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Erilily posted:
... also does Emil have a crush on Brother Nier by any chance? Father Nier is obviously more of a father figure, but I could see some of his "you look really cool", and "you smell handsome" lines differently in that context.
Uhhhh...
Okay uh we're starting to drift a little into weird directions and getting into some stuff that's creepy/later in the game so I'll try to field this as politely as possible. The growing dynamic between Brother Nier and Emil is sort of like the kind of relationship a younger brother might have towards his older, "cooler" brother. They may not be actual brothers but Nier is essentially the only male role model Emil has who isn't a creepy butler robot dude (or whatever the hell Sebastian is) and so Emil sort of changes more and more as a character based upon what he sees in him. He's trying to emulate and be more like him, I mean if you lived in a creepy house and you met this older boy who fought monsters and was a hero wouldn't you want to be like him?
If you'll think back to Part 1, just what was Emil like? He was skittish, incredibly polite, and very formal about how he talks. Nier on the other hand is confident, can be crass, and is rather casual about his demeanor. In Part 2, he's gotten to know Nier to some degree and now he's a lot more willing to joke around like how he passively makes fun of Weiss in his letter. When he finally makes the change to Creepy Skull Head Kid, he even starts talking and acting more childlike and less like a creepy robot. Of course, now I can't get much further than this because in the LP we just met him in his new form.
Basically Emil looks up to and admires Brother Nier as a role model, he wants to be like him and so he ends up talking and acting more like him from now and into the future. This isn't essentially exclusive to Brother Nier though, it's just on a different context because Emil and Nier met at relatively similar "age" and stand on a similar footing as individuals as opposed to the age gap of Emil and Father Nier. But that's an entirely different subject of psychological mumbo-jumbo that I barely have a handle on so I'll stop.
Also, thank you all for the interest.