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8, 17, and 19 for the D&D ask meme

you didn't specify which of my characters so you're getting the 3 that have been on my mind for all three questions namase (also thank u so much T^T i love talking abt my dnd characters)

8. what are three songs that suit them?

Cephas: I Will Never Die by Delta Rae, Good Life by onerepublic, and Everybody Learns From Disaster by Dashboard Confessional

Wyn: The Fear by The Score, Small Town by John Mellencamp, and Heavy Cross by Gossip

Scalia: Lowlife by That Poppy, Graveyard Whistling by Nothing But Thieves, and The Next Round by Frank Turner

17. what do they dream about, when their dreams are their own?

Cephas: is a stone construct! and therefore doesn't actually sleep, just goes into... like. their consciousness just shuts off and they are just a construct that follows order for four hours, and then they 'wake up' and are a person again. they don't remember or experience that time as anything at all, and it's never theirs

Wyn: sheep! farming. home. a lot of simple things, because she's a very simple woman. her worse dreams tend towards failure to protect people, failure to protect the world, and accidentally ending the world herself. or on purpose. her dreams also get hijacked by her deity on occasion, but that's more Visions than dreams

Scalia: her twin sister; occasionally happy but more often just kind of.... disconcerting. like looking at yourself in a funhouse mirror. nightmares about that one time she accidentally killed her best friend. craving dreams (she's been clean and sober for a couple months and dang it is not easy). the ones she likes best are when she's just a spectator. the dream has its own weird plot that dreams have, and she can just watch.

19. what haunts them? what doesn't?

Cephas: is a witch! which is a homebrew class that involves binding spirits to yourself. so what haunts them? their magic powers! and also the literal ghosts they have following them around! as for what doesn't, well, everything that by all rights probably should. Cephas has done a lot of work over their very long life to avoid being haunted by their past. take responsibility, but don't let yourself get so weighed down by guilt that you can't move forward, and all that

Wyn: y'know a couple members of her party just found out that while Wyn was gone, she actually got sent to an alternate dimension where things were more peaceful and lived a full life there, and only returned to this world on her death bed. so she's very much haunted by aches and pains and scars that are no longer there in this younger body, a bad hip that isn't going to be bad for another 30 years, that kind of thing. and, of course, the people she knew in that world that she will probably never meet in this one; and the fact that even if she did, they wouldn't be the same person. she also is currently carrying around the idea that she is responsible for a huge planar war that might end the world, and also she's had to think about the kind of sacrifices she might have to make in order to protect it, and is weighed down by the things she knows she would do if she had to. what doesn't haunt her? past mistakes and regrets, and the passage of time. she lived a whole other life, and now she's technically an old woman. some things just don't matter the way she used to think they did

Scalia: listen. my edgy necromancer. her sister, now dead, her best friend that she accidentally killed, currently living. the woman who taught her necromancy and is, apparently, a fugitive Wanted Dead, the fact that Scalia doesn't want her dead despite the fact that she probably should, the idea of confronting her past. actually, just about every moment of her childhood up until meeting her best friend, and then a few moments after that. what doesn't haunt her is, well, herself. she knows exactly who she is, she knows all her flaws and could list them off, she knows that her closest relationship is also her most unhealthy one. all of these don't haunt her because they're just facts. she's accepted it. death haunts her, but life doesn't. y'know?