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How are Vaz and Crulexs around animals? Are they animal lovers, or do they prefer to keep their distance? Are there any exceptions to the rule?

Bonus question: What animal do you think best represents each of them?

YIPEE!! i love thinking about animals. i like thinking of people's daemon's from his dark material's series as well. oh no i might go bonkers and write a series of posts for what everyone's daemon would be... no.. no i can't... not yet anyways...

answer below the cut bc i love everyone <3 <3

Vaz: You'd think he'd be the best around animals since he's a druid. You'd think. But he's actually horrible around them. They can smell the blood that coated his hands, and he doesn't know how to handle them properly. A fun fact is that he rarely shapeshifts. He's much more aligned with the plant side of nature than animals.

He WISHES he was better with animals. Scratch runs around the camp with Levi a lot and Vaz wishes he could just reach out and pet him...but he's absolutely terrified he's going to hurt the dog. A past memory the plagues him constantly.

Levi gave him Scratch's ball and showed him to throw it. It was the most fun Vaz had that week. He threw the ball so much Scratch stopped chasing it.

Vaz is...I think a buck fits him the best. A noble looking creature whose more likely to run than to fight at times. A wet cat also fits.

Crulexs: He's a bit harder to figure out. He wouldn't get excited over the sight of an animal, and he wouldn't stop to watch the squirrels running up trees. But he does like them. They're simple-minded creatures and by nature are neutral aligned. Nurture ruins them, sometimes, for him. Like the hyenas in Act 1, turned against their purpose into...what they were. A wasted potential, in his mind.

He likes Scratch. He'll probably like the owlbear cub when it comes to his camp. He did kill the owlbear cub's mother, but only because he got the wrong idea. He regretted the blood on his hands from her murder, probably the first he ever has in his life.

He pets Scratch when he comes near him, but he doesn't seek out the dog. Scratch is more friends with everyone else in the camp than Crulexs.

Crulexs is an alligator. Not just because of the whole dragonborn thing, but due to the fact that gators are these big, bulky lizards who tend to silently watch instead of actively provoking people. Male ones don't even have vocal cords! Mother alligators also tend to be very protective of their nests, and if Crulexs ever knew he had a child, he'd probably be the same way.