|☺| ("Friends")
|✧| ("Close Friends")
|♪| ("Neutral")
|♡|("Could Be Something More ~")

”FRIENDSHIP SHEET, GOOO!”

|✧| Elizabeth - ”Elizabeth’s really great! Hanging out with her is a lot of fun and making her laugh is always satisfying. Well I mean, making anyone laugh is satisfying! She’s my number one proofreader to go to if I need something to be looked at (with snacks for the heck of it provided by your’s truly, heh heh) and gives good feedback too! Out of anyone she’s probably read the most of my stuff and spoilers, so shh!” | ”We’re going to go back in time, to a land far far far awa- No I’m just kidding it's more recent than that. I think it was in the hallway, or at least somewhere in school, where she just kinda came up to me on her own with one of my sheets that had a part of one of my stories I was writing at the time. Now let me rewind a bit. The day before that was where I tripped in the hallway, I accidentally had the music on too loud in my earbuds which startled the hell out of me, and it made a bunch of papers go flying. Now did I catch all of them with my hands like a ninja badass before they all landed on the ground?! Why of course!!! ...Okay no I didn’t. But imagine if I did though! Anyway, I accidentally left one behind and that must have been when she picked it up. So on the next day not only did she come to me with it, but she wanted to read the rest of it! And I gotta say, I was kind of surprised. Because it was actually one of the stories I was considering on scrapping at the time, but thanks to Elizabeth’s interest I finished it!”

|✧| Aiden - ”Aiden’s cool! I appreciate how he’ll stand up against bullies. I let him read some of my stuff and he’s another good person to get blunt and honest opinions from. I also appreciate his way of being rational and mediating things, since drama can...yea.” | ”Now I met Aiden through...I think Elizabeth? Yea, I think so because that seems most likely how we would’ve gotten to start talking. I also remember making this really lame pun but I can’t remember how it went.”

|✧| Theo - ”Ahhh Theo. My rival in height! Well technically everyone’s my rival since I’m the shortest BUT since he’s the tallest he’s rival number one! Whenever I see him working on a drawing I’m always amazed by it even if it’s in progress! If anything I just wish he wasn’t so hard on himself...he’s better than he thinks. But one of these days...he will laugh at one of my puns!!” | ”Well I definitely remember seeing him in the hallways several times, but I think we were introduced when...maybe through Elizabeth again?”

|☺| Alyx - ”I think I speak for everyone that at first sight she seems like, don’t worry I won’t sugarcoat, the bitch of the group. But I’ve spotted sweeter, caring sides of her around the others, so obviously there’s more to the picture and I respect that. Around me though...heh heh...I think I might annoy her a bit. I mean I don’t have anything against her of course, and I’ll probably still be all hyper and all, but I dunno. Kind of feeling a vibe I guess.” | ”We had a class together and were assigned as group partners. Instead of being quiet for once I thought I’d try talking a little bit and just see how that went. It got a little...awkward? Or I got awkward? A little bit? Maybe?”

|☺/♡(?)| Rose - ”Rose is...Rose is really nice and sweet! She seems to have the same kind of energy as me, heh heh! She’s another good artist too; I think she’s got that kind of artwork where you just look at it and then wanna stare at it for as long as you can… I like a little art too ok! There’s something else about her though… In a good way I mean! It’s like, hmm...I dunno. I can’t quite put my finger on it yet….” | ”I’d seen her a lot in the hallways before, but then I think we officially met through her brother some time after I met him.”

|☺| Loki - ”Loki’s a good guy to have around! We talk a little at times and he’s protective of his sister. I can’t really see anything wrong with him, which brings on to the fact where I get internally pissed at any *cough* JACKASSES *cough* who come picking on him. One of these days, when or if I lose my cool, I might just go out on anyone that does. But, Aiden and Alyx seem to have his back. So if they need any backup...I’ll come out from somewhere...heehee…” | ”He came up to me somewhere in school and we just kind of started talking from there!”

|✧| Callum - ”Rival in height number two...and maybe in jokes too… but never in puns! Only I can PUN in this race! ...You get what I mean! Well actually maybe he could be tied as rival number one... ANYWAY, I’ll occasionally join Callum in his pranks getting a pretty good laugh. As long as it isn’t too messy or too far, like that one time with the slime...oh geez… Although when he's being reckless I'll usually try to talk some sense and convince him to think through whatever he's thinking of doing. I’d also help him in some of his essays if he needed any. As long as there’s no prank involving the separation of me and my hat we’re cool!” | ”We met in English class and clicked pretty fast I must say! Not sure what it exactly started with, but we pretty much just kept it on!”

|✧| Elizabeth - "A light, even in the darkest of nights." | "Elixabeth's kinda like a pizza. Enough to make one person happy and satisfied, or to feed and draw a group of people together."
One of the few people capable of calming Theo down during one of his fits, Elizabeth acts as a sort of lifeline for the young man. When he first met the girl, during Home Ec class, he had scowled and cut into her verbally, how dare she act as if he wasn't aware of her cruelty. A cruelty that never existed, a figment of paranoia and resignation. Given time however, she broke down his walls, provinng him wrong and confusing him on what someone like her saw in someone like him. Nonetheless, he enjoyed the companionship she provided, even as his conciousness screamed that he leave her. Ignoring the voices is difficult, and has led to more than one breakdown that Eliazbeth managed to calm. In turn, he notices how she acts when parents are mentioned, and is always ready to grill a burger or bake a pizza and banter to help her forget her problems for a little while. He has yet to lose his sense of inferiority, but even in the most bleakest of nights, she's there like the sunrise chasing away the dark.

|✧| Aiden - "A good guy to bounce ideas off of, and someone who can be as blunt to me as I can with others." | "Just like kimchi, Aiden's a bit sour, kinda salty but okay once you ge used to it."
Aiden is Theo's go to guy when it comes to games. One of the few Asians in the area, Theo met the other Asian through his parents. Theo felt for the guy, having gone through a similar situation as a child. He was one of the few people Theo approached as a friend on his own volition, and relishes their interactions. It was through these interactions that Theo truly began to cook, learning how to make Korean dishes as well as Chinese. Due to their similarities, Theo often agrees with Aiden offering concurrent opinions and bouncing ideas off of each other. Theo knows that Aiden sees him as a sort of negative role model, and he's fine with that, he wouldn't wish his issues on anyone else. True, they've butt heads on their opinions of games and making kimchi stinks up his room for weeks, but he wouldn't have it any other way. They're similar on the surface, but Theo knows that Aiden's darkness is capable of dissipating eventually.

|✧| Alyx - "Can't say I thought much of her in the beginning. Now? A peer, someone who understands, though her like of twizzlers continues to confuse me."
Alyx is one of those person's that he would have made cry if he hadn't gotten to know here. If Elizabeth hadn't become friends with her, she and Theo would probably be mortal enemies. It's because of her that he thinks twice before judging people based on their appearances. He understands her feelings of inadequency, and sympathizes with her. To him, she deals with her feelings better than he does, at least she didn't used to spend countless lunch periods in the bathroom in a fetal posistion crying and cursing himself. The first time he saw her walls fall, he was honestly shocked and honestly regretful. He relishes the time that her walls drop, and like how he helps the others he is always ready an willing to make her favorite dish and offer a person to tallk to. He likes to think they have a mutual repspect as artists and sympathy as fellow self-loathers.

|✧| Sophie - "Creative, awkward, and an absolutely terrible human being for all the puns she makes." | "M&M cookies fit her, colorful, sweet and warm."
Theo enjoys Sophie's presence. Her sunny personality contrasts with his dark anf dreary thoughts, and injects a welcome distraction into his day. It's because of her that his family resturant has begun to smell of cookies and other sweets, hust as it's Elizabeth's friendship introduced the hissing sound of a grill amongst the the woks and steamers. He understands her reluctance during internal strife, as his own walls are a more aggressive form on neutrality by insulting everyone equally. He may groan, snark, and belittle at her awkwardness and puns, but he does it less intesity than with others. He enjoys her bubbly creativity, and enjoys bouncing ideas with her. He enjoys her works, and thoroughly critiques her works while working on illustrations for her. He draws on his vast repertoire of literary and video game tropes and plots to point out when oversights or cliches in her stories.He also pushes her to keep her deadlines, helping her keep track of dates and other things while she's lost in her thoughts. And when she comes down from the clouds of thought, Theo always makes sure there's M&M cookies waiting for her

|✧| Roslyn - "Like Elizabeth, the life of our group though I wish that she wasn't so flighty." | "I guess that I'd call Roslyn a makizushi roll. A fragile outer layer, a layer of innocent white, and a surprise center filled with almost any ingrediant imaginable."
Theo worried about Roslyn the moment he laid eyes on her in the art room. He had called her an airhead mentally, and was not at all surprised that he was right. What he didn't anticipate was her eternal entusiasm, which rubbed him the wrong way initially. Why did she get to be happy and comfortable, while he wallowed in self-hatred? Slowly though, she inserted herself into his life as a new constant, a friend. He's not really sure how it happened, but eventually they began having conversations that went beyond "What do you think of this color scheme" and "How did you drop an open water bottle into a box of plaster strips?". Their relationship grew, to the point that Theo's insults began to decrease in their frequency and caustic quality. He still occasionally calls her "airhead" or , more sarcastically, "cinammon roll" (huzzah for The Onion). He worries about her, not as much as her brother, but as much as he worries for everyone else in his little group. Whenever Roslyn needs someone to talk to, he's always there ready with his bamboo makisu and nori.

|✧| Loki - "... I feel that the only reason he stands my snarking is because of Roslyn and the fact that I make chocolate cake for him." | "Probably the most labor intensive of my friend's favorite foods, I feel that it kinda fits our friendship. The ingerdients need to be measured, eggs have to be broken, but you still have to let time run it's course."
Theo is pretty sure Loki didn't take his snarky behavior well when they first met. The other boy is similar to himself, he recognizes the external signs when his words hit to deep. They had met through Roslyn, a natural consequence of their friendship. Theo's pretty sure he pressed some buttons with his constant snarking, but he hadn't expected to get into a fight with the other boy. It was only by the intervention of Roslyn and a peace offering of a chocolate cake that they're relationship became positive.Though the roots of their issues were different, Theo feels a connection with the conflicted boy. The self-doubt, the loathing, the alienation, all familiar and unwanted but constant. Theo could honestly care less about Loki's identity, he's a friend and that's all that matters and anyone who gives him grief quickly finds themselves under a verbal assault by Theo.

|✧| Callum - "I'm not even sure how the hell I stand him at times." | "Caution, Callum, like Chile con Carne, may cause indigestion, high blood pressure and frustration. Approach with an open mind"
If someone told Theo that he would have a friend like Callum, he would have laughed and called them delusional. Yet, here he is, friends with the pig-headed and atmosphere-blind jokester. He began the relationship belittling Callum constantly, annoyed by his thick skin and childish personality. Now, the insults have evolved into their current form of chiding the young man for his childishness and simple mindedness. He is still annoyed by Callum occasionally, but he no longer feels extreme anger and frustration towards the boy. He may not be the most understanding of people, but at least he's reasonably competant and willing to play video games. Callum wouldn't have been Theo's first choice of friend, but he's still a friend who accepts him.