🌹 Where in the world does your OC feel most at home? Is there any reason why? If it’s not the place they were born, where were they born? Is there a certain somebody that makes them feel at home where ever they may be? What does home mean to them?
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🌿 What way does your OC show that they care without using words? What way do others show your OC that they’re cared about without using speech?
Rexus, if you can believe this, doesn’t usually listen when people talk. Crazy, I know. He thinks a lot of things and people are boring and wasting his time, and he makes sure people know it. So, with someone he cares about, he’ll put in a marked effort NOT to do that. He’ll bring up something they said earlier (usually followed closely by “See? I was listening. I listen when you talk.” or something like that), he’ll ask them to repeat something if he got distracted and didn’t hear (he does this when he wants someone to know he isn’t listening to them too, but that comes with a smug grin that’s noticeably absent when he means it), he’ll put off going to do something else to stay with them. He’s always pretty observant about people, and he’ll use that power for good when he cares about someone; looking for little ways to help out and make them smile that he can deny later.
People show they care about him more often than not by stressing that he’s capable of being a better person than he is, and that he should make the effort to do that. He doesn’t necessarily like it, but persistence in this area will eventually register with him as this person refusing to give up on him and considering him worthwhile to keep pestering like this, which is all he really wants. To feel worthwhile.
Silver
🌻 What little things do they notice about people or the world around them that make them happy? What tiny little treasures do they find in the normal every day that makes the world seem a little brighter for them?
Ripples in water when you dip your fingers in. Dancing of candle flames. The faces people make when they eat or drink something they think tastes really good. The way kids interact with the world. When it’s rained and he can see people trying to take in the smell in the air. Someone snuggling against a fluffy blanket or pillow. Cat stretches and the mrrp sound they make. Acknowledgment of a mutually known secret, like when he’s surreptitiously handed a merchant more coin than they’ve asked for or he’s vouched for someone or something like that. He notices a change in people when they start to really relax and feel comfortable enough to let go and enjoy themselves, and he absolutely LIVES for that. Few things makes him happier than being the reason someone starts to glow like that.
🌹 Where in the world does your OC feel most at home? Is there any reason why? If it’s not the place they were born, where were they born? Is there a certain somebody that makes them feel at home where ever they may be? What does home mean to them?
The answer is actually the same for both of them, though it takes some time before the reason is the same: The Ivory Oasis, the upscale pleasure house where Silver works. It’s a brothel, yes, but the whole point of the place is to be ridiculously comfortable. It’s lavishly furnished and impeccably maintained, and boasts a luxurious bathhouse, a natural hot spring, a beautiful courtyard with a pool, any and everything anyone could ever want to relax. The culture there is all about looking out for and taking care of each other - it’s meant to be an oasis for the workers as well as the clients. Alba, the madam, has a bit of a soft spot for taking in strays and giving them work and a free place to live and free food and access to all the nice things about the place, and both Silver and Rexus have been those strays at one point or another.
(Under the cut because I have feelings about this)
Silver - then known by his real name, Adrian - came to Minrathous from his hometown in eastern Tevinter (near Carastes) when he was 18. His father cast him and his mother out after his linea sanguinis - a coming-of-age thing for Tevinter nobles that involves what’s basically a blood magic paternity test, and is QUITE embarrassing if you were unaware that your kid is not really your kid - and rather than stay with his mother he chose to go to Minrathous on his own. None of his plans for what to do when he got there panned out, so he ended up on the streets for some time until one of the Oasis’s courtesans, Aularia, brought him there and convinced Alba to take him in.
Rexus, meanwhile, born and raised in Minrathous, was the legitimate son of noble parents, but to his father’s great dismay never manifested magic. He first came to the Oasis as a client, though he knew and had been assisted by Alba before during his own post-disowning time on the streets. Though he befriended Silver shortly after the latter became a courtesan and became an almost controversially frequent tesseratus (a client personally invited by a courtesan by gifting them special coins unique to that courtesan called tesserae that could be exchanged for their services) Rexus didn’t come to live there until 9:38, when Silver found him drunk and in despair in the Free Marches and brought him back to help with his work smuggling escaped slaves out of the Imperium and make amends for the life he’d lived before.
Silver considers Alba a highly respected and beloved mother figure, but he and Rexus are kind of each other’s person that always feels like home? There are a lot of reasons and most of the time no one really understands what exactly their relationship even is, but it comes down to a lack of pressure to be anything but themselves and just being incredibly comfortable with each other. Even if all they do is to have some drinks and talk shit with each other, it’s like kicking off your shoes at the end of the day and settling down into a cozy chair with your legs flung over the sides. They’re happy, they’re safe, they’re wanted. That’s home to them.
🍁 Where does your OC go when they need to have some time to themself? Would they ever have their own “comfort corner” filled with all the things they like? Do they have a favourite spot outside that feels like its theirs and theirs alone?
Silver takes a bath. His bedchamber is probably more private than the bathhouse, but for Silver, ‘time to himself’ isn’t the same as ‘time alone’. He likes time to himself. Time to himself is sitting in a hot, lightly scented bath with a glass of wine, where he can see out into the courtyard, observing people but not necessarily interacting. Or, it’s his morning exercises in the courtyard - again, among people, but doing his own thing and not interacting. Time alone is being in his bedchamber with all the doors and windows shut, unable to see or hear people, just him and his thoughts. He does not like time alone. Aside from his bedchamber he doesn’t really claim an area of the Oasis as ‘his’, though he easily could. He could ask to rearrange the entire place to suit his fancy and Alba would see it done, but he’d never make such an imposition. He prefers existing among everyone else there as opposed to making them exist around him.
Rexus SEEMS like he would take the same approach and want to be around people (read: bothering them) instead of spend time alone, having been alone most of his life, but where Silver genuinely likes People in a broader sense, Rexus really doesn’t. He likes attention. Which explains why he likes Silver so much; Silver is probably the most ridiculously attentive person in existence, and he’s a frequent go-to for wind-down time. Otherwise, his time to himself changes a bit pre- and post-exile; before, ‘needing time to himself’ meant finding someone to take to bed and otherwise ignore, watching the harbor from his balcony, and drinking, a lot. After, a combination of needing to lie low and actually wanting to do and be better mean he’s a lot more comfortable with himself, by himself. He’ll still sit in a crowded tavern or find a place to chill for a while that overlooks the harbor and watch people to pass time, but he won’t feel as much of a need to interact. He’ll be more comfortable with introspection, as well, and will be able to just lay in his bed in his room at the Oasis, stare at the ceiling, and contemplate.
🌿 What way does your OC show that they care without using words? What way do others show your OC that they’re cared about without using speech?
(I’m only answering this one for Silver because someone else asked it about Rexus and you have to share :P)
Like I said in the previous answer, Silver is a consummate caregiver and therefore ridiculously attentive. He’s always on the lookout for things he can do, needs he can meet. He’ll bring things like drinks, snacks, blankets, etc. without being asked. He listens intently when people talk, remembers, and either makes sure to have things they said they liked next time he sees them, or will bring up things they said later. He LOVES drawing baths for people - every patron at the Oasis has to bathe before...activities...and Silver loves working out what is best for each individual person in terms of temperature, herbs and oils to add to the water, just figuring out how to best help them relax.
🌾 Describe your OC through the eyes of someone absolutely head-over-heels in love with them.
Silver:
“He’s such a terribly silly man. My love would have you believe it has taken knowing me, of all people, for him to care as he does, to give as he does, to risk as he does, but you mustn’t believe him. No matter all his pretty words, I’m not so special to make him the man he is. One does not...just become that. I don’t pretend to know him before he came here, but...I think he was always like this. Silver loves with all of him as naturally as he breathes, and that, he did not learn from me. I think he has always felt keenly how others need what he can give, and he has always had the strength and the will to give it. All I have done is believe him that he could.”
- Aularia, his late lover who he credits with the inspiration to begin his secret humanitarian work as his masked alter ego, Sen.
“👉 👌”
- Rexus. It’s his way of saying he can’t put into words how much Silver’s kindness and enduring faith in him has meant to him, how inspiring and uplifting he is, what beautiful hair he has, and how very lucky he is that this man has chosen to, despite shit like this, love him so very much.
Rexus:
Rexus is a jewel in the armoire of my soul. He smells always of the sweetest, purest honey, and I should dearly love to bathe him in a basin of warm milk, sprinkled with lavender and vanilla, that he might leave such sweetness behind. I titter thinking of how the soft whiskers of his beard tickle at my nose, my lips, my...ears. Such songs I could sing of his unparalleled grace and beauty, but who would hear them? They would die. Of longing. Immediately. I am surprised I have not died of longing for him already myself. Oh, but such sweet fortune that I may look upon him in all his splendor in my bed each night, unhindered by fine cloth for which I paid much coin solely to drape just so around his pleasing curves, and marvel at the sight of his plentiful body hair, which I envy spectacularly.
- an excerpt from, supposedly, Silver’s journal, though Silver does not keep a journal and the handwriting clearly belongs to Rexus himself.
🌺 What does your OC do to calm down when they’re scared or after a nightmare? Do they have any special comfort items or need to be reassured by a specific person? How do they handle this if they’re alone?
Silver has to deal with this more often than he likes to admit. Poor guy’s cursed with an imagination just about as vivid as Lux’s, but instead of making up fun stories his just torments him. He worries a lot about a lot of people, and that he’s putting in a lot of effort that will ultimately end up meaningless. When he needs to calm down at night, he gets up and gets a glass of water, makes tea, or goes for a swim. Water is always soothing to him in one form or another, even if he doesn’t drink it and just like...stirs his finger in it for a while, it’ll help him feel better. Someone’s always up and about at the Oasis, so he might seek them out to chat idly for a while; he loves the interaction and the others like feeling seen by him. He might write a letter, usually to Emma, as he doesn’t see her anywhere near as often as he’d like, or read an old one. Sometimes the refugees he helps send him coded messages a while later to let him know how they’re doing, and those have proved invaluable to him more than a few times to let him know he’s doing good work and really making a difference.
Rexus gets angry when he’s afraid, because he shouldn’t be letting whatever’s affecting him affect him, and he is, of course, terrible at coping by himself. He paces, rambles loudly, drinks, throws things, is prone to saying really mean stuff, just isn’t at all pleasant to be around when he’s afraid unless you know how to solve whatever’s bothering him or can convince him he’s being stupid. Silver is, of course, usually good at this, as is his partner Tyranos (belongs to @lavellanlove), and surprisingly Emma was too when she was with him. His mother, Atilia, can be this for him to a degree, but only during and before TSU when telling her his problems meant she’d pull strings to get them to go away with minimal effort from him. Alone he just drinks until he passes out and forgets about it.
because it's cold and rainy and i'm a blanket burrito, i'd like to know 1 and 3 for Silver and Rexus pls and thank u 👀
1. How does your OC get the comfiest? Do they wrap themselves in a blanket? Do they build a pillow nest? Do they make a nice cup of cocoa or tea?
Silver
Silver actually feels pretty stifled by being tightly wrapped in a lot of thick fabric, so he’s much more comfortable with cool, airy, thin fabric just kind of...draped over part of him so he can feel it on his skin. My weighted blanket has a ‘cooling fabric’ side and I have no idea what kind of fabric it is, but it feels amazing and I’m always thinking he would absolutely LOVE it. All those photographs and art of men in bed with just a sheet over their bits? That’s a good idea of Comfy Silver. He’s probably most comfortable, though, in a long, hot bath or a swimming pool; of all the things he loves feeling against his skin, he loves the feeling of water the most. Usually he’s not particularly fond of being without company (skin is another thing he really likes feeling on his skin, which is as you can probably imagine helpful in his line of work), but taking a bath or going for a swim is definitely something he can enjoy enough that being alone with his thoughts isn’t so much of a concern.
Rexus
Rexus likes people to think he’s perfectly comfortable anywhere, in any situation, or that he likes it best when people fawn over him and clamor for his attention, but what he really likes is somewhere warm, with good, free drinks, free of scrutiny and expectation, taking up way more space than he should ever need. If he can just sprawl out somewhere without having to worry about someone coming looking for him to whine about why he’s not doing what he’s supposed to be doing, he’s happy.
3. What is your OC’s favourite kind of weather? Do they like watching it rain? Do they prefer a gentle sunshine? How would they spend the day with this weather?
Silver
He loves summer rains during the day, when the water brings relief from the heat instead of adding insult to cold, and he’s just as happy standing in it as he is dragging one of his couches to the walkout to the courtyard so he can sit and watch it. Clear days are nice, too, and don’t cause problems for his clothes, but he doesn’t like being so hot he gets terribly sweaty just sitting still, he doesn’t always need to wear gorgeous expensive clothes, and there are plenty of places indoors at the Oasis to relax and socialize. Clear nights are better, when smuggling operations are easier and the night market in the slums, which he’s very fond of, can be out in full force. He really enjoys being able to watch the ships leave the harbor, taking people to new and better lives elsewhere.
Rexus
Rexus actually likes baking in the heat, and he likes watching other people bake in the heat. There’s something very raw and honest about sweaty, miserable people, something very satisfying and fun to look at about people in light summer clothes to manage baking in the heat as best they can, and something very hilarious about other people’s stubbornness to keep existing as sweaty, miserable but well-clothed people for no other reason than to show off that they can. Rexus, of course, is sweaty too, and irrationally fond of black leather, but he’s not going to be miserable about it.
Those cute character asks! 2 for Emma, 8 for Lux? :D And 11 for Silver!
Thanks!! :D
2. How does your OC show they love someone without words? Are they the touchy sort, with lots of hugs and cuddles, or do they have another, less obvious way?
Emma
It’s pretty obvious when Emma cares about someone, but not from anything she says, which seems strange for someone as intelligent and otherwise articulate as she is. Well, not directly. To the person she loves, she will communicate that love best through behavior and touch. The kind meant to soothe and affirm, and that also demonstrates her trust in them by allowing herself some vulnerability. She also gives noticeably more effort to observing and learning about a person she loves; a hallmark of most of her close relationships is knowing what they need before they have to ask. Additionally, although perhaps not so sweet, keeping someone she loves alive and safe becomes the highest priority for her. Meaning, more or less, she’d be perfectly okay with doing something that could be considered pretty monstrous if it means her loved ones won’t die or get hurt. Where she would normally prioritize a mission or overall goal she’s working to support - the greater good - she is focused instead on their good, and, by extension, hers. She will absolutely defy her pacifist brother’s wishes not to shed blood in his name to protect or avenge him. She will protect her lover over someone else who may be more objectively ‘useful’ on a higher scale, like a high profile prisoner or ally, because they are what’s important to her. With Lux in particular, I really doubt she could put a number on how many people she’d comfortably let die if it meant she could save him.
8. What little nice things does your OC do for others? Do they keep any of them secret?
Lux
Lux is absolutely a fan of being the person who cheers someone else up, whether it be through a funny joke or story, helping solve some problem of theirs, or a grander sort of gesture. It can really make someone’s day when they’re going around worried about one thing or another, only for some kind person to come along and help. He knows; he’s been that person. He doesn’t exactly keep his generosity a secret, but he does downplay it a lot. Not in a ‘this doesn’t really matter’ kind of way, but more of a ‘this isn’t a special praiseworthy thing I’m doing, it’s just the right, decent thing to do’ kind of way.
11. Where is your OC’s favourite place to spend time? Is it a nice peaceful park bench? A library? Or a bustling café?
Silver
The courtyard at the Oasis. It’s an odd sort of peaceful place where one can be alone while also surrounded by others. Access to it isn’t restricted beyond needing to live, work, or be a patron there, so he can see pretty much anyone: other courtesans, patrons, hospitality and administrative staff, families of others who work and live there. There’s a pool, and it’s where he does his morning exercises. He can take a meal or a drink with a colleague there and catch up with some of the other staff. His room has a walkout that opens up into it. His other favorite place, the Oasis’s bathhouse, is just across it. It’s the perfect place for him to rest, relax, and recharge.
HELLO. For that character description ask meme: 1 for Silver, 10 for Emma, 13 for Eren, 16 for Lux and because I'm annoyingly attracted to Rexus, 20: What's he like when he spots someone he boutta make a move on?
HELLO!
1. Silver
Them as a child
Much different than he is now. Always somewhat on the small side (he is 5’9” as an adult), thick black shoulder-length hair he would wear in a partial ponytail. Aeolus Thrasidius, his mother’s husband and his presumed father, was compassionate but almost constant busy, while his mother, Titania Sisenna, was distant and uninterested, leaving him to entertain himself more often than not and nearly constantly bored - and quite bitter and snarky about it. He was never blatantly unkind, but not exactly the type to speak up on behalf of someone being mistreated, either. Manifested magic at about six or seven, just like he was supposed to, sent to study at the Circle of Magi in his hometown of Carastes and did just enough to be considered passable. He was always intelligent enough to have done better, but never interested enough to put in the effort. That was really sort of defining about his childhood: he was more concerned with his own satisfaction with life than anything else. He felt forced to be interested in things that he was expected to be interested in, wanted desperately to cultivate his own interests instead, but never really bothered to figure out what those are.
10. Emma
Their interactions with an enemy/rival
Depends on the kind of enemy or rival, really, and her assessment of the best way to deal with them. She’ll kill an enemy on sight and without a second thought if she hasn’t determined they’ll be useful to her in some way. If it’s someone like...say, Cassandra, or Cullen, who she is not fond of based on them being, as Templars or Templar-adjacent, complicit in the Tranquility of others, or Emery Roscrow, the Chantry-employed nemesis of her and Lux’s work pre-Inquisition to retrieve artifacts for a university professor, she is mostly avoidant. If their interaction does nothing constructive for her, she would prefer not to interact at all. She’s quiet, cold, and unwelcoming, and very, very blunt about her desire not to interact with them if pressed.
13. Eren
Them in formalwear
Terribly grouchy and uncomfortable. Eren hates things that are made for aesthetic purposes rather than utilitarian ones, and formalwear is almost invariably aesthetic. Where are the pockets? How is he supposed to have his pipe in case he needs it, which he inevitably will if he needs to be in a formal environment for longer than a certain amount of time? It offers little to no protection at all. What is the point of embellishments? Does it really need so many sashes? He realizes it is the way it is to make a particular impression on whoever sees it, but...an impression based on how he looks is not one he is interested in making.
16. Lux
Them sleepy
Lots of nodding off and snapping awake, leaning against things and realizing he shouldn’t, soft contented sighs and grumpy “I don’t wanna fall asleep though” groans. Big, loud yawns. Fluttering eyes. Fidgeting more than usual to try to stay awake and getting irritated when it doesn’t work. Slapping himself on the cheeks. Pacing around halfway to keep himself awake and halfway to find a good spot to lay down.
20. Rexus
When he sees someone he’s going to make a move on
Subtle, but quite a bit less so than he thinks. Not that this is any different than how he always is, but he oozes a sort of carefree confidence - strong “I’ll get what I want, just you wait” vibes. Throwing glances around for a believable scenario in which to appear smooth when he does make his move, looking uninterested to onlookers but using body language and changes in his expression and his voice to convey to his intended that he is, in fact, very interested.
As a popular courtesan among the wealthy elite of Tevinter, and even among some of the nobility of other nations, Silver is far and away my wealthiest oc. An hour with him costs an arm and a leg as it is, but sometimes people want him to go places with them for entire evenings, or days at a time, which all drive up the price. Additionally, some of his more regular patrons are basically sugar daddies/mommies (sugar parents??) and give him obscene amounts of extra coin and expensive shit to gain his favor. Silver eggs them on so they’ll keep doing it (and because he actually is vain af and likes being told how beautiful he is), but he keeps relatively little of what he earns or is given for himself. His coin covers a lot of operating costs and wages for others who work at the Oasis, so they won’t be tempted to take potentially dangerous work in the name of earning their keep, and he funds his work to help slaves escape Tevinter almost entirely from his own pockets. Usually with the very coin of the person whose slaves he’s helping escape.
💪 - Emma
I was going to say Eren because OBVIOUSLY a 6’4” blacksmith elf has arms that are just...✋😘👌 but listen. Listen. Emma. Has got some ARMS. She’s leetle (5’3”) and incredibly fit, a product of growing up without friends or much to do besides help her adoptive father in his warehouse, study, and train, and being a huge fan of repetition and routine in general. And she’s always showing them off, too, because she runs hot on account of the spirit bridge that keeps her non-Tranquil meaning that energy from the Fade is always there. She’ll usually have bare arms even in all but the most extreme cold. Lux is a bit of a brat sometimes and thinks it’s fun to get people to bet him they can beat her at arm wrestling, with her left hand nonetheless, without bothering to tell them that not only is she stronger than she looks (it’s force magic babey), she’s left-handed.
🏳️🌈 - Túlio
Túlio lies. A lot. Especially about himself. He rarely tells anyone his real name, where he’s from, how old he is, any of his interests, any of his favorite things. He never, ever lies about his sexuality. He’ll lie about anything else to draw the interest of a man who’s caught his eye, except for the fact that he’s interested, and he also won’t pretend to be interested when he isn’t. He absolutely will panic and get flustered if someone he’s interested in actually shows interest in him first, though. It’s something about himself he’s never been made to feel is boring, or worth hiding, and his large family has always been completely supportive.
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OC Relationship Questions! How about (3) and (21)?
3. What OC has a huge group of friends?
Lux. Friendship comes really easily for him and he doesn’t have much reason to be stingy with it, so boy’s got a LOT of people he loves and considers friends.
Silver has a large swath of very surface-level friends who know him in passing or because they also live at the Ivory Oasis, where he works, with whom he is perfectly willing to exchange favors and offer assistance where he can, but his group of Actual Friends who he trusts to really know him and his secrets is only like five people. Lux is one of them.
21. Which OCs knew each other the shortest time before becoming close friends?
Lux and Emma, but being on the run together for a couple weeks after saving each other’s lives will do that. ;)
