hc + relief
GIMME THOSE SWEET, SWEET HC PROMPTS. ➵ accepting !
ASHE is known to be incredibly calm in a crisis, & otherwise filled with so much passion that it almost seems too much for one person to contain --- but inwardly, she’s under constant stress & on persistently high alert. It’s pretty much impossible for someone in her position --- shouldering, with no exaggeration, the fate of her entire people --- to be anything but under constant pressure. There’s not many opportunities to relieve that stress, mostly because she’s so dedicated to throwing herself into any & all campaign efforts, leaving little time for herself. Still, she finds pleasure in the small things; reading for pleasure; the warmth spiced Freljordian brews always leave in one’s belly; the smell that permeates the air just before fresh snowfall; the sound of the sea crashing against the rocky shore, whenever she’s traveled close enough to the coast to listen; the rumble & roar of genuine, hearty laughter; the warmth that finally persists for more than a few hours during what passes as a Freljordian summer. Another activity she favors when stressed or overwhelmed is to make a list of all that she’s accomplished since forming the Avarosan tribe --- which essentially reads as a list of all of the things her kinsmen have chided her for striving towards, insisting they were impossible goals. As cliche & naive as it sounds, positive thinking does her wonders --- & seeing how each list grows longer & longer does even more.
