Nathaniel's highest advanced skill would be A Scholar of the Correspondence if it was an advanced skill, and it would be something in the range of like. 25. (his Artisan of the Red Science is notably lower - he works more with the concepts and theories of the Correspondence rather than its potential uses in the breaking of reality. a mathematician rather than an engineer, in contrast to the doctor)

as it stands, his actual highest advanced skill is Mithridacy, thanks in large part to a lifetime lived under the thumbs of people with moods more volatile than the H.M.S. Inadvisable

been experimenting with the idea that in my OCs' timeline, Wren is the person who tips the dominos. the Masters start plotting to buy a new city, which would lead to London's destruction. and in response, she assassinates the one Most In Charge of the plan.

this leads to a series of escalations that costs an untold number of lives, but ends in the Masters, the Bazaar, and the royal family all dead or fled, and London Liberated. in time, the city heals. a stranger, kinder society blooms in the darkness.

not that any of this is of comfort to Wren, who leaves in the midst of the rebuilding. the new London is no place for someone like her, someone who knows only how to kill. instead, she will go to a far place, a frozen place - a place where she might better understand the ways of absence.

(that's what she thinks, anyway.)

From the ask game: what is your oc's favorite holiday?

Lucent is a big fan of All Saint's Wake! Back in Sharlayan, the clinic he volunteered at would throw a party for the younger patients every year, and he would put together a different noulith-incorporating costume every time. Ask him about his "sagacious tonberry" costume

Sav kind of looks upon all present-day holidays (particularly any involving the Twelve) with a mix of bemused amusement and nostalgia. I think he finds it hard to be in the festivities unless he's with someone - too many memories, otherwise. Too easy to drift off into the past. If You Know His Deal, he's more than glad to tell you about how the various holidays have changed over time, the traditions that survived across each era, and so forth.

I don't know if the doctor like... cares about holidays, really... he is Aware of them but they hold little personal significance for him beyond sometimes doing stuff with his friends that are kind of holiday flavored. The exception is Whitsun, and his attention is more on the eggs themselves than the festivities, per se

I almost said "oh yeah, absolutely, he's from Sharlayan after all" but then I remembered Urianger so

Anyway, yeah, he can! I don't think he particularly likes or dislikes it - it's just a thing that he can do when he needs to.