Oooo I absolutely love this thread and everything written, I can't wait to see more!
• Lana (and all her versions throughout the years) have
all been built from character interactions.
The
reason her relations list is so long is because I need it for myself as much as entertainment. I can directly point at names and explain in detail how that person may have affected the way I roleplay my own character. For example, Lana has always been intended to be an evil character, something I secretly long for outside PMs. Yet she is a good aligned character, solely thanks to the efforts of characters in Roleplay and their friendly interactions with Lana which make her feel validated.
• When Lana 'breathes in uneasily' or 'breathes out uneasily,' it is mostly in a situation where it would replace a sigh. This is because her throat and internals are still somewhat damaged from her time as a Fireblessed, where she quite literally used to scorch her throat with hot tea as well as being burned from the inside out upon getting rid of it.
• Lana drinks chamomile tea because it helps calm her, being a naturally frantic person. The story of this she tells IC, but I will share it here too. Cyrus (
Magic Intern ) drank this tea extremely often and he was integral, with Mira and Woven too, with Lana's early development as a character. Whenever she drinks chamomile, it reminds her of where she started-- though also simply because its a direct continuation of an old, gone character whom many new characters would have never met.
• Another story she may have told IC, same as above: Lana never intended to be a physican or healer.
This came by accident writing a medical flora book for Cyrus by compliling every medical book in Frostwarts into one, long before the new flora lore came out. In doing this, she accidently learnt what each flora did and their effects. Thus, during a particularly bloody lesson in Frostwarts when Set'iki fell from the stairs and holy water was poured on mages, Lana performed her first medical RP... and realised she liked it.
On a similar note, Lana became a Formist Mage because she saw a naturally blind girl's vision get restored by Milah and Fronslin. Though she did attempt to become every other type of mage first before being accepted by Milah as a student, because she trusted Kam's words that "Formistry would not suit you" first, though was denied entry in every other school (this was before being Sparked was something you could do by yourself, instead needing a higher mage of the old arcane system to Spark you)
• An easy way to get on Lana's "disliked" list is to be a bad parent or, to a lesser extent, a bad pet owner. Even before Lana had her own child, she is strongly maternal and takes heavy opinions of people that abandon their children or pets. She will outright berate anybody who falls under this category to try and steer them better.
On this note, she is terrified as a parent. She fears letting her own son down, by not being a good enough parent herself.
• On this note of Aster, one of the reasons Lana has recently become so militant against demons, possessed and things she dislikes is because of her son. She wants to build a better Realm for him. A lot of Lana's recent developments can be chalked up to being a fearful mother that just wants the best for not only her son, but the sons and daughters of others.
Especially Luna and Cael.
• All of Lana's emotions are visible from her eyes and smile (or lack thereof). Almost all of her emotes are regarded with how her eyes or smile is. This has actually become so natural to me that my fingers begin typing 'she smiled warmly' that I need to remove it and rewrite, like a habit.
• Lana has never written a fiction yet. She has wanted to and, about 40 pages worth back in late 2020 were written for a novel called 'Mr. O'Malley,' a Port Silver detective. Lana does not actually like her writing in this regard so she abandoned the project and gave the prototype book to a now banned player character, Rolland. Should Lana ever publish a novel, it is a universal sign that she has become content with life and all she has written: which time has not yet come.
• Lana never was the same an Immortal Seeker (
blargtheawesome ) came to her home and informed her of some 'things' about reality and why it needed to be reset through genocide. A part of Lana agrees with the sentiment, though that would be 'evil Lana,' which never came to fruition thanks to Roleplay and how people have treated her. Instead, she developed in the direct opposite direction, believing instead that mortals need to adapt to new understandings despite it not being intended as part of the grand design of the higher beings. This is why Lana tries to teach so much and try to deduce complicated theories of Gods and reality-- because if Roleplay had gone a different way over the years, she would be trying the opposite to spread ignorance.
• Lana has met her heroes.. and then they all vanished. The saying 'never meet your heroes' applies, as whilst they had done great things and whilst Lana does revere them in RP as much as possible, almost all of them were broken people-- whom all went inactive around last year. Especially through these demon events and traumatic experiences throughout her life, Lana could also now have the status of 'broken character,' though she endures through love and affection because those that came before her-- Lana's heroes-- all vanished. Lana swore to never disappear like they did, to not give up on people.
