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If you had asked her at 27, she would be all cynic. Happy endings aren't for people like her.

If you asked her at 30? Well, she's got a husband and a cat and a home and a future that doesn't involve fighting and killing all the time.

She still has an aversion to overly saccharine happiness, though. She doesn't feel like it's real enough to compel her and has a hard time imagining that that's what anyone could actually experience.

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What are their favorite things to do together?

Kitali and Aymeric like cooking together. Making each other food is the first thing they do when Kitali comes home.

Estinien is her preferred sparring partner because neither of them ever have to worry about holding back.

Aymeric and Estinien will regularly pull each other into a slow dance when the mood strikes them.

Who takes the lead in social situations? How are they around each other's friends?

Aymeric always takes the lead. He's the more outgoing one of them all, especially in mixed company.

Since Estinien and Aymeric's social circles are pretty much the same five or so people it's easy for them to relax around one another.

A friend of mine made an excellent post about Aymeric and Lyse interacting and I really want to see them together more. And they certainly would be, given that she's Kitali's best friend. He likes Lyse and respects how driven she is, even if there's still some learning curves. Estinien doesn't quite know what to do with this very bubbly woman but she seems to like him and doesn't mind doing all the talking.

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Grief and loss. She never had the ability to learn how to set grief down and process through it, she always had to just compartmentalise it away and so she doesn't know how to properly grieve. She just sort of carries it with her constantly and adds it to herself like tree rings.

And almost all of the people she's ever met are broken in similar ways, so she never got any sort of structure from anyone how to cope. What she really needs is grief counselling, but the closest thing that's available to her is Halonic counsel, and she wants nothing to do with the Halonic Church.

It is getting marginally easier now that she has somewhere to settle down and let herself fall apart every now and then.

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I wouldn't say it bothered Kitali but it definitely took some getting used to. Though she got rather quickly acquainted with it once she started sleeping in Belle's stall after Edmont kicked her out after the Vault.

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