#darkbells

11. What is Butcher's favorite ritual?

Their favourite ritual is the Bonfire, or any of the other festive ones (maybe RoL, Blood Moon, Midwinter celebration, weddings, Holy Days?). Festivities tend to turn into grand, day-long celebrations at The Vanity, because they enjoy it so much.

They get to play music alongside the other musicians in the cult, and don’t have to worry about their followers in the same way as usual for a bit. In an ideal world, this would be the only thing they have to do as a leader.

Cleaning up the cult the next day does very much suck, but surely that’s what they’ve got the janitors for…

15. Can Butcher read and write? If yes, in what language/languages? What is their writing like?

(This turned into a more general ramble about language beyond just writing, but bear with me...you may wanna check the Languages lore post for context on this one)

Butcher’s native tongue is a dialect of Bovidian specific to their village, and later on in life, they also learned Pentascript.

Because it’s the language spoken by everyone else they meet, Pentascript has become the primary language they speak nowadays. They can read and write in it on an average adult level, nothing extraordinary but still perfectly fine writing.

When interacting with the Woolhaven ghosts however, they probably do speak Bovidian. The village dialect they’re familiar with and the Bovidian spoken in Woolhaven aren’t exactly the same, but again—the same roots and context clues make it easy to understand regardless.

Unfortunately, after all these years they’ve lost nearly all of their native accent (the ability to bleat) and forgotten a lot of the words and proper grammatical structures of the language.

They can read in Bovidian, but only at a pretty slow speed, and they can write in it but do so with spelling/grammar errors. They feel a lot of shame over this.

18. What is Butcher's opinion on the Fox? Do they know him?

Butcher voice oh DO I know him (derogatory) /j

Well, they know he’s not to be trusted. They also actively try not to “fall to his level” and view themselves as superior to him (debatable). If you asked them about him they’d say “oh yeah I can’t stand him” or just straight up “I’ve never met this fox in my life."

That said, they do still view him as a good friend and address him as such.

The jabs/threats/insults are mutual and honestly much more akin to banter than genuine malice.

They’re the most comfortable dropping the Leader facade + talking freely about things they usually hide in front of him, because they don’t fear his judgement (and he’s a lot more neutral or even positive in his reactions towards worse things than normal people. If anything he only boos when they actually do something morally correct). Plus, they feel like he just Gets Them on certain things which is a feeling they seldom find elsewhere.

So yeah I found a way :3 If the game continues running normally, future mii posting will be delegated to @named-victory and probably not main-tagged, but I wanted to show you my bullshit first!!! These fucking goobers!!!!

They used to love singing, but their voice became really strained and unstable after their decapitation + the bodily adaptations that came later on, so since then they’ve started playing instruments to make up for it instead. They can play the drums and the mandolin, self-taught on both. Learning through sheer trial and error becomes much more possible when you’ve literally got all the time in the world to do it (immortality)

Sometimes they play music at festivals in the cult, or in front of people they’re close with, but they mainly do it on their own time for themselves.

They also enjoy playing board games! They’re pretty good at knucklebones (despite what it might look like here) but not so much at flockade.

They visit Ratau every once in a while and play knucklebones with him and his friends while they’re there. Ratau knows they like it and even gifted them their own (portable!) knucklebones set.

Some nights they bring it with them to play against the Fox when they hang out. They’re absolutely certain he’s cheating but they haven’t been able to prove it yet. The canon Lamb being a sore loser is very dear to me so I think Butcher should get to be one too

Finally, they’re also a collector…of body parts and relics. They took an interest in it after Chemach, and of course bought most of their collection off of her. There’s an entire wall in their room dedicated to housing the whole thing, and it’s only getting bigger as time goes on!

The collection isn’t just relics—they’ve also got a lot of other, not necessarily fleshy, things they’ve collected and preserved themselves throughout the years. I guess when you're immortal you have to learn to preserve things long after they’ve died if you actually want to keep them with you. A lot of their own “relics” were created/preserved due to their sentimental value—stuff from friends (and sometimes enemies) to always keep them by their side, mostly ethically sourced.

Someday they’d love to make their own godly relics like Chemach does as well, they’ve probably already asked her how she does it and have the whole process written down somewhere, but they haven’t yet gotten the chance (or better said—the materials) to actually do it.

When they were little, they also had the tendency to wander/explore a lot, so maybe that urge never quite went away either. After all, that’s how they found a few of their personal hiding spots, and maybe a certain Haven…

And thats pretty much everything—thanks for reading this far and for the ask!! Anyone who got to this point should definitely send me more asks Ooooooo Oooooo /j