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Parker is,,, well he's Parker, relationship dice and all that

Chance in my mind likes Parker, but from a distance. And this isn't because he's stoic and nonchalant (bc cmon now. have you seen him.) He can understand how their passions overlap and he actually kind of admires Parker for his unapologetic enthusiasm about stuff and his ability to say whatever comes to mind (I will die on the hill that he would cheer if he saw Parker telling Lux off on game night). Which is why it's SO FRUSTRATING to him that the way Parker goes about relationships is just rolling a die and going with the outcome.

As a DM, Chance believes building relationships comes through experiences, much like a weaving a story in a campaign with his players. I'm a huge believer that they were friends beforehand, and things only started going sour when Chance considered Parker his friend, only for him to declare that he "doesnt feel anything towards him" unless they do a dice roll.

Chance doesn't only refuse that because it goes against his values, but also because he fears the outcome. Not only is there the possibility of hate, but even if the die lands on friendship/love, he figures that the relationship loses all nuance, and he just can't live with that ambiguity.

Now where Chance finds the dice roll ambiguous and nonsensical, Parker thinks of it as something completely normal, it's a clear-cut rule that just makes sense. Rules like that are written into his very core and the essence of his being.

The fact that he will follow the result of the roll blindly, doesn't mean that he cant hope for a specific outcome. To him it's the same as wanting to get a specific, lucky roll to land on the space you need.

He wants to get a friendship/love roll with Chance, he wants to be close to him and keep hanging out with him, but the dice roll is just a non-negotiable for him. It's not much more than a formality in this case.

Like the dice are HEAVILY weighed in their favor at this point, rolling hate would genuinely be a statistical miracle, but because of this never-ending disagreement they just,, never get around to it.

So how do we get to diceplay?? Whether platonic or romantic?? WELL

THEY HAVE TO TALK IT OUT!!!! COMMUNICATION WINS!!! WOO!!!!

After a long discussion (probably started while one of them was drunk at Bev's tbh, they would not start that conversation sober lmao), they come to an understanding that Parker's feelings aren't dependent on the dice roll, he considers Chance his friend already. But he just NEEDS that formality. (they argue about it for a bit first 100%)