🎭 What emotions ruled their Duviri prior to the executions starting?
🏃Did they escape Duviri with the same warframes offered in the quest? Or did they have a different choice in warframes
💣What was it like for them at the start of the year-long timeloop before they were close enough to The Hex to save them?
✉️How do they feel about each member of The Hex? How did those feelings change as they got closer?
🎭 What emotions ruled their Duviri prior to the executions starting?
The main day-to-day emotion that presented in their Duviri was Joy. Kepler has a tendency to repress and mask everything under happiness as much as possible... of course it doesn't last indefinitely. In which then Envy ruled the days for long stretches, before looping back over into Joy.
🏃Did they escape Duviri with the same warframes offered in the quest? Or did they have a different choice in warframes
They had a different selection of frames available. Their trio being, Harrow, Kullervo, and Ivara. Kepler ended up exiting with Harrow, and later coming back to pull Kullervo out of Duviri.
💣What was it like for them at the start of the year-long timeloop before they were close enough to The Hex to save them?
Rough. Kepler doesn't really get people as a whole. They also struggle with listening to others giving them orders. They're very much someone who follows their own instinct over listening to anyone else. They also didn't really understand masking as a concept particularly well yet... and actually reset early on in the year multiple times in order to perfect a convincing mask.
✉️How do they feel about each member of The Hex? How did those feelings change as they got closer?
Arthur: Really, really did not get along at the start. Kepler is highly cagey about their past and doesn't like how he would prod at theirs and then shut them down trying to ask him about his own. They struggled with listening to him as they often prefer stealth and doing things alone. They did eventually get closer, but it likely came after Kepler remembered their original goal [and some prodding from Eleanor and Aoi both].
Aoi: Found her comfortable enough when they started properly speaking, she was a lot easier to talk to and get along with without getting into their past. And she introduced them to many things they enjoy. After saving the Hex as a whole Kepler considers her one of their best friends, and spends a lot of time with her.
Eleanor: Also found her comforting enough! Though they had some similar issues to their problems with Arthur with her as well, they were easier to smooth over as both of them figured the other out. They would go to her with questions about things if they wanted a long chat, which they find intriguing and entertaining. Kepler trusts her as someone who has gotten more of a peek under their mask, and confides in her frequently. She is also considered one of their best friends.
Lettie: Getting along with her was also rather difficult at the start, inadvertently making Keplers goal to craft a mask suitable enough for interacting with most people a lot harder, because they didn't really understand how to work with her, and juggling learning that on top of 5 other people was a lot of energy. Eventually they did work through it after a lot of trial and error.
Amir: Found him fun at the start! Overestimated how much energy they actually have to handle high energy people, though. Drained their social battery pretty badly when they first properly started to spend time with him, resulting in them spending a day or two just locked into the backroom recharging. Kepler also took a while on figuring out how to navigate the more delicate conversations with him. They still don't spend as much time with him in person, but they'll talk longer over KIM, especially about games and programming as a whole.
Quincy: They struggled to get closer with him for a while. They didn't enjoy the constant need of transactional deals with him, Kepler is headstrong to a fault sometimes and doesn't like the idea of being bound by a deal to someone they barely know, and struggles doing them even with people they do know and like. It did eventually get better, and Quincy is one of the few people they do trust with seeing more behind their mask compared to a majority of the Hex, to the point where they asked him out, eventually.
