[quote=@MacabreFox] Well, when you put it like that, that makes more sense on his part. She looks up to Jorwen, but she may look inward and contemplate as to why he made this decision. Ha! I like that, about Solveig that is. I'd like for her and Sevine to interact more really. I did list one of Sevine's weaknesses as Sympathy for Women and Children. However, I was reading through her CS, and she is suppose to be more apathetic than I've written her normally. As I've been trying to equate her inward emotional problems as a struggle, as she's still dealing with mental problems from the war, in a sense, I'm trying to make her more human, less of a cold blooded killer that is use to hacks-and-slashes mode, and more of a person with actual feelings. You could say, she's caught in the midst of transitioning from a soldiers life to a normal one, although being with the company allows her to fuel that desire for order, and for blood. But she's not really bound to them as she was with the Stormcloaks. [@gcold] I couldn't agree more. I don't intend her to be a Mary-Sue by any means, I just don't think she's been placed in a difficult spot yet to show her true colors. Sure we all saw how she fought at the redoubt, she worked like a machine, but she's made friends along the way, and that's something she hasn't had in a long while, or as numerous. Her only friends growing up, were her family, and Edith. Theres a lot more to her than I feel that I've written, I suppose I should work harder on fleshing her out. Sure she's a nice person, but she's not gonna tell anyone what's upsetting her, maybe Leif, she's more likely to hold it in and suppress it, trying to ignore what's tearing her apart. Man, now that I think about it, I haven't included much about her sister at all. I think it would be a good idea if after this battle ends, depending, she ought to sit her butt down and write Liliana a letter. I'm almost tempted to go back and edit a few of my solo posts to help flesh things out. [/quote] I actually wrote Jorwen based on a lot of my little understanding on how soldiers view war, especially as a man who has seen as much of war as he has. Nordic culture is almost anti-intellectual, as they pride themselves more on strength and bloody tales. Jorwen is a man who spent his life in war and knows the stories of glory in war are bold-faced lies. The reason soldiers miss war, it's been said, is not because they miss killing, it is because war forges bonds that they will never and can never find elsewhere and the effects of the massive doses of adrenaline that experiencing combat gives you. Jorwen, like many real life veterans, came back from the brotherhood and love that soldiers have for one another in war-time to a Skyrim and civilian life where a million uncertainties bombarded him. He had a wife to care for, a daughter to raise, and a tailor's shop to run that was doomed to fail. He had his shop taken from him and he only ever knew how to do one other thing. My father grew up in the 80s and 90s around some of the worst zones in which gang killings took place and was part of it all, being a gang member. He is many years removed from that life, but he still holds a certain buried aggression in him, a side of him that is truly scary. There's always pieces of my father in the characters I write. I feel I get to understand him better without having to bring up his memories of it all. These should be good starting resources about the mindset of veterans and the effects of war and killing- [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZMSmcuiXM]Sebastian Junger: Why Veterans Miss War[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSR1VgVAUk]On Killing - Episode 2 (Lonnie)[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CgmSXMpFpk]HUMAN - Clip #14: The lasting effects of violence[/url] As cheesy as 80s action movies are, the first Rambo had this great scene [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMyca5XC_Ao[/url] Which is a little bit like Ulfric's speech he gives to Galmar the first time the player walks into the Palace of Kings. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_5kBJduIg[/url] The Iliad is also a great piece on war. [quote=@Dervish] I'll work on relations after I finish an important post for my Mass Effect RP, reply to Hank in our collab, and finish this bowl of cereal. Priorities, yo. [/quote] What about our collab? QQ