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@calidris

Aww thanks!   That’s exactly what I’m going for, so I guess I’m doing something right!  What’s your new guys’ name, or is it a secret?  I feel bad for him   (and Basil’s definitely not helping things)

You’ll find out soon 🙂

Tbh, Basil is an interesting challenge, I really want to see how he reacts to him.

Basil is so nasty sometimes.  I’m so, so sorry, he just kind of got out of control lol.  And yes, that “uneducated” remark was somehow (?) supposed to be reassuring.  In his mind being uneducated is better than being “gross and inconsiderate” so that actually wasn’t supposed to be mean (although that doesn’t matter because it is in fact a rather mean thing to say to someone)

Don’t worry about it, unintentionally rude characters are funny. XD

If this was Liorah, she’d just despise Basil to the end of days and we’d have another rivalry to deal with but this character just… doesn’t take offense. If someone says something rude to him he just… takes it. It’s rather a shock after Liorah XD

 All of that, with that added caveat that Basil isn’t actually a doctor and has like next to zero knowledge of how to treat disease (beyond over the counter meds).  He’s very health conscious, though, and I think he has a good deal of knowledge about treatment for injuries.  He would absolutely butt heads with Niarok over proper medical treatment even though he has literally no qualifications whatsoever!

LOL, this is actually really funny because my character has some background in medicine (more like Niarok though) Same but opposite but you’ll find that out eventually. (I’m really enjoying keeping so much stuff about him secret, XD)

Though he’s the complete opposite of Basil, whenever he gets hurt he just goes. “Okay, I’m just going to die.” and then just ignores it until someone else finds out and freaks out by proxy XD

has a new character in here with some form of PTSD.  He thinks everyone is trying to kill him, and he just got kind of ticked off at Basil right now lol (but for good reason) Rose is probably better at describing him than I am, though

When I’m reading and writing him he seems really irrationally suspicious, but it’s actually pretty interesting. It’s partially personality, partially hypervigalence, and partially training.

He just always expects a situation to go as badly as possible and works from there. Besides that, he’s just used to people not liking him. (For various reasons that you’ll probably find out later.)

He’s in an unfamiliar place, with unfamiliar people, no idea how he got there and no way to get out. He feels completely out of control so he’s definitely just trying to survive. I wonder how he’ll be when he realizes that he won’t die within the next five minutes.

Oh, I feel like he’ll make a whole lot more sense if y’all know he used to be a villain.

@denali-christianson

Aww, I love how considerate Niarok is, he’s so sweet. 🥰 I think my character will actually catch on to it pretty soon. Maybe. XD

And yes. I have a frog named Basil. He’s really fat, and really cute, and hates me from the bottom of his heart unless I’m in the act of feeding him! He’s adorable and I love him. (He’s a White’s Tree Frog if you want to look up a pic!)

Aww, they’re so cute!!

I’m honestly so excited to see how he and Niarok end up interacting. Niarok is literally a giant teddy bear underneath all his warrior gruffness, and I’m really interested to see how your character reacts.

Same!!! My character is actually a really kind person when he’s not panicking, I think they’ll like each other 🙂

Oh, man, Yila is going to scare the living daylights out of him though. Brash people tend to set him on edge and Yila is just the kind of person to not notice and make it worse XD

(Don’t feel bad about it though, that’s how you get the best interactions!)

And I know this because I paired him and Liorah up for a full book while she hated him. That was exactly as bad as it sounds XD (Liorah is probably my brashest character to date and will ignore social cues if she doesn’t like them.)

her eyes cold whenever they lit on the troubled man with the shoulder-length black hair.

I’m pretty sure you’re talking about my character and you got him completely right, except his hair is actually dark brown 🙂

Same!!!! Although I don’t get to do it very often as I live in the mountains and all we have are various species of vermin that, even though they’re very cute, are also extremely not good to hold… Whenever I go to a more amphibian friendly habitat, though, I’m all over the frogs!!!!

Yess, whenever I’m mowing the orchard I’m always on the lookout for smol frogs because I’d absolutely despise myself if I accidentally hurt one. The Netherlands is practically a giant pond so there are frogs everywhere.