lectorel replied to your post “soulmateAU: Erich hasn't figured out that he's basically Tanya's best...”
Ironically, Tonya is a pretty close match to Kisuke's ruthlessness and (in this verse) loyalty. She's 100% ready to throw down with her CO's unknown soulmate. Kisuke is probably pleased his soulmate has such a good ally watching out for him.
loveasunnyday replied to your post “soulmateAU: Erich hasn't figured out that he's basically Tanya's best...”
Also re: above comment, Kisuke during WWI is pretty soon after his exile so HE probably has skewed ideas of friendship at this point also?? So, Erich: She's a good coworker and I can trust her in that capacity Kisuke: I'm so glad my soulmate has a strong ally I really don't want him dead Tanya: so this is my bestie Erich and his asshole soulmate is gonna get murdered by me soon
I am absolutely playing up Tanya’s loyalty to Erich in this verse, yeah. Part of it feels like it’s a semi-natural progression for her, and part of it is definitely because they’ve currently been working in close proximity with each other for about six months in increasingly dire situations.
Tanya has her own ruthless brand of loyalty that’s pretty evident re: her own men so... I just expanded her circle a little to a man she already respected and liked.
Also, Kisuke has the potential to REALLY fuck their chances for survival up if his presence/interference screws Erich up enough so... =) A good officer who she trusts and considers a friend vs an unknown? No contest.
Kisuke is like... 5-ish years post-exile in this verse, and he ABSOLUTELY has screwed up concepts of friendship. He does see Tanya&Erich as a pretty solid friendship + working relationship (In one of the future scenes I’m going to write, he calls Erich a “Captain” and Tanya his “Lieutenant” which highly offends both of them just because GET OUR RANKS RIGHT, BINCH, but from Kisuke’s POV, these two are absolutely a really solid, really dependable Captain/Lieutenant pair in the Soul Society meaning of those ranks.)
Tanya is just =| at Kisuke’s everything.
Erich is just “how is this my life” at everyone’s everything.