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Orange blood | Eldrich Host | Sacrifice | Barista | "Bartender" for Nine Lives :) | Serial killer

A friendly face? Nope! It's Ehkkoh. A literal wolf in sheeps clothes. A freak to his very core.

Once a normal bronze, taken by Prophets cult as a child.. turned into a terror host.. Unlike other sacrifices. The terrors seemed to enjoy him a bit too much. Finding a home in him.. He is a walking baby terror and only time will tell what he can warp into. He is not like many other trolls, he is deceptive.. A cheerful man whos obsession with trolls and their autonomy. Fascinated rather than thrilled by it. He just wants to see how they work. He doesn't get this whole "troll" thing after all.

He frequently tricks higher bloods who fall for his "charming" clueless nature. He takes his time to see how they work! He frequently takes teeth from others and collects them. Just as little trophies. His behavior landed him a job at Nine Lives as.. a "Bartender". Ehkkoh has an insane amount of respect for the lead Bartender and owner. He is often given.. Ahem. Special work! Ehkkoh loves his work. His job.

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5. Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)

Very clean and orderly. Madara strikes me as the type to not be able to stand much clutter. He’s the type to clean up immediately after he eats. He cleans while he cooks, too (imo he’d probably prefer to generally eat the same set of things and become rather efficient with preparing them; a benefit of that is that he knows when he can spend time tidying versus spending time focusing on making his meal). It’s a clear indication of well-being if his usual workspaces become less orderly than normal.

6. Eating habits and sample daily menu

Madara eats as he needs to, not for the sake of it. This probably comes from frequent missions/battles growing up, learning to always be prepared for a battle at any time. He wouldn’t want to face an enemy on an empty stomach, but he wouldn’t want to be full, either. Becoming clan head didn’t change this habit either. He always ensured the well-being of his clanspeople sooner than his own, ensuring there was enough food for everyone else before he worried about himself. There was plenty for him to focus on anyways that he’d typically be found eating at random hours of the day, usually while working on something else simultaneously. He’s used to going without food when necessary.

These habits show themselves after founding the village. While Hashirama adapts to having more of a pattern around eating at certain times of the day, Madara can often become engrossed in his work to the point that he doesn’t notice his hunger until it’s been 8-10 hours since his last meal. If he sits for a meal, he doesn’t necessarily take his time with it. He appreciates his food, but he knows he has other duties that need his attention, so he won’t spend much time with his meal. (Hashirama is far more comfortable with multi-hour meals, and he can occasionally convince Madara to indulge him every so often. It helps that the village comes up every so often, so it doesn’t completely feel like wasted time to Madara.)

As far as what he normally eats, there are the usuals like his love for inarizushi. I think he has a secret sweet tooth but he’s particular about what he wants. I also think he would really enjoy spicy food. Like, “the thing you are eating is a concerning shade of bright red” kind of spicy. Of course not to the point that the food is no longer enjoyable to eat, but he has an insane tolerance by the time he is an adult. He may have accidentally ruined Hashirama one evening by preparing what he thought was a “mildly hot” meal that left Hashirama writhing on on the floor, sobbing pathetically about his burning tongue.

Tangentially related, I think he enjoys cooking. I know I said he likes to be efficient when it comes to eating, but cooking may eventually become a task that serves to relax him. It takes a certain kind of preparation and focus that he comes to value, especially as the village grows and more foods become available to him via means of trade, clan interactions, etc. Cooking is also an extended form of caring (which imo is very core to Madara’s character), so he enjoys cooking for other people. As a kid, that was helping cook for his family with his mother (and then continuing that after she passed), but after the village is founded and he finds himself more isolated, he will eventually cook only for himself and Hashirama, and then finally just for himself.

11. Intellectual pursuits

Hmm. I think he’d enjoy learning to cook from his family members as well as other elders in the village. He also strikes me as the type to seek out knowledge about fables/stories/traditions of other clans as the knowledge becomes more available to him over time. Perhaps what starts as a “finding the upper hand against another clan” or “researching and understanding how a clan works and makes decisions” turns into a genuine fascination towards the traditions and values that other clans have. Madara to me is a man who values understanding the entire picture before him; it gives him better insight into understanding what may happen in the future. Him having a hobby like this maybe leads to him pushing for having some kind of library in the village? Which would genuinely be cute as hell.

20. Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?

I like to imagine in some versions of canon that improperly using katon jutsu can really fuck up your lungs. While Madara is a skilled katon user, he had to learn just like anyone else, and surely pushed himself too far to achieve the best version possible in the name of his pride. One particularly bad go at it had him suffering from something akin to bronchitis for a couple of weeks, unable to so much as stand without coughing violently. Pushing himself to elevate his jutsu ended up forcing him to remain behind while his clan and family members fought and died against their enemies, leaving him in a state of anxious helplessness that he vowed never to allow again.

When helping Izuna and his other brothers learn katon jutsu (I hc Madara as a middle child, having one brother older than himself), he was initially overly-strict about their training and ensured they never pushed themselves beyond their limits unnecessarily. He’s viewed as being paranoid and fussy, but the truth of the matter is that he can still feel the after-effects of that recovery on the particularly cold days, when there’s tightness in his chest that he knows isn’t quite normal.

22. Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?

He might start making lists. Things that need to be done, various small notes of ideas he has for the village, things of that nature.

27. What is their biggest regret?

He regrets not protecting Izuna the day he was fatally wounded. He regrets not protecting his brothers, and not being strong enough when they died (it doesn’t matter to him that he was a young child, even compared to other shinobi at the time; his regret still remains).

Imo, Madara can reflect well and understand his motivations for his past actions. He can separate his current knowledge from the knowledge he had at the time of his decision-making and acknowledge that he did what he thought was right. However, as it concerns his family and in particular Izuna, those are the moments in his life that will continue to hurt like a twisting knife for the rest of his life.

40. Would you say they have a superiority-complex Inferiority-complex? Neither?

Generally, neither. While he absolutely sees himself as superior during the 4th war arc, i have many more -gestures vaguely, grimaces,- thoughts about who he really is at that point. He gains nothing from being modest when his intention is to essentially control the world via the infinite tsukuyomi.

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