skills

sfina is supremely mediocre in all that she does - she has skills but they're not much better than the average person in this skills - or they're below avg

• she is by far the least skilled fighter in ERiS's fighter line (sfina arcael lucis)
• passionate about learning, but burning out
• gives up when failing for the first time

arcael is very very talented in most things due to his patience and precision

• but what he's most passionate about is unrecognized completely
• not afraid to show off other skills but writing is very personal to him - scared of critique because he thinks it reflects on him as a person

lucis is very talented in one thing - gun usage

• usually never misses
• extremely insecure when failing because his childhood was taken in exchange for him being really really good with a gun
• so if he's bad who even is he like he has nothing else
  • his other skills (cooking, drawing) have much less meaning to him and he doesn't think his skills in those are as good so they don't really count
  • he genuinely enjoys them though
• will actively try to improve his skills in other fields but he can feel the skill gap between those skills and his gunmanship

syriense passively engages in his interests - does not particularly mind being average unlike sfina

• made peace with being a nothingburger nobody who does nothing
• someone has to be average.. right...
• it's too hard learning and trying, so he uses his guilt like a crutch to not do anything

albrose also doesn't have many particular skills - she leans HEAVILY on her powers

• she's still good at some things, but does a lot of them (e.g. combat) in order to be useful to others
• always trying to learn more helpful things and dabbles in a lot of things
• doesn't really care about all that though

sfina

• jealous of arcael and lucis - good at the things they do
• will try out new things with arcael - he always does fairly well while she does suboptimal and it ticks her off a little
  • like opposites: arcael is skilled but not passionate, sfina is passionate but not skilled
• she doesn't know about arcael's writing
• when lucis has bouts of insecurity she believes that his other skills should be counted in his self-worth because he's actually quite good at them - he disagrees

arcael

• admires sfina and lucis's passion and initiative
• will hop from thing to thing with sfina because he doesn't care about them much - he low diffs her in everything
• super jealous of lucis's drive (ambition)

lucis

• thinks sfina and arcael are both extremely well-rounded (sfina disagrees)
• respects that they're invested in their individual interests as well, but subconsciously looks down on them a little because he's like ALL IN on his gun thing, while sfina gets burnt out from failure and takes breaks from her interests to try other things - lucis also does not know about arcael's passion for writing (arcael is also highly invested in writing but hides it well)
  • GOD guys... you just DON'T UNDERSTAND.....

syriense

• admires them all for trying