#hiraneth

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive? For Hira and Cele?

How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’? for Hal and Aelin?

and What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot? for Rhia?

Also, if there's one you've been particularly excited to answer and haven't gotten yet -- here's an excuse! Also PS I'm so taken with all of their designs wowow 😍

First off, I love that you split the Elves up that way, bc even if Hal and Hira are siblings, personality/vibes-wise it would be Hal & Aelin, Hira & Cele. xD

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive? For Hira and Cele?

Hira is a forthright and tough love kind of girl. She's going to be bluntly honest, would like it if people return the favor for her. Definitely the type to prefer hard truth over easy lies.

Cele it sort of depends? He leans naturally more toward giving tough-but-well-intentioned love, but he knows he does better receiving gentle love so he tries to read a situation to see which will work better rather than just default to tough love all the time.

How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’? for Hal and Aelin?

Well, Hal considers Aelin his friend after he spends a couple thousand years talking to her while she's asleep and not contributing to the conversation, so he uses it pretty loosely. (He helps her friend Harthalín keep vigil while Aelin's recovering from being stabbed with a morgul blade High Elf intro yay) He also shrugs and rolls with it when Esmerelda Boffin declares him her friend after they've known each other, like, 6 hours and spent most of that time catching frogs and pranking her cousins sooooo :D

Aelin is a little more strict with it, just bc she's more withdrawn, especially in her recovery phase. She doesn't have a high threshold on being a 'friend' exactly, it's more that she prefers solitude while getting caught up on 3000 years of history and that's overwhelming enough without having people be all chatty and social with you. So she tends to shy away from people entirely in search of quiet. Part of how she and Hal become actual friends after she wakes up is bc he's 100% happy to just sit and read in the same room together and similar activities. There is she wants to talk, but also happy leaving things quiet.

What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot? for Rhia?

She is extremely--and I do mean extremely--interested in and knowledgeable about lace-making. She loves to sew and all adjacent activities(so knit, crochet, quilt, weave etc), but lace-making became an area of special interest for her and she started learning everything she could about it, all the techniques available, which styles are more common in different areas, all of that.

For that bonus: What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them? with Tera

Tera first notices her teeth. She has a little bit of a gap between her upper front teeth that feels super noticeable to her, but hardly anyone else even registers, and the ones who do think it's cute. Other people notice either the red hair or the eyes first, since she has hazel/grey heterochromia.

Guess what Hira bought? :D

Hal bought new boots and Hira got a pretty dress(Arwen’s Dinner Dress, dyed Dark Mossy Green) today, and I’m a little closer to memorizing the layout of Minas Tirith. \o/ Also

ofc my diehard animal lover took care of the horses. New favorite daily for him. :D 

AND

The LOTRO anniversary outfits are so pretty, and my kids look so good in blue. Also, I did an absurd amout of running around to make this happen:

1.What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do? (for the purposes of this, I assuming "nothing" means nothing physical; read a book, craft something etc)

Hal can make it a very long time. In fact, one of his favorite things to do is sit in the woods leaning against Trinket and just listen to nature for hours on end.

Hira it depends. She's a tasks-oriented person, so she needs Something To Do. She's a Hunter, so if she's hunting and in "Work Mode", she can make it several hours perfectly still with nothing to do as she waits bc that's Her Task. If she's just relaxing, she definitely gets fidgety faster without something to do. That something can be sewing, playing an instrument, braiding her brother's hair, whatever, but she needs something or she goes nuts pretty quick.

Aelin can sit for a fairly long time without outwardly doing anything, but she's probably reliving memories in her head, and since she was a) part of the Last Alliance's battle against Sauron and b) originally from Beleriand :) she's probably gonna be very quiet, withdrawn, and melancholy for the next couple weeks minimum.

Cele is terrible at patience and not particularly good at relaxing. 😅 He's very justice/accomplishment motivated, so he wants to be Doing Things. I'd give him an hour, absolute max, with nothing to do before he's climbing the walls or running off to run drills or something.

Rhia has too much energy to sit still for more than 20 minutes unless absolutely necessary lol. She's braiding flower crowns for herself/her bear/Meneldir(he actually wears it for five minutes and that's SUCH a victory) or playing with mud or something.

Tera is more contemplative, I think she could make it aa couple hours with nothing to do before she started getting antsy. She's probably running drills or plotting out her to-do list in her head though.

Ziin it depends. If she sits still for too long with nothing-nothing to do, she'll fall asleep lol. Just curl up with her pets and take a long nap. But she can go maybe a couple hours sitting still before she gets to that point.