They're tarot cards- used for divination, if you're not familiar. I managed to bring my deck when I signed on if you want me to show you sometime.
[Another thing he only rarely shows others. Card-reading is the one real superstitious activity he allows himself, and only because it's worked; sure, he'll also claim his cards are assholes to him, but if they weren't then he'd be suspicious about whether the results were accurate.]
The Death card doesn't exactly symbolize it literally, either. It just means an end to something, it's a metaphorical death, you know? And the Tower is--
[There he has to pause, fumbling for the words.]
It's another thing people see as a bad sign, destruction, but that's not all it is. It's chaos and disruption and change. And that's not necessarily for the worst, yeah?
[And, given those explanations, Noh-Varr might be able to guess why Ryan is attached to those cards in particular. It's very similar to his feelings about death in general, really: something people fear, see as a negative thing, when in all honesty it's not so bad. There's more depth than the ill omens people see when they look at them; ends mean new beginnings, change is complex.]
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[Another thing he only rarely shows others. Card-reading is the one real superstitious activity he allows himself, and only because it's worked; sure, he'll also claim his cards are assholes to him, but if they weren't then he'd be suspicious about whether the results were accurate.]
The Death card doesn't exactly symbolize it literally, either. It just means an end to something, it's a metaphorical death, you know? And the Tower is--
[There he has to pause, fumbling for the words.]
It's another thing people see as a bad sign, destruction, but that's not all it is. It's chaos and disruption and change. And that's not necessarily for the worst, yeah?
[And, given those explanations, Noh-Varr might be able to guess why Ryan is attached to those cards in particular. It's very similar to his feelings about death in general, really: something people fear, see as a negative thing, when in all honesty it's not so bad. There's more depth than the ill omens people see when they look at them; ends mean new beginnings, change is complex.]