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DAHLIA LEEDS
"being gentle saved my life"

I started out working as her assistant, but we got to be friends outside of that pretty quick. Pretty soon she was one of my favorite people on the whole island, and then she asked if I wanted to go steady (even though I wouldn't be her one and only), and then I found out she's the Pine Devil too, and -- oh jeez, it's a lot sometimes.

I know what matters, though. She's trying so hard to be more than just a monster. She fights every day against what she got made for, same as me and all the other guys at the 4077th fight against our war. I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure she gets to do what she wants someday, not just what her awful dad forces her to do. And... she already is a whole lot more than a monster to me. She's smart, she's fun, I could listen to her talk for days and I'd never get bored 'cause of all the interesting things she knows. She makes me feel like there's no one else she'd rather be with when we're in the same room. And she's not just putting up with me being short and soft and not real manly. I got no idea why, but she likes me because of all that, not in spite of it.

Hawkeye told me once I'd know I met the right person because I wouldn't get sleepy around them. When I'm around Dahlia? I'm never sleepy. Not even a little.

HAWKEYE PIERCE
Confidant

There's nobody here I trust more than him, same as back in Korea. He's the guy I'm always gonna go to first if I got a problem. But it feels like things with us are changing a lot. A few weeks after I got here I screwed up something the worst I think I ever screwed up, and even if we made up after, I've still never fought with Hawk like that before, ever. Plus I can't talk about Dahlia with him, either -- he hates that she's killed so many people, which honestly I can't really blame him for. I don't know what I'm gonna do if we ever stop being friends. I think we're okay for now, but for once, I don't know what's coming, and it scares me a little. I just want things to stay the same as they were back home.

FATHER MULCAHY
shadow of the past

Sometimes I forget that the Hawkeye I know here isn't the exact same guy I know from Korea. I never forget that with the Father. He got pulled from Uijeongbu into a place worse than I can ever imagine and got stuck there for six years. Worse than a POW camp, worse than a thousand battles at the front. He's done things I never thought someone like him would do. It kinda hurts knowing he's so different now, and I worry about him all the time even when I'm trying not to -- but he's still my friend. I just gotta get to know the new him a little better, that's all. (And maybe bring over some rabbits from the ranch so he can hold 'em while we're talking.)

MAJOR HOULIHAN
PATCHED UP?

Jeez did Major Houlihan give me a scare when she turned up on the island. I just about had a heart attack walking into Hawk's clinic and seeing her there like we were right back in Korea! It's funny, though, she's actually kinda... nice to me now? And spends every day working with Hawkeye without them biting each others' heads off? I mean she's still Major Houlihan, so she doesn't take guff from nobody, but it seems like I don't gotta worry so much about her yelling at me or calling me a non-comm-poop. I guess something really big must've happened between when I got here and when she got here. Hope that means we can get along better.

JOHN RAMBO
solid ground

I know as long as Mr. Rambo's around, I always got somewhere I can go. Baker Ranch is the closest to being home -- really being home, I mean, all the way back to Ottumwa -- that I've had in years. He's regular army and real protective in a way that makes me nervous sometimes; I don't ever want him hurting anybody for me, even if that's what he got trained to do. But even if he's nothing like Colonel Blake was, I kinda look up to him the same way. I'm glad he's here, permanent, like I ain't always had in Korea.

EDGAR
not-quite-war buddy

We met working on Mr. Rambo's ranch together. He reminds me a lot of the wounded at the 4077th -- not 'cause he got hurt physically, but on account of how he's on alert all the time, looking for orders, ready to fight as soon as you need him to. He's a real decent guy, though. I like teaching him about farm things, and I know he'll keep me from losing my head if I need it. Plus it's nice having a friend who's closer to my own age that I can talk about stuff with sometimes.

LAIOS TOUDEN
LOTS IN COMMON

Why was I ever nervous around Laios??

Okay, I know why: because he's one of Dahlia's other sweethearts and he's kinda like me, only plus all the extra stuff I wish I was sometimes. I didn't wanna be thinking it, but at first it was hard not to wonder why she'd bother with me when she already had him. But then I spent more than five minutes around him, and gee, he's great. It's impossible to be jealous of a guy who's so nice and so excited just to talk to you! About adventuring, about food, about anything, really. And wow he's an amazing cook. Even better than my mom! If I ever get stuck on KP duty once I'm home, I'm gonna knock the 4077th's socks off with everything Laios's taught me.

FEVER
rebuilding what's broken

She's the one who got me my first job at Town Hall. I like her a lot -- she's always been helpful and kind to me, and when we've gotten into bad spots together she trusts I can help us get out of them, too. But... she's killed a whole lot of people. A whole lot. She's even thought about killing me. I had no idea for the longest time because she kept it all so quiet I couldn't hear nothing. She's a lot like Dahlia that way, though: it's something she got made for, not something she wants to be doing. So I hope I can help her the same way, too, if we all figure out how to make it stop for good.

BRONWYN THYSANIA
more than what it seemed

We only met once, but I got no idea what my life'd be like if I hadn't run into them. They're the first one who told me I was psychic, 'cause they are, too -- they figured out me hearing stuff wasn't just, you know, hearing stuff. It used to feel funny thinking of myself like that, but I'm almost used to it now, and I'm getting better at doing psychic things. I can even hear ghosts sometimes! I really hope they're doing okay, wherever they are. Maybe we'll see each other again and I'll get to tell them all about what I've learned.

SHEOGORATH
GOING CRAZY

It figures Fever's dad is kinda scary, too, but in a whole different way than her. She suggested I go to him to get some extra help with being psychic, since sometimes it's real easy for people to mess with my head on account of me hearing so much all the time. What that mostly means is Mr. Sheo really messes up my head and lets me practice stopping him, or getting out of it again, kinda like when my Uncle Ed taught me to swim by chucking me right in one of the swimming holes near the farm. It's tough, but he's honest about how tough it is, and I think he appreciates it when I'm honest back at him. And I can tell all our hard work's working, too... even if sometimes I can taste colors for a couple days after we practice. Boy, that's weird.

SERRANAI
schoolboy crush

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