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up, up the long, delirious,  b u r n i n g  blue i’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.

Something I wasn’t expecting honestly, Character design!

(AAAAAAAAh sorry this was so late, I kept trying to decide on the stupid formatting, just decided to go with what I know)

Maureen: “Biggest Mess”, huh?

Koa: Biggest one I can remember was the fish tank thing.

Maureen: Oh yeah, the Fish Tank!

Tommis: Oh shit, not this again...

Maureen: Right, so, Tommis has this great big fish tank he keeps his fishes in-

Tommis: The’re Loaches, actually, of the Golden Dojo variety. Lovely pets, very smart, if a bit prone to disease.

Milan: Aw shush, man.

*Tommis grumbling*

Maureen: Anyway, it’s this great big glass case, big enough you could squeeze a person in there. And Tommis’ got to clean it out every now and then or else it reeks somethin awful.

Koa: A pleasant kind of stink, really. The Stink of Life.

Milan: Smells like high tide at the harbor if you ask me.

Maureen: Hush up and let me finish!

Milan: Sorry...

Maureen: So he’s got to get the tank to the bathroom so he can drain the water and clean it, right? But he can’t lift the damn thing, on account of being so scrawny-

Tommis: Which is why I got Milan here *pats the Ogre gently* to pick it up and move it for me. Poor decision on my part.

Milan, whispering: No offense taken, dick.

Maureen: And he hangs the thing at an angle over his shoulder once he gets into the hall. At this point, I’m downstairs, and I hear Tom getting pissy about the way he’s holding it. A minute of squabbling later, a thunk, and a shatter, and a fuckin waterfall comes pouring down the stairs. The water didn’t do much damage, thankfully.

Tommis: I got Hardwood flooring for a reason!

*Koa suddenly looks very worried, and looks down at the floor beneath him with an expression of horror. Milan puts a large hand on his shoulder*

Milan: No worries, it’s fake. Plastic an’ bamboo an' such.

*Koa appears relieved*

Milan: Y’see, what happened was that there’s this big rock at one end of the tank, among other fancy trash for the fish to play in. And When I pick this thing up, I didn’t know the rock was still in it, so it rolls its heavy-ass self down the slope of the tank, and it hits the glass-

Maureen: And it shatters! Gallons of stanky fish water, busted glass, and sand everywhere.

Koa: You’re forgetting the best part!

Others: Huh?

Koa: Well, I was sitting on the floor downstairs when it happened, and with the water comes these three little yellow noodlefish, just flopping down the steps, gasping for air, and we hear Tommis practically shriek from upstairs-

Tommis: *closes eyes and rubs his temples* oh GOD

Maureen, Koa, and Milan, in unison: MOE, LARRY, CURLY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! *the yell dissolves into laughter halfway through*

Tommis: They’re perfectly legitimate names for Fish!

Maureen: Hehehe... Oh God, it was rank for a few hours, but Koa drags his Tree over and sucks up the worst of the spill in no time.

Koa: One of the many perks of being a Houseplant. Went down rough, but tons of nutrients.

Milan: Suffice to say I’m not allowed to help with Fish cleaning anymore.

Alex Harmonia did nothing wrong.

9. Do they have any weird hobbies?

Strangely enough, Alex thoroughly enjoys fetch quests. After school, he’d always delay going home so that he could run around the city and make a few deliveries for the flower shop or move this keg of wine over to this bar across town. It was another way for him to explore the place he called home, and it also made him feel useful to people in some way. He never asked for any payment for his services either, and he got a reputation as being a very trustworthy person. Being a simple delivery boy did him a lot of good as a kid.

10. What is a talent they wish they didn’t have?

Alex is understandably unsettled by how easy it is for him to kill people. The fact that his blade bears a killing curse that is cast on whoever it cuts makes even casual engagements dangerous and deadly. With Sonia’s help, he managed to place a seal on the sword that kept the curse from spreading so easily, but even then, just the fact that he is such a danger to the people around him turns his stomach. Being a pacifist is hard when you’re the unwilling vessel of a fallen god.

14. What is their worst habit?

Well, that depends. He has two terrible habits - one that affects the people around him, and one that only really affects himself. The first is that he’s an absolute coward, who would sooner turn and run than face danger. He’s stared into the eyes of death too many times to hold anything but crippling fear towards the idea. Alex is not ready to die. Nor is he prepared to endure pain. So when it seems like either of these are coming towards him, he runs.

The second is a compound of many things: Self-doubt, self-loathing, and self-blame. Alex has no faith in himself or his abilities, so convinced that he’s nothing but a disappointment to his family and friends. He hates himself for it, and should the slightest thing go wrong, his first reaction is to lay blame on himself and seek justification for the burden. The fact that, technically speaking, he’s often right about being at fault for so many failures doesn’t help him break out of this habit. This is a child whose cries for help are often stifled and suffocated in his cries for forgiveness for faults that don’t belong to him.

15. Did they ever experience a major personalty shift? If so, what triggered it?