#lightning eagle

1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?

Izo: Izo’s father is the person that she looked up to the most when she was a younger. He gave her the chance to study war tactics and martial arts with the rest of her brothers, which she had wanted to do more than hang out with the rest of her family. Because of his challenges, she was motivated to learn as quickly as she could to impress him and make him proud. This carried on into her later life as a habit, to study battle fields and gather intelligence.

Katsuya: Katsuya was raised as the son of Izo’s father, as his bio dad died as a foot soldier in Hojo’s army and his mother was the wife of Izo’s father. Because of this Izo’s dad held a grudge against Katsuya and stopped him from being fully immersed in the same level of education that Izo was in. Once Katsuya learned the truth, it caused him to lose trust in his fatherly figure for good.

2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?

Izo: Izo was the rambunctious youngest daughter that her mother gave birth too, and was the most troublesome. Izo’s mother tried to contain her and make her into a good noble woman and a suitable wife candidate, causing Izo to rebel more as she wanted to fight with her brothers. Although Izo doesn’t particularly have any strong feelings about her mother, she sort of regrets not building a stronger relationship with her before she died.

Katsuya: As the last child his mom gave birth too, he was babied and fussed over a lot. Katsuya’s mom fostered a love of the arts into him and helped him grow as an artist and as a shamisen player. Katsuya loved his mother a lot and defended her from others. However, once she admitted that he was never truly a Hyouiro, he left her behind to die as their house burned and he began to have issues with trusting anyone, even his own sister, as even she knew that he wasn’t a Hyouiro by blood.

10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted?

Alessia: This is kind of a hard question for her? Since she was educated formally as a child, but didn’t pay attention (spent most of her time escaping the house). She’s learned a bunch of bits and pieces of things by having lessons (she learned the basics of fencing from a tutor and was trained as a pianist) or watching people (she learned how to cook, style and cut hair, sew and knit/crochet from Jerri). Even after she was trained by General Yeegar and tutored by him as well, she doesn’t put too much work into her book studies (other than reading and writing) as she does her hobbies and such.