5, 7 (i already know the answer but it’ll be fun to see it spelled out), 12, 22, 23 for beloved angel connor boy.
5.) Their most annoying habit?
He’s very bad at sitting in silence and is almost always making noise in some respect. Whether it’s actually yapping, drumming his fingers, clicking a pen, whatever—he is the noise machine. Being around Connor for extended periods of time means that you have to learn to tune his idle noises out or you’ll go fucking nuts. YMMV.
7.) How much do they curse?
Oh, never. Obviously.
Constantly. Always. As both a hockey player and a born and bred Bostonian, his default setting is a steady stream of profanity. You’ll learn words you’ve never heard before. He’ll weave you a beautiful gilded tapestry of swears. The word “fuck” is like a brother to him. He celebrates Christmas with “Jesus fuckin’ goddamn Christ”. “Ya dumb bastard” is a love letter.
12.) Do they have a nickname? Do they use nicknames for others?
90% of his league given nicknames should not be repeated even in a court of law. Especially in a court of law. Legs is one of the harmless normal ones. Connie is also fine, though he’s not super fond of it. Green Light, not because he lets a lot of pucks in, but—y’know what. You get the picture.
He loves to make up absolutely horrendous nicknames for his teammates though. :)
22.) Are they a good liar?
No. Bless him. Don’t tell him about surprise parties. He fucking hates lying. He doesn’t see the need for it. He can pull a really, really bad one out of his ass if he senses it’s, like, perhaps a highly emotionally sensitive situation and the truth would make him a massive dickhead, but… yeah. He’s too honest.
23.) What is the best thing that has ever happened to them? What is the worst?
Best thing? Lily aside, I’d say getting traded to Boston and finally getting to live out his hometown hero fantasies. He always, always wanted to make it back home and to be a Bruin was, like, the pinnacle of his childhood dreams. Worst thing? Man. He’s thankful for being drafted at all, but uh… definitely those first few years playing in LA. My boy was naked and afraid and full of substances. He had lots of fun, but… oof. Yeah. Too much fun. He’s lucky he made it out of that frat house environment relatively unscathed.
your romance is a wish granted. finally, finally, they're here. finally, *it's* here! the time where you don't have to feel lonely anymore - you'll never feel that way ever again. laughter, joy, sweetness, kisses - be at ease. all of these are things you have found someone to share with. your love is a dreamy fantasy of love and devotion and miracles. at first, your chest gets too tight when they're around - until they become as natural as the air in your lungs. deck: ethereal visions tarot.
THE KNIGHT OF PENTACLES + THE MAGICIAN;
if there's something you want, you will GET IT. nothing escapes your fingertips. after all, you're the power couple. your pairing sparks pure cosmic energy. you're fiercely driven to your goals - whether that be status, fortune, or power. you're also fiercely protective of one another. with the knight's earthy energy, you both prefer to purposefully make your way towards your ambitions, rather than playing cards too early or acting too loosely. meanwhile, the magician's half makes gives you a little fire. if they get too close, onlookers and threats to your relationship may get burned. deck: modern witch tarot.
THE DEVIL + THE EMPEROR;
there's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. you two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. when they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. your hearts beat for one another. when the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise. deck: the tarot of vampyres.
THE TOWER + THE LOVERS;
meeting this person shook your whole world. crumbling down is everything you thought you knew about life and love. their warmth, their generosity, their naivete, their knowing...! you don't know how anything made sense before them. all you know is that nothing will make sense afterwards. deck: the tarot of the divine by yoshi yoshitani.
THE TWO OF CUPS + THE STAR;
your romance is a wish granted. finally, finally, they're here. finally, *it's* here! the time where you don't have to feel lonely anymore - you'll never feel that way ever again. laughter, joy, sweetness, kisses - be at ease. all of these are things you have found someone to share with. your love is a dreamy fantasy of love and devotion and miracles. at first, your chest gets too tight when they're around - until they become as natural as the air in your lungs. deck: ethereal visions tarot.
ACE OF CUPS + TEN OF CUPS;
your romance is the love story that seems only possible in movies. it starts from a youthful first meeting, innocent. and from what may seem like a lifetime later, you both end up happily in union, perhaps even married! your coupling is the epitome of emotional fulfillment and devotion. neither of you thought you'd end up here, but damn if you aren't glad you did. deck: thelema tarot.
I have not stopped thinking about Tess on a whim picking up lingerie when she’s out on a run for like days now. She spends the whole ride back home thinking about how frivolous and also weirdly a little hesitant to try smth? But she puts on her big girl panties (haha literally) and Daryl goes...nuts. The idea of her picking that out to wear for him and only him getting to see it and undress her makes the caveman part of his brain go OUGH.
I = Intimacy
They’re two people that with sex there’s always some kind of intimacy. Especially Daryl since he’s such a physical person when he’s comfortable with someone and Tess makes him feel so incredibly safe (and vice versa). They’re two people who love super strongly and haven’t really had...anywhere to put it or anywhere to express it healthily for a long time. Just the act of like...being that vulnerable with each other intensifies the emotions every time they have sex by ten fold. Even if they’re soft and giggly and it isn’t serious, there’s always an undertone of like...you’re the only person who gets to see me like this and I love you so much. They deserve to be a little sappy and cheesy okay! Also, yes they make love sometimes according to Tess when she needs that emotion and closeness. Which usually makes Daryl cringe at any other time but when Tess is looking at him with those pretty brown eyes and tugging him to their bedroom he makes an exception because she’s kinda right.
X = X-Ray
UHH...for Tess (ph*t p**** queen) she’s usually Au Naturale which Daryl loves which is ironic because all of his experiences with sex were very influenced by porn and his stupid brother and all of these super toxic attitudes about what sex is. But most of said experiences were...awful and impersonal and made him feel like shit so he likes how just...real and emotional and beautiful she looks just Being Her without any stupid, awkward perfomativeness (pretty sure this is not a word but <3 you get me) to it like people he’s been with before. It makes her smell nice keeping it unshaved sooooo...
As for Daryl, he’s also...not a manscaper LMAO far from it...Tess doesn’t mind though. Uh...as for what he’s packing I don’t...look at him and think oh my god I know his dick is big I know it is (contrary to what every other person who writes him thinks). I just think he’s pretty thick but a little below average with a nice curve which makes Tess very happy.
O = Oral
Daryl prefers giving more than receiving. He loves giving oral...so much and he’s damn good at it too because he’s not like...fussy about it and eats Tess out like she’s his last meal. Super messy too. There have been quite a few times where he’s finished himself off with his hand or rubbing himself against the bed while he eats her out.
He’s got weird qualms about receiving due to past traumas and not wanting...Tess to feel like she has to do it? She’s very insistent that she very much wants to but never pushes it obviously.
Tess has never really been with someone who enjoys giving that much (lmao both emotionally and in bed) so they kind of war a little bit on like...who takes care of who in a weird way? She eventually chills the fuck out and enjoys the ride though because Daryl so clearly enjoys it.
N = NO
They are...not kinky people and there are a lot of boundaries that they don’t mess with. Daryl has past sexual trauma and it takes awhile for him to even admit that to Tess? But she’s good at reading people and thankfully when Daryl like...gets even a little uncomfortable she stops and checks in. She really is like...his first long term relationship that has had a healthy sex life like that and it lets him open up a lot more. Tess has some trauma from being captures ~S4. Not sexual trauma but just...she doesn’t like being tied up/feeling like she’s trapped etc.
Basically - no degradation (Daryl would lean into it too much and would let it feed into his bad self-worth and bad feelings towards sex), no hitting (even spanking, Tess wouldn’t mind it once in awhile but Daryl feels weird about it), no getting tied up (either of them) and no like...super weird stuff.
🌹🌹🌹 — this, too, is not the end; he will be the one who kneels, then, and she will extend her hands towards him and whisper, i am sorry, i can’t do this for you. please do not ask this of me. not this.
NSFWish? i guess? below the cut. idk. not really. but.
13.) What physical qualities or parts of the body do they find most alluring in other people? Are there any that they find a bit less appealing?
He says what? That’s like picking a favorite child. It’s inhumane. (He’s an ass man in general, but he’s also just happy to be here.) Connor also prefers his partners to be at least a basic level of physically fit and active just to keep up with him and his shenanigans. He wouldn’t mesh well with someone who spends most of their time on the couch as he himself is a very tall golden retriever on crack. As for things he isn’t into, he does not fuck with feet personally but he will not yuck your yum… to your face, at least. Usually. He also does NOT fuck with extensive plastic surgery and the rise of M*r-a-L*go face freaks him the fuck out.
18.) What might your OC buy a lover or romantic partner, if they were looking for something saucy or suggestive? Scented massage oils? A set of racy underwear? A full set of leather implements and restraints? Or something else entirely?
This is so fucking funny to picture because all I can picture is him almost giving Lily a concussion by standing behind the couch and dropping newly acquired handcuffs on her like “Eh? Yeah? Nah?”
See. I think Connor likes the concept of lingerie on a partner, but in practice? Too many buckles and straps and oh my fuckin’ GOD it’s not coming off and it’s pissing him off and—
His fraternal twin brother Gareth, for sure. He’s also quite close with his younger sister Nia, but he and Gareth were attached at the hip. They did practically everything together, including eventually enlisting. They were actually pretty devastated they eventually got separated, but Gareth specialized as a combat medic and was needed elsewhere. By the time the story starts, Robert less than a month past receiving word that Gareth was killed in Italy. He’s not really felt quite right since then.
21.) What is your OC's alignment?
Lawful good. Good boy. Good lad.
22.) What is a song you associate with your OC?
25.) What does your OC want most?
To go the fuck home, man. He enlisted, to be fair, but he certainly didn’t anticipate the full extent of what he’d actually experience at war. He enlisted at 18, and his own naivety really starts to chap his ass as time goes on. It’s taken much longer than he was promised by propaganda, it’s fucking freezing, he got clipped in the shoulder a few weeks ago and it still smarts a bit when he moves—
Yeah. Fuck Hitler and all that, but christ. He misses his family. He misses his bed. He misses not having wet socks.