Do you mind doing a GN MC with the M6?
Specifically, this MC doesn't like alcoholic beverages. Whether it'd be watching people drink alcohol, being around people who are drunk, being offered alcohol or the very idea of drinking or being drunk. Their general attitude regarding alcoholic beverages is a slight grimace and a tendency to be avoidant.
The popular speculation amongst Vesuvians is that the MC is practicing strict sobriety and temperance
The truth is that not only have they witnessed and got in the crossfire of one too many bar fights with family members in their childhood to ever enjoy alcohol at all, but their attitude towards it is to hide the fact that they feel panicked. (Also, alcohol tastes absolutely disgusting to them).
Hiii! Thanks for the ask! :))
The Arcana Headcanons 「Alcohol Abstinent MC」
Asra enjoys a drink here and there, but they can give it up. However, while it’s no problem to give up drinking, they won’t as easily give up guessing the real reason for your abstinence. Asra knows you better than the cards. Your lips promise sobriety and temperance, but your face displays a million different emotions.
The way your nose scrunches at the smell of liquor on someone’s breath… the phantom sick on your tongue when you witness the crowd raise a toast… the speed that you leave a room once the heady air spills onto the dance floor…
“I am the all-seeing eye,” Asra gestures grandly. “Nothing escapes the great magician.”
He hopes his humor will alleviate the tension, because he knows your truth lurks in the shadows for a reason. If you decide to share it with him, then he’s honored but heart-broken. He completely understands where you’re coming from. Yes, alcohol isn’t an inherent evil, but he’s not going to try to change your mind on it. To him, you can live without liquor.
“But you can’t live without tea.”
Yes, that is his real vice. As long as they have tea, then all is well with the world.
Julian got sober for you, and that’s a pretty big testament to his love because it would be no easy feat.
Alcohol is complicated for Julian. It served as both a crutch and connection in his lifetime. At times, he wandered home washed-up in more ways than one, where the only thing to offer a kiss of return was a bottle against his lips. However, the Raven has also been a place where he’s met the most of his family - blood or not - who’s kept him from certain death. He knows drinking is a problem, but he also knows that the real problem is actually himself.
If it were up to him, he would learn to drink wisely, refusing to allow his demons to craft weapons out of anything in his life. However, it’s not up to him - at least not entirely. Yes, Julian values independence in relationships, but he also values partnership. Whether or not you disclose the real reason for your abstinence, Julian knows panic when he sees it. He wants to support you wholeheartedly.
“There was never a choice in the matter, darling,” he says. “I appreciate that you gave me one, but I don’t want you to pit yourself against a bottle. You are always more important.”
As always, Nadia is proud of your convictions and never forces your hand otherwise, even if she doesn’t share the same sentiments - at least not initially. Once she learns the truth (which doesn’t take long… milady has the eyes of a hawk), her neatly drawn lines tangle into a nasty knot.
Technically, she could outlaw alcohol not only in the palace, but throughout Vesuvia. It would do both you and her a favor, as the probability of the law chasing out Valerius would be high…
“I love everyone in Vesuvia, but there are those that I prefer to love at a distance.”
However, such an abuse of power - as tempting as it is - doesn’t promise much of a future for her land or her love. There are some things that are out of her control.
“Yes, but I’m in control,” you remind her. “I’m in control of how I respond to my choices and others’. You don’t have to control it for me.”
This is a season of some strong growth for Nadia as well. Once again, she’s learning to solve the problem together rather than alone. Nonetheless, she still makes changes that are within her realm of control. The kitchen has made plenty of swaps, which unlocked an alarming love for juice in milady - orange and cranberry with an insane amount of sugar.
“Ah, yes, the same story I told myself about why I avoided people.”
I think a healed Muriel is a rather dangerous Muriel because he can now sniff out bullshit from a mile away. Muriel doesn’t really drink, so this is a non-issue; but Muriel also doesn’t really buy your story, so he’s not keen on letting it stay a non-issue.
He knows the games the human mind and heart play against himself. Alcohol isn’t the sin, but people can sin using alcohol.
That doesn’t mean he encourages you to return to drink. He doesn’t care how you’re choosing to heal. His focus is ensuring that you’re actually healing in this process. Your choice is certainly valid, but abstinence can become avoidance if you don’t remain aware. He’ll check-in. In his own strange, Muriel way, he’ll make sure that you’re okay. Even though, most of the time that consists of a grunt and a shy “how’ve you been..."
“Whatever floats your boat!” She shrugs.
Portia is pretty hands-off about this sort of thing. You have your lines, she has hers. As long as you both can get along without getting cross, then it’s a success in her books. What she’s 1000% not hands-off about is your family trauma.
She kinda understands. She herself has had to haul Ilya out of the Raven with a righteous ear tug more times than she’d like to admit. Yet, while liquor has been an annoying third-wheel in their relationship, she can’t say she’s ever felt threatened by it or by her brother. Plus, at the end of the day, Julian picked her. While certainly not sober, he no longer chases the bellyache and woes with bitters, but instead seeks shelter at her table in the cottage. She can’t imagine not having a family that doesn’t choose you.
“I choose you,” she declares with a stomp of her foot. “Until you’re ready, I’ll be sober with you.”
And that’s pretty hard for Portia. Her favorite drink is beer. Like Nadia, she’s had to find a substitute, and the addiction landed on lattes.
He hates that everyone in this ask made such quick selfless decisions because it’s confirmed to him that he’s the solitary ass in the group.
Lucio’s alcohol tolerance is high. I think many assumed he was drunk, but that was actually his natural dummy state of mind. He likes liquor - the finery of it, the art of it, the craft of it. He understands why you have a problem with it, but he doesn’t understand why he should have a problem with it, too.
“So, I just won’t kiss you after I have a sip of the good stuff. No harm, no foul.”
Even if you agree to it, there’s something about it that makes the logic feel illogical. The compromise feels selfish, and his boundaries feel negligent. This isn’t a question of preferences, but a matter of healing. That is something that he does understand. Instead of viewing it like something is being taken away from him, he tries to see it as a way for him to give you space to heal.
He tries to give it up… He does slip up… And when he does, he punishes himself by sleeping in the dog house for the night so you don’t have to smell it.
