#just 'whats the worst joke ever? oh we could punt freddy into space. that will do.'

[monty-glasses-roxy]

(ask game) Vanessa and Gregory

Give me two (or more) characters and I'll tell you how their first meeting went and how they feel about each other now.

Okay so. I don't remember if Gregory says Vanny or Vanessa caught him and tried to kill him but uhhhh yeah that was probably their first meeting. If it was still Vanny in control, then the first time he'd really meet Vanessa would be when she catches him in the Prize Counter or the Loading Docks place (I think that's where those are I don't remember). Though I think he sorta wakes up in the lost and found security office so... that might not be entirely her either...?

Lets say it is. I'm gonna say it's then. It's a stressful situation. Vanessa probably doesn't know what else to do with him, and is keeping him in lost and found to try and keep the animatronics from catching him- and no, nevermind that makes no sense either. Okay. So. I guess they first truly meet after that Princess Quest ending??? I guess????? I dunno man this makes so much less sense the more I think about it. Maybe when they took Vanny's knife, they also removed whatever made her make sense? Who knows. Anyway.

If it's after Princess Quest, it's. Awkward to say the least. It probably starts with a "You saved me..." and then after a very long silence, she shits a brick when Freddy suddenly starts talking from a duffelbag. Amazingly, that actually breaks the tension and suddenly the pair of them are back and forth like "Freddy's in a bag???" "Well I wasn't gonna leave him!!" "THIS IS ANIMATRONIC THEFT!!!" "YOU TRIED TO KILL ME!!" "OKAY THIS. Okay. Okay hold on. We can do this." And now they're working out how to get him out undetected before the dayshift clock in. Vanessa meanwhile, is asking about his folks and where he's going now, and well okay, she's got a kid to take care of now, cool okay, one day her life will stop throwing curveballs at her it can't have that many left at this point. Yeah like fuck is she letting the kid that saved not just her life, but all the lives of every future child Vanny would have caught had she not been saved, sleep on the street. Fuck that. She's got a couch. She's got a car. Whatever happens, happens I guess.

Does Gregory trust her at this point? No. Not even remotely. Freddy says she's nice, but Freddy has been wrong about almost everything today so like. Not exactly a stellar review. He already knows he's not sleeping in the same building as her ever if he can help it. He'll just wait till she's away doing stuff and live on naps. That's just how you get by on the street so... yeah this first true meeting with her is so vastly different to every previous encounter with her so far. She seems just as confused, tired, nervous and frazzled at their current situation as he is though so that's helping ease tensions in a weird way. Also the fact she just. Immediately jumped on board with stealing Freddy's head? And then took him to McDonalds or some shit? And then tried to crack a joke about needing something stronger than cola after all of that? Yeah... he's already figured she's just thrown her hands up at this point and is just gonna make do with whatever comes her way. He's also decided her music taste is fucking awful. Seriously, he sees the CDs in her car and just. "Wow your music sucks.", "There's nothing playing???", "Who listens to this?", "HEY-" while Freddy is ignored the more he tries to get them to be nice, and accept that everyone's tastes are different. Look, they just stole an animatronic bear, and the car ride was just silence the whole time, he had to think of something. It's not his fault she's got no taste smh lmao I dunno the whole situation would feel like a blur till then I think

Anyway, after Ruin? After all that shit? They have carried a certain 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING??' 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING??' kind of air to things. At this point, they would help each other commit atrocities but fucking hell if they don't stop stealing each other's fries there's going to be an all out war. It's taken some time to get to that point of course. One of them tries to relieve the tension with something and if it works even remotely, the other one does it another time, and suddenly it's a regular occurence. Vanessa is keeping him safe, warm, fed and somewhat entertained, while Gregory tries to see if he can build a Jenga tower on Freddy's nose. They don't see each other as 'parent and child' or 'guardian and child' or whatever. They're just... them. Found family tropes but it takes a lot longer before they'll ever say it. By this point, they've started bonding over working out how far they could punt Freddy's head in a single kick every time he starts trying to lecture them.

Of course, they're both highly traumatised individuals. They've had to learn what to do for each other, and what to avoid. Neither of them are comfortable with knives for example, so they have to find ways of working around that. Vanessa learns she's scared of rabbits at the same time Gregory learns about it pretty much and the same is true for Gregory's fear of certain loud noises. With this in mind, they've eventually grown very understanding of each other and what they both need from each other when the bad days hit. Sometimes it's space, sometimes it's just to not be left alone, sometimes it's just a hug or something.

So yeah, their opinion of each other now, is pretty much 'I live with them and they're pretty cool actually'. Gregory thinks Vanessa has a few weird habits, terrible music taste and that she's a 'just deal with the hand your dealt' kind of person. Pretty cool of her to do all this without a second thought too. Vanessa has stopped wondering how she ended up caring for a kid at this point, but sometimes she still does, because just her luck, the kid she ended up with would be this one (affectionate). Kid just loves bringing bugs home to put in places bugs really shouldn't be, okay? And he keeps beating her in Mario Kart, whadda hell?? Seriously though, she's so damn grateful for this kid doing what he did, and is endlessly touched whenever she notices him doing something to make things easier on her sometimes. It's the little things that make her happy to have done this like when he spends some time to help find the thing she's lost, or when he decided she deserved a sticker because he said so. Yeah... she likes having him around a lot... Calling him a brother or a son doesn't feel right, but it's definitely a family thing here. Whatever, it doesn't need labelling. Family is family, right?