BREAK MY SHACKLES, growl's plotter

[attr="class",shizzy"]Nessa has never been an overtly friendly person. While he has the capability to read people and treat them in a way that will comfort them, it's rare for him to really go out of his way to do so. He considers himself too busy to just sit down and make friends, and even if he is on good terms with someone he'll almost always prioritize his work or any duties he has over them. This stems mostly from his youth, which was mostly spent fighting, yelling, and generally being about as deterrent towards closeness as possible. This generally means that most -- if not all of his friends -- have to have both strong persistence and patience.


Enemies are something Nessa doesn't really have to go out of his way to make. He has a very dominant personality, and as a result he's prone to bossing people around and generally doing his best to control and moderate anything and everything. Thanks to his temperament he also does a very poor job accepting criticism, and so when people call him out on how he's acting he usually responds with a hostile defensive attitude. Of course, this only nets him more enemies. Really, this is where a lot of people that can't persist through his attitude will probably show up. He's a control freak with a wicked temper and a tendency to hiss at others. Not exactly a ray of sunshine.

Nessa has basically no experience in romance or sex. Both have always seemed a bit frivolous and time-consuming, and neither of these things make Nessa especially anxious to get involved in them. He discovered his sexuality in junior high, and quickly learned that being loud and open about it would be just another reason to start fights. So, in high school he's now taken up almost complete silence on the matter, and hasn't so much as had a proper first kiss. Romantic advances are met with general apathy, but more aggressive attempts to gain his attention can result in fairly entertaining flustered noises. Don't expect quick progress at all here.

[attr="class",shizzy"]Gormlaith is a very friendly girl. Despite -- or perhaps because -- of her past she does her best to be kind to others and treat them as she would expect them to. She's found it makes life much simpler, so it's rare for her to treat others with any kind of maliciousness or intentional negativity. As a result she's moderately friendly with many people. Gormalith is one of those people who will have a lot of people she's on good terms with, but probably not that many that really know her. When it comes to her past, how she feels, and other more personal subjects she has a tough wall up that's hard to get around, and she only calls those capable of getting around that wall her true friends. In general she knows most people in the school and tries to treat everyone in a positive manner. Whether they're truly friends will depend on how the other party reacts and if they're willing to dig beneath the surface.

Due to how she acts, Gormlaith usually can't claim to have that many enemies. At the very least she never seeks them out intentionally. Still, they happen. Whether it's the fact that they dislike how naive and idealistic Gormlaith is, or that they simply can't stand how "good" she tries her best to act, there are reasons for disliking anybody. If you take shots at her or invade her privacy -- either physically or emotionally -- she'll become frustrated and she herself may come to dislike you. She also has a bad habit of being bluntly critical, and this could certainly step on a few toes from time to time. These are plots that will take some conversation!

Romance is something Gormlaith has almost no experience with, and it's one of the things she's held onto many old values when it comes to. It's these values that have helped keep her romantically barren for a long time. Thanks to the time she grew up in she's got a lot of discomfort with her own sexuality. The way that homosexuality was discouraged and in many cases hated mean she's never really managed to get herself to embrace her attraction to other girls. But, with some work an interested young lady may get her to open up. A proper bit of courting -- movies, dinner, late nights -- can make her a bit more comfortable, enough that she'll slowly give a real romantic relationship a chance. Naturally, if she goes through more than one subsequent encounters will depend on how the previous ones went. No matter what though, intimacy will always be slow. She still thinks things like kisses -- and especially sex -- need to take some time.