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QUESTION FOR A QUESTION MEME

We all like hearing about each other's characters! We all like talking about our own characters! With this groundbreaking new meme, now you can finally do both, for the very first time in DWRP history!

The Guidelines:

Post a toplevel listing the characters you play! If you have any boundaries you want to set re: questions you might receive (e.g. "No NSFW questions for this character"), do that here too.
Tag other people asking them questions about their characters. What kinds of questions? Up to you! Canon questions, headcanon questions, meta questions, some random thing you've wondered since that thread you had two months ago, it's all fair game.
Need ideas? I was passed this excellent gallery of various questions memes, so feel free to crib from these or just use them as inspiration.
Answer the questions you receive, and, once you've done that, hit the person back with a question of your own about their character(s) too!
You can end it there, or continue to go back and forth asking questions until you're out.

Now get to askin'!

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cluthces my heart, oh no emet...

WAIT DOES THIS MEAN?? HES NOT TEMPERED??? IN AVALON TOOO? I presume as much from what you said, SORRY IM SURPRISED! Thats kind of exciting and overall I imagine, extremely fun to write for you? What differences do you focus on as a writer from him being tempered to him not being?

Now that he has obvious motivations especially one tied to his care for Hythlodaeus, do you see him changing or growing more as time goes on? I saw the plot you are doing and am reading here and there - really excited to see what happens with the participants who are getting involved. Is there any direction you intend to take, or is this all apart of the mystery yet to unfold! I guess I Should wait and not ask yet.

Yep, he's no longer tempered. It makes some things easier, but it makes others more difficult. He's no longer walking about being a drama queen, for example, and not spewing all his condescension towards mortals to every person he meets. The trade-off is he tends to keep to himself more now and be sour at every new person he meets. With certain cast members (before they dropped anyway...) he actually went out of his way to try and act the same around them so they wouldn't notice anything different about him. But to all those from other canons? He's actually begun to revert to what I headcanon to be his "original personality": tired, grumpy, but grudgingly kind.

To me, Zodiark's tempering has been the key driving force keeping Emet going through the ages. With it gone, I believed he would actually have a very serious underlying desire to commit suicide as a means of escaping his guilt and as atonement (I didn't push that angle too hard for obvious reasons). The tempering had been his crutch for so long that he struggled to live on his own terms for the first couple of weeks in Avalon. Some of Avalon's events (like the Pure of Heart earlier this year) also really drove home how he can't keep averting his eyes from all the deaths he's wrought. Honestly, he still can't fully acknowledge it. The weight would simply crush him. It nearly DID crush him during that test.

I like characters to slowly transition from one state to the next. With the lack of tempering plus Hythlodaeus around, he has zero reason to continue acting the way the player-character has seen him throughout Shadowbringers. There's reason to believe a lot of the dramatic gestures is actually from Hythlodaeus himself, adopted by Emet as some small way to cope/remember him by in the centuries since the Sundering, so I've been bouncing that off them and it's influenced how I write Emet currently.

On top of that, Hythlodaeus...currently functions as something of a brake on Emet's more nihilistic impulses. Emet is making the effort to return to the person he once was back in ancient times - if not for his own sake then because he doesn't want Hythlodaeus to see the man he became over some twelve thousand years of genocide. So I do see him (hopefully!) growing a bit kinder, or at least less prone to resorting to murder as his first option.

What's more, the punishment planned for him for committing the recent murders is that he has to look after the old man Morganna tried poisoning way back. It's something of a throwback to what Emet's former job seemed to entail: the peaceful send-off of souls to their final rest. My plan is for this to remind Emet of the person he used to be well before his world literally fell apart. Hopefully he grows into a better person afterwards.

' There's reason to believe a lot of the dramatic gestures is actually from Hythlodaeus himself, adopted by Emet as some small way to cope/remember him'

Ahhhh I am tender!! I like this headcanon of yours.

' It's something of a throwback to what Emet's former job seemed to entail: the peaceful send-off of souls to their final rest. My plan is for this to remind Emet of the person he used to be well before his world literally fell apart. Hopefully he grows into a better person afterwards.'

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THIS SO MUCHHH!!!! God this is why I poke and ask people questions there is so much story and lore with purpose going on in the background one person doesnt always notice or see. THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY to learn and give context to things going on! Youre a fantastic writer, and I love the work! Your portrayal of Emet is amazing and I hope you continue to enjoy your time in avalon!

/)(\ You're too kind. I'm extremely looking forward to how his various threads are going to pan out and how they'll affect him in their own small ways. I hope you continue to enjoy how they develop!

Speaking of which, I went back to check whether I'd missed a tag from you on Emet and Mona's thread on the network and it's currently your turn! Although if you've been busy then don't feel in a rush to get to it. o/

I willll for sure! Dwrp is new to me, but i really LOVEEEE how accessible it is to read other peoples roleplays. Forum rp was kinda like that, but a bit overwhelming for my adhd. Depending on how sites used their html, often it would make it harder. Dreamwidth is simple to read, etc!

♥ AND YES! I was taking a small break from rp to do some irl, actually pm just caught up today. I am excited its on my todo list first this weekend! See you in rp landdd

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