#robin the apprentice

Pronouns: they/she/him

Familiar: Carrot the european robin

Birthday: 25 may

Height: 5'6,5''(169cm)

Favorite color: ochre

Favorite season: autumn

Fashion sense: boho baroque

Sexuality: Demisexual

Self-insert level: aprox 35%

Robin is a confident and friendly magician. Curiosity and need to be interested, entartained and involved are their key qualities alongside with how stubborn they are. However they find it hard to read people and get attached to them. That never helped making a lot of connections. It leaves Robin having a lot of familliar friendly faces around the district, but very few close friends. Robin is hardly ever bored, they enjoy keeping their aunt's magic shop and providing townspeople with whatever household magic tricks they need.

Resurrection made Robin change from the way they used to be. They lost colors in their appearence and became less loud and superficial. They feel urge to remember themselves again, to get all the pieces connected, but they are also afraid of failing to connect to their past self. Robin became a quiet observer seeking to find hidden truth in details.

Robin likes: nature, traveling, playing on words, working as a shop keeper, doing any sort of fortune telling, learning and discovering new ways of magic, collecting trinkets of all kind; calm people, hot drinks, sunsets, abandoned empty locations like ruins or dead cites; finding traces of ancient or hidden magic in places and objects; music and dancing.

Robin dislikes: too many rules and prohibitions; being told what to do in a humilating way; having somebody make important decisions for them; people who are mean and fast to judge; not being able to find a solution; giving up on people, ideas and objects.

Day 2 - LI and their relationship

Asra is Robin's one and only love interest. I could only see the rest of the routes as friendship routes for Robin.

Their relationship is sweet and caring partnership in crime.

Their connection grew slowly throughout time. Journey from strangers to close friends took them a number of years. Robin was surprised to see Asra coming back to spend time together over and over again, but it was a pleasant surprise obviously. They found themselves the most relaxed around Asra. They bonded over their light playful tempers and shared fascination with magic and it's mysteries.

Asra was the first person who choose to be near all the time and Robin welcomed him naturally. Being on their own was fine to Robin. But finding a friend like him made them realize how meaningful connections can be. Robin started to care more about townsfolk and neighborhood habitants to the point that when the plague came, Robin could not stay a bystander.

After resurrection Robin only saw Asra as a friend and teacher. While appreciating his supportive and patient attitude, Robin desired autonomy. They were eager to learn doing everything by themselves. Asra made everything for Robin not to feel like a burden, but they still wanted to do better, to feel better and to make him proud.

By the timeline of the game prologue Robin started to feel mixed feelings. They were proud of their own progress. Never since they remember themselves they felt as confident as now. And at the same time they noticed Asra distancing himself a lot (I believe it happened because the more mc became resembling the old self, the harder it was to contain his emotions but its my tiny little hc). That was the first time Robin realized that instead of needing Asra's help, they missed his company. Now that they did not need to hold his hand to stand and walk properly, Robin realized that they missed the sensation of his palm in their in a different way.

So they started making steps towards Asra, completely unaware of his true feelings. The way how eager he met them midways was another surprise for Robin. And slowly uncovering his secrets through the route made them fall harder for this person.

First colors I chose for Robin were warmish shades of grey to represent ashes that they rised from and golden-yellow for their eyes just like the flames they died in. Their collors changed to these less naturall shades after resurrection.

Here are some edited portraits from art breeder of Robin before and after they died.

Their favorite color soon became the yellow ochre, a deep clayish color and also pretty similar to Robin's symbolic bird's colors. And then every pallet that has such color in it is a good inspiration to make something that would suit Robin.

I dug a lot in old fashion magazines for my uni, and Im terribly in love with 80s silhouettes.

I would cast this person to play live-action Robin 😍

To sum up Robin likes loose pants and blouses, puffy sleeves, high-waist bottom clothes. They like layering so it's vests, overcoats, belts, scarves, cloaks. Also hey prefere embroidery over jewelry. They have their ears pirced and they have a few pairs of earings in collection.

Day 9 Familliar

"Carrot" is just a silly little name that Robin gave to a species of tiny little birdies they have been meeting in a forest since they were a child. Qute a lort of them lived in the area. Robin was surprised to keep meeting one particular bird even after they moved to live and learn magic in their aunt's shop.

Carrot is non-tamed animal, brave enough to approach and get fed but not enough to let people catch or hold her. She can sit on a hand, head or shoulder, even nest there as a sign of her highest affinity but does not like being touched.

Carrot is nesting in a well hidden spot of roof space of the magic shop. She is very protective of her nest.

Faust is educated not to attack Carrot (orange friend), but Carrot is always cautious of Faust and flies away the exact moment Faust's tiny had pops up.

Carrot only shows up on rare occasions such as Robin feeling unwell mentally or physically. She also appears in anticipation of upcoming truobling events starting from bad weather up to dead evil count being resurrection on a masquerade night, if you know what I mean :'3

Carrot's singing is very musical and has a a healing cheering effect on Robin and those who listen carefully. Robin can hear her voice from longer distances.

Day 10: Patron Arcana

(pure headcanon, don't address me on that, i don't know what I'm doin 🥲)

Robin's patron Arcana is The Fool. The Fool is unlike any of other patron, he has his own ways of existence. He's null and complex at the same time, which makes him beyond reach of any other Arcana. The Fool is more a power and a concept than a particular person or character, and he does not have his estate in magic realm - no limits or borders exist for him. However there is Scout, a associate and guardian of The Fool and they are believed to hold part of his powers and to be the last frontier keeping The Fool safe and under control.

Robin is in a compete awe over Scout. They think Scout is the prettiest cutest creature but always treats them with respect as a magical being should be treated. They understand each other pretty well.

Day 10: Relationships to the other arcana

Robin has not been close to any of the arcana in person. They listen carefully to what cards whisper when they make readings and tryed to be polite to the deck. Asra taught Robin everything they know on tarot(he had to do it twice, oouf). But these always were more of a relationship with the deck itself. The instrument of a magical art created by Asra coud show character. But when it chosed to speak - it was with clear and deep voices of the archetypes.

Number 1: Muriel

- Especially not you.

If not for Asra, they would never get any close and here is why. Robin's tolerance to rejection is slightly low, and they value other people's boundaries. So after Muriel asks Robin not to approach him, he would not ever have to ask for the same thing again.

I believe(and hc) that Muriel is very cautious of mc after they were brought back to life. He watched Asra become frantic in his research to resurrect his love. Asra explored darkest witchcrafts and even worked for Lucio. I believe Lucio was bond to mc through the ritual that Asra sabotaged, and instead of helping Lucio's cure it brought the mc back to life. The so called mc could have been evil version of themselves, posessed, or take after Muriel's worst enemy. No wonder Muriel was so cold to mc at fist, hostile even.

However thanks to Asra's effort ice cracked and Robin and Muriel gradually went friendlier with each other. They communicate through small gifts. Robin likes to gently guide Muriel into owning more things, and Muriel woodcrafts trinkets in return.

Number 2 : Nadia

- Milady the Countess

- Magician

My first impression of Nadia and the way she was in old version of the Prologue were quite different from the way the game is now. Just for a note - Robin would politely decline gifts and clothes change, because they find it unnecessary and also are quite satisfied with what they have.

Robin is always a little intimidated by Nadia's powerfull and alluring presence. Even though they see her as a friend, they can't help the gap that is between the two of them in their origins and manners. So they feel more comfortable adressing Nadia in a very formal manner. And even after the in game events made them know and understand each other more, from time to time especially in public they keep playing their game of fake formalities to great mutual amusement.

Now that devs made Nadia slightly less fond of her own statuts, it's different, because now it feels to me that Nadia would seek for a more casual friendship, and Robin would feel hard to deny that to her. But I believe Nadia is still capable of respecting and valuing even a formal connection, so I'm leaving their relationship with Robin as I imagined them in my very first playthrough.

Number 3: Lucio

Robin is not Lucio's greatest fan, because almost everyone they know were seriously offended by his thoughtless and selfish acts. So no, they are not friends and they would hardly ever hang out together.

However, when Robin has to deal with him long enough, they catch themselves on seing through his bravado and hey feel sorry for who they see. Surprisingly they also feel a tiny hint of bitter fondness, because of how hard he goes into foolishly denying his own misery. That is because they see something of themselves in him. Through tarot perspective Robin sees themselves as The Fool Upright archetype and Lucio as The Fool Reversed archetype.

That slight difference in attitude does not go unnoticed by Lucio, he likes being genuinely liked and can take any sight of sympathy for that. Some might even say that he gets a little more docile around Robin, but it's not true, at least not more than he is around Portia.

Number 4: Julian

I think Jullian and Robin share a very tender friendship.

Even though Robin has no memories of their apprenticeship, Jullian does remember them by the end of the main story and Julian is eager to rebound again. Robin and some other volunteers worked days and nights to serve sufferings of patients in the Red Plague period. That were the hardest times full of grief and despair, but here they both are now - still alive and well. It makes Julian sentimental from time to time. Robin enjoys Julian's rowdy goofy side as much as his gentle and poetic one and they make shure he does not blame himself on anything.

Number 5: Portia

This duo is a definition of trouble. They both seek adventure and discovery. Pasha is happy to have an excited comrade, to feel trusted and recognised by someone as cool as a "real life magician". Robin willingly and performatively passes Portia the much desired role of a main heroine in each of their shared adventures. Robin's own curiosity is much more focused, and put together, so Portia's excitement and energetic approach is part of the fun and shift in moods for Robin. These two curious cats sneaking around is always a sign of something special happening.

Day 4 - Relationships with courtiers if any.

I'm afraid Robin agressively avoids having any business with them ever since the introduction that was arranged by Nadia.

They might enjoy getting into argument with Valerius, because of the sight he is when his composure cracks. But the rest of the court give Robin chills, and Valdemar is the most chilling one.

Day 5 - Outside canon and minor character friends.

Robin was once pretty close with their eccentric aunt, but I'll leave that until day 17 :3

They also have a huge platonic crush on Nafiza, and enjoy her vibes and looks. The feeling is not very mutual, and these two never went further than a couple of small talks.

Day 6 - Rivals or ennemies