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[laurelsofhighever]

46 and 47 for Rosslyn, 8 and 16 for Maighread :)

Thank you for asking - these were fun to answer!

46. Do they make a good first impression? Does their first impression reflect them accurately? How do they introduce themselves? As a teyrn’s daughter, Rosslyn has been taught from a young age how to make a good first impression, and when it’s important, she just about manages to do so. She can be charming, and demure, and can hide her true emotions well, but since she’d much rather be running around the tilt yard or hanging out in the stables it’s only for really important state occasions that she’ll present herself fully as a noblewoman. When she introduces herself, she’ll either throw out the full weight of her titles (when she’s trying to impress or intimidate) or be more laid back (if she’s trying to be genuinely friendly) but she’s never had a knack for just striking up conversations with people, so she can seem rather stilted. 47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event? Honestly, it depends. There are aspects of formal parties that she likes, since court occasions are one of the few times all the people she likes are gathered together in the same room, and she takes a certain amount of pride in being one of the focal points of the room (especially when her outfit means Alistair can’t take his eyes off her), but she gets so bored with all the hours it takes to get ready, and while fancy parties have all the people she likes, they also have all the people she hates but has to talk to anyway. Having to be polite to them for hours on end generally means she’ll have to hit a lot of training dummies later.

8. Did they have pets as a child? Do they have pets as an adult? Do they like animals? When Maighread was very young, there was Rufus, the family hound, who had a big ruff of fur and used to sleep in her father’s study whenever he couldn’t sneak into the nursery, but when she was taken to the Circle she had to leave him behind. While she was in the Circle she never had pets as such, but she would feed the birds scraps from her own dinner, and over time the tower’s crows especially became fond of her. She’s always found it easier to get on with animals than with people, though it’s not until she joins the Inquisition that she gets a chance to have her own pets - there’s the horse Master Dennet gives her, the kitten that came in with one of the merchant caravans, and then there’s Cullen’s dog, who she’s very happy to help adopt.

16. Do they collect anything? What do they do with it? Where do they keep it? Private possessions weren’t really a thing in the Circle, and being too secretive about things tends to bring down the attention of templars, but one thing every mage is allowed is a grimoire, and in it, she collected ciphers. She would encode her spells so that nobody else could make use of them, and these his more advanced notes in their depths. When Ostwick rebels she ends up cutting her hair to pass as a boy, but once she joins the Inquisition she starts feeling safe enough to grow it out again. Josie gives her her first hairpin to keep it out of her eyes, and after that, people seem to just keep giving her them as gifts. She keeps them in a box in her room, but she has a few favourites that she often wears out in the field.

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detailed oc asks

[yuriplisetsky-rp]

35 and 39?

35. What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?Playing video games, watching TV, reading books... but never a waste of time.

39. What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?

Beka. Being with him always makes me feel better.

[laurelsofhighever]

Oc questions. 1, 25, 50 for whoever you're vibing with the most atm :)

I’m feeling my Tabris for this one, I think! thank you for the questions.

1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything? Ardea Tabris doesn’t have a middle name, and most of the time she goes by Dea to her friends. Her name means “heron” in old elvhen, and her mother, who was Dalish, named her that because of the bird’s grace and its habit of striking fast at its prey when it hunts. She takes the name to heart any time she uses her daggers, and it helps her remember her mother.

25. What do they find funny? Do they have a good sense of humour? Are they funny themselves? Generally, she’s pretty sharp and irreverent in her humour, having grown up in Denerim’s alienage. She and her cousins spent a lot of time playing pranks to entertain themselves since they didn’t have much structure, but this made her father despair because of how easily it transitioned into petty crime. As for whether she’s funny herself, she’s witty, but depending on her audience her jokes can seem a bit mean-spirited.

50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials? Life in the alienage is pretty sparse. Dea would be pretty ready to go even without a bag since she can steal what she needs easily enough, but if she had time to pack, she’d take her daggers, a cloak for warmth, things for treating injuries, some food staples, a waterskin, and some small sentimental things like the bracelet Shianni made her when they were children.

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detailed oc asks

[fnafitup]

Maybe it's too much but I'll try anyways...2. And 3. For both of them if possible?

Whatis/was your character’s relationship with their mother like? / Whatis/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

Honestly I don’t have a super detailed image of Henry’shomelife, except that both of his parents were strict conservativesthat were way too hard on their children, especially Henry, who wasToo Sensitive and Too Feminine. He tried to please them and nevercould. As an adult his relationship with them is pretty muchnonexistent, they don’t have his number.

Both of William’s parents were extremely egocentric, theybasically married because they were both high class (Will might evenhave some blue blood in him) and liked the idea of being their ownlittle royal family. The fact that children need to be raised neverreally occurred to them and neither of them was interested in doingit, leaving William to the staff and feeling repulsed by theirneglected son’s frequent outburst and misbehaviour, before theyshipped him off to boarding school.

His mother usually lounged around the house drinking too much.Since their house was huge, she could do this without seeing Williammuch and spent most of her time in rooms he wasn’t allowed in. Hisfather was away most of the time. William strongly modeled his ownlife after his father, but more out of a sense of competition andrevenge than any sort of admiration. William’s temper and tendency togain weight made his father consider his son mockable and unworthy ofbeing related to him. He only acted like a proud and loving father inpublic.

Basically Will (rightfully) hates his parents and didn’t care at allwhen they both died relatively young. (His mother from cancer relatedto her substance abuse, his father in a boating accident.)

[fnafitup]

..... maybe 6 for both? Only if possible

6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?

William was homeschooled as young kid and then sent to boarding school, which did NOT go well, because he was an ill-adjusted, angry fat kid and basically arrived with a target on his forehead. As a teenager he became a bully himself and got people to be his “friends” through his trademark way of instilling both admiration and fear in people. After high school, he went to some prestigious business program in the States and finished his education with a master’s. He’s always excelled at and enjoyed math, while he hated art class, because his talent is firmly in the “abstract thinking” area and he’s not good with his hands (he could learn, but he gets whiny and drags his heels when something doesn’t come naturally to him).

Henry was the quiet kid who sat in the back of the class and drew a lot, though he was also extremely diligent about getting his homework done. He got bullied a lot for being an anxious kid and crying easily. He’s had some good friends and some “friends” that really just treated him like a punching bag. While he enjoyed hands-on subjects the most (woodwork, art class, etc) he didn’t have problems with anything, except, of course, the social anxiety hell that is PE. After high school, he went to a technical college and got a degree in engineering.

[fnafitup]

31- Henry and William, ooc if they don't drink because I would be curious anyway.

31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing? 

I answered this for William before (too lazy to look for it, but it’s in my “detailed asks” tag).

Henry only drinks when there’s peer pressure involved and he’s generally too careful to really get wasted. Alcohol loosens him up, he becomes less anxious and talks a little more freely. He’s more openly affectionate and also what I can only describe as a cuddly drunk, because he’s always starved for touch. He just really, really wants to feel close to people, so if he’s had a few glasses he’ll probably rest his head on someone’s shoulder and feel happy for a while.

Give this boy all the hugs he’s dying for them.

He doesn’t drink enough to get hung over, but he has AVPD, so the next day is just pure Regret and thinking every little thing he’s said and done was soul-crushingly embarrassing.

He generally avoids drunk people and is kind when William or his wife shows up hungover or anything like that.

[fnafitup]

39- William. D e t a i l e d, because I need to be fascinated and hate-fueled towards him.

39. Do they like letters? Or prefer emails/messaging? 

Well he… died… before e-mail was really a thing. But William has always preferred face-to-face communication over say, the phone, because it’s a more intense experience of getting Attention and there’s more ways to read and influence the other person. He literally buys plane tickets just so he can negotiate face to face, because he feels disarmed when he can’t look someone in the eye and intimidate them with his presence (and gets a power rush out of it ofc).

If he were alive today he’d be one of those people that says social media are terrible, but only because he doesn’t know how to get more Twitter followers. Also all his relationships would suffer because he’d get passive aggressive at everyone who doesn’t reply to his messages right away, and that’s just not a practical way to live. (”Sorry I forgot to reply!”, “Haha yeah anyway I’m going to murder your child. I mean no problem :) :) :)”)Actually I imagine Springtrap did obtain a computer and he’s spending a large part of his immortality writing comments about how hard it is to be a male. (When he’s not looking up articles and fansites about himself.)