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[simone--baptiste]

Beep beep beep

9. A concerned text

To: Enigma

I heard there was an attack in the Court of Miracles today

You weren’t there were you?

17. A comforting text

To: Amant 

Fernand mentioned you had a bad day today

Want me to come by and make you feel better

16. A helpful text

To: Enigma

Tip of the day: leave me the fuck alone this whole week

You’ll regret it otherwise

[cptdubois]

✍ Never forget what you are

@captainemile

[chasseuseartisane-blog]

✈

everything’s perfect again

Dear Bert, 

I’m so glad things are better now. You deserve this, you deserve to be happy. So this is just a little note to say that our friendship means so much to me, but you need to stop focusing on the past and stop worrying about what has happened. 

Things are perfect, why read letters when you can go out and live? 

Don’t make me yell at you again. 

Don’t screw up. 

[wildernessinman]

Beep beep!

20. A rude text

[To: F. Baptiste]

You grew up in what they call the slums, didn’t you?

And you just stay there?

Surely you can do better?

12. An accidental text

[To: F. Baptiste]

why don’t french people drink good ale

where to find good ale in paris

best ale paris

Is this not the search?

[hasekuravalentin]

Why are you so loyal to a country that is not even your own?

Unlike you, I was born here. This is my country. I know I may blend in better in the country of my father, but France is the only country I have ever known. As for you, it makes me wonder if your supposed loyalty isn’t as certain as you would have your friends believe.

[fernandbaptiste]

Are you willing to sacrifice your sister for your cause?

She may not be my blood, but she is my sister. She is more my family than any stranger, even if that stranger is related to me. My success wouldn’t be success without her.

[mcvalois]

Are you still afraid that someone will finally release the truth about your son being a bastard?

Though he has many supporters, I fear even our combined strength would not be enough to keep my little souris on the throne. Where he rightfully belongs.

[herxtiic]

36/31/23

36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this?

Tristan is intelligent, but he is not an academic and is truly a ‘go with your gut’ kind of person. He’s not incapable of long-range planning, as seen by his decent playable skills at chess, but he prefers to be flexible and address issues in the moment as situations change on a dime in his line of work. He doesn’t really have an overall opinion on this, save for the thought that too much rigidity can backfire on a person in the often-chaos of Paris.

31. Is there anything that counts as a “dealbreaker” for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why?

He has a moral code that more or less aligns with polite society, but it’s a bit…flexible. For Tristan, intentions count, rather than just actions, and he likes to look at them before passing judgement. He tends to turn a blind eye to things such as pickpocketing by the truly needy, etc, and doesn’t demonise prostitutes (on the contrary, he often befriends them, as they are fantastic for news.) However, he takes a very, very dim view of anything like domestic violence or anything that may harm a child. Usually quite neutral, he’ll step in if he can to prevent incidents like the above. On the less dire side, his day goes smoothly when he feels like he can trust the people around him. Spending hours in the complex and often-hidden emotional world of Tuileries is very frustrating and draining for him.

23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult?

Tristan tends to be formal and neutral in a difficult social moment with others of his class, although his natural sardonic tendencies often “slip out.” He doesn’t like having to pretend to be other than what he is, or having to conceal his true feelings, and finds doing so quite challenging. He’d rather break bread in the Court of Miracles than sit at a banquet in Tuileries.