7 & 27 For Ashtoret, 6 & 16 For Leon, And 1 & 12 For Fionne From The Tav Questions, And 10 & 11 From

7 & 27 for ashtoret, 6 & 16 for leon, and 1 & 12 for fionne from the tav questions, and 10 & 11 from the durge questions for xander? 👀👀

and, if i may: 10 & 11 from the tav questions for Everyone, xander included? :3 👀👀

All righty, time to dive back into Asks Hell (Affectionate). I love chatting abt my blorbos from my brain and I talk a lot so answers, as ever, are under the cut.

Ashtoret

7) Honestly, following in their father's footsteps. Sylvaris was a Ranger himself, albeit he was more focused on being an actual Hunter than a Beast Master and preferred using sword+board over archery. When they lived outside the city, before Sylvaris felt the call to serve in the Flaming Fist, Ashtoret would often join their father on hunting trips. They loved being among animals and nature, and, once their family moved fully into the city, would often flit in and out of town not only in search of adventure, but to re-ground themselves.

They've always had a knack for understanding animal behavior, so choosing to call upon a beastly companion was simply the most logical choice. They're a hunter, yes, but they do truly enjoy the companionship of a loyal, well-raised, well-trained beast.

10) Ashtoret would likely consider their greatest skill to be both their archery and their willingness to see things from other perspectives that most won't consider. They would absolutely be correct on the first front, but utterly lacking in self-awareness for the second. They do, in fact, have a great capacity for perspective-taking, but that does not mean that they actually absorb any of the perspective they have taken, nor less that they are some bastion of empathy.

11) Ashtoret would consider their greatest flaw to be indecisiveness. They feel that they often struggle with making a decision, making the correct decision, until circumstances utterly force their hand. Seeing them from the outside, how they stand with conviction by their actions despite internally roiling with guilt and doubt, one would not think them indecisive in the least. In fact, an outside observer would state that their true greatest flaw is their ability to rationalize and very selective sense of self-awareness.

27) Ashtoret tends to bristle when given orders, even when they can see the logic behind them. It's just one of those things that comes from having a natural rebellious streak. Tell them not to do something, well, now they want to do it even more because fuck you. Let them reach their own conclusions on whether or not to do something, and it will serve you much better. The Emperor learned that lesson early.

Leon

6) Honestly, there are 2 that Leon truly holds tight to. The first treasured childhood memory he had was of his mother gently holding his hands and guiding him through the motions to cast a simple ice spell. She was gentle with him, and did not seem bothered by the cold, unlike his father who always sneered for him to control himself.

Leon also fondly recalls his mother comforting him when, as a physical teenager, he attempted to pry some of his scales from his skin, hating the way his father forced him to put a glamour over them or otherwise hide himself away in his room. She found him before he could get too many pulled off, and was right there with a healing potion, soothing lotions, and even more soothing words. Granted, she did not tell him his father was out of line for his hatred of those scales, which he was, but she tried to ease the hurt to the best of her abilities.

And, while these memories occurred when he was a child by elven standards, if not physically a child, Leon remembers fondly the days when he had both of his brothers living in the house with him. Even if he often had to play the mediator between Ferdinand and Celestine's sibling rivalry and had to step up as a surrogate father to Celestine where his own father neglected him, he loves them both with all his heart and would give almost anything to have them back at home with him.

10) Leon tends to hold himself in rather low esteem for the most part, so if asked his greatest skill, he's likely to demur the question. If pressed, he may begrudgingly admit that he thinks he's an effective communicator, especially in writing. Given his charisma, this would not only be accurate, but almost comically selling himself short. Thankfully, he has his beloved Wyll to help give him the faith he seems to lack in himself.

11) Leon feels deeply that his greatest flaw is cowardice, especially in the form of unwillingness to question a situation his intuition tells him is wrong. His disdained 'cowardice' took more literal forms on the Chultan Expeditions, where not once, but twice did he abandon the crew he was traveling with out of fear and in an effort to save his own hide. But in the tadpole journey itself, this cowardice manifested in his unwillingness to press on necessary questions and doubts about his 'mother', his attempts to talk things over with monstrous foes rather than go for a killing blow. He wouldn't necessarily be wrong that cowardice and fear are his flaws, his enemies, but he's also not being particularly charitable to himself.

16) In general, Leon does not care much for killing. It is a regrettable necessity, but not one that he takes pleasure in. He did not hesitate to wipe out the Goblin Camp to a man without even attempting a peaceable negotiation first, mainly due to the behavior he'd seen from other goblins in the region and the fear the Grove and Tieflings both expressed. But when the Ch'r'ai at the creche praised him for becoming a nightmare to goblinkind, that approval filled Leon with a deep sense of shame.

Fionne

1) Fionne was raised in the Lower City of Baldur's Gate. He and his parents weren't what anyone might call rich, but they always lived in relative comfort through means that no one could really parse, as they didn't seem to actively do anything for a career. In truth, his parents Celestine and Morrigan were frugal with their spoils from their adventuring days, and augmented that with occasional alchemy and magic casts for those around them.

Their home was a unique place that felt almost like stepping into a little piece of the Underdark from all the various mushrooms and fungi about. The brightly-painted skeletal servants doing manual labor around the place gave it a certain macabre charm. But that's sort of what one would expect from a Bardic Necromancer and a Circle of Spores Druid. Of course, within said home, there were rooms forbidden to guests and prying young sons, where Celestine kept particularly dangerous artefacts from his days as an adventurer (and potentially a foe adventurers faced).

10) Oh, Fionne would tell you in an instant that his greatest asset is his dashing good looks and charming personality, of course. I mean, how could they not be? He can get anyone to do basically anything he wants, and that's only barely an exaggeration. (Given his unearthly charisma and beauty were part and parcel of his demonic pact, he'd damn well better be able to leverage them to his advantage, in his opinion.)

11) As for flaws, well, Fionne would cheekily answer that his flaw is simply being too amazing or witty for his own good. Sometimes people take his rapier-sharp wit to offense, and really, shame on them for taking a joke so hard.

In reality, his greatest flaw is impulsiveness. He will see an offer for power, for influence, for sex, and leap on it without even a moment's hesitation or reading of the fine print. Because surely the consequences of his actions will never catch him. If they tried, he'd simply say, "No thank you." RIP to everyone else, but he's just Built Different.

12) With regards to deities, Fionne has only three words to say: "Fuck. Them. Gods."

None of them heard his prayers when he was going through a long and awkward elf-puberty and facing some ostracization from the other children. None of them have ever offered him a damn thing, even when he did his Good Deed of the Day. And everyone's supposed to just do what these detached, squabbling beings tell them to because they're gods and they say so? Screw that. He openly sassed Vlaakith and, while he expressed curiosity about Shadowheart's faith in Shar, he did so with the express intention of getting into her pants. When Shadowheart chose to defy Shar, part of him rejoiced because 'haha fuck you, you're not as all powerful as you think, bitch'.

And now it's avatars of three dead gods that are making his present life a pain in the ass, while the rest just stand there with their hands tied like "iUnnO wHaT i'M sUpPoseD tO Do AbOuT tHIs". So, fuck 'em.

Xander

Durge 10) Xander hesitates to embrace the tadpole at first because he fears that it might be the source of the horrific, intrusive Urges he experiences. However, once Alfira lies dead at his hands and he tries to assert, however weakly, to his comrades that it might have been the tadpole and he knows for a fact that it wasn't the worm, he starts to see that embracing it might actually increase his mental fortitude, which in turn, would help him to resist the Urge boiling in his blood.

Durge 11) Scleritas would likely say of Xander that he always required abundant assistance to stay on the right path. He was raised until his teen years by a foster family that had a more conventional sense of morality and right and wrong. When his Urges fully awakened at eighteen and he slaughtered the entire family, he broke. He gave in to despair and surrendered to the Urge for a time, though impotent flashes of guilt would occasionally force him to stay his hand.

But, after some few years in Bhaal's service, it would be pride that made him start to resist his Urges. A sense of superiority, that he is better than the other lowly grunts of the cult who seem almost consumed by their base desires at the expense of all else. He was Chosen, he was Different, he was Apart, and he was not some mindless slaughter-beast, and would never become one. If any guilt motivated his actions, pre-tadpoling, it was faded echoes of even more faded memories.

Post-tadpoling, with his mind turned to slush at Orin's twitching knife-hand, now that he's around people with a more conventional moral compass again, it's guilt and fear that motivate him to resist the Urge. Guilt over his actions when the Urge takes over, and fear of losing the last tiny bit of himself that he's managed to retain to something Other.

Tav 10) Xander would state without question or reservation that his intellect is his greatest skill. It is the one thing he forced himself to hold fast to, even as every other memory got chiseled out or eaten by the wriggling tadpole. It is what lets him serve as a strategic leader and find the best path forward for the group. And this is true, but he really should also give himself more credit for his strength of will, his ability to fight against his very own blood and assert that he is more than his Father ever made him or allowed him to be.

Tav 11) Xander would consider his greatest flaw to be, well, the Urge itself. His propensity towards sadism and violence. The foul things he even now longs to do at times, without the excuse of the Dark Urge roiling within him. And, well, yes, this is definitely something he has to struggle with, but his greatest flaw, even in the days of old, was his ego. He's overcome it, to a certain extent, but he will always have the Wizard's Hubris in him.

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