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Mar. 26th, 2022 02:03 pmRe: the last post, part of me is tempted to write a little fic about this version of the PC as well, even though I've already got so much ahead with Althea ... I probably won't, but despite sticking with the Ascalonian diaspora background for both, they're pretty different in my head.
Alexandra doesn't have the same ties to Ebonhawke, though she respects and admires its people in the abstract and that led to her decision to protect the Ebon Vanguard hospital rather than the orphanage in the commoner storyline. She's scrappier—neither an aristocrat nor a spellcaster, just clever and good with machinery and tech, prepared to seize a pistol and rush into combat for the sake of her home, where Althea is a tricky, confident mage. Deborah's "death" was still devastating, but didn't re-shape Alexandra's entire view of herself and the world as it did for the much more sheltered Althea. While Alexandra has to grit her teeth when people go on around how Ascalonians need to just get over the Searing and the conquest of much of Ascalon, her feelings about Ascalon and being Ascalonian are more complicated and amorphous than Althea's mixture of pride and nuclear rage. She and Althea do both have tastes for the fancier things of life, but it's "when I can get them" for Alexandra, while Althea always can.
tbh Alexandra is a nicer person in general, but despite all this, I'm still more attached to Althea, despite how coddled and privileged much of her life has been. It's almost a pity that the noble storyline is my fave for humans—that's why I chose it for the character who got my fave class and was inevitably going to become my main, but it does give her a sort of cushion wrt everything she suffers. Hmmm.
Alexandra doesn't have the same ties to Ebonhawke, though she respects and admires its people in the abstract and that led to her decision to protect the Ebon Vanguard hospital rather than the orphanage in the commoner storyline. She's scrappier—neither an aristocrat nor a spellcaster, just clever and good with machinery and tech, prepared to seize a pistol and rush into combat for the sake of her home, where Althea is a tricky, confident mage. Deborah's "death" was still devastating, but didn't re-shape Alexandra's entire view of herself and the world as it did for the much more sheltered Althea. While Alexandra has to grit her teeth when people go on around how Ascalonians need to just get over the Searing and the conquest of much of Ascalon, her feelings about Ascalon and being Ascalonian are more complicated and amorphous than Althea's mixture of pride and nuclear rage. She and Althea do both have tastes for the fancier things of life, but it's "when I can get them" for Alexandra, while Althea always can.
tbh Alexandra is a nicer person in general, but despite all this, I'm still more attached to Althea, despite how coddled and privileged much of her life has been. It's almost a pity that the noble storyline is my fave for humans—that's why I chose it for the character who got my fave class and was inevitably going to become my main, but it does give her a sort of cushion wrt everything she suffers. Hmmm.
