#ngl shes so used to him living off energy drinks and being lazy in fights that she forgets hes ripped

[peridoxikal-redux]

Ironically, despite living with him, Maki tends to forget what he actually looks like.

[little-elf-wanders]

Okay! I want to know more about your four main protagonists from True North! Questions for all: 1. Name and Age 2. How is their relationship with sleep? 3. What type of colors are they drawn to and why? 4. What feels like home to them? 5. What can they not live without? 6. Do you have any faceclaims for them?

Thank you! This will also help me flesh them out so much so…!!

1) Names and Age

 Faolan Cahl is about 26 years old.

Captain Cayden is around 23.

Aella Lyall is also 23. 

Lexi Lyall is 24.

2) Relationship with Sleep

Faolan is a war chief by origin, but given his Reaver aspect, he sleeps pretty well. He has zero issue and is more like a giant lazy dog when not fighting. He doesn’t sleep in long bursts though, his body is used to taking little naps and operating itself in shifts. He can sleep just about anywhere, on anything, and when he tries to sleep it’s an INSTANT sleep. Fear him.

Cayden sleeps best on boats and ships, the swaying and creaking and sound of the waves are home to him, he’s a whole new man on ships - good rests, nice dreams, he sleeps like a baby. But on land everything is solid and still, and won’t give him that comfort, so he’ll toss and turn all night and take like… An hour to actually shut his eyes and rest. To help him sleep he’ll drink some whiskey before bed ordinarily.

Aella is the lightest fucking sleeper omg. She’s the first Lady Knight and has to always be alert and ready for both shifts in patrols, early training sessions in the courtyard or attacks and sudden missions. Her body is too stressed to stay asleep long. She always ends up going to sleep drunk, usually after a brawl in the tavern. Without alcohol in her system she’ll wake at Lexi turning a page in a book. So, she also gets sleeping drafts for when she doesn’t have her own cure.

Lexi is a dreamer by nature so her relationship to sleep is welcome, she’s only recently started getting nightmares but ordinarily, her feelings on sleep are great! She can sleep after coming up with stories in her head, and then she’s such a fucking deep sleeper it’s unreal. A battle could be going on right beside her between 20 men and this bitch is still snoozing soundly, curled up in blankets.

3) Colours and Why.

Faolan likes blacks and reds. Blacks kinda blend anywhere and red is - you guessed it! - blood. Reavers, man. Reavers. He isn’t really sure why beyond the fact it’s blood and coals.

Cayden likes rich, bright colours. Like reds and golds and deep blues. Purples. Silvers. He’s very picky about mixing them and has a good eye for what goes with what. He’s a pirate, so anything that looks flashy. His favourite changes like the sea though so idefk with this man. 

Aella prefers purples and spiceberry. She just finds them inviting and warm colours. She’s pretty practical so she doesn’t know why, she just knows she has this scarf that she attaches to her shoulder pauldron that’s kinda like this mini shoulder cape that’s purple and spiceberry. It was given to her by her aunt. (it was her mothers scarf)

Lexi likes greens and blues, and yellow. She likes the colours of nature basically, because she’s an apothecarian, she works with a lot of colourful flowers and appreciates the beauty of it all. Normally she likes more.. Pastels. Like pastel blue. It’s like the sky. But deeper greens like the forest.

4) What Feels Like Home?

For Faolan, he was brought up in woods and learned to fight by mountains. Any place wild and unruly, and untrailed, is where he thrives and feels more comfortable. Thick forests, perilous mountain passes, long grass and jagged cliff ledges and caves. He finds home there.

Cayden’s home is the sea. He’s Stormborn, so hearing the rumble of thunder in the distance is less of an omen for him and also more a comfort, but definitely the sea. If he can’t be ON the sea, he needs to be NEXT to the sea. If not that then he’ll need to go to a tavern to hear loud, rowdy men and women and he’ll surround himself in the drunken joy because it reminds him of his crew.

Aella feels home with Lexi. Her cousin and her have been alone for so long, and it’s been such a struggle to keep afloat, but everything she’s done and does, is to keep them safe. As long as Lexi is beside her and smiling and laughing, Aella is at ease. Her second home is a tavern though, but she won’t go as far to say all taverns. Unlike Cayden. She needs to be familiar with the place first.

Like Aella, Lexi finds her home with Aella. The girls do everything for each other, they are best friends and family, and Lexi doesn’t mind where she ends up so long as Aella’s still there. On the side, for an actual place, the woods is where she finds her comforts. With the tree’s and the flowers. She knows secret routes and hidden parts of the forest. It’s a solace when she’s surrounded by nature and good energy like that.

5) What Can They Not Live Without?

Despite each other?

Faolan needs his sword. He gets twitchy if he doesn’t have it near or on his person. Warriors of Clan Cahl name their chosen weapons - they are super sacred to his people. To lose your sword isn’t an insult or anything like that, but it’s known to send some warriors into a panic, like they’ve just lost their child or friend. Since they’re buried with their weapons, it’s a huge deal for them that not a lot outside The Dhalmarri people would understand. He needs his sword, which counts, yet as a whole, what he can’t live without is his people. Everything he is and have done is for his people. Everything he achieved and fought for. The Dhalmarri is his everything, and why he became King was only for the good of them.

Cayden is a pretty simple man despite all his spark, what he truly can’t live without is music. You thought I’d say his ship or the sea, or his hat? He loves his captains hat but for sanity, he can’t live without music. Be it through shanties, mere humming, or a melodic strum of guitar from bards. He can play instruments and sing himself so if he can’t hear anything near by, he’ll make his own. Music to him is like listening to a soul. Music unifys and has a power stronger, and older, than even the most wisest sorcerer can explain. If asked outright however? He’ll say booze or coin. He’ll joke and brush it all off.

Aella can’t live without combat. Bluntly put, she needs the fight. There’s no deep, underlining meaning behind it, she’s a simple fighter who craves the heat of battle. She protects, attacks and conquers. She’s the most alive when fighting, be it through pointless bar brawls or for something/someone. Lexi’s joked that she should just become a mercenary on many occasions, and had it not been for the death risk - she would have taken it seriously.

Lexi can’t live without adventure. Adventure and her books. Lexi is driven to explore and find things - be it something as simple as a new route to gather herbs, or an adventure in they city. She truly shines in new places, and finding new things, secrets. Lexi is also an avid reader, which ties into her craving for adventure, pages can carry you to new worlds and take you on grand ventures into uncharted paths. She dreams both big and small. 

6) Faceclaims For Them?

This is the most difficult question because they aren’t just average looking people and to fc them severely limits what I have in my head since, y’know, fantasy characters. BUT IT WON’T STOP ME TRYING! 

Faolan I’ve yet to find one for. He’s difficult af ok, I still cry at night. NO ONE WORKS. He’s more or less POC, but bc it’s a fantasy world, and not fully cementing with certain races being from THIS place or THAT, it’s difficult to find a face for him.

Cayden would essentially be Andy Biersak with heterochromia, ngl. Dem cheekbones. I used him as Yosh for my DA stuff but was way off on that bc Yosh is POC it was just the closest facual structure wise I could get. Cayden isn’t a POC and Andy is actually startlingly close to what I’m picturing. (though i am still on the lookout) 

The girls are so much easier ok, bless you girls.

Aella closely resembles Segovia Amil. Slayin’ with the eyebrows and the fierce look of ominous. Threateningly beautiful.

Lexi’s closest is Astrid Berges Frisbey. Protect her. Look at that face. So innocent. (she’ll kick ur butt and outsmart you thrice over tho)