16, 24, 36 for that bastard vampire one.
16. What does your OC smell like?
Henry wears a mild cologne that he has to buy specially from a parfumerie in Edinburgh that’s been running for a good four to five hundred years, and has relocated at least three or four times in those times - a lot of older vampires have a lot of issues with oversensitivity to scents and sounds, so a lot of modern and artificial perfumes are very overwhelming?
Pretty much any vampire who’s older than three hundred years or who has any kind of relationship with any older vampire will only wear like, very subtle and diluted perfumes if they wear them at all, unless they’re specifically a young one trying to make a statement, like. Henry’s cologne is like, a very soft sandalwood mix, and on top of that, he usually smells of whatever hobby he’s invested in at the moment, as he tends to get really into something messy. I think in the 21st century it’s probably something like painting figurines - he’d fucking love that.
Theophilus doesn’t wear a cologne unless Henry puts it on him, and generally thinks cologne is too much for a man of his station to wear at all, but he uses a rose-scented aftershave, and he tends to also smell of paper and ink.
24. What is their outlook on life? What is their philosophy / what do they think in general about living?
Henry is generally like, kind of disgustingly optimistic? He’s very much into stuff - he’s extroverted and optimistic and he has about 29482 hobbies because he’s been alive for nearly a millennium and he keeps finding new things to be interested in. He genuinely finds the world to be just... super impressive and exciting? He’s extremely easily impressed, and while he has a lot of knowledge of like, all manner of esoterica and ephemera, he will pretend he doesn’t know anything because he enjoys the different ways people explain things to him. He’s got eccentric uncle vibes.
Theophilus is. completely different.
He kind of views it as his entire mission in life to look after Henry, although luckily for Henry, part of the purview of “looking after Henry” includes “becoming involved in Henry’s fun hobbies so that Henry can enjoy explaining them/Theo enjoying them”. But he... likes living.
I think for Theo, like, he isn’t naturally imbued with a particular wonder of life? He’s naturally quite a cynical and pessimistic guy, he tends to assume the worst of people and the world at large, but while he sometimes brings Henry back down to earth when he gets a little too high, he gets a lot of joy from experiencing Henry’s joy secondhand, and so they balance one another out in that respect.
36. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain?
Honestly, Henry just wants like, peace, and entertainment. He’s almost chronically bored when he doesn’t have a few hobbies going, and then he goes absolutely off the rails, and just completely melts down. He needs constant stimulation, and he’s usually running a business - he prefers hospitality if possible, e.g. owning a restaurant or part owning a hotel where he can dip in and out, and where there’s a lot of people and a lot of challenges? But he also likes to just be separate from actual crowds so that he can pursue mostly hobbies.
Theophilus mostly needs order. It’s actually pretty good for him to be around Henry because while Henry is just chaos personified, Theo can keep up behind him and clean things up, which gives him enough to be getting on with and makes him feel very satisifed.
Most of all, they really do exist for one another - three hundred years together, and they’ve never actually managed to keep up an argument for longer than a day or two, because their rhythms are just synced so well, and because they genuinely do see eye-to-eye on everything.
If anything happened to the other, they’d lose it.
