𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 / 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍

Q.  HOW  DOES  YOUR  MUSE  FEEL  ABOUT  THEIR  OWN  CLAN?  how  do  they  feel  about  the  other  clans?  where  do  their  loyalties  truly  lie?

a.  santos has absolutely no loyalty to the sky people. his entire life on cronos station was unhappy, one disappointment after the other; and even now, he is hesitant to connect with any sky people beyond venus and her father. when it comes to the other clans, he has no real negative or positive opinions outside of the fact that they are not sky people. that said, he does feel most at home amongst the ice nation at troy and is enjoying his time there, even if it is for a serious reason. still, he wouldn’t say he has a particular loyalty to one group or another - just to himself and whatever scenario works best for him in the moment. 

Q.  DO  THEY  FEEL  AS  THOUGH  THEY  CAN  TRUST  THE  PERSON  LEADING  THEIR  PEOPLE? explain  why  or  why  not.  refer  to  the  lore  page  for  information  on  the  leaders  of  each  clan.

a.  not even remotely - but this is just an extension of santos’ overall distrust of his clan. with his mother dead and his father god knows where, santos has always focused a lot of his hatred and rage about his life onto the most senior authority controlling it: both president santiago nd the council. he hates the way sky people society works, casting people out into the cold (literally) over anything they deem an infraction, and as far as he’s concerned, they are the driving force behind that. 

Q.  WHAT  DOES  YOUR  MUSE  THINK  OF  “THE  DOORS”  THAT  WERE  OPENED  BY  THE  CHILDREN  OF  THE  ORACLE  ALL  THOSE  YEARS  AGO?  have  they  heard  the  rumors  that  the  search  to  open  more  of  the  doors  continues  on?  if  so,  how  do  they  feel  about  it?

a.  santos admittedly doesn’t think much about the grounders’ lore beyond the machines themselves. but the rumors he does hear about the doors definitely intrigue him. he finds the overall culture of the grounder clans to be more organic and real than his own - less sanitized. so, even though he doesn’t understand the fear some grounders feel about the thought of more doors opening, part of him wants to see it just to see what happens. 

Q.  WHAT  ARE  YOUR  MUSE’S  VIEWS  ON  THE  MACHINES? are  they  someone  willing  to  do  battle  with  them  or  do  they  avidly  avoid  detection  while  in  the  wilds?  what  are  their  theories  on  what  the  machines’  true  purpose  is/what  they  were  made  for?  if  they  don’t  believe  that  the  machines  were  made  by  the  gods,  do  they  have  any  ideas  or  beliefs  about  who  made  them?

a.  as someone with an interest in tech, santos is fascinated by the machines. the combination of raw power and technology is right up his alley and he is actively looking forward to a chance to come face to face with one someday. he’s willing to do battle (though he isn’t naive enough to think he can punch them down), but more than that, he’d be interested in understanding what makes them tick. picking one apart, putting them back together, taming them even - it’s a rare situation where santos wants to create and understand, rather than destroy. 

being from the sky people, a lot of his interest in them is focused on the present. he doesn’t theorize too much about their purpose, who created them, etc because them existing on the ground is the only thing he’s ever known. that doesn’t mean he won’t listen to grounders talk about it though - in fact, it’s one of the few things he’ll actively and enthusiastically interact with grounders about. 

Q.  IS  YOUR  MUSE  A  SKILLED  FIGHTER? if  so,  who  taught  them  how  and  what  weapon(s)  do  they  use  most  frequently?  if  not,  how  does  your  muse  defend  themselves  in  the  wilds  or  against  enemies?

ABOUT / tw: death mentions, violence, trauma

stats tba!

for much of her childhood, petra was enraptured by her clan’s power and the royal family that wielded it all. with a reverence far beyond her years, she looked to the keep in awe and the modest, but popular inn her parents kept with disdain.

she loved her family, of course; their warmth a welcome boon to an otherwise harsh world. but the contrast between them and the people petra idolized was often hard to reconcile, and many of her parents’ teachings went unheeded.

most had little to no consequence - but then, the ice walk came.

before kissing their twin daughters goodbye, petra’s parents gave them a simple ask: stay together and take care of each other. 

but petra, in her need to impress, couldn’t let her sister’s lack of ambition slow her down. she refused to, in fact, and in that haste, ended up separated from her sister early on.

she didn’t think much of it at first, knowing her sister was in many ways as strong and resourceful as she was. but as the week continued and petra hadn’t managed to track her down, a panic started to set in; a panic that kept petra out in the mountains for an extra day, holding out hope.

but, in the end, when petra finally emerged from the mountain to face her frantic family petra, she was alone, and absolutely devastated.

the guilt she felt kept her quiet for months after, withdrawn and halfway between mourning her sister and hating herself. the only thing that gave her purpose was training to be a warrior as soon as she was old enough, a path her family did not appreciate after already losing one child. 

but petra wouldn’t budge; there was no other option for her now that she’d risked - and lost - her sister’s life just to prove herself as a worthy fighter. 

so, train she did; and before long, she was an adult among the ranks of the ice nation’s proudest, claiming what they deemed to be theirs and then some.

for nearly two decades, petra’s days and nights were full of blood and her identity began and ended with her loyalty to the ice nation as a warrior. 

but this all came to a sudden end during the war with the western clans when an ambush left most of her garrison dead and her severely wounded.

the healing process was slow; too arduous for a battlefield doctor which led to petra being sent back home to troy to recover --- and effectively retire from war.

( but if there was any doubt of that, her leg, that would never regain its full function, made sure of it. )

her family welcomed her home with open arms, though there was no denying a lingering hurt at her eagerness to leave them behind to fight. and after a slow year of nightmares and pain, petra could move around without help and return to a somewhat normal life in her hometown.

today, she is back at the inn, working as co-owner with her remaining sibling while her parents’ old age relegate them to tending to the house their family still shares. 

and each day remains a battle between her demons and the life she’s tried to start anew.

EXTRA TIDBITS

petra’s left leg was effectively shattered during the war and while it’s been reset enough to heal, it is by no means a perfect fix; she has a noticeable limp and at times, cannot walk at all without the help of a cane. she also has visible scars on the leg from both the attack and the field treatment that came thereafter. 

leaving her warrior role behind has given petra a lot of space to process her sister’s loss and reassess her place in the ice nation. overall, she finds the focus on war and bloodlust unappealing, but oddly enough, doesn’t necessarily condemn the culture for it. rather, she sees those feelings as a shortcoming on her part; the disconnect to her people is because she isn't like the rest of them -- an outsider -- not because their culture is outright wrong. and she’s essentially trying to be content with her new, slower paced life as an innkeeper because of it. 

she does not talk about her sister - ever. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS

first love: this would be someone petra grew up with and even after losing her sister, continued to grow and fall for - the only person she opened up to in the wake of the ice walk, even if they don’t know the full truth about what happened. they are likely the child of a neighboring shopkeeper and stayed in the area to take over the shop like petra has now, and seeing her back has been interesting to say the least. they would have ended things because of petra’s unwavering focus on being a warrior.

childhood friends: like the first love connection, these are folks she probably grew apart from over time since they were going on different paths, but they may also have really supported her fighting and kept in touch! just want people she used to know!

former warrior buddies: perhaps a partner in crime that helped save her after the attack and that she’s still close to. someone she hooked up with just to get the need out? a former rival who comes by the inn to taunt her now that they have risen to a rank she once had? someone younger / newer to the warrior rank that she saved coming to look for her in troy? 

patrons: any kind of patron connections would be appreciated! petra spends most of her time at the front getting people checked in and everything, so she’s interacting with nearly everyone who comes in. would love folks from other clans, maybe people she’s interacted with before during her time out fighting. 

sibling: will probably put in a wc for this, but i would LOVE for someone to bring her sibling. this would be someone younger who has stayed in the family inn since she left and effectively taken over in her absence and is now sharing the work with her. they are civil with each other for sure, but there’s a lot of tension given the trauma and loss between the sister dead to the ice walk and petra constantly gone for war only to come back completely battered. 

ABOUT / tw: neglect, death mentions, blood mentions

find santos’ stats here.

born to a single mother who passed before he knew her, santos spends most of his childhood alone; isolated and unwanted in a cronos station orphanage.

at eleven, that all seems to change when a distant family friend appears from the woodwork and offers to become his guardian. they tell him that he’s going home, that he has a family now — and while his understanding of the word is shaky at best, the young boy is excited.

hopeful.

it doesn’t take long for that budding feeling to die.

though they call themselves his family, there’s no warmth in that home, at least not for santos. he’s a source of labor, no more, no less - an extra set of hands to help her and her husband survive the harsh conditions. 

that lack of love might have been painful for anyone else, but it’s nothing santos doesn’t already know. in fact, he starts to embrace it ; starts to wear the badge of an outsider with pride and make trouble everywhere he goes to stake a claim.

i’m here, it seems to say. even if you don’t want me to be. 

as he grows older -- and more angry -- what starts as acting out turns into something sinister. he’s increasingly violent, a rage at the world that sparks at the drop of a hat, and with so little self control, it’s only a matter of time before he takes things too far.

these days, he can hardly remember what happened to land him in the skybox just shy of his fourteenth birthday; but whispers about it would follow him the whole way there, the blood of some stuck-up upper class kid still staining his cuffed hands.

and, though he imagines some part of being in juvie is meant to scare him straight, it has the opposite effect.

he thrives surrounded by kids as damaged as him, taking quickly to a particular group of boys who punch first and ask questions later - just the way he likes. together, they become the unspoken kings of their prison, the types that send fear through a room just by stepping in; and santos thinks maybe, just maybe he’s finally found where he belongs.

until they too abandon him, over one rumor or another, and the betrayal ends in a brawl that leaves him scarred and alone, once again.

since then, santos has virtually kept to himself, save for one dear (and unexpected) friendship; unwilling to trust anyone among a people who’d made him a pariah from the day he was born. 

perhaps that’s why the crash doesn’t worry him as much as it had some others. 

with the ground under his feet and the sky box behind him, this is all just a new beginning.

EXTRA TIDBITS

as you can probably guess, santos is not fond of his faction and left the primary settlement around cronos station as soon as he could post crash. he’s settled close to hinton, but has every intention of exploring other territories now that he’s free to move as he pleases; especially with venus’ disappearance.

a remnant of the work he did for his aunt, santos is well-versed in tech repair and can typically salvage ruined tech or even create something new out of it. as such, the machines that roam the ground fascinate him - they’re a meld of his biggest interests (tech and power).

WANTED CONNECTIONS 

while being on the ground is a chance for a new beginning, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a better one. santos is still as rowdy as ever, which has gotten the attention of those in the hinton commercial areas he frequents. if your muse is the shady, underground type, i would love to have folks who pull santos into his old habits - fighting, the occasional crime, etc.