Duma // There's no Question in the Silence (duma) wrote in forgotten_ooc,
A. Merlin 1. I feel that "he's Merlin" is an adequate answer to this. I've always been more than a little fascinated by him. 2. Constant liminality. 3. Constant liminality. 4. Extremely difficult to aim in a direction, but quite easy to write as long as I don't have to make any particular point ^^; 5. I haven't managed it yet. Closest I've come would be somewhere between here and here but obviously I alighted just slightly wrong on each. 6. Merlin will carry on being Merlin. He'll act to protect Arthur and keep the band safe if necessary, other than that he'll keep on moving to the esoteric rules required to maintain some unseen balance.
Bonus: Merlin is my favorite.
B. Perses
He wants to foster and strengthen the relationship between Asteria and Hecate because down in his bones he knows he'll die before Asteria and doesn't want her to be alone.
Most of the dog characteristics are affectations. Going to Pallas when the goat brother whistles (no matter how far he may be from Pallas at the time, he will hear him whistle) is not an affectation, and neither is heeling when he walks with Asteria.
In the same place in his bones that tells him he'll die before Asteria he knows that Pallas is going to die before him, and that he won't be able to follow the goat brother immediately as he should because this isn't Ancient Greece, they are no longer gods and he has to think of the family before he thinks of himself. He'll be incomplete after it happens.
Perses believes that the starry-eyed eldest is the brightest of the brothers, and that Pallas is the best.
He's a lot wiser than he comes across as. No, seriously, I feel like I've represented that aspect of him incredibly poorly ._.;
Perses can't read the stars but he tracked them anyway for a long time because they reminded him of Asteria.
And I'm going to have to cut myself off again because holy headcanon, batman.