#josebeth

6. How well do they cope with the reality of their mortality? I know this is about her but weirdly enough I don’t think she and Annabeth have had that conversation. Like they both know the reality, but they haven’t discussed it. Anyway. I can’t say she’s content with it, and it’s not even because of that. How is she supposed to truly succeed when she has such limited time? It’s not her biggest worry, but she believes time to be against her. She is 100% convinced she’s going to live to be a centenarian though, if through nothing but willpower and spite, so that helps

8. What is their perspective on religion and the concept of God? She’s kinda unsure but honestly hasn’t given it a ton a ton of thought. If she had to say she’d probably call herself agnostic

14. What could be considered as their worst moment? hands down The Fight with Annabeth. Yeah, your girlfriend is screaming about how you don’t care about her, let’s start yelling at her in return and bring her up her parents even though we know that’s a sore subject, why not?

30. Do they take themselves too seriously? ohh yeah. She thinks she has to because she has to live up to her potential and she has to be perfect and and and she just has to because otherwise how does she make up for the fact that she is (in her mind) secretly a bad person?

49. Do they believe there's a cause, person, or a goal worth sacrificing their life for? A cause or goal? Sure. She doesn’t have a specific one, but when she’s committed to something she gives it everything, even if that ends up meaning everything. A person? She would say no. She thinks she’s telling the truth. But the fact that she risked her life for Annie once says otherwise

59. Do they tend to overwork themselves? For sure- she ties too much of her worth into her achievements and also overworking is, in her less than healthy opinion, the perfect way to avoid things she doesn’t want to think about or deal with

10. Their most defining moment vs your favorite one of them For Annabeth’s most defining moment I could go for the whole “I’m ending the Neverseen” thing and for Jo I know what I’d go with but idek how to do it in Generic Witch School™ but that doesn’t matter because I’m wrapping this all up into one moment because it was such a big deal for both of them and their arcs are so intertwined and yeah this wasn’t a good moment but I Can’t Stop Thinking About It so I guess that makes it my favorite xD So they had a secret relationship for a long time, right? Except it wasn’t because literally anyone could tell. Annie was originally for this but she got tired of it and tired of how Jo was treating her and it turned into this huge fight and Jo brought up Annie’s parents somehow which is a sore spot and gosh it was intense. Cue breakup. Annabeth ended up back with her parents/the Neverseen during this point which actually is probably what I should be focusing on but Josebeth. Jo ended up dating someone else but he’s literally so irrelevant and never really comes up again. They ended up making up of course but this was such a turning point and my gosh

11. One word they'd use to describe themselves, one you'd use to describe them and lastly a word that their closest/loved one would use to describe them Annabeth would describe herself as cowardly, I’d call her brave, and Jo would call her distracting. Jo would call herself independent, I’d call her oblivious, and Annie would call her exasperating.

19. What's their strongest emotion, the one which mostly rules them and compels them to action? Annabeth’s is fear. Fear that she’ll make the wrong choice, fear that he past will catch up with her, fear that she’ll somehow end up hurting someone she loves. In a way Jo’s is as well? She’s not nearly as anxious as Annie, but she’s afraid of being seen as weak or being taken advantage of, and goes out of her way to protect the cold, self sufficient image she’s crafted. Idk I feel like there’s a better word to describe her motivation.

4. How much weight do they give to others' opinions of them? Honestly? Not a lot. She’s not always sure if people like her and she doesn’t think she makes a good impression, but she also thinks it’s better if they don’t so she doesn’t worry about it as much as she could

5. When bad things happen, do they usually think it happened to them or because of them? oh because of her, 100%. If it’s not because of something she did, then it’s because something is just fundamentally wrong with her as a person and she draws disaster to everyone she interacts with

9. When in pain do they take it out on others or do they keep it inside? Both? Generally speaking, she prefers to keep emotions bottled up, however, she’s not actually very good at it and she’s prone to lashing out

22. What is their relationship with their body like? She's a little insecure about her weight and appearance

24. Do they self harm and if so in which way? See I really wouldn’t be surprised if it did translate, but like- Anyway, yeah.. She self sabotages a looot, assuming that counts? She also just… doesn’t take her needs or health into consideration. She’s somewhat prone to knowingly putting herself into unsafe situations for no good reason Edit: I was looking for something else and I found a quote scribbled in the margins “I just want to light leap somewhere and stop concentrating” so um. there’s that apparently

30. Do they take themselves too seriously? I’m not sure? She doesn’t think very highly of herself at all and doesn’t expect others too, but she does have a hard time relaxing

40. Would breaking their heart be a quick task or would it require significant effort? She thinks she has enough walls up to protect her, but it’s unfortunately pretty easy. One blow would be enough if it were the right bomb- and the one saying it wouldn’t even have to be the one it’s about, she doubts everyone enough that she’d believe almost anything- and yes, if asked she’d consider Jo to have broken her heart before

48. What gets them out of the bed each morning and how obvious is that motivation to those around them? Currently? Knowing Jo would be sad/mad/disappointed if she didn’t. Maybe she can’t find a reason to get up and face the day for herself, but Jo’s counting on her to be there I’d say it’s fairly obvious. Annie hasn’t explicitly said it, but I’m pretty sure Jo knows

now I want to write about them struggling to build an ikea shelf

ooh goodie!

11. Have they ever hurt each other, be it physically or emotionally, intentionally or accidentally? emotionally, 100%, usually accidentally buut they’re both prone to low blows during arguments, so ;-; This is news to me but apparently once Jo was messing with jewelry and managed to accidentally fling a bracelet across the room and nearly hit Annabeth in the eye

13. Are there any regrets or unresolved issues between them? Ooh so many unresolved issues. They rarely talk about arguments after the fact so even things like “you excused me of losing something and it was literally in your pocket the whole time” are still hanging around. Jo regrets not making it clearer sooner that she really does care about Annie, and Annie regrets… right now Annie is regretting wrapping Jo up in this whole mess, actually.

14. What's an opinion they'll never agree on? How do they deal with that? Jo is says jogging is actually fun and Annabeth is convinced this was a lie invented to torment her for a weekend. Simple solution being Annabeth doesn’t go jogging with Jo anymore xD (I know that was silly but xD )

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