*cracks knuckles* oh it's blorbo time
I headcanon Tango as just being slightly lower empathy, I enjoy the dynamic of him genuinely wanting to figure out what's going on emotionally with people he cares about but not quite picking up the signals and potentially coming off as a little uncaring to people who don't know him well (Especially paired with a very high empathy Jimmy who Feels things very strongly, makes for a super interesting dynamic imo)
The tango I write has a fire core, an actual flame burning inside his chest that makes him warm and can occasionally make his chest glow when he's feeling really strong emotion!
To add onto that, I think Tango's eyes deserve to glow in the dark <3 as a treat. Cannot escape the image of the softly glowing outline of shadowed ribs against skin paired with the warm red light of pupil-less eyes. I simply think he deserves to bioluminesce
I love me a netherborn Tango (fanon for the win) and because he's a warm boy I like to think he has his gloves to keep his hands warm, and that he actually takes them off to do things like weld, do redstone, or handle lava buckets. He needs his fine motor control for those things, but also that's when his hands are warm enough to not actively ache in the lower temperatures of the overworld
On another note this had not occurred to me until just now but chronic joint pain tango from being just a little too cold is SPINNING in my brain now oh boy I will be returning to that concept.
Tango is mouthy in a very literal sense, and he chews on things while he's working. I feel like he has absolutely chipped a tooth before by chewing on the wrong things and spurred his friends on a "DON'T PUT THAT IN YOUR MOUTH TANGO-" spree. They catch him absent-mindedly tapping a piece of netherite scrap against his mouth and like 3 people go "NO" at once
Okay late edition to the glowing bit but imagine with me: Tango cannot take compliments, and when they finally do get through to him he blushes. GLOWING BLUSHY CHEEKS. that is all
Tango is shorter than most of his friends, but there are v few people who are allowed to pick him up or put him on their shoulders ect. without getting an earful. He's a wiry but strong guy and if someone tries he's more likely to pick Them up.
I think when he gets really chilled he does like toothless in how to train your dragon and heats up a patch of ground to lay on by placing lava down and then picking it back up. superheated gravel to curl up on top of
I like the idea of Tango having slightly off color perception for more netherborn reasons, thus the usually monochromatic outfits. I don't know enough about forms of color blindness to elaborate on that a lot but it makes me Think about perception and how it effects his redstone work and maybe even how he sees the colors of other people
PLUS bonus silly 11. I was sitting here thinking "what music would tango listen to while working on DO" and just immediately got bodyslammed by the image of the deep frost citadel's windows pulsing with light to the tune of Carameldansen so. Have that mental picture free of charge slkdfj
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