Milk & Sugar, Please.

Went in with the idea of making Vessel look like he’s from a video game/ and or dnd style character sheet :) !!

The play makes it clear that Medea loves her kids, that she wanted to see them grow up to be heroes and achieve greatness before Jason robbed their sons of that future with his abandonment. Everything she does is in response to the horrific circumstances JASON put them in. Jason expects Medea to capitulate because he’s holding their children over her head and a “typical” mother is supposed to drop everything for her children. But a trapped fox gnaws its leg off, and a starving sow eats her young, and Medea is explicitly not a typical Greek woman, she is the blood of gods and an instrument of their justice and she tells us who she is in her own monologue: Her identity aligns with and is every bit as inclined to greatness and savagery as the lauded, blood-soaked male heroes of epic tradition. And when she is forced to prove it, she does.

And she is implicitly justified by the narrative. She occupies a role in Greek tragedies traditionally reserved for the gods, and their conspicuous lack of intercession implies that their judgement is already being carried out by the semi-divine Medea.

And he gets all cute and mildly flustered, and tries escape, dodging through their friends, and running away giggling.

He's not really trying that hard though, and she can always catch him.

And the first sign of hope she sees, the first person, is who?

A bright, colorful, friendly tiefling, pretty and purple as any flower, wanting to take her home, and be best friends forever.

Essek is highly intelligent, but solitary, down to the very core of him, and when the Nein comes along, their kindness isn’t something he easily understands. He knows only what he learned himself, and has relied very little on others for much of his life, having no prior lives to pull wisdom from.

Meanwhile, Verin, though not all too respected by his den, nor regarded as highly as Essek, understands the value of unity, and connection because of his soul’s experiences. So, when it comes to caring for and protecting people, it’s something he’s known even longer than he himself has been alive.