@formaen asked: botanical headcanons: acanthus, basil, gladiolus, parsley & tulip <3
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acanthus: is your muse deceptive, or willing to lie or deceive to achieve certain means? why or why not?
He can be deceptive, and is more so when he gets older in his main adult verse, picking up pseudonyms for his ‘conman plans’ (conning the stupidly megarich, anyway, not like regular people). That said, it’s not his default to be deceptive, and if he think he can get what he wants through honest means (and really, he doesn’t ask for much anyway), then he will. Other forms of deception he might adopt are more benign -- a vague example being that he outright lies to someone when he’s trying to make or prepare a gift for them in secret: “nope, nothing to hide, nothing to see, I am just... chilling out”. Depending on the nature of his deception, he will be at his most convincing acting, or at his most consciously obvious (especially if he’s trying to entice someone into a sort of hide-and-seek).
basil: does your muse have a love-hate relationship with anyone or anything?
He love-hates Alex, his adoptive dad, in every single verse that he’s in, whether he was created (and raised in an isolated environment -- only him, Alex, nannybot, the skags, and his eventual robot daughters) and suffers from Oh No I’m A Clone Of The Most Evil Bastard In Recent History Syndrome, or whether he was kidnapped and raised in an isolated environment (him, Alex, and farm animals). Despite the complex feelings that arise once he finds out he’s a clone/been kidnapped as a newborn, he still loves his adoptive dad more than he hates him (... he thinks), but he doesn’t get to reconcile his feelings about the whole ordeal when Alex is killed a week after the revelation.
gladiolus: describe a moment from your muse’s life that they will never forget.
It was after one of Alex’s many trips to Overlook that Teddy was surprised with a pair of tacky pink heart-shaped sunglasses. He’d seen pictures before, yes, but the idea of actually owning or wanting a pair had never really clicked before then, and the kid was ecstatic over them -- bouncing in his seat and kicking his legs wildly, and he’d kissed his dad on the cheek and hugged him tightly. This was around the time that he was creating Adelaide.
parsley: describe a holiday your muse enjoys, and why they enjoy it.
In his Modern AU, he is a fan of Halloween, being a sweet tooth-haver -- he does prefer fruit, but he won’t turn down sweets, chocolate and candy. And he does enjoy dressing up as someone else, just so that he’s temporarily not himself.
tulip: how does your muse view people in general?
He does want to view people as generally good, and he believes it in a way, but he does usually regard others with some apprehension and/or suspicion. Depending on the verse, it’ll be tied into his being a clone of Jack and his fear of being seen as just the same as him, or solely his lack of being around other people before Alex’s death.
