Gil: break
Tolys: guilt
Ohohohohoh these are some very good ones I say as I'm maniacally rubbing my hands together to as I begin try and cook up the satisfying answers that you deserve
break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?
The thing with gil is that he is just ian unreliable narrator in his own life. I think that's why this fandom really bought into the awesome Prussia shtick he was selling. You have to read between the forty lines and decode everything to really see the whole picture of how broken he is. He speaks in metaphors, humour, and half truths. It's not going to register with someone like Feliks, but to someone like Ivan and Tolys it does.
So I think the biggest thing to surefire break him is to harm Ludwig however Gil can break in other ways it doesn't take something like that. He breaks I just need to figure out how but I can tell in cta you know how to do that more effectively than I can and I'm excited. I just need more time to figure it out.
Ooh this reminds me of something I read involving planes and this guy was talking about the stakes of him dying in a plane crash. It didn't bother him until he had someone to live for such as his son. That's where I kinda see Gil in terms of Ludwig.
guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?
Tolys is plagued by guilt. He believes himself guilty for his failures, he believes himself guilty for giving in. He has failed his people plenty of times and he feels ashamed they still have faith in him. He feels ashamed for giving into the pain, and pleasure.
Tolys has a noble mindset and with it brings the sense of duty to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders as if you were a titan like atlas. With that mindset you will inevitably feel guilty when you fail because you are human trying to do the impossible.
Tolys feels things so profoundly and he wishes to numb himself from the pain yet nothing is ever truly enough.
