13. How do they feel about traveling in the realms? (Nervous? Excited? Other?)
“Alert. It’s a complete new dimension to explore, so while my curiosity was really piqued, we had to keep an eye out for each other and for possible dangers... and not lose Scout.”
“Danger and alertness aside I had a great time, I know it doesn’t seem like it because I plan even the days I won’t do any planning, but I do enjoy my adventuring and my troublemaking. I can’t take myself that seriously.”
“I also really want to understand how they work and test their limits, so.”
“Would love it if we didn’t run into any wyrms like ever again. Those dudes? Not chill, they’re not shaped like friends.”
“I want so see more of them, too. As long as neither Luci nor I get eaten by one of those things, or something else happens, this is gonna be one hell of an adventure and I want to see where it takes both me and us.”
22. Are they scared of what they have learned? Of the powers they have developed?
I’m not gonna reply in character for this one so I can just do some analysis of my own characters lmao.
Anatole is not. When it came to Julian’s trial and the fact he was being prosecuted for a crime he didn’t do, and an innocent man was just going to be hanged is something that ties a lot with Anatole’s motivations and world-view. He is not only v forward/progressive/radical/leftist in thinking and politics, but for all his logic and strategy he is incredibly compassionate. While he doesn’t think Julian scores very high on common sense or self-preservation, he does see him as a person who did everything for a city that wasn’t even his own but he seemed to love anyway. Julian loves Vesuvians and Anatole understands that.
As the apprentice part of Anatole’s arc as a character, is how while some things about him are obviously different, who he is at his core found a way back to him, because that is his most distinctive trait, his biggest strength and his biggest weakness: Anatole cannot be anything but himself. So the incredible amount of love he has for Vesuvia is something that pulls through in him, and it’s one of the things he has the most in common with Julian. Nana and Julian, in a Consul timeline would be so incredibly powerful — while they would be less able to travel, they’d know they have the possibility to help the city so much.
And in terms of Anatole’s development in magic, he would not be afraid of it, and would look for ways to achieve his “full Fool potential”. He is very ambitious and very dedicated to learning, and not to self promo but! in the Dreamers of Impossible Dreams drabble you can see Anatole going:
Later, when the Countess of Vesuvia tells him she’s been seeing him in dreams and that is how she knows he has her answers, he believes her. Anatole too dreams of people he doesn’t know, but whom he knows hold his answers. Or more than his answers, the right clues for him to finally finish his puzzle. Whatever he’s gotten himself into now, he knows deep knows he will not come out of it being the same.
So yeah. Before the game Anatole knew something more had to be around. Again, considering he cannot be anything but himself, even if he didn’t remember who he was, Apprentice Anatole has all the will to be great and the awareness of his capacities Pre-Game, educated for Statesmanship, Anatole had, but without the family tensions, so he’s way less anxious about it. So while he needs his stabilities and securities as a Virgo Moon, it should never be forgotten Anatole is a scorpio, and his main business is Rebirth.
Leonore doesn’t know yet that he died. But knowing how Leonore is, I think he’d be a little taken aback, and would go quiet (uncharacteristic for him) but will be okay about it. Nobody has taken care of him like this since his family so he’d be so incredibly grateful towards Asra. Leonore loves being alive and being in the world, and for him to actually engage with Vesuvia during the plague, when he could’ve just left. Leonore acts like an idiot a lot of the time, but Leonore isn’t actually likely to put himself in mortal danger on purpose. Staying during the plague is putting himself in such a position.
It probably also means that he told his family, and his family supported him. Because when Leonore doesn’t know what to do, he asks his family. He knows (knew) his six other sibling and his parents will be there for him.
He’s not scared of Lucio at all, like, at all. He’s not even “hm, should be cautious” because he trusts his instinct and he is way too curious for anything to deter him. While he’s adamantly uninvolved in what is not his business, Nadia asked, so it’s sort of his business, AND he’d do anything if it promises to be interesting. If it stops being interesting to him or worth the challenge, he’ll just drop it.
So in summation: I don’t think he’ll be afraid to realise he died, I think he’d be taken aback with the realisation he cared that much to take such a commitment, in a scenario where he was most likely to die alone and unremembered; that then Asra proceeded to honour their friendship and come back, bring him back, and give him his freedom to make his own call re: the goat despite everything. That means so much to Leonore. He’d probably also want to know what he’s capable of now, I began devising Leonore before the Lucio route began, and his strong footing re: magic was enchantments and blood magic — I’d like to think that’s why Asra was teaching him, because it was his magic.