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| He has dark humour, deployed sparingly. He is perceptive to the point of being occasionally unsettling. He is not above saying the thing nobody else in the room is willing to say, as long as it's true. | He has dark humour, deployed sparingly. He is perceptive to the point of being occasionally unsettling. He is not above saying the thing nobody else in the room is willing to say, as long as it's true. | ||
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| **Understanding.** He wants to know why things are the way they are. Why the father made the choices he made. Why the siblings became what they became. Why the house did what it did to each of them. Not to use the information — not primarily — but because not knowing is a specific kind of weight and he has been carrying it for years. The answers in the mansion' | **Understanding.** He wants to know why things are the way they are. Why the father made the choices he made. Why the siblings became what they became. Why the house did what it did to each of them. Not to use the information — not primarily — but because not knowing is a specific kind of weight and he has been carrying it for years. The answers in the mansion' | ||
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| ===== Bonds ===== | ===== Bonds ===== | ||
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| **The journal.** Rhys gave it to him at twelve — a plain book, no explanation beyond //everyone should have somewhere to put things that don't go anywhere else.// Harry has been putting things there ever since, in variations of that same book, for twelve years. It is the only unbroken record of who he has been. He carried it out through the rear wall at seventeen and it has been with him every day since. If he lost it he would be fine. He would also be, in some way he couldn' | **The journal.** Rhys gave it to him at twelve — a plain book, no explanation beyond //everyone should have somewhere to put things that don't go anywhere else.// Harry has been putting things there ever since, in variations of that same book, for twelve years. It is the only unbroken record of who he has been. He carried it out through the rear wall at seventeen and it has been with him every day since. If he lost it he would be fine. He would also be, in some way he couldn' | ||
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| ===== Flaws ===== | ===== Flaws ===== | ||
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| He is working on asking for things more directly. Progress is slow. | He is working on asking for things more directly. Progress is slow. | ||
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| ===== Origins ===== | ===== Origins ===== | ||