You know what, screw it, have some HCs for the QftQ main trio for no reason other than I can. Did my best to avoid blatant spoilers, but some may be implied belowâread on with caution!
Sir Render
He didnât really get out much before the events of the book; his heroics were mostly confined to the queendom before being kicked out of the Hexagonal Table, and after, he mostly just drifted between villages getting himself banned from various taverns. If nothing else, the quest certainly helped him get out more :P
Has been an atheist pretty much his whole life. At first, he was just skeptical of the idea of a Holy Being or magic, then he decided the world was too cruel for there to ever be holiness, and after having his faith in humanity restoredâŚwell, I think yâall whoâve read the book can guess why heâs still less than keen on the Holy Being :P
Has a bit of a sweet tooth, hence why his favorite drink is mead (which comes from fermenting honey). Unlike certain others (who are going through it perpetually and thus really donât care what the drink tastes like so long as it does its job), Render is a bit picky when it comes to his poison.
His line has something of a predisposition towards depression. Obviously, this being fantasy land, he has no knowledge of that :P
After the events of the book, Render decides to get into hobbies that arenât going to worsen his health (heâs, uh, seen what thatâs done and wants no part in it). Board games, embroidery, gardening, hell, heâs willing to give poetry a shot now. Anything that isnât self-destruction. He isnât going to go the way his ancestor did.
Queen Leigh
One of the youngest queens in the landâs history; her mother died when she was young (more on that below) and her father served as a regent until Leigh turned eighteen and was crowned.
Bit of a bookworm! Enjoys stories about what the world before the Great Divide was (supposedly) like especially. Sheâs more a reader than a researcher, admittedly, and prefers stories to historical fact.
Major tomboy in her youth, often dragging Render off on some adventure or other that usually ended with both of them bruised and covered in mud. Being the heiress and favored child, she wasnât usually punished too severely for this. As a grown woman, sheâs developed more feminine tastesâbut she still enjoys adventure.
Was kiiiiind of a big sister bully to Pan when they were young? She didnât go out of her way to torment him or anything, she just didnât enjoy having him around and was never particularly subtle about thatâand that made Render also not too thrilled about Panâs existence. She did get over this eventually, but by then, PanâŚwas less than keen on being around her ^^;
After the events of the book, she built a little garden in honor of everyone who lost their lives over the course of it. She and Render care for it together. (On a lighter note, she is also trying to maintain the hairstyle the end of the book left her with. Itâs slow going.)
Friar Pan
The youngest of the puzzle book blorbos at eighteen! (The second youngest are the original Bordergrams blorbos, who are twenty-twoâŚwhy do the youngest characters suffer the most ;-;) Render and Leigh, for reference, are twenty-five, so thereâs a seven-year age gap.
Asexual. For no reason other than I think it fits. Obviously, the label doesnât exist in fantasy land :P
Like his sister, heâs into booksâunlike her, he actually is more a researcher. Heâs eternally curious about the world before the Great Divide and eagerly reads any document from that time he can get his hands on. If he ever got to meet the Holy Being themself, heâd have so many questions. [:)]
Funnily enough, Pan didnât originally start in the Order as a particularly zealous believer; he joined pretty much solely to distinguish himself from his sister. He wound up getting into it becauseâŚwell, they had old texts he liked XD
âŚending on kind of a sad one: his mom, the previous queen, died in childbirth. Hence why he had a generally frosty receptionâthe queenâs death is awful enough, but if sheâd had a daughter, at least the girl couldâve been a backup heir. For her to die for a son is simply a waste. Pan never really shook off the hostility from his fatherâŚor stopped being bothered by his familyâs initial coldness.
Which kind of explains a lot.
