#krysis

While she enjoys working with Reilly, if Dara had gold in excess, she'd want to make the brothels of Antillune safe for the people working in them.

And being able to use them as a network of informants wouldn't be a bad side effect of that help, either.

Booker Reed, Fey Touched

This one's so angsty. If Booker found out that he was heir to a fortune, he'd hate it.

Booker's parents were murdered when he was a small child, and fey love deeply. Fey can die of a broken heart, and while familial love doesn't have quite the same risks as romantic love, Booker had no other family to take him in and help mitigate the loss of his parents.

He was very emotionally scarred for a very long time because of this, but with no other blood relatives the only source of inherited wealth would have come from his deceased parents, and he would hate it on principle.

He'd probably destroy it, or give it away. He would want his parents back, not an inherited wealth as if that was some kind of sad consolation prize.

"Don't think of it like a trade off. Instead, try to think of all the good you could do with-"

"I don't want to do good with it Lizzy, don't you see?!" Booker snapped, the letter from the Court crumpling in his fist.

"This doesn't fix anything. This doesn't bring them back. It's not enough. Nothing would ever be enough to make up for-"

His breath came in gasps, ragged and urgent as he cut off the words, and his head spun with blinding fury.

His heart throbbed with a bone deep ache that would never leave him.

Lizzy's arms around his shoulders, her face pressed against the back of his neck, her own calm heart vibrating through his back, slowing his own as their systems aligned.

She brought him back from the edge, and Booker felt the tears gather in his eyes, and he let himself slump into the grief. Let it wash over him and recede as the presence of his best friend burnt it away, like the sun melting the icy morning dew.

Without Lizzy, without Madeline, Booker knew he'd never have survived as long as he had. It was a gut deep knowing, with no evidence, but he knew it all the same and turning quickly he caught Lizzy in a crushing hug.

The 'thank you' deafeningly loud in the way his hands grasped her close, and the 'you're welcome' clear in the silent soothing strokes of her hand along his spine.

Krysis, A Grim Awakening

I've literally written next to nothing about Krysis yet, but I know her powers and her backstory, and the world lore that I'll be putting her into so I can still answer this one for her, sort of.

See, as a Grim Reaper, collecting the souls of the recently deceased and keeping them safe until they pass on to their individual version of the afterlife is all she's ever known. It's all any Reaper has ever known.

New Reapers aren't born, they just appear. They know how to do their jobs instinctively, and they don't know where they come from, so they simply keep working, keep moving forward.

If Krysis found out that she was heir to some fortune, she'd find the whole idea hysterical. Where did it come from? Why was it left to her? Most humans can't remember a Reaper once they've passed out of sight, so anyone leaving her anything of wealth, would just be highly amusing to her.

After she got over that, she'd probably ask Jack Sanger (the secondary protag in A Grim Awakening) what she should do with it, or her (currently unnamed) best friend, if this happened at a point where she hadn't yet met Jack.

If neither of them had any ideas, she'd probably ignore it, leaving it in whatever storage location is was housed in.

Reilly Mosswolf, Stolen

Reilly would make sure the inheritance wasn't a trap, or ploy, from an enemy, and then he'd funnel those funds directly into the guild vaults.

If there was enough, he'd upgrade the equiptment for his thieves.

Reilly is a thief because it's something he enjoys doing. More gold in the vault, just means that he can take on more risky jobs, take bigger chances and gambles. Hire more healers, or recruit a couple of wizards to help Myris.

More funds just means the expansion of the guild to him. He'd be delighted at that, but the gold itself would be a means to an end.

Mia Harris, Fey Touched

Mia might be the only one on this list in a position to genuinly inherit a small fortune. Her parents both hold seats on the european vampire council, and are influential politicians in the vampire nation.

They're already rich as a family, so if Mia was heir to a small fortune, because one of her parents, or a more distant relative died, she would assume nothing strange about it.

It's her inheritance. It's her right to claim it.

Mia's a very cold character, in that, even if it was her parents who died, she might grieve them quietly, privately, but she'd never let anyone see her falter, so she'd certainly continue to make use of such an inheritance to secure her own position in the vampire council, moving forward.