For Ryder: 🧁🍭👁️💀🦴🧛🧟
(Happy Halloween! These are great questions and adorable treats. I especially appreciate the accompanying examples.🧡)
Thank you so much for all these wonderful questions Mel, I had fun with them! ^u^ Also glad you like the treat ideas, I was doing a lot of browsing for Halloween baking anyway~
🧁 [pumpkin cupcakes] – Do you enjoy dressing up for Halloween?
Ryder would get a moderate amount of satisfaction out of dressing up for Halloween. Left to his own devices, he'd probably opt for a simple costume, like one that just involves a special shirt and a hat or something. But he would be game for wearing something more elaborate if somebody else laid out the creative vision for him.
🍭 [caramel apple lollipop] – What’s your sugar tolerance like?
On the high side of average. Ryder doesn't tend to consume lots of sweets of his own accord, but he's done enough di-mage training that he can handle a good bit of sugar before he'd start to feel icky.
👁️ [eyeball cake pop] – How do you feel about scary movies?
Not a fan. He's too empathetic. Unless the movie was really corny, he'd be too disturbed to enjoy anything about it, and if it was really corny, he'd find it so stupid that he wouldn't get the appeal. A mild psychological thriller might be okay, but that's as scary as he goes.
💀 [popcorn skull] – What’s the silliest thing you’re afraid of?
This may sound a bit strange, but dense patches of filth. Like a tangled mess of old cobwebs, or an unswept crevice full of huge dust bunnies, or a neglected boiler closet full of rot and mold. Anybody would find that gross, sure -- but Ryder gets a creeping sense of dread from the sight of it, like the filth might swallow him up.
🦴 [gingerbread skeleton] – If you were a character in a horror movie, would you survive to the end?
Probably not, just because he fits that mentor archetype so well. He's competent enough to survive, but tropes demand that he would probably end up sacrificing himself to the monster to save the rest of the group halfway through the film. c':
🧛 [cup of vampire punch] – Are you squeamish about blood?
Nope. He's got the grit of a medical professional when it comes to blood.
🧟 [slice of graveyard cake] – If you heard a scary noise in the middle of the night, would you go investigate?
He would! Dad-with-under-bed-baseball-bat style.
Treat Total: this comes out to 1 slice of cake, 1 cupcake, 1 cake pop, 1 cookie, 1 popcorn skull, a lollipop, and a cup of punch -- which is quite a bit of sugar for Ryder, honestly! I don't think he'd feel uncomfortable from it yet, but he'd probably start to feel his tummy rumbling a warning that it's time to slow down.
