OHOHOHO I am an undisciplined child and you've left me unsupervised in a candy store 👁👁
So can I get a uhhhh 5 for Nellie, 8 for Val, 12 for Lux 😏, and 14 for Alex please 👀 any number of them would make me twirl my braid and kick my feet no pressure ilu
MAIA YOU'RE THE REALEST ILU <3
5. What’s one hill your OC will die on (anything from a guiding moral position to a strong opinion about combining mint and chocolate)?
That there is some fundamental aspect of power that, when given to a person with authority over you, will make them employ it to your detriment. To wit; do not trust people in authority to have your best interest at heart. Nellie will temporarily accept authority from people who are hiring her, or people with whom she must work for, but she makes it a big point not to trust them not to screw her over. She isn't CALLOUS, just aware of the prospect, and will avoid cementing herself any further into debts if she can help it.
And, if she likes you, she will do what she can to help you do the same.
8. What’s something that your OC owns that means the world to them? What’s something they own that they don’t like, but can’t bring themself to part with?
Val isn't much of a Stuff person, but she's really attached to the magical item(s) that she had made for her and for the rest of the party. They are essentially braided cord bracelets all cut from the same cord, which, when activated, will draw you towards the nearest person wearing the same bracelet. It has a distance limit, and it only pulls in the straightest possible line towards the target, but they are an assurance for Val that she can always find her friends if they are close enough to BE found. She won't give that for the world.
Conversely, Fortune's Favor has been carrying a bottled aspect of our BBEG (he was a living shadow for a while, and we have a piece of him stuffed in a bottle in our bag of holding) and Val can't bring herself to get rid of it. It's a shitty thing to know is close at hand, but also something that she can't justify trying to destroy or otherwise release. Although...we haven't checked on it since our BBEG got a body so...maybe that's not a problem anymore. 😬
12. What does their bed and/or desk look like? Tidy or cluttered - are they both the same, or is one neat and the other messy?
Lux's bed and desk (when he HAD a bed and a desk readily available) were always extremely tidy, but only by mandate. His parents were....let's say demanding, and leave it at that. Given his freedom, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that his desk would still be very neat, but that his bed would be an absolute disaster of discarded clothes, piles of cushions, half-written letters, etc.
One gets, ah, significantly more use than the other, and is thus harder to keep tidy. ;)
14. How comfortable are they relying on other people, and what situations would change their comfort level?
HAHAHA god. Uh. Alex doesn't LIKE relying on other people. She recognizes that this is a necessity, however, and so will humbly submit to the process simply because her ideas are way too big for one person, and she's not an idiot. But she is not THRILLED by the notion. Like Nellie, she's in a situation to assume that everyone is trying to get something out of her as well, and while she excels in managing this to her benefit, she doesn't find particular JOY in having to put her trust elsewhere.
There is, however, one notable exception. If she is in a position to have to put TAHIR in charge of something, Alex is as close to 100% confident that it will be handled as she can ever be. She has been privy to some very first-hand accounts of Tahir being stupendously reliable when faced with protecting the interests of people that he cares about, often well past the point that Alex considers reasonable. No one else in her experience has done that, and it makes his introduction into nearly any situation one that she is more willing to engage in.
She still thinks he's a little bit crazy, though.
