5. is there something they want to be known for?

In their city, a lot of people mistrust magic users or have grievances against them. Faine wants to help repair the rift between mages and non-mages: they listen to what non-mages have to say, try to help out people in the lower-class sections of the city where they have less access to magic, and one time had the entirely genius idea to leave their weapons behind when they went to an anti-mage gathering (spoiler alert: it was a terrible idea.)

In short, they want to be known as a magic user who cares about things beyond cultivating their own power.

10. what inspired this character’s creation?

Faine took me a while. When my friend talked about running this campaign, I initially planned to play a himbo rune knight. But I wasn't really 'feeling' that as we approached session zero. So I jotted down a bunch of vague concepts I was interested in playing, and 'drow bladesinger whose family split over this new anti-magic sentiment' was the one that most strongly captured my attention. The idea that they had a child they were trying to protect and that their brother almost killed them in a duel were things I only added in session zero, when we had to invent three rumours for our characters (two true, one false.)

17. they’re crying—what did it take to make them cry?

Faine doesn't cry easily. I think seeing their daughter Lydia for the first time in a couple of years would have done it, though! They care about her more than anything. Faine wears a locket (which doubles as a periapt of wound closure) that has a little portrait of her in it, painted by Lydia's artist mother.

For maybe two years Faine remained in their home city of Oakneath while Lydia and her mother lived in the capital (where the campaign takes place.) But now they have been reunited, yay!

Frostwarden

5. is there something they want to be known for?

Being a skilled defender of the less powerful! It's what the frostwardens are all about, and Frosty really wants to live up to that name.

9. when in their life were they most scared?

When they left home to travel to Strixhaven. It was a big step going out into this big college environment full of strangers, and they weren't sure how they would be received! In some ways this scared them more than the time some of their clan was disintegrated by a beholder...social anxiety woo!!!

19. what sparks genuine, unadulterated rage in them?

People being mean to animals. >:(

Grey

15. is there something that never fails to make them laugh?

T's terrible dress sense. A couple sessions back she was wearing a pink leotard and Grey, Klav and Oz were Mean Girl judging her. There was much snickering.

17. they’re crying—what did it take to make them cry?

Grey doesn't like feeling powerless. He feels that his whole life, he's been an instrument of some entity or another, never able to make his own decisions. The one time he's cried in-game, a ghostly psychic told him that he was an "attack dog [with] broken wings", and that his life would never be his own. He cried for a long while about that.

19. what sparks genuine, unadulterated rage in them?

People abandoning or mistreating their kids. He would very much like to see Linari's parents punished for casting this vulnerable young child out on her own, and poor Green-Eyes fell through the cracks and was lost in the domains because there was nobody who cared for her! His angelic guide wanting him to kill a child was also the final straw that pushed Grey into making a bargain to break away from the justice archon.

Hexaline

15. is there something that never fails to make them laugh?

Bubbles. She finds humour and joy in how they bounce about and pop!

18. what dish brings back the best memories for them?

Not really a dish but: chocolate was the first thing she tasted after she regained her sense of taste. She was so emotional about that she cried, chocolate will forever remind her of this, and also it affected her so much that now her teeth turn into chocolate when she pulls them out to turn into eerie tokens.

20. what attracts them to someone—platonically and/or romantically, anything counts.

He has changed the most of my characters! Except possibly Astrophelle. Bottom right, we have his original form as a protector aasimar (his eyes were silver when not all glowy.)

Bottom left is his current design, as a fallen aasimar. He serves Eberron's Devourer of Dreams, but after finding himself in Ravenloft the entity cannot reach him as easily.

And so, he made a bargain with Strahd to try and forge a new pact to free himself from his previous one.

Top left is him, but as an undead warlock. And top right was me experimenting with ideas for a dread form. I like that in his original form his wings were pretty and glowy, in his current form the wings are dark and bound by black chains when manifested (not pictured), and in this hopeful eventual dread form he will have wings that are no longer chained, but still shadowy and messed up.