Team Confidence

"We're not partners. We're all lone wolves. One mistake, and you're gone. You can only trust yourself. That's this world's only truth."

- Abigail to Makoto.

Team Confidence is the friendship between Abigail Jones, Cynthia Moore, Laurent Thierry, and Makoto Edamura from the Great Pretender fandom.

Canon
The group was formed by Laurent, which used different ways for convincing his targets for making a international group of confidence people who could swind evil people without causing any further damage. Their targets though were swindlers too, but Laurent didn't had any problem with that, since he was a professional confidence guy. He could use his flirting skills too for forming the group, but with this, they would call him a disgusting french guy. The order which Laurent used for gathering the members were; Cynthia, Abbie, and finally Makoto. Kudo and Shi-won were included too, but they were long-time partners for Laurent, but he needed more people for making an official team.

The method he used for convincing Cynthia was blackmailing her with money, since she was trying to "prove" her habilities of seduce and swindling Laurent, but then he found out her plan because she had a lot of holes in her arguments, and with this Laurent could notice her true nature and so convincing her to join the group.

With Abbie it was simple; before interacting with her, Laurent found Abbie in a "dangerous" situation in which she was surrounded by bad guys telling her to taking off her clothes so they would pay her the promised money. They didn't know though that she could defend herself, and after getting rid of them, Laurent approached to her and placed reasonable amount of money in her cap where the money was placed, with telling her that she would be paid enough.

And finally with Makoto, he himself tried on tricking him by using his high-skilled methods, but then Makoto finds out that Laurent had turned the tables and Makoto got tricked by him. With this, Laurent could finally make Makoto his henchmen so he would work with him alongside with the team, introducing him to them later.

Although their quote says that they're lonely wolfs, during the series the group are seen together hanging out doing missions and enjoying their success with some beer or other alcholic drinks and then the money they could finally get throughout the work (which was a high amount of it). When they're on any problem or their plan fail, which Makoto is the responsable of them the majority of times, Laurent always help the team for better, though they see him like a disguting man because of his way of acting. There were also two occasions in which Makoto splitted out from the group, but the team always had something in their hands for convincing him to come back by telling him about their next plans.

Makoto is always trying to lead the group, but he then notices that he doesn't only needs Laurent's help, but the team itself. For Edamura himself, their plans are way too realistic because there were some few times when the group had to fake-death in some risky situations, he although didn't get along well with them, he shows concern about their lifes. Thanks to this, everyone now help themselves mutually with any problem they can have, and they would listen to any plan from anyone even if it is too risky to the point where they would have to risk their lives for the plan.

Fanon
Team Confidence is the most popular friendship of the fandom, it was pretty appreciated when the members of the group were introduced. It sailed because of their closeness and their ways of being and the fact that they are the reason on why the series are always going ahead. The popular ships included are Edaurent and Cynabbie, which both can be shipped along with the other one, though a part of the fandom would prefer shipping the characters with other ones that aren't included in the ship or they would go along with ships like Mabbie and Cynrent.

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Trivia

 * The "Team Confidence" name came from the second case, in which Laurent introduced Makoto to his team as the Team Confidence.

Variations

 * Cynabbie — the ship between Cynthia Moore and Abigail Jones
 * Cynrent — the ship between Cynthia Moore and Laurent Thierry
 * Cynthiamura — the ship between Cynthia Moore and Edamura Makoto
 * Edaurent — the ship between Edamura Makoto and Laurent Thierry
 * Labbie — the ship between Laurent Thierry and Abigail Jones
 * Mabbie — the ship between Edamura Makoto and Abigail Jones