moon-set asked: KoM! Zieg: 16, 7. KoM! Charle: 3, 17, 24 and 25!

YESSSSSSS

his greatest fear: Oh. Well. One of the benefits of his current situation is that he really, really….. can’t feel fear? He can’t feel. You set this boy on fire, and he’ll keep blinking froggily at you until he goes up in smoke. You can hack his legs off at the knees and he’ll just keep stumpin’ on. He’s killed children with his bare hands, he’s wiped nations from the map, he doesn’t care.

I think, though, as the story progresses, and as he does start to remember How Do I Hooman, there’s going to be some gnawing fixation on the idea that all these new comrades of his are going to disappear in a grisly faction all over again and it’s just going to be him again and it’s probably going to be all his fault. there’s also something that keeps popping up over and over again that took me rather by surprise, which is that he kind of… really doesn’t want to disappoint Nail. And he shocks everyone by actually taking steps to insure that he will not be a source of disappointment to her. It’s whacky.

in whom does he place his greatest faith: Nail Nail Nail Nail Nail she can’t save him she can’t redeem him and he wouldn’t ever ask her to forgive him but she can give him something worth dying for and a good reason to die and that’s all he wants or needs she can give him a good death and he knows it from the minute he meets her.

Charle:

something she’d never admit: That her brother would have ruined their empire with his ambition and it was only a matter of time before someone took him down.

her most devastating moment: When she realizes oh shit war is real people die and it finally strikes home that no, she can’t take Melbu home and promise not to let him wield any more heavenly mandates because some black-eyed bitch ran him through and he died.

her mother: Elegance personified, old, old Wingly stock, and completely oblivious to the machinations of her children. Sat entirely behind her son in her support, and kept up the lines of his supply until she was forcibly removed from his campaign. And by forcibly removed, I mean she most likely died horribly when Aglis was blitzkrieged.

her father: The previous emperor. An utterly uneventful reign marked by prosperity and peace and a startling drop in magical power that would later spur on the eugenics programs of his son. A very, very boring man who died long before the story got interesting.

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