#atheris-specific

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hc + 🎭 for an arts-/crafts-themed headcanon [Mhin or Aetheris!]

Ooo! I can't decide so I'll just do both. >:3 Mhin:

Mhin is the type of person to over-intellectualize art and feel uncomfortable interacting with it on anything but a practical level. They will resist the idea that they should be open to exploring 'the themes of the artwork' if pressed. They can understand that there is value in being able to draw realistically. Anatomical and alchemical diagrams are useful in a very tangible way - and portraiture obviously takes skill - but if you ask them anything about the emotional aspect of the art, they will stubbornly shut the conversation down. (Also they won't be complimenting Vere under any circumstance. Not even by accident.) Similarly, Mhin is the type to rally against the idea that they are creative. If Mhin has a good idea, it came from their base of knowledge being applied to the problem, not their "imagination."

Atheris:

Besides being really interested in music as an art, they like to embroider their own clothing! (And maybe if they became attached to someone, they might...) They prefer to embark on embroidery projects that have symbolism attached. If no one around can really determine what that symbolism means...it's probably for the best. In fact, that's better.

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hc + 🚬 for atheris

🚬 A Bad Habit

Atheris has the bad habit of never asking anyone their name!

I think that they are so used to only being introduced to people formally (As Is Correct If You Are Seeking The Oracle For An Official Audience) and otherwise only really interacting with their attendants and their shrine's higher ups.

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Hi! :D Saw you reblogged the seven sins ask game, so I wanted to ask for Atheris — 1 for Greed and 2 for Wrath!

Greed: what does your muse collect, if anything?

Back at their shrine, they loved collecting things! They have a tendency to collect fairly eclecticly, so I imagine they kept all sorts of gaudy little trinkets--mostly gifts given to them by visitors to the shrine who were seeking a favor.

Since their journey to Eridia, the only 'collection' they really wish they could have kept is their collection of musical instruments. They're going a little stir crazy with nothing to play.

...Also their extensive clothing collection.

In Eridia, I don't think they will be doing a lot of collecting. I think they are less concerned with material possessions for want of being able to keep all of their things maintained and easy to move at a moment's notice.

(Success may vary. Sometimes ya take things out of the go bag and forget to clean up again...)

Wrath: how does your muse handle anger? do they have anger issues? how do they manage or vent their anger?

Badly, haha. I would say that they have anger issues, but their reaction is kind of a mixed bag. For small things, they are snappy and argumentative and bad at keeping their thoughts inside their head. Being expressive and bratty about being angry or inconvenienced was most likely to get them results from their attendants, etc. They try to logic away their feelings after they are done feeling them and will come to the realization that they're being unreasonable pretty quickly, so it's not unusual for arguments to blow over when the anger was over something smaller.

(And they'll just expect to come to a compromise once they conceed that they were just angry, feelings over now, it all blows over, who even cares??--all completely reasonable expectations. Veeery realistic, Atheris.

When they are really, inconsolably angry they tend to disassociate. Which is. Hmm. Very bad. And can be a big problem because they end up doing and saying hurtful things that they might not, if things felt a little more real.

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hc + 💔 and 📿 for Atheris?

📿 Faith: Prior to the realization that their hands were cursed instead of holy, Atheris felt very at peace with the idea that their Oracle visions were beyond explanation. Since learning the truth, they've found themself trying to unravel all of the things they never questioned. When they consider the idea that their visions may have a source, they find themself filled with an inexplicable dread. If the thought ever bubbles up, they push it back down immediately, though the feeling of something perceiving them lingers...

(As if something noticed that they cast their gaze in its direction and turned its eyes on them in return.)

💔 Sad: As a child, Atheris usually had to find games and activities to play alone for a multitude of reasons. However, they did have a favorite game that their attendants would play with them. The attendants would ask them to locate random objects. (Extreme hotter-colder! With precognition!)

I'll put the next bit under cut with a light CW just in case.

Initially, they were asked to find familiar things that they knew well. Things that had been intentionally hidden by their handlers nearby. As they grew older, objects of greater value "hidden" further away were described to them. As the objects their attendants searched for increased in value, it became more important not to be distracted.

Luckily, there was an empty room all set up where they can think for as long as it takes! Don't think of it as solitary confinement, think of it as a fun new rule! :)

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Rip Atheris Unnamed Touchstarved you would have loved the theremin.