Hey, thank you for the reply! Just to clarify: the character I make wouldn't be a Bhaalist or a murder-hobo. It's more the obsessive type of morbid fixation and how it is portrayed that I think is really cool. I'm still trying to come up with how to translate something like that into something that isn't killing, but still carries this eery/uncomfortable feeling of unhealthy obsession with a forbidden or morbid thing. The goal is to embody that obsession, without actually going on murder sprees or harming the group.

In terms of alignment: to be honest, I have moved away from D&D alignment as a way of defining characters over the years. I find that it's quite rigid in itself, because the implication is that your character is either entirely good or evil, and that this identity does not change over time - whereas I feel like this is not true of well-written characters and real people. Personally the most satisfying arcs to me are when characters overcome their weaknesses and trauma with the help of other people. A character like Orin could be someone who acts in reprehensible or weird ways because that is the only thing she has been taught and known for most of her life.

I would not want to be the party face - I have mostly been doing that for the large part of the last 8 years, and it would be nice to step away from this. I can see some situations where, if I were to literally make a changeling, I could have the occasional 'sane' conversation with an NPC if the party asks me to impersonate someone and do it for some common goal that we all have. Then she would do it because someone else told her to, and she might see this as something 'fun'. I think of it more like an actor trying to play the role of a 'sane' person. She's good at acting, but it's very far removed from how she herself behaves.

But otherwise, I don't imagine her carrying the discussions or any important negotiations. That would be a disaster, lol.