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Random HC asks that are a month late to be replied to!

11. is your muse quick thinking? are they able to focus when stressed?

It depends a lot on the situation and timing, as Sera is good at thinking quick on her feet, but vastly prefers having a chance to stop and reason things out over that. If the situation calls for it, she can think incredibly fast; there’s times she has no choice, and having been on her own for the better part of her life, it’s been a nessecary skill she’s needed to learn to stay alive. Protecting herself and others means thinking fast and trusting her gut and judgement, and while it’s not always the right answer, it’s one she can run with in the moment regardless, showing itself the most in her fighting skills and her ability to stay on her toes and quickly keep everyone around her safe, including finding cover and places to hide.

Despite being able to, however, Sera would much rather having to not ‘think fast’ and prefers to sit and think things out. Impulses and quick thinking can get a person into trouble even when the intentions are good, she knows, and she values having even just a few minutes to sit down and reason out what to do next, to clear her mind and focus on what she needs to. This is part of what makes her the strategist between herself and Zack, both for work and life itself; she has no issue with sitting and slowly mapping out what comes next and how to handle it, taking every possibility and outcome she can into account before making her next step. it’s the safest way to handle things, in her eyes, and help to avoid problems along the way.

As for thinking when stressed... That’s a big fat NOPE! She’s someone who can easily get overwhelmed by her emotions and is only just now learning how to handle things like stress and trauma, and isn’t fully in control of her emotions even despite that when they get to be far too strong. Something like stress is difficult for her to keep under wraps, and without help from her family and friends picking up on it, it can easily spiral out of control right alongside fear and her trauma. Even at a more minimal point, her thinking is clouded by what ifs and plagued with but’s, and unless that can be caught and adjusted, it leads down the road of worse thoughts and eventually a panic attack if it can’t be reigned in in time. Focus in not a thing, and she’s prone to darting between topics, trying to find her lost trains of thought and pick them up again, just to find her hands full of ‘thought threads’ far too tangled for her to figure out and too overwhelmed to handle it.

She’s learning, slowly, how to handle things, but while she’s doing far better after having Shayan, she’s a work in progress - Imperfect, but doing her best. <3