#ranara

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Cattail: Is your character at peace with themself? Why or why not?

No, she's really not. She acts like she doesn't care, like life is mostly fun and games, but Rana is well aware of all the mistakes she's made, and continues to make. They bother her much more than she lets on.

It doesn't help that she isn't having a midlife crisis so much as just a general life crisis that's extended to a midlife crisis. She's found her daughter, and that's made her significantly happier, but she has no idea where to go from there. Finding Nera was pretty much all that consumed her life for the longest time, and she's built up an assortment of contacts but many of them are flaky at best and she has no real direction in her life. Years and years between prison and wandering aimlessly have left her feeling rather empty and without purpose.

She's trying to find it, though. She's trying her best. 

Kennedia: One thing your character admires in someone.

It's a bit cliche, but she mostly admires people who go out of their way to be kind to others. People who are compassionate and sweet but not preachy about it. People who are just casually nice on the regular.  It's helped Rana meet a lot of cool people. It's also unfortunately made her rather easy to manipulate lol.

Red Roses: Who is someone your character has truly loved?

Well, she loves Nera above all. She loves her friends. She'd fight for them, even die for them, if it came down to it.

But I'm assuming this is referring to romantic love, so... I actually don't have anyone specific. Anyone who she's entered a relationship with beyond 'casual fling'. Sometimes the casual flings. Rana wears her heart on her sleeve and falls for people rather quickly, and intensely, and to the point where it might just seem like lust. For the casual flings, it is, usually. It's only the people who she delves into more committed relationships that she tends to love, well, romantically.

Oh snap, well HERE GOES

★ Rana loves babies. You got babies? She’ll take care of those babies for you. You might have to pry them out of her grip to get them back, though.

★ Delani however can’t stand being around children. Don’t ask her to hold your baby, ‘cause she will never want to.

★ Tarkus is pretty good at dealing with kids thanks to years of taking care of his younger siblings. He’s undecided on whether he wants any of his own in the future, though.

★ Tarkus is a biotic and very good with tech, and both of these things are a great point of pride for him.

★ Rana hates the idea of getting old, almost entirely for vanity reasons.

★ Rana doesn’t know who Nera’s father is, and even if she did, she wouldn’t tell Nera due to a promise she made to herself while trying to get pregnant.

★ Nera is kind of annoyed that Rana doesn’t know who her father is, though she’s not entirely sure what she’d do with the information.

★ Nera made a custom pistol especially for Fenir, that has ‘<3 Nera’ inscribed on the side of it.

★ Zeela really likes citrus-y tastes and scents.

Sweet, more of these! I CAN ANSWER ‘EM FOREVER

★ Unlike her daughter, Rana is actually a pretty good cook! She likes to as well, but only when it’s for other people. Otherwise she’s usually too lazy to bother.

★ She’s not very booksmart and abysmal at coming up with plans, but Rana is scarily competent in most combat situations, being very good at thinking on her feet and quite proficient with a wide array of weapons. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, etc

Alrighty!

★ Despite having a usually cheerful exterior and a rather blaze attitude about the things around her, Rana struggles with depression and has a very poor self-image, even with Nera back in her life. Because surprise, mental illness doesnt care where you are in life

Yay, asks about Rana! Hopefully this can help me flesh her out some more lol

15. How materialistic are they? Do they often throw things out or are they hoarders? Do they store their memories in their heads, in photo albums or in countless of boxes of belongings in the attic?She's fairly materialistic, and occasionally she's guilty of retail therapy when she's upset but these days it's nothing too excessive. She used to be part of a pirate crew, and some materialistic behavior was kind of par for the course. Jewelry, clothes, heavy weaponry, etc... after having a daughter, struggling to get by, and THEN spending years and years in prison afterwards, though, she's chilled quite a bit in that regard. Now as long as she's comfortable and has some occasional luxuries and people to talk to, she's happy.

She hoards things to a small degree, but nothing unhealthy. The main thing she's guilty of is hanging on to clothes she swears she's gonna wear again but won't. As for memories... she's very sentimental and likes to have small physical things to remind her of certain times. Not attic though, since she doesn’t have the space. Mostly it’s photos of Nera, since they kind of helped keep her going in some particularly rough times.

20. What does your muse think of secrets? Do they keep many or a few and what is their motivation to keep something secret? Have they ever been hurt by a secret someone else kept from them?

She doesn't like them, but she understands their necessity and in most cases won't pry into other peoples' secret lives, placing more value on interaction than knowing everything about a person. She's kept a few, both through job necessity and because she hates being a supposed "downer" to people. Most of her secrets tend to be either things that will upset someone, things she's done that she's not proud of, or most commonly, Bad Feelings that she tries to hide even from herself. She's not SUPER secretive, though, and generally will admit to things if questioned about it enough.

Some human!Ranara, for shits and giggles

Well, I’ll put down what I put down, but I’ll see if I can sneak some sex ones in there JUST FOR YOU, anon lol

Anyway, here goes:

Narrok:

Narrok was about 98 earth years old when he died

He suffered from crazy insomnia and had issues with depression and substance abuse throughout his lifetime

He was actually the son of a well-respected though not exactly good-natured military man of the batarian Hegemony

(Sex fact just for you anon) He was a bit of a sexual deviant, particularly in his younger days and was heavily into BDSM and group sex in particular.

He has/had quite a few children, both from his wife back in Khar’shan and from various people he’d boned over the years. He made one failed attempt to be involved in the lives of his wife’s children but never attempted to become involved after that.

Ranara:

Ranara was 23 years old when she got pregnant with Nera

She wasn’t very intellectual and was unfortunately a rather poor judge of character on top of that and was prone to falling in love with people she probably shouldnt have

She was very charismatic, however, and was pretty good at using her charm and good looks (and oftentimes, yes, sex) to get what she wanted

She was also an excellent marksman, which helped as well.

Unfortunately this didn’t really help when it came to raising a child, but fortunately she was aware and willing to swallow her pride enough to try and get help from her parents (TOO BAD THAT NEVER HAPPENED LOL)