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The guy can seem a little standoffish when not directly interracting with other people, always being spotted just doing his own thing in the backround sometimes (like fixing a small toy or inspecting a random trinket in his hand. sometimes you'll see him pinch a random piece of cloth material just to feel the soft texture there while thinking about things, seemingly preoccupied)....

The moment people do approach him though or he approaches others, he has no problem being polite and friendly! Unfortunately, he can sometimes act a bit too formal though, using "miss" or "mx." or "sir" pretty often while getting to know the other person/people. Even when he's told to just call them by their own names, it can take a bit for him to do so if he doesn't interract with them often enough for him to remember immediately. This ESPECIALLY happens for those who seem older than him or of similar age, which makes it pretty sad the moment any such individual realises this.... and is indirectly being told they're old. Which completely backfires Dragomir's intention to be respectful! This is completely by accident though as you can imagine but he does make an effort to remember each time he revisits a place and recognises/gets recognised by anyone lol.

He's not really expressive himself, despite enjoying hanging around those who act this way. Even people who might seem annoying for being too energetic or those who are deemed too "loud" or "demanding", or who act out of the norm or eccentric, he doesn't mind hanging around with! In fact, he finds it easier to interract with those who are straightforward! He finds them easier to understand! Staying neutral can get downright boring or repetitive at times, or confusing, even though it can be hard testing the waters on his own, since it takes some time to get fully comfortable in a place and the locals living there..... He doesn't hang around in one city/town/village for long periods of time often, so this is why it happens!

He values working! He works a lot and travels to places during his free time. His whole family's like this, in fact! It's why you might often spot them either alone with friends in random places, or have the whole family in a get-together! They have many distant relatives who live in many corners around the world.. They often enjoy reuniting with them and paying them visits during the holidays!

Financially he's good. Like really good, in fact. So well, he can choose whatever job he wants with no worries about the pay (you can thank that generational wealth for this)! Considering he's always had a love and appreciation for art and toys (especially the older, vintage kind), he ended up spending most of his life around his business that involves both, to the point of having his own factories for this! One thing that's especially unique about it is how he even went out of his way to create small kits on how to build certain toys on your own! Even mechanical ones depending on the ages, since obviously some kids are too young for that. moreso for the older ones with instructions on how to do it!!! One could also make a personal request for any textile material they wish for whatever purpose aswell!

He likes to dress up nicely for any occasion. Enjoys jewelry, riches of any kind! More often than not, his family enjoys spoiling one another and is especially big on gift giving! This is why Dragomir enjoys making gifts for the people he genuinely appreciates and cares about, and why him and his family are often associated with the Christmas holiday. You'll have him offer even small trinkets or items out of the blue, just because it reminded him of the individual and thought they might like it...

Since he's a nutcracker, his mouth opens like one! It moves up and down and can look a little funny to others at times. The only way one could know if he's smiling is if his eyes light up, or if his mustache curls in at the ends! Otherwise, he stays pretty neutral, even looks downright bored at times when he's actually not! The sad face comes from lidded eyes and a droopy mustache... Scared/surprised means his mustache gets frizzled, his eyes go especially wide and, if he's frightened, he grinds his teeth together, making that clack clack clack wooden sound aswell! Anger manifests as just squinted eyes or eye twitches, if especially irritated his hair curls in even more and their ends split a bit too. If enraged you got all the above + staring hard enough at the person it looks like he just might lunge at them. Unironically he has no eyebrows, so every day he needs to paint them on himself to keep them fresh and clean-looking!

As I've stated before, his family tree is made of different forest origins since they're all wood people! That includes those from the teak, oak, black locust and heartwood forests! There are more than that obviously, but those represent distant relatives that haven't been reconnected with yet, so yeah.... Dragomir for the longest time had a feeling they might also have great great great grandparents from his mother's side that are from the cedar forest aswell! He had evidence like documents and photos to back this up at some point, but for whatever reason they were lost by one of their passing family members and never could be found ever again.... He mourned that loss for awhile, despite his family's reassurance.

Because of his genetic inheritance, he's most likely to live past 100 years! It would be like the equivalent of living for 60-70 years for a human in fact... Pretty neat, huh?

He does not like dogs. He finds most of them intimidating and unpredictable. He did get bit by one when he was 10 years old (and still has a few marks on his leg in fact), so that might explain it lmao. Something like paying any animal rescues and whatnot is not a question! This is moreso every day life of just... taking a step back from any approaching him. Or internally freaking out if any dog jumps happily at him or anything. He's a loser like that in this hhahahaha

His eyes and round face are the only features he has from his mother. The rest come from pop-pop because nature's cruel like that sometimes. In this universe, it is good that both parents got divorced and disowned by the family, with mother living on her own with little to no contact, while father had already passed away from lung failure when the kids were all still young (tree rot/fungus taking over the roots of his lungs at just 39 years old).

Dragomir's youth consisted of him being a little shit and causing trouble, acting free as a bird and running off on "adventures". As a teenager, he'd always get in trouble for the dumbest shit ever and have his grandmother praise him for it while everyone else gritted their teeth. This was especially the case considering he was pretty damn good in school and it didn't affect his scores. One time, there was a massive Christmas parade in the capital where he lived, and because he loved parades soooo much he decided to sneak behind the sets and pretend to be one of the toy drummers there lol. Also he often spat at people who pissed on trees in parks and in public. He grew out of that but the disrespect for those people didn't.

Voiceclaim uhhhh I've yet to decide. He's a soft-spoken slavic man if that gives you anything bahaha. He can act very sweet and tender at times though since he started acting more similar to his grandfather the older he got (grown ass man). Said grandfather finds that very endearing and always gifts him packs of his favourite tea (Russian Caravan) each time he visits. Not that he doesn't love the rest of his grandkids obviously, but Dragomir especially was raised and guided by him and stuff! Even during his rebellious phase, his grandson looked up to him a lot and sought to be more like his grandfather!

He has 3 siblings -> one older sister and two twins: a sister and a brother. From their mother's side all 4 were raised by the grandparents, while occasionally being taken care of by their closest uncle (the father's brother) and one great aunt. They were spoiled rotten and cherished despite all the messy family business happening in their youth that only as they got older did they finally learn about. They all lived in the country side, with paid farmers working on the family's property (orchards, crops, grapevines)! All the farmers' kids and the rich kids would gather round and play tag, hide and seek, whatever. It is only when they got older as teens that the kids had to separate for school you see, with most moving in the big cities nearby for a better life. Any festivities happening that meant traditional food would be involved though, Dragomir's family was there to save the day! It is said that one time, one of the farmers' kids spotted a strange figure in the distance with a pumpkin head, stepping over their fields. When the kid threw a pebble at it to catch its attention and confront it for ruining the crops, the figure vanished all of a sudden and a random murder of crows fled the area! The kid was reassured it could've just been one of the scarecrows installed in the area there... but it was odd how it failed to do just that. Scare away the crows. And also there wasn't a scarecrow placed on that specific patch either.... Weird.

Meh, anyway. There's more lore revolving around my nutcracker guy than this, but for now I feel like I've already said more than enough here bahhahha!!!!!

Also, deeply sorry again for the long absence, school has been doing nothing but kicking my buns and stuff's looking pretty grim with the current minister of education and whatnot. Sucks that this stuff affects both students and teachers bro. But anyway, at least there's only what? 2-3 weeks until the schoolyear ends. Soo...... yeah. Until then, I'll continue to suffer because FUCK me and FUCK everyone else involved (okay I know I'm just being pessimistic but godDAMN it's been a tough year dude.)