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I personally headcanon Kaldo as a bit of a germophobe, hence the constant wearing of his gloves. He doesn’t like to touch things with his bare hands and especially hates bare-handed touching of other people, whose hygiene habits he doesn’t know or trust.

Though Kaldo knows logically that he’s someone others consider handsome (he has a fairly large fan club that never lets him forget it), he doesn’t actually care too much about his own appearance and isn’t vain about it like Ryoh. He is hygienic, clean, and he takes care of his physical health, but when it comes to his appearance, as long as he looks neat and tidy and fits the public image of what a Divine Visionary should be, that’s all that really matters to him.

One of Kaldo’s most prominent traits, a canon thing we see so very often, is his huge sweet tooth. He is obsessed with and loves everything sweet and a meal isn’t a meal without some sort of sweet element to it for him. He brushes his teeth religiously after each of his meals and snacks because he knows the havoc sweets can play on your teeth but he still manages to get cavities caused by his diet which he ignores for as long as he can, mostly because Kaldo dislikes (and is a little scared of) the dentists. He mostly just really hates their lectures on his chosen diet, to be honest.

I have a personal headcanon that Kaldo, as a hobby, is a beekeeper and he gets all his honey from his very own hives. He names each of his hives and talks to his bees while he tends to the hives.

Because his personal magic has to do with heat, I think Kaldo’s body runs hotter than normal as well. He’s very warm to the touch and he tends to always feel warm. It’s very rare for him to get cold and when he does, it annoys the hell out of him.

Kaldo likes just quietly observing other people. He’s a little nosey, to be honest. He likes knowing other’s secrets and he hoards all the best gossip, though he’s not loose tongued with it. It just delights him to know things he shouldn’t or other’s secrets.

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Sleep headcanon

Abyss never sleeps well in the dorms. It’s a really good thing that he can naturally just get by with less sleep than a lot of people. As long as he can catch 5-6 hours a day, even caught via napping in places he feels comfortable (like Abel’s quarters), Abyss stays pretty sharp and well-regulated. The problem with sleeping at night in his dorm is that Wirth’s habit of reading late into the night keeps Abyss awake, since Wirth doesn’t realize he makes little sounds while he’s reading and keeps his book-light turned up to the brightest setting.

Sad headcanon

Abyss’s parents never attempt to contact him again after he leaves for school. They don’t send him letters and while he’s tried writing home a few times, to assure his parents of the happiness and use he’s found at school, he never receives a reply.

Happy headcanon

Other than when he’s around Abel, Abyss feels the most at peace alone in the forest. He finds being surrounded by nature to be very relaxing and he craves it, especially after years of being locked up and forbidden from going outside. Everything from the sight of the forest animal to the smell of the earth and plants just brings him happiness and a feeling of inner peace.

Angry/violent headcanon

Abyss is never loud in his anger. His anger is very focused and almost serene, though it’s also always quite violent. If he can avoid violence, he will, in most cases, but this seems to go out the window when people make Abyss truly angry, which happens whenever Abel or his friends are hurt.

Sex headcanon

I really don’t think Abyss thinks about sex all that often. The topic kind of makes him uncomfortable. Because Abyss is so nervous and distrusting of most people, while he does have sexual urges, he prefers to take care of them himself and the idea of being sexual with someone is simply too overwhelming for him.

Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon

After graduating, I think Abyss moves in with Abel, wherever Abel decides to move. It’s not a discussion and I don’t think Abyss really gives Abel a choice. Abyss has just decided that he would spend the rest of his life serving Abel and the only way for him to do that is to constantly be near Abel.

Romantic headcanon

Abyss, despite being uncomfortable and really embarrassed about real life romance, actually really enjoys romance novels. His favourite genres in romance are romantasy and historical romance and he really loves stories about dashing knights who serve and are in romantic entanglements with their lieges.

Family headcanon

Abyss never wants to build a biological family of his own. The idea terrifies him. He doesn’t want to risk passing on the Evil Eye. He doesn’t want to risk ruining a child’s life like that. On top of that, because of the actions of his own parents, he worries that he would become like them and would neglect or traumatize his own children.

Friendship headcanon

I think that, though it takes several years of repeated, consistent contact and kindness, patience, and understanding on Lemon’s part, Abyss does eventually become friends with Lemon as well as the others, making her his first female friend. She helps his eventually become more used to talking to and befriending girls.

Quirks/hobbies headcanon

In an odd little physical quirk, Abyss blinks way less often than a normal, average person does. It’s a little unsettling at times, honestly.

Likes/dislikes headcanon

Since I did a like for Abel, I’ll do a dislike here for Abyss. Weird little headcanon but I personally headcanon that Abyss hates bubble gum. He doesn’t like the feel of it in his mouth; he hates the sounds it makes while he (or other people) chews it. He doesn’t even really like the smell of it.

Childhood headcanon

Back before his Evil Eye manifested, when he was a young child, Abyss was a really happy kid and very beloved by his parents. He loved tagging along after his mother during her day to days and looked forward to the one day a month that his father would do ‘take your kid to work day.’ Abyss would get to sit on his father’s lap, scribbling out drawings or doing practice worksheets, while his father worked and he always felt like such a big boy doing that. Because he did have such a loving home and such a happy childhood, it made what happened when the Eye did manifest so much worse for him.

Old age/aging headcanon

Abyss lives a very long life. I think he ages gracefully and he keeps his mental wits about him way into old age. He goes deaf and starts losing some of his sight before he loses any mental functioning.

Cooking/food headcanon

Abyss isn’t the best cook and he doesn’t enjoy it. However, he worries about Abel’s diet, so he puts in a lot of time, effort, and work into learning how to cook, even if it’s not an enjoyable process. He feels real pride and happiness the first time he makes a home-cooked meal for Abel that Abel compliments. To spend more time with his first friend, Abyss even has Mash teach him how to make cream puffs, though he typically prefers to buy them from Mash – Mash’s always taste better and Abyss can never figure out why.

Appearance headcanon

Though a lot of other people consider him as such, Abyss does not believe that he’s handsome. He doesn’t have a lot of self-esteem and self-confidence and that extends to his looks. It’s not that he thinks he’s ghastly looking and super ugly, if you take away his eyes. It’s just that he finds others to be much better looking.

Random headcanon

Abyss has really hairy legs. Sorry, I know it’s random and odd, but just a personal headcanon I have for him.

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Doom

Despite seeming so cool and nonchalant about everything, and despite being sometimes very perturbed by his brother’s eccentricities, Doom does actually care quite a bit about his younger brothers and he does worry about them. While he does enjoy strength and fighting strong opponents just for the sake of the fight alone, he also wants to be strong enough to be a good example and a protector for his brothers.

Doom spends at least two hours a day taking care of his sword. He talks to it, addresses it by name, and considers it his most important thing.

While Doom can’t see what they look like, he collects rocks. He chooses which rocks he wants to collect based on how they feel in his hands, the unique shapes and textures of them. Because of this, he has a really eccentric collection and some truly ugly rocks, but they’re all very much things that make him happy.

Doom can predict when a storm is coming, at least ninety percent of the time. He’ll tell others to get out of the weather or warn them about an oncoming thunderstorm, only to get laughed off most of the time. However, he’s wrong only once out of about every fifty times.

Epidem

After Epidem is arrested, he has to be put into solitary a lot because he gains influence within the prison scarily quick by converting others into the religion of Puddingology. He’s very persuasive and charismatic in his speech and he has an innate talent at finding the inmates who are weakest and most susceptible to his influence and then brainwashes them with his cult…sorry, religion.

Epidem doesn’t like to eat anything but pudding. Every single meal he eats is pudding. He makes his own special protein-packed pudding with added vitamins so that he never has to eat anything other than the sweet treat. Because of this, while he’s physically still strong and mostly healthy, his teeth are full of cavities.

Epidem likes plants and has a big green thumb. He grows quite a large garden, has more than one greenhouse, and actually quite dotes on his plants. He sings and talks to them because he’s heard it will make them grow faster, stronger, and healthier. Of course, he uses most of those plants for rather nefarious purposes, such as his poisons, but he does love them.

When Epidem is annoyed or stressed out, he has a funny little quirk of placing his fingers along his magic lines and tapping them along his chin and cheeks.

Famin

Weird little headcanon here but this man would be such a fan of The Amazing Digital Circus. I just know he’d fanboy that show so hard. His favourite would be Caine.

Famin definitely has a kleptomaniac streak. However, he never considers what he’s doing as stealing. He just sees something, wants it, and so he takes it. Isn’t that how things are supposed to work, after all? In Famin’s mind, the world is simply there to amuse him and there’s nothing wrong about him just taking whatever he wants, even if it belongs to someone else…especially if it belongs to someone else, actually, since Famin believes that if he wants something, someone else doesn’t deserve to have it while he doesn’t.

In a weird little quirk, I personally headcanon that Famin hates any clothes that don’t have pockets. He doesn’t like not having places to hide and stash things. He’s learned to sew just to make sure he can modify all his clothing to have pockets.

Famin, as an adult, still has imaginary friends and enjoys putting on often bloody, extremely violent, shows for his imaginary friends using real, unwilling humans he abducts. Not all of his imaginary friends are human in nature, which is why I specified that he abducts humans. However, in a weird little twist, Famin has never been too interested in torturing animals. They just don’t provide an entertaining enough spectacle or reactions for Famin.

Delisaster

Delisaster, on top of his hookah, would definitely be all in on vaping. He enjoys the sweeter flavoured vapes, with bubblegum, banana cream pie, and cola being his favourites.

Delisaster may or may not be a little bit of an alcoholic. He’s never not drinking and typically has a little bit of a buzz going on. Much like his vapes, Delisaster prefers to drink alcohol with a sweeter taste – sweet wines, champagne, but especially coolers and those mixed candy drinks. While he loves tequila, he doesn’t much like it straight or needs to chase it with something sweet afterwards.

He absolutely loves club and rave music. Well, to be fair, he plain out loves raves in general. It’s hedonism in it’s finest, which always appeals to Delisaster.

I personally headcanon that Chishiya came from a well-off, or maybe even very wealthy, family in the real world. Both of his parents were well-respected and prolific professionals in their respective fields and I can’t decide, but I believe one of his parents was probably in the medical field. In my mind, whichever parent it was who worked in the medical field was a well-respected surgeon. In my mind, they were a neurosurgeon, just for the extra prestige. His other parent worked in the medical field as well, in my mind, just in a different way, as a highly sought after psychiatrist who often saw patients at their home office and had a waiting list for new patients that was years long.

Because his parents were both such highly respected and sought after professionals, they didn’t really have time for Chishiya while he was growing up. It’s not that they were openly abusive or anything, just casually neglectful while they focused on their own goals and careers. They mostly had a child because it was socially expected of them, in my mind. Chishiya was raised by a nanny for his formative years, with his parents kind of there but never really there. They were mostly there to remind Chishiya of his place and standing and to push their child to excel. Chishiya had high standards and expectations placed on him early and since he was a brilliant child, even from a young age, he always met those standards without really having to try his hardest. He also learned independence really early on. However, he never really formed close bonds with his parents and as an adult, he next to never sees them, doesn’t regularly call them, and they see each other as a family maybe once every year or two. It’s not a really loving family relationship by any means.

Just a silly little headcanon but during his late childhood years, around 8 or 9, Chishiya saw a magic act on the street and got interested in magic. He took it up as a hobby and obsessively learned all sorts of tricks, secret techniques, and the secrets behind most magic tricks. While he fell out of magic as a hobby, he still retains his skills with it, mostly with slight-of-hand and mentalist magic.

Chishiya enjoys puzzles of all sorts but finds it hard to find ones difficult enough to keep him entertained and occupied. He does the crossword every day and likes logic puzzles, cryptograms, and sudoku. He likes brainteaser puzzles, especially the more complex ones. He excels at mazes. He does do jigsaw puzzles when he can find ones that look complex enough to be worth his time – he’s one of those people who would actually really enjoy The Clearly Impossible puzzle, where the pieces are all transparent and there’s fake edge pieces that actually fit in the middle of the puzzle.

I think Chishiya actually enjoys the thrill of gambling. Since there’s no legal casinos in Japan, as far as I know, he starts participating in underground gambling rings in his late teens. He seems to be the luckiest man alive but honestly, he’s just using his intelligence to figure out how to properly cheat or count cards. He’s been beaten up and banned from several of these gambling rings and it’s only because he has a strong survival instinct and has known to get out of a situation that looks like it might become volatile for him that he hasn’t gotten worse.

I think Chishiya gets his hair bleached professionally at a well-known, high-end salon every six to eight weeks. He buys the shampoo and conditioner they tell him to use but other than that, he doesn’t take a great deal of care of his hair so instead of it being super-soft and touchable, I actually think his hair is pretty rough. It also doesn’t help that he has super thick and pretty coarse hair naturally.

Orter seems, to me, the type who likes to say he’s going to get a solid sleep schedule down and will try to stick to a routine when it comes to his sleep, but it never sticks for long. He keeps promising himself that he’ll start getting to bed by a certain time and waking up at exactly the same time every day, get a solid 8 hours at least of sleep, but it’s always disrupted by work…or far more often, by that ‘just one more chapter’ statement that never ends up being true. Orter has spent way too many nights up late, sometimes into the wee hours of the morning, up reading.

Realistically, Orter doesn’t actually need a ton of sleep to function and feel good. He is one of those people who can realistically get through his days and remain pretty happy after only six or seven hours of sleep. He feels extremely well rested and almost like he’s treating himself when he sleeps in, which to him means getting eight or nine hours of sleep. Those nights or days when he does get all that extra sleep, Orter is noticeably more forgiving and almost happy seeming, though his face still remains largely expressionless. It’s more that he lets more little things go that would normally annoy him or doesn’t react as harshly to people who normally grate on his nerves.

When it comes to Orter when he’s had next to no sleep, though, most people honestly would never know the difference between the everyday Orter and the sleep deprived Orter. They just really wouldn’t because there’s almost zero changes. He might be a little bit grumpier and he finds it hard to have an appetite when he’s sleep deprived, but other than that, Orter is pretty self-disciplined and refuses to let others know he’s sleep deprived and cranky.

While Orter normally doesn’t get a ton of sleep, and even on the days he’s really sleep deprived, he doesn’t often nap. He has to be to a point of true exhaustion to really allow himself that luxury. In his mind, naps are for children, not working adults, and he feels it’s unbecoming of him to nap frequently.

When Orter does lay down to fall asleep, it’s always in the same position – flat on his backs, hands clasped and settled on his stomach, with a sleep mask on to block out even the most minuscule of light sources as he prefers complete blackness to sleep in. He doesn’t move at all in his sleep, doesn’t snore, his breathing is light and almost eerily quiet. Someone could look at a sleeping Orter and almost think him dead.

While Orter much prefers to sleep in the comfort of his bed, which is exactly to his liking – on the firm side, with a cooling mattress topper and cooling pillows with soft cotton sheets and a quilt his own grandmother had made – he can sleep just about anywhere if he has to.

So, to spin off what Mashle openly parodies, I’m going to go in a direction I don’t often go for headcanons and say that Wahlberg is gay. He’s very gay. In fact, there was a time when Wahlberg was in love with Innocent Zero, back in their student days, and some of those feelings still linger, though he absolutely cannot forgive what Innocent Zero has become.

Claude Lucci, much like Ryoh, cannot resist the urge to check himself out in any reflective surface he comes across. He just has to – he is magnificent (if only in his own mind) after all. He has it all (again, if only in his own mind) – brains, beauty, and pedigree.

Farman Cregos loves golf and wishes it would become the next big wizarding sport. He spends so much time playing and has a little putting mat in his office.

Marvina Mevitable actually has a pretty big sweet tooth for someone so serious and stern. She’ll actually become one of Mash’s first and most consistent customers when he opens up his own cream puff stand, though she keeps telling him he should expand to other baked goods too, like tarts.

Alan Abraham paints as a hobby and as a way to relax. He also enjoys sketching and actually sketches quite a few scenes he’s observed throughout the school of teachers and students. He’s embarrassed about what he sees as a lack of talent though and doesn’t openly show them to many people. Wahlberg has seen some of his works though and has one of his paintings hanging in the Headmaster’s office.

Dot is actually kind of superstitious and really believes in prophecy, fortune-telling, and things along those lines. He reads and takes the articles in Monthly Prophet magazine as almost gospel for the month ahead.

Finn is really good with children and actually really enjoys spending time with them. I could see him going into childcare or teaching at a preschool or elementary school.

While Mash still keeps in touch with Domina, he more thinks of Domina as a friend. He doesn’t really think of him as a half-brother and has zero interest in keeping in touch with his other half-brothers. In Mash’s mind, he already has a loving family with his father and doesn’t much consider his biological ties as his ‘family.’

Lemon is honestly really close to her family. She loves her parents and, while they are poor and her childhood wasn’t an extravagant one, she believes they did the absolute best for her that they could and considers her childhood a good one.

I feel like, in a modern-day AU, Lance is a huge fan of the imouto genre, with lots of video games of that variety and whose favourite anime are within that genre. He would potentially do online reviews of things within that genre, potentially with Anna as his V-Tuber rig, and of course, while things might get a good rating, nothing ever gets the best rating because no little sister can live up to his own.

Rayne has a surprising talent for creating shadow puppets with his hands. They’re always bunnies.

Tom plants a lot of bamboo – we know that in canon. What I personally headcanon, though, is that he totally names every single one of the bamboos he plants. He started with naming them after Duelo moves, then Duelo teams, then Duelo equipment and when he ran out of names around Duelo, he started making up his own bizarre, weird names for his beloved bamboo.

When Lloyd thinks people can’t see him or knows no one else is around, he picks his nose and eats it. He enjoys the act of picking, especially the hard crusted boogers deep in there, and actually likes the taste a lot more than he would ever admit.

Aorio, while he knows he should be flatters, finds the fact he has a fan club to be more creepy than cool. It also doesn’t help that some of his ‘fans’ tend to lean towards some almost stalkerish behaviour and that severely creeps him out.