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☹ Name one person they would kill for.

Aside from his dead friend, Sunny. Sil might be a cruel and tactical skeksis, but his kids are off-limits. Sil would tear guts if the skelfling was hurt. This goes for any of his kids.

☣ Would they kill someone close to them if they had to?

Sil might say no, it is illegal and honestly it would take a lot to make him kill another skeksis.

But Sil does not just live with other skeksis. He has his podling and gelfling assistants, his spies and his contacts. If one of those has to go prematurely? Shame but that is the name of the game.

Unlike the Mariner, Sil is not truly attached to the gelfling around him. But that does not mean he cannot like them when they are alive.

♣ Do they believe the world is made up of good and evil?

(The show kind of addressed it, but let's try XD)

To Sil, good and evil are a matter of perspective. What one sees as evil, another might see as a way to survive. Sure, z'nid birds suck nurlocs dry while they are still alive, but that is how it lives. Sil is cynical enough to see people the same way, everyone is just trying to eke out a living.

In his actions, Sil tries to go for the least harm unless greater harm is more advantageous. Since you can (in his mind) never truly do anything without hurting someone, the best is to make sure things can be easily repaired.

What Sil believes in instead of good and evil are order and chaos. Society only runs if everyone is willing to put effort into it. The society he thrives in only runs if the game has rules to twist and turn. Sil would not do well in pure anarchy.

◯ Do they believe in ghosts?

Sil is the least religious skeksis you can find, earthly matters are his domain. But he sometimes does hope that the spirit of his friend would still exist in some form. The idea that the soul of skeksis is just gone is too horrid to think of.

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▼ What is their greatest fear?

SkekSil has your typical skeksis thanatophobia (fear of death), but for him it takes the form of losing control. Sil fears the loss of control, because control is the only thing he has going for him. Strip his status and his networks of contacts and he is nothing.

△ Name one thing from their past that they regret.

No matter how stubborn and tunnel-visioned Sil is, he is far from ignorant. Though it is all to serve his quest for the throne, Sil is starting to regret breaking so many friendships for it. After all, his goal is somewhere in the distant future, right now he barely can discuss things with other skeksis at all.

☼ If they had the choice to be immortal with one other person, who would they choose?

Sil sees immortality a little different from how we would. As he has by default existed way beyond a human lifespan both as an urskek and as a skeksis, living long is not really a dream. It is the default.

How Sil sees immortality is living long and remaining young and healthy.

As for with whom he would share it? Hak is dead and he has basically driven all his friends away. Sadly skekUng is literally the only one he could see it working with.

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(ooc) If you yourself could ask Sil something, what would it be?

The biggest would be, if it all was worth it. Was all that backstabbing and betraying worth getting exiled?

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Ty!

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OOC: Serious Roleplaying Etiquette guidelines

Since there are a lot of new or inexperienced faces in the TDC RP circle, I thought I'd give some important information about handling roleplaying online.

To prove I know what I am doing; 10+ years of online Werewolf the Apocalypse 24/7 server games, nearly a year as a gamerunner. 22 years of online RPing experience in general, in various formats.

Important guidelines:

OOC (Out of Character) communication- No matter how much your characters hate each other, you need to speak OOCly about important details.

OOC =/= IC- You are not your character, your character is a -character- you portray in a collaborative play.

Consent- No matter how much you want to play your character 'right', you need to make sure the players of other characters are not uncomfortable with the content you bring to the RP. Ask if -everyone- involved in a thread is okay with something, put warning on top of the events and put them under a cut.

Forcing events/relationships/plots- Don't do this. Roleplay goes how it goes, you cannot control events. Forcing them can make the other person extremely uncomfortable.

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1. What would it have taken to prevent your muse from becoming a villain?

SkekSil has a lot of baggage from SilSol's teens to early adulthood. Had SilSol been born less gifted and so never caught the attention of some people, he would have never been exiled. Thanks to the exile and losing contact with his support network, never mind going from a 21st-century modern world to an iron age planet, SilSol was extremely homesick and bitter.

The death of HakHom removed his chance for a close peer, as well.

This bitterness is in skekSil, but it isn't the whole story. Had skekSil stuck to what he loved and not looked at the throne and leadership as a shortcut to being loved and accepted, he'd have never become what he did. It would have been hard and taken a lot of vulnerability from his side, but he could have done it.

2. Despite their villainy, does your muses subscribe to some sort of ethical/honour code that guides their behaviour?

Yes, skekSil has lines he will not cross.

One is harming children directly. Not only is it wasting the future generation of loyal followers, but it also just does not sit right with him.

Another is wasteful excess and lewd behaviour for the sake of it. SkekSil's duty is to the Empire and he pulls many strings within it. This is an empire that might be tyrannical, but which has many freedoms and opportunities for its citizens. In effect, it is a functioning society. One that skekSil wants to stay that way. Sil will assassinate, silence, kill and frame people happily, but it is all in service of the Empire. To Sil, actions that harm the good of their society as a whole are reprehensible and wasteful.

In effect, he cannot abide by true tyranny and you will never find him losing his composure in public. Cruel as he might be, skekSil would approve of public schooling and deny any sweatshops outright.

Third is that he will stop short of torture. Torture never works and frankly Sil prefers gaining information through manipulation.

9. What punishment does the mun think would be justifiable for the muse?

At the end of the day, skekSil deserved the exile in the movie. Death or imprisonment would not do anything about his nature. But losing everything and seeing how the brutish but loyal skekUng is respected and cheered at, while his allies barely give two shits about him makes hurts him the most. That shows just how much he sacrificed and gave up for absolutely nothing.

He is not loved, he is not respected, he is not even -tolerated.- His schemes and his plans only alienated him from his peers and gave him no leg to stand on in the competition to the throne. SkekSil lost the race the moment he sacrificed an ally for power.

There is no greater punishment for him than that. Being alone in the woods with no allies or safety is what he deserved. But it also allows him to learn or grow from that.

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💕, 🩹 for the meme plz, if it's still possible.

[ 💕 ] does your muse believe in true love? do they believe in love at all?

SkekSil would happily say he does not believe in true love, and he'd be right. But he does believe in love, because he knows it is real and possible. That is why it is easy to use to manipulate others with.

SkekSil does not believe in romantic love for -himself-, due to certain events in his past. But he knows it exists, he lives in the same castle as Ekt and Ayuk, after all.

But, Sil knows he feels platonic love. For Hak, for his multiverse kids, for his bohrtog. He just hides it in public.

[ 🩹 ] what does your muse do to de-stress?

A lot of Sil's problems comes from the fact that he does -not- de-stress. He does not take mental health days, he does not stop and take a breath. What he does is remember the cause and pay it back, thus not really doing anything to help with his own issues.

Add to this that he has poor sleep and stays awake a lot, and Sil is pretty much eternally grumpy inside.

If he were to de-stress, most likely he woul compose or play his lute. Anything that would let his mind have a pause.

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Prince Hans, Shere khan, Lawrence

PRINCE HANS - How does the first impression your muse gives off differ from their true selves?

SkekSil has layers, as one might expect. The first impression of him is someone who cannot even speak properly, whining and submissive and just UTTERLY non-threatening. Yes, he pulls rank SOMETIMES, but generally skekSil is just a rather whiny old fool.

The truth is, that he carefully calculates this and lets rarely out his true feelings or thoughts. Only when he has to pull rank, he will show his teeth and dominance. SkekSil in truth is much smarter and much more aware than he lets on, he plays people against each other and often has a fall guy ready.

Beneath all that, even beneath what Sil himself admits, he is desperately lonely. He wants connections, but is too far gone to actually form them. He wants to be loved, but there is no one who would anymore.

He is one rotten shallot, in other words.

SHERE KHAN - How intimidating is your muse? Are people often correct when assessing their power?

SkekSil does his best to hide just how well he can pull rank. He goes into great lengths just to hide his predator smell, let alone his actual power.

But when he needs to, Sil can lift his hackles up and snarl deeply. Enough that even bigger skeksis back down if Sil pulls rank. But he prefers not to, because that does not suit his plans nor self-image.

LAWRENCE - What would make your muse switch sides?

SkekSil might say that it would be hard, but he'd be lying to both the person and himself. He is loyal to the chair, he is loyal to the position of the Emperor, he holds pride in his work at the Castle and he still wants to be part of a social group.

Strip those off and he has no reason to stick around. He might not be joining gelfling, but he'd lope off to places unknown to sulk.

If you add in the existence of a skekling or urling of his, he is very quick to choose them over anything else. He might not like it, but Sil is adamant about not harming children and protection of -his- family.