#cha:cerise

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13, 21, 38, 44, 45, 59, 69 for arcis. 13, 31, 59, 60, 61 for cerise.

hi meg.

arcis

13. what are some motifs you associate with them? did you intentionally bring in those motifs, or did it happen over time?

the whole snow and ice and fur thing was pretty intentional but i have leaned into it more than i necessarily expected to. the precise, complex fractal patterns that you get from snowflakes or ice on windowpanes is what i think of most especially. she's started developing just a little bit of a wolf motif in my head too which i did not expect but do like a lot and should lean into more.

21. do they have an idea about how they’ll die? do you?

yeah, she thinks that knight guy who stabbed her when she was in the necklace is going to kill her. classic bit of hubris, she sort of thinks nothing in the dungeon COULD kill her other than the powerful memory/dream knight. i am decently optimistic about her survival, but think that if she is gonna die it'll be because we get surprised or ambushed in a small space. this party is so weak to ambushes and deprived of my ability to get around the corner? yikes. fortunately with arcis i've finally built a character where pretty much any death she can have is poetic and satisfying. any death is dying for her goals!

38. do they see themselves as an important part of their party?

yes. next question.

44. what lies do they tell others?

she really doesn't lie that much! she talks up her/her party's competence and importance a bit, but also she does think quite highly of herself and them. she makes promises that she's not sure she can keep, but then she does TRY to keep them. i think maybe the biggest direct lie so far was how absolutely she intends to fuck over the rat king at the first opportunity. and the whole prospero situation.

45. what lies do they tell themselves?

answered for mer!

59. what’s an element of their philosophy that you disagree with?

sob. so much of it. the biggest one i have trouble with is that she's much more callous about human lives than she should be, which occasionally trips me up in roleplay scenes--i have SO much trouble being arcis talking to uoser, and idk what i'm gonna do if she ever has to interact with the master's hands. she's not totally heartless, but she just sort of puts "number of people who might die" as one factor that she weighs along with all the others

69. what’s one secret they don’t want getting out?

feels almost too easy but: true name !

cerise

13. what are some motifs you associate with them? did you intentionally bring in those motifs, or did it happen over time?

i feel like “blood” and “bones” can’t count as motifs but those. and then there are the ones that come automatically with being a cherry tree person, leaves and blossoms and cherries and wood and all that. lightning i did on purpose from when i built her spellbook, but i think it only sort-of worked--she should have just been a fire character, but we were already cursed so i was trying to get away from it. in the crop novelization she’ll have fire magic. although really her most aesthetically correct spell was guiding bolt imo--there was something going on with silver light as a motif, which was accidental, just out of a contrast to cami’s gold. but like, moonlight, starlight, etc was definitely SOMETHING. i also associate her a lot with clear water and with rain.

31. do they respond well to praise? how about criticism? 

no to both, honestly. she was very suspicious about praise, either assuming someone wanted something from her or just dismissing it because of her own self-hate. she only liked/accepted it when she could take it as “oh this is something that makes me valuable to others, got it”. and criticism just made her double down alskjdflskjdf she’s too stubborn

59. what’s an element of their philosophy that you disagree with? 

yikes! she was Not in fact responsible for the safety of every single one of the sorcerers--or like, she was, but she did that to herself, she didn’t have to. she also had this reverse ends justify the means, where if bad things happen because of what you do you were wrong to do what you did, thing going on and i don’t necessarily agree with that either.

60. what do they have faith in? what keeps them believing? 

a better place! in the middle of everything there was always just that sliver of a chance that she could be free and safe again and she held onto that shred of possibility like a lifeline, with a ferocious and stubborn determination to keep believing it existed. she also really believed in the Arborean people--this is why she trusted Papaye, why she trusted Esme, why she was holding onto hope for the god queen so late in the game, why she could have had SUCH a dynamic with the crimson knight if she knew what went down in uberta. even affected the way she was about the sorcerers--she believed that they wouldn’t betray her or turn on her, she believed that they could survive and heal and adapt and do their part to make what she was doing mean something. her late-campaign arc always would have involved standing on behalf of the Arborean people even as she did everything she could to take Salic down.

61. is there an in-game moment of theirs you think about and just laugh?

that one first roadtrip scene when cami and cerise were trying to figure out what the hell was up with auberon’s antlers! a bit ooc for her but also. it was really funny and makes me smile.

#man i miss cerise so much....what if i novelize crop :/ #happy cranniversary. #thanks meg good picks as always #cha:arcis #cha:cerise

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55, 66 for Cerise?

sorry to everyone for committing the crime of reblogging an ask meme and then not answering the questions until a week and a half later and the worse crime of not sending anyone any questions. in my defense there were literally events.

55. they’re seeing their greatest wish come true—what’s happening?

the bone armor is getting removed, i think. she was a character with a lot of wishes, some more impossible than others, but that one represented so many things--being able to trade away a short term advantage for long term safety, having control over her own body and magic, being truly free of rhest, believing she was going to have a future to safeguard. which is partially why she never acted like it was a priority, it was sort of a...once my people are safe and elliot's okay, THEN i can somehow get this taken out of me.

66. which fruit do they like most?

i don't even KNOW how to answer this for a crop character. ignoring the fact that sometimes fruits are people, like, raspberries or blackberries or boysenberries or something else that grows on a bush with a lot of thorns, something that she could have picked at the edge of the forest when she was a kid

#happy cranniversary i miss my GIRL #cha:cerise #ask game

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man but at the end of the day, the nice thing about playing cerise is even with something like this, as long as it works that means she was right,

#cha:cerise #c:crop #she has ALREADY started to click into thinking she did the right thing #or not RIGHT but the best option she had available to her at the time #it's another one in her sins she listed to elliot! like escaping rhest alone! like 'cooperating' with the mage! #the same box that the whole alliance with house anila will probably get stuck in! the 'if i was smarter if i was stronger #i could have figured something out but i'm not and i didn't and i'd do the same again if i had to.' #the category of things that as kes so astutely noted that one time cerise mostly blames herself for because that implies she HAD control #if the other sorcerers getting their tongues cut out was *her* fault then that means maybe next time she can be Better and can Stop It #whereas if it isn't her fault then she doesn't have that control and she really was just helpless and powerless #and who KNOWS what'll happen next time #which is a roundabout way of saying. man petal sure would have killed that woman if i didn't stop her-- #he sure was tasked with Bringing The Sorcerers To Pista and he sure will. do that! #and as kes once again so astutely said in my traitor channel 'you'd simply be absolutely entirely fucked'! #and. yup! we would be! i'm not even SURE what would have happened but ALL the options are bad. #cerise *can't* win a standoff against petal esp not with half her spells gone but she might have TRIED #or she might have gone into rhest survival mode and just tried to defuse the situation and keep her people alive and. #as bad as the current situation is that hypothetical one is SO much worse! #and so it. this sure was how the situation needed to be handled and. as long as this turns out okay. #as long as cerise's guess at what osmundo anila actually wants is right! as long as they actually stay safe! #if this WORKS if it achieves the desired effect then. it's still unforgivable but it's RIGHT! #i am thinking AGAIN about kobus 'those were the wrong actions but you weren't wrong to take them' and cerise ENTIRELY disagreeing #the ends justify the means not in the sense that the means were justified but in the sense that they had to be done #head in my HANDS. #apologies for the FLOOD of crop posts but in my defense jesus fucking christ was i put in a situation. #mutuals who do not know the situation feel free to ask about it oh Boy would i like to explain-- #i. man i really really love this game....i know it's obvious from the everything about me but all i do is open that server and go #'WOW i'm so lucky to be here....'

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AH just realized I think this is the first time that elliot's been the one to present a plan and have cerise just go "yeah, you're right, that's what we'll do." slamming my head into the wall.

#c:crop #cha:cerise #man she's so so so grateful for him right now. I'M so grateful for him right now. #there was a really fun effect the other night where i was just staring at that really brutal rp message about the shifted dynamic #reading it for the second time as i tried to figure out how the hell to go on #and then meg EDITED it to add the 'elliot walks beside his sister' line and i FELT it hit my heart-- #it. man. he sure is On Her Side #it's that like. steadiness that comes with being siblings. cerise and elliot certainly disagree-she just counterspelled him! #they were both snapping at each other! she immediately came at him with this harsh tone and he pushed her on her choices! #but at the same time he made it very clear that he's with her anyway #and it's. cerise NEEDED him to say 'go talk to monique and i'll talk to calista' #she's soooo good at bearing down and making Logical Next Steps but this was bad enough that she hadn't GOTTEN there yet #and i like. she kind of *needed* someone to be like 'go talk to them' #or she'd have feared their reactions enough to keep isolating at least for a while longer #and there's elliot! and he's on her side and he's not angry at her and he's the one to pitch damage control #and they still disagree and she's counterspelled him before and she'll do it again if she thinks she has to #but GOD she's so so so grateful to have him here. she's SO grateful. #and so she can let him see that she hates herself and she's scared and she doesn't know what she's doing! #even if just for a second she can let him see it! #because it's. that's her brother! that's what your sibling is for!

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made a little list for myself of all the times cerise has used her bone armor so i could get an idea of how much the runes have spread and. man. sometimes i think i play her as too stable,

#cha:cerise #it. the bone armor is so bad.... #it's so excruciatingly painful and it's so horrible and it brings up such traumatic memories...and she used it EIGHT times in uberta.... #she was only THERE for what? five days? six? #three times on november fifth ALONE headinhands.... #and i'm pretty sure it literally never helped! #she wasn't really getting attacked with attack rolls! the mob didn't attack her! the dragon hit anyway! #but she keeps. doing it! because it DID help a LOT while breaking into rhest! there sure were attacks that missed bc she had it up! #and it's a resource and it. unlike her magic the only controlling factor is whether she can handle it! at-will mage armor! #or at least that WAS true until recently #i can't do this now bc of the whole 'slowly killing her' thing but her plan originally for this road trip was the use the bone armor like #every fourth day or so #because its usefulness depends on her being able to use it and then immediately go into a battle situation #and she's worried that if she like. forgets what it feels like. she won't be able to use it effectively #but that's not worth it anymore now that she knows it IS a limited resource (that *she's* a limited resource) so! #anyway sometimes i look at my own character and i go 'jesus christ how is she this functional' #and the answer is always. she has to be! she has to be and so she is! #beloved. she deserves a break :( #i just think it's [emotion] that the only time she had a breakdown about the mage armor specifically was after talking to maximo #and it was the combination of...he sure is a wizard! she sure did have to sit there while he stitched up her arm! #AND he told her she was dying AND she had to use the bone armor...and she still only had a breakdown for five minutes....

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again i’m saying the crop situation is really really awful,

#cha:cerise #c:crop #idk if i have any more to say that i haven't already said here or in my private channel but. D: #she's seen that kind of look...she's FELT that.... #she knows what it feels like to fight back and to be hurt and realize there's no point in fighting... #and now here she is making other people feel like that! here she is using the lessons she's learned about fear and control! #because fuck dude if she doesn't use every tool in her arsenal and if those aren't tools too! #this sucks <3 #i've given up on trying to describe her interiority in rp but it's just. so so so much self-loathing and regret.

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crop for the past year has just been a steady cycle of me firmly telling myself that i can’t expect to save esme and i’m going to be so hinged about it when she dies and then throwing that all out the window as soon as i talk to her

#D: #i really care about her....i really want her to get a chance.... #and telling her to stay a prisoner until i can figure something out is. well. epic wins for character consistency-- #for cerise's established trait of Staying Trapped because of the fear of what would happen if she failed to escape and a searching #for the right moment and for an actual plan-- #and it'll be SO bad if this gets her hurt but it. jesus christ i can't let her get captured by arborea.... #and i HAVE ideas for how to actually give her a shot but none of them are GOOD and there's SO many factors at play-- #who's gonna get on call with me and work this out. placard emoji. #c:crop #cha:cerise

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i. man. we’re OUT....cerise got her people out of this city...she did it....

#MAN. MAN! #meg sent 'cerise can level up to level six' and i Burst into tears.... #shout out to evacuation by emily axford shout out to sons & daughters by the decemberists shout out to with our trouble by gabrille papillio #i. we're OUT we SURVIVED! #who knows what the fuck is ahead for them but. they lived past this!!!!! #another situation that should have killed them and they LIVED past it!!!!!! #i. man. man. MAN! #i have all sorts of thoughts about this and also about how fucking upsetting her last exchanges with cami and auberon are but #i...they're OUT! #over a year and they're OUT! #cha:cerise #c:crop

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really. feeling something about how at the point when cami and cerise had their first fight about cerise leaving the city, the "you don't get to pretend that this isn't your war" fight, cerise had dealt 85 damage in the campaign and camille had dealt 358.

#c:crop #cha:cerise #and ofc cami had been there longer but not THAT much longer #cami's 12 combats compared to 6 for cerise #and also ofc the damage tracking metric is not actually an accurate picture of combat usefulness in 5e #my lil spreadsheet does not account for cerise's counterspell keeping spirit guardians up a whole extra round or all the times sico's bardi #is what made someone hit or all the other ways that support actions affect the outcome of a combat #but even SO #it sure adds a dimension to cerise saying 'as if what i can do is going to make a difference against an army' #and to cami insisting that this is a war both of them need to fight #she sure is a knight! a warrior! she sure wasn't meant to be but has built herself into one! #she dealt 274 damage at rhest and the swore her oaths the next morning! #whereas cerise is at this point the only living character who's taken more damage than she's dealt #(something that I'm pretty sure will still be true when I've finished inputting the battles which. feeling REALLY 🚪about that!!!) #98 damage over the course of two battles in the two days preceding this conversation headinhands #and coming off the desperate loss that was three failed hold persons and a counterspelled counterspell against esme #even if cerise is *glad* by this point that esme lived that SURE was a sharp display of her own magic not being good enough #and two of those hold persons or the counterspell could have saved four lives. #so it's like. this whole source of conflict btw them *mostly* comes down to priorities where cerise places her and hers above everyone else #while camille is sworn to Everyone #and also to cerise's core fear motivation vs cami's idealism #but man if there isn't something to seeing all the numbers in comparison to what they both think their magic can do... #and i worry this post comes across as if im saying damage output is a good measure of combat usefulness. i KNOW it isn't. but especially in #a war game and especially in terms of how much you believe you can affect the survival of a city. its certainly SOMETHING

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man cerise talking to sico right now feels really insane,

#cha:cerise #it. man they have a dynamic of all time right now... #she doesn't know where he IS :[ she doesn't trust him she doesn't want to tell him anything but also. she does! #WEEKS ago (and months ago irl) they talked about a safe place for the sorcerers in floaroma! #but she thought sico would be WITH her she thought she'd have his HELP! #and instead he was. collaborating with the people she HATES! and SHE didn't get to hear his last speech to cami and fasach! #she doesn't know if he's STILL working with arborea! if losing his agricolan and floaroman allies would push him back to them! #she doesn't like. on some levels she and sico very instinctively understand each other but she also doesn't have the full #picture of his story like cami does or even like fasach did #but again always the. he didn't betray her! he could have sabotaged the rhest mission and he did the opposite! #and even now he's trying to help her!!! and she'll help HIM if she can! they're like. some of the only allies each other have GOT! #but man she's so scared... #that's WHY her last little sending was just the two words it's. she's SO scared...she's terrified she can't handle floaroma... #she was ALREADY worried enough about their safety and now she has to worry about some sorcerer-killer on the loose... #and so hearing the slight mirth in his voice was. man. just a reminder that she's not BUILT for this! #like she kind of *expected* it she *knows* he was always careful with what he said but like. still. #i do wish she'd have told him that she's glad he's alive tho. bc she IS but i forgot to have her SAY it #that's what i get for trying to rp at the grocery store #and there's also the meta-twist of me not wanting to drag him into a narrative he's technically supposed to be out of #the retired pc gray area #but anyway i think their little. information-passing alliance over sending here has the possibility to be Really insane... #that last little two-word response and then 'elsewhere a smile stops tugging at sico's lips' made me. well! #every single dynamic in this game sure is. it sure is! #man...out of the people who went to rhest with her it. sico a traitor and she's fighting with cami AND auberon and fasach is DEAD....

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also man. enough time has passed since uberta that i feel like i can say now. jesus fucking christ i’m so glad cerise wasn’t there,

#c:crop #cha:cerise #i. really think she'd be dead #fasach DIED! unkillable fasach!!!! and we almost lost our second-most tank-y and RANGED pc! #looking at some of those battles????? she had 37 hit points and 16 ac and only touch range healing! #i'd be feeling guilty about not having a pc there and then meg would casually say things like 'yeah allyr woulda charged cerise' #and i'd be like 'AH. I SEE.' #and. especially if her sorcerers were still there and we still lost she simply would not have made it out :[ #she'd simply have died trying to defend them! #or been captured i suppose meg didn't tell me how that all would have gone down but she sure wouldn't drink the fire even if she had it #and even beyond the 'she'd probably be dead' part i just am so glad she didn't have to see all those hybrids.... #AND all the arborean soldiers... #there was that one line about the regulars who hit maximo's trap in the cathedral battle screaming as they burned in the fire sphere #and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it. more arborean screams! and to fire too! #and those guys weren't deadmen or cannelle or hybrids or elites or even sergeants they were just. soldiers! #like cerise's brother's friends! like HER friends! like elliot if he hadn't've been taken to rhest instead! #and then. most of all the *unicorn*.... #a bigger part of cerise's functionality than she knows depends upon the assumption that hybrids are made of people who are Dead #it's why the dragon bothered her so much but he never ACTED like a person or a general around her #he didn't speak to her or even attack intelligently he just. tried to eat her. so she can go 'yes this is just a mindless monster' #and not have to deal with the fact that there was Something Else there #but the unicorn. man. #i think. to see someone else who'd been tortured by the mage and turned into an unrecognizable form #but still retaining some of their own sentience and some of who they were #and who was FREED from rhest but then somehow captured and hurt and forced to serve arborea again #well. i am very glad i don't have to figure out how to roleplay cerise seeing that. #she would have wanted it dead! she would have wanted the unicorn dead from the second she saw it #despite the fact that she herself would rather be captured than killed she would have wanted to and tried to kill the unicorn. #and she'd have stayed functional for the battle bc she always does but oh boy would it have had repercussions in the long term #but it's literally so fine!!! she wasn't even at the battle and she's literally so alive and doesn't have to think about the unicorn.

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really obsessed with cerise dirty 20 and then nat 20 for a 24 insight on petal, dirty 20 intelligence insight to know we're short on supplies, 17 intelligence insight to infer the political/war repercussions of a single statement, and then as SOON as she has to roll insight on her brother she has advantage and still ends up with a 12...so true avrae I guess....

#😬😬😬😬 #the way in which this is so consistent is. well! dice SURE have a story there! #cha:cerise #c:crop

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so many upsetting thoughts about cerise bouncing around in my little head so incapable of verbalizing Any of them.

#cha:cerise #c:crop #also keep trying to make posts and getting stuck bc i'm like. this should be cw-ed for Something-- #huge win for absolutely awful dice rolls feeling so absolutely in line with what the character is going through #huge win for having to work with people you don't like or trust #huge win for pushing through pain. #huge win for. Control. #huge win for the gaseous form spell. WOW huge win for that! #huge win for things being just reminisicent enough of the worst thing that ever happened to you #and sure this time you could Just Leave and that should change everything but. DOES it. #and sure it's ENTIRELY different but. you are who you are! #huge win for Holding It Together exactly long enough until you're alone and then giving yourself Five Minutes. #exactly five! her mind always tracks time! five minutes to condense All of that pain into #huge win for the parallels of two people who want so badly to live but have such a hard time believing they will #huge win for 'even the fleeting thought terrifies her enough to make her move again' being one of the Worst things i've ever writtten #and for that being absolutely one of the narrative connections to auberon's conversation with cami of all time #huge win for this for once being one of the kind of Bad Times that's going to make cerise actually seek out the ppl who care about her #because for once it's not guilt! it's not guilt it's just. trauma and memory and anger and hopelessness #and fear also. the number of times i thought to myself 'huh when you're playing a fear motivated character you sure do. have #to make choices based on that! you sure can't stand on principle!' #and a little guilt about esme maybe but #she still has the sorcerers here who she Did save or is Trying to save and. if she consumes her whole entire self to do it. well! #oh and huge win for consumption of the self really huge win for that. #every time crop has a scene Like That i'm just BUZZING with energy about it for like three days. i wanna play again let's keep Going--

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10 and 30 for marigold, 20 and 40 for cerise? Happy sleepover Saturday! 💕🌿

WOW marigold my BEST friend marigold...thank you :D

marigold:

10. When did their childhood end?

so at least THIS version of marigold is established to have been orphaned at a pretty young age, i think probably like 8? so in a lot of ways then :( but i also think that the older street urchins looked after her and made sure she wasn't ever completely abandoned, and so in some ways she was still a kid. and in those same ways she still is!

30. How does the sunset make them feel?

thrilled :D night is when exciting things happen! and night's where she feels most comfortable, sticking to the shadows, using her experience to her advantage. she loves to see the sun go down

cerise:

20. What did they dream of “growing up” to be?

:(! her like. BIG dream especially when she was little was getting to travel, which is really something because she sure is traveling now and she sure is just aching to NOT be doing that! i think she dreamed of being some sort of traveling messenger or a merchant or something like that. or even, especially after esme was taken, a soldier! but especially after her mom died she had sort of settled into the idea of just staying in her village, taking over the shop that she worked at, getting married, maybe having kids if the war really did happen and was over and arborea was stable and healthy....

40. What sets them free?

BOY i wish i knew,

i. yeah no really i think that the answer to this question is something the campaign is trying to figure out. magic, maybe. that's the closest i can get. magic or power, which are kind of the same thing, and definitely not love.

#ty pleading emoji #cha:marigold #cha:cerise #ask game

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something about cerise’s people trusting her implicitly and just how much fásach trusts her and the way even priya trusted her versus how much camille and auberon. don’t. 

#i don't know if i have more to this post raised eyebrow emoji #c:crop #cha:cerise #and to be clear i mean 'trust' in the 'trust to make good and wise and capable decisions' aspect #rather than the 'trust to be on my side' aspect #it's like. it almost can be something about vulnerability?? #the way in which her mask of competence was Perfect with priya #whereas a lot of the sorcerers have seen her at her absolute lowest--but not *recently* #not since she escaped really #whereas she's like. a little more emotionally vulnerable with the party #annnnd then i think it's also just that fasach is older! fasach has seen these things! they Get it! #i don't really stand by this part of it now i'm getting into 'psychoanalyzing other peoples' characters' territory #the contrast was just making me Really headinhands #liam get in here tell me how sico felt--

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9 for cerise and jess!

9. What are your character’s relationships like with every member of their party? Bonus, if you want to write a short blurb on your character’s opinion of them.

Cerise:

Kobus: a cool guy who showed up and killed a dragon and is friends with her friends! she actually really likes Kobus! i was so prepared to hard commit to not liking him for no reason (ofc i had reasons triumph emoji) but he answered some of her questions and he's protecting and helping auberon, something cerise has realized she Can't do, so. she kinda trusts them! especially since he passed the "didn't know about rhest until it was too late to do anything" test! she'd like to talk to him more, but, you know!

Fásach: cerise has a LOT of respect for Fásach and he's definitely the "party" member she trusts most. she doesn't approve of all their choices, but also a lot of choices that are perhaps less beneficial in the long term are directly beneficial to her, so. she also thinks he's unnecessarily reckless with his own life, which frustrates her, but which she also understands on some level.

Auberon: i...man i don't even know anymore....they used to GET each other!!!!! and i think she doesn't know what to DO with what ve said in that last fight i think. she expected cami to be mad she expected auberon to be on her side :[ i think auberon ends up being in a similar category as elliot in her mind, as someone who is capable and she can trust on some levels but is also a liability and needs to be protected.

Camille: sigh. they were like sisters! cerise loves cami very much and thinks she's one of the most genuinely incredible people she's ever met and cami has saved her and all the people she loves in pretty much every way and that hasn't changed. however, cerise also thinks that she's frightfully naive and is going to get herself killed before this war ends and there's probably nothing cerise can do to save her. so.

Jess:

Ted: 20 ac solidarity.

Cadence: Jess immediately identified Cadence as the heart of the party and was correct! she's only been with this group for like 24 hours but she already trusts Cadence the most, and therefore she really...wants Cadence to like her! wants to be her bestie! wants the confidence and security that she seems to have!

Zhill: Jess had NO idea what to do with Zhill at first but is starting to understand it a bit better now. Jess and Zhill operate on very different wavelengths but they both have a similiar like...ferocity to them, which is :] and is something that Jess both respects about Zhill and is also cautious of. she gets the sense that if Zhill decided she was a threat, she'd be screwed. so she's very invested in that not happening.

Reese: Jess thinks Reese is cute and thinks it's funny how easy it is to make her blush. also she's absolutely so baffled by her. what do you MEAN it's fine if your magic goes away? what do you MEAN there's no use worrying about things we can't know? what do you MEAN "all the best for everyone else" why is that where your mind goes? she resonates with the not wanting to be killed and she'll help her get rid of the fire spirit i GUESS but like. hello?????

Dasolis: okay so like. so the thing is. so sometimes you have one (1) level of sorcerer and thirteen (13) levels of warlock which you picked up a few days ago basically by being in the right place at the right time and which you KNOW are temporary but you'd be dead without. and then one of your new friends has innate magic so strong that it just bleeds out of her. there's a few different responses that can evoke and they're all insane and jess is feeling all of them at once!

#bri these are. so hard to answer. simply impossible to answer. #c:crop #c:domt #cha:jess #cha:cerise #side note 1: this made me realize that not having an Eye in arborea is probably why the Root didn't learn about rhest until it was too late #which is. upsetting! #side note 2: epic win for having that domt scene before i finished this! i already knew her opinions but #nice to get em in rp first :]