#the-hawkeyes

[thatsadorbsyo]

do they consider to ‘always have been’, or do they see the phases in their life before coming out as ‘back when i was [cis/straight/allo]’?

Mmh. I don’t think Lucas himself ever really thinks in terms of cis/trans, but moreso he thinks of it as “I used to be a girl when I was a kid, but as I came of age I decided to make myself into a man instead.” He typically avoids gendering himself when he talks about his childhood, but in a situation where he needed to, he’d refer to himself as female at the time; he doesn’t retroactively refer to himself as a male child. His concept of identity is layered so that like, the girl as a child is at the core, layered over by an adolescent boy, which is further layered over by an adult man.

He’s always been bisexual, though, and he knows that about himself.

[sexuality & gender diversity headcanons: open]

[pom-friend]

📙 What kind of subjects (of conversation, of discussion, in school or whatever) does your OC find interesting or engaging or that they can talk for hours about? What kind of stuff do they just find fun?

Baeyl likes to garden, and she has an interest in ceramics. She was brought up with traditional ceramic techniques that trace their origins back to Gelmorra, and horticulture is an interest that was instilled into her by a friend during troubling times. Bringing up either of these subjects is a good way to get her to talk. Hikari can talk for bells and bells on end about wildlife. Any wildlife. All wildlife. You can hear the confidence in her speech and her clarity of thought improve whenever she is talking to someone about some wild beast or another. She also loves to hear about fantastic stories and myths from different places.

Svanhilda is an avid lover of chocobos and is well versed in chocobo husbandry. Ask her about her bird, Gale, and she’ll talk about him with the same fondness as someone would talk about their own son. 

Qorchi has become very interested in her work as an antiquarian, and she has gotten very fascinated with the lengths counterfeiters will go to in order to replicate a relic for sales on the black market. She also holds an interest in fortunetelling and gambling, and finds the mechanics behind them to be interesting...

Spider loves knives. She collects them. She just thinks they’re neat. Ask her where she got any particular one, though, and there’s a good possibility that she will make up some wild story in response. Her skills also lie in cartography, and she could rant on for bells on end about the inaccuracy and deception of certain projection models compared to others, and her frustration with seeing some in common use over others.

[ser-rex]

♥ Do they understand their partners/person they are courting’s feelings without them having to say anything? ♥ How do they express their love to their partner?

(Ooo I got that first one twice!)

With their current partners that they’ve been with for years, Rex is fairly confident in their familiarity with their mate’s thought process- mostly because they try to go out of their way to learn what makes a person tick in the early stages of courtship as a foundational thing. (They spent a long time as a cub who in their tribe to avoid and who to trust- and likewise, practised honing their social adaptability skills as they grew up.)They use their powers for good, mostly- finding the point of the evening to gently suggest retiring when their lover is tired, what to say to cheer them up, when to give them space and let them vent- when it’s time to call it a day and order Stellazzio’s. -Rex’s love languages tend to be in gesture and physical touch on the day-to-day basis. They live a relatively cheap existence by virtue of taking their knightly duties quite seriously and not going out of their way to earn a monetary profit with it, so material gifts tend to be either things they’ve saved up to get, flowers with Significant Meanings TM, and most recently things they’ve managed to learn to craft or put together themselves. Most of all they hold dear a cultural tradition of giving gifts of food- the fresher the better, including hunted quarry and the bones, skulls, teeth or pelts of whatever prize they bring home. The bigger the beast, the more fervent and confident the message they intend to send- and for Rex at least, a whole boar, deer, or mylodon is reserved for someone they truly adore.

[bride-and-bride]

would your muse ever get married? does your muse usually take the lead in relationships?

Def... might. She kind of wants to, and of her current partners, one has expressed that they aren’t too interested in marriage but don’t mind if she does and the other is too dense to realize that she’s brought it up already?

BUT

But... she IS a Bride Daughter, officially... and her getting married isn’t entirely her choice. The clan comes first...

.....also, though she has intense Bottom Energy, Defiant DOES kind of set the pace of her relationships and has become a lot more proactive about it in recent years!

[roegadamnit]

How do the girls make their gil?

Koena started her own privateering business - specializing in transport, mostly of goods but sometimes of people if they’re looking for a less expensive option or aren’t too worried about creature comforts like their own cabin space for short trips. The business started small, but now there’s more than a few ships in the ‘fleet’, with trustworthy captains taking the bulk of the day to day assignments. It has allowed her and Rory time to travel for pleasure and exploration.

Honey rarely has a need for gil - whatever she can’t get herself via hunting or gathering, she can usually trade for in the nearby villages. On the rare occasion that she does need gil for something, she usually trades for that too - selling surplus goods that her clan makes but doesn’t necessarily need right at that moment. Items like cured furs, weapons made from wood and stone; all rather high quality and built to last.

When she’s not out taking combat work here and there as an excuse to go kick some badguy butt, Birch leans on the skills she picked up when she was younger and a member of the Weaver guild. She has created and continued her own brand of attire labeled Basic Birch; in spite of the name, the clothing she creates is anything but basic. Her designs are usually pleasing to the eye and could easily double as formal wear/formal armor but are crafted with combat in mind; most of the pieces have hidden features that allow for concealed weaponry, storage of potion phials, subtle pouches for smoke bombs and the like.

As her Auntie Midnight ( @witchinghourxiv ) will tell you, Lunar has a knack for the mechanical. With her own airship to get from point A to point B with, she’s able to not only take on odd jobs/merc work, she can also provide house calls for people with need for a machinist’s skillset. With gadgets and gizmos becoming more widespread, she rarely wants for paying work. If she wasn’t spending as much on ingredients/spices/other culinary things as she is, she’d probably be fairly weathly. As it stands, Lunar lands under the heading of ‘comfortable’.

[tiergan-vashir]

What is one area they could use improvement in during sex?

Knowing how to be gentle without being too gentle.

Most of Tiergan’s history with intimacy took place in a savage, hyper-aggressive environment that prized dominance. Rougher sex is what he grew up with, became accustomed to, and learned to enjoy.  However, Tiergan is keenly aware that some lovers absolutely require a softer, sweeter touch.

Unfortunately, being gentle isn’t something that comes naturally to him after over a decade of where he’s been.  Due to lack of experience in that regard, he tends to overthink things, constantly second-guess himself, and either winds up being a little too overly conscious of everything (which is sweet, but can be kind of a mood killer) or requires a lot of guidance from the other person on exactly what they want. (which can either be sexy or a mood-killer depending on the person.)

Other times he’ll start off extremely gentle, only to be consumed by the throes of the moment, lose himself in it, and then immediately panic when he snaps back to himself. (Though he’d halt instantaneously if was obvious the other person was not happy or wanted him to stop.)

A hilarious gif representation of this that @valde-draesia​ shared with me once is this: https://i.imgur.com/sQfJu2I.mp4

Sinday Meme

[roemom]

dark, milk, or white chocolate?

I’m not a big chocolate person (or sweets in general), but usually milk or dark. White is way too sweet for me in anything more than tiny little nibbles.

[meandering-mind]

Top five favorite desserts.

In no particular order: - Belgian waffle, especially with a topping of softice and a little bit of sweet strawberry jam. - Chocolate cake! Plain and simple or with extra chocolate chunks inside, I don’t mind, it’s great. Keep nuts out of the picture though. - Pancakes, which is not recognized as a breakfast around here. I prefer them simple w/ sugar on. - Strawberry-cake. It’s kind of like a cheesecake now that I think about it. - Italian ice-cream. To me, if it’s not made on genuine cream it’s not icecream and out of all of the variants out there I hecking love what the Italians did to it.