For Kuja: 35. Well. Historically, his response to his plans failing has been to throw up his hands and say 'fuck it, we'll do it live'. This has historically been very effective at actually accomplishing his goals- provided someone doesn't pull a last-minute trump card on him like 'lol doesn't matter you're dead anyway'
45. What happens to the souls of the dead is fairly well-understood. They return to Vaikuntha, much like they do on Gaia. He's not thrilled about the prospect of dying, but he's done it about 60+ times by now and the fear has kind of left him. (It's complicated.)
For Akechi: 33. It... really depends on who's doing the criticizing, and how it's coached. Insulting him is likely to start a fight. Someone he gives a shit about, though, approaching the topic in a way that doesn't insult his intelligence or condescend? When he's not being a caustic little prick he's pretty rational.
37. Not the fuck anymore lol. Akechi does not have enough spoons to deal with what other people think about him. He's going to do his own thing, keep the people who matter, the rest can burn for all he cares.
41. ... The concept of 'deserving' things is... not something Akechi can really subscribe to, anymore. Literally nothing has ever come easily to him. The only person who get get you the things you want is yourself. Maybe a small handful of people you can trust, if they're the giving type.
Serge is a special case because the one game I played him in he was actually a native of the setting, which later events turned out to reveal meant he was a reincarnated version of a canon immigrant version of himself from a previous iteration... Melodies of Eternity was a time.
11. The most frightened that Serge has ever been was probably the first time he started recovering memories from his canon self. The very first thing he relived the experience of getting his body stolen, his best friend getting stabbed, and his body getting torn to shreds and thrown into the Dimensional Vortex.
12. There's a couple competing options, honestly. Noteworthy mentions include his dad giving him a little child-sized sailboat for Starlight when he was six, Kid (who was also in game and the canon version, even) agreeing to go out with him finally after awkwardly trying to work up the guts to ask for months...
He'd been struggling for a long time with being a literal walking time paradox, trying to reconcile the memories belonging to about three or four different timelines, questions about who he is, trauma from events he only barely remembered, lingering hangups about his dad's death...
The happiest and most frightened Sam Vimes has ever been in his entire life was the moment he first held his son. Frightened because he knew that what he had in his arms was the most precious thing in the entire world, and that from this moment onward, everything he said and did would shape Young Sam into the man he'd eventually be.
Happy because in that moment he'd never loved anything in the world more. If a gonne was pressed against his head, maybe, he might even admit- his wife. Which is impressive, because Sam Vimes would move nations for Sybil.
☾Lunar Eclipse☽
: there was a lot of buildup involving starting to hear chimes whenever magic was used near him over the preceding year, and getting certain vague feelings of recollection whenever they aligned toward a particular element the link, of course, was this
35. Well. Historically, his response to his plans failing has been to throw up his hands and say 'fuck it, we'll do it live'. This has historically been very effective at actually accomplishing his goals- provided someone doesn't pull a last-minute trump card on him like 'lol doesn't matter you're dead anyway'
(It's complicated.)
33. It... really depends on who's doing the criticizing, and how it's coached. Insulting him is likely to start a fight. Someone he gives a shit about, though, approaching the topic in a way that doesn't insult his intelligence or condescend? When he's not being a caustic little prick he's pretty rational.
Maybe a small handful of people you can trust, if they're the giving type.
it's dorky, but i'm kind of proud of that post.
Frightened because he knew that what he had in his arms was the most precious thing in the entire world, and that from this moment onward, everything he said and did would shape Young Sam into the man he'd eventually be.
If a gonne was pressed against his head, maybe, he might even admit- his wife.
Which is impressive, because Sam Vimes would move nations for Sybil.
the link, of course, was this