#mr letters

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

id love to hear some fun facts about mr letters!!!!!

so tangential fact about letters, the bat species it's based on actually makes up the largest urban bat colony in the world!!! the austin(?( texas Mexican Free Tailed bats!!!

additionally, despite collecting similar things, i think it would *despise* pages, as it always seeks to know the truth of things, and page's crime is. well. truth strangling

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

so i was working on a ref for letters because i realized i don't have its design down and uh

oh this one looks goofy under its cloak cbxbxbdbx

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

🥑 [AVACADO]

what will they never back down about, even if it makes them seem bad?

elias will never back down about being allowed their autonomy. if someone grabs their handles without consent they will bite and scream and even ditch their chair if they must, they will Not be controlled by another person. this frequently makes them look like an asshole. at the same time, they won't remove someone's choice in a matter if they won't budge. if they can be persuaded to come around, that's great, but to remove someone's ability to choose is too much, and yes, this did leed to Beechwood becoming a full monkey.

pennitha... hm, she tends to be more passive just out of depression, so this is hard to answer. at this point, getting revenge for her lover, and doing what (she thinks) will get revenge for another wrongful murder, even if both lead her to bad places.

letters won't let go what it doesn't understand, and it needs to work on that. it will keep asking questions about someone's exact thought process and mentally dissect them, and it needs to figure out some secrets must stay secret

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

...... 🍎 [RED APPLE]

okay, so i thought that said WHAT does your oc value above all else, not WHO, so i already typed out a response for what, so you're getting both!

WHAT:

above all else, elias values.. personal freedom. the ability to choose what you want from your own life. they've been in situations before where that has been taken from them, and that was awful for them. and they hold this for other people as well, even if someone else chooses something awful, elias could never bring themself to take away someone's right to choose. it has lead them into many sticky and horrible situations before, but they still won't shake it.

pennitha values memories and histories. she writes a lot, because when her lover was murdered, all she had of her was a few scant photos and letter snippets. when she dies, she wants her knowledge to be passed on, for others to know she existed.

letters values... well, letters. a similar, but different reason to pennitha. it's how we communicate, how we share our knowledge and stories, and really it collects forms of communication. it seeks to understand others. this also leads to it prying secrets out from unwilling victims, but such is the price for knowing.

WHO:

for elias it would be their partners, chief among them Harper Faraday! Harper has been there for them for a long time, taking care of them on bad days, but never seeing them as anything less than a whole person.

pennitha values her dead love most of all, but in her grief, she's started seeking out and mourning another

letters does not value any specific person, and in fact it has trouble connecting those its corresponded with to when it meets them in person, there's a bit of a disconnect. over time this can be mitigated, but not ever fully solved.