#thefirstsummoner

♥ - What does ‘love’ mean to them? 

It depends on what kind of love you are talking about. If you're referring to platonic love then yes - she now believes in it, and she now feels she can give it and get something back in return (there's always the caution and fear that she'll get burned but she doesn't like to think about it that much). She covets a particular platonic bond in general - the bond formed between soldiers - "brothers-in-arms." Having grown up in the army, that's the type of friendship she was exposed to the most. She simply could not partake in it however, because it was dangerous - someone was prone to use emotional bonds against her, so she kept quiet and kept to herself. But she now sees the Returners as her family, all bound together by their dangers and what they suffered. Just like soldiers in a squad or a full company would be.

If you're talking about the passion and romance type of love? Then she's infinitely more jaded about it. Celes has had a string of disappointments in love since she escaped from the Empire. And on top of that, Cid very much conditioned her and taught to be above this type of love, because should she pay attention to it? It would have ended her. It's unfortunately a sad truth for that time. Cid ironically saved her in that aspect while being horrifically emotionally manipulative about it.

I could give a very long essay/explanation, but basically? Celes doesn't think she deserves that type of love. She attributes it to her feeling that people don't want to deal with the darker parts of who she is, they don't want to deal with how much she loathes the parts of her that make her female, (particularly emotionally), and they don't want to deal with the fact that there are days where she doesn't feel human. That she feels she's merely going through the motions, and that everything will be all for naught in the end. (Then she remembers that by thinking this, Kefka wins and then she gets pissed and keeps on going - but that's another story).

♦ - What is one thing about them that they are most proud of?

★ - Do they prefer daytime or nighttime and why?

Celes has an internal alarm clock that prompts her to rise before the sun does. She finds this part of the day to be peaceful, especially in the dead of winter.

☼ - Something that/Someone who makes them happy.