💣, 🤲, 😡, 💩
💣 for a stress headcanon
Fionnghuala doesn't know how to not be stressed. Not really. She feels the weight of responsibility on her shoulders at almost every turn. She was training to be keeper of clan Lavellan so she trusts herself to make decisions; she never second guesses herself. There's just SO MANY decisions to be made and boy would she just like to go on that walk with Solas instead of trying to decide which Orlesian noble is less likely to stab them in the back or make other nobles withdraw their support. She just keeps going and going and going though because she has to, and maybe when it's all over they can take that walk.
Aderyn is mainly stressed out by people. The non-feathered folk are confusing to talk to, they're loud all the time, no one ever puts their books on the cart when they're done so even though she's a research librarian she gets roped into helping find and reshelve everything from books to periodicals... Sorry she went on a bit of a tangent there 😅 what were you saying?
🤲 for a religious headcanon
Fionnghuala is having a hard time with this subject right now. Being the Herald for a religion who has led multiple crusades against your people while at the same time having met one of your own gods in the flesh tends to do that to a person. There's just so much she doesn't know.
Niamh has kind of lost her religion. Everything she held dear is gone. Her family, her clothes, the lyre her mother taught her to play on, her money, her ability to sleep indoors without having the windows open. She hasn't got much left. She keeps going through the motions of worship and devotion, wondering if she should just give it up. She always goes back and follows through again though. She laughs at herself for doing it sometimes, but she hasn't stopped yet.
😡 for an anger headcanon
Niamh was carefully schooled to hide her anger. Her parents were diplomats. If your opponent sees he's making you angry, you could lose your bargaining position. She still gets fantastically angry, and sometimes her temper gets the best of her, but normally she's able to stay collected until she has a private moment.
If you make Aderyn angry she's liable to try and peck you if don't just make her jeer loudly at you until you get out of the way. After a colleague at the Druid Circle of the Forest suggested she wasn't as dedicated as she ought to be, she jeered and yelled even after he was gone. Everyone in the place heard her squawking and cursing that time. If that's what he came in to say and interrupt her work with he could find several colorful things to do with his Druidic staff.
💩 for a ridiculous headcanon
Aderyn bathes exactly like a bird. She sits down in the bath and splashes around just like a regular blue jay. She uses her beak and her hands to get her wings and back clean and she makes a mess doing it. It drives the attendants wild, so she does try to clean up after herself afterwards. Yes this does mean she needs a dust bath sometimes. No the attendants don't like that any better.
