senses and other specific headcanons. (Arlas and Mirabelle/Norg edition)
what does your muse smell like ?
Arlas very specifically smells like the seventeen hundred lilac bushes he's growing around his church graveyard. Despite being purple he is not lavender scented. He may otherwise smell like 'extremely old Pharasmin church' which is a combination of heavy incenses used in both worship, and to chase away the smell of death.
Depending on your Mirabelle of Choice you get different smells, the Reaper of Reputation smells like a very expensive perfumes; often a blend of vanilla and smoke. Scent version of inoffensive to your senses and attractive. Father Skinsaw does not smell like much of anything on a normal day but if you called him to talk specifically and it wasn't to kill someone, he'd be in the same vein as the Reaper but with added cardamom in it. Grey Master at most just smells what can be defined as. Clean. He doesn't want you to be able to perceive him in any ways, so he's just. Am Clean.
You can unfortunately smell Blackfingers because he smells like the sort of clean that one becomes after scrubbing horribly dangerous chemicals off. He smells like you're about to have a very horribly, agonizingly, bad time.
what do your muse’s hands feel like ?
Arlas has furry goat hands that are rough and calloused from being a grave and groundskeeper and a carpenter, and a bunch of jobs all in one because he's the Only Dude In His Church and he Does Not Have Money To Hire Other People To Help Him. They are very nice to hold though.
The Reaper's hands are very soft and delicate and a little pointy because he loves having claws. They seem like they've never done anything more than just. Touch people, fabrics, porcelain cups, and fine silverware and maybe shuffle the occasional sheet of paper. Skinsaw's hands are horribly rough and marred from his work and the occasional scuffle with someone who he toyed with and decided to fight back.
You would think Grey Master would be the same but he's a burglar with experience and wears gloves so his hands are softer than Skinsaw's but still look and feel like he does a lot of work with them. Blackfinger's hands are by far the worst, they feel like they will never recover from the things he's stuck them in, exposed them to, and had them chewed up by. They feel Fucking Awful and need the worlds most powerful lotions.
what does your muse usually eat in a day ?
Arlas eats a very healthy diet of fruits and vegetables that he can purchase from passing merchants, meat is extremely expensive, and what he can grow. Due to his trip to Barovia, he has developed a taste for shrimp.
Mirabelle eats lavishly. The idol of greed does not accept anything less than the finest and thus makes for the worlds most expensive date. Thankfully, gods do not really need to eat.
does your muse have a good singing voice ?
Arlas is learning to sing and play music but he's. Serviceable. Don't ask him about it, he'll feel bad talking on the matter.
Absolutely no Norg has a singing voice, his investments in the performing arts is recruiting Bards to his faith and having them infiltrate places to do work in his name. The closest you can get is the Reaper being flirtatious with his speech but that's the closest you can get to melodic.
does your muse have any bad habits or nervous ticks ?
Arlas plays with his holy symbol when he's nervous and chews his lips.
Mirabelle, when alive, used to click his prosthetics when he was Having Feelings. But then he smothered all his emotions, became some sort of either modern legend or demigod, and ascended to proper godhood and is now noticeably lacking in the nervous department of emotions.
what does your muse usually look like/wear ?
Arlas is a little fancy cleric boy as a mortal, he looks like a funny ghost bride as a lesser Avatar of Pharasma post campaign. His clothes are always well kept, he is not.
All four Mirabelle's have drastically different appearances because he's not about to show you his true face. The Reaper often dresses as a trendsetter Taldan noble, often with bright colors that are hard to manufacture to flaunt his limitless stolen wealth. He keeps his hair long and also brightly dyed to continue making that rich impression, currently his hair is pink. Skinsaw dresses more moderately with darker and muted colors, he has long black hair that's been braided. Your quintessential goth gf.
Blackfingers dresses like a librarian, brown hair done up in a bun with a ribbon and always a too night blouse and dark skirt. He will not poison you or do unethical experimentation. Trust him. Grey Master just looks like a blonde guy. Don't worry about him. He has not just walked past you and taken your wallet, he did not just open the door to a house he doesn't live in. He'll dress up if you call on him in person though.
is your muse affectionate ? How so ?
Arlas is affectionate but the very specific brand of 'i will throw my entire life away for you' and 'i'm going to keep a close eye over you with the express intention of making sure i can help you survive and thrive'
The Mirabelle conglomerate is affectionate. You don't want them to be affectionate. Attracting the affectionate attentions of any of the four immediately puts you in a precarious situation because all of them are the same guy that are just split into four distinct individuals; they all share the core greedy desires and need to monopolize and use people.
While they all have different ranges of showing affection, the Reaper is the most capable of Being Normal about it and displaying things is a mostly normal nonthreatening fashion, its the Grey Master that's second normal who often showers his favored in wealth. Skinsaw's affections tend to stray deeply into violence, but he rarely if ever afflicts it on the object of affection but will permit it to be done to himself bc divinity can only be killed by other divinity/outsiders.
Blackfingers is the decidedly worst of them all because him showing you that he likes you is the fact he is letting you continue to live and breathe without agony. He also tends to be the one who flips the most easily from loving someone to deciding it would be perfectly acceptable to horribly poison them.
what position does your muse sleep in ?
Arlas sleeps on his back because he's got horns that make sleeping on the sides Very Difficult. Tiefling problems.
Mirabelle, no matter which one you get, both hogs the entire bed, but also manages to make himself very small and tightly curl up. Shout out to Grey Master who flops on a bed and has to be manually moved by another person to make room for themselves in the bed though. Sorry Cornelius.
could you hear your muse in the hallway from another room ?
Arlas clip clops everywhere. He naturally is not stealthy.
And if you hear any Mirabelle then it means he wants you to know he's there. Most of the time the answer is a very definitive: No.
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