#klavierforte

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☃ : What is your muse’s favorite season? What about their least favorite season, if they have one?

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♠︎ Kristoph's favourite season is autumn, for the weather and the fall colours. Since certain milestones in his life, like school years starting and his brother being born and killing Drew Misham, have happened in the fall, he also associates it personally with new beginnings and chances, and thinks of it as an auspicious time.

♠︎ He dislikes both summer and winter. He wilts in the heat and is always uncomfortable during the summer, and in addition to the winter drying out his hair and skin, if he gets sick at any time during the year, it's usually with whatever illness is circulating in the wintertime.

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📱 : Does your muse prefer calling or texting?

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♠︎ Kristoph very much prefers phone calls to text messaging, mostly because it's what he's used to, but also because he can guarantee that he has the other person's attention, and (unless Phoenix Wright is recording him) there's no evidence left behind of what he's said. If he's using asynchronous written communication, it's more likely to be in an email or a letter than a text, and he's more likely to use texts to plan phone calls than to chat.

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♨ : Does your muse have good table manners? How do they feel about bad table manners?

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♠︎ Kristoph has excellent manners, which he honed as part of his respectable image and fluidly adjusts to the situation. He always tries to be a small step more neat than is appropriate for the context, in order to look like the most refined person in the room without standing out or drawing accusations of overdoing it.

♠︎ He doesn't have particularly high standards of etiquette for anyone else dining with him, so long as they seem generally aware of what's appropriate and don't make enough of a mess to embarrass him. But there is a minimum of what he feels are considerate and respectful table manners, and though it's rare for anyone to be that bad, he will take it as an insult and openly shame anyone falling below it.

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☕ : Does your muse prefer coffee or tea?

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♠︎ In general, Kristoph prefers drinking tea for the taste; he only drinks quality blends given the choice, but even cheap teas tend to score higher with him than coffee, which he's very particular about and needs cream and sugar to be palatable.

♠︎ However, he often ends up drinking coffee more for practical reasons, especially while he's working and needs the pick-me-up. Coffee is very tied to certain routines for him, and he gets irritable when he doesn't start his workday with a cup, or has to work late without it.

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6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child? (my face sending this one is just >:^)))) )

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♠︎ As a young child growing up, definitely affection. Kristoph was a relatively easy child to raise, agreeable and a little precocious in the ways adults appreciate, so he got lots of positive attention from his parents and other relatives. While his mother in particular was more strict and had higher expectations, he usually met those standards eagerly and was rewarded with her approval.

♠︎ Things changed for him when, after 8 years of being an only child, he suddenly got a baby brother and lost what felt like a massive amount of attention from the adults in his life. His parents' behaviour towards him didn't significantly change, but to little Kristoph, having to now compete for their time felt a lot like rejection. After Klavier was born, Kristoph worked a lot harder at seeming exceptional, to try to earn the attention he was used to back -- especially from their mother, whose high standards now made her regard even more covetted than before.

♠︎ But the affection Kristoph felt was denied by his parents was eventually amply bestowed on him by his little brother, so though Klavier was his rival for attention, he never thought of him as an enemy. Rather, having felt like his parents' love could be conditional, he was that much more intent on ensuring that Klavier would continue to admire him no matter what.

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13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates?

Character-solidifying asks [x]

♠︎ Kristoph was a bright student and academically-inclined, so he did quite well in school and was always liked by the staff, but it was more of an obligation that he accepted than a place he actively enjoyed going. He took pride in being the top of his class and impressing his teachers, but he didn't have much passion for his education outside of that.

♠︎ He wasn't much for socializing with his peers, either, but he made it more of a priority after moving to the US as a teenager, out of a desire to integrate. Introverted but not shy, he mostly reserved his company for kids in the grades above him, generally feeling that his same-age peers were not mature or intelligent enough for him. He nurtured few friendships, partially due to his own selectivity, but he did struggle a bit to fit in as a newcomer, as well.

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hc + ✂️ for a hair-themed headcanon

A hair-themed headcanon [x]

♠︎ Kristoph had shorter hair until his late teens, and only committed to growing it out when he started university. His hairstyle used to be more Sorin-Sprocket-y when it was short.

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hc + 🚶‍♂️ for a habit-themed headcanon

A habit-themed headcanon [x]

♠︎ Kristoph used to chew his fingernails, and badly. Both hands, all the way to the quick, bloody hangnails, torn cuticles, the works. His hands looked awful for most of his childhood and adolescence, and he was horribly self-conscious about them, often finding excuses to avoid showing his hands or just outright hiding them behind his back.

♠︎ He would go through better and worse phases, but he didn't finally succeed in curing himself of the habit for good until he started regularly painting his nails.