I forgot to respond because I was so taken by "all your warframes get a special worm until you kill a backstreet boy"

Warframe is independent enough to 1. be free to be horny and encourages the horny and 2. do whatever the fuck they want forever and 3. has some differences in body types for characters. Grendel my beloved.

Halo has no backstreet boys, no giant wall mouth, the spartans don't get worms (as far as we know) but at least the AI are tragic.

I almost deleted this ask by accident gave myself a heart attack 😭 but um ok I’ve got a few tips.

So #1 would honestly be. Get openmw. It’s not hard to figure out how to download but it’s basically a new engine for the game and it’s super easy to mod for things like bug fixes(which you really want), new textures, better texture mapping etc. really useful stuff. You also need morrowind on steam to run it iirc so maybe snag it when it’s on sale. It might be on sale rn I think the winter sale on steam just started …

2. Find some kind of character making guide. Unlike Skyrim and a lesser extent oblivion. How you make your character like really really actually matters. You choose your race, your class, and a star to be born under. All of these have different stats that mesh w eachother differently . Like each race has stats they’re better in and so you want to choose a starting class that can actually mesh with those skills. Skills are separated into major,minor, and misc skills which determines your proficiency in them. The game is very very reliant on your skills and like th other games the more you do it the better you are but if your short or long blade skill is like 5, you’re not going to hit someone very often. ALSO, there’s a lot more skills than Skyrim, armor is divided into 3 class skills, heavy medium and light, swords are separated by long sword and short sword. There’s skills like armorer which will determine how much you can fix your own armor, and some skills will level up just as you run around like acrobatics. Also, just bcuz your skill levels up does not mean you leveled up, you have to level up a bunch of skills before you get a whole level up.

Which also gets me into 3. Which is like. Combat and dying. Combat is weird and a little clunky, you’re not guaranteed a hit every swing but neither is your enemy (again, dependent on skills) ,stamina really matters, and if you choose magic (which iirc is like one of the more first time player friendly paths) than you regain magic by resting, not passively overtime . Which is smth I wish I knew first time I got into a fight I was so confused 😭. And uh, you’re going to die a lot at first? It’s frustrating but like it’s part of the growing pains imo. If you can stick with it you’ll get a lot a lot better.

4. Would be , get used to a different way of questing. In morrowind you don’t have a quest marker, you don’t have a quest list, and you can’t fast travel outside a few select ways but even then not to everywhere. If you join the mages guild they can teleport you to a few other mages guilds, for a small fee, or you can ride a silt strider for a much bigger fee, but again they don’t take you everywhere. You may also run into a spell or scroll that can teleport you. It may sound intimidating but I swear it gets better, it’s not as bad after running around for a couple hours. You do get a map, but like it only fills out where you go, which I honestly really like, gives a good sense of your progression. But most importantly, you store all your quest info in a little booklet, which will automatically update as you progress thru a quest, so it’s important to remember and check it when you need directions .

5. A little cheesy but . Have fun? It’s a different style of game and can get a lot of getting used to, if it’s really frustrating, not fun at all. Don’t be afraid to step back and look at what might be frustrating you. If you don’t like one style of combat don’t be afraid to start another character and try another kind.

Robot Man (Cliff Steele) from Doom Patrol. Technically a brain in a robot body, but i think that counts.

Oh he's caught my interest from afar! i've been interested in Doom Patrol like, ambiently. I go too long without hearing anything about it, that I just keep forgetting look at it.

Whale, turns out I have a pretty interesting headcanon for this.

Chief? No spicy, no thanks. He'll eat it if he has to, but he's crying inside the whole time.

But Lasky?

From what I've gathered, Mars was likely colonized by mostly Southeast Asian folks, and thus likely still has a lot of Southeast Asian influence in it's culture. Also? Mars is only 2/3 the size of the earth, and gravity and altitude do funny things to your taste buds. Airline food isn't shitty because it's shitty; your tongue TELLS you it's shitty because you lose the ability to taste to some degree at higher altitudes, and moreso in microgravity. Astronauts? Mostly hot sauce freaks.

So, between the culture he grew up in and Mars's smaller size and thus lower gravity, my headcanon for Lasky is that he is also a hot sauce freak. He had capsaicin hallucinations more than once in his 20's from drinking bottles of sriracha on dares, and he has won bets when people assume he can't handle spice bc he's a honky white boy.

This. Is a very good question.

I think he would enjoy tennis; lots of hand-eye coordination as well as forward thinking and ability to move quickly. Tennis isn't a low-energy game, and it shares similarities with fencing. I think he'd appreciate that.

Idk if it counts as a sport per se, but I could see him having a keen interest in Chess or Go. It would likely tickle that tactical part of his brain in a very good way.

I had a headcanon years ago that personnel can choose to have pride flags on the collars of their uniforms just as a normal thing.

As for Pride, I'd never actually thought of it.

I can say that the general mood has probably changed a lot from what it is now, with less focus on actively fighting tooth and nail for basic human rights and more of a celebration of humanity's diversity and a remembrance of queer history and the lives lost to things like the AIDS epidemic and the Pulse shooting, among other tragedies.

I could see those flag banner things that's like rope w little triangle flags on it being hung in the mess hall with all of the different pride flags on it, and likely even some new ones we don't currently have. And those sorts of decorations are just there, like it's just a normal part of the yearly holiday lineup. People likely still wear pride pins and suchlike, and Lasky definitely has a bi pride pin next to the bars on his collar. And I could see Roland changing colors and stuff during events, otherwise he stays about the same. He is very interested in his humans' ideas of gender and sexual orientation, so he chats with the crew about it a lot too.

I’ll have to go give it a peak later, but I have a similar themed playlist :3