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15 useless facts meme

15 Useless Facts Meme

Share around 15 (or so) little-known, interesting or personal canon or headcanon facts about your character(s). Or both!

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1. Lance has no middle name, though he's thought about adding one just for the sake of making his initials look better on publications.

2. He has four degrees: one BA, one MA, and two PhDs.

3. In grad school, in order to help pay for his courses he used to teach psychology to used car salesmen.

4. He didn't hit his growth spurt until he was almost eighteen, and gained nearly a foot of height.

5. He's a talented pianist and singer.

6. Lance is incredibly competitive, and had to quit his university chess team because his obsession was harming his grades.

7. He really likes blueberries, muffins, and blueberry muffins. And Chinese food. But despite having preferences, he'll eat just about anything.

8. He's an extraordinarily bad cook who once got thrown out of a cooking class for being a fire hazard, but is apparently quite good at baking.

9. Lance tries not to kill insects, spiders, lobsters, or anything else. At Hadriel he can only justify killing the monsters and the Null in cases of self-defense.

10. He's broken about twenty bones in his life (so far.)

11. He used to run track in college.

12. He has no idea who his biological father is, and has never met his biological mother, and therefore he doesn't know much of anything about his ethnic background (although he has some guesses.)

13. Because he skipped several grades, he wasn't often around people his own age and therefore is not great at determining how old someone is by looking at them.

14. He's not a particularly fast reader, although that's because he prefers to take his time absorbing the information and so he usually doesn't have to read anything twice.

15. He's convinced he's bad at math mostly because he once got a B in a class.

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1. Aren isn't at all formally educated but she is fairly bright and it didn't take her too long to learn how to read.
2. Despite her talking about drinking and doing so in public, no one's seen her genuinely drunk and she never really sticks around when someone is that way.
3. No slouching, she has daggers on her back, plus as a dwarf she's small enough.
4. She's always suspicious, though puts on an amiable front in hopes of getting more information that way. If actions align with words, then over time she can come to trust them, but that never happens right away.
5. Aren is an enthusiastic eater of whatever she can get her hands on that isn't spoiled. This comes of living as a duster and never knowing where her next meal would come from, so she couldn't afford to be picky.
6. She's of the ??? sexual orientation, going with whatever feels right at the time and not bothering to give it more introspection than that.
7. She's a fan of all silly jokes, whether puns or vulgar humor. Pranks, not so much anymore, since that spiraled out of control more than once. And, well, once can't live in Dust Town and not develop some gallows humor.
8. Fight or flight? Flight, unless cornered. Running away to fight another day is always a sound strategy in her eyes.
9. Rules of engagement and fair fights are for idiots. Whatever she can do to win a fight, she'll take it.
10. She loves the surface and the lack of it being her native Orzammar, but weather is still a pretty weird concept to her.
11. Barkspawn's name was originally going to be Gherlen, after a casteless dwarf who became king. But Alistair brought up 'Barkspawn' and that ended that.
12. Her full titles are: Hero of Ferelden, Warden-Commander, Arlessa of Amaranthine, the Dark Wolf, Paragon, Champion of the Proving, Veteran of the Fifth Blight, Champion of Redcliffe.
13. In D&D terms, she started off as Chaotic Neutral. Now she's Chaotic Good...mostly.
14. As a dwarf, she doesn't dream, can't do magic, and is somewhat magic-resistant.
15. As a Grey Warden, she's infertile and has a lifespan that at best ends in 28.5 years. But hey, at least she can sense darkspawn?

1. Despite constantly being sent to the principal's office for disrupting, being rude, and not being able to concentrate, Richie consistently get's high As on all of his schoolwork

2. He was caulrophobic even before Pennywise, so Pennywise didn't even need to transform. His second fear is werewolves.

3. He loves going to the Aladdin theatre and when he's not seeing movies there he's at the arcade. He pretty much lives there if he's not with the Losers.

4. Richie wants to be a comedian, a radio DJ, or a ventriloquist when he grows up.

5. The reason he started getting bullied was because of how bad his eyesight is/how ridiculous the glasses look. Now it's because of his inability to shut up.

6. Speaking of his inability to shut up, 9 times out of 10 he knows he's insulting people but he can't physically stop his impulses or urges to say it

7. The Losers' have devised a way of telling Richie when he goes too far: they say 'beep beep, Richie.' This made Richie nearly pee his pants when Pennywise said it to him.

8. Despite constantly arguing with them and winding them up, he considers his best friends out of all the Losers to be Stan and Eddie.

9. He hates mowing lawns but he'll do it for arcade money.

10. Once, Richie went through a phase where he'd take any leaves or plants he found in the Barrens and try to smoke it to get him high.

1. An aspiring artist. Considered a genius in traditional Japanese-style art, and also enjoys painting contemporary, abstract art.

2. Is an orphan, but is able to support himself on his art scholarship in high school due to his talent.

3. ...Is also terrible with money and taking care of himself in general, though, so he's perpetually hungry and will skip meals or even go days without eating. Even in Hadriel, he has a bad habit of neglecting to eat, despite money being a non-issue.

4. Is sixteen, but so old-fashioned and out of touch that he talks in formal Japanese and didn't even know how to use image search engines, online shopping, or emojis until he was recently introduced to them.

5. Likes people-watching for his art, and will just start drawing people in public without their permission. Likewise, he'll talk to himself in public and see nothing weird about it. What is social awareness?

6. Can't read the mood for shit.

7. Thinks the naked body (of both men and women) is aesthetically appealing and has zero problem with nudity in general.

8. He's very touchy about being called weird or eccentric, and sensitive about his lack of knowledge regarding social conventions. He uses his art as a way to understand others better.

9. His friends joke that he's cursed and brings bad weather wherever he goes. A summer festival he attended was cancelled due to rain, and on a trip to Los Angeles, his flight was diverted to Hawaii due to storms.

10. His favourite subject in high school, besides art, is history. He's very intelligent and gets good grades in general, however.

11. Loves astronomy. The beauty of the night sky and the mysteries of space are very fascinating to him.

12. Has a Phantom Thief alter ego, codenamed Fox, due to his kitsune mask and tail. The tail wags if he gets excited. In Hadriel, he still tries to keep his secret identity hidden if he can help it, since he's a wanted fugitive back home, but Fox will still make appearances if he ever needs to fight and/or sneak around.

13. Originally wanted his codename to be Da Vinci, but the other Thieves vetoed it. :(

14. His Persona is Goemon, based on the Japanese folklore hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, Ishikawa Goemon.

15. The tallest of the Phantom Thieves, at 5'11".

1. Knows how to snowboard. His squad took a vacation at a mountain resort way back when, drank way too much, charmed and infuriated the staff in equal measure, and shockingly managed not to break any bones. Only one of them had ever gone snowboarding before.

2. Would enjoy mystery novels if he ever picked one up.

3. Played soccer and basketball in high school.

4. Unrelated to the above, absolutely hated high school. Bailed the moment he turned eighteen to sign up with the UNSC.

5. Foster kid. All he knows is that one of his parents was a member of the UNSC who was killed in a Covenant attack. He made up a story about his mom and dad going out in a blaze of glory when he was little, but has since abandoned it.

6. Despite eventually gaining the security clearance to look up his parents and their military records, he never did.

7. Has the following Sun Tzu quote tattooed on his back: "So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself".

8. Also has the word redemption tattooed on his chest.

9. Related to that, he was a true believer in the Insurrectionist cause for a time.

10. "Ephemera" isn't his birth name. It was given to him by his foster mother because, unbeknownst to Ephemera, his birth mother's record was so highly classified that the UNSC didn't want her name anywhere after her death.

11. He hasn't gone by Terrence since high school.

12. Had an ill advised fling with his flight instructor way back when. It ended badly.

13. His squad committed mutiny against their superior officers after a mission went bad. Ephemera is very surprised he wasn't immediately executed for that after he got arrested.

14. Takes ALL THE SUGAR in his coffee. Also loves sweet things in general.

15. Has no formal art training. He learned from Space YouTube.

1. Michael's middle name starts with O, which makes his initials very unfortunate. (Standing challenge: no one has been able to guess it so far, and I doubt they ever will.)

2. He didn't get a driver's license until he was 19.

3. Human garbage can; he will eat just about anything, even if he doesn't like it. Has been known to subsist solely on fritos for multiple days when he can't be bothered to go grocery shopping.

4. Along with his high tolerance for gross smells/sights, Michael has a high tolerance for spicy things. If he has food options, he'll usually go the spicier route.

5. He was not kidding about his entire family being doctors... kind of. His dad works at a private practice and his mom works in a hospital (they are actually doctors). All three of his older siblings are either somewhere in the medical field or have a doctorate in something else. But he's out of contact with all of them so who even cares.

6. It doesn't come up in my tags a lot, but Michael sometimes talks to the Visitor when he thinks he's alone. It... doesn't talk back.

7. When he says he got kicked out of med school, it's not because he flunked. His grades were actually quite good, he got expelled for stealing lab specimens. (No charges were pressed due to his father's influence.)

8. Got invited to a surprising number of parties in college, mostly because of his girlfriend at the time. He spent most of them hanging out with the hosts' pets and/ or quietly snooping around their house.

9. Outside of an autopsy suite he is actually pretty clumsy and drops things frequently.

10. Without his glasses, he's farsighted. He actually often wears contacts back in his own world, but needs the glasses for work.

11. His bachelor's degree is in biology.

12. Michael's anger management issues actually go back a long way. As a child, he once beat the shit out of a neighborhood kid for making a racist comment about his mom. He got into a lot of scuffles in his middle school years, mostly over dumb stuff.

13. Usually sleeps on his couch instead of in a bed.

14. Actually has a good amount of money saved up (back home of course) because he doesn't have a lot of hobbies, lives in a modest apartment, and spends very little outside of necessities.

15. And a meta one: in the original version of the story that would later become my graduate thesis, Michael Munroe was a minor character who was killed off in the third act. When I revamped the story, I needed someone to fill the role of the second antagonist (a role which has since changed yet again) so I decided, at random, to snag this character for it. I voicetested him in a PSL, had a load of fun, and the rest is history.

1. Having been mostly raised by his uncles even when his father was alive, Carlisle often doesn't know how to relate to stories where people were close to their parents.

2. The number four is an integral part of the iconography of his faith, and so he tends to do things in fours, or take anything that comes at him in fours as a sign.

3. He's extremely fastidious in general, but especially with his nails. He's very self-conscious about all the ink that gets under them.

4. At 6', Carlisle is considered tall for his world. To be fair, a lot of people are descended from Dwarves and he lives in a village near a tribe of diminutive animal people, so it's not hard to be considered taller than average.

5. He's poor with illusionary magic, and doesn't trust it in general, save for his enchanted cloak. He only trusts that because his uncle Benistad did the enchanting.

6. When he was younger, before he realized he could sense the undead, he had an entire conversation with an intelligent one who stumbled upon his garden. It'd go very differently these days, but it was pleasant at the time.

7. He loves stupid jokes and wordplay. Really, really loves them. His uncles were not fans.

8. In the region he comes from, the middle name is often given in honor of the mother's family. Because of reasons, his mother wasn't exactly accepted with open arms, and thus, Carlisle doesn't have a middle name. Don't ask him about this.

9. He's highly superstitious. For example, he doesn't wear white because of his condition, despite the color being all over the usual robes of the clergy in service of his goddess. Don't ask him about this, either.

10. His hometown was located near a tribe of Forest Folk, and he got to know them fairly well. Because of that, he's got a bit of a soft spot for the talking animal sorts of Hadriel.

11. He's never had a pet until Hadriel, and he's still convinced his pet nug is some kind of a hideous rabbit.

12. As of his time in Hadriel, he's a recovering alcoholic. He still slips up sometimes.

13. If he weren't a healer, he'd love to have become an alchemist. His hero is famed magician and alchemist Pendlebrook Brimstone. Unless you have time to spare, don't ask Carlisle about him, either.

14. Carlisle abstains from voting in all the gods' polls for religious reasons. He wouldn't be caught dead answering to anyone but his beloved goddess, okay.

15. The nature of his curse categorizes him as an undead of sorts, and so he 'reads' as an undead to those who can sense such things. He's mostly unaware of this (and it's probably for the best, given how he feels about undeads).

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7 & 14. Bring me the CR for these two, please. Carlisle loves dumb puns, and the Dwarves of his world are pretty different to hers, as they've found out a little already.

15. Oh hey, she and Carlisle can start a club for people who are definitely going to die before 30 because of what they are.

IS HIS MIDDLE NAME ORPHEUS

NOPE LOL

Oliver.

Man Michael we gotta stop having things in common like doctor parents and shit.

It's okay, Lance. You and Carlisle can commiserate on being middle-nameless bakers.

1. She has an older brother named Russ. He's four years older than her and is a disaster, but he Tries, and he Cares.

2. Brennan's birth name is Joy Keenan, and her brother's is Kyle. But--

3. --thanks to Crime on behalf of her parents, identities had to be changed. Brennan was 3 at the time, ao she doesn't remember not being Temperance.

4. She keeps a pet iguana in her office in the lab.

5. She has eaten tarantula more than once.

6. She had uncommon pets as a kid -- iirc she had a mouse or a rat, and... idk but it wasn't your standard pet. She wanted a pig but didn't get one.

7. After walking into a neighbor's house and finding said neighbor dead, young Brennan started faking her death in multiple ways at home. It scared the hell out of her parents and wound up sending her brother to the school psychologist. 🤦🏻‍♀️

8. She was bullied and picked on in school.

9. In the high school she graduated from, she was nicknamed Morticia because she used to cut up dead animala that the janitor would find her. Also he may have been her only friend in school, weeps.

10. Brennan is extremely competitive, omg. Absolutely terrible.

11. She loves puns. Make a pun around her, you'll see.

12. Favorite planet: Jupiter.

13. Favorite flower: daffodil.

14. One time in grad school she did a paper on stripper culture, and "what kind of scientist would I be if I didn't perform once myself? It was a burlesque tease. I used big fans."

15. There was this one time she was dating two men at once -- one for sex and one for conversation -- but her intelligent self didn't think to tell either of them that she believed monogamy ran contrary to human biology or whatever reasons she gave, so when they finally met and she oh so calmly introduced them to each other and they realized what was up, they both broke up with her, and she decided that okay fine maybe monogamy is okay.

1. His real first name, from his birth parents, is Raridan. It's about the only thing he was able to communicate to authorities when he was found wandering around at the edge of a forest.

2. Spent most of his childhood in foster homes where he picked up his middle (James) and last (Tucker) names. These weren't consistently his names, but the ones he liked best.

3. When he ran off at around 11, he started going by James Tucker, since that's not who anyone would be looking for, but it was easy for him to remember.

4. He actually has a twin brother he hasn't seen since he was a toddler. He doesn't remember him.

5. Learned how to steal as a survival skill, but quickly progressed to "just doing it because".

6. Similarly, his massive ego originally arose as a defense mechanism, but by now it's 100% real. Fake it till u make it.

7. As a teenager he performed in a sideshow, but not with his shapeshifting abilities. He was actually part of a danger act where the threw knives at people.

8. Tucker has eaten some truly embarrassing things, such as actual garbage, wild animals, and roadkill. When you're desperate, you're desperate. As a result, now that he's an adult with money, he spends most of it on eating healthy organic shit. That said, he still has a weakness for street foods, like greasy hotdogs and cuban sandwiches.

9. He has a pair of aviators he wears a lot, because his eyes are actually pretty sensitive (and they are cool, shut up). He can see in the dark.

10. In theory, being that he is a shapeshifter and not strictly a werewolf, Tucker is capable of taking more than one animal form. He doesn't know how to do this though.

11. The story about him talking down a dragon from eating his team is actually not a lie, even if he embellishes it sometimes.

12. Tucker is very street smart, but he's very book dumb. He quit school at the age of roughly 11 (AKA 5th grade). He makes up for some things with google and cultural osmosis, but there's a lot of knowledge he just doesn't have.

13. His driver's license, passport, GED, and other assorted documents are all forgeries with the James Tucker name. Under his original name, he's technically still a missing person.

14. The St. Christopher medal he wears is real silver (he's not allergic to it), and was a gift from a particularly religious foster mom. He's not religious himself, but he does put a lot of stock in luck, and he views the medal as a good luck charm.

15. He gets a meta one, too. For those of you that play/understand 5e, here are Tucker's D&D stats: level 12 rogue with the thief archetype (and all the class features that entails). He also has the luck feat. His stats are kind of min-maxed, with his DEX at 20, his CHA at 17, and his other attributes 14 and lower. Despite him being a rogue, INT is actually his lowest stat. His hp is a whopping 66, and his proficiencies are in acrobatics, deception, sleight of hand, and stealth.

1. Both his parents were doctors. His father began tutoring him in anatomy and biology before he was even seven years old.

2. Even though Catholicism (and Christianity in general) aren't A Thing in One Piece, Law's private school was run by nuns. They seem to have some kind of generic one-God religion but he was never a believer.

3. His full name, Trafalgar D Water Law, implies a ton of secrets. The "D" is a long-running secret in OP, but his parents also told him never to tell anyone that his real given name is Water-Law.

4. He hates bread, for no other reason than Rosinante hated bread. Weirdos. Beer reminds him of bread so he doesn't like it as much as rum and whiskey.

5. The dark circles under his eyes, which never go away, are an aftereffect of White Lead Disease. Fortunately, he overcame the stunted growth and the white patches of skin didn't leave any scars, but he's still got the dark circles.

6. Law has looked after himself since he was thirteen, but didn't form his pirate crew until he was sixteen. During those three years he hung around with two boys slightly older than him (Penguin and Shachi) and Bepo, a polar bear mink. They formed his core crew.

7. His ship, the Polar Tang, is a submarine. It actually has sophisticated medical equipment onboard, including heart monitors, respirators, etc.

8. The hearts on his clothing and tattoos are absolutely references to Rosinante, codename Corazon. As is "Heart Pirates." He's got deep issues.

9. He's had a fuzzy hat with leopard spots on it since he was a kid. He will never give it up, and if he loses it he will make an effort to get it back.

10. In his spare time Law collects commemorative coins.

11. He hides it but overexerting his right arm causes fatigue tremors and lingering pain. The reattachment was otherwise a complete success.

12. He likes to read and keeps copious notes on anything he's researching, particularly inter-species comparative physiology. He's studied Minks and fishmen and would really like to study giants and dwarves.

13. He sent the living, beating hearts of 100 pirates to Marine HQ to secure the position of warlord, so somewhere in his world there are a hundred people who live in constant fear that some admiral is going to crush their hearts and kill them at random.

14. After defeating Doflamingo, his warlord status was revoked (for not denouncing Luffy) and his bounty was reinstated at 500 million beli.

15. Let's end how we began with his parents: government troops shot them to death because they, like everyone in Flevance, had an incurable (but not contagious) disease. And then burned down the hospital with his sick sister inside.

NOPE not Oliver either! I would say they should talk about their doctor parents sometime but that would probably just lead to awkward discomfort.

I had to, it's my cat's name...

I know right? Let's avoid the deep hurting, they've got enough of that going on.

Clearly these two need to talk about school-age animal dissection. Best hobby.

1. Delmar served on the European front during World War II having been called up for the draft at the age of 32.

2. As a young man and as the eldest of three children Delmar worked in his father's repair shop to help the family

3. Delmar has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister.

4. Delmar's favorite foods are comfort foods: pies, pot roasts, pork chops, etc.

5. He naturally loves crosswords but he also worries about losing his memory and getting forgetful in his old age so he hopes his love of crosswords might help keep him sharp.

6. If he could go back and do his life over, Delmar wishes he could have been an actor, saying he wishes he could tell stories and "try and be someone else"

7. Delmar has lived alone ever since he returned from the war, but despite being alone he's always kept a house that is ready for company (that never comes). His dining table seats up to 6 at a squeeze, his sitting room has a couch and an armchair, and upstairs he keeps an impeccable guest bedroom.

8. Every year Delmar sends his siblings christmas cards, they always return polite but unaffectionate notes thanking him for his cards and reiterating that they don't feel it would be appropriate for him to meet his nieces and nephews who may or may not even know he exists.

9. Delmar keeps a statue of Michelangelo's David on top of his television

10. Delmar's greatest comfort is his favorite soap opera which originally starred James, his unrequited love, before James got fired for undisclosed reasons. In solidarity with James, Delmar claims he's going to stop watching, but can't bring himself to.

11. Delmar's favorite color is yellow and frequently appears in his wardrobe and his decorating

12. Every morning Delmar walks the same stretch of Rockaway beach carrying a copy of his Modern Drama book under his arm, occasionally reading odd passages from it as he walks. He repeats this at sunset.

13. Every year on his birthday, as he has no one to celebrate with, Delmar treats himself to a show downtown or to a movie.

14. Delmar's favorite movies are Meet Me in St. Louis, White Christmas, and Gone with the Wind but he has a soft spot for To Kill a Mockingbird because that Gregory Peck is so handsome and seems so very kind.

15. Delmar's first real crush was on a handsome italian bartender at the dance hall he used to go to with his then girlfriend. At the time Delmar had hoped his attractions to men were just a phase or something he could fix about himself and so he had a series of girlfriends, but he has since embraced that it is not a temporary part of his life and that he loves who he loves, even if that may mean he'll be very lonely for the rest of his life.

1. her middle name is Jane! And her entire name is a hereditary thing passed down from her maternal grandmother.

2. at 5'3", Kate is the shortest of all her friends from back home.

3. Kate prefers to wake up before sunrise whenever possible and tends to watch the sunrise from a rooftop as part of her morning routine.

4. Kate has two tattoos - a stylised elephant tattoo on the back of her neck, and a piece on her right thigh / hip which she adds to any time something meaningful happens in her life.

5. Kate has been dying her hair pink since she left school at 16. She feels ridiculous with her current blonde hair, thanks for being a traitor, Delight.

6. in keeping with her tattoo, Kate's favourite animal is the elephant and she owns a cute elephant mug from a previous Hopemas and has a childhood stuffed toy elephant here which turned up during a previous event.

7. despite having lived in Denmark for the better part of a decade, the only Danish she speaks is the basics of how to buy things and swear.

8. Kate can manage to be decent at just about any physical feat that isn't swimming.

9. when Kate was younger, she'd deliberately screw up laundry to make her brother, Marc, do it for her.

10. for a while, she had various piercings which she quickly realised were a bad idea when they were clawed out in a fight. (:

11. she has believed she was destined to die young for years like the rest of her family did, though in recent years she wonders about that.

12. though her apartment is actually cleaned and wiped down, Kate is awful at actually picking clothes and other things up and you'll probably find a pile of clothes chucked on a chair or random shelf if you visit.

13. she is a thoroughly meh cook who has no interest in learning. she appreciates food that tastes good but it's more like an unnecessary bonus. she's perfectly happy with it just providing decent nutrition.

14. always a little jelly of people with active or flashier powers than her own.

15. has a telepathic bond with her bestie back home, the inimitable Faith Carr. 😭

god bless temperance brennan

Boy, do these two need to talk about the fear of dying young someday hahahahahahahahahahaha why

tbh could have just left that at 'need to talk' BUT YEAH it's also a big reason she doesn't want children....that and knowing she'd be a terrible mother

carlisle bb ;; u needs a good family

Post this thread they're in, they have so got to have an actual talk, man. Katlisle just breaks my heart.

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15 useless facts meme

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Aren Brosca

Richie Tozier

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Trafalgar Law

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