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Thanks for adding to this thread, Phon. These description pages are great, aren't they? I'll have to read her biography and stats when I have more time.
You're welcome, it was good to make a new character profile after all this time. 
A couple more thoughts on Kaia...
What I always find interesting about characters within the world, with whom I interact, is how I learn more about them the longer I spend with them.
Kaia is no different in this respect.
I'm constantly, pleasantly surprised by her compassion for others when to be fair, she owes nobody anything and could be completely forgiven if she were to be supremely uncaring and antisocial. She's not however; romantic and passionate, caring, deeply empathetic, and given to random acts of charity, she lives and breathes a form of liberal religion that encompasses practically every available deity in one form or another.
She has a strong sense of right and wrong which she communicates to her daughters, all the while teaching them to be strong and to stand up for themselves, constantly pointing out others whose example they should follow; Adrienne Avenicci for one is a woman whom Kaia respects hugely, and obviously Ysolda is another.
Certainly she can be hard-nosed and uncompromisingly blunt when she needs to be and is frighteningly efficient when it comes to dealing with people whom she feels deserve it, but there is nonetheless an underlying and very real sense of decency about her which Ysolda, in conversation with her friends, has often mentioned and not without some surprise particularly given her history and species.
But it's not all plain sailing:
She has some fairly major issues with Argonians; a deep-seated and abiding dislike for them that extends far beyond the fact that one of her tormentors during her captivity was one. She stays in the Bee & Barb when she's in Riften only out of necessity, not wishing to stay underground in the Guild, but would almost rather live in the Rat-Run than spend 2 minutes in the company of Keerava or Talen-Jei.
Ysolda has talked to her about this, it being really their only point of contention but Kaia is unwavering in her dislike, to the extent of literally refusing to have any dealings with them at all and referring to them as "conniving, slimy-skinned lizards" with a shudder that is only too real.
It remains to be seen whether Kaia's attitude will change, but Ysolda suspects it won't, it seems too deep-seated for that.
It's a shame really, because despite everything, she's a good person.
What I always find interesting about characters within the world, with whom I interact, is how I learn more about them the longer I spend with them.
Kaia is no different in this respect.
I'm constantly, pleasantly surprised by her compassion for others when to be fair, she owes nobody anything and could be completely forgiven if she were to be supremely uncaring and antisocial. She's not however; romantic and passionate, caring, deeply empathetic, and given to random acts of charity, she lives and breathes a form of liberal religion that encompasses practically every available deity in one form or another.
She has a strong sense of right and wrong which she communicates to her daughters, all the while teaching them to be strong and to stand up for themselves, constantly pointing out others whose example they should follow; Adrienne Avenicci for one is a woman whom Kaia respects hugely, and obviously Ysolda is another.
Certainly she can be hard-nosed and uncompromisingly blunt when she needs to be and is frighteningly efficient when it comes to dealing with people whom she feels deserve it, but there is nonetheless an underlying and very real sense of decency about her which Ysolda, in conversation with her friends, has often mentioned and not without some surprise particularly given her history and species.
But it's not all plain sailing:
She has some fairly major issues with Argonians; a deep-seated and abiding dislike for them that extends far beyond the fact that one of her tormentors during her captivity was one. She stays in the Bee & Barb when she's in Riften only out of necessity, not wishing to stay underground in the Guild, but would almost rather live in the Rat-Run than spend 2 minutes in the company of Keerava or Talen-Jei.
Ysolda has talked to her about this, it being really their only point of contention but Kaia is unwavering in her dislike, to the extent of literally refusing to have any dealings with them at all and referring to them as "conniving, slimy-skinned lizards" with a shudder that is only too real.
It remains to be seen whether Kaia's attitude will change, but Ysolda suspects it won't, it seems too deep-seated for that.
It's a shame really, because despite everything, she's a good person.
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