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For the artist formerly known as [redacted], Moxie nolastname:

The Empress in Reverse: When has your character felt dependent on another?

ahaha omg wow you have found The Thing. Very easily dependent on another actually. Home life: shit. Just wants to feel like at least someone is looking after her. Ran away from home, fell in with a couple of teens that promised shelter as long as she contributed money and they got her hooked up with running scams and grifts and thefts with them, did not feel she could make it on her own, despite it not being a very *nice* situation stayed with them until the great Badgering incident of [insert date here].

Ayla entirely yes. Moxie started a whole ass business and still only saw herself as being able to have any of it because of Ayla - her home, her gardens, her rescue. Without her what would she be, where would she go.

Duvessa. The only source of her power. Is totally "looking out for me" and "protecting me". Where would she be without her lending powers, how would she have gotten this far without her. If she didn't have Duvessa she wouldn't be capable of anything.

Death in Reverse: When has your character tried to fight change?

Uh? Right now? Actively? The battle between letting Duvessa take away her emotions vs actually processing and learning to accept her own grief. She's in a change phase in her life right now and really hasn't just fully accepted what's happened and what that means. It is an ongoing fight and i fear for anything that may trigger another relapse with this shit.

The World in Reverse: What is your character holding back?

The truth. How many lies she's told herself in the course of making it this far in the adventure.

For Renata Calabria:

The Star: When has your character been most hopeful?

three months after they parted ways, agreeing they wouldn't see each other again, Ari saved Renata's life. A mere 24 hours after nearly dying, Ari forced a confession out of her (oopsie) about how her last partner in the Crows died. They thought it was about like, work partner, but it was her partner, and her lover, Carmen. And she had to admit to killing her own lover. Renata did it. Then got essentially promoted for it.

And she's hated herself for it ever since. but Ari heard it and was the first to tell her that it wasnt her fault, that they wanted to be with her, and that if she ever wanted to talk about it, they would do their best to listen. turned out, she wasnt a completely unloveable monster after all. brought hope for a future where she wasnt as lonely as she had been the last 3 years.

The Chariot in Reverse: When has your character’s pride or arrogance been their downfall?

Re: Carmen. See, the guildmaster told her that carmen had betrayed House Calabria. He lied to her. it wasn't the whole truth. He wanted to see what she would do if she didn't know that they knew she had a romantic thing with carmen. and renata believed him fully, thinking herself the perfect crow but carmen the one to slip up, the one to get angry in training, to complain the loudest. she never thought they actually could have been caught by anyone. it didnt cross her mind. this was carmens own fault and she was pissed at her for it. how could carmen do this to her.

and it was in her own arrogance assuming that she was somehow better, smarter, more loyal, that she bargained additionally to get to train under the poison master of the house in exchange for her help. if she had to do this then at least let her get a reward she deserves. it would be hard on her, but she was a perfect crow, and she still would be after this.

reNAAAta! I know this is as much for you as it is for me but thank you i love talking about her sm

9. when in their life were they most scared?

I'm writing a fic inspired by this question right now. What do you do when your job is to poison people and sometimes you have to deal with spiders, a great fear, and then also darkness and despair because in general Maestra Vera is a terrible person!

tldr; a very scary crow training incident where she thought she was gonna die

19. what sparks genuine, unadulterated rage in them?

Failure of course, both personal and someone else failing her to live up to an expectation. Funny that despite being a Crow, a thief, a murderer all these things, Lying pisses her right the fuck off. Finding out an intentional lie from someone she trusts will make her blow up.

Sorry Ari. (They deserve to be blown up at for hiding this so long from her tbh)

37. if they’ve had one, what was their first kiss like?

Rushed and thrilling and dangerous in a crow sort of way and giggly in a teenager sort of way. Of course her first kiss was with Carmen. just successfully finished another Crow Trial and heat of the moment and dark of the night. If you asked either of them who initiated, they each would say they did

55. they’re seeing their greatest wish come true—what’s happening?

Being with Aristide without fear. There's a few steps she needs to work through in her own mind for the realities of how to make that happen, and facing the reality that the first major step would actually be both of them abandoning their Crow houses is a huge one. To her it's both her greatest wish and an impossible reality right now. She wants to go dancing with them and hold hands in the street. And not look over her shoulder about it.

63. what’s a meme or tiktok or vine (or whatever) that you associate with them?

Unfortunately ever since the "Don't worry kitten" meme entered my life it is ALL i think about for her because shes a know-it-all and Ari is a thembo: