#Serana is fun despite me being not fond of the vampires

[alma-amentet]

Damn...

Turns out I lost my Skyrim save. Most actual progress was in quicksave slot, and when starting Lyra, I saved it to a new one. Now it's nowhere to be found... gone

IDK what's going on. Well I have some other, the closest one is where I'm in Mehrunes Dagon shrine with Serana. Probably can restore it if I want to.

I was in Soul Cairn. Truly, I hated Soul Cairn, to the point of starting a new playthrough without having to seek the way out of there. Just to be able to do relaxed strolls, like before. Soul Cairn is dark, boring and harder to navigate. Found Valerica, wanted to do her quests and get out of there as soon as possible.

[reachfolk]

So, about that npc ask, what's your oc's stance on serana, mikael (bard of the bannered mare), and/or frea from the skaal?

send me a skyrim npc and i’ll tell you about my dragonborn’s opinions/interactions with them (open)

wow, can u believe cozy has rambled about their own oc for too long and has to use a read more again !!

serana

tbh alexi, being a namira worshipper who is very liberal with harvesting blood and other body parts for alchemy, has no issues at all with vampires so i kinda find it hard to imagine her even bothering to join the dawnguard. but once she sees the problem getting worse and hurting innocent people (esp. in morthal), she's more likely to wanna do smthn abt it. when she gets serana out of her cage or w/e it is, she's super friendly !! like to a point where serana is overwhelmed by it at first cause she's really only ever been around.. unpleasant people. she feels almost suspicious of lexi and it's only until they get to the soul cairn and lex is still beaming with excitement at the novelty of it all that serana finally realizes "oh... she's not faking anything, she's really just like that." she kinda respects it in a way; there's something admirable in the way that alexi can be in such a solemn place and still be so full of life. her company makes the trip more tolerable.

they get a lot closer after that, because despite alexi's almost childish disposition, she was extremely mature and sympathetic when it came down to serana's personal struggle when it came to reuniting with her mother. it helps that they can kinda relate to each other RE the ungodly family issues 💀 another thing that brings them closer is the fact that alexi is super knowledgeable about a lot of the historical events that serana missed out on, and she just knows a lot about skyrim and its residents and culture, and she's always filling in serana on everything she's missed. after being away for so long, serana is super disoriented with everything, so travelling with someone as pleasant and well-educated as alexi makes things a lot less confusing.

mikael

bit complicated but at the end of the day its... mikael. when she first came into the bannered mare, she thought he was a little pushy but didn't mind him. where most people look at her forsworn armor and see a brigand or a savage, he just saw a scantily clad woman and immediately started hitting on her relentlessly. and like, alexi is no stranger to the dibellan arts (iykyk), but she's not the one night stand sort, and he's not exactly someone she'd be interested in pursuing. she's got the patience of a saint, so she never bothered to do anything about it. that is until she overheard him say something about "taming her savage heart" and "making her submit" to him. she ended up challenging him to a brawl, with the deal that if she loses, she'd have to go to dinner with him, and if he loses, he has to stop making any attempts to pursue her or even mention it. and like the thing is, alexi learned to brawl from none other than borkul the beast (it's a very long story), so she fights dirty. it was an easy match, and hulda even offered her a free room because the guests were so entertained by it. he still gets made fun of by like half the town whenever he even thinks of hitting on her again, so it never came up. she may not be super fond of him, but they'd exchange some fun banter and he's much more tolerable than he used to be.

frea

i haven't played thru the db dlc in ages so i can't say i remember everything about her, but i get the feeling that they'd have a pretty... complicated relationship. for two reasons: 1) alexi is a daedra worshipper, and while hermy isn't one of her primary deities, he's definitely on her list, ykwim? she definitely did his quest with septimus signus and has the oghma infinum in the possession of her coven. plus, i don't think the skaal are especially fond of any daedra; they just hate herma mora most, but i doubt they'd be 100% on board with lexi's religion. and 2) alexi would really sympathize with miraak, and she'd desperately want to help him rather than see him die like we see in the canon ending. even though lex realizes that what's happening with the skaal is wrong and chooses to help them, some tension grows between her and frea over those disagreements.

in spite of all of that, i do think the two would have a sort of tense friendship. they have pretty good synergy when it comes to fighting alongside each other, and alexi is a really great healer from her time studying under bothela and her coven, so she happily shares what she knows with the skaal without ever asking for them to share the details of their own closed practices to her in turn. she's a helpful person, and during her time staying with them, she definitely would do a lot to assist in whatever they may need.