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Extinguished:: Hey guys, sorry for vanishing last night. Tumblr ate a meme reply just as I was about to post it and it was just kinda the last nail in a supremely shitty coffin of a day, so I retreated to watch David Tennant be a salty Satoshi for three hours. I’ll probably be on later, and I’ll definitely be lurking about on Skype, but for now it’s time for Kroma to laze around a bit. Hope everyone’s doing okay!

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30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much?

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Two’s a pretty active guy most of the time, but it’s out of necessity, not really by inclination. He’s got no problem with spending days at a time moving only enough to get more books, but those kinds of opportunities are few and far between. The habit of moving is pretty deeply ingrained, but not so much that he’ll get antsy without his daily walk or anything.

Mental stimulation is something else entirely. Two can deal with the solitude out between the cities because books make up literally eighty percent of the weight in his packs, but if he isn’t able to read he has to have something new to look at, or someone to talk to, even if it’s just to insult them, or rob them, or- occasionally- to kill them. =| Barring that, he turns to collecting things- mostly monster item drops and armor, even feathers and summon gems. He’s got caches of junk all over the place between Alexandria and Lindblum; it’s a good source of gil in tough times, so at least it’s productive, but he can get a little-... reckless while he’s out hunting, so it gets a little risky after a while. Really, it’s better when he has books. And people. Seriously.

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15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?

Because of his love of books, Two does have a very active imagination, and he uses it a lot, given how much he’s usually alone. Mingling-and occasionally clashing- as it does with his Waltz nature and training, which emphasizes impartiality and calculation, that imagination means that Two can seem slightly inconsistent to the casual observer. That conflict between the Waltz he began as and the man he imagines himself as can also cause some pretty severe mood fluctuations, as his desire to picture himself as the hero in the stories he reads clashes with the ingrained knowledge that as a Waltz he really has no other role than as the villain, or the monster- an obstacle to be overcome, no more.

16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?

Two sleeps very lightly, and for that reason doesn’t dream very often. On the rare occasion that he sinks into a deep enough sleep to dream at all, though, those dreams are incredibly vivid, full of color and texture and scent and sound. On nights when he dreams about whatever he fell asleep reading, that can be a good thing- but Two is highly prone to nightmares.These usually involve the fight at Dali, for obvious reasons, or the incident between Three and One that crippled his older brother, or occasionally various run-ins, both real and imagined, with Kuja. A major theme in his nightmares is abandonment and inadequacy; whether on his part or someone else’s, and they happen much, much more often than any of his positive dreams.This might be one of the reasons he doesn’t tend to sleep very deeply.

26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does?

As far as romantic relationships, Two has as a rule preferred them often, casual, and short-lived; a compromise during his time at the castle between wanting to experiment with his developing sense of independence and the Waltz duties he still sought to adhere to. Since he’s begun wandering on his own, though, such encounters have been few and far between- which has changed his approach to those women he’s formed attachments to rather dramatically.The fact that those attachments formed at all is a major change; but the relative novelty of caring so much about another person means that Two is actually quite uncertain when it comes to the nitty-gritty of genuine romantic attraction. Flirting and joking, which compliments to give- all those are easy, but the act of letting someone closer than that- close enough to hurt, and to see how precarious the granny-knots are that hold that smooth exterior together- that is terrifying. Basically what I’m saying is that Two is absolutely awful at relationships and does not handle them. At all. Even though he’ll tell you otherwise.

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♡ :o

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♡:Your favourite film, book and television series.

Hahahahaaaaa you mean for this week? Leeet’s see-

tbh both the film and book are really being influenced atm by the trailer for Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast, which reminded me exactly how much I still absolutely love the original animated movie with its snappy dialogue and amazing songs and beautiful soundtrack and Nerdy McSupernerd main character who gets a whole library from her boyfriend instead of flowers and a movie date. Holy fuck did I want to be Belle when I was a kid- not for the pretty dresses and animated furniture servants but for the super gothic castle and chance to fight wolves and some dude who’d just give me a library for not screaming and running away when he made this face

...Ahem.

As for the book, Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter has been and probably always will be my favorite direct adaptation of the original fairy tale, partially for the lovely dreamlike tone that mingles surprisingly well with her pragmatic style of description, and partially because it’s one of the few versions I’ve read where the Beast’s tragic hubris comes not from his ego clashing with an equally egotistical (and possibly evil) fairy, but literally from a pissing contest with a local magician over who could reach the deepest secrets of the universe first. I’m serious.I lent this book away to someone years ago and not only never got it back, I’ve yet to find anywhere that has another copy- including arguably the largest bookstore in the world, and that breaks my freaking heart every time I think of it because I loved this book so much holy balls

For television series, though- ahhhh, I’m gonna have to say Steven Universe at the moment, mostly just because that’s what I’ve been watching over the past few weeks. I really didn't give this show much of a chance when Jeb first showed it to me and I seriously, deeply regret that now because Jesus has it matured from a really cute show into something super awesome and compelling. There are episodes which make me sob every time I watch them, which is surprisingly hard to do most of the time. Ask me again next week and I’ll probably have a new fave, but this one is always gonna be in my top-ten list. 

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Extinguished:: Hey y’all, a quick update- this coming week is gonna be yet another doozy, so it might be a bit before you see me back on Two in a serious capacity. This week I’m working- in order- a graveyard shift, two openings, a midshift, and a close. I’m really not sure how well I’m gonna handle this; I might be okay, or I might become an insomniac anxious wreck again. Basically its highly likely I’ll be reduced to memes, lurking and possible incoherent babbling in various inboxes.

Even so, thoughts of you zany peeps are probably gonna be what keeps me going when I want to fall asleep in my bagel boxes. <3 Stay chilly, my friendos!

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Extinguished:: Alright y’all, bedtime for me- I’ve got work at 5 am tomorrow. I’LL BE BACK THO IT WAS SO NICE TO PLAY WITHE EVERYONE AGAIN HOLY SHIT