perpetually tired af

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

A Jewish peasant girl turned moneylender, Miriam, ends up stuck married to the fae king of winter. The daughter of a duke gets stuck married to the emperor, who is possessed by a demon.

henry of skalitz is autistic (to me)

misreading of social cues

is confused about last stephanie's sexual interest in him and awkwardly stumbles by accident into bed with her because he can't tell what she's getting at when she's getting him to try that shirt on. even after she's flirting with him as much as their station disparity allows lol

is always speaking out of line with the nobility (interrupting the council meeting in pirkstein when you first get to rattay, insults hans to his face at the archery range, forgets to bow to lady stephanie when he first meets her in the kitchen in talmberg and has to be prompted by robard) to the point that hanush gets pissed at him for it

needs zizka to blatantly tell him that katherine is into him, he wouldn't figure it out otherwise. you don't get the katherine romance route if you skip this.

takes the bailiffs instruction to close the taverns as priority over social norms, he tries to drive hans out of the tavern even after the innkeeper is like "dude what the Fuck are you doing that's the lord of pirkstein you idiot" and then proceeds to get into a brawl with him

(so many dialogue options you can choose for him just make him sound even more oblivious but ofc that's player choice. but the fact they're there at all is. hmm)

literal interpretation of speech

all the stupid tasks hans keeps assigning him during the next to godliness quest, like stealing the wine and getting the flowers, always struck me as hans fucking around making non-serious requests bc he's sloshed and he doesnt actually expect henry to do it, he's just thinking out loud. but henry the mad lad actually does it (and hans is increduled by it lol)

this can be applied for any quest where the quest-giver makes henry do some bullshit they don't actually expect him to go through with tbh

doesn't figure out miller kreyzl's doublespeak with wanting to make a golem/making gunpowder even when it starts getting ridiculous

hans: *telling the story of galehaut and lancelot* henry: hey that sounds like us :D :D :D hans: ...yes that's why i'm telling you this 😐

klara's "secret"

a lot of failed speech checks are pretty much This, there are so many i can't even pick up any off the top of my head. it doesn't come naturally to him, it's literally a skill he needs to get better at

repetitive obsessive behaviours and mannerisms

bro is a blacksmith by choice (trade that involves very monotonous activities all day) (yeah his pa was a blacksmith but he didnt have to pick it up again seeing as he's an accomplished man-at-arms by the time kcd2 rolls around) and climbs the ranks with the kuttenberg smithing guild v quickly with how good he gets at it, he obviously enjoys the smithing grind

perks for alchemy and reading you can get tend to be about getting into The Zone so much with these activities you end up forgoing your biological needs which is something i'm sure us fellow autists can relate to ("in the flow perk" and "enthusiast" perks)

this might just be a tom-ism but that goofy head nod/shake he does when he's feeling bashful and shy always struck me as some kind of stim lol

one-track-mindedness

absolutely Has to get to skalitz to bury his dead parents the day after the event (you can argue that any christian at the time would be compelled to do the same thing to try and prevent his parents from getting stuck in purgatory but he's the only guy who goes to the lengths he does to do it. he was so determined to do this IMMEDIATELY)

even after his retinue gets killed and him and hans narrowly escape death, the only thing on his mind is "holy SHIT I SAW ISTVAN AND HE HAS THE SWORD!!!"

even when he's stuck in the nebakov jail the only thing he's really capable of saying is "WHERE SWORD???"

he can even bring istvan's existence and the sword up to von bergow when talking about the suspicious goings-on on trosky (hans has to hint to him to stfu and that it isn't appropriate to discuss something unimportant like that)

he can also bring up finding and rescuing mutt constantly with the early-game trosky NPCs and hans even when finding a dog should be the least of his priority atp. dude you have pilfered bandit rags for clothes and you're sleeping on the side of the road, you don't Need your dog rn

literally the plot of these two games is finding and delivering a sword. this isn't something epic grand story of driving sigismund out of bohemia or whatever - he falls ass-backwards into these plots, the only thing dude really gives a shit about is The Sword, getting embroiled in this political bullshit is just a means to an end for him

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road