🍎, 🥭, 🍈, and 🫛 for any f/o of your choosing!! 🩷🩷
Hi bestieee! 💜 I think I'm gonna do these for Lord Kardok, it's been a hot minute since I've talked about my warlord husband <3c
🍎 - what’s your f/o’s favorite drink? any drink, alcoholic or non alcoholic!
Scottish wee heavy ale, hands down.
He loves a full body, strong beer at any time of the day (and night), especially on the few occasions when he can sit by the fire to whittle.
It reminds him of home. The only rare good parts of it, at least.
🥭 - did your f/o have stuffed animals growing up? do they still have stuffed animals? do they have a favorite?
No, simply because playing with them was seen as something weak and feminine, absolutely unfit for a future warrior.
He did, however, had a small wooden sea serpent figurine with runes carved along its body that his grandmother gave his mother (and later passed to him) as Nafnfest (name-fastening gift) for his Ausa Vatni (“sprinkling of water", a naming and accepted right after birth ceremony).
🍈 - does your f/o believe in fate? do they think everything is preplanned out by the universe or a higher power, or do they think that the idea of fate is bogus? why?
Fate is the highest power in the universe according to Lord Kardok's Viking faith. Men’s lives were shaped by Fate, the gods are subject to Fate, even the world itself has a fate which it could not escape.
Yet his strong belief in Fate in no way suggests that he believes men possess no free will, or could not in some ways affect their own destinies. As the Norne weave the Fate of all, Bhaltair believes life is an evolving, ever changing pattern that is constantly in the process of creation.
Unfortunately, he also thinks each individual’s place in the overall weaving of Fate is determined by the placement in the evolving pattern of the threads of the lives of his parents and ancestors who preceded him, which puts him in quite a bad space considering his father, who has exiled him calling him a Nithing, one who was not even considered a man because he so lacked honor, because of his supposed betrayal against his family and swore to kill him if he ever dared to return home.
Alas, acceptance of whatever unexpected twists and turns of Fate might bring to one’s life, courage in the face of adversity and even death, and conducting oneself with loyalty and integrity is something he has been taught and which he respects despite it all.
So the cycle continues...
🫛 - how does your f/o feel about pet names or nicknames? do they like them? hate them? what are their favorites and least favorites to be called and to use?
Lord Kardok isn’t exactly the type to come up with pet names, for he's a man of action rather than words.
Given the above, he’d rather just call [undone] with some more usual terms of endearment, like Mo ghaol (my love) or Mo leannan (my sweetheart). He might call her Elskan/Elskan mín (my love) too if he's particularly in the mood to be romantic, but that's about it.
On the receiving hand, however... He's mostly fine with whatever [undone] decides to call him, the only exception being the "Angry Pony" thing she sometimes hits him with when he's acting particularly insufferable.
Also, one might also expect him to loathe the whole "I could eat a horse" joke, but with your wife being able to turn into a dragon and all, well... It actually makes him lose his composure in a way he would never admit even under torture (if you get what I mean *wink wink*), but don't tell him I've said it teehee~.
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