I am giving a gift to every OC here (or any OC that you want). What would be a good gift for them? How would they react? Would they accept it as is, or be suspicious of an ulterior motive?
Love your work, btw! You have such a way with words and you can feel the love and passion for your OCs come through every time.
(OOC: You're going to make me blush. I'm happy you're enjoying this dysfunctional little family of ocs I've got going here! :D
Okay, this is going to be a long list, so this'll be a bit more 'clipped' than most)
Ambrose: A set of very thick, in-depth books on very new medical advancements for him to consume over the course of maybe a week or two. He’d be pleasantly surprised to receive a gift; no likely suspicion. Well, not from him. Catherine is a whole other story…
Catherine: A beautiful, custom-bound set of Fyodor Dostoevsky's works; there would be a bit of suspicion of an ulterior motive, especially depending on who you might be, but so long as nothing seems rigged to harm or embarrass her, she'd put her suspicions aside and accept the present as is.
Beatrice: …to be honest? A parakeet- live and well, preferably a juvenile, not dead. She’s always wanted a pet, and is particularly charmed by songbirds, but she’s never been really felt ‘allowed’ to back with her parents, and then she moved in with her husband and had kids, which occupied her time, and now she just…doesn’t consciously realize she can get herself a pet anymore. Not on her own. A little parakeet would prove to be a very precious pet to her. Especially if the parakeet is especially affectionate.
She would be surprised, and a bit suspicious at first, but it wouldn’t take longer than a day for her to fall in love with her new tiny friend. She’s a lonelier woman than she’d ever like to admit.
Sinclair: If you're family, something homemade he likes to eat is always a safe bet, though otherwise he'd appreciate VIP tickets to a very nice, big, ethically sound aquarium for him, his wife and the kids. Some suspicion is inevitable, especially if he's your boss, but he's unlikely to expect anything malicious in terms of ulterior motives; just self-serving.
Jules: A discrete all-expenses-paid appointment to someone who can get her on estrogen and get her top and bottom surgery :3 That’s probably not what you mean, though, so a dress tailored to her body and a corset that makes her waist look smaller and makes her look like she has more feminine curves than she does would be greatly appreciated. She’d be worried over how you knew she’s a girl when she's still in the closet more than anything else, but…she'd appreciate the gift.
Landon: An old Polaroid camera. He'd be taking so many pictures with one of those things. Of everything. Not that he'd admit it to anyone aloud, but you'd be able to see it in how he never puts it down. Ever. A bit of suspicion, but nothing serious or concrete.
Arianna: Right now? Something to do with the stars. A telescope, maybe, or a planetarium, or one of those wooden puzzle sets that let you build your own little model of the solar system. Astronomy is kind of her current hyperfixation. No suspicion whatsoever.
Carter: Plushies. Preferably, a big, soft plushie far bigger than he is, all four years old and three and a half feet of him. He'd be too busy dragging it around to show his uncle, parents and siblings while yelling at the top of his lungs to ever suspect whoever might have given it to him.
Ian: A really nice selection of various alcohols and spirits, as well as a pack of really nice cigarettes, maybe a nice antique lighter to boot. He'd be immediately suspicious even if he doesn't show it. You won't even notice all the background checks and scrutinizing he'll do on you and your potential motives. Probably waits until those checks are done and he believes he has you all figured out before either tossing the gift out or sampling it.
Luna: A really nice day, all expenses paid, at a really, really nice trustworthy spa run by women and staffed by women- and only women. Massages, manicure, pedicure, facial, full body treatment, hair and scalp treatment, the works. It would be a very, very nice gift to let her sit back, relax and unwind.
Ian likes to take her to spa days like these when the stress gets bad for her, whether from work, family or something else. It's one of the unexpected pleasures she's found in being his wife.
Yes, she'd be extremely suspicious at your motives behind giving her such a nice gift. Full suspicion. All the suspicion.
Otto: Getting his father and uncle, hell, his entire family including him to go to therapy- Yeah, that's not going to happen. One of those 3D printers might be cool; something to print out and put together those intricate models with. Maybe one of those portable laser tag sets for Florence to kick his ass with. Or a wood burning kit. His father telling him he loves him and meaning it.
He's going to be somewhat suspicious, if he doesn't know you or considers you giving him such a gift out of character, but he's not really going to do much about it, you know?
Florence: Give her Nerf guns. All the Nerf guns. All the foam pellets. Her parents and older brother will hate you. The penthouse apartment will be chaos for the next week straight. She will be having too much fun to question anything beyond how to keep this from getting confiscated yet again.
Alouette: If you give her a Tamagotchi, she will love it forever, and spend the whole day sobbing her heart out whenever her little friend dies. Much reward, much consequences. Consequences you won't have to deal with though. Well, beyond her father hunting you down if the loss of her digital pet impacts her mental health too much…
No suspicion; none whatsoever! She's very pleased by her gift! :D.
Terry: A gift he'd really, really like, even though he'd never admit it, would be very nice recordings of various musicals and operas and theatre productions for him to watch. It'd take a while for him to touch it, but once he ends up actually grabbing his blanket and curling up on the sofa to use his television for once, he'll enjoy it a lot.
If you want to give him a gift that would improve his life, give him a kitten. He’d bond with the little thing long before he'd be able to convince himself to give it up and then be forced to actually fix his life for the kitten's own good, from dropping one of his jobs to actually going to a therapist to help figure out how to be a good cat dad, and promptly begin to unravel his tangled mess of mental issues from his horrible life so far, not to mention his neurodivergency.
Or you could give him the recordings. He won't think to suspect anything either anyway.
