#della fearflight

The hero sought to save the world. "If I keep trying, I'll be able to win," the hero thought. But the harder the hero fought, the further the world seemed to tumble away. Drowning in doubt, the hero could not even save themselves.

Hero, if you still believe in a brighter future, hold in your heart a thorn that can pierce all doubt.

8: How do they feel about the unsavory reputation attached to many necromancers? For della :3

7. In retrospect, Della thinks Scarlet Briar deserved a kinder death. That girl was just as much a victim as Aerin. But at the time -- there was no time. Lion's Arch had taken countless victims in its destruction. The Breachmaker was maybe minutes away from achieving whatever Scarlet had done. There were so, so many dead. So many refugees.

Della saw Scarlet pulling that shield up and she -- panicked. She reached into herself and cast the most devastating thing she could think of; Sylvari aren't flesh and blood and bone the way humans are, they take a different approach to cast on, if you're using necromantic theorems --

(Palawa Joko was the first Scourge, but maybe any Necromancer could've come to their own conclusions. Not all of a Scourge's skills require sand. Some of their Punishments are just... a different manipulation of energy. Della was a minionmancer for a very long time -- she was intricately familiar with the tricks and patterns of flesh. Of bodies. Of how they can be reshaped with a cast, and torn apart, and remade.)

She cast Desiccate on that woman to kill her. It was not a quick or painless death, but Della was in the throes of panic, and the only thing on her mind was We have to stop this woman. We have to stop her. And Della was angry, too -- so many dead -- she wanted it to hurt. She wanted vengeance for all those unquiet dead, gone before their time.

It didn't even matter in the end, did it? Scarlet still got what she'd wanted. It could've been kinder. She could've broken Scarlet's neck. She could've taken off Scarlet's arm but left her alive. Maybe she could've helped her. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

When the Commander got to Trahearne, later, she didn't use a hint of necromantic magic to kill him, not exactly. She took his own sword and plunged it through his heart.

8. She's gotten pretty used to it over the years! Most of the time it helps, it adds a veneer of intimidation and respectability -- and as someone who was Ash Legion she made use of that, back in the day. But when she was making her way through the Priory ranks, a lot of people weren't entirely sure how to approach her, which was... it was entertaining at first. It got old.

no toon given, so i'm gonna default to commander della fearflight!

R4: What does your character’s friends like about them?

Della is good at keeping her calm under pressure (usually), and can typically be relied on to act as the voice of reason. She's also fiercely protective, a little morbidly funny, fairly reliable, and tries her hardest to be kind; it doesn't come naturally, but that's fine.

R13: Does your character give good gifts?

She certainly tries! Generally she tries to give gifts that are handmade or artisan-made: something with unique value even outside of its purpose. However, she tends to focus on what she thinks people need and not what they want, so a lot of the time it ends up awkward.

R14: Would you character borrow money from others? Would they pay it back?

At this point she doesn't borrow money from others -- usually, anyway, she gets a pretty chunky stipend from Crecia for 'thanks for saving the charr and also saving the world. sorry bangar called you a race traitor' + she worked for the Priory for something like twenty years, she had some savings -- and even aside from that, she spends a lot of her downtime tailoring and selling what she makes.

✨️ svess: it's hard of hearing & uses hearing aids most of the time! the hearing loss is partially congenital, partially 'spent too much time hanging out near explosions', but it's working with it pretty well.

✨️ meditrix trilli: he's allergic to avocados :( not deadly-allergic but 'if i eat anything with this involved, i will need fairly quick medical aid' allergic. given that the inquest is... how it is... he just carries an epipen and reminds everyone very clearly He Is Your Medic :) Do You Want Him To Do A Bad Job :) You Don't Like Him Already? Well Guess What,

✨️ lante dawnsong: astoundingly good sprinter. girl is fast, even on two legs, and if she does the all-four charrs run she's goin'.

✨️ della fearflight: bakes and/or cooks to relieve stress. this does mean that sometimes, when there's a big scary godfight / dragonfight coming up but the pieces aren't in play, dragon's watch walks up to a meeting and she's got plates of peppered clear truffle ravioli ready. or peppercorn-crusted sous-vide steak, if you're carnivorous! stop giving her that look, rytlock, she knows charr dietary constraints just as well as you do, eat the damn steak

this does also mean that when you hit icebrood saga, with lante dawnsong actively working as a pact sniper (order of whispers), rytlock probably sideeyes her a lot. why’s HIS kid the one that’s a spoiled fucking brat that became a dragon champion!! lante’s ryland’s age!! she’s della’s kid!! and she’s normal!! (okay is one of her arms branded from the elbow down and missing a finger? ...yes, but also aurene branded over the purple brand, so, like. it’s fine. and it’s been chronomancer-locked into not progressing for years now.)

[della voice] Rytlock I think the problem here may be, please bear with me, “Blood” “Legion”, and perhaps not the entirety of charr society as stands. Although that is a problem. Don’t get me wrong that’s a big problem.