Hiems and Cygna

[The_Fixer]

@Jonathan.Link

For a "B" character in this saga, I want the virtues and flaws to balance. So it cannot be simply dropped, it must be transformed into something. I don't care what it is, really. What I want is Heims and Cygna to be happy, to have virtues and flaws that are consistent with the characters and where the players want to take their story. If being touched by Cygna is a problem for Heims, it needs to transform sooner or latter. If it isn't a problem, then I'm not the only one who thinks that it is, which is what precipitated my comment that it needs to be transformed. If Heims fear is that Cygna will leave him, then maybe he has a Restriction, Whenever Cygna isn't present. I don't care; it's up to the players within the parameters I've described. Maintain virtue and flaw balance, and make it consistent to whatever the virtue or flaw describes as reasonable behavior, and make sure you both understand what the triggering behavior is.

Aaaargh!

I dunno where you get this idea that I want him to drop a flaw. I want him to drop the added bit to his flaw!

Try again?

• Vulnerable Magic states that your magic is dispelled in uncommon circumstances.
• As you can see here, I took "Magic dispelled when burned". NOT "Magic dispelled when touched by his love".
• JeanMichelle suggested (it's clearer here) that this cover also being (figuratively) burned by the touch of True Love (I had forgotten the True bit, and I'm not the only one).
  => I like the vulnerability to being burned. It is fitting and is "uncommon". What I want to drop is the True Love bit.

It's like taking a RAW vulnerability to touching Iron, with the DM suggesting that this also applies when touching people with an Iron Will, and wanting to get rid of that last part. Is it clearer?

@Peregrine_Bjornaer

So, he has this deeply rooted fear that Cygna will desert him (just as My Lady did), and because of that, whenever they touch, his magic "shuts down," dispels every spell he has going? Including his tower's wards and what not?

Yes!

I don't like the dependants bit, simply because, well, I want it to be a "free" flaw. That is, IMO, he gets it for free just for having strange children and being who he is. Things should happen to them, and he should worry. Does this makes sense?

@Jonathan.Link

I like the Restriction (when not in Cygna's presence) because it goes totally the other way.

Restriction
Major, Hermetic
You cannot cast spells at all under certain uncommon conditions. These might refer to your state, such as touching the earth directly or having no beard, or to the target, such as birds or glass, or to your location when you use the magic, such as on a small boat or in a storm. The Restriction also applies to effects generated by any enchanted items you create.

I wouldn't exactly call "not in cygna's presence" an uncommon circumstance. In fact, IMO, it is a whole lot worse than having his spells and enchantments dispelled by her mere touch since it means that, should she be trapped or captured, for example, he is helpless to save her.
Compare to Restriction (True Feeling), for a RAW take on this.

A combo of Baneful Circumstances and Deleterious Circumstances (although one is "uncommon", the other "relatively common") when not with Cygna could have done the trick, too, but that's only 2 minor. Maybe with True Love? Bof...
I'm just dismayed that you want him to get rid of his vulnerability, I like it.