Tuesaday DE: A little something

[bjornwilde]

How easily or well can your character express frustration or discontent with the actions of a loved one?

Wait, I have a better one. What do gifts mean to your character? Are the good will bought and exchanged? A simple gesture of affection? A power move? Something else?

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[thesecondjade]

Zuko: They're frequently obligations via nobility and rituals that require them, lacking sincerity whwen they're given to him, so he tries to not put too much stock in that sort of thing. Personal small gifts are great, but he's crap at getting them or giving them because he's still a fucked up person who deals with getting affection and positive attention with a ??? ???? ???? sort of manner.

Zenigata: Doesn't give, or get, at holiday seasons. Christmas in Japan is decidedly different than it is in the states. He does do oseibo, but since it's not a thing in France, it falls to the wayside (though and and Yata will probably swap something at the new year.) His birthday is Christmas Day and nobody's celebrated it with him in years. Lupin sends him gifts -- first as pranks and taunts, and segueing into actual meaningful gifts over the years, but he's the only one. Zenigata is going to try and gift something small and nice for Ami this year, but knows he's not getting anything in return and that's okay.

Lan Zhan: Intensely thoughtful gift giver. Getting something someone wants is a Love Language, okay, let him give you nice things. It's just how he rolls.

[skyhigh_seance]

Klaus will take all the gifts in the world, but odds are highly against them Meaning Anything to him except for very rare exceptions. Even if they're very much meant to. (They may secretly mean something to him but he'll never let on.) Sorry, too much trauma, maybe if he could get the ghosts to take a hike for a while and get some serious therapy that wasn't treating him for the hallucinations he isn't having, this could change, but. Welp. Here we are. Klaus doesn't have much to give, but will casually, if he does. (Even if he secretly means a lot by it, he'll NEVER let on.)

Jon is so everlovingly awkward about gift giving and receiving. Just so helpless. Gift getting earns bafflement and confusion which on him looks rather cranky, and giving... he'll spend ages looking for the Perfect Thing and then try desperately to pass it off as casual while failing entirely. Martin getting Jon tea on the regular has knocked him entirely off-balance. Please send help. But not as a gift. Ack.

Wei Wuxian... aiee. Um. SO. He gives gifts on the regular, because he can, because it might make someone smile, because something might help, because he thought the thing was clever and neat and thought the other person would think it's clever and neat. He flirts with gifts (aka sometimes he lobs fruit at Lan Zhan to show his love. Small fruit. Gently. Ish. Gently-ish. Lan Zhan would catch them anyway, 'cause he's perfect like that). He also gives in big, ridiculous, life-altering gestures, because it's the Right Thing to Do, because He Owes A Debt, because He Loves His Shidi, because He Believed Everything Madam Yu Said. >.< Honey, sweetie, no. Wei Wuxian is also Quite Shit at receiving gifts. I mean, he will, and be thankful and appreciative, and then promptly decide the gift didn't come because someone might actually LIKE him or something, it was a duty, it was because the other person is just Generally Nice and Awesome like that, it was because the Circumstances Required A Gift. Just. Just. Ack.

Cecil Palmer is the only person on this list who is both good at giving gifts and good at receiving them, and adores both. How is the Welcome To Night Vale pup the MOST NORMAL??

[bjornwilde]

I don't think Ahsoka really gets gifts. The best examples I can think of from canon are the times Anakin has built/rebuilt sabers for her. She took both as him saying "your skills have grown" and an expression of friendship. Being raised in the "don't form attachments" Jedi Order, I don't think it would occur to her to give gifts. It would have to be something she learns. Once she gets it though, she'd find pretty good gifts and wouldn't wait for holidays or the like to offer them.

Sabine seems like she'd view gift-giving as a way of expressing feelings and relationships. She also seems okay with not always getting gifts, though she would notice if this happens often with someone she gives gifts to. I don't know if this means she would eventually stop giving gifts to someone she does not receive gifts from or not.

Wen Qing has a weird relationship with gifts. More often than not, they mean an exchange of power, either an attempt to create a debt or a show of subservience. Or an attempt or expression of romantic attachment/interest. I think the only person she is comfortable giving or receiving gifts from is Wen Ning or at least he would be the only person she wouldn't eye gifts with suspicion.