#tiny canons

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((When I'm bored I come up with little character canons:

Eskaye's ears twitch a bit when he hears something or when something surprises him.

If he were ever released in the actual game, his first skin would be called "Good Sir Eskaye." It would give him a suit of armor like Arthur from Ghouls n Ghosts, and replace his pickaxe with a small lance.

His next skin would be called "Reaper Eskaye," dressing him like an adorably un-scary grim reaper.

Eskaye has a seemingly small appetite. This is because he allows himself two "cheat days" a week, where he absolutely pigs out on anything he can get his hands on.

He's naturally cute, but doesn't know it.

There are not very many things that he's completely afraid of, but the Blood Brothers (Darius and Draven) come awfully close.

Many male yordles have some sort of patterning on their face, but Eskaye's patterning is on his tail, which has hints of white, black, and cherrywood red.

Eskaye's crush on Tristana developed because he greatly admires her spirit and her commitment to Bandle City and the Megling Gunners. Also, he will never willingly admit the crush to anyone, despite it being laughably obvious. (And I wish there was an independent Tris RP blog around here, because those interactions would be funny. ^_^ )

He wants to be a jungler because he likes helping people, and he wants to help his entire team during a match. (I made him a jungler because I thought it was about damn time we had a dedicated yordle jungler.)

He plays guitar semi-proficiently, but he doesn't like performing. He sits in his room and sings to himself when he's feeling down.

He likes cuddles, but doesn't get them a lot.))

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Tiny canons: Details I didn't reveal

Here's some stuff about my trolls I was planning on developing/revealing later. :)

The closest thing Dallan has to a theme song is this: "Poltergeist Mix" by Binster. (It helps if you ignore the name and think about tech, not ghosts. ^_^ )

The villainous, "Merchant of War" version of adult Dallan has "Right Behind You" as his theme song.

Dallan grows up to be fairly tall, and he ends up working directly under the empress for better or worse. 

He also ends up being very proficient at pailing. I told you he was a quick study, didn't I?

Dallan's lusus originally selected him because he thought he'd be easy to make money off of, but he ended up legitimately caring for him. His overprotectiveness comes from the fact that he knows Dallan's ideas are a goldmine.

In canon, Dallan is looking into creating soulbots/soul jars. A storyline was being planned in which he goes around to all of your ghost trolls asking if they'd like one.

The reason Dallan is okay with killing over a long distance is because he can mentally tell himself that it wasn't his fault, but the mine/bullet/bomb's. By his logic he's only killed twice in his life. His current body count is actually more like 87.

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The closest thing Sissel has to a theme song is this: "The Prettiest Remix" by Jim Guthrie. It starts off a bit creepy but then...

Sissel and Yeddes end up in a chessmaster-style kismesitude.

In the future, Sissel plays a key part in a small revolution by being the only medic on either side and providing aid to the rebellion side when the establishment side had none. Among certain groups, "Didn't kill the medic" becomes slang for "Made a small mistake that ruined everything."

Sissel currently reads romance novels for two reasons. One, she's fairly lonely and two, most of the stuff she reads is pretty heavy material, and reading an awfully-written book gives her mind a much-needed break.

Sissel can perform minor operations without much pain to the patient now, but she doesn't advertise this publicly because she often gets rude, disrespectful trolls as patients, and she likes to make them as uncomfortable as possible on the table, which she couldn't do if she'd advertised as painless. She feels like it's the only way she can strike back at some trolls without getting in trouble.

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The closest thing Yeddes has to a theme song is this: "V (For Extreme)" by Taka. Full of vigor, with classical elements.

If you asked Yeddes, he would tell you that he murdered his lusus. This is misleading. When he was about three sweeps, his lusus (an extremely strict and demanding black dragonfish) was speared seven times by a fishing party, directly in front of his eyes. She screamed at him for help, but when he tried to pull her free, the tearing-out of the spears killed her. He blames himself for this, and the image of the corpse is burned into his mind. It's the first nightmare he has when he sleeps without sopor.

The reason he's so strict to lowbloods is because after hearing what happened, a number of seven-sweep-old highbloods he'd never even met organized a search party to avenge his lusus, claiming it was their "duty to a fellow and a friend." But since his lusus had frequently threatened and bullied his lowblood friends, they didn't care too much, and some were actually relieved. Yeddes saw this as a massive betrayal and developed the idea that lowbloods are inherently honorless and thus must be kept working menial jobs where they can't let anyone down.

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Tiny canons: Favorite musical characters

I dunno why I like doing these so much. Anyway...

Dallan:

Little Red, from Into the Woods. She's funny, resourceful, and the scene where she pulls a weapon on someone trying to sneak up on her reminds him of a certain someone.

(Note: This was the only halfway decent picture of Danielle Ferland's Little Red that I could fine. I was specifically looking for her because she's awesome.)

Sissel:

Freddy Eynsford-Hill, from My Fair Lady. Outgoing, kind, dedicated, and given the above qualities, probably much smarter and more ambitious than given credit for.

(Note: The above is Sissel's opinion, not the mun's. The mun thinks Freddy is a dolt.)

Yeddes:

Inspector Javert, from Les Miserables. A clean-cut, respectable man who commits to his job and doesn't take bullshit excuses from anyone– including himself. Shame about the ending, though.

(Note: DO NOT FORGET MY NAME)

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Tiny canons: Bloodswaps

[[ muffled bandwagon noises in the distance ]]

Lowblood Dallan would act exactly the same as he does now. Highblood Dallan would be benevolent as hell, offering large discounts on his useful gadgets when selling to the poor or needy. He'd cover this loss by marking up the prices for his fellow seadwellers. He gets away with this because the two groups don't talk much.

Highblood Sissel would have access to more tools and resources, and thus would be a bit farther along in her studies. She'd probably be able to attend some sort of good medical school or some such. However, she wouldn't have her psionics, so she'd end up having to work even harder to get where she wants to be.

Lowblood Yeddes works as part of a small vaudeville-style dance act, performing various routines and shows for highbloods. He still respects the caste, and actively looks for ways to support the empire as best he can. The Empress terrifies him.

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Tiny canons: Lusus care

Dallan's lusus is really well-meaning, but has zero idea how to actually raise a kid. He's managed to project his extreme paranoia and relative stinginess onto his young charge

Sissel's lusus is a good caretaker, but a bit of a party mom. Once Sissel was old enough to take care of herself, she started going out more and more. She always brings home something she thinks Sissel will like (like an animal carcass to cut on or some sort of dinner) to make up for the absence.

Yeddes' lusus was killed by a fishing expedition. She took down three of their boats before a certain event happened that killed her.

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Tiny canons: Troll of Legends

…because I have been playing way too much League of Legends lately.

Dallan's favorite champions are Tristana, Heimerdinger, and Kennen (He likes Yordles.) He's the kind of player who won't say a word the entire game, but will ping everything and get all the kills. He prefers Top Lane and ADC.

Sissel's favorite champions are Irelia, Soraka, and Akali. She's easily the best of the three, but when angered she's a bit toxic, spamming chat with graphic descriptions of surgical procedures in an effort to shut haters up. She likes Top Lane.

Yeddes' favorite champions would be Garen, Warwick, and Kayle, but he doesn't play. If he did, he'd never get mad because after all, it's just a game. (He saves his anger for pretty much anything else, you see.) He'd like Jungling.

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Nightmares, for the headcanon meme thing. :)

Yeddes has a recurring nightmare of being harpooned multiple times while swimming in deep waters, but being alive through the whole thing. This is related to the death of his lusus.

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Natural and Pretense. For any of em

Natural: Sissel once tried to alter her diet to only include all-natural, non-processed foods, for no reason other than seeing if she could. She decided to try it for exactly two weeks with no further changes to exercise routine or anything else. At exactly 12:01 on day 15, she opened a jumbo bag of chips and virtually inhaled them.

Pretense: When in his subjug disguise, Yeddes alters his movements to be jerky and uncoordinated, so no one will trace it back to him. He's gotten quite good at looking sloppy but being in control of himself. He was thinking of developing a fighting style based around "graceless grace," but he gave up when he realized that 1) he had no patience for it and 2) he wouldn't get any credit for it.