#narrok

☾ : Sleep headcanon

Narrok- Narrok had frequent nightmares from a fairly young age up until the day he died and had a lot of issues with insomnia in general.

Rana- Ranara was actually a really heavy sleeper to the point where it was actually kind of a problem, particularly during her days in the military. She ended up being the victim of quite a few pranks because of it.

Tiiko- Tiiko actually never really had sleeping issues… until he moved to the Citadel. He’s not entirely sure what it is- could be his job, stress, or just something about the Citadel in general- but ever since he’s moved there  he’s had trouble with insomnia. He usually takes melatonin or whatever the turian-equivalent is for is, with mild success.

Phae- Unsurprisingly, Phaedrius tends to be really strict about getting up early, at a certain time every morning. She wasn’t always this way, though- when she was younger she was a lot like Ranara and was really big on sleeping in until obscene hours. Her parents put a stop to that fairly quickly, though.

☠ : Drinking/drunk headcanon

At the time of his death, Narrok was actually a recovering alcoholic  and had been sober for almost a decade. He’d had periods of sobriety before, but had always fallen back to drinking before those last several years.

Ranara was a frequent- though always social- drinker, though after getting pregnant with Nera she ended up quitting it for obvious reasons. When she COULD drink again, she found that she really didn’t have much of a taste for it anymore and didn’t really bother much after.

Tiiko can actually hold his liquor extremely well, much to the frustration of anyone who wants to see him loosen up a bit. It takes a significant amount of effort to get him noticeably drunk.

Phaedrius actually really loves wine and is actually pretty funny when she’s drunk, but she can’t really drink due to it interacting badly with her meds. Sometimes- in the past, at least- she’s stopped taking them briefly specifically so she could drink something.

☼ : Childhood headcanon

Narrok never really knew his father growing up due to him dying when Narrok was young. Being the oldest of several siblings and having a mother that was horribly busy trying to make ends meet, Narrok kind of took on the father role himself, for a while.

Ranara was always extremely outgoing and sociable, even from a young age, though she often had trouble with structure and rules and had an extremely difficult time in school because of it. Well, that and she was never really ‘smart’ in the traditional, academic manner.

Tiiko has a lot of siblings but essentially grew up as an only child, in a way, due to being drastically younger than his brothers . This actually never bothered him too much usually, considering he prefers to have a lot of alone time anyway and always has.

Phaedrius grew up in a well-off family and was actually rather isolated in a way, to the point where she really didn’t know a whole lot about how lower-class people lived until she was significantly older and started to interact with more people outside of her little high-class social bubble.

☯ : Genderbent headcanon

Gonna kinda lump these together because, ultimately, all these characters would essentially be the same if their genders were changed. The only differences would perhaps be from societal things or physiological things, but unfortunately since I know literally nothing about batarian women other than they exist, there’s nothing I can say for sure about Narrok. 

Ranara would still want a child as a guy, but obtaining one would be a lot more… difficult, to say the least, and might not happen at all, actually. Tiiko would be exactly the same, no changes there, and Phae would still be basically the same provided his/her schizophrenia stayed the same, and yeah. Genderbent headcanons. Yep.

⋆ : Sex headcanon

Narrok had a big thing for orgies, particularly when he was younger, and had quite the colorful sexual past in his younger years. In his older years he kinda stopped caring, though.

Ranara was very sexually active throughout a good deal of her life, and probably would have continued to be so once Nera got a bit older and she hadn’t, you know, died. Unfortunately Rana was also prone to falling for people extremely easily and as such often ended up with her feelings hurt when the people she slept with tended to well, only want to sleep with her and nothing more.

Tiiko likes pegging. Well, being pegged. The person who helped him find this out was his most recent ex-girlfriend, so now it unfortunately has some negative associations with it, though he would be willing to do it again with the right, hopefully not-crazy, person.

Phae, unsurprisingly, doesn’t get laid a whole lot, for probably obvious reasons. She does, however, have quite the extensive collection of sex toys, which she uses fairly frequently.

☮ : Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon

Narrok was actually really good about keeping his ship clean, and would frequently make sure that everything was kept in optimal condition and was well organized. He also got pretty irate with people when things weren’t kept nice and orderly.

…Which means that he got angry with Ranara quite often. Unfortunately, Ranara is a lot like her little hellspawn when it comes to organization, if not worse. One of her more common and irritating habits was leaving her dirty clothes all over the place, something she got into trouble for pretty much wherever she went.

While Tiiko isn’t exactly meticulous, he isn’t a slob, either, and tends to keep things at least decently clean, though he takes more care when it comes to his bird’s cage than anywhere else.

Phae is very meticulous about cleanliness save for one area, which would be her sewing room, as she calls it. There’s almost always some sort of half-finished project there, and cloth scraps seem to be an inevitability she seems to have come to accept. It’s almost comical, considering the almost unnerving cleanliness of the rest of her house.

☄ : Any AU headcanon (modern, school, medieval, and so on)

In an AU where Narrok never met Neralya or his crew ended up killing her, Narrok would likely have eventually shot himself in the face. 

In an AU where Ranara managed to make it safely with Nera to her parents, she would have been dishonorably discharged and probably sent to prison for a few years, and would have struggled with a lot of harsh judgement and a poor reputation for the majority of the rest of her life. She’d also probably outlive her daughter.

In an AU where Tiiko didn’t take the job on the Citadel he probably would have stayed on Palaven and would likely be there when the Reapers showed up. He also probably would have been killed trying to help people evacuate.

In an AU where Phaedrius wasn’t from a wealthy family, it would take her much longer to get enough financial support to start her own business, and would have had to stay in the military much longer than she did in the current timeline, despite her illness.

♤ :  Cooking headcanon

Narrok could actually cook really well, and would often cook for his wife and family. He never really did if much after leaving them, however, so this fact would often surprise people in the rare occasion that they found out.

Ranara was only slightly better a cook than Nera is, though she tried to cook often and enjoyed it. She was just, well, terrible at it.

Tiiko is fairly good at cooking, though he doesn’t do it too often. He’s actually superb at baking, though,  which he learned from his grandmother before she passed away when he was in his teens.

Phaedrius isn’t a terrible cook, but she isn’t a very good one, either. If she has a recipe, generally she does pretty well, though sometimes she’s prone to trying to ‘experiment’ with… usually not that great success. She sometimes ends up eating really weird things when left to her own devices.

☻ : Mood headcanon

Narrok dealt with a lot of depression issues throughout his life and was massively paranoid, which kind of helped contribute toward his drinking and his generally sour demeanor. He actually grew to hate being a pirate towards the end of his life, and kind of fell into doing it simply because it was all he knew.

Ranara almost always a pretty upbeat person, despite her screw-ups, and was  hard to bring down emotionally. At least, outwardly, she was. She tended to bottle up a lot of her issues and kinda smile through them, but there was always a side to her that knew she was constantly making mistakes and felt horribly unsatisfied with her life and her choices.

When he was younger, Tiiko had fairly frequent panic attacks that, but these days, despite his constant worries and anxieties, rarely has them these days and has learned to kind of work through them.

Even when she’s taking her meds regularly, Phaedrius still has times where she feels incredibly paranoid. She tries to ignore them and work through them, but unfortunately, that means sometimes she’ll ignore the feeling when she’s in a situation that she actually really needs to be cautious or suspicious or something/someone.