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Rel looks conflicted, then exhales forcefully as the potion pushes him to actually answer. "Part of me wants to say yes. Part of me doesn't. I...breaking the tablet wouldn't entirely remove that structure. Even in a scenario where it would...look. Changing or removing some of that rigidity would, to me, be a good thing. But losing the structure you've built your life around is terrifying. It was hard enough for me and Nisha, and I know it's not quite the same, but to be the one inflicting that on others..."

Oh this is a Fun one askldfasdf :D Hmm...to give you a selection of a few folks from most to least likely, we've got:

Ever: if they ever get themself into a bit (which isn't that common of a thing), they're sticking to that bit. Not even necessarily because it thinks the joke's that funny, it's just bad at letting things go.

Casca: can and Will run a bit into the ground, but specifically in the situation where it's something she and the people she cares about find funny but someone she dislikes hates. If it's going to irritate the shit out of someone she doesn't care for, she is never letting that go.

Minei: will commit to a bit, but only with her sibling(s) and no one else.

Kerra: will stick to a bit, but not for extremely long at one time--more of a "I'll bring this joke back around again next week/month/etc. because I still find it funny" thing, if anything.

So I have eighty four characters right now, and I'm not listing them all so I'm assigning a group since one wasn't assigned in the ask! You're getting my asura.

MOST

Yappok

Whomstdve

Yalldntve

Tvelle

Bodacc

Vuisce

Illicit

Trella

Alvvae

Nixxte

Praxxie

Free space hours! :) You get Chieko, since she's running around in my brain at the moment!

🧠 : What is your OC’s most mentally attractive attribute?

By and large, she'll go out on a limb for what she believes is important and will stick to it, regardless of whether it's a thing that might seem silly to an outsider or not. Instances range from her insistence that she could and would keep a nearly full-grown river drake in her house as a child (which she did indeed do) to her determination to find out what happened to her friend Rose in Siren's Landing, even if she had to do it alone (which she also did).

💌 : How would they plan a romantic evening for a significant other?

Chieko way overthinks it and also goes way over the top. Tries to get as many fancy things as she can but also draws on any and all knowledge she has of what they actually enjoy. It's very sweet but is likely to be a bit overkill.

💐 : What is their courting style? How would they woo someone?

x2, coming right up! :D Used the random character generator and we have Tanza and Casca for you today.

For Tanza--considering how good Jormag is at whispering, I'm imagining an AU where her connection to them is a slight bit stronger, and so she's able to hear them from a young age, and, once they awaken, becomes their champion. There's versions of that canon where Tanza's still mostly themself but they've also been talking to an Elder Dragon in their head for their whole life. And there's versions of that canon that better fit the "mirror mirror" prompt, where Tanza's natural inclination to be personable becomes skill at manipulation, and Jormag is the one space she feels safe--the person who fears change becomes the champion of Mx. "ice fortifies, ice protects". Mirror!Tanza is terrifying in a sort of relentless way, if that makes sense. (And I don't like living in the brainspace of this AU so I'm gonna head out to the next one now als;jdfasd, which is...not really any happier but it's Different!)

For Casca--one of the things I find really interesting about her character is the fact that she and Weylon had similar weaknesses growing up, in terms of what would make them manipulate-able. They both really wanted to be seen as important and/or special, Casca because she felt she hadn't gotten the accomplishment she deserved for her skill and contributions, and Weylon for the same reasons (and because he grew up in the shadow of a father who was Very well-known in the legions). The difference between them in regards to that was a combination of Casca being less willing to trust people promising something like that, and also there just...not being people/groups around who could ever have promised her that in a way that she would have believed it. Gaheron's Flame Legion's treatment of women meant that she would never have even Considered joining, and the fahrar and the Legions had treated her badly enough re: her magic that she wasn't a huge fan of them either. All this to say, the two potential Mirror!Cascas that I can see existing are Wildly different. The first involves her being one of the few survivors/escapees after Weylon's betrayal instead of being captured, assuming the group loses Ari instead, and taking the "kill people to move up the ranks to deal with this problem" route. This Casca very much becomes a part of the Legion system while also being semi-chaotic as per usual. She's not...quite a dark version, per say, but I could see her making bad decisions along the lines of both Rytlock's and Smodur's at different points in the story. The second Mirror!Casca takes almost a polar opposite approach from a similar beginning. After losing the people that grounded her, she decides to be as much of a problem as physically possible for Literally Everyone Else. As long as she's recognized as someone to watch out for, she's okay with that. Flame Legion? Black Citadel? Renegades/Separatists? Treaty negotiators? All equally fair game.

(I absolutely would, thanks so much!! :D Have a snippet of Kerra making a Decision during EoD: )

I won’t leave you, Kerra says silently. If I can’t save you, I’ll be with you for this.

Warmth and sadness as deep as the ocean. Aurene is lucky, Champion, to have you. But you must—

Ankka fires.

Power, abrupt, uncontrolled and unstoppable. It eats, it tears, and it hurts, it hurts, it HURTS—

Soo-Won roars and thrashes. Kerra hazily feels her mouth open in a matching scream, sound ripped from her throat.

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Ooh, free spaces huh? You get...hmm. Tanza and Aysel! I feel like talking about my norn kiddos today :D

Tanza:

"You want to know about my backstory...why, again? Are you really asking about--" (She touches a hand to her chest, indicating something you can't see beneath her armor. She lets out a very short sigh.)

"I still don't know where that connection came from. Jormag wouldn't tell me--be vague and you can manipulate the missing pieces, I guess--but they claimed it had been there my entire life, and it definitely vanished when they died. My mothers would know, maybe, but thanks to Jormag's Champion, I can't ask them now.

"So, I'm sorry if I'm making your record-keeping difficult. I can tell you other things, if you want? I grew up in the Snowden Drifts; I'm technically still attached to the Vigil; I've dyed my hair...four times now, I think? I was--" (Their mouth twists.) "Never mind. I'll stop there. If that's all?"

Aysel:

"You want backstory?" (She narrows her eyes.) "Fine. Just keep your mouth shut about it, please and thank you.

"I had a brother. Colin. Technically he was my cousin, but that doesn't really matter. He was the one good thing in my life from the time I was five to the time I was eleven.

"His dad, my uncle, was a piece of shit, but my parents were dead and I had nowhere else to go. Colin was more trapped than I was. He'd never known anything different. I was the reason he started questioning what he'd been taught, I think--but he would have eventually, even without me. He cared too much."

(She's staring into the distance, not at you.)

"He covered for my mistakes. He was the only person who hugged me. He was the first person I told that I was a girl. And I don't know how much of that they knew--maybe they just thought he was weak--but whatever they knew, they didn't like it.