#fascination with animals is in fact a retained trait. just expressed differently nowadays.

[eastgaysian]

misc dak-wai lore they're fascinated by animals but animals tend to be wary of them, which always makes them kind of depressed. after the moonrise tower steelclaw incident they stopped trying to approach stray critters and instead stare mournfully at them from a distance. halsin's like i can go over and talk to that cat and see if it wants to be pet? and dak-wai (clearly really wants to pet the cat) says no... i can't.... and doesn't elaborate because halsin was not present and they don't want him to know. they genuinely feel almost as guilty for killing that cat as they feel about isobel's death.

dak-wai staring at gale talking to tara like 🥺 you have to tell her to stop eating the pigeons. they also had to be confronted about overfeeding the owlbear cub. if it's still hungry i should keep giving it food. i don't understand the problem. I think in their little house with a beautiful garden ending lae'zel and dak-wai have an absurdly fluffy cat who lae'zel proudly describes as a fierce and merciless hunter while dak-wai gets scratched for trying to carry it like a baby