#tantalus locksmith

Though he's since joined the Priory and left Legion life, his nervous personality never really goes away after his experience.

And boy does he have a lot of skittishness and anxiety...

And an extra bit of lore about him that no one will really find out given situations...

I think Gaius is mostly impressed by Tantalus' tenacity and grudge-keeping ability, as well as lack of self-awareness?

Like, there's no reason for him to not be aware of Tantalus' sentence to the mines--I won't claim he had anything to do with it, given I've established his area at the time was more dealing with recovered AWOLs (ie if Tantalus had ever been caught...)--but he mostly just has much more important things going on than to pay attention to what he's up to.

There's definitely some level of respect to Tantalus for his desire to continue operating in/around the Legions as a mercenary, but at the point of canon where Gaius is back in the Citadel and acting as a legionnaire again, it's not really his business to get involved in.

"You won't escape me this time!"

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