Has your OC ever shared a secret in confidence and then been betrayed by the person in whom they confided?
Has your OC ever broken a promise to another person? Did they ever intend to keep this promise? What made them break it?
Oh oh oh, I love these two questions!! Thank you for asking!
Yes, Alaria has definitely shared something in confidence with a friend and then had them... ~betray~ her. Though, I don't think betray is the right word here. Hm. Brag about? Tease? Make fun of, maybe. After all she and Alphinaud have been through, she told him point blank she was proud of him after the Final Days had been forestalled. She told him, in the greatest of confidences, that she was proud to be his friend, that she admired what he'd done to help her, and that she probably wouldn't be here without him. But she forbade him to tell anyone she'd told him all that and expressly told him that if he told anyone she cried while hugging him afterword, she'd ring his neck. But what did that little brat do? Slipped the fact that HE'D made the Warrior of Light proud into every conversation to anyone who'd listen. When the story finally made its way to Alisaie (a whopping 42 seconds later), she stood from her spot and was very near to thwopping her brother upside his big head when Alaria pulled her by an ear to a corner of the room ("Ouch, ouch! I was only going to hit him a little!") and promptly pulled her into a hug and gave her much the same speech, tears and all. Truth be told, she's so proud of the people, the individuals, the twins have become that she doesn't really mind all that much that they both brag on the simple facts that she told them. If they tell anyone she cried, though, Alaria will deny it until her last breath!
So, I suppose in a way, she's broken her promise to her friends to be truthful about her past? She's not sure if that counts, but she feels as though she's betrayed them every day of her life that she doesn't confide in them. She wants to, very badly, but no matter what, she wants to keep them around and have them act the same way around her that they do now. Sometimes, she feels as though she doesn't have as much faith in them as she should. Because, of course they're her friends, and of course they would help her try to get her memories back, but she couldn't stomach the looks of pity, the disgust on their faces if they learned what happened to her as a child. Some might say she's having her cake and eating it too. They'd be right. But until she slips up, until the lies become too much, until she can't keep it in any longer, she'll continue on.
