29 & 32 for Bee and Avi!!
29. What are your characters' weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Control?
Bu'ycyar: Change, her indecisiveness, and desire not to Rock The Boat in relationships.
Change in any form is hard for her, being autistic, to the point her parents had to basically force her to wear new boots or better-built flight suits because she continually refused to change them herself. Rapid change of plans or situations can put in her a locked-up state, or if she still needs to fight/fly/etc, she'll shove herself deep into a shutdown, which later turns into a bone-deep exhaustion and a struggle to get back on track, or even a long cry session when she's got the space to.
She also struggles with choosing, especially when given a range of choices with no good endings possible, which can make her a target for the worst kinds of people in the outer rim. Often times she'll put herself in danger or harm in order to protect people who criminals have caught in the middle. Her family and even her trainers have gotten on her about needing to simply make decisions and to stop hurting herself for the sake of others, but she continues to, to her detriment.
With not wanting to Rock The Boat, she can run into issues concerning how she deals with conflict. She needs to tell people what her boundaries are, or what bothers her, but she's run into past incidents where the loved one reacted badly, and so she now struggles to address anything at all for fear that they'll react the same, or simply not change. She tends to see putting up with these behaviors as better than the pain of possibly hurting their feelings, but after several fights with Boba, she's grown to learn that sometimes, keeping your hurt from others ends up hurting them too.
Avigeya: She struggles with change as well, but far more with her expansive empathy and need for control.
She wants to help everyone, all the time. She can sense their moods and their hurt and their frustration, so wants to make it All Better. However, sometimes, you just... Can't. From the patients she can't save, to the people who won't let her try and help them out of bad situations (for their own variety of reasons), to the grief she feels encasing her when she realizes something is too big for her to fix.
Similarly, she needs control. When she can't control the world, she needs to control herself and her spaces. So a sparkling office, a clean and organized bedroom, books in their own sorted piles, plants cared for, all of it. The falling apart of any of these can show the cracks in her interior. (She... May have once had a breakdown over a plant wilting, with the core issue being a large load of grimly-injured patients in the last few weeks.)
32. How do your characters react to stressful situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively?
Bu'ycyar: Evasively for the most part!! Bee is very evasive if it's an interpersonal stressful situation, running around and playing therapist or surprise chores-doer for whoever is fighting around her, wanting to help everyone Take A Chill Pill but getting work or other stressors out of the way. Her voice even changes to a higher pitch and a softer tone.
In battle though, she moves into shutting down her stress to focus on the task at hand, occasionally moving to be aggressive or at least short-tempered. Get in her way and you won't be there for long.
Avigeya: Aggressively, but very guilty after. She's never cruel or harsh, but curt and quick to tell people to stop wasting her time with petty things when she's got an ER full of patients. She'll feel so guilty after, and offer apologies, but even if she gets forgiven for her tone, she still feels guilty that she couldn't keep her jedi-calm demeanor a little longer.
Toss me some OC asks from here!
