//smell like?
the musk that marks his entry is a combination of sweat from his humid environment, sea-salt from the bay's breeze rolling in and getting caught in his fur, a faint mix of fire-flowers and the smoke that comes with handling them, and an assortment of flora scents depending on what he's gotten into and what spores are in his fur for the day - usually honeysuckle since they grow around the door of his treehouse an can graze his shoulders when he emerges.
//hands feel like?
The backs of his hands and knuckles are rough and calloused from wear and tear as they typically bear the brunt of his weight during frontal movement. Where each finger meets palm, a calloused bump sits from repeated physical tasks such as lifting weights or swinging from branches or rock faces. The rest of his palms are soft and smooth since they're so often protected curled up in his fists. If he cups your face with his hands, it's usually his palms since they're more comfy.
//usually eat in a day?
"Hey, nerds. Welcome to what I eat in a day as a freaking STUD MUFFIN looking to bulk up for whipping major arena ass - So I start the day the second I wake up with about 10 bananas. I got to get some sugar in to wake me up somehow!
Then I follow up with some breckie - usually half a whole watermelon I turn into a bowl and then load it up with some coconut yogurt and whatever fruit hasn't gone off yet. And YEAH, I eat the whole bowl, rind and all. Just swallow the whole thing to assert your dominance.
For second breakfast, I like me a few banana nut muffins soaked in pure coconut oil. Yea, just dip that sucker all the way in until it looks soggy and boom! Calories! Wash that shit down with a gallon of coconut milk.
So we need to get some greens in now...for health. Lunch is a big gorilla salad with every single veggie available, and I make it into a little jungle dioramas with a volcano in the center that I just stuff full with hummus and hot sauce 'cause that shit's fireeee.
Mid afternoon - we need to start our pre game so let's order several martinis to work up an appetite and have some bar snacks! Sprouted coconuts are great and cronchy. And maybe some fresh off the fryer plantain chips.
Dinner is a massive bowl of lentil pasta with pesto sauce and asparagus tips and a side of garlic steeped coconut sprout. Whether it's a drink my ass off night or not, you know I gotta get some slow-churned coconut cream to cool off. The best flavor is pistachio, sorry Candy. Oh yeah and then I might eat some nuts and fall asleep." (Pun maybe or maybe not intended.)
//have a good singing voice?
Growing up, DK very much enjoyed music and he had quite an angelic voice back then. Granted, some please your dad life choices and focusing more on fighting and king-in-training duties means he hasn't exactly indulged in much of the practice lately (oh and puberty - that sort of changes a few...voice related activities). Though he can and will get shit-faced tipsy and croon out some music when he's feeling good and nostalgic, he can and will without hesitation initiate a rap battle, especially against the foes he faced in the past that liked to randomly start singing out of no where during a dispute.
//have any bad habits or nervous ticks?
His bad habits center around substance abuse. He's intrigued by flora to a degree - on one hand...he does find some flowers nice to look at and smell, but on the other, he enjoys experimenting with jungle plants in the sense of - which ones are the most fun to smoke and get a high off? He also tends to partake in binge-drinking if he's having any booze because of his massive weight and size, it takes quite a bit to get him tipsy. Then when/if he keeps going, he can end up making some...questionable choices when going home with someone for the evening.
Nervous ticks include kneading his knuckles into the ground (making biscuits), twirling his hair around a finger absentmindedly, lifting the fur up on the backs of his shoulders and then leaning over to furiously lick them back down.
//usually look like/wear?
Nothing unusual - just brown fur and a red tie with his initials sewn into the end of it. He also 'wears' a type of magic (mainly just casting it all the time without realizing - like sucking in your gut all the time) called modesty magic so he doesn't have to wear pants in public.
During special royal occasions in which Cranky has to appear and bring his son along, DK has to (begrudgingly) don the sacred garbs of the Jungle Kingdom's royal family. It just consists of a crown smaller but like Cranky's, and an agbada-like garb. Thinking white/navy or navy/gold.
//is your muse affectionate? How so?
Traditionally - no...he tends to show his like for others by more rough or physical means such as putting someone in a wrestling hold, booping a snoot, or otherwise teasing someone. He gets flustered when trying to do anything that's overtly PDA.
As for familial affection, he likes to be very loud and embarrassing and over the top about how 'cool' someone is to fluster them on purpose. But he also shows his affection towards family by adventuring and bringing them gifts back that he knows they like.
//what position do they sleep in?
Mainly he likes to sleep on his side in the floor and use his own bicep as a pillow as he just balances in place and snoozes off. If he's cold, he'll flip over and tuck all his limbs under himself and nearly roll up into a ball, but with his chin flat on the ground.
// could you hear your muse in the hallway from another room?
If he was whispering, you'd hear him. His whisper is an inside-voice.
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Sure, he has some cool glasses and board moves, but you wanna know why FK gives off such mind-blowingly attractive but can't quite put your finger on why vibes?
Well for starters, Funky is likely the oldest of the kid Kong generation (Candy/DK/Diddy/Dixie/etc.) So he naturally plays the big brother / older cousin to everyone. Granted he isn't the 'hold your hand every step of the way' kind. He's protective to the degree he needs to be, and otherwise allows curiosity and explorative tendencies to flourish among his younger family members. He's playful in that he will enjoy teasing his cousins when they need to get knocked down a peg, but otherwise - a bitch wouldn't hesitate to swing on a noted threat to their well-being.
When he's wearing his sunglasses (which is always) his moods seem really sporadic and unpredictable, but only because he's gifted the illusion of being chill 24/7. That means going from 0 to 100 when he's got a little shit like DK in his sights for an unannounced wrestling match.
As the eldest, Funky tends to display a great level of maturity and responsibility when it comes to his businesses and overall work ethic. This is masked somewhat by his beach bum attire and his hobby of surfing, but he knows how to balance between business and pleasure well enough. Not being a direct royal after all, he's well aware he has to work harder overall to succeed, and so he's always looking for new ways to add to or promote his business endeavors.
He's a Kong of few words far and in between, but when he does speak - it's often in the form of truth bombs and things his company might need to hear if he notices they're being painfully oblivious.
Overall, he's a strong pillar in the community, a role-model for the younger Kongs, a fun guy despite actually sticking to a reasonable amount of regulations, a hard-worker who indulges in his passions just enough...yeah, that's rad. That's funky.
DK://
Makes fun of people he likes,
Listens to people he respects,
Flirts with his enemies,
Acts like the goofiest ball so people question if he's OK - around his family.
headcanon that: DK 's smashing behaviors, aka the stompy stomp slappy slap the ground and everything around him when he's mad is because it's hard for him to express overwhelming emotions with words. Also he sort of just went along with doing what his dad wants thinking it will make him proud of him, but the fight and desire to rebel against what he really does not want to do is still trapped inside and shows itself through his violent outbursts. He's always hitting everything around him but never hits the person he's talking to because he's not actually mad at the person but mad at himself for not standing up for himself when it mattered most and now he's stuck with his choice and he hates it.
Headcanon: Fluffy suffers major anxiety when it comes to considering his time to rule the Jungle Kingdom because he doesn't really want the job. So a lot of his habits like singing and drinking are quiet rebellion/escapism.
your headcanons for my muse version
// I mean, when you say it out loud-...
That'sss pretty much what I...suspect like is happening? But he doesn't know that massive iceberg under the tip he's playin' on. In a way, it goes even deeper than anxiety over a job he doesn't want. Because he gets the job when Daddio dies, so if he thinks about becoming King one day that just means he's admitting to Cranky's and technically his own mortality (not to mention he's gonna have to do like Bowser and pump out the chilluns). Plus, he likes how things are - like they've always been, so he's unknowingly just gone into auto pilot mode and does what he can to stay there.
Mario and Luigi and DK are all getting lowered down from the surface on individual platforms and hung over a flooded, watery basement looking map. The lighting (or lack thereof) and the narrow, winding corridors speak of a building not unlike an office- once inhabited by humans, but now sunken and long-forgotten.
The curator is the one who put them there, and though they aren't seen, their voice rings out from above, reverberating off the water and rattling the chains holding the platforms in the air. They inform the bunch of spirited away heroes that they must pick between them two volunteers to wait under the water deep within the maze (in a dk esque barrel) while the remaining of them runs the level, hopefully finding their companions and the exit, and of course... avoid running out of breath before escaping.
Mario and Luigi are aware that DK is funny with water, so they busy themselves with rock paper scissors to try to decide between the two of them, and eventually DK knows he's the only real option they have here, and is just like "OK. It's gotta be me." Mario and Luigi are of course concerned. Can DK even actually swim? "The water weirds you out, doesn't it? One of us can handle this one-"But DK has made up his mind and is like "no stfu. Maybe I can't float well, and panic because of it... but I can corkscrew faster than you dog paddlers, and I have the best lung capacity here so. It has to be me."
And once he's on the course, DK just ignores all the sparkly coins and collectables in order to corkscrew quickly around underwater to check each crevice darker than the last since there's no coming back up for air allowed during this challenge. He eventually finds the barrel's location, collects the nerds, and is just above to cross the final threshold separating air from the water's surface, but his lungs finally give out and he starts to sink while Luigi and Mario keep swimming forward. They notice of course and dive back down to retrieve him and help yank his butt out into their next trial's destination - an underwater cave glimmering with aquatic ambience.
The Kongs do experience a mating season about once to twice per year. It is usually expected for the child-expecting pairs to wait for these time frames to control when potential new babies are added to the census and to make it easier for the 'takes a village' mentality to ensure all new parents and offspring are all well taken care of by the community.
For everyone else, the season is just one spent feeling overly sensitive, overstimulated, mildly more aggressive than usual, and much more willing to head home with a stranger at the end of a night out.
//I swear, depending on the time of day - DK displays a bunch of different mannerisms related to other species. It's theory time.
He's already horse-like in that his run on all fours is very much a 'gallop'. He'd probably let friends ride on his back when they need to get somewhere fast, but if you show up uninvited, you're getting bucked off. Also, his occasional angry snorts/puffs and flared nostrils.
He also displays some doggish behavior in that he will scratch himself occasionally with a back leg if he's found an itch with one. When wet, he shakes his fur out similarly, and he can be a bit excitable at times and basically get the zoomies.
Feline-wise, he has a tendency to - when the air is tense, or he did something stupid and he's trying to play it off, he'll usually tilt his head in and lick a shoulder aggressively like he's 'playing it off'. He has yet to do so, but under certain circumstances, he purrs...not like a house cat, but more of a deeper leopard-like chest rumble.
He definitely picked a few things up from the Kremlings in his youth when they first arrived - mainly the occasional walking on twos.
My theory is that since Kongs are a type of species that take the 'monkey see monkey do' thing literally and can copy stuff they find in their environment. So not all Kongs are alike in their mannerisms, it's just based on what they were exposed to while growing up and learning particular traits/ways of reacting to what they find in their environment.
