GM really fucked March over in a... good way. In that March before felt like he had to cling to control and that if he wasn't in control he'd get fucked over miserably, and that maybe he needed to be in charge to make Celeste win.
And then they lost. Miserably. Terribly. Horrifically. Even when he was giving strategy. And March blamed himself hard for it. He should have been smarter, better at predicting, he was making the plays and it doesn't matter that they lost by basically one card in the end- He feels it was on his head.
And they didn't self-destruct, and he didn't get killed, or wake up in the nasu basement. He went insane, he 'made them lose', and they not only backed him up against other teams- Shark and Panther flopped on him and didn't apparently care he'd eaten a fucking dude!
So suddenly his team feelings got a little blurry. He's been holding himself mentally apart from Celeste, there's been no real 'team cohesion' because... There hasn't been any, everyone's been in blocks he's been trying to manipulate for control. That was the first moment he felt like he was on a team, and not just using a chair and whip on a pack of lions, and became fully face to face that he'd been fucking up hard with his previous short-term strategy and it wouldn't fall apart if they tried to be a real team.
Then we go to Shark. He's finally settled into neutral territory with Shark, wherein they're both not actively attacking each other or looking to attack each other. Shark could have fucked him up, and didn't pounce on the opportunity, so he's accepted that Shark really does have no interest left- Quite the relief.
So he's treating Shark as someone else who WANTS CELESTE TO WIN and is running on that strategy, which is why he's accepting the stalking instead of rejecting it. They're capable of having stupid arguments and the immediately switching over to tactics, and they don't care about each other or are interested in each other, it's simply a matter of celeste protects celeste from now on.
He wouldn't have made the deal, given he already rejected it, but he got slammed hard by the threat from Janus and well. Case of a bigger fish. He'll take the person he knows needs celeste to win over someone who wants them to lose, and worst case scenario, Shark's someone he's beaten down once before.
tl;dr a weird neutrality of team tactics and we're even so now let's not care about each other.
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GM really fucked March over in a... good way. In that March before felt like he had to cling to control and that if he wasn't in control he'd get fucked over miserably, and that maybe he needed to be in charge to make Celeste win.
And then they lost. Miserably. Terribly. Horrifically. Even when he was giving strategy. And March blamed himself hard for it. He should have been smarter, better at predicting, he was making the plays and it doesn't matter that they lost by basically one card in the end- He feels it was on his head.
And they didn't self-destruct, and he didn't get killed, or wake up in the nasu basement. He went insane, he 'made them lose', and they not only backed him up against other teams- Shark and Panther flopped on him and didn't apparently care he'd eaten a fucking dude!
So suddenly his team feelings got a little blurry. He's been holding himself mentally apart from Celeste, there's been no real 'team cohesion' because... There hasn't been any, everyone's been in blocks he's been trying to manipulate for control. That was the first moment he felt like he was on a team, and not just using a chair and whip on a pack of lions, and became fully face to face that he'd been fucking up hard with his previous short-term strategy and it wouldn't fall apart if they tried to be a real team.
Then we go to Shark. He's finally settled into neutral territory with Shark, wherein they're both not actively attacking each other or looking to attack each other. Shark could have fucked him up, and didn't pounce on the opportunity, so he's accepted that Shark really does have no interest left- Quite the relief.
So he's treating Shark as someone else who WANTS CELESTE TO WIN and is running on that strategy, which is why he's accepting the stalking instead of rejecting it. They're capable of having stupid arguments and the immediately switching over to tactics, and they don't care about each other or are interested in each other, it's simply a matter of celeste protects celeste from now on.
He wouldn't have made the deal, given he already rejected it, but he got slammed hard by the threat from Janus and well. Case of a bigger fish. He'll take the person he knows needs celeste to win over someone who wants them to lose, and worst case scenario, Shark's someone he's beaten down once before.
tl;dr a weird neutrality of team tactics and we're even so now let's not care about each other.
SHARKS THOUGHTS ON OTHER TEAMS?