#Comyna is Not Okay

[thegoddesswater]

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☄️ Who is your most self destructive character? Why are they like that?

Oof. Gotta say Comyna for this. Even though that feels really unfair to her. And I'm gonna try not to make this answer an entire essay on why she is the way that she is.

Comyna has always had depressive tendencies and tends to cling too hard to everything that brings good feelings; She can love to the point of destruction. So, when a raiding party swept through her town to take all of the men and boys to sell into other countries' armies, Comyna panicked. She used her magic to link herself mentally to her husband so she could keep track of him no matter where he went (with the hopes of knowing at the very least that he was okay) - when her husband was later killed in the war by an enemy fire mage, the magical recoil of that bond breaking caused irreparable damage to her psyche. It makes her extremely protective of her child and also very afraid of fire. Which is an absolutely amazing combination to try to deal with when her child develops almost-exclusively fire-based magic. Comyna's best friend winds up taking the child and filling in as parent while Comyna tries to sort herself back into being a functional human being. She causes herself numerous set backs.

🪐What do your characters think about marriage? Are any of them married?

Some of my characters are romantics who want marriage for the for the outward expression of being able to say that they have found their person, some are ambivalent, and some are "meh" on marriage itself but into the spousal benefits they can get.

Tons of folks in Talentless/Wild Card are married, and not always conventionally. King Xalvadore and Queen Fraise are married to each other with the secret inclusion of their Retainer and Third: Tihomir Vancil. Misha and Mai get married so he can help get her parents off her case. Roxana and Eneas get married for the tax benefits. James and Robward/Maggie are extremely normal about the whole thing and get married because they're in love - James does make a point of proposing twice to his genderfluid darling to emphasize how much he loves them regardless of whether they are identifying as a man or a woman.

In Miadhachain Legacy, Adair is extremely "Meh" about marriage; he's a child of divorce and his attitude is that it all seems needlessly messy. He and his first long-term partner are together for about a decade before splitting up and Adair tries to use it as a sign from the universe to not get legally bound to anyone. Adair's laissez-faire attitude about marriage is definitely challenged by Zaria though, because she's very traditional and wants a ring, dammit.

🌙 Do any of your character have to hide a part of themselves? Why?

Oh gosh yes. Just a couple examples because this feels like it's already long: Robward/Maggie is the most obvious character for hiding things. Being the above-mentioned child of the overly paranoid Comyna, they hide their genderfluidity for ages. It doesn't feel like something safe to share with just anyone who knows them and it's not until James comes along before anyone but their moms knows about it.

Marmaduke hides his non-Faerie magic so hard that he refuses even to acknowledge that it might be there at all, lest he be completely ostracized from his home and people for being 'tainted.

From this ask game!