48 72 & 96 for conall 👀
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48. How dramatic are they?
THIS IS HARD FOR ME TO DEFINE TBH... on one hand I want to say "he handles most things as best he can" but on the other hand... he tends to be a little. On the emotional/sensitive/dramatic side </3 for one thing he is Most Certainly an Extremely Jealous person, especially where his partners are concerned. He doesn't want to be possessive or weird about it, but he's deeply insecure and emotionally neglected, so he ends up being... A Handful sometimes, not always handling things well or maturely. On the whole, I think he is an exceptionally dramatic person - not necessarily in a catty or petty way, but in more of a "there's nothing, literally nothing, I won't do to keep this person around/keep their interest/make someone proud of me." Dramatic in a way that is very clearly driven by insecurity, fear, and desperation-fueled insanity.
72. How do they feel about love?
He has very complicated feelings about love. In a very basic sense, he doesn't really... know what it is?? That sounds so stupid but I'm not sure how else to put it. His mother was emotionally abusive and his father was absent, and his relationship with his cousin isn't exactly a model of healthy kinship. He never really had friends (without benefits/without transactional obligations) before he left the Arboretum, so it takes him a minute to even really figure out what Love (platonic or otherwise) is Supposed To or Should look like, as opposed to what he understands it to be like.
That said, he feels strongly about the concept that love is not a "one and done" thing, and that he can love his friends as strongly as he loves a partner. He would murder and steal and go to the ends of the earth for Raphael (once they get there), and he would do the same for Sonya, who is, has been, and always will be Just A Friend. He's deeply protective of the love he finds and establishes, and it would devastate him to lose a partner or a friend in equal measure.
There's a large part of Conall that feels like he doesn't deserve love like that; he wants it, badly, but he isn't sure what to do with a real, healthy love. Platonically, he feels like he has to prove he's still worthy of that love day to day. Romantically, he feels like he has to safeguard it and keep his partner's interest at all costs. It takes him a long time to unlearn the sort of neglect-and-abuse-carved mindset.
TL;DR: he feels strongly about love, but his feelings are complicated. At the end of the day, love of any kind is something he is starved for and unused to, so he gets a little Weird about receiving it.
96. What’s their sense of humour like? (Dad jokes, morbid humour, basic knock-knock jokes, stand up comedy, etc)
Initially extremely self-deprecating, which was learned from his mother. Once Conall is away from her, though, it starts to become his own thing, which is a sort of healthy mix of dirty jokes, bad puns, and friendly nagging. BY DIRTY JOKES I mean the extremely lame and eyeroll inducing kind, the "that's what he said" kind, the "buy me dinner first" kind. Conall is not a clever person, he isn't capable of coming up with witty retorts </3 but he Does enjoy making people absolutely exasperated with him. He's succeeded in making a joke if someone is telling him to shut up.
Another good example for friendly nagging is just like. Raphael for example has extremely long and thick hair, and once they're a bit Closer, Conall is prone to making "we have to keep you away from my home, every twig for a hundred miles will get stuck in your hair" type jokes. Not really malicious, not even really a Joke per se, but just a very light jest. A lot of times its reflective of his Closeness to that person - he likes to demonstrate that he Knows someone, he likes to prove they're Something, that they have a Relationship. More to prove it to himself than anything, but so it goes with him.
