"Stocke is honestly a really weird person" rude
I love him, but he is a really weird person.
He is a spy who habitually wears bright friggin’ red, and his clothes are commented on as being weird even by the other characters.
He spends half of every single conversation going “……” and then walks off in the middle of it and five minutes later knows the intimate life problems of half a dozen people and has agreed to find someone’s mother’s lost wedding ring that was eaten by a bear. (Then he hands it to them. Apparently he had it on him already. How? WHO KNOWS, Raynie and Marco sure don’t.)
He gets near-fatally stabbed and no one can figure out when it happened.
He keeps taking total goofballs completely seriously, except then he sometimes switches to mocking them with absolutely no warning.
He gets dragged into a castle in chains and when the guy sitting on the throne asks him what his name is he snarks that it’s rude not to introduce yourself first. After he’s informed he’s talking to the king, he tells him his jokes suck.
He casually mentions information he knows via time travel and gives people stuff he has no physical way to get and just sort of assumes no one will question it.
He talks about thousands of tons of rocks falling on his head with about the same amount of emotion as someone speculating on whether it might rain.
He sees a vivid mystical vision of Raynie and Marco dying horribly and goes, “Eh, I’ll worry about it later.”
It’s canonical that his conversations with Lippti and Teo look like he’s standing in the corner staring at nothing and mumbling to himself.
He just kinda… decides that random things are his problem now even when no one’s actually asking him to do anything, and then acts as if there is absolutely nothing odd about a random stranger turning up on your doorstep to hand you medicine saying it’s from your wife, when your wife insists she never bought you anything like that and has no idea who this guy is.
He keeps manifesting bizarrely specialized skills and magic powers that nobody suspected he had and giving no or minimal explanation for them.
He agrees to help make the Desert Crows feel better and then spends the entire sidequest saying stuff like this:
He gets chased out of Alistel after committing some light treason, and within a week openly waltzes right back in, still wearing fire-truck red.
His social skills vary based on circumstance from “incredibly insightful” to “amazingly dense,” and he’ll give a dramatic speech that inspires someone to change the entire direction of their life’s work and then turn around and “that sounds fake but okay” people saying they like him and don’t want him to die.
He constantly knows things he has no reason to know, takes completely absurd things in stride, and wanders off to have involved conversations with complete strangers and/or thin air, and I will totally believe that the rest of the group were like, “He’s a time-traveling amnesiac undead prince? Sure, I’ll buy it, it’s as good an explanation as I can think of.”
ellievsbear
gummygunk
baratheonpilled
titsay
andulkaphoto
germansingergirl
kaledo-art
turnnoffyourmind
