#also um. spoiler alert for anwei's question lol we are revealing the plot to the sequels now!!!

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B for Ciaran

D for Andhira

F for Anwei

I for Yixing

R for Vera

I had a good day today! I hope your friday was excellent :3

B. Best: Does your oc have a “best friend?” If so, who, and what makes this relationship special?

Ciaran's best friend is Go-Eun. His honorary little sister. His co-conspirator. His enabler. His master secret-keeper. He's known her since she was twelve. He taught her everything she knows and when she was a younger teen, she absolutely was his shadow. Mimicked him like a crow, followed him around everywhere, wanted to be just like him. (She also did the same with Anwei to some extent lol) And as she got older, it went from some kind of mentorship into just being besties forever. They're thick as thieves and get into all kinds of stupid trouble together because they know they can get away with it. They have an entire language of inside jokes and weird stories about the shit they've done. ALSO she's one of like. three regular degular people that knows what he and Anwei even are, but she totally takes it all in stride lol. UM Ciaran is the one that gave her away at her wedding lmao (and Anwei was the officiant lmao) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY she's one of the only people he knows that's like. shorter than him and it makes him feel better about himself.

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D. Death: Has anyone your oc loved ever died? If so, how did this impact them? Is there anyone your oc would be willing to die for to save? Explain.

Because she's old as balls, Andhira has watched many loved ones die. There were no living members on her father's side of the family when she was born, but she had aunts and uncles and cousins on her mother's side, and they are all LONG gone. There are other distant relatives still living, but they want nothing to do with each other because of complicated petty bullshit that mostly means that whatever is left of the Maram family blames the Sovereign for letting the rest of them die (which is... only partially true lol). She's also lost many close friends, confidants, and lovers. She has never been known to ally herself with humans, so it's usually her fellow long-lived/immortal types whose deaths she has to grapple with which is what makes it so difficult. Distant family members were tough to come to terms with because it was basically an entire dynasty that got wiped off the map in one fell swoop, but they were never particularly close (Tahire didn't like them much lol) so it wasn't as hard as it could've been. Lovers and friends are the worst, because those are the people she actually like. chose to care for. And they've almost always died at the hands of hunters, which leads to her resenting them even more. She also feels a lot of guilt because like. some of them were only targeted because people want to claim their power. Many hunters will gladly do the dirty work of powerful families in hopes of a seat at the table, and that's what upsets Andhira most. She is furious with the way things are and that they've been allowed to remain that way for so long. How many pointless deaths have to occur for how many centuries before someone realizes that it isn't supposed to be this way?

Would she die for someone? Um. Her immediate family, without a single doubt in her mind. Anyone else? No. haha unless? (What if we were both plagued by terrible visions of the gruesome past which could become the gruesome present fed only by our unchecked guilt and we were both girls?)

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F. Forgiveness: Has your oc ever been betrayed by someone they trusted? If so, who? Did they forgive this person?

WELL at the risk of getting into EXTREME spoiler territory, Anwei has been betrayed by, among others: GOD (well. one of them anyway), Sihla, Fetiva, Ciaran, and Yixing :) In her defense, Sihla really had a Revolver Ocelot moment and betrayed, um, everyone all at once, so that's not really a surprise I guess, but the others?? Complete blindside (#blindside like in Survivor. Someone played a hidden immunity idol at tribal council and voted her off the island lmao). She does NOT forgive any of them except Yixing because the circumstances were Extremely Complicated, and like. she kind of gets it. She's been there. Not exactly, but like. She can at least sympathize in some way. MAN I can't say anything without spoiling practically EVERYTHING lol. And she wants to forgive Ciaran, because he's her brother and the only person that knows her and understands her and she's known him all one thousand years of her stupid life, and there MUST be a reason that he would betray her like this. After all this time? After all they've been through? But then she sees what he does and what he becomes and realizes that even if she was naive enough to give him a chance at forgiveness, he would just fuck it up and hurt her and everyone around her even worse! So, um, it's complicated lol

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I. Irritating: What is something your oc finds annoying about another character?

UM lol. Yixing hates that Ciaran wakes up super early. Like basically at dawn. Even when he doesn't have anything to do that day. Even after a night of heavy drinking. Even when they're on a fucking vacation. And he like. enjoys the mornings??? He'll wake up and stretch and write in his gay little journal and go on a walk and have tea or coffee and do whatever other shit morning people do. Meanwhile Yixing will sleep until noon every goddamn day if he can get away with it. He only gets up early because he has to feed his horse. And even then he's likely to just go back to bed when he's done. He's a night owl and Ciaran's an early bird, and some days it really does drive him insane. Especially when it's like 2am and he's wide ass awake and Ciaran is like. passed tf out in bed because he foolishly woke up at 6am of his own free will.

Also, Ciaran eats meat and Yixing is a super strict vegetarian. And he pretends it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, I promise, yes, you can eat fried chicken in front of me, no, no, I don't care, seriously, just shut up and eat the pork belly or whatever, why do you always make it a whole thing? But he hates it. Not only does he think the taste/texture/smell of meat is fucking gross, he has an ethical objection to eating meat. Animals have feelings and are smart, cows and pigs make friends and have fun, and there are enough things on this earth without sentience that we can eat instead. Also he grew up as a real fucking country bumpkin and was around a ton of animals all the time, and because he was a lonely and sad and weird kid, he always loved caring for the livestock that his and the other families nearby owned. BUT his stupid idiot father insisted that it was a young man's rite of passage and an HONOR to slaughter a cow for the summer solstice, and the whole thing disgusted and kind of traumatized him, and he hasn't touched meat since! But then he remembers that there was a great length of time in his past where Ciaran was probably like. eating dirt or whatever because there was literally nothing else to eat, and then he feels guilty because at least he had the luxury of never starving to death over and over and over, right? AND YET, he thinks it's fucking disgusting physically, morally, ethically, spiritually, financially, etc etc etc to eat meat. And yes he does bully Ciaran about it. And no he does not let Ciaran kiss him until he's brushed his teeth.

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R. Regret: Has your oc ever betrayed someone who trusted them? If so, who? Do they regret it?

Vera is generally a very trustworthy person who doesn't go back on her word, but um. Sometimes business is business. Sometimes you have to do some shady shit to get results. And she has definitely lied to people about her intentions on a job (“no, sir, I am definitely NOT here to earn your good will and wring you dry of information only to send half this town back to hell where they belong. Whatever would give you that impression?”), and she has promised people safety only to, well, kill them. LISTEN, it is a thankless job putting freshly-turned low-born mindless vampire spawn out of their misery. Sometimes you have to be the bad guy and break promises to get the fucking job done. And she does feel guilty and it does weigh on her conscience for a long time, but like. if she didn't show up and tell lies to do her job, things would only get worse. Many more people would get hurt in the long run. As for people she's close with whose trust she's betrayed?? idk that she's ever done that. Even as much as she initially despises Andhira, she still wouldn't betray her—if only because she knows that would mean betraying the Sovereign and nobody gets away with that. Not even his own damn family lol