💅 Khelresse, 🐜 Jas, 🔗 Kaemoque, 📊 Merathera?
💅 - How does your muse feel about gender roles? Do they conform to them, or do they play by their own rules?
This answer is going to be more Doylist/less in universe than the rest of them. It’s kinda hard to talk about gender roles re: the Dark Eldar, because canon has the whole ‘tells egalitarianism, shows sexism’ thing a lot of sci fi and fantasy have. Ie There’s no gender roles, everything is completely egalitarian, what uneven sex ratio? What gender specific roles?
The best way to put it is that Khelresse conforms as much as she can to the Wych role, and that happens to be a mostly woman specific. She can’t completely conform, because she’s a) not in an arena and left her cult in a humiliating sort-of scandal, and b) her boss won’t let her torture people? But she puts a lot of effort into being the best! and flashiest! fighter, she puts a lot of effort into looking attractive.
And if she had the oppurtunity, she’d dive right back into being an actual wych.
🐜 - How does your muse feel about animal lives? Do they treat them the same way they’d treat a person, or do they feel they’re inferior?
Jas feels that animals are definitely inferior to Eldar, and that there’s not anything necessarily wrong with killing them. But.
He’s spent enough time feeling hunted and/or farmed, and he’s seen more of his own insides than he ever wanted to see. And now he is really uncomfortable eating ‘real’ meat that was not grown in a lab. He didn’t intend to sympathise with space chickens! But he knows enough of how they’re farmed, at least in Commrorragh, and now he’s accidentally a developed an empathy for them.
(Tangent: Dark Eldar factory farming is probably really horrifying. Pointless suffering would be a feature, not a bug.
And Jas was ‘farmed’ in a sense. I should probably make a post or write those origin story ficlets I’ve been planning)
🔗 - What are your muse’s standards for meaningful relationships? How quickly do they form relationships like these?
Hooboy. How Kaemoque relates to and forms relationships, from a human perspective, is weird. It’s also weird from an Eldar perspective, but less weird.
Kaemoque spent most of his life outside the protection of a Kabal, and had to be extra paranoid. No one would care if he lived or died. He was charismatic to have some allies, but none he could really trust. Especially because of another factor: Kaemoque is psychic. Not a latent psyker; he’s one of the ‘has to be careful not to light anything on fire’ kind, the obvious kind. And he had to spend most of his life hiding that fact, because if he didn’t, he would die. So he couldn’t let anyone get to close. He ended up simultaneously relationship starved and relationship averse.
So when he joined a Corsair crew that he could trust, and which knew about the whole ‘psyker’ thing--
With Kaemoque, it takes quite some time for him to trust you. But once he does, he goes from zero to hundred fast. He’d die for you. He expects you to die for him.
Which works on a relatively tight nit pirate crew. (Which is significantly larger than 6 people. I’ll introduce more characters! I’ll try to make it clear there’s a lot of offscreen people!)
📊 - How does your muse feel about the state of the world? Could it be better? Could it be worse?
Merathera doesn’t pay much attention to wider galactic events, and doesn’t much care. She cares about her own personal sphere.
She thinks the Merry Band is a significant step up from Commorragh. It’s not perfect, but she’s quite pleased with how things have turned out. She’s (relatively) comfortable materially, she’s not living on the edge of having her soul burned out, and no one is trying to stab her in her sleep (much.) Things are good!
The galaxy is maybe more on fire than she would like, but she doesn’t want all the fires put out. Metaphorical fires are good for the piracy business. But less fire would be good, plsthnx.
