#;balder

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What's astounding is going from a muse with ZERO self preservation to another one who does actually stop and will walk right back away unless it's important.

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I should, frankly, be messaging people, but here’s a short headcanon post.

I kind of just realized that Balder nowadays is indefinitely more susceptible to any vampires looking to trick him. Really, most of team is (in varying degrees).

He’s not entirely naive, but all the more subtle hints are dismissed. Which that sort of stuff are usually the only things you’ll have to know what’s actually going on. He’ll think it’s his old bias acting up again though generally. 

This doesn’t mean he puts himself in vulnerable positions, but generally that he’ll believe more than he ordinarily would from a human. 

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Now I say Balder is near and dear to my heart- and precious, but that does not mean he is flawless. One thing that I would like to note is that Balder is cowardly. Not EXCEEDINGLY so, but he indefinitely does avoid physical confrontations. As well, if something looks dangerous there's a very high chance he will not go in there without someone else. It could just be an abandoned house, but because it's spooky he won't go in alone. He'll generally push himself if he has a good reason. The point though is that he doesn't push back against most of his fears unless he has a strong incentive to do so.

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Like Balder, overall, is not a fighting person. He doesn't go out to start fights. He doesn't solve problems with other people by a fist fight. He just does not naturally spit back fire like that. Really, what would have been ideal for him was just going around to research supernatural creatures and all sorts of otherly magic. As well as the commonly known sciences such as Biology. With his high ambition though he would of course pursue all of that with an endless supply of energy and aiming to discover something. Anyways though, the point is that- hunting was something nobody would have put initially in the cards for Balder. Ann? She's a real hero type in that most people could see her doing that. Then Danny- He had a real sort of dutiful response when he found out. He HAD to save people, that was his job now. He does stuff because it's the right thing, but also because 'I'm a good person so I'm going to-' and so on. Balder. Balder is not a fighter and he never went through life with the idea of being a protector. When he saw this though he just naturally wanted to help people. I guess what I'm saying it that it wasn't as much a conscious decision on Balder's part. There's just a very empathetic part of him that reaches out towards people. Now, yes, he does think 'this is going to be my job now' but it has nothing to do with himself. It has to do with there needs to be somebody to save these people, and he KNOWS that there are limited hunters so why not him? I will also say though that if this was something so far fetched from anything Balder was involved with then he likely may have never started hunting. Say, his main studies had been solely tech related and he found about vampires. If he wasn't interested then it's likely he wouldn't have become a hunter - however, the thing is is that Balder would have gotten involved in the deep dangers of anything he WAS interested in otherwise. For instance, technology- he'd have ended up a sort of vigilante hacker for the especially wrongful and horrible things on the internet. It's not that he thinks it's less important if he's not interested in it, but it's more of a personal matter of what YOU can do. If you find out about starving children in say Finland, well are you going to Finland to feed them or are you going to feed starving children in your own country.

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So the reason Balder got into hunting vampires was very genuinely to save people. Which I say 'genuinely' because half of the team (and vampire hunters in general) had other underlying reasons they started hunting. Such as loved ones lost to vampires, being raised by hunters, and doing so 'to be a good person.'

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This is, honestly, probably going to seem like a bit of an irrelevant post, but... Balder loves super pop music and I need you all to know he sings to it as well.

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Mother’s Day

//Ehh, what they do on the day and junk.

So, quick recap about the family situations going on. 

Sam’s parents are dead, and she has Arthur who is essentially an Uncle. 

Danny has a great family with parents, sibling, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.

Ann & Balder grew up in an orphanage, but they had some foster parents throughout the years and they have their mentor who they’re close to.

May’s parents died too, and she had a medley of caretakers.

Vincent’s parents died, then he had his Uncle and Aunt, but then just his Uncle, then his Uncle was gone too, and then he pretty much grew up around hunters.

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Sam

She just likes to take the day and think about her mom. Just remembering her stuff her mom did for her and maybe looking through old pictures and stuff if she’s around the town with her stuff. She gets sentimental, but ultimately she doesn’t do much else. Her routine doesn’t change besides spending a little extra money to pick out something that she remembered her mom making/getting for her. (Like modern!verse her mom would always share her chili with her when they went to Frisch’s) She does like mother’s day though, she likes it a lot actually. She loves hearing about other people’s moms and listening to their stories.

Ann & Balder

As I said, they had some foster parents. Which, let me tell you if you don’t know- foster parents are like parents that will only temporarily hold onto a kid. Like they won’t officially adopt the kid, but they will take care of the kid for a short period of time, possibly multiple times. So, they’ll leave messages for two mother figures that took care of them, but ultimately that’s it. They don’t dislike the day, but they just think back to the parent figures that they did have and appreciate them. It used to bother them, but by this point they are perfectly fine.

Danny

He’s pretty typical regarding mother’s day. He’ll get chocolate and flowers and a card for his mom, and help his siblings with whatever they have planned. He’ll come home generally, or he’ll come around when he can and treat THAT day like mother’s day. When he’s home he’ll pretty much spoil his mom with his siblings and do everything for her. With each passing year now he relishes mother’s day more and more because it’s an excuse to escape from everything that’s going on with his life at the moment. Danny is trying to be a leader of this team and in general hunting is not a fun job, so it’s nice to be able to go home and see his mom and not think about that for one day.

He avoids talking about it in group conversation though with the team. After the first time, he figured out that May and Vincent didn’t really have any mother figures so he didn’t want to bring up any hurt feelings. He likes to talk with Ann and Balder about it though, ask them about their foster moms and ideas he has for when he goes home and “Do you think I should bring home stuff to make her something to eat?”

May

She completely ignores the day as best as she can. She’ll avoid conversation about it if she can, and if not then she’ll give one word replies to end conversations about it. If someone is talking about their mom then she’ll let them talk and so on, but if it’s specifically regarding mother’s day related she doesn’t engage the conversation. Talk about your mom any other day, and she’ll be fine. May still feels rather cheated about losing her parents, and although she doesn’t necessarily think she had a bad childhood she still wishes she could have just had a normal childhood with her parents. Problem is she doesn’t really remember them so she has a small handful of vague memories that don’t really do anything for her.

Vincent

Besides his aunt he didn’t have a mother figure after his mom died. He’s really…. Straight about the day. He’s not bitter, but he’s not happy or sympathetic. It’s another day and you can talk to him about it and about your mom if you want and he’ll talk with you. Honestly, he doesn’t enjoy thinking back to before the organization and he considers that time-period as belonging to someone that wasn’t him.

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Do they like telling scary stories?

Question for the whole team.

Do they like telling scary stories?

Sam

    Noooo, ah no. This is just not fun for her. She doesn't like horror stories to begin with. Now the exception here is for the normal_life!verse or apple pie!verse where Dominic, Sam’s brother, has had a bigger influence on her. She’ll like telling scary stories to scare people, even making dramatic noises to try and creep them out.

Danny

       Well, first off he’s not very good at them. However, he does like hearing them. He’s tried to tell them before, but after realizing the little effect he had as a story-teller he didn’t really care to do it anymore.

Balder

       Yes. Ann and him would tell scary stories to each other all the time, although as they got older they started to drop out of that habit. Well, except for when they were out at night hunting or patrolling. He tries to make his up on the spot, but sometimes this leads to really long pauses in the story.

Ann

       Yes. She loves telling them. One of her favorite things about joining the team is when they’re out at night and nothing is happening so she starts telling a scary story, usually one she read earlier on creepy pasta or a similar site. She’s actually the best story teller because of how she adds dramatic pauses and changes her voice for certain parts.

Vincent

       No. He just doesn't like telling stories, and he’s especially not one for telling scary stories. However, his flat delivers can actually be pretty creepy when the story is really grimacing and the whole time he just keeps this monotone throughout it.

May

       Hmm, kind of. She does like telling stories in general and can have fun telling a scary story. However, she won’t tell several in a row because the genre tires her out. She gets emotionally invested in the stories she tells, which will make her pretty good at them, but the more stressful or scary the story the more easily she gets tired out from telling them. She likes telling them, but she doesn’t like being the sole entertainer for everyone else.