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Please ask me questions about Reim or anything else rp-related!!

instead of a question you can also link a thread and I can break down Reim’s thought processes during it like I did here for another character in the past

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BRIEF BACKGROUND INFO SUMMARY: there is another 'world' attached to their world called the Abyss; things and people that end up in the Abyss get distorted into monsters called Chains, which people in the regular world can form contracts with to get to use their powers. The four dukedoms who mostly rule the country formed an organization called Pandora which is trying to figure out the secrets of the Abyss in order to harness and control it. Two of the dukedoms are Rainsworth and Barma. Sharon is the heiress to the Rainsworth dukedom, Reim is a servant of the Barma dukedom, and Break is a dude they found bleeding in the woods who the Rainsworths picked up and went 'this is our feral dog now.' All three of them were contractors; Break's and Reim's Chains were Mad Hatter and March Hare respectively but Sharon's was a shadow horse called Equus which breaks up the cute matchies a little. single tear. Sometimes people stop physically aging after forming a contract with a Chain, which was true of both Sharon and Break, but Break stopped aging at like 24 while Sharon stopped aging at 13.

Sharon and Reim actually don't have that many interactions in the series itself (so large swaths of the fandom were actively mad when they got married at the end lmao) because they are MOSTLY JUST BOTH HINGED AROUND BREAK'S ARC. Reim is introduced as Break's only friend,,, and Sharon is overtly in love with him. Neither of them are really combatants while Break is The Strongest Fucker In The Cast so he's extremely protective of both of them (he goes on little murder benders when Reim fakes his death/Sharon gets hurt it's very endearing), which funnily enough Reim is pretty fine with accepting that as part of the balance of the dynamic between the two of them, but conversely that attitude runs up against what Sharon wants, which is to be more capable and able to stand as Break's equal. Break essentially spends the whole series gradually physically degrading to his death and so their collective arc is really about browbeating him into accepting their help and support before he finally eats it. He dies in both their arms telling them he doesn't want to die. it's extremely cute and devastating.

also while neither of them are combatants they both smack him around when he's dumb even though no one else can hit him, because he drops his guard around them specifically, which is ALSO extremely cute

The three of them met when Sharon was 8/Reim was 11 and have known each other for fifteen years since so they have like. really the highest level of comfortable familiarity with each other in the cast which I've been having a lot of fun playing in reverie tbh. they are all INCREDIBLY familiar with each other's personalities. when Reim finds out Break has been keeping something really significant from him in the series he's like, noticeably more twigged about the fact that he DIDN'T KNOW and Break has been LYING TO HIM than about the fact that Break is A SERIAL KILLER

but also Reim has been in love with Sharon that entire time, except she already rejected him when they were kids because she liked Break. WHICH HE WAS UPSET ABOUT AT FIRST BUT THEN AT SOME POINT HE SWERVED TO JUST. SUPPORTING SHARON IN WHAT SHE WANTS. (he is right Sharon should always get what she wants. at one point she drops the line 'GREED IS IN MY BLOOD' and frankly that's the most metal shit ever.) Sharon is a daydreamy romantic sort who really likes trashy romance novels and relationship drama (although her novel tastes are explicitly femdom because mochijun knows what she likes and it's sadist girls and loser masochist boys) so it makes sense she would be way more interested in Mysterious Traumatized Man With No Past than Reim who even at that age was already so aggressively boring and responsible lmao. he is subtle enough in pushing them together that neither of them ever particularly notice but he consistently pushes Break on how to treat Sharon in the series proper and then omakes and side materials have stuff like "Reim tells Break to cheer Sharon up by hugging her" or "Reim tricks Break into matching outfits with Sharon". Break technically tries to deflect Sharon's feelings throughout the series (since 1. she looks 13 and he's almost 40 2. he was probably romantically involved with her mom before her mom died) and be like 'no no she's like a daughter/little sister to me' but tbh he keeps touching her hair and calling her princess even without Reim's help so who does he think he's fooling

Reim is a huge nag with Break and Break is a menace at him (Reim is Break's superior in Pandora and has to come after him to get him to do his work all the time but then ends up doing half his reports for him anyway; Break does shit like steal Reim's sweets or tickle him while he's carrying a pile of like ten books to make him drop them) and Reim takes Sharon's side over his 100% of the time, but Reim is also more comfortable with Break than anyone else. like sometimes they just hang out and eat sweets together off hours but also Reim is willing to act like way more of a dumb boy with Break. when he figures out Break has started losing his vision he immediately throws something at him and then checks by doing this. at one point Reim enters a scene by listening at a door to try and see when Break is going to come through it and then tries to slam it open in his face. WHO ELSE WOULD REIM EVER DO THAT TO. NO ONE. so while he's Break's only friend Break is also mutually like... a singular existence in Reim's life. he has a lot of faith in him and even when he hears stuff like 'Break is in a bad situation and might die' he's just like 'he'll be fine it's Break he'll figure something out.' and it's because Break once praised him for being unsuited to violence that Reim was able to accept that about himself and focus on the things he could do instead. (originally he is pretty reasonable about this and is willing to stay sidelined on paperwork duty but by the end he's really like [thinking emoji] actually nothing is stopping me from running into danger to rescue Sharon by talking at the enemy.)

after Break dies Reim and Sharon are still in the middle of ?POSSIBLY FIGHTING THE ENEMY? but now with Break's corpse, and Reim keeps it together to manage the situation and by that I mean when Lily wants to destroy Break's corpse because he killed a bunch of other Baskervilles Reim gives her his gun and tells her it's actually Reim's fault so she should shoot him instead if it will make her feel better. which was also partly because he did not think Lily would kill him but she did in fact shoot him. I think he also partly felt it was really important for SHARON that they manage to take Break's corpse home but it is very funny to think that this probably means Reim lists his physical wellbeing below Break's corpse's physical wellbeing on both his own and his assumption of Sharon's lists of priorities

he also carried Break's corpse home.

anyway also after Break dies this omake chapter occurs which fandom was ALSO mad about but personally saved my life. thanks mochijun I love playing yandere adjacent fucks

in reverie Reim and Sharon are from a timepoint when Break has been dead for 5 years and they've been married for one, so they'd have been like. starting to settle into their new life a bit. Sharon started physically aging again at the end of the series so Reim just looked like he was marrying a 17 year old and not a 13 year old. this means they do have a closer and more familiar relationship in reverie than in canon tho since in canon Reim definitely was like, conscientious of her standing being higher than his, but now they are married. they are also definitely in kind of a d/s relationship in bed which Break will probably find out. soonish. because I love to make everyone's lives hard I have been playing Reim as not necessarily in love with Break or at least just very confused about his feelings towards him at this point so that leg of the triangle is kind of convoluted at the moment, especially since Break Being Alive is in and of itself kind of like ripping an old wound open (even if mostly in a good way). actually the Break-Sharon leg is also kind of convoluted since she just asked him to marry her and he was basically like [WHEEZES] but all in all everyone is having a good time. Reim and Sharon agreed pretty much instantly that they're both ok with staying in prison to spend more time with Break for a while and the conversations they've had about that were really cute and affirming. very on the same wavelength. they had one of them basically on top of Break while he was like EXCUSE ME YOU WHAT?

do YOU have any hopes/ideas for events or types of games you might hope to see in reverie?