21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate?
J’hasi’s always had manners since he was young (shocking I know), it’s just that he didn’t always use them. It was when he was enslaved that he not only learned Dunmeri manners, but also used them a lot more because of his first master’s tendency to follow ‘manners or pain’ route of discipline (which often enough ended up being ‘manners and pain’).
After his second master bit it, he tried manners to get help in terms of food and a place to sleep, but that didn’t work out so well. Hence his uh…colorful language when dealing with authority of any sort as he got older. If saying please and thank you didn’t help then fuck it. He leveled out a bit over the course of the Nerevarine Prophecies and the Oblivion Crisis, ending up his quiet, polite, but distant self we know and love today. Unless you’re rude to him first, in which case fuck you.
J’hasi’s type of hero would be someone who helps out the people who aren’t getting the help they need to survive, much less live. Minorities, poor, sick, disabled, oppressed, etc, anyone who is left out in the cold to starve while the rich nobles stuff their faces without a care in the world, flaunting their excessive wealth and status. Think of Robin Hood. Or y’know…the Grey Fox :3
Considering his hatred for inequality and the mistreatment of those deemed sub-whatever, he hates people who work to keep the imbalance as it is, and those who benefit from it. Slavers and slave owners, nobles who do little more than count their drakes and preen, corrupt politicians of any sort, ten times out of ten he would gladly punch them in the face and then some.
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24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually?
Answered! TL;DR J’hasi’s not a social butterfly by any means lmao
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35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures?
Other people’s errors, yes (unless he hates them or they totally screwed him or someone else over, in which case fuck ‘em). His own, yes and no. He’s likely to blame himself for fucking up, then think it over and try to see if he had any other alternatives. And then likely blame himself if he thinks of an alternative, or find something else to blame himself for. I mostly think of his deal with the Nerevarine business when I write this because honestly that could be taken as his biggest fuckup to date, and it’s not entirely his fault alone, but the combination of several people’s fuckups (though he tends to forget that it was more than just his actions that caused the Red Year and Accession War when he beats himself over the head with it).
And I’d say not well? He tends to beat himself up over screwing something up, whether he did or thinks that he did. Not healthy behavior in the least, but the person who was teaching him that is long gone and isn’t around to remind him to stop and think :/ In the moment he’ll try to find a way out of a situation, especially if others are with him when it happens, but once they’re more or less safe the blame game starts up in his head.
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38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic?
When he was younger, everything was treated with excitement, later laced with caution when he learned that Black Marsh (and eventually the world) is dangerous. Lately, pretty much since…actually probably around the time he and Shadows had their little fight he’s been suspicious of new people, and sometimes new places. He’s always been wary, but it’s been upped greatly since then. Some things don’t get the third degree. Food is one of those things. So long as it isn’t poisoned, he’s willing to give it a go.
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