[22:23] Josie Higashikata: [22:17] Josie Higashikata: Wammu obtained Yasu by nothing more than chance, after having obtained Shizuka once already. Because Kars wasn't on for a while, that meant Wammu couldn't hurt her because, she essentially belonged to Kars research, and she also couldn't leave the estate. As a prisoner and the only Pillar Man that was being played at the time, Wamuu had to interact with her more than he would have under the ideal circumstances of all the Pillar Men being there.
[22:18] Josie Higashikata: And for that time, it was literally, prisoner levels. He kept her in his sight and forced her to eat, sleep, bathe and drink, because it would be an offence to present Lord Kars with, say, a flea ridden mongrel.
[22:23] Josie Higashikata: So back on track
[22:27] Josie Higashikata: After a while of this, eventually, someone came to recuse her. And it was Diego. Who, had already manipulated her greatly because she's a very naive character. Wammu literally thinks of her as nothing but a tool for Kars' study at this point. But because of that, he can't let her be whisked away for obvious reasons. He stands against Diego, and he managed to get the Virus into him. Diego very nearly had every bone in his body broken during the process, but, eventually the virus tool over his cells as was talked about and agreed by the collective group that it would effect him, but not Lord Kars since he controls all things nature, and Wammu doesn't.
[22:27] Josie Higashikata: So, both are now owned by Diego.
[22:30] Josie Higashikata: And Diego brings this mammoth Aztec almost-a-god into a tiny fucking Japanese house. Yasu's house! He is given a shitty little room with blacked out windows and essentially treated like a piece of shit. His body is fighting the virus because of the adaptive capabilities of the Pillar Men, so he obviously is more coherent and in control of himself coupled with the fact that Diego let him have a level of will of his own. In this house, we have this honourable warrior, being talked to like a retard by Diego, being used for transport, for Diego to essentially keep changing his mind on orders and contradicting himself and generally spitting on his honour and shitting on his pride. Here's where Wammu noticed Yasu. He is fucking livid, and he cannot do anything about it, because every time he fights the virus, a twice strong dose is injected.
[22:35] Josie Higashikata: He can't defend his own honour, because of this fact and it's literally driving him to breaking his honour code just to destroy everything that Diego holds as value in his eyes. Within this small little house, we have Yasu, who is victimised, forced into sexual acts, never treated with respect, unable to escape him cause he brings her back, harassed by packs of raptors and generally losing herself to obviously fucking horrid abuse by Diego. This woman, this insignificant blot, stands up for Wammu's pride which obviously, fucking pissed him off for a while. But it's done in self sacrifice and historical Honour codes always value what self sacrifice is. Wammu canonly thinks less of women anyway, proved by Kars who says "Wammu hates to fight women more than I do." which implies that old masculine belief that women are fragile and at a disadvantage. But here is this little fragile woman, stepping up to the man she kind've fears because she's naive and doesn't want to see people get hurt. Sure, Wamu took her captive, but he never hurt her like Diego does. So, the better of two evils, it's Human nature to get attached to the nearest safety even if it's fucked up. That's sort've what she did.
[22:38] Josie Higashikata: Wammu during this process, like I said, was livid, so he tormented her with the truth. That Diego was going to abandon her the second he grew bored. Yasu, didn't want to believe that. She wanted to believe that she was worth more than dirt. As is obviously again, Human nature. So she kept fighting him. Kept standing against Wammu this force that she feared despite not having the strength to stop him. Eventually, she began bringing him books on the history of Human Kind, this became his fist social acceptance and it was rough to begin with. But again, canonly, it's shown that he is curious about Human kind, so he'd read, and he'd challenge her morals because it tormented what Diego had interest in.
[22:42] Josie Higashikata: And she gave very clever, very humble and defined opposite beliefs to his own, essentially, turning it into a battle of wits rather than brawn. Catering to the sharp intellect that he housed, because Wham isn't a brainless brute. Diego then did something, I can't remember what it was but it made Wham angry enough to try and kill Yasu, which went against the order that was routed in the virus, but man, was he fighting it. He nearly snapped her neck, but she again, tried to sacrifice in order to save Gomez, that fucking name whom had attacked Wam in defence of Yasu. Sacrifice, honour, strength in character, vulnerability in physical power, all of this works together for that Honour Code to respect her. He doesn't kill her. Wammu already canonly hates killing the weak and defenceless anyway, which she is. We lucked out on the raptor not dying, because I used a coin flip to decide.
[22:46] Josie Higashikata: From there it progressed. Diego started getting more afraid of what Wham could do, so his death threats against the Soldier kept coming and kept getting larger. Yasu kept defending and EVENTUALLY Kars returned and gave Wammu the cure for the Virus. Wammu is hunting righteous retribution at this point. As it turns out, in this plot, Diego has fled because his wife has returned. So you wont see Diego and Wammu interacting properly IC for a while. Guess who's left behind? Yasuho. She's broken, she's wandering in the cold alone at night, and bumps into Wammu who originally, went in with the idea of tormenting her some more, a cruel 'I told you so' kind've thing
[22:50] Josie Higashikata: Instead she breaks into tears and collapses and even though Whammu says he's not sentimental, he holds a very fine line of respecting honour, that boarders that. He respects her for the battles shes waged. Rome and ancient China, both were able to honour the battles one takes in spirit, and since Wammu is based heavily upon Roman design, I thought it made sense that he'd honour that, and in repayment, give her a place to stay while her soul healed. Again, they were a rough uncut companionship that literally stemmed and existed in furthering knowledge. Kars comes back again, and orders Wammu to keep her as a lesson in responsibility, and from there, it literally progressed on its own
[22:50] Josie Higashikata: Does it make more sense now?