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37. How good is your character with their hands or fingers? Do they have a light, gentle touch, or are they hard or uncoordinated? Does your character have any dexterous talents?

They get some essential tremors and twitches and their hands get extremely cold, but once they’re warmed up and Red is focused on what they’re doing they’re as steady as a rock. They were a surgeon at a few different points in their life (admittedly most of their surgical career was before all this happened, but they find that they can still do things just as well with preparation and some maneuvering).

Other than that, they’ve picked up and dropped a ton of hobbies that involve dexterous talents. Way before they moved to the states they got good at drawing and violin. They haven’t really touched a violin in a really long time and don’t really draw anymore. They can play piano pretty okayly. They picked up electric bass and guitar in the states; they’re better at bass. They kinda stopped indulging in those hobbies when they “went missing” (see: got snatched up by the US government) in around 2071.

38. Is your character physically expressive or do they make a lot of gestures (i.e. do they “talk with their hands”), and if so, what kinds of gestures do they make? 

If they really get into it and have the energy, they’ll gesture like nobody’s business. They can get really involved and be waving their entire arms around wildly. That doesn’t happen very often. Usually they don’t gesture at all when they talk.

More often, they can become too tired to talk and gesture instead, and it’ll be extremely muted and involve very little motion. There’s some sign language in there, but if they’re low enough on energy to do this they’re not gonna be putting any effort into properly signing.

39. Does your character like to be touched or touch others? How does your character value personal space? What kinds of boundaries, physical and otherwise, are important to your character?

They only like to be touched if they like the person enough and if they’re not in a bad mood. If they’re comfortable enough with the person though, they need to get as close as possible, and crave both skin on skin contact and the crushing pressure of laying on each other.

They value their own personal space and try not to touch strangers and acquaintances (except clinically, that’s different), but have a habit of getting ridiculously close to someone to talk to them quietly if they’re a friend. Lots of playful touches and smacks for friends too. They try to keep those feather light but if they’re just off the shits at the moment and not paying attention they can end up smacking someone’s lungs out.