2, 3, 11, 20 (OC questions meme)
OC questions that helped me with characterization:
What are your OC’s food preferences (flavors/textures/spiciness/calories/ when and how they eat) and how did they get that way?
What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?
What song is 100% garunteed to get your OC beyond turnt and will be sung loudly and emabarrasingly, either in public or the shower?
What’s your OC smell like? no, not that “Vanilla and Anxiety” evocative stuff, realistically. Body odor? what have they been touching all day? When was their last shower? Did they put on any kind of artificial scent?
[ OOC: |Headcanons| ] - (( Jesus well ok then -Cracks knuckles-
Food- Heres the deal, Ali prides herself on being able to cook. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, Dessert, you name it. She isn’t particularly skilled with BBQ or maybe fancier dishes but she’s been taught by her mother to craft filling, warm meals. So having her food taste beyond just ‘decent’ is usually a must. For example Ali appreciates a good hardy soup or chowder, usually accompanied with a sandwich or bread to dip it in. She likes her steaks Medium rare and juicy, and will straight up refuse to cook a steak ‘Well Done’ saying quote ‘I’m not setting fire to a perfectly good cut because you want to eat charcoal.’ Her taste in desserts are simple, and loathes store bought crap. Chocolate cake with light trace amounts of lavender icing is her favorite. All of which is well and good, but this unfortunately makes it difficult for her to down ANYTHING in the wasteland. Yeah she can make something actually edible with the plants and meat provided by farmers but using expired cartons of cram or salisbury steak may make her sick just by the smell. Bottom line: she can be picky.
Hmm.. petty annoyances? There isn’t much that bothers Ali that isn’t important. She is very patient that way. Even actual obnoxious behavior doesn’t usually phase her unless it has good reason to. But I suppose if I had to think of one pet-peeve is when people need to be quiet and refuse to. Whether it’s sneaking past a raider camp or listening to a speech, she almost immediately loses respect ( [Allison disliked that] ) when someone can’t shut up when they’re supposed to.
Ok getting turnt up in the bathroom is kinda Ali’s... thing. She’ll sing anything when bathing from ‘He’s a Man’ to ‘Tickled Pink’. Sometimes she’ll use a comb or shampoo bottle as a ‘microphone’. Kinda alludes to how much she misses preforming. But none of these are sung with silliness and usually have some kind of skill. An actual loud, embarrassing song she’d sing just to be cheery is probably ‘Hound Dog’. Ali will sing it while dancing when especially joyful but only when she is alone. Probably pretend the broom she’s using is a guitar. Mind you, if Ali got caught she’d go seven shades of red and never live it down.
I think I did a meme concerning how Ali smells but I’ll elaborate on it here. Post war- she smells mostly of Lilac and Lilies, a perfume she used frequently. Now? Well.. she still tries to bathe regularly, even if it’s more of a pain in the ass. While the faint scent of flowers still clings to her skin, the smell of smoke (fire not cigarettes), damp rain and blood prevail. While she invests heavily in makeup even post-war, perfume and hygiene products beyond simple soap seem to be more difficult to scavenge. So while Allison is certainly cleaner than most, she doesn’t necessarily smell it. ))