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[lordsofdungeon]

One of my favorite ways to interpret Mithruns personality is that his blind acceptance to doing things that the Canaries tell him to is not a symptom of his lack of desire but a part of his personality that has been transformed from one thing to another.

I personally think that Mithrun was, before his time as a dungeon master, extremely reliant on people pleasing to get by. I imagine his inferiority complex, as well as his illegitimate connection to his parents would push him into a corner where he felt like he needed to keep up an act or a show. I think a lot about how it's mentioned that he was the perfect example of an elf, and elves have a large expectation to keep up good face in any situation, to help out when they can. I imagine that's put him in the place of listening to other people or giving them what they want from him to get his needs met.

I think that contributes to his behavior with the Canaries. He's rather obedient, despite being their leader, and obviously that just happens to be because of his disability and the fact that he literally does have to rely on them to have his needs met, but I think in general he's been shown to be obedient to the others without question. He has no desire to trust them, but he doesn't have any need to distrust them either.

He has no actual reason to say no to them, he has no need or desire to care about his appearance, or the way touch feels, or how dignified he is, or anything of the above. But due to already BEING a people pleaser before being disabled, these are the patterns of behavior he falls into. I'd imagine it puts him in a lot of risky situations, because he has no desire to actually look out for his wellbeing, he might go along with things for one reason or another because he doesn't have a reason enough NOT to go along with it. This is one of my favorite traits of his, is his strange obedience found in his apathy.

He isn't blindly obedient, either. Which is the part that endlessly fascinates me, and leads me to believe that it definitely isn't a symptom of his lack of desire but a personality trait warped due to a lack of desire. He's gone from people pleasing for the desire of approval and praise, to people pleasing out of the lack of anything better to do. It's simply a pattern he fell into when he was younger, and continues out of habit.