✍ + 5, 10, 15, 20
For every ✍ + a number I receive, I will share one headcanon for my muse about…
5) …being complimented.
For someone who wants validation so desperately, Braig is terrible at taking compliments. He’ll either brush it off/downplay it, make it into a joke, or, on the very rare occasion, get a bit flustered and/or sheepish about it. Even if it looks like he just shrugs it off, though, he’ll be preening himself for the next little while - especially if the compliment came from someone he looks up to.
10) …their handwriting.
His handwriting is somewhere between cursive and printing, and the only reason it’s at all legible is because he’s in the military, before ‘Nort happens, and, if his reports and paperwork wasn’t good enough? He’d get reamed out, and probably have to do it again. He writes pretty quickly, though, so it’s never perfect; He’s prone to scratching things out instead of erasing them; He doodles and writes in the margins, especially in early/rough drafts; Stuff like that. But, over all, it’s decent enough.
15) …where they see themselves in ten years.
This is verse dependent. As a little kid, he thought he was going to be like his dad, and that was a good thing. When he was a bit older, he thought he’d be in high school, and then in the Guard, and was apathetic about all of it - life was just kind of planned for him, instead of planned by him, and he was just going to have to deal with it. Might as well just go along with it. Not like trying to do his own thing had ever worked out anyway, right? And, when you’re a soldier, ten years feels like a long time, especially when you’re on tour. Are you gonna walk away from this battlefield? Are you gonna die? Who knows. He’s not worried about ten years, he’s worried about not dying. Once he joined the Royal Guard, he wasn’t really thinking that far ahead. Maybe he’d be like his dad, and it wasn’t as much of a good thing, back then. And, once Xehanort happened? His plan was either: In ten years, he’ll be at the Coot’s side, still working on his own schemes, OR he’ll be dead. Didn’t think too far beyond that. And, Post-Series? Hell if he knows. He has zero idea what’s gonna happen. Kinda gave up on making sense of the worlds.
20) …what they think the meaning of life is.
He’s never really thought about it, but if you were to ask him, he’d tell you there isn’t one. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in fate or destiny, because he does - he’s been living as a piece in a prophecy for the last…. Oh, twelve-ish years, now? Maybe longer. But, he doesn’t really think there is one overarching meaning for human life (or, any life, to be fair) and existence. He thinks you can make your own meaning, sure, or have one thrown onto you, but, beyond that, he thinks it changes. Like, for example, when he was a guard, his purpose was to protect the king, or the castle, or RG as a whole, or whatever. As a Seeker of Darkness, his purpose was to either destroy the Guardians of Light or eliminate Xehanort, depending on where you stood. After? He doesn’t know. He thinks that you can have purposes, sure, but they change, over the course of your life and based on your choices, and you never know what you’re gonna get hit with, next. It’s not the weirdest thing that ever happened to him.
