#Toussaint Anatole

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Random Toussaint "Tea" Anatole fact of the day:

While he typically gives the answer that he wants to be the patron to great artists someday, Tea rarely has found an opportunity to talk about his true dream. @tixdixl 's Rémi Delune is one of the few people who asks the precise question that prompts Tea to share the greater answer, and that it is one day he hopes to create the greatest multicultural annual art festival in Twisted Wonderland.

Though his own skills as a painter are amateurish, Tea is very skilled at creating connections with others and even before he and his brother start attending Royal Sword Academy, Tea has already been learning how to network and the value of it. He intends to spend his educational years making some of those connections, improving his networking, and carry on into his internship year with the bold hope to begin laying the groundwork for his dream.

This began back when his stepfather first met and formed a friendship with their family, and took them on a long adventure back to their home after they'd been stranded. Along the way, Tea began to pay attention to the art and culture of wherever they passed through and fell in love with the way people connect with one another through art, and that art itself takes many forms. Since then, he has wanted that wonderful festival to be real and open to every part of Twisted Wonderland and every person from every background in it, no matter their medium or craft~.

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For Tea, Rand, and Xinyi:

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

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

Oohhh this should be interesting... Thank you!

Failure

Toussaint- He considers his greatest failure to be not recognizing that Rollo desperately needed help he wasn't getting and that it culminated in the Night of the Fire Lotuses. Tea feels like he failed his dear friend, again and again, and now it's led to this strange shift between them and he has no idea how to fix it or even if it can be fixed. (I'm sure many people know about it because Tea is desperate for any advice that could help him mend that.)

Bertrand- Refuses to admit his failures. (In actuality, as his creator I can tell you one of his greatest failures that is going to follow him into adulthood is that he fumbled when he confessed his feelings for Felix Pondicliff only for Felix to question his motivations, and as a result, Rand's inability to answer the question leads to him struggling with it. He tries (barely) to self-reflect, only to decide that he's so hurt and angry at the rejection that he's not going to self-reflect, and instead becomes bitter and angry about romantic love as a whole. He refuses to give an accurate account of what happened between him and Felix to most people, with only Rollo knowing the entire truth of what happened (and big sister Marianne having sussed out on her own the truth that Rand refuses to own up to.) Rand shot himself in the foot with this in more ways than one.)

Xinyi- Lol you want a list? No but in all seriousness, every time I think about what they consider their greatest failure, my mind goes back to the song "Reflection", specifically the lines "I will never pass for a perfect bride/ Or a perfect daughter". As Xinyi's kind of an inverse twist of Mulan, they're never going to be a perfect son for their parents. The way they discover their gender identity and express it, and hold to that truth about themselves has led their parents to hold them at a distance. Xinyi has long since come to accept that their relationship with their parents might be broken for the rest of their lives, (especially when they later marry Chrys Shroud, as Xinyi's parents and all but one of their sisters do not come to the ceremony.) It breaks their heart and they mourn the loss of that relationship, but they do eventually reach a point where they also understand their failure to be the ideal son their parents wanted is a small price to pay in order to become the person they are and were meant to be.

Wound

Toussaint and Bertrand are both fairly decent at handling physical injuries and wounds. Both are athletic, Tea doing boxing and Rand doing fencing, and both can handle being wounded, including very basic first aid for themselves and others in order to deal with such. Mental and emotional wounds are something neither is great at handling yet (see: Rollo's bullshit.) Tea will get there, he's more adaptable and wants to learn how to handle such wounds in himself to heal and move on. Rand is...gonna take a while. (See above: the terrible way he handles rejection.) Worst [physical] wound Tea's ever experienced so far were some broken bones in his tail when he was younger. Rand has been far more lucky with the worst he's ever had being a thorn he stepped on that had to be removed very carefully and with professional help.

Xinyi is smiling and threatening me with their fan. Which is fair, there's a fine line between answering this question and dredging up the trauma they're still healing from. They handle physical wounds very well on the other hand, and have a fairly high pain tolerance; worst physical injury they've ever had came from sparring with their cousin, Wei Renqiao. Ren was a lot more vicious and unrestrained when he was in early adolescence, and actually ended up accidentally slashing Xinyi across their midriff deep enough to require emergency medical help and to cause a fairly impressive scar. Ren was devastated by this and it is apparently why (I am just now learning) he makes such an effort to be gentle with everyone, whereas Xinyi is very proud of the entire thing, and it's why they don't underestimate/learn to pay closer attention to just how powerful Ren really is. (Which comes in clutch when Ren later Overblots and has to be stopped in his rampage...)

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