You sent me a list, I send you a list - I and J for Artemisia; C, N, and W for Milenko; B, R, and S for Nana; and Z for Amparo? Thank you in advance for your worms
it is,,, worm time
A–Z of Character Mannerisms/Behaviours asks (accepting!)
Artemisia
I. Impression: What do other characters first think of your character, based on their body language and way of speaking? Is this first impression usually accurate?
It depends on the context.
Artemisia is a trained public orator and while she can be friendly, she likes to keep the workplace appearances if she's in work or academic environments. Good posture if a little closed off. When she isn't, however she tends to retreat into herself and it's very easy to tell the difference.
Artemisia inherited the Cassano stance, as well as Cassiopeia's cross arms when she's annoyed and it probably the most likely to tap your foot at you if she is. Most usual first impression is that she's a put together person who might be different levels of tight-up. Even when she's dealing with people there's this aura of put-togetherness and slight never letting go. She says she doesn't exude Cassano vibes but literally anyone who's been in contact with any Cassano ever can tell she's one by just looking at her.
J. Judge: Is your character quick to judge other characters on their mannerisms, or do they prefer to get to know someone before judging?
She tries not to. Even if she focuses on more meaningful actions, because that's the fair thing to do, she might still dislike someone out of the impression she has of them. How she treats people doesn't rely on this exclusively though, she does like to be fair.
Milan
C. Confidence: What mannerisms does your character have when they’re confident?
Swing to his walk, loose, confident smile, he crosses his arms similar to Anatole (one in front of him that he uses as a shoulder rest for the other) with very lose mannerism or straight up talking with his hands. He's letting the moment carry him, and he's in it and one with it.
N. Necklace: Does your character have mannerisms based on the things they wear, such as pushing up their glasses or checking their watch?
He tugs at his necklaces by the charm part and clicks the heels of his boots when he's about to stand up. He doesn't pick at his clothes too much, but he does pull his sleeves up if he's trying to concentrate and make sure his clothes are in place before he's about to change the activity he was doing or when he has to attend any sort of religious service because he wants to look presentable.
Speaking of that, whenever he has the habit of pressing his headwear (either his kippah or his taqiyah) against his head because he thinks he looks weird with headwear. According to him he doesn't have a "hat head".
W. Wiggle: How often does your character fidget? In what ways do they fidget?
Milenko will fidget if he's idle, bored, or talking to someone if he's nervous (case in which it often involves moving things around him in a seemingly uninterested manner. He'll pick them and move them without really thinking about it). If he's thinking while working with others he tends to shake his pen against his hand, or steeple his fingers, expand them and bend them, while he rests his forehead against the space between his index and his thumb. Also pulls his own hair. If he can swing his feet while sitting, he will.
If he stops moving all together, either he's going into fight or flight response, or the water magic kicked in.
Anatole
B. Bold: Does your character mock other people nonverbally? Have they ever gotten in trouble for making a sarcastic facial expression?
God, yes. Specially when he was younger, as he was a particularly argumentative teenager. He wasn't mean just expressive and argumentative, and he has the most mobile eyebrows known to man. He scrunches his nose and raises his upper lip in a snarl, his eye roll is Fear-of-God inducing, and if you've really done it, he does a sort of snort-snore while he rolls his eyes like he's a slot machine.
Don't give him your opinion if he has not asked and he doesn't know you, don't be harmfully and blatantly incompetent, do not speak over him, and he hates when people get in his personal space and do not back off when he asks. Bares repeating that purposeful incompetence and apathy make his blood boil, and if he's in Consul mode and you've tried him one to many times, you'll know he's not happy.
Otherwise, he waits until he's out of sight or people turn away. King of 'dropping the ruse' moments. I'll talk about that in S.
R. Relax: What mannerisms does your character have when they’re relaxed?
If engaging with someone: Weight on one side, slightly bending that knee, arm crossed over his front and using it as an elbow rest for his other hand. Chronic hand talker, signature slightly raised left eyebrow and a soft, cat-and-cream smile. Starts "dancing" in place like a videogame character and puts his hands on the back of his waist and pulls himself forward some. If he's sitting, he'll lean closer to the person he's talking with, even lean against them if they're physically close enough and emotionally close too.
If he's just on his own, he'll just. stop minding his posture so much, goes into idle raccoon considering his environment mode, or lies down with a leg bent and the other spread. Sit's like a 1920s gay in a soirée with other unspeakables.
S. Secret: Is your character good at communicating using nonverbal mannerisms? Do they have any “secret gestures” with other characters? If so, what?
He DOES. He's a man of languages and always ends up crafting inside cues with people he's really close. One of my favourites is how he'll run his fingers on the inner forearm of his partner until he can lace their fingers together when he wants attention.
Speaking of communicating nonverbally, when observing the Nana in the wild, you must know that when he doesn't want to give you information or he can tell you're trying to get a reaction out of him, he'll become an unreadable bastard. When he mentalises himself not to give an inch of a reaction to anyone he doesn't. This is a transferable skill, he uses it in a lot of scenarios.
Amparo
Z. Zest: How much does your character use movement to express their feelings? Do they jump up and down with excitement, or do they keep it to a slight smile?
Amparo's a case in this regard, because while she's expressive she also defaults to introversion because she is an introvert. Her smile if wide and contagious, and if she's excited and with someone, or excited with someone, she'll hug you if it's fine by you or grab you by your upper arms. Victory fists are also a feature as is grabbing her own face and squealing at times. Her anger is expressive, though her sadness is numb and reclusive. She's an actress and a dancer and movement is her main tool of work. You cannot impersonate or live without movement.
Yet, sometimes, specially when she's alone, her expression is mostly blank, unless she's talking to herself. If she's lost in her own head or her own feelings she has this far away posture as if her own head is her own world. She'll blink and realise 4 hours passed and she didn't even notice.
Sometimes, she plays at keeping things to herself just because she can. She's used to being on stage and when she's on stage her energy is being poured into something else, into this iteration of her being and her emotionality is another tool in her repertoire. So she likes to do the opposite and hold things that matter to her to herself, not because she can't open up but because she can choose not to.
Her window is always open so she can leave the room, if she so pleases.
A and/or K for your full set from the nsfw alphabet asks? I am taking notes, my pen is ready
You got it, under the cut for 🍋
A - Alone time (how do they get off when they’re all by themselves? do they watch porn, is it all in their imagination, do they jerk off, do they use toys?)
First thing I gotta say is none of them are porn watchers. Porn readers, maybe, I’ll see what they tell me.
✴︎ Anatole
Most likely to masturbate because he can’t sleep and he knows it’ll take him out. Masturbates around of 3 to 5 times per week if he’s not sharing a bedroom with his partner full-time. In that case, he’d just ask to have sex.
While he’s not opposed to erotica (art or written, as long as it’s well written) he mostly uses his imagination if he is imagining anything in the first place. His fantasies when he masturbates tend to be pretty nondescript and he focuses more on sensations.
Sees masturbation as taking care of a need, or at most to explore his own sensuality/sexuality.
Toy positive in general (he kind of has to be, the dick did not come included and he likes using that), so he obviously incorporates them into masturbation. What he incorporates depends on his mood, but vibrators are his main go-to are vibrators. His favourites would be the Tracy’s Dog Clitoral Sucking Vibrator (yes, the one with That One Review) and the Lelo Sona Cruise. If the reviews are good and he thinks they’ll adapt to what he likes, he doesn’t go cheap in toys.
His second go-to are adding a butt plug, for fun. While he likes penetration, keeping the pace with a dildo is not his favourite thing to do, but if he’s in the mood, he’ll go for it.
❥ Amparo
The mood here is ‘Sex With Me’ by Rihanna because while she can masturbate just because she’s horny or to scratch an itch, this is a ritual for her.
She likes to set ambience. Candles, adequate light levels, maybe music if she’s in the mood for it. Most likely to read some good erotica while she takes a bath, moisturise while she feels herself and masturbate afterwards.
It’s part of her night time routine from 2 to 4 times per week.
Likes to imagine specific fantasies as she feels herself. She also likes to do it in front of a mirror and watch her own expressions and movements.
Toy friendly always, because they’re fun, but when it’s for herself she likes a plug, vibrating or not she doesn’t care, and her own hand around herself the best. Prefers sex-safe glass plugs the best.
Always thinks her tits look the best when she’s masturbating. If modern au, would stop sometimes at the middle of it to take a tasteful nude, or as tasteful as can be.
She likes thick lubes over runnier ones.
Wouldn’t touch herself on lingerie unless she took a detour from undressing for the night, but would definitely do it in a robe. Like I said, she likes ambience, she deserves it, she demands it from herself even.
Also most likely to edge herself.
☽ Milenko
Does one need a reason to do it? Milenko thinks not. He just does it when the mood strikes, given he is at home and not distracted. He is the most likely to masturbate because he’s bored, or to take breaks. Was he writing and the horny manifested? Well, he’ll finish this paragraph or stanza and come back to it later.
Has the most vivid imagination out of all of them, and will set up a whole scene in his head, like a script. He wants to imagine a Lover of determined characteristics depending on what he’s in the mood for that day and let it flow.
He’s very likely to fantasise about giving head.
Doesn’t have a predetermined preference for incorporating toys, but likes anything that vibrates around his dick —a ring, a sleeve, it doesn’t matter— a lot. That’s where he usually ends up going for if he has the time.
Sometimes he’ll spice it up but working on the angle so he can fuck himself with a plug, his fingers or a dildo (whatever feels more comfortable for that day) ass up, chest down.
Never does it in the shower or in the bath. Yes, it’s always water with him but he has to concentrate too much on not zoning out and that makes it harder (pun not intended) for him to get it going.
⟡ Artemisia
Also a ‘masturbates because I can’t sleep’ type, but most likely to do it explicitly because she’s horny.
Sometimes the yearning gets very, very horny for her and listen, if she can’t take good care of herself then who will?! It’s about standards you know. Besides, half the reason why she has such good sheets is because of this. She’s very sensorial for it, and she likes thing that feel nice to the touch.
Most likely to have an app that narrates stuff for her as she goes for it. She’d like the feeling of closing her eyes and letting the sound and the touch envelope her (as an aside, if you’re dating her, please talk into her ear she’s gonna go a little wild).
If he can’t find any audible, or whatever that gets her going, she has a playlist specifically for this.
Also very keen on vibrators she can control externally while she lies in her very soft sheets and plush blankets, and her many throw pillows.
Doesn’t like using her own hands too much because she doesn’t love getting them dirty just for the sake of masturbation, but she will if she needs a little extra getting there.
If she fantasises, she’ll go for having oral done.
K - Kissing (what parts of their body do they like having kissed? what parts of their partner do they enjoy kissing? do they like leaving marks / having marks left on them?)
✴︎ Anatole
First of all, this man likes to get body worshipped and to eat his partners up so jot that down.
Personally, aside from lips, his favourite are ears, neck, collarbones, ribs, just bellow his navel for that extra Hmph, inner thighs and calves. He loves ankle grabs, and ankle kisses too, but his calves???? Hooo Boy, HOOO BOy.
He’s a a neck, collarbone, chest (he’s a tiddies man) and hipbones kisser the most, but whenever that feels more pleasurable for his partner, he’ll go for it. Inner thighs are best for biting.
He loves markings. Getting them and inflicting them, but please do it in non-visible places when you do them for him. He, however, will leave them anywhere unless you’re opposed to something. Invest in turtlenecks, just in case.
❥ Amparo
Put her titties in your mouth, just do it. She’ll reciprocate too. Sideboob lovebites are a yes.
So her favourites are Titties, between her chest, stomach kisses, inner thighs. Wrists too.
Will mark you if you ask her. Specially when giving head, inner thighs are perfect for leaving contraband love-bites.
As for being marked, it depends on whether she currently is on a theatre production with dancing, or a ballet production at the time. If the answer is yes, she’d rather you didn’t because she will be grabbed by dancing partners and she’d prefer not to have bruising marks squished.
Otherwise, feel welcome to, but don’t overdo it.
☽ Milenko
He’s a surprise stew, and the true chaotic vers-switch, so while he does have his preferences, the first rule of Milenko is unless it’s one of his hard Nos, if it turns you on it turns him on.
So if you’re into being marked he will deliver. He’s also a big body worshipper so he’ll leave them wherever he finds softer or juicier for him, unless you have specific preferences.
Most mindful of not leaving them in visible places unless you ask.
As for him? If you’re going to do it, you might as well dom him while you’re at it and completely obliterate him. Mark him all you want he’s your canvas, baybeeey.
Zero regard for visible hickeys/lovebites on himself. If you are, he’s sorry you don’t have a sex life as exciting as his :/
⟡ Artemisia
While she does like some roughplay in sex, she doesn’t like any sort of bruising marks, because she doesn’t like bruising. So it doesn’t matter if you do it softly, or the lovebite is the most tender thing ever delivered. She just doesn’t like bruising.
You’re welcome to kiss her everywhere though. As long as you leave her feet out, she likes it, it makes her soft.
However she is very likely bite a buttcheek or a hip while you’re at it. If she’s eating her partner’s ass, she will definitely kiss your thighs and bite your butt.
She’ll leave marks with her mouth if you ask, she prefers to leave the steady mark of a good grip on her partner’s ribs when she’s riding them.
11. When texting - multiple messages, one long message, or somewhere in between?
✴︎ Anatole: Depends exclusively on the topic and context. Can be both a very monosyllabic texter and a ‘holds an entire conversation like it was face to face via text’. Branches out through all of these.
⟡ Amparo: Depends on the context, just don’t Audio message her unless you want her to listen to something that’s not you talking. If you’re gonna talk, just call her.
❥ Artemisia: Voice messages, Amparo hates this.
☽ Milenko: Depends on context, but multiple texter, all of varied lengths, once again, depending on context.
23. Thoughts on being barefoot?
✴︎ Anatole: Good and right. He will climb trees without shoes on if he already took them off.
⟡ Amparo: Prefers to be with shoes, though she has house slippers.
❥ Artemisia: Socks, no shoes
☽ Milenko: Socks no shoes when its cold, otherwise barefoot.
38. How do they take their toast?
✴︎ Anatole: Medium toast, but will bread almost however it comes. Eggs and avocado, avocado and cottage cheese, and pb + banana are the to goes.
⟡ Amparo: She likes it toast, but still soft in the middle. More toasted than Nana, less toasted than Milenko. Prefers toast with cheese, but will have toast topped with almost anything — like squash and peanut butter.
❥ Artemisia: Prefers oven warmed bread.
☽ Milenko: Lives for the crunch, will have bread with anything.
oh you know i gotta hear about the gang's MBTI types
Having in account I only use these to see how they think/organise their thoughts, Julianus and Anatole are INTJs, Amparo is an INFJ.
I’m not entire sure about Milenko and Artemisia, but I’d say Art is likely to be an ISTJ and Milan an ENFP.
I do build more with astrology than MBTI, but as an extra, I can tell you Nana’s parents are probably INTP or ENTJ (Vlad, I’m not sure) and ISFP (Louisa), Atanasie, Milenko’s uncle, is probably an ESFJ, and Valerian is without a doubt an ENTJ.
A and R from the dirty headcanons for your main four!
I was asked A already, and I asked you if you wanted to change and you went for R + S, so let’s go. Under the cut for 🍋
R - Routine (do they have a routine when it comes to picking up one night stands? do they have scheduled sex with their partner? are things spontaneous or planned ahead of time?)
✴︎ Anatole
Nana’s prefers sex with partners to one night stands. He will still have them, and he has had his couple of sex only flings, but that’s not his preferred option.
If he’s gonna do flings or one night stands he prefers to keep him that way. Established amount of time, hermetic, safe. All boundaries are all always previously discussed with him, and he will be keeping to them.
You can change things along the way, there are a couple of notable times where what was supposed to be a fling ended up in a relationship (Leon and Haider), but he likes genuine connection and honest communication, and if that’s too much effort into a fling or a one night stand, the door is very wide.
He’s high demand for a high reward.
He needs to find you nice and good-looking, after you pass the safety boundary test, that’s all he needs. He is the least likely to have one night stands with someone he just met, even if he is aware that’s kind of the definition of a one night stand.
Partner-wise, it depends on him and his partner, always. Sex involves two people and for the sake of this man’s trauma and his mental health never forget it involves two people or you’ll fry his nerves.
So it’s a mix of planning and spontaneity. Sometimes you want to set a scene with props, or bondage, and you need time for that, usually.
❥ Amparo
The key is to give her attention. If you pass the vibe check and you know how to get her attention, you’re going to find yourself with the possibility of a one night stand. Lucky you.
She doesn’t always knows in what mood she is in before having sex (she just knows she’d like to have sex with you) so she’d very much like to discuss things at least briefly. She’s less nitpicky than Nana because no one is as nitpicky and Nana (and he’s allowed to be) but you know, the point of one night stands is to have fun, so let’s talk fun.
With partners she’d like to be more spontaneous. She is fairly so, but once again, there’s mood discussions, unless you’re into something specific, so it helps her to materialise the horny if you talk about the horny. Also, if she’s going to receive and you’re doing penetration, she has to prep before, so you can’t hit her out of the blue for that.
Anything that doesn’t require her receiving penetration though is more likely to fall into spontaneity. Just don’t before she has a play.
☽ Milenko
He likes having sex with people he can flirt and have conversations with, and that doesn’t change with one night stands or partners.
If he feels that something between you, he is very likely to make a move. If you’re not into it, then you’re not into it and there’s no problem here.
For scenes and things which require specific things, he would prefer to at least have it discussed before, at some point. Not even when, just tell him what you have in mind at some point, and he’ll do the same.
He’ll accommodate his partner if they preferred planned sex, though. Everything is game with Milenko, he’s the king of being easy going.
⟡ Artemisia
Art SUCKS at making moves on people, because she never knows if she’s reading the cues right or if she’s hallucinating. Just tell her, please, just don’t flirt with her at work that’s weird.
Seriously though, she’s spent half her adult life wondering how do people even get to have the possibility of having one. When they do happen she just hopes for the best and shoots her shot, and if it happens it happens.
She prefers planned sex, actually. ‘We could have sex later’ works as planning enough for her. Just gives her a heads up so she can say no, or get in the zone, the sexy zone.
S - Sleepy sex (do they give oral to wake their partner up? do they like receiving oral to wake up? do they like fucking their partner awake? being fucked awake? how about being fucked to sleep at night? do they have lazy morning sex?)
First thing I gotta say is none of mine are ‘wake up someone with oral’ or ‘wake me up with oral’ people. I personally prefer situations where everyone is awake and can clearly consent, and kinkwise that’s not one of my things. Same goes with fucking someone awake. It’s a hard no.
✴︎ Anatole
Just like I said he’s most likely to masturbate because he can’t sleep, if he’s with his partner and they’re awake, his going to ask if they like to have sex, because why not?
Sex at any time of the day is fine by him, but he does like sex when his day is done. It’s a good time to unfold, and what better way to relax than fucking.
Lazy morning sex is one of his favourite activities though. Breakfast of champions, what better way to begin your day than with coffee and sex. He’s more likely to bottom during morning sex too. Some nice, lazy riding to go with him getting head too, please and thank you.
This is the only one I’ll mention it again, but with Nana is worth saying it: never, and I mean never wake Anatole up with sex, or by anything other than kissing his face. Do not ask him to do the same. You’ll find yourself partnerless. Fucking him awake or asking for the same is absolutely out of the question, and if you have the audacity to try it out of the blue (assuming you haven’t discussed it) you’re also going to find yourself partnerless.
If you wanna have sex and he’s sleeping still, please just wait for him to wake up.
❥ Amparo
Sex at night is romantic, sue her. Change masturbation with sex if she’s with her partner, and besides, when you live with your partner every night can be date night if someone (not her she can’t cook) makes a nice dinner.
And all nice dinners need dessert.
Welcomes morning sex always, but specially when both of you can stay in bed for hours without a single obligation
☽ Milenko
He wakes up at the crack ass of dawn, and though he often just goes back to sleep for another hour or two, if you wanna use those hours having sex, he’s game.
Make it lazy, sensuous, make it so that he goes into his day a little more whimsical than yesterday.
And the nights were made for loving, so...
Okay, I lied. I’m mentioning it again, but you know how I say anything goes with Milenko unless it’s one of his hard nos? Waking someone up with sex, of any kind, or being woken up with it, is a hard no for him. Makes him uncomfortable. You can wake him up for sex, tho.
⟡ Artemisia
She’s learnt to find the appeal of morning sex, because she didn’t understand how people had the time to both have sex and get ready in the morning.
She prefers afternoon sex for daylight sexy activities in all honesty.
But sex at night before sleeping wins here. There’s nothing better than tiring yourself out with your partner and sleeping like a log next to them after sex? Just yes.
💐 What flowers would be used in a flower crown for your oc? Why those choices?
✴︎ Anatole: Irises, hollyhock, zinnias, heliotropes. Irises are his favourite, but they also mean eloquence, good news, faith, hope, wisdom, compliments and passion, depending on what colour you use. Hollyhocks for ambitions, zinnia’s for ‘thinking about you’, and heliotropes for devotion.
❥ Amparo: Ferns for confidence, pink roses for grace, gladiolus for strength of character and conviction, and red carnations for passion.
☽ Milenko: Orchids, orange blossoms, plum blossom and Ivy. Crown him in grace, good fortune, beauty and a long life and faith. Crown him in G-d’s most wonderful creations, crown him in perfumes like Attar before him.
⟡ Artemisia: Azaleas for temperance, bluebells for constancy, hydrangeas and purple hyacinths.
⚡︎ Julianus: Green carnations, the symbol of the followers of Oscar Wilde; flowers from Arrayán (myrtle) trees to disperse sorrow and for good luck; añañucas for they bloom in deserts and red poppies so they never forget where they’ve been. Also, for sacrifice. Flowers from the Ulmo tree for they make the sweetest honey, chrysanthemums for fidelity and friendship, but also: Tansy — ‘I declare war against you’.
🌴 If your oc could go on vacation to anywhere they’d like, where would it be?
✴︎ Anatole has a couple of choices, but he’d go (almost) anywhere. The place is less decisive than it being, for example, with a lover so they can have an nth honeymoon. If it’s with family then he just wants to go to Balkovia or to any of the Vineyards — the Radošević Vineyard or Valeriy’s. Wherever they go after is of no mind to him.
❥ Amparo: Galbrada.
☽ Milenko: Also statistically likely to go literally anywhere, except perhaps Macawi because well, everyone’s young at some point. He’s never been to Hjalle, however, and he would like to go to Firent, if he’s fully honest.
⟡ Artemisia: Luxury cottage in any mountain range, literally any.
⚡︎ JC: Would go anywhere but Firent, no offence to it, but they’re sick of it. Galbrada sounds nice — but they also just want to go to Balkovia, but in all honesty? They already travel everywhere. Not opposed to spending a week in @apprenticealec‘s Rodrigo’s crew.
Nana has a licence, but he shouldn’t be allowed to drive. He will not put you in danger but he drives like a madman. He’s good with a bicycle and public transport most of the time, which everyone should be thankful for.
Amparo can’t drive.
Milenko can drive but he needs a copilot.
Artemisia can drive and is the only competent driver.
12. What’s their favorite movie, the one they have to show all of their friends/partners?
I’m going to go with the movies they watch on repeat and watch over and over again as in “I could watch this movie that came out and I wanted to watch OR I could watch [movie] for the Nth time”
Nana:
Mary Poppins (both of them, he knows the whole soundtrack but he pretends LMM isn’t in the second one, he doesn’t know who that man is)
Paddington
Whisper of the Heart/Princess Mononoke
The Remains Of The Day
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Sense and Sensibility
Amparo:
The secret garden
The Holiday
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Persepolis
Mulan
Artemisia:
The Shape of Water
The Handmaiden
The Daniel Craig James Bond movies
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
Moonrise Kingdom
Milenko:
Mamma mia (both of them, though everyone watches these)
