#also for giving me more space to think about pliarr

[kerra-and-company]

🪤💎⚙️ for both Pliarr and Cioffi

Sibling asks hours!! :D

🪤 MOUSE TRAP - what will always lure them into certain danger? a loved one in danger? a promise of something they are always searching for?

For both of them, if they saw the other in danger, they'd absolutely jump in to help even if it was objectively a terrible idea.

For Pliarr, even though he's an expert on mesmer magic, you'd have a surprisingly easy time tricking him with an illusion of his parents if you knew enough about him to play that card. (You'd also probably be dead pretty quickly after that, but hey, just said it would work, not that it was a good idea!)

For Cio, putting Ari and/or Taimi in danger would lure her right into the danger with them, for sure. On a related note, to this day, part of her's still mildly irritated that she wasn't the one to kill Joko.

💎 DIAMOND - how rich are they? can they live the lifestyle they want to?

Pliarr has enough money to get by--base Whispers agent salary plus some extra for being a specialist--but definitely isn't rich. Luckily, he's really only ever wanted to be comfortable money-wise, so that's more than enough. (Side note, I was trying to figure out what rank/title he'd have in the Order, and I think it'd be Slayer.)

Cio has a smidge more money than her brother thanks to the higher rank she held in the Pact as well as her tech/weapons store that she now runs, as well as her being one of the lesser known experts on dragon magic. And that's plenty for her too! As long as she can get by without having to return to active Pact service, she's happy.

⚙️ GEAR - what are your ocs thoughts on science & art? which do they give more importance to? how much value do they place on each?

Ooh, interesting question!

Pliarr, especially in the years since he's left Rata Sum, puts them on pretty equal footing. He sees them as things that overlap in a lot of ways and doesn't think that either of them are worth less than the other. He himself isn't a particularly skilled artist, but he loves listening to music and seeing art that others have done, and he's also happy to discuss new scientific discoveries/projects with others (assuming they really want to discuss more than they want to brag about whatever it is they've done).

Cio wouldn't say this unless you directly asked her, but she does put slightly more value on science than on art. She sees it as essential to understanding the world and beautiful in its own ways, and she has fought and will fight for everyone to have the opportunity to learn it. She definitely doesn't think art is worthless, though. It's more...that's a lovely thing, and it's important as both self-expression and for morale, but it's not so much her zone of expertise, so it falls a bit lower in the ranks than science. She sees it, in her mind, as a slight difference between important and essential.

#gw2 #pliarr #cioffi #dasozelotvonnebenan #thanks a bunch for the ask! :D #on the last point--cio'd never be an ass about it but that Is what she thinks #and that was super interesting to me because i'd never thought about what her answer would be to a question like that #until literally just now #learned a new thing about my kiddo; thanks for that :D #also for giving me more space to think about pliarr #and the fact that he serves to some extent as an assassin for the order #cause that's a hell of a thing

[kerra-and-company]

Hi there! Could I request 🌼🌈💧🌲 for Pliarr if that’s alright?

From @commander-coppercogg

That is perfectly all right! Thanks for giving me a space to talk about/develop him more; he deserves it :D

🌼- What's your favorite thing about this oc?

I give a little bit of myself to all of my OCs. Sometimes it's on purpose, and sometimes it's by accident. I just realized that one of the things I gave Pliarr is the fact that he's skilled at things (in his case, being a mesmer), but a decent-sized part of him truly believes that he isn't. That might sound weird to pick that as my favorite thing about him, but he helps remind me that I can do things that the piece of my brain that's depressed/anxious/self-doubting/whatever doesn't think I can, and I appreciate that.

🌈- What does this oc like and dislike about themselves?

Lots of things on both ends, haha, but to pick one for each: He's proud of his sense of humor. He can always make his sister (and later his friends) laugh, and he credits himself with teaching Cio sarcasm. He dislikes that he can't let go of people. No matter how much someone he cares about hurts him, he'll be tempted to forgive them.

💧- What is this oc most passionate about?

Most passionate about? Hmm...his job, which is both good and bad. He's a Whispers agent through and through, even once the Orders join together to form the Pact, and he's very dedicated to solving the dragon problem. There are a lot of reasons behind that, ranging from the big idea that he wants to make a safer world to revenge for the loss of his parents to seeing this as a way to make up for the fact that it is in part his magic that made life different for his sister. But the end result is that he's dedicated more to his work than anything else (barring his sister), which is a bit lonely, as well as an odd and somewhat backfiring form of self-defense.

🌲- What is this oc's greatest strength and weakness?

Pliarr is excellent at reading others, which comes a bit from natural skill and a bit from training. It's a big advantage when it comes to spying, which is of course why it was part of his Whispers training, and it's also a skill he shares with Kerra (though their skills come from slightly different sources). However, where she tends to see the positives in others more than the flaws, Pliarr tends to see the flaws more than the positives. That's a great strength when it comes to finding ways to take people down, but it's a huge weakness when it comes to his ability to trust others. It's also partially why it's so hard for him to let someone go once he's let them in.

#gw2 #pliarr #commander-coppercogg #thanks a bunch for the ask! and sorry it took a couple days to answer! #*sings 'my brain is mush' * #but anyways! #hope this all made sense and you enjoyed learning some things about him! :)