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Facts/Headcanons/Questions Meme!
some facts and headcannons about Arya:
-Back when she was getting a lady's education, her favorite subject was math.
-As a really small kid, she was fascinated by swords and all that, but what really held her attention were positions of power: things like being a major knight or a High Septon. She wanted the freedom that those kinds of positions provided her. What she really wanted was to travel on her own accord, to be her own person and do whatever and as many things as she felt like. Swordplay happened to be one of those many things.
-She has really, really terrible handwriting.
-If she doesn't like you, Arya will go out of her way to piss you off, usually with snark or pranks. (If she really, really doesn't like you, you're on her kill list, but that's a whole separate issue.)
-Her revenge quest is less about revenge and more about finding some sense of control amid all the terrible things that basically happened to her at once. Again, it goes back to that idea of power -- she's trying really hard to maintain a grip on her own life, but she truly doesn't understand the terrible actions of those around her, and her kill list is a misguided attempt to make sense of all that and even properly grieve.
-Despite her threats, big talk and stabbing, she really, really hates killing people and has a pretty strong moral compass.
-Her favorite color is grayish-blue.
-Her two favorite people in the world were Jon, her brother, and Syrio, her fighting instructor. She wasn't super close to her parents, but most people in her station weren't, so she never really considered it unusual. She did hardcore resent the attention her sister got from them, though.
-She's now really embarrassed about that.
-If Arya were to play any instrument in a rock band, she'd play the drums. She has an overall excellent sense of rhythm.
-I've got a lot of headcannons about family stuff and psyche stuff, so if you're interested in those let me know and I can pull out some more for you!
-Back when she was getting a lady's education, her favorite subject was math.
-As a really small kid, she was fascinated by swords and all that, but what really held her attention were positions of power: things like being a major knight or a High Septon. She wanted the freedom that those kinds of positions provided her. What she really wanted was to travel on her own accord, to be her own person and do whatever and as many things as she felt like. Swordplay happened to be one of those many things.
-She has really, really terrible handwriting.
-If she doesn't like you, Arya will go out of her way to piss you off, usually with snark or pranks. (If she really, really doesn't like you, you're on her kill list, but that's a whole separate issue.)
-Her revenge quest is less about revenge and more about finding some sense of control amid all the terrible things that basically happened to her at once. Again, it goes back to that idea of power -- she's trying really hard to maintain a grip on her own life, but she truly doesn't understand the terrible actions of those around her, and her kill list is a misguided attempt to make sense of all that and even properly grieve.
-Despite her threats, big talk and stabbing, she really, really hates killing people and has a pretty strong moral compass.
-Her favorite color is grayish-blue.
-Her two favorite people in the world were Jon, her brother, and Syrio, her fighting instructor. She wasn't super close to her parents, but most people in her station weren't, so she never really considered it unusual. She did hardcore resent the attention her sister got from them, though.
-She's now really embarrassed about that.
-If Arya were to play any instrument in a rock band, she'd play the drums. She has an overall excellent sense of rhythm.
-I've got a lot of headcannons about family stuff and psyche stuff, so if you're interested in those let me know and I can pull out some more for you!
• Chris is nineteen, and a Capricon.
• He's from Los Angeles, California.
• He had just started his fourth semester of college before the events of Until Dawn and coming to Hadriel.
• He's an only child, and somewhat spoiled by his parents. He has a good relationship with them and was generally a good kid.
• He didn't believe in the supernatural at all before the events of UD.
• Chris tends to binge-watch television shows, especially on Discovery or the History Channel or the like. He may or may not have seen every episode of Pawn Stars.
• He's very clumsy, except when it comes to hand-eye coordination.
• He's 5'11" and has been ever since freshman year of high school, which helped avoid most potential bullying for being a complete nerd.
• He's never played any sports competitively or in school, though he did briefly try to learn to skateboard. It went about as well as could be expected.
• He tends to feel the cold a little more than other people, and so usually wears several layers.
• He never knows what to do with his hair and has tried several styles, most of which involve spiking his hair up. When it's down he feels that he looks like the only person to ever be rejected from a boy band for looking too douchey.
• Chris is a talented shot.
• He did a fair share of underage drinking when he was in his last year of high school and first year of college, but after being too drunk to help the night that two of his friends went missing he pretty much stopped entirely.
• He stammers, usually when he's unsure of what he's saying or caught off-guard. It doesn't seem to bother him at all around his friends, though he can be a little self-conscious about it with strangers especially if he's concerned about them taking him seriously.
• He's somewhere in between introverted and extroverted.
• Chris is very sensitive and empathetic, and isn't ashamed or embarrassed to show emotion or concern. He tries not to if he thinks it's going to worry someone, however.
• He's from Los Angeles, California.
• He had just started his fourth semester of college before the events of Until Dawn and coming to Hadriel.
• He's an only child, and somewhat spoiled by his parents. He has a good relationship with them and was generally a good kid.
• He didn't believe in the supernatural at all before the events of UD.
• Chris tends to binge-watch television shows, especially on Discovery or the History Channel or the like. He may or may not have seen every episode of Pawn Stars.
• He's very clumsy, except when it comes to hand-eye coordination.
• He's 5'11" and has been ever since freshman year of high school, which helped avoid most potential bullying for being a complete nerd.
• He's never played any sports competitively or in school, though he did briefly try to learn to skateboard. It went about as well as could be expected.
• He tends to feel the cold a little more than other people, and so usually wears several layers.
• He never knows what to do with his hair and has tried several styles, most of which involve spiking his hair up. When it's down he feels that he looks like the only person to ever be rejected from a boy band for looking too douchey.
• Chris is a talented shot.
• He did a fair share of underage drinking when he was in his last year of high school and first year of college, but after being too drunk to help the night that two of his friends went missing he pretty much stopped entirely.
• He stammers, usually when he's unsure of what he's saying or caught off-guard. It doesn't seem to bother him at all around his friends, though he can be a little self-conscious about it with strangers especially if he's concerned about them taking him seriously.
• He's somewhere in between introverted and extroverted.
• Chris is very sensitive and empathetic, and isn't ashamed or embarrassed to show emotion or concern. He tries not to if he thinks it's going to worry someone, however.
Edited 2016-02-13 03:55 (UTC)
Facts that are actually facts because hahaha OC:
→ Due to her cybernetic parts, she weighs over 300lbs.
→ Sleeps on the floor. She can sleep in beds, but they're not very comfortable for her, and if she does then she tends to sit upright with her back to the wall or something. Also she snores.
→ Having spent nearly a century without a sense of taste, and having that sense restored, she is a voracious eater. It's a gross sight to watch. So the sodas that she got from Hope? Yeah, she totally drank those without complaint, because what is soda even supposed to taste like this is totally normal whateverrr.
→ Also spent nearly a century as a soldier with different memories of different women, most who were unaware of being an organic-synthetic being. She does plays up the ignorant "I am a robot and I don't understand things" when she actually does understand things, because of those memories.
→ Has a messed up sense of humor, and her laugh is kind of weird, low, and creepy.
→ That said, she has a much more womanly voice than you'd expect from her. I may or may not "voice PB" Jena Malone for her. She sounds like that.
→ If she thinks you're not very good at defending yourself, she will totally go into Knight In Shining Armor Mode and be super overprotective like a hawk. If she thinks you're capable, she won't think twice about letting you slip into danger because she has faith that you'll survive so it's okay. :) Rey's faith is pretty dangerous. Seriously, she kicked her brother off a cliff because she was sure he would survive the fall. And he did! He did...
→ Yes she does have a brother. Well, "brother", since they share the same genetic donors. But she sees him as her brother so there you go. He was pretty much the healthiest thing in her life prior to her arrival in the game.
→ ...Okay I've tl;dr'd about this enough so hit me up with questions and I'll answer them!
Edited 2016-02-13 04:51 (UTC)
I've got some basic canon info bullet points here, but here's for some sillier things!
► Ronan has broken his fair share bones over the course of his childhood and notably has had several instances of boxer's fracture. I wonder why.
► He's an 'animals-over-people' type person and definitely used to have a folder on his laptop with a bunch of baby animal pictures in it.
► Chainsaw (his raven) is a representation of his 'truth', and while she's her own separate creature, she's also created from the vulnerable parts of him and serves as a tethering force to keep him true to himself.
► He loves shitty internet memes.
► He prefers to think of himself as a force of nature rather than a human being. Dehumanizing himself makes him happy because it removes his responsibility over his surroundings.
► On that note, he's 100% aware that he's an asshole and that it's difficult to be friends with him and on some level he appreciates his friends for putting up with his bullshit. He just doesn't really care enough to try to be nicer.
► He plays tennis and presumably owns tennis whites somewhere.
► Some of his farm cows were Highland cattle because THEY'RE FLUFFY and objectively the cutest cows in existence.
► He loves working on farms okay he's a farmboy at heart.
► He likes spicy food because he thinks it's badass. He's that loser who eats like 20 chili peppers on a dare.
► Jury is still out on whether or not his tattoo is sort of magical and shifts around a little or just a normal tattoo. I like to headcanon it as more of a scattered/sharper pattern like this, but with the coverage of this (which is actually an amazing fanart of him).
► If he were a dog, he'd be a doberman, if he were a cat he'd be an egyptian mau.
► In their friend group though, Ronan is the dog, Adam is the cat, Noah is the ferret, and Gansey is the exasperated owner. Their CR all makes instantly more sense when you think of it this way.
► He was fourteen in 2010. You know what that means.
Edited 2016-02-13 06:28 (UTC)
► Rhys' favorite color is bright, gaudy yellow, for obvious reasons.
► He's pretty used to working basically 24/7, I headcanon typically 60 hours a week, though sometimes he worked extra. The fact that he doesn't have a designated job (and hasn't since he left Hyperion) feels weird tbh.
► Before his fancy new haircut, he definitely had a mullet.
► He will absolutely screw someone over to get ahead... but he'll feel a little bad about it.
► FUN FACT: his housemate is Gren and together they have a total of two arms and two eyes.
► He's actually remarkably pretty okay under pressure once he knows that he has to deal with something on his own. Up until that point though, he's a shaking and crying mess and oh god please help him.
► Rhys is absolutely a 'out-loud peptalk in the mirror' kind of guy.
► He hates cats.
► Handsome Jack's A.I. was made during the first half of BL2, after the events of BL1 and after he tried to kill the BL2 vault hunters but obviously before the Control Core mission.
► 100% headcanon, but Rhys is from a poorer family on one of the Eden planets. He left them behind when he went to work for Hyperion and doesn't really think about them anymore.
► He's left handed
► He's awful at shooting in general. He's used Hyperion guns before (at company ranges or something) and the only reason he can hit anything is thanks to the accuracy stabilizers. Without those, he's kind of SOL.
• Adam has never been able to afford a computer, so he's always either borrowed one or used a free library computer. What this means is that, despite being an 18 year old boy, Adam has never viewed internet porn.
• He's reasonably coordinated and in decent shape, but he doesn't do sports. No time, not enough energy.
• Relatedly, Adam does not actually have hobbies - not for fun, anyway. His time at home was always taken up with work or school or other necessary things, so the only thing approaching a hobby he has is hanging out with his friends and helping Gansey's Glendower search.
• Before the whole 'taken from home and stuck in a jamjar' thing, Adam had never left the state of Virginia - he'd barely even left his hometown.
• Adam has never had a pet of his own, but he likes dogs.
• He can fall asleep basically anywhere if he tries or is really tired. He can also wake up in a second if he feels threatened.
• He's got a Southern-type accent - the author linked these videos as examples - but he covers it up 95% of the time and sounds like a rich kid instead. It slips out when he's upset or tired. He absolutely hates it. (If it ever slips in a tag, I'll make note of it, otherwise assume he sounds like any rich upperclass Virginian.)
• He has basic skills at cooking, cleaning, and minor household repairs. He's pretty self-sufficient.
• He is the car whisperer and can fix just about anything. Too bad there are no cars in Hadriel!
• He probably has the shakiest moral compass of all his friends, but he really admires good people like Gansey. He just knows he isn't one of them.
• Ronan is absolutely the asshole who will punch you in the face and walk away. Adam is the one who will find some more subtle way to utterly destroy your life. (Gansey is the one who will be horrified by it.)
- Cliff is a brand and shiny new 16 that can't drive because the Driver's Ed class was full at school and he's humanly incapable of asking someone to teach him.
- He's 5'9" and he's pretty much never going to get taller than that, which is weird because his wolf is freaking huge.
- He's an Animal Person, not a werewolf, which means he has a human and wolf body at the same time and can choose to switch between them at will.
- His name is Clifford and he turns into a Big Red Dog. Yeah, I know.
- He's also AFRAID OF DOGS, I am not making this up, this is real.
- He has a tongue stud that stays when he turns into a wolf so he's a wolf with a tongue stud basically.
- He really, really doesn't like to be touched. Like, at all.
- He has a younger adopted brother named Kevin that he actually gets along pretty well with, considering it's Cliff.
- He has a crush on a girl at school and honestly the less said about that the better it's not going well.
- The hoodie he wears everywhere isn't actually his, he borrowed it from Oscar and never gave it back.
- The only card game he knows how to play is Go Fish and he mostly plays with ghosts. Well, one ghost.
- He'll fight anybody.
- He's also incapable of actually admitting that he's friends with anyone, but if he actively chooses to spend time with someone it's as good a sign as any really. Even if he bitches the entire time.
- He really loves BBQ, he'll eat it any chance he gets.
- He's terrified of being seen as a Monster because of his wolf, which is the biggest reason he's rude and unfriendly with people to begin with.
- He's terrible about older male influences, and far more likely to listen or chill out for older female influences. He'll talk loud and act like he doesn't give a shit about anything, but when it comes down to it he'll protect people if he can, even if "turning into a wolf at it" only works like 50% of the time in any given situation.
Edited 2016-02-13 05:10 (UTC)
- Thom's 17 and a Junior in high school
and never been kissed. - He's never owned a cell phone because honestly his family can't afford it.
- He currently doesn't have a driver's license because it was taken away from him for his seizures. This is the second time his driver's license has been taken away because of the seizures.
- His memories of his mom are incredibly vague. This is partly because after she left his dad more or less forbid any talk of her, and partly because she was having invisibility problems even before she left so he literally didn't SEE his mom a whole lot.
- He has the ability to heal people with a touch, and his mom had the power of invisibility. His dad on the other hand is actually pretty outspoken against powered heroes so Thom is understandably keeping a few things from him.
- Like the fact that he's gay too.
- During the summer Thom works two jobs and volunteers at the local community center on top of the super hero gig he's hiding from his dad. The money is to help his dad with the mortgage and other expenses. The volunteering is because he kind of lives in a neighborhood that's veering into the wrong side of the tracks and he's trying to help however he can.
- He caused a blackout at a hospital and sent everyone nearby into seizures after he healed an entire burn ward and his powers shorted out as a result.
- He recites super hero names when he's trying to fight off a seizure.
- He's pretty bad at noticing when other people are having problems unless they're clearly bleeding or they actually tell him.
- He spends a lot of time in his own head and usually winds up being let down by reality as a result.
- A bit of positive encouragement honestly goes a long way with him.
▬ She's really intelligent. Went to a school for gifted children and everything.
▬ She plays the oboe
▬ She used to want to get into political science somehow and move up in the world as someone shaping it. She's always had a mind for how the world works and how she can affect it ( headcanon )
▬ It's not really clear whether everyone is born able to do magic, but some only have the aptitude for it or if only a handful of people in the world can actually do magic in canon. The implication is that anyone technically can do it, but most don't have the aptitude for it.
▬ Julia was rejected from the Harry Potter equivalent from college, Brakebills.
▬ Julia is a classic overachiever and when she didn't get into Brakebills she cracked big time. See this picture.
▬ She's a level 250 hedge witch, hedge witch meaning she learned magic outside of a sanctioned school like Brakebills and level 250 being the highest level
▬ She knows French. And pieces of a bunch of languages for spells, but she can speak French fluently and does so with an accurate French accent from having lived in France for a few years. Her accent doesn't show when speaking English.
▬ She doesn't remember what love is or how to feel it. Not that she can't, she just broke herself too badly and has issues relating to people because of it now.
▬ She really needs people deep down, something she realized just before everyone she started to realize she loved was murdered in front of her
▬ She canonically has dysthymia, a type of depression
▬ Her worst magic is battle magic
▬ Sometimes she forgets to eat meal
▬ She has to be addicted to something. School, smoking, working, support groups, magic. She has an addictive personality and where one fails, something else will replace it
I have a lot of headcanons for her after this canon point, too, but these are mostly facts with some extra padding from me.
Edited 2016-02-13 05:49 (UTC)
• Dorian has extensive morning and night rituals. You don't think his facial hair is this perfect by accident, do you? No, that would be the 40 minutes he spends grooming every morning.
• He'll make a big deal out of preferring the finest vintages and more exclusive types of liquor, but he's got a weak spot for cheap, shitty beer.
• He still hasn't really bothered learning how to use his phone, not beyond the most basic messaging functions. This is probably for the best, as it's saving the world from 5000 selfies a day.
• If Dorian lived in modern-day Earth he would 100 percent be a giant disgusting hipster.
• He likes chess. He also cheats at it.
• He prefers spicy food, and is constantly disappointed by the blandness of the food in southern Thedas.
• He hates the cold and will absolutely complain about it at the slightest provocation.
• So long as he knows it won't be taken the wrong way (ie angrily), he has no problem casually flirting with someone, especially once he's gotten to know them.
• In return, he appreciates being flirted with, regardless of the gender of the one doing the flirting. Why turn down a compliment from a lady, even if he's not interested?
• Don't let the exterior fool you, Dorian is a giant nerd who loves research and books and esoteric magic.
- Lloyd is seventeen going on eighteen and he's probably the most clueless person you will ever meet when it comes to sex and dating and shit. That sort of thing literally doesn't even cross his mind, like, ever.
- He has a giant dog named Noishe that isn't actually a dog at all but a several thousand year old mythical creature. Lloyd still calls Noishe a dog though.
- He fights with two swords because he honestly thought twice the weapons meant twice the fighting power. Lloyd and math aren't terribly well acquainted, to be honest.
- Lloyd's birth dad is 4000 years old, and the dad that actually raised him is a dwarf. Lloyd was basically raised as a dwarf, with all of their values and smithing skills.
- Lloyd can also pick locks and defuse bombs for some strange reason.
- He has angel wings sometimes. It's a thing.
- He once had a wanted poster out for him that was frankly gorgeous.
- The reason he became friends with Colette and Genis as children was because he saw them sitting alone all the time and.... didn't want them to be alone anymore, basically.
- He single-handedly funded the rebuilding of a city and there's a statue of himself in the town as a result.
- He once fought with giant paper fans and it was amazing.
- He's also fought in swim trunks.
- Tea Cup rides are how you make friends with people, of this Lloyd is certain. Also balconies are good places to have important, emotional conversations with friends.
- Gren is somewhere around 1500-1800 years old. Even he doesn't know exactly how old he is, because he didn't really start keeping track until he ended up in human society. But he's old-- old as balls.
- He has an excellent singing voice. His voice actor, Andrew Chaikin, is also the singer Kid Beyond. Dude's got a smooth set of pipes on him.
- Technically, it's only implied in TWAU (and Beowulf) that Gren has extremely sensitive hearing, and that's why he drinks so much. Normal sound volumes are kind of like jamming a knitting needle into his ear, which explains a lot of his shitty behavior.
- Related to this, Gren absolutely hates New Year's Eve because he's in New York and mother of god just end him. Just end him.
- Being the weird-ass swamp fish gorilla that he is, Gren is an excellent swimmer both in and out of glamour and can hold his breath for like, ever. Sometimes, if shit just starts getting a little too much, he'll go sit at the bottom of whatever body of water is nearest-- even if that's just a bathtub. He can even sleep down there, except for the bathtub thing because he 0% wants Rhys to walk in on that and think he's drowned or something.
- When he's really out of it, he starts speaking in Old English. Like, early Old English. He's pretty much incomprehensible.
- Gren has the tendency to put the needs of the people he cares about waaaay above his own. This is deeply unhealthy and he doesn't give a fuck.
- Really, for all of his tough guy bullshit, he cares about people and justice, beliefs that he's developed over hundreds of years of living with humans, and he gets horrified by Fables doing shit that he used to do a millennium ago. Like, they're supposed to be better than that, they're not supposed to be monsters anymore.
- He's a monster with a pretty okay heart.
Ask me anything else! I have 99 headcanons and whatever you ask is probably one of them.
• Josh is an excellent source of movie trivia. Watching shitty horror movies and talking about the effects used is his idea of a good time.
• He's from Los Angeles, California.
• He's never really lacked for anything material - his father is a movie producer, his family is the kind of hella rich that can own a mountain.
• He tips really well, especially if the server is cute and friendly.
• When he's not in the midst of mental breakdowns, he makes an effort to be outgoing and friendly and social. This is often not easy.
• His favorite color is blue.
• They've had various pets over the years, but Josh's favorite was a pet rabbit that actually belonged to his sisters when they were all in elementary school. Its name was Mr. Wuffles.
• When he's not doing so well on the mental health front, he can go days without properly eating or sleeping.
• He tends to eat a lot of shitty food because of that, because it takes the least effort to prepare.
• Drunk 2am Taco Bell runs are a thing.
I'd love to hear some family stuff headcanons! And maybe some Hadriel stuff. Like, how does she spend most of her time? Where's her favorite spot in the city?
— Her birth mother was a Princess of Cintra and her father is Emperor of Nilfgaard. Through them (and her father's conquering of other lands) she has a number of titles: Queen of Cintra, Princess of Brugge and Duchess of Sodden. Heiress to Inis Ard Skellig and Inis An Skellig, and suzeraine of Attre and Abb Yarra. She honestly doesn't care much for all of it.
— Ciri is known as an Unexpected Child and is bound to Geralt through Destiny. She came into Geralt's care through what is known as the Law of Surprise which is an old custom that a man saved by another is expected to offer to his savior a boon whose nature is unknown to one or both parties. Upon lifting her birth father's curse, Geralt asked for, "That which you already have but do not know." already knowing that her birth mother was pregnant.
— Usually when the Unexpected Child turns out to be a girl, a witcher will trade her for a boy with the Dryads and thus the girl would be raised as one. The Queen of the Dryads offered her a choice and despite having just met him, Ciri choose to stay with Geralt.
— She was most likely born during the Belleteyn festival meaning her birthday is either the 30th of April or the 1st of May 1253.
— For a short time, she was a pit fighter though much against her will. She had been kidnapped by a bounty hunter before being imprisoned, beaten, drugged and literally forced into the arena. After she is reunited with her adopted parents, she returns to Calremont and burns the arena to the ground.
— She's sensitive about her facial scar and tries to hide it with loose strands of hair. She also mentions in game that she began unbuttoning one more button on her shirt because it tended to help keep eyes off her scar and somewhere else instead.
— Caring for her swords is a super important part of her day. She treats them better than she treats herself, especially her silver sword which was a gift from Geralt.
— Being a Source (a fancy word for a person born with innate and very powerful magical abilities) she'd be capable of being an incredible sorceress but has rejected her ability to use magic. She used to also be able to see the future (mostly whenever someone was going to die, fun at parties) and even use telepathy but it's doubtful these abilities will reappear anytime soon, if ever. Her ability is buried under a hella lot of trauma and self-hatred.
— Despite having not lived as a princess for many years, it's mentioned she still has some noble-like qualities that have remained. Her glare is apparently the most noble thing about her and is said to resemble her grandmother's own famous glare. With that in mind, she probably knows how to dance and sing with an instrument or two (harpsichord, harp??) thrown in there somewhere.
— Her absolutely adores horses. No really, they're the absolute best in her mind.
— I've always pictured her with something akin to an eidetic memory. Since she has been shown several times to repeat back things that people have told her and things she has read or seen perfectly.
— She stubborn, so so so stubborn. Once she sets her mind to something, you won't be able to change it without a fight.
— Her name Cirilla is a corruption of the Elder Speech word "Zireael", which means "Swallow".
Edited 2016-02-13 19:32 (UTC)
For the lolz, how does the Washingtons' money stack up against Emily's family's?
I'll come back with something less ridiculous when I think of a good quesfion or two :3
I'll come back with something less ridiculous when I think of a good quesfion or two :3
Soooo many headcanons. Ask me anything.
•Maketh is an only child. And despite all her posturing, she grew up as a poor farm kid on Lothal. She got shipped to an off-world Imperial academy when she was thirteen. Since cadets only get to contact their parents once a month for monitored calls and Maketh never had the credits to visit over the summer, she quickly lost touch with them. They died before her graduation. She has fond but vague memories of them, and didn’t mourn them so much as forgot they existed.
•Lothal is a really shitty planet to farm on and relied heavily on imported goods to survive. Unfortunately the supply lanes were often disrupted or cut off entirely during the Clone Wars, which meant that food shortages were common. The problem was not fixed immediately after the war ended and there was a huge black market for basic goods that the Empire silently encouraged in order to make the people as desperate as possible. Maketh remembers the food shortages and ensuring chaos very well, and considers the Empire a benevolent force that brought structure to an uncivilized place, rather than exasperating the problem and then swooping in when there was no one left to lead an organized resistance.
•She’s desperately thankful for her education, as it’s really the only thing that got her away from the same life that her parents suffered through. And since she went to the Academy on an Imperial scholarship, she’s especially indebted to the Empire itself. Something her instructors never let her forget.
•She copies the accent of her mentor/boss, Governor Pryce, to make people think she grew up on one of the inner planets.
•Huge control freak. No one is allowed to make her coffee or touch her uniform. She irons it herself.
•Probably one of the only people ever who had a genuinely positive experience at the Imperial Academy, where cadets are canonically encouraged to murder each other and make it look like an accident in order to prove their ruthlessness.
•Maketh lacks the pure ruthlessness required of military officers, hence the reason she was slated to a civilian tract instead of entering the Imperial Military.
•However if she were technically a member of the military, she’d probably be a lieutenant colonel.
•The line between civilian and military in the Empire is extremely blurry. To someone who doesn't understand the system, she definitely comes off as military. Mostly because her people skills are lacking.
•It’s sheer dumb luck that she survived the Academy at all, since she was not well liked by her classmates. Though Maketh isn’t consciously aware of this, several of her instructors were very fond of her and banded together to make sure that she survived a few of the more blatant traps that were set for her. Even so, a classmate did attempt to kill her in a live-fire drill her third year. To this day, Maketh has convinced herself it was an accident.
•Though she’s ordered people shot, she’s never actually killed anyone herself. However, she’s been conditioned not to think about it very hard and wouldn’t hesitate if the situation called for it. She’d get hit by it very hard later on, though.
•That being said, Maketh has been shot several times herself. As a minister, she’s not allowed to carry weapons or wear body armor. This is no way prevents people from taking pot-shots at her.
•Despite what people think, Maketh actually did have a life outside her job. She enjoyed going to local performances and hanging out playing holo-chess with some of the more educated citizens.
•She took the executions of the two soldiers under her command very hard and is starting to overcompensate by becoming extremely protective of people she’s only recently met.
•She identifies as gay, but hasn’t had a relationship in over ten years and really wouldn’t know how to go about one.
•Maketh is an only child. And despite all her posturing, she grew up as a poor farm kid on Lothal. She got shipped to an off-world Imperial academy when she was thirteen. Since cadets only get to contact their parents once a month for monitored calls and Maketh never had the credits to visit over the summer, she quickly lost touch with them. They died before her graduation. She has fond but vague memories of them, and didn’t mourn them so much as forgot they existed.
•Lothal is a really shitty planet to farm on and relied heavily on imported goods to survive. Unfortunately the supply lanes were often disrupted or cut off entirely during the Clone Wars, which meant that food shortages were common. The problem was not fixed immediately after the war ended and there was a huge black market for basic goods that the Empire silently encouraged in order to make the people as desperate as possible. Maketh remembers the food shortages and ensuring chaos very well, and considers the Empire a benevolent force that brought structure to an uncivilized place, rather than exasperating the problem and then swooping in when there was no one left to lead an organized resistance.
•She’s desperately thankful for her education, as it’s really the only thing that got her away from the same life that her parents suffered through. And since she went to the Academy on an Imperial scholarship, she’s especially indebted to the Empire itself. Something her instructors never let her forget.
•She copies the accent of her mentor/boss, Governor Pryce, to make people think she grew up on one of the inner planets.
•Huge control freak. No one is allowed to make her coffee or touch her uniform. She irons it herself.
•Probably one of the only people ever who had a genuinely positive experience at the Imperial Academy, where cadets are canonically encouraged to murder each other and make it look like an accident in order to prove their ruthlessness.
•Maketh lacks the pure ruthlessness required of military officers, hence the reason she was slated to a civilian tract instead of entering the Imperial Military.
•However if she were technically a member of the military, she’d probably be a lieutenant colonel.
•The line between civilian and military in the Empire is extremely blurry. To someone who doesn't understand the system, she definitely comes off as military. Mostly because her people skills are lacking.
•It’s sheer dumb luck that she survived the Academy at all, since she was not well liked by her classmates. Though Maketh isn’t consciously aware of this, several of her instructors were very fond of her and banded together to make sure that she survived a few of the more blatant traps that were set for her. Even so, a classmate did attempt to kill her in a live-fire drill her third year. To this day, Maketh has convinced herself it was an accident.
•Though she’s ordered people shot, she’s never actually killed anyone herself. However, she’s been conditioned not to think about it very hard and wouldn’t hesitate if the situation called for it. She’d get hit by it very hard later on, though.
•That being said, Maketh has been shot several times herself. As a minister, she’s not allowed to carry weapons or wear body armor. This is no way prevents people from taking pot-shots at her.
•Despite what people think, Maketh actually did have a life outside her job. She enjoyed going to local performances and hanging out playing holo-chess with some of the more educated citizens.
•She took the executions of the two soldiers under her command very hard and is starting to overcompensate by becoming extremely protective of people she’s only recently met.
•She identifies as gay, but hasn’t had a relationship in over ten years and really wouldn’t know how to go about one.
I'm not done with the game yet, so sorry if this is answered in canon. Is Josh in college? If not, what would he want to study? Is he interested in going into film?
Are there any aspects of modern society that Gren really likes? Besides the alcohol, I mean.
What are his favourite topics to research/read? What are his least favourite?
Does he only commission his tailoring, or does he do any for himself? Have he and Viv ever had style showdowns?
Is there anything he likes about Hadriel? What does he hate about it?
What are her creature comforts? Her pet peeves?
Does she hold any regrets? If so, how does she deal with them?
If she could have three things from her universe in Hadriel, what would they be?
Does she hold any regrets? If so, how does she deal with them?
If she could have three things from her universe in Hadriel, what would they be?
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