#tsw!astrid

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H, I, J, K, L?

H - trusts their horoscope the most

Erm ... not a lot of my characters actually come from places where horoscopes are a thing, but I would probably go for TSW!Astrid. In her case, it’s only because she’s very, very, very old and she figures whatever her horoscope predicted is going to happen at some point. “Sometimes the stars are just a little delayed-gratification about the whole thing; that’s all!”

I - tends to idolise people they shouldn’t

That would probably be TOR!Srina. Not that she ‘idolises’ people overmuch ... mostly because she seldom if ever shows anything that might be recognised as ‘an emotion of any kind’ ... but she believes that aptitude can and should be set aside from morals so she’ll tend to say some complimentary things about some people who are objectively awful people just because they’re very damn good at what they do ... even if ‘what they do’ is awful.

J - tells the most dad jokes

TSW!Mychae, definitely. Mostly because she and her dorky-ass husband are in competition over who can tell the Daddest Dad Joke. (Chris is still winning on points.)

K - is the most skilled in the kitchen

That one goes entirely to the little nest of Jalliras, with TOR!Lira winning on points because she has that whole thing with more interesting ingredients in the GFFA and also, because miraluka and literally having no eyes and only seeing in the Force, managing culinary excellence while being functionally blind. I mean, the Force guides her, but she kind of had to figure out how the Force was telling her that her onions are properly caramelised.

L - lies the most

Eeegh, that’s hard. Weirdly? I’m going to go with TOR!Mychae on that one. I mean, she and Srina are almost neck and neck but Mych wins because she lies a lot about being ... well, okay, and cheerful, and stuff like that. (She got mistreated by the first person she declared her love to, and abandoned by the second, and while it was over an in-game decade ago and she’s as over it as you can be about that kind of thing, she’s just never ever going to be the same again and has no intention of giving her heart to anyone. Third time is not the charm.)

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★ Music!

* TSW!Astrid has had literal Ages to hone her singing voice and musical skills, and because she does truly love music, she can play just about any instrument you care to name and some that haven’t existed in a very long time, and composes a lot of music. She avoids any direct fame that might have her face overly in the public eye, though, so while she busks a lot, her only real claim to fame is inspiring others far more famous than herself. Which is why on the job history she keeps around for reference, one of the bullet points is ‘muse’. (Speculation is that she went by the name Euterpe once.)

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★★★★★

* TSW!Srina is honestly only with the Illuminati because she knows exactly what would happen if she left, and because the Phoenecians (where she suspects that she’d feel more at home) may or may not be working for people who want to end the world. (”Still, at least Team Purple has target acquisition beyond, ‘go there, see if something needs blowing up’…”)

* TSW!Astrid has the kind of Third Age tech that most people would kill to have a look at in her flat. A fair bit of it. …In all honesty, it’s the equivalent of a home entertainment centre, but she refuses to downgrade to current-gen technology unless she has no choice.

* Addie’s first job was very a much under-the-table graveyard shift at a convenience store. They kept a shotgun under the counter and when the Templar recruiter found Addie there, Addie’s response was to point the shotgun at the recruiter’s face. When the recruiter responded with a smile, a nod, compliments to her reflexes and “Yes, that’s about what we’re looking for; just different targets”, Addie was finally derailed enough to listen.

* Mychae eased through the whole ‘being beed’ thing fairly easily; she was used to channeling a lot of mental energy and this seemed to follow the same pattern, so she ended up channeling all of that anima power into her project at the time - a battle robot for the Robot Wars competitions her university’s robotics club ran. It ended up sentient and way too powerful, and Mychae blacked out most of Manhattan building it. That was what alerted Illuminati recruiters.

* TSW!Lira brought her pet lynx Socks to work one day to make friends with the Temple Hall cats. Surprisingly, it worked.

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★ (Little Smilers), ★ (children's chewable vitamins), ★★★ (any subject you want!)

* Mychae runs a Little Smiler Rescue Shelter. She rescues ones that aren’t too Filth-riddled, patches them up and gives them a new home in a scrapyard in Washington State near a blajini colony that was established nearby. This is partly to be nice to the poor Little Smilers and partly to drive her parents crazy, as her father runs an auto body shop near the scrapyard and she has now added happy Little Smilers going ‘bwoo’ to the blajini that keep turning up at the Qiin doorstep offering copies of their manifesto.

* In this country, children’s chewable vitamins actually come in gummy form, and there are some that are vitamin-balanced for adults … which is why Astrid always includes one in the bags of gummy sweets she sneaks into people’s houses. She figures a little more vitamin never hurt anyone, and who’d say no to a raspberry-pomegranate gummy sweet?

* Jallira’s animal affinity extends to Pokemon. She is essentially a walking Pokestop; wherever she goes, Pokemon just flock. Once she figured this out, she started trekking around the globe via Agartha, focusing largely on rural areas where people weren’t getting out enough to get decent Pokehunting done. She sets up with her snack wagon and a sign that reads “Pokemon free to good home” and charges a small fee for the snack wagon snacks, all proceeds going to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

* Addie knits … but not overly well. The first time she tried knitting protective runes into a scarf, they came out wonky and the whole thing ended up attracting rakshasa. She had to bludgeon twenty of the things to death before she finally just set the scarf on fire. She’s improved since then.

* Srina basically took over Sam Krieg’s lighthouse as a sniper’s nest for three days. Krieg was not impressed but she just pointed out that the lighthouse wasn’t his any more than it was hers and she’s better connected than he is. Closely followed by, “Your work is shit, by the way.” But she did leave him some canned goods before she packed up and left.

* Mychae is still Queen of the Mole-People.

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TSW!Astrid !!!!

Full Name: Currently going by Astrid Hawthorn. She’s got at least as many names as Lilith at this pointGender and Sexuality: Female, pansexualPronouns: She/herEthnicity/Species: ...it’s complicated. She just goes with ‘basically human-ish’Birthplace and Birthdate: ...that’s even MORE complicated, but she celebrates her birthday on 1st April and was born sometime around the start of the First Age.Guilty Pleasures: None. She feels no guilt about anything.Phobias: Nothing springs immediately to mind.What They Would Be Famous For: Singing, dancing, and if you replace ‘famous’ with ‘revered’, love goddess.What They Would Get Arrested For: Public nudity and related crimes.OC You Ship Them With: Not ‘ship’ exactly but I would really like to see her and Kari meet one day.OC Most Likely To Murder Them: OC? Can’t really think of an OC who’d want her dead. Beyond, y’know, dissecting her. Or maybe Reaver might try.Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Comedy / Romance.Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: The whole ‘kill your gays’ thing.Talents and/or Powers: Well, she’s either a bee or approximates one quite well, and excels at ward-breaking, sneaking into people’s houses and moving things around, usually leaving sweets.Why Someone Might Love Them: She’s cheerful, capricious, adventurous, sweetly outspoken and has some fairly interesting history behind her, most of it involving the ‘human-ish’ thing.Why Someone Might Hate Them: She has no concept of personal space and she tends to ask any question that comes to mind no matter how touchy the subject is.How They Change: Astrid is changeable as the seasons and has worn so many faces over the Ages that it’s a little hard to say. Why You Love Them:She’s dizzy and scatty and adventurous and sweet and tutting about how Lilith’s taste in clothes has gone downhill over the Ages is way too much fun.