Wren, after a successful murder: "I am going to go home. I am going to safely dispose of this remaining poison. I am going to eat an entire bucket of roasted chestnuts. And then I am going to sleep for an entire day."
Rafael: "At least come to our place for that last half? It's drafty at yours this time of year."

planning on making Wren a Licentiate. this means that people will be able to mail her names in gant for a significant scandal/suspicion drop but also I'm just tickled by the idea of her getting those and going "oh come ON, stop asking me to murder people"

(her lore is that she does possess The Aliases List, having permamurdered someone to get her hands on it, but she uses it mostly to keep tabs on who is getting picked for permamurder. both to make sure none of her friends are, and to study what patterns may be emerging in who is getting murdered and why.)

Wren is an interesting character to pair this job with because like. unlike some of her more idealistic friends, she's a cynical soul who believes in the usefulness of violence. she agrees with the concept of a Licentiate, that murder is an unfortunate necessity and that the best people for the job are those who will do it cleanly and without passion. but the reality of a Licentiate is what she disagrees with - that it's those with power, wealth, and influence who get to choose who dies, quite often over what she considers unnecessary petty bullshit.

so her answer is to watch the list. whose deaths have been deemed necessary? why? and by whom? towards what ultimate purpose? most of the time, it's an academic exercise. if a bunch of spies want to murder each other then she couldn't care less. if one or two regular people get murdered in the lot, well, she cares more there, but she can't save everyone. but if a bunch of actual ordinary people start getting targeted? (or god forbid, one of her friends?) then it's time for the alias-writer to get a taste of their own medicine - or poison, in this case.

she's not pleased about it. she's tried her best to leave murder behind. but, as they say, the Licentiate serves the tyranny of necessity. it's better if the blood is on her hands - they were never going to be clean to begin with.

in terms of sheer dangerousness level, Wren would be incredibly qualified to be the Warrior of Light. she would also be very, very mad about it, and prone to giving everyone from the Scions to the city-state leaders to quest randos dressing-downs about their willingness to use her to make problems disappear via violence... before turning around and making a different problem disappear via violence

there was a @WoLQotD question a while back that was something like "would you and your WoL/FFXIV OC get along" and I think the answer is actually that prolonged exposure to Lucent would exhaust me and also teach me several new kinds of anxiety

every so often I wake up and thank the Twelve that we do Not introject (gain headmates based off of a character) easily anymore, especially introjects of our OCs

this has only become Extra True with the good doctor's existence

you see, the key difference between the good doctor and I is that while both of us are white-haired anime guys, only I can be described as a white-haired anime boy, and only the doctor can be described as a white-haired anime man. that's the venn diagram distinction right there