ā Phae was extremely brilliant even as a child and was considered to be a prodigy. Unlike a lot of kids who are so-called āprodigiesā, Phae has continued to live up to this.
ā Due to growing up on Altakiril, Phaedrius is surprisingly tolerant of cold weather as far as turians go. She actually prefers having a bit of chill in her office, even if most of her clients arenāt too fond of it.
ā While Phae appreciates the fine arts and is, well, rather involved with them because fashion, and is rather skilled in a number of areas. She has no musical talent whatsoever. Sings off-key, could never get the hang of musical instruments. Loves musicā¦. just, canāt contribute to it herself.
Tiiko:
ā Tiiko has his own webcomic and has been drawing things as long as he can remember. He tends to be very shy about his artistic ability, however, and keeps himself anonymous.
ā He tends to shrug it off these days, but Tiiko was bullied fairly relentlessly as a kid. Being quiet and rather introverted made him a bit of a target. He doesnāt really talk about it much, just wanting to forget all that happened.
ā Tiiko is probably the most family-oriented of my characters and actually desires to have a large family full of all the turian babies at some point. Not right now, heās still getting himself together at this point, but itās a hope that he has for his future.
Zeela:
ā Zeela has a strong love/hate relationship when it comes to fashion. On one hand, she loves clothing from various cultures and styles and takes as great care to her appearance as she can. On the other hand, not really being able to express herself in quite the same way because of the suit makes her rather melancholy and even bitter about it at times.
ā If sheās ever able to get out of her suit for good, Zeela hopes to grow her hair out really long. She loves long hair, but the suit makes it a bit of a hastle to contain so she keeps it relatively short out of practicality.
ā Part of the reason Zeela is super partial to bright colors and eye-catching patterns is the fact that since going on her Pilgrimage, sheās wanted to feel more individualistic. She hates feeling like sheās just blending into the crowd, and even if she doesnāt necessarily want to be the center of attention, she does want to be noticed or acknowledged to some extent.
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How far do your characters appreciate company? Are they naturally loners or are the more gregarious? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
Finally I have a day where I'm off and have actually slept so I can answer this!
Let's see... for Nera... even if she won't admit it, she desires company, but I don't think she actually appreciates it until her ultimate low point once Karsus is finished with her. It's kind of hard to appreciate company when one believes their desire for it is stupid and they're also a cynical fuckhead who thinks everyone is just using them.
She uh, she gets better, though, thankfully. It just takes a lot of trauma a while and ends up being a bit of a process to better her behavior and how she thinks of herself and other people. And once she starts appreciating company, it takes her even longer to properly show it. She does appreciate it, though. She hates being alone... which is almost funny considering she acts the loner type for quite a while and doesn't really show signs of a gregarious side until she's older. It's there, though. Just buried beneath the many layers of emotional problem bullshit.
Delani is kind of the opposite, to an extent. Instead of seeming a loner yet desiring company, Delani pulls off being social rather well yet is very fond of her alone time. Not that she doesn't enjoy company, or appreciate it, she does, but if she doesn't have time to herself for extended periods of time it can leave her feeling exhausted and a bit cranky. The same can be said for being alone for too long, of course, but the exhaustion can come a lot quicker when she's bombarded by social business repeatedly without rest.
Although she loves parties and the like, sometimes her ideal day would likely consist of time with a select few of her close friends instead. It helps her get a moment to breathe and collect herself.
Phae is kind of like Nera in that she quite enjoys company and desires it, but acts more of a loner out of a need to protect herself. Unlike Nera, however, Phae doesn't do this by being an abrasive asshole, but instead does it by wrapping herself up in her work and not leaving much room for anything or anyone else. Like with Neralya, this is still a bit problematic because it can leave Phaedrius feeling rather lonely, even if she's surrounded by people. She feels better when she can let people in on a more intimate or personal level, but the people she's willing to do that with are few and far between at the moment.
Tiiko is introverted and likes having a lot of quiet alone time, but he appreciates good company. He's just perhaps a bit selective and these days rather cautious due to some unpleasant past experiences. Mostly involving being stalked and letting people walk all over him. It takes him a while to come out of his shell because of it, but when he does let someone in, he's incredibly loyal and appreciates them immensely... even if he still needs to be alone from time to time.
At night, when it's dark and they have their own space, what do your characters often think about? Work? Problems? Friends? Plans? None of the above?
Like basically anyone, these arenāt the things they always think about, but what for what they usually think about..
With Nera, she usually keeps busy to avoid having a silent moment like described, because when sheās not keeping herself occupied with research or possible plans or gun mods or whathaveyou, her thoughts tend to gravitate towards her failures.
She has a hard time focusing solely on one thing, save for one thing: She is very easily able to think about the various ways that sheās fucked up. She thinks a lot about things she could have or should have done better, or how sheās not where sheās supposed to be in her life. Usually, she can keep those thoughts from sticking around by promising herself to do better. Sometimes she thinks about these things too long, however, and the longer she thinks about them, the harder it is for her to pull herself out of there. When sheās with Karsus, it gradually starts to become almost, and eventually totally impossible to pull herself back up. Neraās headspace isnāt a pleasant place to be and Karsus constantly bringing her insecurities to the forefront hardly helps lol
For Delani, sheās usually thinking about plans. Delani is a very long-sighted individual and although sheās more than capable of improvising, sheād much rather avoid having to improvise if possible. She tends to think about how much progress sheās made either overall and whatever sheās been currently doing, and essentially critiques herself, not in a self-loathing manner like Nera does but instead in a more positive manner. Mostly because sheās actually successful at the things she strives for lol
She thinks about her relations to the people around her, often coming up with ways to either stay or get in their favor, as well. Despite the fact that she often works alone, she acknowledges this as important and, well, she likes being on good terms with people as well.
On a lighter note(Not that this was super-heavy or anything), she thinks about clothes and what fab outfit she wants to wear to various events. Delani fuckinā loves clothes and strives to constantly look amazing.
Phaedrius more often than not is thinking of work. Of various projects that sheās working on and what she currently needs to get done on them, and how sheās going to do it. Of new designs she has in mind, or an idea for a prototype she wants to make. Also like, Delani, Phae often tries to look as fab as possible, so sheās often thinking of what she wants to wear to wherever or whatever as well.Ā
Sometimes, unfortunately, her thoughts wander away from work and get a lot darker, however, and itās usually a sign that sheās going to probably be having a bad day rather soon. Phaeās lost a lot in her lifetime, so sometimes itās hard not to think about those losses.Like the so-called friends that sheās drifted out of contact with, or the fact that she still has no idea what actually happened to her fiance who went missing years ago. Or the fact that she can never really relax when it comes to her mental health, and how sheāll never be able to stay unmedicated without repercussions and how she really, really wishes she could.
Thankfully these thoughts are few and far-between, but when they happen they can drag down Phaeās mood quite a bit. She tries not to bother people with these feelings, but with those who know her it can be hard not to tell when sheās feeling poorly. Usually Misandre tries to go out of her way to help lift Phaeās spirits or take her thoughts elsewhere, though this is a fairly recent development and neither of them have really figured out how to help these things.
Finally, when it comes to Tiikoā¦. his thoughts tend to be a lot simpler, for the most part. Usually heās thinking of comic ideas, or working out phrases of a language heās currently working on, or about how kawaii animals are and how itās incredibly difficult to handle that intense level of cuteness.
Even though his thoughts are usually a way to try and escape these things, though, itās not a rare occurrence for Tiikoās anxiety to get the better of him and he often thinks of embarrassing thinks heās done either recently or in the past, or if something is coming up how heās possibly going to mess up future encounters as well. āCause anxiety is fun like that lol
Ā Aaaand thatās about it! Yay thoughts, yay characters yaaaay
Putting these under a cut because holy shit do I talk a lot but I will talk forever ask me these character asks forever okay
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Nera:
Ā°- The characterās temperature preferences
Having grown up on spaceships and space stations, Nera is pretty used to having a mostly constant, moderate temperature and doesnāt do particularly well at either hot or cold extremes. Being turian, she has a higher tolerance for heat, but sheās still likely to complain.
āŖ - What music the character likes
Nera has rather eclectic music tastes, so sheās willing to listen to just about anything, but she definitely has a preference for club music, remixes of anything with a strong bass that she can dance to. She also has a strong preference for rap, or future!rap, at least, and often listens to it as her 'busywork' or 'chill' music.
āļ½ļ¼ććāļ¼= How the character greets people
It depends, really, mostly on who sheās talking to. With strangers sheās not trying to butter up in some manner, sheās usually very Omega in how she greets people. Usually just an acknowledging nod and a āheyāof some sort. With people she knows better or people sheās trying to get on the good side of, sheāll be more enthusiastic- perhaps even a little sing-songy and dramatic as if sheās announcing her presence.So basically she tends to go from one extreme to the other lol
Tiiko:
Ʀ = The character and languages (Known or Want to Learn)Oh man, well, considering Tiiko makes his living keeping translation software up-to-date, he obviously knows quite a few languages. He currently knows galactic standard, three turian languages, two asari and one batarian, with a few bits and pieces from other languages mixed in-between. The ones heās most fluent with and specializes in are the two of the turian dialects and one of the asari, though heās trying to learn more about batarian language since with current friction with the Hegemony, there is a bit of a demand for keeping things up-to-date.
(ā āļ¹ā ) = What the character daydreams or thinks aboutTiiko thinks about cute animals more than is probably healthy, but beyond that he often has comic ideas bouncing around on his head when heās not fretting over things that heās said to people or embarrassing things that heās done recently or five or ten years ago because yaaay anxiety
zzz= What time the character enjoys sleep or being awakeTiiko feels better when he gets up in the early morning,and goes to bed at a reasonable hour, but since moving to the Citadel his sleep schedule has been kind of fucked over and sideways so he doesnāt really get to stick to it much anymore, even in the rare moments where he does realize whether itās night or day.
Phae:
(*^ā^)_ę¦ = What the character likes to eat and drinkPhae is unsurprisingly a lady of refined tastes and as such tends to eat only the best. Fresh as possibly and preferably organic. That said, Misandre has introduced her to cheap delicious little snack cakes recently and sheās quite a big fan, despite finding it a bit of a guilty pleasure. Other than that she really likes steaks of various types and the occasional fruit salad.As for drinksā¦ tea. Phae fucking loves tea and has about a billion varieties around her at all times.
ā„ = Characterās preference for relationships (sexuality, type of person, etc.)Ever since losing her fiance, Phae is reluctant to pursue new relationships, and indeed hasnāt had anything beyond the occasional fling here and there. Sheād not entirely closed to the idea, but would need quite a bit of coaxing to pursue anything serious. But anyway, preferencesā¦ well, Phae is one of them hetero folk, so theyād have to be maleā¦ and she does have a preference for turians, being what sheās familiar with, though I doubt sheād turn another species down. They would have to be intelligent, gentlemanly, respectfulā¦ and having a fair amount of tech or fashion know-how wouldnāt hurt. Phae likes āem classy and smart.
( =ā Ļā =) = What animals the character likes and if they have a pet/petsWhile she doesnāt hate animals, Phae isnāt huge on them, either, but she likes fish and oddly enough finds a lot of creepy crawlies(such as spiders and the like) to be rather fascinating. Sheāll totally hold a tarantula, for example, because Phae is hardcore and doesnāt give a fuck. And finds them oddly endearing.She does not have pets, though. Doesnāt have the time for them and has no real desire to keep one.
( āoā)äŗŗ(ā-ā ) = Friends the character has or would like to make
Nera:
Although currently sheās kind of isolated herself to Dickbag Island and I canāt say in her current storyline she actually has any friends, she does eventually become super bros with Hades Eventi, Hailot Nok, and even if they clash at times, Mirrodin Phyrexia becomes friends with Nera once she starts trying to make up for her time residing on Douchebag Street. Iād definitely like to have her expand that list of friends further, though. Not that the ones she has/is going to have arenāt sufficient, far from it, but having more certainly couldnāt hurt.
Tiiko:
I am actually horrible and havenāt fleshed Tiiko out enough to give him proper friends just yet. Iām sure he has some online friends(because anxiety makes making extranet friends slightly easier to make than in-person ones), though, and Iād like to think that Corvan Austus is one of those that potentially becomes one he knows in-person as well.
Phae:
Iām pretty sure Phae has a large circle of people that would call themselves her friends, but the only ones that Iād actually consider her friends currently would be her assistant Misandre and Karsus Dharcā¦ though the latter is uh, not an entirely honest friendship on his side considering Karsus is a bit of a ah, sociopath. And a murderer. That, too, among other things.Like with the others, Iād be okay with Phae branching out to make new friends. Because fuck yeah new friends
ā§Hmmm, and another emotional one for Phae... well, she was engaged once. She used to work with her fiance, to, and he was one of the people with her when she was sent to investigate a Reaper 'Prothean' device, and also one of the people who went MIA after she was sent home to recover from what everyone thought was a really bad episode of hers. She still has no idea whether he is alive or not, and as such is reluctant to let people get close in the romantic sense.
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ā Narrok's most prominent scar was a large gash across his face. It was actually back from his days working in security for the slaving industry, from a particularly rebellious slave who managed to smash Narrok's face against the corner a metal cage.
ā§Ā Having worked in the industry he did, Narrok saw a lot of... messed up situations, to say the least. And that's of course a huge understatement. I won't pick out any singular incidents, but his time as a slaver was traumatizing enough that despite forever being raised to believe that he was just doing his job and the people below him deserved what they got for being inferior, he ultimately ended up leaving everything he knew and loved to escape it, and his experiences continued to haunt him until the last of his days. Not that one should really sympathize with him for it... he DID eventually become a pirate lord, after all..
Phae:
āAny notable scars Phae has gotten have been removed at this point, though for a while she had some pretty bad burn scars on the insides of her palm from touching hot metal that hadn't properly cooled off during her earlier days.
ā§Ā One of the memories that freak Phae out the most is one of her few visits to her father(who also has schizophrenia), where he wasn't having a particularly good day and had a bad episode with her around. It was emotionally scarring as a kid already, but as an adult the memory disturbs her even more due to an ever-present fear that she could end up losing herself to her mental condition in a similar manner.
Tiiko:
āTiiko doesn't really have that many prominent scars, though he has a few small ones scattered throughout his body. Some of those include some light claw marks on his back from an ex-girlfriend who ended up getting a little too rough with him.
ā§Ā Speaking of exes, Tiiko is very reluctant to date people, or get close to people in general because of one in particular. You see, Tiiko has a web comic which actually has a fair amount of readers at this point, and being the fairly private person he is, he always kept his true identity a secret. Or he thought he did, anyway.Turns out that his previous girlfriend had not coincidentally run into him, but had been stalking him and 'set up' their initial meeting, something which didn't come to light until Tiiko decided to end the relationship after she became increasingly controlling and hostile towards him. And... yeeeeah
Aaaah, sorry this took me a while, had to go in for work and whatnot. But anyhoo:
ā Food headcanon:
Nera's eating habits are, as I've probably mentioned before, incredibly unhealthy and not... good. She tends to go from one extreme to another- that is, she tends to go from going days without eating to consuming large amounts in a short amount of time to the point where it's alarming. What extreme she goes to depends on food availability, for one, but also depends largely on her mood. If Nera's unhappy, she usually doesn't eat, and seeing her eating food is typically indicative of a fairly good mood.
Phae abides by a very strict diet, not out of any particular need to maintain her weight, but to help avoid possible triggers for her episodes. She generally only eats organic food, and she tries to avoid things with too much sugar and avoids stimulants in particular(usually). That said, thanks to Misandre, she's discovered that she really likes processed sweets quite a bit, even if she knows she shouldn't have them.
7, 9, and 33 for whichever character(s) you'd like!
Kinda mixing it up a bit for this one, because why not? Different characters for different questions, whooo!
7. In what or whom does this character have the greatest faith?
Despite being rather pessimistic on most other fronts, thereās still a slightly idealistic part of Kaliki that likes to believe that when things get ugly, there will always be people, doesnāt matter what species, just people in general, that are out there trying to help, or trying to do good.Ā
Patton Oswaltās whole speech on the Boston Marathon regarding āthe helpersā sums up her views on people pretty well, actually.
9. Does this character have a favorite article of clothing? Favorite shoes?
Gotta do this for Phaedrius, definitely, considering she is my most fashionable character by far. Totally headcanonād it that she has a cloak similar to this that she absolutely adores. Itās probably one of the few nicer pieces of clothing that sheās worn multiple timesā¦ with different outfits, of course.
As for shoesā¦ donāt really know, like a lot turian fashion, their shoes are an enigma to me. Theyāre probably something gold, though. Phae loves gold and likes to incorporate it into as many outfits as she can.
33. What calms this character?
Hmmmā¦ this one is harder to decide on who I should do it for. If I wanted to be blunt and slight horrible I could say that Phaeās anti-psychotic meds calm her downā¦ I mean it is true, technically. To be less terrible, though, Iām gonna say that yoga, sewing, and welding also help calm her a bit. Anything she can do with her hands she finds soothing, really.
Then Tiiko finds petting his bird Beans to be extremely calming, which is quite a feat considering his crazy amounts of anxiety, butā¦ well, he just loves birds a lot, man. Ā
Kaliki likes to find someplace quiet and secluded to calm down, usually to read or busy herself with something, and then Neraā¦. Nera has a lot of trouble calming down, but she finds cleaning, assembling and taking care of her guns to be relaxing, as well as dancing out at clubs, though with her high levels of anxiety and frustration those things only do so much. I donāt think distracting oneās self really equals calming, exactlyā¦
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