dankmemes | 15 useless facts meme

1. Harlan's favorite movie is Alien, but it's closely followed by Titanic. Ripley, Rose, Darth Vader, and Uhura from Star Trek are his childhood heroes.

2. Speaking of Star Trek, that's his favorite/comfort show, except nowadays it's rare that he can make it through an entire episode without falling asleep.

3. Harlan did a few semesters of college but never graduated. He kept bouncing between majors, usually some form of music or math, but hated all of it because he's one of those students who is like "this project feels like busy work bc it's not immediately relevant to me so i'm not doing it." He regrets that now though because his dream job was to be a physicist at NASA.

4. His favorite food is pizza, though curry and anything involving chocolate is a close second. The best pizza algorithm is thin crust with pepperoni and jalapenos, and he treats this as indisputable fact.

5. His favorite color is hot pink because it's fun and cute.

6. Weird things he always has on his person: a black guitar pick (it's his focus which is a thing that helps him cast magic), a shitty pink BFF necklace he and his crew made at a carnival (yes he wears it a lot of the time but if not it's in his jacket pocket), and a variety of gag magical items that let him do stupid prank magic on people (his friends definitely love these things and don't try to wrestle them away from him ever).

7. He is an insanely lazy texter, as anyone who has encountered him on the network will know. He hates switching through keyboards when he types, so that's why he doesn't use punctuation that isn't a period and types out numbers and stuff. Despite all this, he vastly prefers text to audio/video because it's better for multitasking (in his opinion, anyway).

8. He loves kids. He super wants his own, but has (mostly) accepted that that is unlikely to ever happen. He thinks he would be a terrible parent and would feel guilty potentially passing along his laundry list of mental health issues.

9. Harlan has OCD and this primarily manifests in obsessive counting and organizing/cleaning. He also self harms as a coping mechanism and it's basically a compulsion at this point.

10. Snakes are his favorite animal and his least favorites are cows and other USELESS farm animals because they just stand around and chew on stuff all day and it's STUPID.

11. His real name is David Bolton, but he changed it when he was a teenager so that his mom couldn't track him down after she got out of prison. The foster family he was with at the time suggested it, so he used their last name and picked Harlan because he heard the name in an episode of Stargate and thought it made him sound like a film noir detective. Years later, he has regrets about how lame this is, but still thinks his name is cool at least.

12. His favorite games are Dark Souls and Skyrim but he sucks super bad at both of them. His go-to character name is Pizza.

13. He doesn't know who his biological father is and has zero interest in finding out. The story behind that is sad and this is a fun meme so!!!! MOVING ON.

14. He doodles a lot and is alright at it? Mostly just like random geometric designs, but sometimes he'll draw spaceships or architecture-type stuff.

15. At 5'7, he's pretty short for a guy, but he likes being tiny. It's easier to navigate crowds.

I love that his favorite color is pink and he has a pink BFF necklace, okay; that's adorable.

HAHA THANKS the necklace is definitely one of those like horrible shitty bead things that you'd like make out of a friendship bracelet kit or whatever. kyna also got him a pink guitar for his "birthday" so he has that now and it's beautiful he is in love.......

That's really cute omg and yes good more instruments!!!

On a more serious note, if their CR ever got to the point where it could happen they totally need to discuss names; Lance thought about changing his for a similar reason that Harlan did, but eventually decided not to.

AAA YES THEY DO!! harlan is pretty open about the name thing, at least? he's mentioned publicly on the network that his name used to be david and doesn't mind giving the cliffnotes for the reasons behind it. he and lance have enough cr that harlan would be willing to divulge more details if lance was open to hearing about it, too. hh trusts lance a weird amount considering they have only spoken a few times?????? lance just has one of those faces ig.

Yes good excellent; Lance does have one of those faces and it really helps with his job except when people think he's too young to drink or something. 8(

He's much more secretive about his own past for various reasons, but since a big one of those is that he's afraid people will judge him or think he's not fit to be a psychologist, but that's... A whole lot less likely with people who've been through something similar and so he's more willing to talk if someone shares first. So it's totally possible if there's ever a good reason for them to end up on the topic!

AW LOL POOR LANCE

oh man hh would totally share first so this sounds like the buddings of an awesome thread to me..... GONNA HAVE TO HIT LANCE UP SOON ABOUT STUFF AND THINGS and somehow segue into that ??? it's not too farfetched tho.