#ask conroy

[the-littlest-kojin]

What’s Conroys threshold for shenanigans? Not like malicious things but more like pranks

Conroy has an exceptionally high threshold for shenanigans as long as they harm none and don't disrupt anything.

His brother is a prankster, he has a toddler, and he seems to have a penchant for students who cause trouble.

[the-littlest-kojin]

Well then, thanks for your help Prof. I gotta bail for … some… amount of time. Left a tip. I’ll hopefully round back at some point. -M.S

"Happy to help. Try not to make any mistakes you can't fix. My office door is always open."

[the-littlest-kojin]

all your OCs:

how hard is it for them to find clothes that fit? and if it's not hard, how annoyed are they that the clothes are never in the color they want?

Shio has a lot of difficulty finding things that fit. Even ignoring that she identifies as a Kojin, even by the standards of auri women she is shorter and more curvaceous than nearly any other. So she winds up either making her own clothing or getting it custom tailored - although finding tailors who do not get starstruck is a problem.

Gologa has the opposite problem - being an unusually tall and bulky Hrothgar means that most stores do not stock things in his size - most of his clothing is items that he owned prior to the fall of Bozja more than two decades ago. This is not really annoying for him, but does concern him about what he will do when those clothes eventually wear out.

Bril has a similar problem, with her musculature causing issues in finding clothing that is comfortable, particularly on her thighs. When she had need to go to Ishgard, she had to spend a premium to find warm clothing in a rush, and she gave up entirely on getting it in colours she liked.

Conroy is an interesting case in that he is a pretty standard size for his race - but he spent more than a decade of his life using glamours to appear as an Elezen, taller and broader than his actual appearance. This means that when people would gift him clothes, he would often be given attire that would fit the glamour, not in actuality.

[the-littlest-kojin]

Was wondering Prof, if someone strapped an explosive to a corrupted crystal , how big of a blast would it be? Better to use stable ones or is it not much better than the usual powder? -M.S

"So, first, as a professor at the Studium, I need to make clear that this is a hypothetical situation.

With that firmly in place, strapping explosives to a corrupted crystal may indeed increase the efficacy of your detonation. However, it is much more likely to make you sick. You run the risk of inhaling some corrupted crystal, and then you will become a case study for my class in aetheric corruption. Even if you keep your distance from the detonation itself, corrupted crystals are known for being unstable, which may cause early detonation or adverse effects upon being detonated.

If you are looking for aetheric means of increasing the blast, a more intelligent idea would be to use fire-aspected crystals, or even wind if you were to set them up intelligently enough.

Hypothetically, of course."

[the-littlest-kojin]

Your OC's house is suddenly on fire. What items do they grab to save? For any and all you would like.

Ava would immediately grab her wife, axe, and old Navy uniform, in that order, before racing outside.

Gologa and Conroy both would grab their daughters, too consumed by panic about them to care about literally any other possession.

Assuming Amis didn't die of smoke inhalation, she would grab whatever instruments were closest.

[the-littlest-kojin]

Next question Prof, is it possible to trace crystal explosions back to someone with the aether? -M.S

"So the field of forensic aetherology is not my speciality, but as a rule, yes.

Any activity involving aether leaves traces and those traces are trackable.

So in this hypothetical, do not create aetheric explosions.

Please leave it to experts - I believe my student, Statera Numen, is studying to become one such expert."

[the-littlest-kojin]

“Describe the place where they sleep” dealer’s choice for character

Conroy sleeps on a simple bed, on a loft, above his daughter's room.

At least, ostensibly.

It is more likely, if he is sleeping, that you will find him slumped over his desk in his office, face pressed into whatever work he was doing at the time, quill still held in his fingers and glasses askew.

[the-littlest-kojin]

What was Conroy's reaction when he first found out he was going to be a father? Was he scared? Had he wanted children previous?

Hoo boy is this one a complicated one. Strap in.

So Conroy had never previously given much thought to parenthood. It was never something that had consciously occurred to him as a relevant fact, and as such he never really had come to a conclusion on wanting or not wanting a child.

But the circumstances of Ahavael's pregnancy certainly did scare him. Throughout the entire first half of the pregnancy, she declined to tell Conroy that she was with child. This was during the lead up to the siege of Ala Mhigo, and as Ahavael - as well as both of Conroy's students at the time - were Gyr Abanian, there was no question that they were going to be at the siege.

And so the sun rose on the day that the Warrior of Light mounted her assault on the walled city, and Conroy Rayne watched his wife - who had been sick for months, who he had very good reason to suspect was pregnant, but who had insisted on hiding it from him - take to the battlefield, axe in hand.

That day, Conroy tapped into the Dreadwyrm Trance that he had learned for emergencies for the only time in his life, to prevent the Garleans from being able to reach his wife.

The next day, Conroy and Ahavael spoke to his Chirurgeon, a Lalafellin man named Omikhle, and he confirmed to Conroy that Ahavael was indeed with child, as he had suspected.

And Conroy, who had pushed himself well beyond his limits to try to keep his wife and unborn child safe, was lectured about being trusting and open.

So when he found out for sure that he was going to be a father, he was extremely scared - as well as hurt and ostracised by the circumstance. He was scared that life as a parent was going to be a string of being left in the dark and then trying desperately to do the right thing only to get blamed for it later.

But no part of that fear was about being a parent itself. Although he does not think he is a very good parent in any respect - he knows his limits and emotional health is not his forté.