1, 3, 10, aaand 13 for Cav, 4, 15, and 31 for Lori!
1.Whatās the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?
-Days honestly, sheās well trained in just letting her mind blank out and her body stand at attention for as long as she has to. Usually sheās too focused on keeping tabs on everything and sheās expected to deal with members or courts or those of use and interest to Kay; you never know what sheāll be able to use later. So usually sheās not too blank but if sheās in pain or has been going too long sheāll just blank her mind and get through it for as long as she has to.Ā
3.How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)
-Cav talks like crazy before she sleeps, she has to be careful about anything she says or even canāt talk at all so often that it helps her to kinda focus down and not feel so pent up. If she has to she can just sorta will herself to sleep and knock out (modern magic cav had plenty of private school roommates or social slumber parties to go to not to learn that) but she doesn't sleep soundly or wake up rested usually. Sheās quiet about it and prefers someone to actually talk to but sheāll just talk her day out sometimes even if Brenten is already asleep or if heās not up for conversation. She just keeps getting quieter and longer pauses until she finally drifts off.Ā
10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?
-The easy and more literal answer is that sheās safe and happy and Kay takes such good care of her, itās a debt she can never repay for her kindness taking them in when they were so young. It doesnāt haunt her itās what she has to say itās what she has to feel in front of people. Itās survival but it burns like acid and tastes like bile every time she says it but she says it with a pleasant expression and something easily mistaken for actual happiness in her eyes every time.Ā
-The hard answer is the one she tells her herself every time she looks in the mirror or walks out of a room, itās that sheās not Kay, this wonāt be her. She wonāt become her worst nightmare one day; she has control. That Kay made her into who she is not that she would be this way anyway, not that she was always going to be who she is. That one haunts her because itās the type of lie a child tells themselves in the daylight. Monsters donāt exist, Iām safe they wonāt like to nibble on a child like me but every time the lights go down the truth (or at least the fear and uncertainly) comes slipping out. Sheās haunted by what will happen the one time she canāt talk herself out of her fears, the one time she loses control what will she become. (And for modern magic what she became and just how much of herself sheāll lose if it happens again).
13.What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?Reds, Teals, lots of accent black. The really striking bold colors. Usually sheās right sheās pale enough to be pretty and memorable with the contrast but every once in awhile she gets a shade wrong and looks washed out and hollow.Ā āNice dress. You finally look how you feel every time Kay getās done with you, good choice Cav.āĀ
āBrenten shut the fuck upā
4.How easy is it to earn their trust?
-It used to be pretty easy, shes adventurous and spontaneous (sheās spot on as chaotic neutral). It used to be as easy as running a few schemes with her, being up for that kind of action and getting to be mischievous together. But after Chrodechild (left in the middle of the night with the bag of holding, betrayed and manipulated the whole party secretly playing a chaotic evil character and the woman she was basically in love with) itās a little harder. Loriās still a little broken from that (the version you guys got to meet had time to get over it and get herself back some but the one in the actual campaign hasnāt yet) she still trusts people but sheās relearning how to trust herself and her judgments of people again. Ā
15. How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?-Lori is 10,000% a talk first think later kind of girl. She was once caught stealing by the captain of the guard and brushed it off as āof course I canāt be a thief. If I was that would be so embarrassing to be this bad. Iām too bad at this to have been planing to steal anything.ā And sheās known to get into bar fights over the half elf ears much like Mal being in a alliance bar on unification day. Sheās snarky and a little spitfire, quite fond of the snappy retorts. Think early season Buffy for snark and sass levels.Ā
Ā Every once in awhile sheāll plan or rehearse something but itās rare and only for something really really important.Ā
31.Who are they the most glad to have met?
-Rook the rogue who took her in and taught her most everything she knows. Sheād been in a town for a few years working odd jobs and at a tavern but it wasnāt a place fond of elves and when she got herself into a fight with a patron over that she was swiftly kicked out. But she still needed rent money and food and she felt awful relaying on her roommate to bare the cost of everything and began small time thievery but it was a rush and she was good. She got cocky. Until someone new came into town and she quickly learned her tricks didnāt exactly work against someone else in the business. Rook gave her a choice of coming with him and letting him train her or heād go straight to the city guard. She chose him. In a couple different ways. She left that night with no more than a hasty note to her roommate and friend. She traveled with Rook and he did teach her everything as she moved on to a guild innate and found a whole new family there. Everything best about her life since leaving her home has been through Rook and sheās more than half in love with him but heās never quite noticed her feeling (or honestly his own) he got close when she died and he came and met up with her party to revive her but she was falling for Chrodechild then and he was busy making fun of her for not making a move (before that all fell apart). But one day those crazy kids will figure it out.Ā They have in modern magic but Rook isnāt really in the actual campaign aside from backstory and some brief letters so itās harder there, and Lori still being a little broken. But he is easily the best person in her life right now.Ā