[RepComm] Mereel & Jaing

[mamuzzy]

 Headcanons about Mereel & Jaing and their sibling dynamic. 

•─────⋅☾ Mereel is a hard worker ☽⋅─────•

 

Mereel is a hardworker. He had to be, because he felt he always needed to compete with 5 six other brothers for attention, and that was already a lost-cause due to Ordo being the absolute favorite of Kal. Mereel would spend hours and hours and hours to just acquire a new skill and when he is done, he will go to the next one. He is a skill-hoarder for the sake of "you will never know when you need it". He takes pride in his work, but also this is escapism. Constantly occupying himself either with studying or seeking pleasure/adrenaline. 

 

•─────⋅☾ Jaing is efficient ☽⋅─────•

 

Jaing over the years realized that why do things the hard way, when he can achieve the same result with less effort? Why need to get buried under the boulders of responsibilities and duties just for the sake of being a martyr? His absolute currency is TIME. No wonder he is the best tracker in the GAR.  And if there is resource that can be syphoned for his own gain, he will syphon it. The Galaxy is his own playground, there are no locked doors for him. Jaing adores Ordo because Ordo understands him and his mindset about loopholes and exploitable grey areas.

 

•─────⋅☾ Their mindsets are often clashing ☽⋅─────•

 

I think when Jaing and Mereel gets into fight, their conflicts are about their different mindset. Mereel despises Jaing for not suffering enough for the gains and victory (same way he despises Ordo that he really doesn't have to work Kal'buir's love. Ordo just has to be... Ordo). A twisted wordview, where Mereel channels his own bitterness into this, that no matter how much he puts into the table he feels its not enough (your typical middle-child syndrome). 

 

Jaing hates that Mereel is a whiny bitch. "Why would you put yourself under such pressure if it causes you so much pain? Are you a masochist or something?"

 

•─────⋅☾ Compromises ☽⋅─────•

 

They usually make up by going to party together. Window shopping, drinking, dancing, trying out arcade games. Learning from their previous conflict, Jaing politely allows Mereel to be a big hard worker hunter and spoil the money for those rigged claw machines for the "sake of the hunt and adrenaline" and when Mereel is desperate enough to win that prize plushie, he offers to slice it for him.