CRYSTALLINE

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"It's been a long time, Champion. I wonder if your pack's skills have improved at all since we battled when I was younger. I hope you know that whatever you want out of my Leader, she's already out-thought you. She may be weak, but she has never led me wrong! And if you do think you can outwit her, then I'll be happy to put you back in your place!"

"Ah, the cookie child." Sorry, Ree. That's the biggest thing Kris remembers you for. "You are very tired, aren't you? You may think I need to read your mind for that, but I do not. It's written on your face. I'll give you the same advice I try to give to my Sister, then. You must stop pushing yourself this hard. You are stronger when you rest. There is no danger. You have earned your place."

"I suppose part of the reason I never cared that much about my gym challenge is that League battles always just felt so boring to me. I love street battling because that's where it gets properly interesting! So many new avenues of strategy open up when you drop some of the more arbitrary restrictions the League has."

(kris is also—and this is critical—just kind of a dick sometimes. she has a bad habit of projecting her own problems onto other people and blaming them for it. it's something that she's better about the closer she actually is with a person, but for people she only knows in passing? there's a solid 50/50 chance she has subconsciously declared you her mortal enemy.)

Kris' biggest weakness is that she's pragmatic to a fault. This most obviously manifests as her, uh, questionable work ethic (girl please take literally one day off), but it means she also tends to hold other people to the same standards she does herself. Which are, I must reiterate, incredibly questionable. One one hand, she has strong feelings about the freedom and public access of knowledge and education and refuses to compromise in regards to her beliefs that deeper understanding of scientific concepts is integral to a functional society, that people MUST be aware of what their government (League included) is doing, and that research should be shared freely—at least among peers—and properly vetted. On the other, she's also incredibly stubborn about the above in such a way that she has little patience for people who aren't necessarily as forthcoming or cooperative with information. She dislikes people who are deliberately obtuse or avoidant. And, again, that work ethic. Honey, no, not everyone needs to have a twenty seven step plan lined up to obtain their PhD by the time they graduate middle school. Though she doesn't necessarily expect everyone to put in the same amount of work she does... she also doesn't really know what a healthy amount of work is, so her standards are still pretty well fucked.

never actually get kris started on her research she will not stop

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