Break and Failure for... Giendei. :3
Thanks for the ask, these are so much fun to do!
break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?
Someone he cares about getting hurt would do the trick. At first instinct takes over and he springs into action, but once the shock hits him afterwards it tends to be crippling. He becomes paralysed with fear or grief and just stares into space, often entirely deaf to whatever's happening around him. He's not prone to tears, but he shuts down mentally when it becomes too much, and can take a long time to start functioning again. Also getting him to budge from someone's bedside can be a gargantuan task - he's the type to sit in silent vigil for days on end, ignoring food and sleep in order to look after his loved ones.
There have been some occasions during his travels when Luuneyd and Theodius have sustained more serious injuries, usually from channelling without a conduit or spell damage backfiring, and it always wrecks him to know there's little he can do to help when it comes to magic.
From which we get to...
failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?
His lack of magic. Magic is, generally, innate to those of elven blood, though in younger generations it has lessened considerably. Giendei is one of the unfortunate few with zero magic, something his parents realised very early on, but to make matters worse not only is he unable to harness the power, he is unable to touch the elven original source at all (which basically means he's just a walking battery for healers). Which is not unheard of, but incredibly unfortunate considering all 4 of his older siblings have some magical talent at least.
He comes from an old noble family and in the kingdom of Meltezza, his home, the higher your family's status the more magical aptitude is expected from its scions. All of this is public knowledge due to elven naming conventions - he is named The Verdant, because his greatest talents lie in mundane, mortal skills like gardening, as opposed to his siblings who bear monikers like The Illustrious, The Shining etc. Elves can gleam a lot of information about each other's skills and backgrounds based on names alone, so hiding the matter is pretty much impossible. This has basically marked him a second-class citizen among his own and he left Meltezza as a young adult, wandering the mortal nations ever since.
As for whether he's been able to move past it, well, yes and no. While he does not blame himself for something he can't help, it does weight on him, especially when he runs into other elves.
