▼, ❣,☣, ☠ and ╳ for lira and vesper?
▼ What is their greatest fear?
lira is afraid of failure, of breaking promises and oaths and her word, and of becoming something monstrously uncaring (of becoming, in short, the thing she hates)
vesper fears losing control, to emotion or her own power or something outside herself, and hurting the people she cares for and swore to keep safe
❣ If someone had the power to bring them back after death, would they want them to?
lira would come back if she still had work to do; death comes for everyone in the end but she’d rather not leave a job unfinished or abandon her duty to anything less than the ending of her life––and, if she could, she’d push right on past that
vesper would rather stay dead, if unnatural means had to be used to bring her back. there’s an order to the world, and she has no wish to leave it despite everything, but she’s seen people burn themselves too often playing with fires they can’t control to want to be one such person (it would depend on who was pulling her back, and how they were convincing her to return)
☣ Would they kill someone close to them if they had to?
lira would, yes. with some regret, but the needs of the many and the needs of her duty must come first, and if that requires a death of a friend she would see that through and grieve afterwards, in her own way
vesper would not. she has lost too much in this world to willingly lose a friend, especially when she might be able to save him from himself. (people are wretched, but many of them are good too, when given the chance, and there is too much violence against brother in this world. she is here to build, not to break. to destroy is the last thing she wants.)
lira fears losing––losing fights, wars, people, anything. she hates the though of leaving things unfinished. she’s not afraid to die––she made her peace with that at twenty––but she does not like thinking of her eventual leave-taking.
vesper isn’t afraid of death. there are things far worse in this world.
╳ How would they react to seeing a loved one become possessed?
lira: a moment of hesitation, and then the steel-edged discipline that has seen her through everything; closeness would temper her pragmatism, encourage her to seek solutions besides destroying the possessing spirit or the possessed thing, but she’d be prepared to deal with it however necessary.
vesper: triage. she knows enough about spirits to have a modicum of control in such a situation, and with a level head and quick action it’s the sort of thing she might be able to overcome or circumvent. it’s only if saving them isn’t possible that worry sets in––possession is, after all, something she has feared since she knew to fear it.
