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hey Alina, thanks so much for the OC appreciation. i feel like it might be worth talking about Edra, Niev's kid
Edra (full name: Edrahil Mirolaena) is the vibrant age of ten at the start of the first book, and nearly seventeen at the end of the last. over the course of the story he grows into an ingenious and curious smartass and — thanks to the combined efforts of Niev, Lukiat and Reyenn, plus the many aunts and uncles he acquires — he keeps most of his innocence and wonder
this is not to say he's ignorant about the war, he actually grows up rather politically savvy and good with a number of weapons (Niev still doesn't know who taught him how to use a gun). the adults just try to keep him away from the worst of the violence
Edra is actually the mind behind some of the craziest moves taken from the end of book 4 and on, mostly on the political / social / propagandistic front
i have a very specific color in mind for him that is His Vibe™, it's this somewhat bright pastel blue-purple, with copper as his metal and black as his neutral. he's plenty iridescent tho, so his palette ends up more something like this
his aesthetic is bubbles and dewdrops and light refractions, but also spiders and snakes. soft and lighthearted, but still incredibly cunning and skilled
my favorite thing about him is that he's always observing, listening and thinking. Niev, Lukiat and Reyenn are both extremely proud and mildly terrified. they grow much more stressed about this when Edra enters the "i have analyzed the situation and concluded that [correct conclusion] and that the best course of action is [completely batshit insane idea]", and now they have to sit him down (again) and explain to him that things are more complicated than that but he can sit with them and explain his idea and they can talk through what works and what doesn't. he is the driving force behind the chaos
a fun fact about him is that he's also existed since the second version of the story, but at the time things were wildly different, from his backstory to his looks to his powerset and elemental resonance. he's probably one of the characters who has changed the most. actually, he definitely is. he's gone through four gender changes, three designs, two backstories and five ancestries before i settled on the one i have rn. this is substantially more than any other character
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