How I feel about this character: Loved this character at first sight. I was almost intimidated to even approach after I read her MyRP, but I had my RP shields up and sassed my way through as Nex. The more I get to know her, the more I enjoy seeing. She’s wonderfully complex and colorful, and a great example that “great character” does not need to mean “great person”. She has flaws that are as bold and glaring as any I’ve seen in a character. She makes decisions that hurt herself and the people she cares about - and she has physical/emotional scars to show it. Watching her work with and around her flaws is one of the things I love, though - as is watching her long and uncertain road to something resembling stability in her life (or, depending on where the RP goes, to the next big catastrophe…). It’s one thing to watch a character who is a good person and does all the right things succeed in the face of adversity - it’s something else to see all that from ‘the other side’, so to speak - a flawed person overcoming and inflicting adversity on themselves and others.I read that someone called her a bold character that took courage to play and I couldn’t agree more. Amazing character even when she’s being a terrible person. XD
All the people I ship romantically with this character: Aneximander Avanshield, obviously~ :3 He’s a great fit because he, too, is a good example of a character who isn’t necessarily a great person. He’s much more on Fae’s level in terms of morality (probably several steps closer to the dark side, in truth), and he doesn’t harbor any fantasies of “saving” or “redeeming” her. Instead, first and foremost for him is to love her, to respect her, to be there with her; and to demand the same from her. It’s a twisted romance that works on several levels even as it continues to evolve.Tharis’ahn and Fae is another match that I like. From a moralistic standpoint, I personally think he might even be a better match for Fae - Tharis has all the personal talent and competencies to be a good partner (he was married happily, before), but doesn’t quite have the selfish, wrathful, manipulative, ethically-questionable tendencies of Nex (who is, by most accounts, on his first serious relationship with a woman). His love for Fae was unconditional, and he’d be a steady and supportive husband. He knew it, Fae knew it, and I think even Nex knew it (though he’d never admit it). If Nex were to drop dead and Tharis were to come back to life, I think they’d somehow make it work. The only question I can see is if he’d keep the emotional state to put up with Fae’s character flaws, or if his love has become too abused and damaged so far.Lastly, Vindicator Maraad. Not because there’s any lore suggesting this is a thing, or that it would even be possible - but just because Faetrix navigating a ballroom (or any room) with a hulking bull of a draenei (who treats her right and don’t take none of her shit) would be amazing.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Fae and Rasheed. <.<In all seriousness, it would be fun to see these two bounce off each other more. They’re both warriors, both strong-willed, both extremely sexual, and they both find the other extremely sexy (though only Rasheed would ever admit to it ). She may have wanted to gouge his throat out when they first encountered - and every subsequent encounter - but that’s only because she had to do SOMETHING to hide that fact that he’s an utter beefcake hottie mchotpants who makes her hot. In her pants. ;)
My unpopular opinion about this character: She’s a good example of how the concepts of patriarchy among players can lead to unfair misconceptions even in RP, intentionally or otherwise. She’s sexually-active, has taken (and continues to take) multiple sexual liaisons on a whim, does things the way she wants and is called ‘bitch’, ‘slut’, and ‘whore’ for it, both in-game and out-of-game. Meanwhile, male characters can take multiple partners and be considered triumphant studs. Nex is one of the few characters I’ve ever seen to call this double-standard out - a man takes multiple women, he’s the prized pinnacle of masculinity; a woman takes multiple men and she’s a depraved whore.It’s obviously unfair and definitely bullshit, but that’s the world she lives in - and the world *we* live in. And she has her own double-standard that are also kind of bullshit: She can - and will - sleep with any man she wants. If her man, however, desires another woman (or, indeed, another man), there’s hell to pay. Shit is all crazy up in there.So, I think she should lead an army. Not because she’d be great at it, or because she needs to have a Joan of Arc moment or anything, or because I think women in power are sexy (all of which is true, of course, but I digress). Not because it would even solve any of her problems, either (it wouldn’t).She needs to lead an army and march it to battle because if there’s one thing that commands respect, it’s a large amount of angry people pointing sharp, deadly things in a given direction. And if there’s one thing that she deserves most, I think, it’s respect (plus, I like action scenes).
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Sometimes I wonder how her story would’ve developed if she had not gotten pregnant so soon after meeting Nex. The pregnancy sort of pushed Faetrix to develop and change in ways that continue to delight, but it made a lot of potential scenes impossible or much harder to do (again, my love for action is so much harder when one of the participants is pregnant and in constant danger of miscarriage. That shit is serious). I won’t say this is something I wish didn’t happen - but I will say I wish we had more globe-trotting, death-defying, high-adventure time. I would definitely like to see more interaction between her and the rest of the House / other characters, particularly her family, her ‘allied’ houses (and some non-allied nobles), and some of my guys (*cough* Rasheed and Fae *cough* sweaty sparring session *cough cough* ). A lot of Nex and Fae’s interactions happen as responses to these, and since we don’t do much of the aforementioned high-adventure stuff, it seems appropriate that the interactions they’d be seeing would be mostly domestic or political interpersonal-type-stuff.On the plus side, the pregnancy itself is a great, fundamental arc in Fae’s development. All of the developments and revelations that spawned from it have been riveting. I’m also eager to see how she takes to motherhood after the children are born. Something tells me that in spite of her flaws, she’d be an amazing parent.
