Answers from my Guardians

For Everyone

Would they agree with the term guilty pleasure? Do they have any?

He doesn’t know it – or wouldn’t answer it, or have the concept of interrogating it – for Forge, his pleasure is guilt. For him, this is a fact of life. He wants everyone to live to their fullest. He generally wants people to enjoy anything they possibly could – Lightbearers and those who risk their lives especially. For reasons he can’t name, him being the exception to that simply Is.

Grim, generally, strides through reality in the sure footsteps of ‘it is like that for a reason’. That goes for whatever ‘it’ might be – pleasure or ordeal, contentment or frustration, getting stuck in a hole or walking for miles with your head blown off. They *are* purpose – their own, and as such, guilt is, at best, a funny arrangement of letters to say and at worst a potent weapon to shoot blindly with.

Xephyr is a creature that feels, and first and foremost, he feels with admiration and with curiosity. This is his instrument of choice. Simplified, ‘a love of reality itself’ would be one way to word it – many pleasures, not an ounce of guilt, as all he aims for is the blessing of experiencing things and phenomena the way they are, himself included.

Forge

Describe them in three words. Now let them describe themself in three words.

Layers form stone.

"I'm a Titan."

What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

He’d say ‘I couldn’t do anything’. I know he’d do many things – keeping watch over Asher when the black fleet arrived, for one. Find a timeline where he can forgive himself keeping more contact to Ency and Val. Leaving Cookie somewhere – before Europa, before going into the Traveler.

Grimnir-16

Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’t they take advice from, no matter what it is?

Figment. Figment took responsibility for their half-existence in their first few months on earth. Figment did everything in their power to facilitate a resurrection, even if combat goes against every fiber of his being. Grim can trust other people to carry out requests or accompaniment – but the only one they can ever trust to act in both of their best interests is Figment.

Grim and Forge’s relationship isn’t easily encompassed, and they view him as a strange, warped beast, unable to comprehend the magnitude of his own existence. At times, that unawareness is soothing to them. This suits them fine, and they look forward to running into him (or hunting him down) in general – but he cannot be trusted because of these walls in his perception. They’ll take advice from Gaoh, a person with extremely narrow focus but a deep understanding of said focus, over Forge’s.

Xephyr