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head tilting
moves his head around.
side to side, back and forth
esp moves his head around as a way to express and stim while he talks
impatient hands
flapping, tapping his sides, fidgeting
his hands are always busy in some way
foot tappies
kicking his feet or otherwise just tapping them while he's sitting/standing in place
electrical noises
makes occasional noises that mimic electrical appliances
beeping, clicking, whirring, static etc
could be boredom, could be out of nervous habit or other
usually does it while talking but can do it to fill silence
echo
repeats words at the ends of his sentences sometimes
occasional repetition of phrases he's heard.
static
likes listening to static and/or white noises
finds it brain scratchy
dial up
constantly has the dial up tone on brain
loves listening to it and stimming to it
white noise
tv static/snow is very calming to watch for him
colour changer
loes colour changing lights esp stuff like christmas lights
as long as the lights arent flickering, flashy or otherwise quickly changing colours and too bright.
esp if its slow patterns thats very calming
def. enjoys lights from signs around the city
marching in place
sort of just moves his legs and walks without actually going anywhere
boredom stim
kinda like an idle animation in a title screen/character select when youre viewing the characters animations
sometimes its just his feet not his entire legs doing the movement
swaying
shifts his weight from one leg to the other
sorta looks like hes swaying from side to side when he does this
more so a vervy common stim while waiting rather than just a boredom stim
taps
taps whatevers in his hand agaisnt stuff
lightly tapping his fingers on a pen or tapping the pen on a surface etc
colour shifter
loves watching anything that changes colours
will not look directly at the lights but loves watching the colours change
gradient gifs. just that.
humming
mindless humming
a near constant stim
usually a jingle of some kind
swaying
shifting her weight from one leg to the other
purposefully swaying from side to side as a stim
usually either an impatient or happy stim
wrist flick
sorta flicks and flaps her wrists about
while talking or sorta like an idle animation type of stim
developed it as a habit with her whip
huff
huffy sighs
not upset or anything
just huffs for the sake of stimming
mew
says "mew/meow" and makes cat noises as a stim
either happy, casual while talking, or filling the silence sort of stims
squeek
makes squeak noises
similar to the mew stim
i feel like they all share stims so heres some general ideas:
flick
hair flick, wrist flick
echo
repeats noises/sounds/words/phrases they hear
often mimics phone sounds
will bounce echoes around each other like theyre locked in a loud telephone game
toe tap
will tap the toe of their shoes behind them
maybe switching from foot to foot
could be boredom or impatience, nervousness or discomfort
hops
very excited sort of stim
does little hops
doesnt last very long
just a short hop of expression of their glee
rocking
will rock side to side when happy or waiting
rocks back and forth when nervous
finger pokes
shy, nervous or embarrassed stim of poking his fingers together
either while talking or of he wants to ask something
hand flaps
happy hand flappies
fidgeting
playing with his scarf or the hem of his sleeves/robe
for any reason at all
baa
sheep noise stim or baby goat yelling
also for any reason
humming
humming anything
hums while doing something or to fill the silence
usually a happy stim
sparkles
loves shiny/sparkly things
watching them is distracting but stimulating
straight up mesmerised by this stuff
feel free to tell me your hc's!