#am i implying that alasdair would kill his father

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3. What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

For canon AUs, I don't envision parental figures and I lean a lot more strongly on chosen family over blood. That being said I think that Alasdair has always made himself useful under leadership and that would ingratiate him to authority figures early in his history. He is a capable hunter, and a craftsman. Sparse with his words. I think that as he grew older his short temper and headstrong nature would spell a lot of conflict and chaffing against authority. A bad father would not live long with a son like Alasdair. A good father would recognise the strength of him. Any father would be proud, but be quick to resent him. I think that Alasdair would never know how to tell a father that he loves him and he would never hear it back.

5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Not his wallet.

I think he'd be the kind of person to carry a handful of change, lint, keys, one (1) splinter glove tucked into the back pocket, sometimes his phone. If he ever has a bag with him it's like a magic trick, he has anything you could think of in there.

Not his wallet though.

15. Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?

He would say he isn't but he absolutely is. He places a lot of value on craftsmanship and labour so he would be the kind of person to insist on paying the true cost of things. There is nothing that he would hate more than something cheaply made and absurdly marked up. I think he would also be hard pressed to buy something that he could make himself, and as skilled as he sometimes he might get a little too ambitious with it. A have a soft spot for the thought that as someone who is industrious to a fault he'd have a soft spot for things made for him, no matter the level of skill. He would wear the awful, misshapen socks Daffyd made him one winter until they were beyond repair. He'd scrape the last drags of jam from him plate because Arthur made it. He'll hum a song for a century because Sean wrote it, even long after the words fade from his memory.

18. Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?

This one was difficult to answer. I think if pressed he would say wisdom but in a lot of ways he admires ambition instinctively. He is still a strategist at heart.

21. If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?

Out of all the characters I write i think that Alasdair probably has the most straightforward relationship with guilt and he's more interesting for it. He would not be quick to blame or bear undue guilt, but where he does find guilt he would go at it like a beast. Ruthless. I think earning his forgiveness, when he finds you unforgivable, would be impossible. And if he ever found fault with himself he would be the same. He would not find guilt debilitating or paralysing the ways others might, and especially on a surface level it would appear that he is quick to turn guilt into something productive but whatever he did, or failed to do? It would haunt him forever.

44. How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

He could not say it without meaning it and he uses it very sparsely. He also does not care to hear it which makes him a hypocrite and also speaks to a bit of arrogance on his part. On the one hand, his love language leans heavy on acts of service so for him to speak love aloud would take a lot. A part of him, the arrogant bit, does not believe that others place as much importance on the words 'I love you' as he does. And that is a fault. It is something that he just can't come to terms with, the idea that people can say 'I love you' again and again and mean it every time. This would cause a lot less strife with someone like Arthur but would definitely put him at odds with Francis. If not at odds then at least uneasy, he would have a hard time accepting it. It is not that Alasdair is careless with other people's hearts, but for all his skill he still has clumsy hands and a mean streak when he feels cornered or patronised.

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