Ok you KNOW I wanna know how Caleb sleeps ROFL. Hell, throw in Kaidan, too, for good measure.
hehehe I knew you would ask for them! I think for now I’ll focus during the games (I’m still trying to sort them out post-War).
Do they go to bed early or stay up late?
Depending on how you view time in space, Caleb is a late night owl, especially during the war. The whole ‘one last check’ over assets, people, etc., is a thing with him. Kaidan does the best he can, especially once they are involved with the other, to get him to sleep whenever he can, even if it does end up ‘during the day’ instead of at night. His theory is, it’s difficult to make the tough choices if your heads all muzzy from lack of sleep.
When they say they’re “going to bed” do they actually mean they’re going to sleep or do they mean they’re going to read/play on their phone/etc in bed for a while?
For Caleb, that depends on a couple of things. 1) Were there any ground missions that day, and if so how did they turn out (you can bet after Thessia going to sleep was a real challenge!), 2) If no ground missions or it was a pretty good day, he might pull out a book to read, or possibly snuggle up to Kaidan if he’s reading (even if it’s Spectre reports). Kaidan, of course, figures this out and isn’t above manipulating the situation when necessary if it means Caleb will get more sleep.
What do they wear when they sleep? (if anything at all)
Oh, Caleb is a boxer/briefs kind of guy. Wears an N7 tshirt as well. Just enough to take the ‘chill’ off when sleeping in the cabin aboard the Normandy. (EDI tends to leave things just a little too cool, in his opinion) Plus, having Kaidan next to him is like having five electric blankets over him! Kaidan does the same.
Do they watch/listen to anything to help them fall asleep?
Caleb’s always been fond of listening to music to fall asleep, especially some of the older, more traditional songs from Ireland, but others as well. Kaidan prefers something slower, softer to help him sleep, especially if he’s been dealing with one of his migraines.
Do they sleep with a night light on or prefer total darkness?
Caleb: Is there a way to turn off the fish tank?
What position do they sleep in?
Generally speaking, it depends on their mood when they head to bed. Caleb, if he’s alone, usually lies face down, sprawled diagonally across the bed. (habit from his youth when he grew far too fast for his bed as a teen and it was the only way he’d fit without his feet hanging over the edge). When they’re together? Still depends on mood. If he’s in a pretty good one, Caleb likes wrapping himself around Kaidan, holding him close - generally lying on their sides, but he’s not opposed to lying on his back with Kaidan lying across him. Other times, especially if he’s had a ‘bad day,’ he finds it more reassuring (and maybe easier to sleep?) if Kaidan is wrapped around him. Once they are involved, Kaidan doesn’t really care just so long as they are together.
Do they cuddle/snuggle with anything while they sleep?
Pillows, each other. If Caleb is sleeping while Kaidan is on duty, he might sometimes lie on Kaidan’s ‘side’ of the bed or hug his pillow close until he’s off duty.
Do they have insomnia or do they fall asleep easily?
There are times when Caleb has difficulty sleeping. The first few weeks after being revived on Lazarus Station, during his incarceration, after Mars up until he gets the first message from Kaidan that he’s going to be alright, after Thessia, etc.
How many hours of sleep do they get?
That depends on any given day and who has which shifts. Some days it’s a run of four to six hours straight; other days it’s whenever and wherever they can grab naps just to get through.
Are they a heavy sleeper or a light sleeper?
Caleb is very much a light sleeper. The slightest sound, a change in temperature, a hand on his shoulder etc. can bring him to a fully wakeful state in a heartbeat. He wishes he could sleep more deeply, but it’s never happened. If there’s a downside to sleeping with Kaidan, especially early on in their relationship, this is it. Still, he doesn’t necessarily mind it and has been known to just lie quietly and hold him, even if he can’t get back to sleep.
I figure this is a good time to highlight Serafina in multiple worlds - Dragon Age, Mass Effect and the World of Darkness (Vampire).
Tagging anyone interested in sharing. Please tag me back so I can see!
Rules:
Bold - applies Italics - somewhat applies Simple - very rarely applies Crossed out - doesn’t apply
Character: Serafina MacKinnon
Fandom: Dragon Age
Class: Rogue/Bard
fight honorably / fight dirty / prefer close-quarters / prefer range / chat during / go silent / low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance / attack in bursts / attack steadily / go for the kill / aim to disarm / fight defensively / bait an opponent’s first strike / strike first / provoked easily / provoke their opponent / tease / get visibly frustrated / shout while attacking / use strategy / focus on their battle / experience conflicting thoughts during battle / rush in recklessly / try to read their opponent before fighting / fight wildly / fight calmly, apathetically / fight with anger / fight with excitement / fight because they have to / fight because they want to / fight without regard to wounds / run away when wounded / hide wounds / take a blow to protect another / prefer a blade / prefer a gun (doesen’t apply / prefer a bow / prefer a shield / prefer a spear / prefer a personalized weapon / prefer magic or spells / prefer brawling / their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional / transform for battle / fight as they appear / rely on strength / rely on speed / use everything they have / hide their full potential / exhaust quickly/ high stamina / doubt their strength / proceed with caution / behave arrogantly / brag after landing a hit / belittle their abilities / use psychological tactics / use brute strength / avoid civilians / strike down civilians / damage surroundings / avoid damaging surroundings / signature fighting style / making it up as they go / mastered skillset / learning their skillset / fancy footwork / sloppy footwork / messy fighter / elegant fighter / accept defeat / refuse defeat / beg for mercy / compliment their opponent / insult their opponent / use unnecessary movements / move efficiently / barely move / prefer to dodge / prefer to block / defend their blindside / has no blindside / use all available advantages / strictly use one main method / play around / hold back / fight ruthlessly / show mercy / wait for opponent to be ready / strike when opponent isn’t ready / fear death / fear pain / fear killing / has PTSD / avoid fighting/ has lost a fight / has won a fight / has killed / refuses to kill / want to die standing / would succumb slowly
As an Orlesian-trained bard, Serafina prefers words as her weapons, but she was raised as a dual wielding rogue and is not afraid to use her blades when necessary. Whenever possible she relies on the shadows as her ally. Apart from that, if it’s necessary, she will use a good Warrior as a shield. :P
Character: Serafina Shepard
Fandom: Mass Effect
Class: Infiltrator
fight honorably / fight dirty / prefer close-quarters / prefer range / chat during / go silent / low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance / attack in bursts / attack steadily / go for the kill / aim to disarm / fight defensively / bait an opponent’s first strike / strike first / provoked easily / provoke their opponent / tease / get visibly frustrated / shout while attacking / use strategy / focus on their battle / experience conflicting thoughts during battle / rush in recklessly / try to read their opponent before fighting / fight ldly / fight calmly, apathetically / fight with anger / fight with excitement / fight because they have to / fight because they want to / fight without regard to wounds / run away when wounded / hide wounds / take a blow to protect another / prefer a blade / prefer a gun (doesen’t apply / prefer a bow / prefer a shield / prefer a spear / prefer a personalized weapon / prefer magic or spells / prefer brawling / their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional / transform for battle / fight as they appear / rely on strength / rely on speed / use everything they have / hide their full potential / exhaust quickly/ high stamina / doubt their strength / proceed with caution / behave arrogantly / brag after landing a hit / belittle their abilities / use psychological tactics / use brute strength / avoid civilians / strike down civilians / damage surroundings / avoid damaging surroundings / signature fighting style / making it up as they go / mastered skillset / learning their skillset / fancy footwork / sloppy footwork / messy fighter / elegant fighter / accept defeat / refuse defeat / beg for mercy / compliment their opponent / insult their opponent / use unnecessary movements / move efficiently / barely move / prefer to dodge / prefer to block / defend their blindside / has no blindside / use all available advantages / strictly use one main method / play around / hold back / fight ruthlessly / show mercy / wait for opponent to be ready / strike when opponent isn’t ready / fear death / fear pain / fear killing / has PTSD / avoid fighting/ has lost a fight / has won a fight / has killed / refuses to kill / want to die standing / would succumb slowly
Serafina Shepard is sniper trained, prefers ranged fighting and picking off her targets. Her choice of weapon is in this order: sniper rifle (preferably the Widow of some form), pistol, SMG. She can fight in close range, as all N7s are trained as such, as well as hand to hand combat but overall prefers sniping. When in battle, especially in ME2/3, she and Garrus have ‘headshot competitions’ ala Legolas and Gimli in LoTR.
Character: Serafina MacKinnon
Fandom: World of Darkness: Vampire the Masquerade
Class/Clan: Salubri
fight honorably / fight dirty / prefer close-quarters / prefer range / chat during / go silent / low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance / attack in bursts / attack steadily / go for the kill / aim to disarm / fight defensively / bait an opponent’s first strike / strike first / provoked easily / provoke their opponent / tease / get visibly frustrated / shout while attacking / use strategy / focus on their battle / experience conflicting thoughts during battle / rush in recklessly / try to read their opponent before fighting / fight ldly / fight calmly, apathetically / fight with anger / fight with excitement / fight because they have to / fight because they want to / fight without regard to wounds / run away when wounded / hide wounds / take a blow to protect another / prefer a blade / prefer a gun (doesen’t apply / prefer a bow / prefer a shield / prefer a spear / prefer a personalized weapon / prefer magic or spells (Disciplines)/ prefer brawling / their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional / transform for battle / fight as they appear / rely on strength / rely on speed / use everything they have / hide their full potential / exhaust quickly/ high stamina / doubt their strength / proceed with caution / behave arrogantly / brag after landing a hit / belittle their abilities / use psychological tactics / use brute strength / avoid civilians / strike down civilians / damage surroundings / avoid damaging surroundings / signature fighting style / making it up as they go / mastered skillset / learning their skillset / fancy footwork / sloppy footwork / messy fighter / elegant fighter / accept defeat / refuse defeat / beg for mercy / compliment their opponent / insult their opponent / use unnecessary movements / move efficiently / barely move / prefer to dodge / prefer to block / defend their blindside / has no blindside / use all available advantages / strictly use one main method / play around / hold back / fight ruthlessly / show mercy / wait for opponent to be ready / strike when opponent isn’t ready / fear death / fear pain / fear killing / has PTSD / avoid fighting/ has lost a fight / has won a fight / has killed / refuses to kill / want to die standing / would succumb slowly
Serafina MacKinnon in the World of Darkness is a recently embraced Salubri. Up to this point, she was a professor of history at the University of Lunas and knows very little of actual fighting, though she is a fifth-degree black belt in karate. (Self defense needs are there, vampire or not!) Now that she has been embraced, she is learning how to use her new skills/disciplines.
3. what is their favorite thing(s) about their children? what do they love about their children the most?
Serafina absolutely loves her daughter’s at times fiery, but always independent spirit. It’s a bit of a challenge for her as a parent because she grew up as one of a pair. Where she and Sean were concerned, they were separate people (of course) but they were also a whole. Casey never had that; at times, her mother forgets (not that it often makes a big difference, but it’s just the way she views things, I guess? If that makes any sense?) [[She has children later with Alistair, but I’m not going to muddle this ask up with them. It’ll get far too long and very confusing! lol]]
Casey’s natural father loves her for the fact that she exists. She is almost five when he finds out about her, and ten or so when they actually meet for the first time. He finds it amusing that she is practically the spitting image of her mother, and has many similar characteristics (which he teases Serafina about as often as possible). By all outward appearances, she is her mother’s daughter - in looks, in behavior and in training ... but not in choice of weapon. For that, she takes after him, and it is, perhaps, the one thing he loves most about her; that Casey does indeed show some signs of him in her.
Alistair loves Casey for many reasons. She is bright, beautiful and quite intelligent. She adores her mother and holds no grudges for the early years they spent apart. She gets along famously with her younger siblings, too (though truthfully, she ends up leaving for training at Highever before any of them become too bothersome to their older sister!). But one of the biggest reasons he loves her is that she and he share something she doesn’t with her mother or father: both were born as bastard children. When he first found out about that, he swore to himself she would never have to deal with the same things he did while growing up. However, once she comes to Denerim with Serafina and they’re living in the palace, he realizes she is not affected by it as he was, and in the end, he learns a lot about how to deal with his past by being with her. (one of his most favorite things, too, is that she calls him ‘Papa’!)
🖊🖊🖊🖊+ Any character(s) of your choice for one or for all.
from this meme
Oh, goodness, who to choose, who to choose ...!
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse OCs
Brigit O’Halloran
Brigit is an RPG character who (I hope) will have some fanfiction one of these days! She is a werewolf in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse universe
During her ‘normal’ times, she is a professor of history and mythology/folklore at the University of Lunas (fictional city where they live)
She is originally from Ireland (don’t ask me where exactly: our Storyteller hasn’t revelead that to me just yet! lol)
For the first fourteen years of her life she lived at a Catholic orphanage. She and Sister Janet (named after one of the sisters from my high school when I was there) did NOT get along well at all
At age fourteen her blood uncle found out about her and took her home
She didn’t have her First Change until she was nineteen
She started out as a Fianna Galliard, but due to events in game, she is now a White Howler Ahroun
She has a grand klaive named Oathkeeper which has the spirit of a Short Snout Bear (affectionately nicknamed Snoots) in it
Between her and her mate, she now has ... ten children of varying ages (?I think I counted that right?)
Keiko Matsui
Keiko is another of my characters from Werewolf: the Apocalypse
She is Japanese-American from the west coast where she grew up learning karate from her father who operates a karate dojo. She is a 5th degree black belt.
Keiko is a Glass Walker Theurge
she has her own line of clothing/clothing company which she created at the age of sixteen. It’s called Pocketto and while it originally was intended to focus on women’s clothing with deceptively LARGE POCKETS (thus the name), it has since branched out
When she had her First Change (at the dinner table with the family that had her younger brothers teasing her as they were ushered out of the room), she was sent to her grandfather’s caern in Denver.
She eventually ends up in Lunas after her grandfather’s caern is overrun by the Wyrm
Keiko has two weaver spirits she works with constantly who are very steampunk in appearance
Her weapons of choice are a Glock and a .38 Special
Shannon TallBear
Shannon was born into the Northern Cheyenne tribe in Montana and is an Uktena Theurge
Her best friend is another Uktena (Ragabash) who she grew up with; his name is Buck Squatburr
She and Buck, whenever they’re together, can often be found watching Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons - they have ever since they were little
(Shannon’s character is a combination of two former students of mine from when I taught on the Crow Reservation in Montana)
Shannon’s mother was a Tribal Police Officer who died in the line of duty when Shannon was 11-12
After having her First Change, Shannon was taken to the local Uktena caern, but no one there ever taught her much of anything. Buck helped out by sneaking around and finding stuff out to tell her. Eventually, she and he both joined the caern in Lunas.
Other OCs
Hunter Donovan (from one of my original fics I’m working on)
Hunter is former US military and now a sheriff in Liberty Hills, Wyoming
He is a divorced father of two (Emma and Michael) and lives on the family ranch (of which he is head) just outside of Liberty Hills
Hunter is a local LH resident and attended school with both the woman who is his deputy (Jessica Finney) and one of the University Police lieutenants (David Bonner)
The family has a small cabin up in the mountains near the ranch which can only be reached by horseback and is often used by Hunter when he wants to get away from life for a while
Once he meets Dr. Romi Steele, new history professor at the local University, his life is never the same again
