#perrin

5.) What is your OC's gender identity and sexual orientation? Is this also what they identify as in canon, or are they not (fully) aware?

Lionel is a cisgender gay man. he himself knows he's gay, and probably has since quite early on. he's 43 by the events of his story, and has been here and there and everywhere for training and work, and definitely knows by now where his attraction and desire lies. the closest he's ever gotten to entertaining or having romantic thoughts for a woman is that had lauvene not been married to one of his wardens (who everyone and their mother already assumes he's making a cuckold of), that he would have married her in a heartbeat just to have the companionship of her around more often.

I LIED i lied i completely forgot he was actually engaged once in his 20s but just couldn’t bring himself to ruining a woman’s life by being unable to love her as a husband

11.) What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?

entirely depends on whether he's on or off work. at work he'd be likely to carry nothing more in his pockets than what he absolutely needs (tools, wineskin, a bit of charcoal for marking framings and slabs or something), partially because he's pushing the limit already on what weight the scaffolding can hold and has spent the past thirty years pushing his luck enough as it is, and as well so that he's not fumbling about trying to find a specific tool with anything unnecessary in his pockets.

off work, he has no reason to be carrying his chisels or anything really work related around unless he;s coming back from the blacksmith with them freshly sharpened. he's much more likely to be carrying around a bit of moneys, maybe a pipe (he's not a big smoker, but Perrin is and Perrin doesn't have many pockets to carry his own stuff around in and a bag is too clunky for him to wear while on duty.) he could also occasionally be caught with a bit of meat scraps wrapped up in his pocket for the stray cats he comes across; at heart he is absolutely a cat guy. also this applies to both off and on work hours, but he's always going to carry around an extra few strips of leather or cord in case he loses the one tying his hair back. it happened to him once when he was 38 and sixty feet up on scaffold on a windy day, and he hasn't gone without a few spares in his pocket ever since.

18.) What are your OC's bad habits? (i misread the question and accidentally answered for fatal flaw. oops.)

his relentlessness and recklessness regarding his work. building a cathedral isn't easy, nor was the seventeen years of constant work he put in to become a master of his craft, but at times it almost comes off as less prideful and more as if he's punishing himself for things that have always been beyond his control. his father was stuck as a journeyman his whole life and suffered for it, so Lionel feels now that if he slips for even a single second, lets his mind stray even a moment from his work, that he's wasting his father's struggle and becoming lazy. it got worse after his father died, and got easier over the years, but still rears its head every now and then late at night, getting easier still once Perrin comes along.