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[drxmbeat]

15 !

character development questions

15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?

OH BOY WELL ISN’T THAT PANDORA’S BOX.

Beat considers herself fairly practical, and that’s certainly true on a day to day basis. She also considers herself perfectly fearless, which is not. The biggest question mark in Beat’s life is Fennyl - her comrade, elder brother figure, the only person she let herself get close to in her whole life. The man she pushed over the edge of Lorule and watched vanish into darkness.

See, falling over the edge in Lorule means certain death. Nobody knows what’s down there, because nobody that’s ever fallen has ever come back. Thus, Fennyl should be dead, right?

Beat is terrified that he is and terrified that he isn’t.

She’s terrified that he is because that mean she killed the only person that showed her unconditional kindness. The person that clothed her, taught her, protected her, showed her it was possible to have fun in bleak, bleak Lorule.

She’s terrified that he isn’t because if he somehow survived, oh boy, he must hate her. He must absolutely despise her. She pushed him off the edge of the world after everything he’d done for her? After saving her ungrateful life? He didn’t have to do that, you know, he didn’t have to save her life and show her how to fight, to survive. If Fennyl is alive, there’s going to be hell to pay, and Beat knows she’s going to deserve every second of it.

But naturally, she has no outlet, because she doesn’t trust anyone to the length of confiding in them. Instead, she bottles it up, shoves it under the rug, and puts on a smile for all to see.

[drxmbeat]

25 and 31?

character development questions

25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?

Above all else, Beat looks for respect and equality in any relationship, regardless of it being platonic or romantic. She doesn’t like being looked down on and she doesn’t like being brushed off. She isn’t overly needy when it comes to relationships I guess? And she’s really bad at maintaining them properly; I can guarantee you that she could disappear for five or six days without a word to anyone because she doesn’t have that sort of realization that other people might value her as much as she doe them. (Abandonment issues whatcha gonna do.)

Ultimately, she shies away from most deeper relationships and treats most of hers fairly shallow. She’s used to being the trash thrown out at the end of the day so she never goes into any relationship expecting it to last much longer than a few months before someone either moves on or tries to plant a knife in her back.

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?

Having to murder! No, really. Beat soured on the whole murder-people-for-a-living thing a while back. She’ll still accept an assassination request if she’s desperate for money/food (it’s not like her reputation disappeared when she did) but she won’t like doing it. Any day where she can smile and go to sleep with a full belly is a good day by her standards–that’s practically a luxury in Lorule anyway.