so about that meme...
It just occurred to me I should probably get around to my responses for that meme I did a while back. So here's the first one!
Darion Mograine, as requested by nagaina_ryuuoh
1. What would they kill for? What would they die for?
As a death knight Darion doesn't always get the luxury of killing FOR anything, even if he does try to confine his acts of slaughter to Things That Need Killing, of which Azeroth has a reassuringly large supply.
The list of people he'd die for has grown long enough to bother him, but includes Alexandros (demonstrably), Tirion, Sally Paletress nee Whitemane, and several early members of the Argent Dawn. Death knights are a more complicated matter due to the nature of their existence. It's safe to say, though, that Darion would consider the final death of e.g. Thassarian an ample cause for killing, probably in a prolonged and grisly manner.
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
Less than most people on Azeroth. Far more than he's usually given credit for.
3. What do they dream about?
In the figurative sense, Darion dreams of redemption, of brotherhood, and of a world that really will no longer have a need or justification for his continued existence, thus freeing him to end it all in some suitably dramatic manner.
In the literal sense, Darion doesn't sleep but does sometimes spend time in a dormant/meditative state that's close enough for government work. During these intervals he relives all kinds of memory fragments, and while awake tries to place them in the shatter-puzzle that is his conscious mind. The one with the donkey has stumped him for years, and he's getting heartily sick of it.
4. What’s their biggest fear?
Darion has that kind of utter lack of personal fear that comes with the knowledge that all the worst things you could imagine have already happened to you. His biggest CONCERN, at this point in time, is the continued existence of Sylvanas Windrunner and all the ways it could become a problem.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? The one object Darion ever had a real emotional attachment to, he already did give away. Growing up around a bunch of paladins and with the expectation that he'd be one himself, materialism was pretty alien to him even before he became a death knight.
6. What is their fondest memory?
His fondest memory involves Taelan Fordring, a rainy night in the Plaguelands, and a tent that was just barely big enough for two.
7. What is their worst memory?
...you mean apart from growing up knowing he was to blame for his mother's death, having his homeland overrun by zombies when he was just a kid, failing to save his father's life, having his breakup with his first love pretty much reinforce every negative opinion he ever had of himself, finally making some new friends only to have them die because they wouldn't let him go explore Naxx by his lonesome, being the second person to kill his father, discovering that his brother had been the *first* person to kill his father and subsequently killing *him*, skewering himself on the Ashbringer, being reborn as a death knight, and then being torn out of his comforting cocoon of bloodlust and blind devotion and made to realize just what he'd done while in the Lich King's service?
8. What or who was their most significant influence? Expound. Fairbanks. To be sure, Darion did his best to grow up into Alexandros, but given the elder Mograine's frequent duty-related absences and tendency to coddle his younger son, Fairbanks ended up being not just his tutor but chief provider of life lessons and reality checks through his early teens. Fairbanks was also the first to realize that Darion would never be a paladin, and pretty much the only one not to see this as a failure (at least not on Darion's part).
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
Staying alive would be a good start. Under tortures the thought of which would cause even Kel'Thuzad to shudder, Darion might possibly admit that he'd have liked a large and loving family - though ironically, imagining himself as a husband and father never did come easily to him.
10. What makes them laugh?
The suffering of his enemies. Also bad adventure novels. He's spent considerable time and resources on surreptitiously tracking down copies of all his boyhood favorites.
11. What are their religious views?
Pretty much as they were in life, except that he's accepted the Lich King as his own personal anti-savior. Redemption through faith alone is no part of Darion's belief structure, especially not as it applies to himself.
12. What is their greatest strength?
Darion is at once very goal-oriented, and very flexible in how he actually goes about achieving those goals. Undeath has reinforced this by largely (though not completely) removing the moral barriers that held him back in life.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? He has a tendency to overestimate the people he loves, and to be overly critical of just about everyone else, definitely including himself.
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
Tirion is Darion's most important ally, sole remaining link to two of the people he loved most in life, and one of a very few people on Azeroth who will still occasionally treat him like the grumpy emo-kid he secretly knows he is.
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? Darion's demise will likely involve Deathwing or some threat on a similar scale. The one who misses him most will be Tirion, assuming that he doesn't die trying to *avenge* Tirion, which is not wholly unlikely.
Darion Mograine, as requested by nagaina_ryuuoh
1. What would they kill for? What would they die for?
As a death knight Darion doesn't always get the luxury of killing FOR anything, even if he does try to confine his acts of slaughter to Things That Need Killing, of which Azeroth has a reassuringly large supply.
The list of people he'd die for has grown long enough to bother him, but includes Alexandros (demonstrably), Tirion, Sally Paletress nee Whitemane, and several early members of the Argent Dawn. Death knights are a more complicated matter due to the nature of their existence. It's safe to say, though, that Darion would consider the final death of e.g. Thassarian an ample cause for killing, probably in a prolonged and grisly manner.
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
Less than most people on Azeroth. Far more than he's usually given credit for.
3. What do they dream about?
In the figurative sense, Darion dreams of redemption, of brotherhood, and of a world that really will no longer have a need or justification for his continued existence, thus freeing him to end it all in some suitably dramatic manner.
In the literal sense, Darion doesn't sleep but does sometimes spend time in a dormant/meditative state that's close enough for government work. During these intervals he relives all kinds of memory fragments, and while awake tries to place them in the shatter-puzzle that is his conscious mind. The one with the donkey has stumped him for years, and he's getting heartily sick of it.
4. What’s their biggest fear?
Darion has that kind of utter lack of personal fear that comes with the knowledge that all the worst things you could imagine have already happened to you. His biggest CONCERN, at this point in time, is the continued existence of Sylvanas Windrunner and all the ways it could become a problem.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? The one object Darion ever had a real emotional attachment to, he already did give away. Growing up around a bunch of paladins and with the expectation that he'd be one himself, materialism was pretty alien to him even before he became a death knight.
6. What is their fondest memory?
His fondest memory involves Taelan Fordring, a rainy night in the Plaguelands, and a tent that was just barely big enough for two.
7. What is their worst memory?
...you mean apart from growing up knowing he was to blame for his mother's death, having his homeland overrun by zombies when he was just a kid, failing to save his father's life, having his breakup with his first love pretty much reinforce every negative opinion he ever had of himself, finally making some new friends only to have them die because they wouldn't let him go explore Naxx by his lonesome, being the second person to kill his father, discovering that his brother had been the *first* person to kill his father and subsequently killing *him*, skewering himself on the Ashbringer, being reborn as a death knight, and then being torn out of his comforting cocoon of bloodlust and blind devotion and made to realize just what he'd done while in the Lich King's service?
8. What or who was their most significant influence? Expound. Fairbanks. To be sure, Darion did his best to grow up into Alexandros, but given the elder Mograine's frequent duty-related absences and tendency to coddle his younger son, Fairbanks ended up being not just his tutor but chief provider of life lessons and reality checks through his early teens. Fairbanks was also the first to realize that Darion would never be a paladin, and pretty much the only one not to see this as a failure (at least not on Darion's part).
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
Staying alive would be a good start. Under tortures the thought of which would cause even Kel'Thuzad to shudder, Darion might possibly admit that he'd have liked a large and loving family - though ironically, imagining himself as a husband and father never did come easily to him.
10. What makes them laugh?
The suffering of his enemies. Also bad adventure novels. He's spent considerable time and resources on surreptitiously tracking down copies of all his boyhood favorites.
11. What are their religious views?
Pretty much as they were in life, except that he's accepted the Lich King as his own personal anti-savior. Redemption through faith alone is no part of Darion's belief structure, especially not as it applies to himself.
12. What is their greatest strength?
Darion is at once very goal-oriented, and very flexible in how he actually goes about achieving those goals. Undeath has reinforced this by largely (though not completely) removing the moral barriers that held him back in life.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? He has a tendency to overestimate the people he loves, and to be overly critical of just about everyone else, definitely including himself.
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
Tirion is Darion's most important ally, sole remaining link to two of the people he loved most in life, and one of a very few people on Azeroth who will still occasionally treat him like the grumpy emo-kid he secretly knows he is.
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? Darion's demise will likely involve Deathwing or some threat on a similar scale. The one who misses him most will be Tirion, assuming that he doesn't die trying to *avenge* Tirion, which is not wholly unlikely.