means. Roswita and belegar both know the weight of rulership and leadership, and while Panoramia might eventually go on enough adventures to meet Mathilde as a peer in life experience, right now all she's got going for her is being cute and potentially interesting. She just wouldn't understand Mathilde, as shown by her reactions to our Tower-weeding suggestion and the lecture on safe magic use.
I highly doubt Boney would burn us for that. it would all be social actions, at worst.
Of our subordinates he's had the most interaction with us outside of work. With us helping him to raise his pet wolf rats. He has been highly although not the highest voted in things like @das_slash dream daddy picture and this social vote. I personally find his character; being a muscle wizard, caring pet owner, engineer, and intelligence operative for the gold college (that's how I'd summise his goal to reverse engineer skaven tech) etc. To be very engaging.
At least my concerns about social rank are not to do with other peoples acceptance. Rather, they are about power imbalances within the relationship. If panoramia passes her Magister exams then she would be happier and if we started a relationship with Johann then I would support letting him go from our employment and replacing him with one of the ducklings.
Uh...Johann is the only person on the list we actually talked about non-work stuff with on a regular basis in the past three years.
Eexcept, you know, the whole addition of the social turns was for explicitly that reason, because otherwise Boney would never find the time to write more complicated personal relationships, and because there were a lot of complaints about how the APs shouldn't really take all her free time like they did.
I don't have an issue with people finding people for what ever reason they decide. The issue I had with your post is the following lines.
This makes it sound like instead of finding people who are good romantic matches you are advocating for Mathilde to "grow" people into better romantic matches. This may not have been your intent. If it wasn't I hope you find a better way to phrase your opinion. Because the way you did phrase it sounds really really really bad.
I've seen it work just great is your work happens to be your life.
...I can see how it would look that way, yeah. Give me a moment.
I think that's Max. could be wrong though.
No, Max is the book guy who's largely content to be Mathilde's Journeyman scribe semipermanently, provided he gets to go shoot some orcs every so often.
Wow, you have not paid much attention then, though I can't blame you since even I get a little mixed up with all the wizards. Max is the guy who writes our papers, Johann is the papa rat, the golden man, the muscle wizard, the engineer, the guy who lied to us and pretended to be a Journeyman when he was really a Magister for... some reason, and the guy who went with us to fuck up Skryre. he also likes artillery whereas Max likes gyrocopters.
The only people I have seen express concern over social turns are a few who want to meet more people but mostly the shippers. Social turns are social turns. I see very little reason to be concerned over them.
Yes they did! At least one before Mathilde teleported away and Johann ran in to smash things.
The irony is that Kragg was saying this to Mathilde, who is over here trying to wear like five different hats.
She was kind of embarrassing when we met her literal years ago, and therefore that takes her out of consideration permanently?
I'm sorry, but Kragg x Bok is an obviously superior ship.All this talk of who we should ship Mathilde with is pointless.
After all, Mathilde x Kragg OTP.
