Hard mode asks: 6, 7, 17, 25, 26 for Errol?
Character Development Questions: Hard Mode
6. Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?
Out of a typical month, Errol will have at least one nightmare 22 nights and not remember his dreams another 6-8. If he has any good dreams, they’re few and far between. In his good dreams, though, Errol tends to dream about being in front of a campfire or a fireplace and basking in the warmth. His good dreams don’t tend to be very active or imaginative (almost as if his brain saves the mental work of creating impossible things for his nightmares).
7. Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?
Yes. Oh you want me to list them? Well some of them are:
watching a loved one slip from his grasp
choking/being restrained by the neck
being endlessly chased by something he can’t turn back to see through the halls of his father’s private rooms
his mother’s eyes in places or faces where they shouldn’t be
the entirety of his seventeenth birthday
17. What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?
He had a simple wooden stick he would play with by pretending it was a magic staff and that he was a mage that could turn himself invisible and control the weather. Bartholomew broke it during one of his visits home as he disapproved of his half-brother obsessing over mages, good templar that he was. Errol’s still never forgiven him.
25. How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?
Errol suspects everyone and everything until trust is earned, and then never suspects anything until that trust is threatened or betrayed. He’s not naïve so much as desperate for something in his life to feel stable; he’ll ignore a lot if it means he can keep telling himself everything is fine.
26. How does your character behave around children?
Errol is incredibly awkward at interacting with children and will treat them exactly as he does adults, but he’s also incredibly protective of them and will go out on a limb to risk everything for a child (the way he wishes someone had for him when he was young).