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(Durge asks!)

No such thing as too many, I love talking about Kyvir. I answered 20 here, but as for the others:

3. What would your Dark Urge consider to be their greatest skill? Is this accurate? His ability to pass completely beneath the radar. When he was younger (and more foolish) he hated how small and pretty and innocent he looked, but as he got older and grew out of that teenage need to puff himself up and look and act tough he realized that not only was he a lot happier leaning into the soft and pretty thing, it meant that even on the rare occasions when suspicion fell on him he was usually dismissed immediately as a suspect. Similarly, when he's on the hunt for prey or trying to charm someone into giving him something they always underestimate him. And it's not that he doesn't stand out! It's just that he comes off as... y'know, your standard pretty, foppish, somewhat overconfident bard. Not a killer. There are other skills that you could argue are greater than that, but he's not wrong in his assessment.

Thank you.

This is cruelty, I hope you realise. Cruelty and bullying.

Thanks for the ask, Kellan! Questions from here.

The Star: When things get dark, what gives Rook hope? The reminder that he's part of a larger whole and not doing this alone, usually. Growing up in House de Riva (and especially growing up as Viago's favourite) he got used to being part of the Crows' family. If he was afraid he'd fail, he reminded himself that even if he did there were always other people to take over! ...Don't think too hard about how failure actually ends for Crows, I never said it was a healthy outlook. On a less unhealthy note, Viago going out of his way to train him and get him the best teachers available for the things he couldn't help with taught him that he could rely on the people around him for things he couldn't (yet) do himself. Yes, somehow Viago de Riva of all people taught this kid the power of friendship and love. Anyway this goes double for Percy's time with the Veilguard, which is significantly less likely to kill him for fucking up; knowing he has friends and allies to turn to even when things seem hopeless really keeps Percy going when he might otherwise have given up. (This is also why getting exiled from Antiva pre-game and being tossed into Fade jail hit him so hard; turns out that when you look to your loved ones to give you hope finding yourself cut off from them possibly permanently is... not good.)

(Questions from here!)

10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them? I don't remember if I've mentioned it on here, but Percy's parents tried out that superstition for getting rid of magic that was mentioned in Chateau d'Onterre back in DAI (where you drown the kid in the hope that the magic will die before they do); after his parents did that a couple of times, Percy pretended that it actually worked and tried to hide his magic from them on the assumption that things would go back to normal if he was "normal". Unfortunately he couldn't keep it contained forever, and keeping it locked away like that just meant that when it started slipping out of his control it was a bit like popping the cork of a champagne bottle. It absolutely haunts him; a part of him is convinced that if he'd sucked it up, accepted he was going to the Circle and been honest about the fact that his magic was not in any way going away he might not have killed anyone when he lost control in a panic.

39. How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people?  It depends on the person. He's usually pretty good at noting flaws and moving past them but if he already doesn't like them he tends to find it extremely difficult if not impossible to do that second part and with some people he can be totally blind to their flaws (that's mostly just Viago though).