Alone, Betrayal, Break and Desire to any OCs of your liking!
Oh nice! Thanks for the ask Cymatile :D
I'll use this as an opportunity to talk about my troll siblings; Lev and his half Nøkken brother Nikko :3c
Since there's four prompts it seems only right to split it between the two brothers no? :D
Ahhh first before reading gonna quick TW: cannibalism, matricide, forced imprisonment, attempted regicide, childhood abuse, self-harm, attempted fratricide, drowning, general mayhem. I Am Not Kind To My Boys.
Eldest First! Here's my beautiful water freak
Nikko
alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?
He was created as a hybrid fey by his mother in an attempt to overthrow the King Beneath and abandoned by his mother for not allowing her to control him as a weapon. Left in the isolated lake that used to be his murdered father's with only his magic fiddle as company, Nikko knows isolation and loneliness well.
He had been alone for a Very long time, only occasionally meeting fey or mortals who stumbled upon his lake- though sadly many didn't survive the encounter. His way to cope with his isolation was to play music, as most nøkken do- but that also enforced it as any who heard its haunting melody being played would be ensnared by it's spell and drown trying to get to him.
As half troll he feels isolation far more keenly than a nøkken should as trolls are naturally very social creatures who maintain extremely close knit familial structures.
betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?
Nikko... doesn't have an awesome track record when it comes to family. Later in his story he befriends the one being who could possibly withstand the drowning melody he plays, a human born without the ability to hear.
With that friend's help he is freed from his confinement to the cold water and struck out to find and steal away his younger brother from their mother.
Lev... grew up compliant,guided by their vicious and controlling mother. He is sweet but much more clever than he lets on, with a deep predatory instinct nurtured by their mother. He recognized Nikko as his kin immediately and since then they have had a very deep familial bond- the only one that Nikko has.
What Nikko wouldn't realized was that his full-troll brother does not see Nikko's altruistic human friend as off-limits when he becomes hungry. A troll, raised by trolls is a being raised on human blood.
What's terribly sad about this is Lev sees this as normal- he sees no malice in it and indeed doesn't feel maliciously towards humans- he likes them. But it doesn't stop him from wanting to eat them, and acting on it when he has an opportunity. He does not understand the pain and anguish his brother displays when he finds out, and neither talk about what happened at the lake.
Baby boy's turn >:D
Lev
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?
Oh boy oh boooy :D While Nikko is very in touch and aware of his emotions, Lev is quite the opposite and sort of brushes things off at the surface level, rationalizing them with the simplest possible explanation or face breaking. It comes off as him being very durable and a little bit of a himbo.
He does not question what his mother taught him about his hunger for human flesh, he does not question why his brother does not speak openly about who he has seen or spoken to other than him, he does not wonder why- when he washed the blood of Nikko's friend off in his elder brother's lake that Nikko attempted to drown him with his song. He knew of course, that Nøkken were territorial, so the first words he spoke were and apology for entering territory he was not welcome to and forgiveness for that act.
If he ever started looking into his actions and thoughts instead of letting instinct and trauma guide him; he would shatter. If he realized that everything that he was taught, about himself, about his kind, about his family was all found to be the lie it is he would follow this sequence: absolute despair and self loathing, tearing his hair and attempting to do as much pain to himself as he can, tearing out his fangs and breaking his bones if he isn't restrained somehow. Then depression, then as he ruminates his mind would continually turn back around to their mother, how she made them and destroyed them in the making. He would want to find and murder her for all the destruction and pain she caused them and all she encouraged in him.
desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?
Totally and completely contradictory to his more predatory instincts Lev wants to be among people. He's drawn to towns and has a naturally gregarious and outgoing personality. He had previously openly stated this to Nikko who- knowing Lev cannot help himself, immediately made Lev promise to never go there.
Lev respects and loves his brother so he does as he promised he would and keeps away. But... humans are so interesting. They're all so different looking, and they smell interesting and they're always making new things and changing how they dress and look. He wants to be there! He Wants Friends!
But he promised his brother, and a promise given is a promise kept. However, trolls are the only beings among the fey who can lie. So maybe, given a sufficent distraction... he could perhaps sneak out from under his sibling's watchful eye and mingle... perhaps take an unsuspecting new friend or two for supper.... hehe.