1-7, 38-40 Thrice
1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
Thrice was abandoned in a dumpster.
He had no idea who his parents were for most of his childhood. There was an adventure where he found out about his mother and father through hacking into the government and using his DNA but they were just typical poor people. It’s assumed his mother gave birth in an alley or something and just left him there after dumpster diving for food. His father had no known connections to his mother besides being poor in the same city. Both were marked dead by the time he got this information.
Thrice wanted parents in a day dreamy way of just being rich and having a home and just having things easier. It wasn’t a real desire just a daydream he had when he hadn’t managed to get food in three days. It was unrealistic and he had the assumption his parents were outcasts or criminals from a young age rather then his hopeful day dreams. He didn’t understand a world where people just cared for their children so he didn’t have any over idealization to fall on about being loved by his parents. He tried his best to remain indifferent though he did wish for a sense of roots, someone with his mental capacity, but found it faulty logic to assume his parents would share that. He was disappointed when he found out who they were, or rather that they weren’t anything, but was quick to move on.
2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?
Thrice did have something close to a mother. She was a crazy cat lady who took care of him and his two friends like she did her cats. She was good at finding make shift shelters and had amazing street smarts and saved their asses a lot even though she was extremely antisocial and dissociative. She was smart and she force fed them information on literature and maths. He hated that she was so mentally unstable. That she couldn’t keep up a conversation all the time and would randomly blank out. She was closest thing he had to someone intelligent and he was constantly having to force it out of her. He loved her wit and how she could write a full scientific study on the walls of a shelter. She inspired him. She gave him a taste of what it could be like to find people of equal mind instead of settling for the life his two friends sought of surviving, using him for their own selfish whims and using his brain for petty ambitions instead of expanding, getting out of that world onto way larger things.
3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings?
The DNA study showed he had a few half siblings but he never sought them out. His family was the catlady and his two friends who were like a brother and sister to him. The boy had the air of a leader, he was angry and resentful for his hand in life yet he looked after them. Or it seemed that way. Thrice both hated and loved him. He was that selfish older brother you are convinced loves you back, is looking out for you, cares about your best interests, but is always trying to use you for your abilities to make up for the things they lack while saying it was all for your sake. He supported Thrice as long as he was in his pocket and bringing home the assets. He got Thrice involved with mobs and essentially connected him to the people that got him out. He used him and when Thrice turned his back on him for bigger things he felt greatly betrayed and Thrice hated him for that too. Yet he had these good memories, times he saved his life even. He had the street smarts, the ambition, he kept them alive and Thrice did feel indebted to a certain extent.
As for the sister, she was the baby, the compassionate one, the optimist, at least for the beginning. She was their reason for fighting for more, when surviving just to survive was too hard. She was the motivation and Thrice loved her dearly to the point he tried to convince her to come with him when he left. At that point the “brother” was running a mob and plotting rebellions and gaining a lot of power. Thrice got him there. She refused, accused him of not having any loyalty, totally turned on him and sold him out to the boy. Thrice was beyond powerful with dimensional manipulation at this point so there was really no holding him hostage as much as the boy attempted. When he eventually met her again he came to understand just how manipulative and underhanded she had become and the optimism and pure heartedness had long faded into an act. He could never quite hate her.
4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient?
Discipline was actually harsh. It was a matter of survival. It was carried out by his “brother.” If he messed up he got his ass kicked, though he learned quite fast.
5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered?
A bit. The boy was desperate to control him and the girl, so there was that. He was careful with him, protective and parental. He attempted to manipulate all of his actions and keep him sheltered but Thrice isn’t the type to sit still. He was smarter then him by ten folds and easily out maneuvered him at every angle, but he felt protected and so allowed a lot of things.
6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child?
Both. He felt rejection from society, from his birth parents. He felt rejection from the boy for being too smart, he felt isolated and disturbed. On the other hand he felt cared for by him and the girl. He felt like there was a real bond. That they cared for him in spite of those things. That no matter what happened, what fights him and the boy got into, that he would stand by his side even if he later came to the conclusion that was likely only because he was useful, the boy was careful to be affectionate. The girl was a bit clingy and caring in general.
7. What was the economic status of their family?
Literally lived on the streets. When they started making strides for good money they still couldn’t really escape their roots. They were outcasts from the main society and unwanted in richer circles. There was no getting out of that and hence the want for rebellion and overturning their small society.
38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic?
It depends on the new things. He’s huge on scientific change and learning about new things and expanding those intellectual horizons but he has a set comfort zone. He’s not good with people, with relationships, trust, social spectrum things. He’s not very outgoing or adventurous. He shows an enthusiastic face but often he is internally screaming. He accepted Home in part because OMG THIS PLACE IS AMAZING but also because it could protect him. He is used to living being protected, having someone at his back, so that he can face new things and things out of his comfort zone with a strong front but he’s often convinced everything is out to get him, very negative, all the while knowing knowledge needs sought, and won’t just come to him so he knows new things are constant and necessary.
39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid?
Eve :D
Closed mindedness, over discipline, unfair risk assessment, people more cowardly then him, romantic entanglements, Shin’s stomach, Habris’ assistants (it’s not just Eve), people who set themselves to standards he doesn’t approve of either because they are too low or too high.
40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one?
Bad. Pretty bad. He’s the type you have to explain jokes to. He’s laid back when it comes to humor though and can usually read the mood like when someone’s making a joke, so sometimes you can’t tell but then he’s like HAHAHAH wut. He’s excitable and eccentric and can be highly amusing but he’s not doing it to purposely be funny. He’s just an idiot sometimes. He does find humor in the human condition to an extent~ and in people’s discomfort.
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