Here are Ragnar's relationships! If there's anything you disagree with, let me know!
Father Rodion @Drakey Ragnar was always in awe of Rodion's prodigious mechanist's talent. So much so that as children, the younger Ragnar would always hang around and watch the older boy work on his machines with rapt fascination. Even though the two rarely spoke (despite Ragnar's incessant attempts at getting Rodrion to open up) Ragnar looks back on those days fondly. Hours would go by with Ragnar watching the mechanist at work, with nary a word spoken between the two, and that seemed to suit Rodrion just fine. Rodrion, sweating in the Seminary's metalworks -- a place foreign to most pupils-- seeing him down there after morning training was like clockwork for Ragnar, and he delighted in discovering whatever new projects Rodrion was working on.
These days, Ragnar and Rodrion still maintain their cordial but distant relationship. Still, Ragnar worries over the mechanist and often thinks about him. It took many years for Ragnar to give up on ever truly becoming Rodrion's friend, which deeply saddened the youngest war priest, but with the two becoming fully ordained Inquisitors, it was high time for Ragnar to grow up and take his position as the Protector of the group more seriously, which didn't leave much time for constantly worrying about his fellow pupil.
Father Hassan @Sisyphus &
Father Yerokhin @The Angry Goat Ragnar loves Hassan and Stina unconditionally. Ragnar, who is among the youngest and smallest of the group, sees the two of them as brothers, as his difficulties with training and ether manipulation almost caused him to fail the first year and were it not for the two of them pushing him to his limit and making certain he would survive his training, he would have either perished with the fresh meat of those beginning pain-filled years or been shipped off to one of the lesser branches of the Church. Due to this, Ragnar's love, gratitude and admiration for the two older inquisitors knows no bounds, and as a result, to this day, he is always awkward around them. Whether it be straightening his back and deepening his voice whenever Stina passes by, or attempting to awkwardly replicate Hassan's devil may care attitude, Ragnar always overcompensates whenever the two of them are in the vicinity, a fact that isn't lost on either Hassan, Stina or anyone else in the group.
Mother Astraea @deathbringer Though Ragnar's has immeasurable respect for Astraea's skill in battle and believes her healing abilities to be essential to the group's survival, his feelings toward Astraea-- the person, and towards the entire nation of Lanostre itself, are complicated to say the least. Having his family massacred by Lanostran pirates has cultivated a silent hatred for the Goddess of the Trident within Ragnar, who he believes, in Her infinite power and omnipotence, could have easily stopped the slaughter of his mother and sister Herself. Though this burning enmity for the Lady has roiled within Ragnar since he was a boy, he tries to not let it color his feelings over Astraea, who he possessed a curt if not respectful relationship with.
Knowing that Astraea and other Inquisitors with similar abilities would be able to see through him in an instant, Ragnar keeps a constant "emotional aegis" veiling his most unholy feelings and desires, keeping them to the shadows while the bright, cheery boy performs in the light of the stage. He goes to sleep every night terrified of the Lanostran inquisitor one day becoming powerful enough to see through his little shield...
Mother Tatiana @OppositionJTo Ragnar, Tatiana is one of the most important things in this world. For as long as he's known her, he has looked to her as a trusted sister and confidant. She is his rock, his secret keeper, his lantern in the dark. Their close-knit relationship being what it is, Tatiana is the only other person who knows of Ragnar's secret hatred for the gods, as he has spent long nights confiding his fears and worries to her.
Years ago, when they were both twelve years old, he tried to convince her to run away with him and become apostates, but she managed to change his mind. Due to his unconditional love for her, she is the image that blossoms in his mind whenever the pain and exhersion of maintaining the aegis becomes too much for him to bear. She is what keeps him pushing through.
Ragnar, Tatiana and Galahad, being the three among Phoenix warband with the deepest ether pools, often study together. As children, they forged a pact to learn as much from each other as they could and to become as powerful (if not more so) as their instructors, and for the past couple of years, when time permits, Ragnar has been teaching them how to summon an aegis in case he falls in battle.
Mother Ziotea @shylarahRagnar and Tatiana have always had a mercurial relationship. Deep down, they understand each other, and even have the propensity to care about each other a great deal, but this realization comes through only after they've both had a massive argument and/or fight and are then forced to make up by the rest of the group. Ragnar, who prides himself in being the "responsible, mature one" and mother hen of the group, can be brought down by Ziotea very easily, whom he views as immature and bratty. In return, she sees him as fake and arrogant, and is the only one with the ability to make his cheery, cool-headed facade come tumbling down around him, the only one all too willing to remind him, through her barbs, that he is really just a dumb 19 year old kid with nary a shred of real-world experience on his shoulders. After all, compared to her life as an Omestrian street urchin in the slums of Magnagrad, his own childhood was comparatively serene.
Though they are often at each other's throats, and both have hurt each other emotionally (and physically, at times) in the past, there is little doubt that Ragnar would put everything on the line for her if she was ever in danger.
Father Galahad @vietmykeNeed to PM you about this one!
Father Ilya, Father Oren, and Mother Viveca @Draken,
@CollectorOfMyst,
@ScoutRagnar has often heard of the three most talented Inquisitors of Leviathan Company. Though he had never actually interacted with them during training, due to his own nervousness, he was always fascinated by the talk he heard about the three.
Thus, when it was announced that they would be joining their warband on the Elurian expedition, he was beside himself with excitement. He has made sure to be as welcoming as possible to his three new companions, and has made certain to tell them as much as he can about his fellow Phoenix inquisitors and their quirks. Ragnar wants nothing more than for the three Inquisitors to feel at home, and though his over-eagerness might come off as annoying, his heart is certainly in the right place.
