1. What does your character typically keep in their pockets?
upon checking her inventory she has raw diamonds, her divination bones, a platinum ring far too big for any of her fingers, a vial of werewolf blood, a bunch of wolfsbane, her newly purchased butt plug, and incense sticks.
but at the personal level she also has a journal, pen, and ink in which she keeps on her, because she’s now writing down the things that happen to her and the feelings and thoughts that she has, and kind of decompressing after each day. especially since she’s been traveling for quite a few days, and a lot of weird stuff has been happening to her, she wants to have a log of that so she can show her mentor later.
7. How impulsive is your character?
it seems as if she’s impulsive but in reality she’s just a little naïve. she does things that are high risk low reward sometimes, and they are almost always because she’s trying to either help her friends or she’s done a risk benefit analysis and didn’t factor in a huge portion of the variables simply because she didn’t know they were there.
riding a warg into battle only to have her be cut down immediately was a dumb choice, but she did it because the ranger’s cover had been blown and she was all alone in the midst of all these orcs, and fáelán wanted to draw fire away from bird so bird could escape. she took the warg because she was hoping she could ride in and then outrun the orcs and they could all get back on the road, just....running away from them. but the orcs focused on her and got her to 0 hp very very quickly and instead of being a quick rescue mission it turned into both her and the paladin making repeated death saving throws, and then the paladin both being very close to her and also sort of giving her the cold shoulder because she’d made him relive a trauma that no one had known about until that moment.
see also: her telling ophelia mardoon to her face that she may think she runs shady creek run, but fáelán noticed more members of the uttolot family in the city, not the mardoon family. telling a crime boss that her rulership is being threatened is a bad idea. but they were at an impasse in negotiations – the party needed to get back to uthodern and she was the only person who was able to cast that teleportation spell (that the party knew of/had relations with) – and everyone else was either a) too caught up in the lying and deception of it all and not wanting to get caught giving away too much information or b) not....intellectually suited to come up with a plan. so fáelán went in with something that was both true and also offered their services, in a way that helped ophelia reclaim influence over the city and also let her and her party get a mode of transportation.
these things seem very stupid and reckless, and they were, but she really had thought them through. so she wouldn’t say she’s impulsive, just young. but that young light of hers is kind of...getting crushed atm so who knows what’ll happen next. big moves only for this little cleric!
14. Does your character value promises? Are they good at keeping them?
she does value promises, to an extreme degree. she is also very good at keeping them. to her, failing a promise and lying are two sides of the same coin - an instance where your words said one thing but your actions said another. she does not make promises she doesn’t think are worth it, however. she also certainly doesn’t make promises with individuals she doesn’t trust.
28. Why do they keep secrets?
fáelán’s personal secrets are usually just by omission. no one’s ever asked about a particular thing, so she simply doesn’t bring it up. another reason she’d keep a secret would be if she knew something about someone else – that wasn’t dangerous or harmful to themselves or others – and it wasn’t her secret to tell.
as an acolyte, she was trained in helping people grapple with all manner of secrets, and it was her responsibility to remind them that the luxon does see all, but that it’s not too late to come back to the original path fate had planned. that stuff she’s legally bound to keep to herself, so she does, but that’s just a part of her job.
but again; secrets and lies are very, very close to each other. and if a secret starts to edge into becoming dangerous for others to know, or makes her complicit in a lie or something greater, she will not hesitate to reveal the whole operation.
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