#dandy lore

[meirimerens]

notkin selflessly, as the oldest of the dualsouls bunch and appointed leader, giving out all the food he can put his hands on to feed the smallest ones even if it means going to sleep so hungry he can barely crawl off the mattress when he wakes up, and his seconds-in-command (dandy and catnip my my lore #mylore) using dogheads' visits to bribe food out of them as "payment for the meeting with the boss" [which khan accounts for everytime he sends a delegation or goes with them because lowkey he has a hunch] [& which the dogheads don't really know what the real deal is in their minds it is political payment] and notkin doesn't know about it he thinks it's truly payment. but actually it's his buddies (+ his enemy¹ playing into his buddies' deal) making sure he doesn't starve.

[dandy-dandelion]

what’s wrong?

This is the life you wanted, the life you threw everything else away for!

Are you regretting your contract already?

[meirimerens]

my beliefs about dandy (the pathologic 2 character) (the ginger kid) and who i love to think is his sister, catnip (the pathologic 2 character) (the ginger kid also) is that when they grow up they learn to play music. they don't make it a job for obvious reasons they just learn because it's fun and it's entertaining when the Soul-and-a-Halves who've grown up and the Dogheads who've lost a leader (he went to college) get together in one of the warehouses and like play music and dance. i think dandy's an accordion guy and catnip a fiddle girl. i also think notkin would play the fiddle i think he has a wicked good ear for sound he just can't read sheet music to save his life. also his days are busy and hard so instead of playing music or dancing with everyone else he sits in a corner arms crossed and sleeps.

[meirimerens]

this is probably a very niche thing, but do you have any hand headcanons about pathologic characters? as in, who's right-handed or who's left-handed... or both.

YESSSSS OMG #YASSSSSSSS I DO! I DO IN FACT! IT'S NEVER TOO NICHE FOR ME HONEY #THOUGHTSHAVER

since most of the population is right-handed, imagine that if i'm not mentioning anyone they're either right-handed OR i don't have any particular headcanons. + you get some handwriting headcanons as well, a "buy one get one free" deal

Dankovsky: right-handed, relatively neat writing when he wants, otherwise you're getting that Doctor's Handwriting

Burakh: naturally right-handed, but he trained himself to be able to write with his left hand when he sprained his wrist age 14. his left-handed writing is kinda fucked up and it's obvious that's not his natural dominant hand, but if you squint and focus it's readable

Clara: ambidextrous, but she has very rarely written in her life so she doesn't even notice.

Andrey: naturally ambidextrous, has a left-handedness dominance

Peter: naturally ambidextrous, has a right-handedness dominance

(fun fact about ^ i headcanon that they always had to be sat together at school and for a while the teacher didn't understand why they didn't get any work done and then realized that's because the way they had them (peter on the left and andrey on the right) their elbows keep bumping in each other's so they just switched them around and it was fine)

Rubin: naturally left-handed but trained himself to be able to write/do other stuff with his right hand in case (it was for him a thing of like Discipline)

Lara: right-handed, relatively clean handwriting unless she starts losing it and scribbling

Grief: left-handed

Eva: right-handed, neat handwriting, likes to either embellish her lettering a lot or have very "dry", austere, almost worryingly simple shapes

Yulia: right-handed, a nervoussss writer, very tense grip on the pen, very low and slanted letters

Nina and Victoria: both ambidextrous

Katerina: naturally ambidextrous, her proficiency in both hands has been coming and going, and her morphine addiction has made her lose her grip and stability on her writing to the point it looks like chicken-scratch now

Capella: naturally ambidextrous, she uses mostly her right hand so far but will learn to use the left one more as well as she grows up + trains with stuff like sewing, embroidering, playing instruments,...

Khan: right-handed, relatively clean handwriting. it gets cleaner and more precise as he grows up because he goes on to go to college and learn languages, so he takes pride and effort into materializing the letters of languages other than his own like greek, arabic, any using the latin alphabet, etc.

Notkin: left-handed. he's barely literate because of his Shit Life Syndrome making his writing, when he tries, somewhat unintelligible. since he barely ever writes he has no muscle memory of how to hold his pen so his left hand doesn't smear the ink all over.

Catnip: right handed, clean and pretty handwriting, her grammar is kinda shit but she has an excuse. she's an orphan.

Dandy: left-handed, messyyyy handwriting, but his grasp on grammar's preddy good. paired with his sister ^ they make for Notkin's Redaction and Deciphering Team.

#yasssss!!!!!!

[meirimerens]

makin it so in my mind's eye Dandy and Catnip are siblings

no other reason than that they're both gingers with these hazel-ish eyes. & i think it's fun. & i like it when famly.