Chainsmoking Under Plater

Lights up. // Hey all! Okay, so, it’s been a while, and I’m not sure if you guys noticed me working on dusting off my blogs, but here we go!  So for those of you who have recently followed me... Welcome! I feel really bad about that since I was in some really weird hiatus stuff, but HIIIII. I’M HERE NOW.

I just moved across the country (July 23rd-ish) and got a new job (September 11th) and got married (September 16th), so my schedule’s still a touch wonky as we navigate the holidays together and everything, but I think I’m mostly here.  I just got xkit on my computer again, so we’ll see how this goes. <3

That said, something really bizarre is going on with my inboxes, so I’ve temporarily closed my inbox and submissions for my blogs until I get it squared away.  I’ve also purged most of my drafts-- it looks like there were a lot of URL changes/blog closures since most of those drafts were made, so we’ll see what happens there.

Also, PSA... Reno’s blog will be the last one I work on restarting! He’s easily my most popular character, but for now, he might stay something of just an ask blog while I get my others going first.  I don’t want to get caught in the same emotional trap I did last time, where Reno had something like twenty+ threads and my others had one to five threads.  So there will be a thread cap on Reno after I get settled.

(That said, he’s always down for ask-box shenanigans, and I love metaing. So feel free to shoot those in once I open up the ask boxes again.)

For the record, this will affect all of my blogs.

FF7 Muses

Reno at @underplater.

Reeve Tuesti at @engineershands.

SOLDIER AU Tifa Lockhart at @lockhart1stclass.

Jan Kuykendall at @justcalljan.

FF8 Muses

Ellone Loire at @fragmentkeeper.

Irvine Kinneas at @hustleorboogie.

Zell Dincht at @armageddonfist.

4. Driving Headcanon

Reno had to be taught to drive after he was recruited, and to be honest, no one really trusts him to drive much.  He has little interest in driving either until he gets ahold of one of the motorcycles that the Turks have.  After that, he’s in love, and he spends a lot of time on the thing.  He finds it soothing.

Reeve spends more time in his car than most of the Turks do, and by their standards, he often drives ‘irresponsibly.’  He often rolls his eyes at such a descriptor, pointing out that there’s nothing irresponsible about his driving; they’re just all control freaks and have a hard time letting go.

18. Favorite Possession Headcanon

Reno doesn’t have very many possessions that he actually values.  Most of his possessions are ephemeral, either in the sense that they’re intended to be temporary, or in the sense that he can’t bring himself to expend the energy to keep up with them.  However, he does love his motorcycle, and the freedom that it brings him.

Reeve has numerous physical things that he values, but the most critical to him would easily be the notebooks that he has with his father’s original notes for Midgar.  They’re kept in a vault in the Tower with the original blueprints, but sometimes, Reeve takes them out and smuggles them home to reread.

19. Favorite Photograph Headcanon

Reno loves taking photographs, but he rarely gets himself in them.  More often than not, his phone is full of candid snaps of everyone around him.  His favorite is easily one of the office just before Veld’s ‘death’.  There’s nothing defining about it; it’s just a day in the office, where Veld and Tseng are bent over some map of Midgar and there’s a blurry rubber-band being shot across the lens, but it feels like home when he looks at it.

Reeve is in far more pictures than he’d care to admit to.  There are often PR teams flitting around the Tower, and they do seem to love catching the Head of Urban Dev with his sleeves rolled up and hard hat on.  But there’s one picture that he holds onto, and it’s one of the hundreds taken by some PR team years ago: his father, Reeve on his shoulders, and Ruvie standing in front of one of the reactor cores.  Reeve’s and his father’s hands are on the core, and the shot was used in hundreds of promo posters over the years, all touting the family-friendliness of Mako energy.  All Reeve can think is that it was the first time he’d ever noticed the rhythm of the reactors.

1. Rude Holiday Headcanon!

Rude is the one in charge of the Yule log for the Turks every year.  He’s seen as the steadiest of them all, which is particularly hilarious considering he mostly just enjoys lighting it on fire.  More often than not, it’s Reno who ends up actually taking care of the ashes and everything else afterward.

1. Holiday Headcanon.

Reno loves Yule, but he rarely participates publicly.  Except, of course, at the office parties, where he’s inevitably, somehow, in charge of spiking the punch.

He’s still not sure how, exactly, he ended up shouldering such a burden, but he can’t let his fellow Turks down, can he? <3

7. Kissing Headcanon.

Reno rarely kisses people on their lips.  Even partners he’s involved in and extremely fond of.  He’s far more likely to brush his lips against their hair or their throat, and he’s far more likely to nuzzle against someone, rubbing his cheek against theirs or something, than he is to kiss them.

14. Dancing Headcanon.

Reno fidgets constantly, often with some kind of rhythm behind the motion, and when he actually dances, it’s smooth and easy.  He did not require much training to learn to dance, even formally, but no matter what, he always prefers the heavy screech of the techno clubs.

15. Singing Headcanon.

Reno hums, but rarely, if ever sings.  When he does sing, he has a low, easy voice, and it’s one of the very few things that he does quietly.  More often than not, any singing that escapes him is under his breath.