#mhazra

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oh no this ask prompt sounds really fun. Ok, here: Ariadne is like on cat away from crazy cat lady status.

Mhazra and Salvatore are my crazy cat guys. Mhazra just seems to accidentally attract them and doesn't have the heart to turn any away. Outside of his raptors, his usual companion is a nigh-indestructible and faithful ginger tom named Biscuit.

Salvatore is unabashed in his cat fanaticism. He has a lot, and treats them with the most affection that anyone in his life receives. He has a few hairless cats that about match him in ugliness, if not in temperament. 

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Temptations, for whoever!

The druid's eye narrows in confusion, her brow furrowing. "Temptations I have for Mhazra? How- I don't even know him that well. Just met him twice." 

With a shrug she returns to writing, though in all honesty right now it looks more like doodles than anything of import. "I don't know, maybe... hmm. Yeah, I'd probably be tempted to ask how he lost his eye. Which of course, could go one of two ways usually. Either it's a 'I don't want to talk about it' thing or it's bragging rights."

She falls silent for a little while before a small smile graces her lips. "Might ask him about that tattoo too. If there's any significance behind it. Where he got it, why. Though that might just tie in with the first part." 

Another shrug and it seems that's all she'll say.

(( She'd totally want to trace along the tattoo with her fingers, just sayin'. beastlyart ))

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coolhyena replied to your post “1, 7, and 12 for Mhazra”

Dude Mhazra's daughter and Harzbek's son could totally bond over their grumpy old dads.

Oh my god, can they please? She took "rebellious teenager" to a whole new level and had some serious anger issues, which didn't help. A few years of hanging around some mega-chill tauren friends took the wind out of her sails, and introduced her to druidism, so it's... better now. But she still spends most of her time rolling her eyes at him. 

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1, 7, and 12 for Mhazra

1. What is one thing others might find intolerable about them?

He can be self-righteous and overbearing, especially when it comes to his relationship with the spirits and elements. Hard to get an emotional read on. Lives in the past. He also drinks and smokes too much and probably smells like a raptor barn. 

7. What is the biggest mistake they’ve ever made?

Bargaining with the spirits to save his wife's life. 

(I am just now realizing how many of my characters have dead spouses? That's probably pretty common in Azeroth, though. It's not for man pain I swear, I swear.)

12. At least one thing that they tend to overreact to.

Everything his daughter says or does. He loves her fiercely, but he is the worst kind of overbearing, nosy, judgmental parent, and it's best for everyone that she's off on her own travels 90% of the time.  

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Purely for scientific reasons, what's Mhazra's personality like and what does his home situation look like? Does he have a home/hut/something?

He’s a bit grumpy and abrasive, but it’s more out of bluntness than general animosity. He still has other people’s best interests at heart. Slow to anger, easy to exasperate.

I lost track of his story when I stopped RPing in the Warcraft-verse around Cata, but he’s probably either retired back to a hut in the Echo Isles or is chilling and drinking with monks in Pandaria somewhere.

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"Good morning" from my troll Fah'kiri if you'd like?

"Wat'chu thinkin', old man?" Fah'kiri hummed, eyes narrowed to jeweled gold slits of self-satisfaction.

Mhazra propped himself up on one hand, and sighed a long, steady breath through both nostrils. His eye hooded, skin rolled comfortable over the feline assembly of bone and sinew. He wasn't ashamed, the emotion had been an existent but long-buried element of his whole self.

"I'm thinkin', mem'ki, that you a little young t'be playin' ketchy-chubby wit' a mon who could be ya grandfather."

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Aolani: Rollercoaster! Mhazra: Coconut!

Rollercoaster: Does your character like going to fairs or amusement parks? Would they rather ride the rides or sit and watch?

Aolani was raised in a traveling circus, where he had some very good but also very traumatic experiences, so he has mixed feelings about anything of the ilk. That said, he’s drawn to big crowds of people, so an amusement park would entice the hell out of him. He’d be more likely to slum around with the carnies and try to swindle people than participate in the whole tableau himself.

Coconut: What would be your character’s perfect vacation destination? What does that say about them? 

Mhazra was my go-to raiding character for a while, so my headcanon even when I wasn’t actively RP-ing him involved trotting him out to all these wild locations and being embroiled in all these strange conflicts. Since he spends most of his time afield, when he’s feeling low, he just goes home to the isles. He’s an old man, his idea of a vacation at this point is to be left alone for a few hours to nap on the beach.

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re: the headcanon thing, how about that drunk troll of yours that you posted about? what do they smell like when they're not boozing it up?

I'll just answer all of these for him, while I'm at it! The drunk character is Mhazra, my shaman.

What they smell like: ozone, alcohol, and leather

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): Usually sprawled out in a drunken heap

What music they enjoy: There isn't much musical reference in the Warcraft universe, but if I were to transport him into the modern-verse, he'd probably go for folk and trance.

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: Little to none. He spends a few minutes putting his eyepatch on, twisting his dreads into some kind of manageable knot, and assuring that he didn't roll into anything odorous in the middle of the night. Otherwise, he's a big, musky, leering heap of gross mantroll.

Their favorite thing to collect: In-game, the raptor pets and mounts. I've got nnnnalmost all of them, including the retired ZG raptor, but not the newer one. Rage. ICly, bones and beads. He's fond of fashioning them into necklaces and trinkets, most of which he gives away. Left or right-handed: Right.

Religion (if any): Vodouist. In Warcraft-verse, he remains extremely faithful to his patron spirits, in spite of or perhaps because of the hardships in his life, even when he's begged for their mercy and been denied. He has veves on his body devoted to Ogoun and Lukou/Loco in particular, including offering up his left eye to the latter in a bargain for his wife's life.

Favorite sport: Something violent, probably. In modernverse, maybe soccer, although I've seen some troll-canons about adopting the Mesoamerican ballcourt game to Warcraft verse, and I'm sure he'd be a fan of/vigorous participant in that.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Sampling the local food and beers.Favorite kind of weather: Summer rainstorms.

A weird/obscure fear they have: He's fairly superstitious, and can be talked into a certain measure of wariness about any subject. His only persistent fear is that his daughter will stop acknowledging him as a factor in her life at all.

The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: Any kind of guess your age/weight game. He has an uncanny knack for reading other people, even if he's a dick about actually interacting with them.