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[muji]

Well, you guys certainly did what I told you to, re: inbox explosions. \o/

Today I thought we'd do "Five random things in your headcanon about your characters that haven't necessarily come to light in game as yet". Check out my example for Sallie below!

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[camwyn]

1. I've already laid this out in a few places, but- Adrian actually has a fairly straight spectrum of cussing. His baseline everyday speech is chock full of things you're not allowed to say on primetime television without paying a fine, but that's just reflexive, to him. He doesn't actually mean any of it, nine tenths of the time- he doesn't even think about it. The angrier or more impassioned he gets, the more he really means it, the less his cussing makes sense. He generally goes from normal everyday use of cuss words to a disjointed style of cursing similar to what you see in Questionable Content when he gets mad. Then he starts adding the foreign curse words when he gets madder. If he gets really angry, the foreign cuss words from several languages are used interchangeably and he'll shift from English to Dutch to Spanish to English to Quebecois and so on. Most of the time that's as far as he goes, but at the far end of the anger/language spectrum he stops talking at all, and then wraps completely around the cussing and comes out the other side. If he comes out quoting John Milton, everything around him is going to die very soon. If he comes out speaking very politely and calling someone 'friend', that specific person should consider moving to a more secure position immediately. For example, the Moon.

2. His mother had more of an influence on him than his father did, which is at least partly reflected in the fact that he cusses less around women and uses very few gender-based cuss words; it doesn't seem right nor fair to him and he's subconsciously convinced that if he ever does so, word of it will get back to his mother somehow and she'll drag him by the ear to work in the beehives with her again. This is also why he does not use foul language in written communication and almost never uses it in Trollian conversations. A record of that kind of thing should not exist just in case it ever winds up in the box that gets delivered to his parents when he's declared dead.

3. There are three things in the world he is afraid of, four if you count making his momma mad: flying, the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, and clowns. Everything else gets an annoyed look or an 'aw hell naw' or something of that nature.

4. A long time ago, he had a thread with the Absinthe Fairy in which he managed to catch what amounted to the Salmon of Wisdom; however, circumstances being what they were, the only wisdom he got out of the deal was all stuff to do with war rather than poetry or magic or wisdom in general. If a pose from him includes biting his thumb or chewing on his thumbnail, this is why. He's accessing that information.

5. His room at Milliways is almost completely filled with notebooks. Seriously, he's got his bunk and a patch on the floor about big enough for pushups and the rest of the space is notebooks. A fair number of them contain nothing but names, dates, and places- the names and dates and places all the dead Marines who visited him on his first Halloween in Bar were killed. The others are because he's all too aware that when people die, they take everything they know with them. When he has down time in his schedule, which isn't often, he grabs a notebook and a pen from the Bar, bites his thumb, and writes down absolutely everything the fish wisdom brings to mind. He's got a standing request with the Bar to turn over his room key to Alyx or Gordon if anything happens to him, so that the notebooks see some use.