#*lightly bops Riag* this plant can hold so much angst in it

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🙉, 🔫, and 💔 for Riag!

I'm coming for that angst

- @storm-called

*rubs greedy hands together* The surest way to my heart besides an axe directly to the sternum is angst >:3 Ty for the ask!

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

Oh this one is a bit interesting because in a way, it's already happened. Finding out later that killing the dragons was a BAD thing was a shockwave of a blow for him. Finding out that, not only was the thing he'd based his entirely existence around (from even before existence if you count the Dream) damaging but also there wasn't an alternative at that point.

It's the whole drinking sea water because you're dying of thirst but only doing more damage - yet there's no other options.

That the thing he considered his existence to be formed around, that he gave everything to - mind, body, heart and soul - was harming the world because no one understood things well enough yet. Anything he decides to do, he does 100% there is no half-assing, it's either 0% or 100% and to find out the 100% did *HARM*?

Ouch and bad news bears.

🔫 PISTOL - do they trust people easily? how easily will they turn their back to someone? have they been backstabbed before? will they betray someone if given an ultimatum?

Riag doesn't trust easily, it takes a lot of work. He's more of a 'wait and see' type of person. Actions are louder than words so if they work at gaining his trust, he is less distanced but still at arms length.

As for the second part, it really depends! He does not like to see people suffering if he can help it so it would take a good deal before he turned his back to someone, even if he didn't know them/care for them. If it was someone he did care for - that would basically never happen.

Surprisingly, Riag hasn't really been backstabbed or betrayed in the most common meaning of the word. He considers the Pact to have sort of discarded him post-Commander duties and brushed him off, but nothing so serious as a betrayal.

And oh that's a tricky one. Again, if it was just a random person and he was given an ultimatum then yes he might betray them if he thought that he was doing something for the greater good. If it was one of the few people he has let into his life? Ultimatum or not - he wouldn't. He'd sooner be mulched.

💔 BROKEN HEART - what could their partner do that would absolutely break their heart?

This one gave me some trouble just because of how Riag is as a person at this point in his life. The flower boy is basically always anticipating heartbreak. Always waiting for the other shoe to drop, for something to go wrong and be his fault (even when it's not his fault, he will find a way to blame himself for it).

Riag's already sort of convinced himself it's inevitable it's just a matter of when. And because he's the picture of ride or die, most of the big heartbreaking things he wouldn't even hold it against him.

The only thing that would just completely wreck him would be for Trahearne to just leave, with no explanation, no closure. There one minute, gone the next. And have that be the end of it. That would just ruin him.