#maybe it would be eating berreny's homemade bagels that first time we stayed in his house

[2nd-mushroom-circle]

For the dnd ask

Jairix for 32, 64, 68 ;)

oh I'm so glad you asked Kim 🥰

32. do they seek control, or do they want less of it?

AHAHAHAH I don't think jairix could stand a loss of control - not now, not when she's holding on so tight to every bit of it she has left. I think she's desperate for it and it's killing her. Every possible circumstance, every possible enemy is rearing its head over Abseir, and Jairix knows only too well that a lack of control does not mean the responsibility weighs any less heavy.

64. do they value mercy or justice more?

to be frank, I don't think that she cares. jairix wants the things she has claimed as her own - her homeland, her city, her scattered party - to survive. she values mercy when it is extended to Abseir. She values justice when it protects Starfall. Although, perhaps, she leans more heavily on the side of justice now. Mercy leaves too much room for consequences later. (perhaps she looks at the decisions she makes every day and the compromises she's made and cannot bring herself to ask for mercy. perhaps she's locked it inside her so deep that her mouth no longer knows how to form the words.)

68. what was the best moment of their life?

I'll pick two. One during the campaign and one before, because nothing that happened during the campaign was unequivocally happy - there was always some greater cloud hanging over it. But I think sitting with Nan'Uov, looking up at the stars of the Orclands, was the closest thing to content she's been in a long time.

But the best moment of Jairix's life may have been arriving in Abseir for the first time, a little 10-year-old lizard fleeing the only home she'd ever known, and arriving at a miraculous city, still half-built and growing by the day, filled with all sorts of different kinds of people and with strange flying contraptions (airships, although how would she know it, they were some of the first) dotting the sky. Of course she fell in love at once. Of course she begged her parents, even after the war was over, to stay, so she could live in this wonderful place and learn its magic. Of course she ended up here, in the very center of its interconnected parts, giving everything she has and everything she is to the city that she adores.