[IT'S MEME TIME AGAIN]

[antreegonist]

I NEED...A DISTRACTION!

Questions meme, you know how it goes! I play Mithos and Firebird, and you can ask about Lark if you want.

I probably won't pick up full steam on answering questions until tonight after class, Persona answers may be vague, etc.

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[antreegonist]

kyaa hearts kyaa

Uhhh it's hard to say because I have had huge amounts of fun in every heart I have ever played in! It is really important to my having fun/being motivated that my character is directed a little into actually doing something in there -- like if the heart actually asks for help or isn't averse to it, or he is invested in the person and knows doing stuff inside their heart could help them (ie. removing the corruption from Zelos's heart, actively attempting to improve stuff in Ryner's against Alpha's wishes.)

I am also one of those people who is hugely predisposed to creating and running hearts rather than playing in them :'D I just try not to do it a lot since I only have the one character and his first game wound up somewhat more damaging to him than I expected.

How different are Aather!Kyouko and Syaoran from their canon incarnations?

[featherfetch]

Lessee :|a

Kyouko: Is way more unstable \:D/

Her canon coping mechanism is to isolate herself from everyone else and use her magic only for her own purposes. Aather makes that kind of impossible for her because a) there's people she gets on with and considers friends and b) the whole team dynamic makes that tricky, even if Iolite isn't really the most cohesive. She's still trying to stick to her guns but it's kind of... awkward... and not working so well.

Part of the reason it works so well for her is because controlling her own situation leaves her less room for despair, and despair is what sinks magical girls in Madoka-verse! So basically having contact with other people lets things like bitterness and hurt and stuff creep in which makes things a little harder for her. For example, in canon she gets betrayed in a big way by her father, but because from that point on she isolates herself it's not an issue going forward. In contrast, in Aather she felt attached to a few people, so recalling that betrayal makes her go THEY COULD DO IT TO ME TOO and react pretty strongly to it.

Pascal:
He's less >O!!! SRS BIZNESS DETERMINATION ALWAYS because his super important driving goal is not really at play in Aather (hunting down his princess's feathers in each world). It could have come up in games, but Amethyst has lots of strong personalities so he's gotten blatantly overidden in games often enough that he's somewhat hesitant in them.

He's also much more insecure in general :|a basically it's hard on him not to have some goal to drive for, that's sort of how he operates so it not being there is like :( though he supplements it a bit with being designated cook. That's the thing I do!!1

And then the whole clone/conditioning/alternate personality/whatever thing. In canon when it comes up he pretty much goes /BLATANTLY IGNORE. It's unsettling and frightening and he mentions it to exactly no one and carries on like nothing happened. Amethyst is full of clones and stuff though so when it came up there, it was actually talked about and theorized on and now he's not really sure what he is or if he's dangerous and that's new and unnerving. Identity is super important to him because he was an amnesiac child, so having his identity called into question is very D8

He's basically coping by making his Aather life his primary identity and that's a big part of the reason why he still goes by "Pascal" even though he learned his real name forever ago. Also he refuses to take skills because Fon got his conditioning back as a skill, so he theorizes that if he's going to get something like that it'll come back to him the same way.

What does Mithos think of being a knight? How does he envision the role of a knight should be ideally?

[antreegonist]

Mithos ingrained 'being a knight' as part of his identity really hard at first, but this has changed! It's fallen out over time so that he now identifies with the character traits he developed through being a knight -- being an independent agent but retaining a sense of responsibility and care as an authority figure, the need to help and protect people, middlemanning as needed, getting involved with things of his own volition and trying to improve them -- but not so much with the 'role' of knight itself.

He's gradually grown more and more dissatisfied with the unfairness of the knight/hero system and the fact that, after all the heroes' hard work, the pivotal choice to free Beauty's realm was still 'to die or not to die' actually tipped him to a point where he was ready to quit the knight system altogether! Three told him and Lloyd that the knight role itself is a tool with dimensions to change Aather that they don't have full knowledge of yet, so they did choose to stay knights and work within the system in order to gain that understanding and use it as they can.

While he still dislikes the system and Sterling has never been a 'team' by any means, he does like a lot of the other knights as people. They all tend to be pretty committed to protecting people and helping them, which is a damn good thing to do no matter what it stems from.

I think I covered what Mithos thinks the ideal knight role should be pretty well! However, his view of the 'ideal knight role' is also probably a bit different from most other knights, because the ideal as presented in Aather is something he helped create with the other original knights -- of which there are only five left! Beauty gave them 'tasks knights must do' as a baseline way back in the beginning, but the existing knight philosophy is something they came up with for themselves and then passed on as gospel to all the knights that followed them. Aather would probably be a very different place now if the twelve original knights way back when didn't have so many loudly heroic helpful types to set the tone in that way.

How do you think Pascal would do if he suddenly woke up a knight one day?