characterization meme: 1,3,4,5,10,16,20
1. On a scale of “is occasionally forced to bathe” to “Instagram model with sponsors to hoe for” how involved is your OC’s Skincare routine?
none of these losers have a skin care routine, so im just gonna ramble about cleanliness habits.
Sofi always appreciates showering after having finished with the actual shower, but it rly takes effort to work herself up to showering because she has so much hair, it takes forever to wash when she has to wash it. She is queen of shortcut products to avoid it as long as possible. Also, she loves bath bombs and bubble baths.
Garrot takes the longest baths. and showers, but preferably baths. He likes the water super hot and cozy and the room full of steam and he’ll stay easily an hour. He likes music and candles and yearns for a novelty rubber duck collection.
Rowan hates being wet, but the feeling of consistent access to a hot shower is near euphoric, so he has a contentious relationship with bathing. He hates being smelly, so its typically showers every other day as fast as he can make them and still be clean.
Nat showers sometimes twice a day bc they get so sweaty. They hate fragrances, so finding soaps is a struggle, and they still typically steal their soaps. They have stickers on their shower walls
3. What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?
i also went with gross out
Rowan: when people get all pissy about having their stuff touched
4. What’s your OC’s response to being asked for money by a homeless person?
they are homeless people. (which is to say, depends on how much they like the dude and if they have any money.)
5. Does your OC get lost easily? What do they do when they do get lost?
Sofi wants to be good at navigation, but she’s not. If she doesn’t have a gps, she’s crap with directions; there’s always something that goes wrong. She has to retrace her steps and try again.
Garrot is super easily lost. His memory sucks, he’s easily confused, and he knows it; he is a strong proponent of the buddy system to help protect himself. If he does get lost on his own, he has no trouble approaching strangers to ask for help.
Rowan doesn’t get lost. He’s good about noting small details, building mental maps, and noting possible alt routes. If somehow he does, he circles out until he’s somewhere familiar again.
Nat isn’t easily lost either; their parkour gets them places fast, so they’re used to building that mental map quick. They’re not much perturbed when they do get lost either, they consider it a fun opportunity to explore.
10. On a scale of “Complete and Justified nervous breakdown” to “Conquer The Entire Galaxy and become an Immortal God-Emperor”, how well would your OC handle being abducted by Aliens?
Sofi would take over the ship.
Garrot would be pretty okay about it? The scariest thing for him is being separated from the group, so if he’s with them, he’s concerned but he can handle it.
Oh my god. Rowan would be the worst. They’d break out of their little containment unit and take over the entire got damn ship or crash it trying to figure out all the bitchin weird alien tech.
Nat just wants to do a full on proper cultural exchange with the aliens and would chat their ear off.
16. How strong or weak is your OC’s Impulse control? What’s the worst thing that happened because of their Impulsivity or inability to be so?
none of these hedons are particularly well known for their impulse control. they all want and desire loudly and don’t much fear consequences.
Sofi has really weak impulse control when it comes to her temper specifically. Like, clinically (ODD). Controlling her temper is really, really hard for her. Her impulse control more generally is pretty middling; she is very confident in her ability to get most things she wants, and rightfully so. but the temper’s caused the most problems. The worst thing to happen is her ODD absolutely destroyed her relationship with her mother. Even the most mild request could incite a fight.
Garrot actually has pretty decent impulse control most of the time, potentially the best of the group, outside of his addiction. That said, he (normally) doesn’t take rejection that harshly (he always keeps his expectations very low), so generally he’ll still shoot his shot regardless of his chances. The worst thing that’s ever happened is he’s gotten kicked out of stores for getting caught stealing, nothing too terrible.
Rowan’s capable of impulse control, but generally chooses not to exercise it. When it counts, she can restrain herself, but there’s gotta be a reason, otherwise she’s taking what she wants and everything she wants to say is coming right out of her mouth, consequences be damned. The worst thing that’s happened, easily, is when she’s been shot at.
Nat is terribly impulsive, and their time with rowan only magnified that trait. Their impulse control sucks too. Part of why they’re always on the move is to make sure no consequences catch up to them. The worst thing to happen is, predictably, when they ran and lost all their friends.
20. What’s your OC smell like? no, not that “Vanilla and Anxiety” evocative stuff, realistically. Body odor? what have they been touching all day? When was their last shower? Did they put on any kind of artificial scent?
Sofi tends to smell mostly of her hair products. After Nat left, she never really got back into the habit of wearing perfume and remains a little sensitive to it herself, but she looooves nice smelling soap, lotions, and candles.
Garrot uses hair product pretty liberally too to maintain his curls, otherwise, he just smells of sunlight, maybe mildly of makeup or laundry.
Rowan dyes his hair frequently enough that the smell of dye sticks to him pretty often; it tends to last, with his shower habits. He can also be a lil smelly, since he’s so active.
Nat hates hates haaaates scents of any kind, but they’re super active too, so they tend to always smell a little sweaty and dusty. As mentioned earlier, they shower/rinse often enough that their body odor is never too bad.
