We were just talking about this yesterday on the discord actually!
Halthwyn is the "I have been forced into violence but my heart longs for the gentle life devoid of fighting" Type, she is actively trying to do good even if it puts her in harms way, super (to the point of self detriment) self-sacrificing, feels like she's incapable and undeserving of love.
She is trying to do good for the sake of doing good and being a better person. There's a lot of atonement tied up in what she's up to these days for her time as a mercenary, there's a lot of self doubt. There's a deep desire to be loved despite everything, and to grow and change and become more like the child she was when she left home. Halthwyn craves a return to a normalcy she'd never really experienced in her adult life. She's never owned anything that wasn't able to fit in her pack or on a horse. She'd probably cry if told she got to own a chair for the first time.
Maggie fucking Chafton on the other hand would sell your soul for one corn chip. She's shot at striking workers before, she got paid to shoot whoever corporate wanted her too, and she shot them, and she only loses sleep over the cosmic horrors (and powerful men) we *haven't* killed yet. Has said she'd kill a child, absolutely meant it. She likes working in a unit and runs her mouth way too much, but hates the prospect of being in charge of anyone. Responsibility scares her.
Mags does have a soft spot for soldiers from all walks who get sort of washed up and tossed out, partially because she's one bad job away from it being her and realistically chains of command do not care about one soldier, and also because she does have a deep fear of ending up a crippled and abandoned marine forced to beg for subsistence. In the dystopic future of Mothership that gets a lot worse. Watching your credits tick down each day, forced to choose between starving to death to pay your air fees or failing to pay those and asphyxiate? Bad way to go. She'd probably take a second round with the carcs over it.
Mags is entering into a pit fight on behalf of another PC for their personal stuff, and her thought process for the whole thing is "It'll be easy to kill a pit creature with knives for hands, we'd fought like before. But, I absolutely have to win because if I don't the others will never let me live it down and fuck if I'm gonna suffer that."
Where as for the Champion of Winter Tourney and Halthwyn it was "I don't want the accolades I'm only here to help Nylef. I'd never enter otherwise, it makes me uncomfortable."
But like, it's such a fun dynamic. I do not usually play people as quick to violence as Mags but it's been a really fun time stepping outside of my usual tropes to be a bit of an asshole. I love her dearly.
Have some recent doodles here!! Thanks for the ask! <3