#he's odd

Nai had thought he'd made plenty of noise clambering into the home. He'd just gotten the news of the home, walked around and given the big puppy dog eyes to Legato for one of the spare rooms being used by Badou. He couldn't just leave his silly human to live with gods knows what or who.

He needed to keep the idiot safe!

The moment he had confirmation he wasted no time when his love went to work to find the human. Age old trauma had him thinking his pet, but Badou never had been a pet. Sure, he had to protect him a lot and care for him when he was in danger, risking his own skin. Or carried cigarettes for the man as an instinctive thing to offer, but he wanted to confide in the man, to reach out to him when he wanted to socialize. A novel concept, but Astarion was helping him to understand the need for more than just his precious human.

Which led them all to now, him in Badou's room, standing over his bed and staring unblinkingly as he slept, impatiently waiting for him to wake up. He thought he'd been loud, but century old instincts kept him quiet as a mouse.

Don't wake him up, that would be rude. He had to remind himself to be patient, even as wings slowly fluffed up in mild irritation.

He’ll sniff around the kitchen after either myself or my sister has been in there, doesn’t matter what we went in there for. It is the place where food comes from so we must have put food on the floor right??

Will run at full speed into his harness then will run at full speed away when we pick up his jacket and collar. 

Runs away from dogs much smaller than him because they scare him and barks at them when there is enough distance between them.

Picks up the biggest ball he can find and drop it from the top of the stairs when it’s time for us to wake up.

Refuses to sleep on a human bed unless he can put his head on the pillows, moving a pillow to another part of the bed is the quickest way to offend him and make him leave the bed. He wants to sleep like the humans.

Uses his entire body to barge open any door, I can’t close my bedroom door at night and wake up with it still closed. 

Climbs on the table to take a drink of whatever glass of water has been left unsupervised despite having a full water bowl. 

He doesn’t like the shower or the shower curtain so he will have to sit in the bathroom with you to make sure nothing happens to you. This isn’t optional. 

Anyone holding their groceries or shopping is immediately assumed to have something that is intended for him and you don’t have to worry, he’ll go into your bags and find it for you. 

Hides in the closet when nobody is paying attention to him.

Kicks you if you stop petting him while he’s lying next to you. 

Sniffs a stick. No interest in the stick. One of the humans pick up the stick? How dare you. Give me that. We’re going home. 

Same with empty plastic bottles. 

“Stark, get her! No not me! Not the ball- Where the fuck is he going?” 9/10 he’s going to hide somewhere upstairs. 

Becomes the Worlds Best Behaved Dog whenever someone from his rescue comes to visit him, it’s like he knows they’re from the place we got him from. (My sister thinks he’s worried that they’re going to take him away :( ) 

Normal dogs gently set themselves down when they lie down, Stark gets to a place he wants to rest at and just collapses dramatically. 

Stares at his reflection in the mirror, I don’t know why he does this, to my knowledge dogs aren’t supposed to understand mirrors.

No I'm not making changes 😅. Keane loved both of his wives but he didn't express or show it until after they were gone. He doesn't express his feelings well at all. He does care for Alister and he does love him, but again he doesn't know how to show it. And his natural asshole ways comes out when he interacts with his son. Keane is a good father to a certain extent. And the reason he is protective is because Alister is his son and no matter what he's done he doesn't want to see Alister get hurt.