#baralinor

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baralinor? 👀

Hey wow thank you!!

Full Name: Baralinor Gender and Sexuality: Cis male, Grey-aroace, reciprosexualPronouns: He/himEthnicity/Species: Sindar/Silvan elfBirthplace and Birthdate: TA 1163, MirkwoodGuilty Pleasures: Flirting. Being a tease. If he existed in a modern AU he would be obsessed with bad reality tv.Phobias: Spiders. Which. Yeah.What They Would Be Famous For: Dancing.What They Would Get Arrested For: Accidental property damage. Accidental arson. Accidental homicide. The usual.OC You Ship Them With: Other MTS elves Elros and Orelion (not my OCs)OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Galion, that one time he accidentally knocked over an entire pyramid of wine casks.Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Cheesy romance (again, in a modern AU setting)Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Bury Your Gays. Eww.Talents and/or Powers: That he can dance so gracefully while being otherwise incredibly clumsy and awkward is considered a superpower by most other elves.  But the dancing is definitely a talent. His ability to enchant an audience is an art form. He’s also an excellent choreographer.Why Someone Might Love Them: He’s quiet and considerate and willing to pitch in and help in pretty much any way someone asks of him.Why Someone Might Hate Them: His helping turns into disaster on occasion.How They Change: Honestly I haven’t done enough with him to really display any character growth. But he would benefit from coming out of his shell a bit more when not in the spotlight.Why You Love Them: I kind of adopted Meludir but Baralinor was the first elven OC I really built from the ground up. So he’s pretty special.

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Help I can’t stop watching. Is body claiming a thing? Because this guy is definitely my body claim for Baralinor.

You’re welcome. (PS I don’t know whether things like this should be tagged Trash Squad or not...I don’t want to clutter up the tag with tangents. Does anyone have an opinion on that?)

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Baralinor!

(Because if I name something, I get attached.)

Name means “Fiery gleam in his eyes” (according to the website I got it from, someone please correct it if it’s wrong)

Is of mixed Sindar/Silvan descent.

Grey-romantic (possibly completely Aro) and Grey-Ace. He doesn’t often feel romantic or sexual desire but when he does develop a crush it is intense and lasts for an age. 

Rather than outright pursue the object of his desires, he’s a bit of a tease and prefers to find subtle ways of attracting their attention. He’s reciprosexual, and won’t go to bed with anyone unless he feels like they’re the one actively pursuing him.

Tends to prefer male-identifying partners because he is a total bottom and loves the feeling of being wanted that comes from someone else being the dominant partner, but he doesn’t like to say ‘never’ and has been with and had crushes on female-identifying elves in the past.

Current desire is to be the filling in the Oreos but since that’s unlikely to happen, and most of his attention seeking attempts have failed, he mostly just watches from afar and sighs wistfully.

Is NOT a fighter. Like at all. Like he has been banned from using weapons because he’s likely to shoot himself in the foot or stab himself with a dagger somehow.

Takes on a lot of odd jobs, like stacking barrels or organizing the pantry or cleaning the horse/elk tack.

Most of the time, not very graceful, and will occasionally trip over his own feet.

Despite that, Baralinor is a phenomenal dancer. It confuses the hell out of people because he can barely walk a straight line without stumbling over the air, and yet is absolute perfection when dancing. Same with the weapons, he can master a sword dance, but give him one to fight and he’d probably cut off his own leg.

Performs at most of the bigger feasts/festivals, and has danced in Rivendell and Lorien too, when asked. By the time he’s done most people either want him, or want to be him. 

Likes to collaborate with Camaendir, Lothling, and the other musically-inclined members of the squad to come up with new music to dance to.

Wakes up at the crack of dawn every day to go do the Elvish equivalent of yoga with Meludir. It keeps them both adequately flexible.

Even though he has no talent for fighting, he does have great talent for choreography, and a lot of the synchronized movements of the Mirkwood army were the result of him acting as the Dance Team Mom and coaching them all into step.

When not in the spotlight and not trying to tempt anyone into bedding him, he is actually rather quiet and reserved, keeping to himself and lacking a bit in social confidence. He’s the sort that isn’t ever sure if people like him as a friend or not.

Spends the most time with Elros, Galion, Feren, and the others who don’t have forest patrol duty.

And that’s what I got for now. Headcanon that elven dancing is something of a mix between fusion dance and ballet. Inspiration for this particular elf came from this and also that one male dancer in Alexander:

Do your eyeballs a favour and watch the whole thing. And then everything else this man has done because it’s amazing.