#CAN YOU TELL THAT THRENODY IS A BIG AUTISM FEELINGS CHARACTER FOR ME LMAO

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Failure for Ghila, Ghost for Threnody, Heartbreak for Maryam!

OH EXCELLENT CHOICES, TYSM

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

Oh god I actually don't know, Ghila feels like she has failed in so many ways - primarily by way of not doing more. She was so lucky to be given as much cultural and political power as she was, and she constantly feels like she wasted it. Like she had an opportunity to make things drastically better for the Dalish and she just... didn't. I don't think she ever could have, really, but she doesn't believe that.

She's never forgiven herself.

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

I think pretty much every Hawke is haunted by their lost family, and Thren is no exception.

But also herself. Or, the version of herself that could have been. Her earliest years - when she had so little control of her magic that she had to be almost entirely confined to one room for years at a time - really fucked her up. She learned that she could only go outside if she acted normal. And even after she was safe and more in control, she never stopped desperately trying to act normal. And when she realises how much that hurt her and warped her sense of selfhood, it causes a lot of grief.

She copes by desperately clinging to her stable, happy, disaffected persona - which only makes things worse, until she breaks down entirely. It's a lot of long, painstaking work to put herself back together, after that, but she makes her way to happiness. She learns to honour those feelings and keep them close without letting them overwhelm her entirely.

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

I actually think Sera was her first romantic relationship! But she was in a deeply weird codependent female friendship where she was absolutely 100% in love with the other person. And it ended horrifically poorly, but the how is very spoilery (dm me if you wanna know about it! >:3)