The replica's feelings on Gokudera are extremely mixed. I mean, to start with, he wants to like Dera, sort of. He went into the meeting (once Zexion intervened, anyway) determined to try to like Dera, but as we both saw it immediately went into a kind of toppy competition, where he wanted Dera to see HOW MUCH BETTER he was than Dera, mostly because he himself doesn't really believe it.
Most of that I said in Zexion's, but the replica is absolutely terrified that by being like him, Gokudera's gonna end up taking away the things the replica has, because...well. Gokudera's real, and he's got "so much more" going for him. He has a lot of real, genuine friends, and the person he cares most about in the world is real, has a shared past with ihm, genuinely cares about him. And Zexion -- one of the few people the replica's come to be concerned with and seriously get his validation from -- is living with him, and wanting to take care of and train him.
So the replica goes back and forth between an almost friendly "sure, let's hang out" mindset and blind terror of Gokudera, where he feels he has to compete and chase and constantly prove himself better than. L-lulz. The fact that he's gonna be helping train Tsuna is one of the big ameliorating factors in that Zexion's gonna be helping train Gokudera.
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The replica's feelings on Gokudera are extremely mixed. I mean, to start with, he wants to like Dera, sort of. He went into the meeting (once Zexion intervened, anyway) determined to try to like Dera, but as we both saw it immediately went into a kind of toppy competition, where he wanted Dera to see HOW MUCH BETTER he was than Dera, mostly because he himself doesn't really believe it.
Most of that I said in Zexion's, but the replica is absolutely terrified that by being like him, Gokudera's gonna end up taking away the things the replica has, because...well. Gokudera's real, and he's got "so much more" going for him. He has a lot of real, genuine friends, and the person he cares most about in the world is real, has a shared past with ihm, genuinely cares about him. And Zexion -- one of the few people the replica's come to be concerned with and seriously get his validation from -- is living with him, and wanting to take care of and train him.
So the replica goes back and forth between an almost friendly "sure, let's hang out" mindset and blind terror of Gokudera, where he feels he has to compete and chase and constantly prove himself better than. L-lulz. The fact that he's gonna be helping train Tsuna is one of the big ameliorating factors in that Zexion's gonna be helping train Gokudera.