#lemon stuff

NO! ... sigh. I do need the practice.

25: What is their biggest flaw?

How easily they trust. That doesn’t sound like a flaw, not really, but when most people don’t like you because you’re the Weird Kid who hangs out in the swamp all day, which is a place people a) can’t go usually and b) is Incredibly Dangerous... well... people don’t tend to trust you back that easily. I’ll get back to that one later

But yeah. Sage trusts people really easily and it opens them up for... well, people to take advantage of that. It’s not (entirely) bad but, y’know. At the very least, prior to Vanessa’s ice tantrum, it was the main thing that caused them grief.

27: What is their biggest strength?

Their resilience! It takes a lot of strength to get hurt over and over by people meaning poorly to bounce back and try again, over and over again. Sage is really resilient, far past the point most people would have given up. Maybe it’s because they spend so much time in the swamp (and there’s some magical associations with Subcon forest spirits and people’s personal magic that I want to get into but haven’t made a post about yet I promise I will eventually. That or just ask me and prompt me to do it because I want to talk about it I just haven’t yet) and like... the swamp is surprisingly adaptable. It’s constantly on fire, it’s wetlands, and it’s got some startling biodiversity considering the fire. (I live nowhere near a swamp so I had to do a lot of research considering Sage’s swamp connection and while I personally consider it to be a deathtrap I can admire how cool they are)

37: How easy is it for them to say “I love you?” Do they say it without meaning it?

It’s... I’d say about moderately difficult. Again, they’ve kind of... had not-great experiences with people in their own age group (hence why they hang out with their mom and her friends (and particularly Lukas) more often than not, if they’re not on their own in the swamp) but when they say it they mean it. They typically say it through actions and time, but they say it and they mean it.

39: What does their happily ever after look like?

Honestly? A quiet life with people who love them. They don’t really need much. Just... yeah. love and care and connection. Not too much to say on this one, honestly, but it makes me happy to think about them just... living their best life in the woods with their messy found family.

62: Have they ever been betrayed? How did it affect their ability to trust others?

Just... casual ignorance and turning-away of their attempts at friend-making. People don’t trust them, because they’re swamp chosen, and well... the swamp is weird, and scary, and the spirits won’t even try and trick you they’ll just kill you outright, and it’s haunted by the spirits of people who died in the swamp, and like... Sage is able to walk around in the swamp unhindered (helped, even, though they wouldn’t know it) and like... people don’t Trust that.

People don’t really trust Sage, then, and sometimes people have been outright antagonistic about it. They haven’t really had anyone worm their way into their (easily given) trust and turn around and tear them apart from the inside, though. It likely would have happened if they had gotten older, but... well, everyone’s dead now so.

I get messages about this kind of stuff pretty frequently (thanks for the support lol) so I collected all the adult imagery I've drawn of these two over the years. Well, the ones I still like anyway. Don’t expect this gallery to update very regularly as I don’t draw sm*t too often. But when I do, it’ll be posted at the top.

.... anyway.

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