my brain is full of corrie medics today so: 📙 📀 🍐 🎀 for Hemlock? <3
Hi Terra! Sorry this is a bit late, life has been, well, life. Anyway, here's my boy Hemlock.
📙 What kind of subjects (of conversation, of discussion, in school or whatever) does your OC find interesting or engaging or that they can talk for hours about? What kind of stuff do they just find fun?
So Hemlock is very serious, but he's also a huge dork. This is a carefully guarded secret that nobody knows except half the Guard. They pretend they don't, though. Hemlock has all the STEM potential that I never had. He's a trauma surgeon by training, and he's really into medical stuff in general. You'd think doing the job he does would kind of ruin the subject for him, but it doesn't! He spends his off hours combing the holonet for cool new papers and surgical techniques about trauma surgery but also just whatever catches his eye. This is definitely useful for work, but he also just likes it. He likes to memorize little facts and statistics so he can quote them later. It's his love language.
He also really likes math and, more specifically, statistics. Sorting through data is very relaxing for him and often, numbers have lower stakes than patients. It's nice to have something to do where he gets a tangible result AND no one dies in the process.
He’s also a fan of ‘debates.’ Yes, Hemlock is one of those assholes that likes to argue. He’s not ashamed.
📀 How easy is it to shock your OC? To confuse them? To lie to them, to manipulate them? How are they with feelings of trust? Can your OC be trusted?
Hemlock may be a bitter bastard, but he trusts vode easily and, once he trusts, he trusts for life. Betrayals shock him, in part because he’s very committed to the people and causes he loves, and he can’t imagine ever doing something like that. The news of Slick disturbed him.
In his natural state, Hemlock’s not too hard to lie to. He’s not like Thire or Stone, who have built-in bullshit detectors, or like Fox, who just assumes everything is a lie and/or a trick. He’s just kind of vibing. HOWEVER Holly is extremely susceptible to lies and deceit of all forms, so Hemlock’s learned to sharpen up. It’s decently hard to sneak things past him because he’s usually paying pretty close attention.
Hemlock would like to think he’s seen it all (and he’s right, it’s pretty hard to shock him), but sometimes things happen that just shake him in a way he can’t describe. A brother takes his hand and his dying breath and Hemlock’s cold for the rest of the day. A battalion is wiped out and he can’t sleep. He sees a natborn child his own (chronological) age and something in him is unsettled.
🍐 What is your OC’s mentality? Are they overall positive? Negative? A bit of both? Describe their thought patterns and reasoning behind their choice making!
Hemlock’s a bitter bastard. It’s not even the trauma, he’s just like that. Trauma just put a sharper edge on it lmfao. He doesn’t really like people and he doesn’t get lonely, so he doesn’t seek out company. He’d rather be reading or working out.
He tries to be ready for the worst. It works a little too well. By the end, it’s hard for him to see the bright parts of life. He’s always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
A lot of Hemlock’s personality is shaped by grief. His anger is grief. His sadness is grief. His bitterness is grief. He’s lost a lot and he’s seen others lose more, so he’s gotten to a point where he’s always ready to lose the next person he loves. He tries to hold people at a distance, but it just makes him feel more alone. It’s a vicious thing, and he feels empty inside.
🎀 Do they wear a specific accessory with a special meaning behind it? What is their usual fashion sense like? What do they wear when they want to be comfortable and what do they wear when they’re going to a fancy party? Or do they just not care?
Hemlock doesn’t get much chance to exercise his fashion creativity in his day-to-day life, but he does have a few things he likes. He has some really pretty black tattoos that scroll up his arms in kind of a swoopy sharp way (I’m thinking of a specific symbol for balance that I wear around my neck. I’ll rb with a picture for general vibes). He also wears black stud earrings. They’re shiny and hands-down the fanciest thing he owns. A ~lady friend~ gave them to him on a night out. There is a betting pool around whether or not they still meet up and also how much the earrings are worth (guesses range from 2-2million credits, with a bonus category called ‘stolen’).
When he goes out, he just wears his greys. I would say he doesn’t have anything else, but I hc that the Guard is one of the few battalions that actually accumulates Stuff because they’re landbound (this comes up in a fic or two of mine I think). Slowly, illegally, they acquire what might generously be called a communal wardrobe. Hemlock is partial to greys and light blues. He likes clothes he can move in, but he’s also proud of his physique, so they’ve got to be somewhat fitting. Definitely a wearer of white Air Forces.
And that’s all! Thank you so much, Terra, this was so much fun.
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