Permafrost

R.eaper - O.verwatch (Platonic)

Really unlucky here. His whole outlook on life is violence. And he's angry all the time (chronic pain due to your cells constantly dying and regenerating does that). He left his wife and son behind. He lost his team, his best friend, and his mentees and his second family. He's a terrorist in a world-wild villanous organization. He acts like he hates everyone now and he probably hates most of them. At the same time, he watches his wife and child from afar and keeps tabs on his old ex-coworkers. If he finally lets one weakness into his life, it's all over for him, which is why he would be an aggressive menace and hold it so tight he's nearly choking it.

Ghost - Call of Duty (Platonic)

He grew up with an abusive dad who'd make him watch as he beat his mom. His dad would also scare him with a snake. He ended up becoming the sole provider of his family working as a butcher after kicking his dad out and his brother became a drug addict. Joins the army, his family starts to recover, his brother gets married and has a son. He gets captured on a mission, tortured (in which he was raped), and buried alive. He has to dig his way out with his dead colleague's jawbone. His other colleague was brainwashed and murdered his family on Christmas. He got blamed for his family's death. I might have gotten the timeline mixed up, but he's been through a lot, and he's recovered the best he can, but I think that if he allowed himself to have some semblance of family again he'd become overprotective to the point where it's obsessive.

König - Call of Duty (Platonic)

He has social anxiety (like me) and was bullied throughout his childhood (also like me). He's now a cocky asshole because of it. Is it intentional? Probably not. If he is able to finally connect with someone I think he'd obsess over it since he doesn't want it to fall through.

Nikto - Call of Duty (Platonic)

Also ended up captured and tortured to the point where his mind broke and he developed DID. I think in this case if he was presented with someone as inexperienced and vulnerable as he used to be and had to protect them...yeah.

Krueger - Call of Duty (Platonic)

He has an antisocial personality disorder of some sorts so this is probably really unlikely. He cares about you. He doesn't care about anyone. Why are you special. Maybe he needs to be mean to you. He feels worse. Maybe he needs to...remove...you. He can't bear the thought of it. He needs to put you in a cage and study you.

Higgs - Death Stranding (Platonic)

He's gone through everything. The world somewhat ending, losing his parents, being raised by an abusive uncle who kept him locked up in a house for the majority of his life until he had to kill him in self defense and figure out life from there. Having hope for a moment before realizing that the world is going to end and the person who brings the end of the world wants him to help her. Him. Of all people. If the world's going to end, and death loves him, he might as well get it over with, right? Being his contradiction would be a nightmare. He knows how it's all going to end, but he doesn't want to lose you. You're his little one. His ray of sunshine. Why are you here getting in the way of his plans? Go away! Wait no, stay.

Guzma - Pokemon Sun&Moon (Platonic)

He'd adopt me like he adopted all of his other delinquents for being social outcast failures and would tell me to commit crimes. Once you're in the gang there's no leaving.

Wrench - Watch Dogs (Platonic)

Overprotective Uncle energy. He's a hacker. He has hacked security systems and cameras. He can control devices. He has a robot son. He's silly and playfull and pulls out a sledgehammer when he feels the need to get serious. Also, he's figured out tech that makes him invisible.

T.amsy Caines - Gachiakuta (Platonic) (Spoilers)

He killed the main character's father figure in front of him and called it an act of love. He wants to break the mc to make him strong and powerful. He's pretending to be the mc's ally and is trying to be a guardian figure to him. No one really knows what his deal is.

J.abber Wonger - Gachiakuta (Romantic)

The only romantic one on this list. He's an insane masochist who dabbles in drugs and chemicals and obsesses over anyone who can beat him. You can see where this is going.

Remmick - Sinners (Platonic)

I hate this guy because of his white saviour complex. He misses his people. His family. He'll love you for eternity and you can dance and sing and feed forever. Isn't that nice, little dove? It'll be you and papa forever and you can't run. He's in your head, too. He won't allow you to run.

Miguel O'Hara - ITSV (Platonic)

You woke up in the Tau Ceti system with alerts that probes had been detected five light-years behind you on their way to Earth. You have to sit down after that. You sacrificed your life for a mission that's already been completed. You take a few deep breaths and remind yourself that you would've just starved on Earth. After a tearful funeral for your fallen friends, you decide to figure out your options. First of all, you decide that some detective work is in order. The Hail Mary wasn’t in the system but you could track it. The astrophage left an ion trail that you could easily pick up. That was the easy part. The hard part was figuring out what to do with the information. You could tell that the Hail Mary had returned to the area from its path to Earth but it was impossible to tell why until you found another astrophage trail. You had to sit down after that one too. There was someone else here with the other team.

You don’t hesitate. You charted a course and follow the trail. You ran tests, calculated fuel usage, and barely noticed the major turn that the course took until the Final Gamble was alongside an alien ship. You scanned it and then decided that based on your microbiology training, there’s probably a reason that it’s empty. You’re an expert in microbes, not in exploring alien cultures. The likelihood of it being a plague ship was way too high for your comfort so you continued following the path of the Hail Mary. 

Your fuel tanks had a higher capacity and your system allowed faster travel than the Hail Mary so it isn’t a surprise when the trip takes under a year. You were led to an unfamiliar planet where, after careful measurements, you find out that the sun in the system isn’t dimming. You knew that the other team had found the solution to the problem but you didn’t expect the solution to be used by another planet. You were so caught off guard that when you send a spoken message to the Hail Mary, you ended up messing up your wording.

“Hail Mary, this is the Final Gamble. I– We were sent after you to find the reason why Tau Ceti wasn’t dimming. We were sent to make sure that the mission was completed. We have tracked you to this planet after finding that the probes from your ship were sent back to Earth. Are you okay? Please respond.”

You waited for hours as your ship fights the orbit of the planet in order to stay above the tracking beacon of the other ship. You broadcasted the recording over and over, just hoping that there will be someone else there. You’d been alone for so long that the prospect of a single conversation with another person was tantalizing. You shot up in your chair when the radio crackles to life for the very first time.

“Final Gamble, this is Dr. Ryland Grace of the Hail Mary. I am the sole survivor of the mission. The locals of this planet have taken me in. They’re very friendly. Would it be okay if I and a member of the local population came aboard?” 

“Dr. Grace, I’m so happy to hear from you! I studied all of your work and procedures! Please feel free to board. We have lots of room for you and your associate. You’re both very welcome here.”

You’re not as concerned as you probably should be when only a day later, a strange shuttle is sent from the surface of the planet to the Final Gamble. You wait patiently for them to dock and open the hatch for them to enter once the pressure in the airlock stabilizes. You barely have time to introduce yourself to Dr. Grace before what looks like an alien crab made of rock and covered in crystal barrels past you and into your ship.

“Make yourself at home…?” You offered quietly as you escort the other human into the main living and working area, offering him some apple juice in a packet.

“Sorry about that. He’s excited to see your ship and another human. He means well.” Grace said sheepishly as he takes the packet.

“Other human much cleaner than Grace when Rocky first see Grace ship. Grace very dirty until Rocky stay with Grace! Very nice! I like!” Rocky interrupted through the translator.

“Uh… Thanks…? It’s standard procedure on Earth.” You reply, still in shock as you watched Rocky skitter around, literally bouncing off of the walls in the lack of gravity. You just watched as he looks through the entirety of the first floor.

“Welcome! Final Gamble much bigger and nicer than Hail Mary! Earth must like you much better than Grace!” Rocky said happily.

“Oh, um… It was just made after the Hail Mary was. It was also designed to hold more people so it had to be bigger.” You said awkwardly.

Grace took the time to start looking at all of the decorations on the ship.

“Where other human, question. Rocky want meet! More friend for Grace! More friend for Rocky!” Rocky exclaimed.

“They… They all died. There were five others on board but there was a glitch that wasn’t fixed from the Hail Mary so I was the only one that survived.” You responded much more sullenly.

Grace whiped around from where he’s fiddling with a bobblehead. 

“Wait, so that was a glitch?” Grace asked.

“Unfortunately. We found out after you were a light year away that the feeding pumps for the top bunk stops working after a few years and then the middle one gives later. I was told that it was fixed but apparently, it wasn’t. I’m assuming that you were on the bottom bunk as well.” You said more quietly.

“Yeah. I was. I’m… I’m so sorry for your loss.” Grace responded.

“I’m sorry for yours too.” You said.

“Twenty-three of Rocky crewmate die. Rocky all alone until find Grace. You not alone now too. You find Grace and Rocky. Better now. Always better when not alone.” Rocky said after a few moments.

Rocky was right. It did make things a little better. You liked talking with both of them. They told you all about their meeting and how they ended up saving each other. You properly introduced yourself to them and were able to find out how Grace’s life support system on Erid worked. After some debating, you agreed to go down to Erid to see what it was like. It sounded nice enough and you were very interested in not being alone anymore.

You explored Grace’s biodome and met Adrian, Rocky’s mate. They were very nice, though significantly taller than even Grace. You found them to be very intimidating at first but were much more comfortable around them after conversing with them. They were very interested in your biology and how you liked the biosphere. You guest taught in Grace’s class and did a lesson on the basics of school systems on Earth and on Earth bacteria. All of the Eridian children enjoyed hearing your stories and seemed to enjoy your jokes.

Eventually, it was decided that you, Grace, and Rocky would attend a conference with scientists and journalists. Rocky would ask you questions based on the ones that the scientists and journalists gave to him while they observed and broadcasted the interview, as well as the translation of your words. Grace agreed to answer most of the questions for you as he understood their customs better and would be less likely to cause offense. As you sat between Grace and Rocky in front of the clear crystal that separated you from the rest of the Eridians, you began regretting agreeing to do the interview.

“How old Grace friend, question.” Rocky asks.

“Oh, um, they’re in their twenties. We haven’t figured out how the coma on the ride over impacts biological aging for us humans and whether or not to include the duration of the coma. It’s a bit complicated.” Grace says warmly.

“Earth send baby to do job, question.” Rocky asked, visibly agitated.

You were a bit taken aback. You weren’t expecting to be called a child and were feeling more than a little insulted. Sure, you were young but that didn’t take away from your accomplishments!

“No, they’re not a baby! They’re an adult! They made the decision to come here and they were fully capable of consenting to do so. They wanted to save our world and they were braver than me.” Grace tried to soothe.

It didn’t work. An entire chorus of “BAD, BAD, BAD” and “IS BABY, IS VERY MUCH BABY” rang out from the both formerly docile council and reporting crew. One translator screeched “BABY ALONE FOR YEARS WITH NO ONE WATCH SLEEP!” and it started up a whole other wave of incensed and horrified speech that the translators didn’t understand. You’d noticed that Grace didn’t usually cuss and that Rocky’s translator didn’t work on too many curse words so you could only imagine how intense whatever they’re saying is. Their distressed chirps and calls were starting to make you feel even more nervous though.

“What’s going on…? Why are they so upset…?” You whispered to Grace, eyes wide as you watched the aliens practically begin to riot.

“So, um, funny story, Eridians are technically infants until they’re like thirty? Some take longer than that to grow so sometimes forty? I’m not really sure about all of the details but Rocky told me about it a while ago. Their culture is super focused on kids so the fact that you were sent out so young is kind of a really big deal to them. I’m sure that they’ll get over it soon.” He whispered back.

“What Grace friend do on Earth, question.” Rocky said loudly, trying to drown out the high pitched sounds from the council with a seemingly less charged question.

“I was a microbiology student. I was working to get my doctorate when I was asked to join the mission. I’m an astronaut now.” You respond.

This time, it’s Rocky’s turn to freak out.

“Earth send baby not yet out school! BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!” Rocky’s translator shouts as his arms start flailing.

The meeting had to be cut short after the council’s table was flipped by a scientist whose eggs had recently hatched. You sat in Grace’s living room, drinking a mug of hot chocolate that had been replicated by Eridian scientists to be as close as possible to the stuff on your ship. Grace also had a mug. He seemed much happier with the food that you brought compared to what the Eridians were feeding him before you showed up. You took one look at it early on in your visit to Erid and decided not to ask. 

“That was intense.” You said after a moment.

“You’re telling me. I’ve never seen them that worked up before.” Grace said after a sip from his mug.

Your conversation is interrupted by pounding on the front door. Grace got the door before Rocky barged in while pulling something similar to a wagon filled with assorted trinkets and doodads. 

“Rocky bring gift from many parents and children who listen to interview. Much, much concern! All want you feel better.” He says to you, seeming particularly satisfied with himself.

“Do I take some…?” You ask as you gesture to the wagon.

“All for you! All for human baby to play with!” He exclaims.

“I’m not a baby but I really appreciate the thought.” You say diplomatically, trying your best to be professional.

You end up being particularly fond of a plush that looks like an alien creature and a puzzle that reminds you of a combination of a Rubik's cube and Chinese puzzle box. You spend hours trying to figure it out after dinner, much to Rocky’s delight. You found out from Grace’s class the next morning that they were both toys for children meant to develop their fine motor skills and logical thinking abilities. You keep being brought more and more toys and games as time goes by. You’ve been crashing on Grace’s couch and now the pile of your things in the corner has grown to be taller than you. You kept apologizing for taking up so much of his space but Grace insisted that it was fine and that he was just happy to be around another person.

The size of the pile only grew when Rocky found out that you liked the Xenonite figures that he made for Grace. He would sit in the classroom during Grace’s classes to keep an “eye” on you while you helped teach a unit on Earth microbiology while he worked on making more little figures for you. He made one of you, Grace, Adrian, and him. He would insist that you use puppet shows to tell him what you wanted, saying that he didn’t understand you. You understood when he was laughing and he usually did when you did the puppet shows.

After staying for about a week, you wanted to go back to your ship to retrieve some equipment to run some tests and do some research of your own on Erid. You were messing around with one of the plushies that was given to you when you realized that the shuttle that you used to get to the biodome was gone. You decided to ask about it.

“So when do I get to go back to my ship…? I need to get some things for my research.” You said hesitantly.

“You not go to Final Gamble. You stay on Erid. We take care you. Happy, happy.” Rocky said lightly as he continues building the little Xenonite figures that you like.

“No, not happy…! I want to go back to my ship…!” You responded anxiously.

“Earth not want little baby. Erid want little baby. You stay. We take care. Grace help, even though Grace bad at many things. Grace give hug when Rocky not able. Adrian help make more thing for you. Make nursery. Help make more comfortable in house. You happy one day. Hope happy soon.” Rocky replied.

You sat back, eyes wide as your hands begin to shake. You stared down at the plushie of the unfamiliar animal on your lap.

“Where’s my ship, Rocky?” You ask more firmly this time.

“Grace need other human. Grace like you. Grace happy. You good for Grace. Grace talk more when you here. Grace not scared of presenting information now. Ship in many pieces. Never put together again. You, Grace, Rocky, Adrian all happy together. Very good. Happy, happy.” He responded in that light tone again.