For the OC Ask meme! Taloi and questions 3, 7, 13, 15, 22!
I should have mentioned this in the tags but these characters are my DnD characters that me and my buddy @supermanopause also made a Modern AU for. Soo I will be answering for both worlds.
3: Does your OC behave differently around different people, if so with whom and how? Canon: No Taloi does not behave particularly different with anyone really. He is very quiet and reserved and when they do actually decide to speak to put their two cents in they are rather blunt and rude even. His new Grippli companion named Keko is starting to warm up to them but Taloi has never had someone he has really liked/trusted before so they still act more or less the same since that is the only way he knows how to be.Au: The only people he really acts different around are his adoptive parents and brother(Nico nickname “Keko”). He is more affectionate to/for them and tries to be the perfect son and brother even though he absolutely does not have to. They are the only people that believed he could amount to anything and never got angry or frustrated with his outburts. They saw something in him and nurtured that and cared for him like they were his own. His mother helped him a lot with his PTSD, BPD, anxiety and depression with her background of having gone to college to be a psychologist before deciding to be a stay at home mom. Although she does go back to finish her degree so she can better help her new son.
7: Does your OC have any phobias?Both: No not really. Taloi has a hard time with emotions in general because he represses a LOT and has faced a lot of horrors in his life in both worlds. The only things that used to scare him were adults and figures of authority but that was for an extremely good reason.
13: What kind of situations does your OC avoid the most?Both: Affection. They don’t really like being touched or hugged or anything like that.Canon: They also do not like being out in the open really and prefer to stick to back roads or alleys or rooftops. One of their items allows him to basically blink/dimension door to places several times a day so it makes it easier. This item is mostly used in combat, though, so they can blink behind enemies for sneak attacks/flanking purposes.Au: The only exception to this is his family again and even then they always ask him if it is ok if they do his whole life.
15: Does your OC consider themselves a good person?Both: Absolutely notCanon: Taloi is actually Neutral Evil in dungeons and dragons. This is primarily because he is willing to kill, torture, steal, blackmail, etc anyone or anything to reach his final goal in life. He wants revenge upon his family for selling him into slavery to the Necromancers of Geb’s elite for cash and to try to avoid the prophecy about a child like him being born in their family. Au: In the AU Taloi was born in the Philippines and at a young age also sold into the human trafficking market. He was rescued from that when they were about 8 and brought to the US and put in foster care and ran in to some really shitty situations there as well. Being constantly told they were worthless, a piece of shit, would amount to nothing, a “troubled child,” etc etc Taloi wholeheartedly believe that he is no good. Specially since they had to steal sometimes to have food when the family he was currently with was particularly shitty. Nico’s family helps him slowly pull out of this thinking but it isn’t until their mid 30′s that they actually stop thinking they are a bad person. Still wouldn’t consider himself good, though.
22: How does your OC usually show affection? Are they openly romantic or more restricted with their affectionate emotions?Both: Taloi is actually aromantic and romantic repulsed.Canon: They do not show affection at all really. There are ways to know that Taloi trusts you by like eating food you made for him or drinks you prepped/bought given to him. Typically these are things he does himself seeing as the line of work he is in it would not be a far-fetched idea for his food to be poisoned. They are very paranoid after decades of just.. surviving and working as an assassin so.. Letting someone do that for him is a big thing. At first they would just eat your food that you’ve already taken a bite of, though, before they ever would allow anyone to give them something.Au: A simple hug is their go-to way of showing affection for on the fly. If Taloi gets you a shitty prank gift, though, for a holiday or birthday then you really know that you are on his good side. When he was a kid and friends with Keko(they met when he came over and started going to school) they didn’t have money to give anyone gifts so it would be a shitty/stolen crappy gift and so that Taloi wouldn’t feel bad about having only that to give Keko started doing the same. It soon became a tradition and a game to try to one-up each other in shitty gifts so if Taloi involves you with this tradition then you are a true friend of theirs.