is that Tick has nowhere to store books.

He finds plenty of interest, from spell books to journals, and he tries to hold onto the ones he likes most, but eventually he passes them on, trying to make room for his next find. He records what he can in his own journal, however—select passages, diagrams, quotes that stick out to him.

One of his favorites is a scrap of a love letter he found. It’s tucked away safe in his journal, and he finds himself reciting it from time to time, traveling the rhythm of each chosen word.

He’s okay with being alone, usually. Someone like him, it’s a fact of life that gets acknowledged very early on. But sometimes, every now and then, he wonders what it’s like. To wake up beside someone you love, to share something together and build it nice and strong to last you both years.

[Money] Tick has stashes of coin hidden in various parts of Skyrim. He’s a little obsessed with obtaining it and very rarely spends it—something of a trauma response to having to go without as a kid and being all too aware that his next meal depends on Mama selling or repairing to roadside travelers that day. He risks people finding his stashes and the few times he finds out someone looted one for all it was worth? He basically threw a screaming tantrum.

[Government] At least three holds have a bounty out for a hooded leper who escaped the local jails. His crimes are mostly stealing, loitering with intent to sell without a license, and one assault.

So sometimes he’ll rent himself out as a guide to Falmer-dominated ruins and caves. Sometimes he’ll have a little roadside merchant thing going on, displaying wares for travelers. He’ll repair gear if it needs it, and if he’s desperate—well, he’s not above a bit of scaring travelers until they run off, screaming into the night about monsters.

But he’s not a complete fool about it. There’s been times when his identity has been sussed out, or the folks hiring him have made it clear they have no intentions of paying him—or in one case, following his instructions and proceeding peacefully through a cave rumored to have Falmer dwelling in the depths.

So he’ll just straight up ditch them. Find it in his power to give them seven kinds of hell in the shadows, before going to collect his payment (and more) from their corpses.