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The Excessively Detailed Headcanon Meme
1. What does their bedroom look like?
Spartan. He isn't in the habit of leaving his stuff lying around - five years of nonstop travel ingrains that into you, and a further couple of years of sharing a relatively cramped flat didn't do anything to shake that. Besides, he hasn't had much in the way of personal effects since he burned his house down, never mind since he crossed over; any flat surfaces or empty corners will be filled with books, notes and spare parts to the best of his ability, and very little else. His clothes go in a suitcase, though, along with whatever money he can spare (which, at the time of the movie, takes up way too much room...) and anything else he thinks he'd need if he had to leave in a hurry - that's another habit he picked up after leaving home.
2. Do they have any daily rituals?
3. Do they exercise, and if so, what do they do? How often?
4. What would they do if they needed to make dinner but the kitchen was busy?
In a bad mood, shove his way in like he owns the place and make it anyway. They can try to stop him if they want. This used to be what he'd do in a good mood as well, but these days he's a bit more likely to change his mind if he had involved plans and just grab something like bread before heading back out, or ask whoever's in there when a better time to drop by would be - if that time is too late for his liking, that's when he'd think about looking for food elsewhere. It's not as easy to be inconsiderate when you know you'll be stuck with this person for the foreseeable future.
5. Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)
6. Eating habits and sample daily menu
7. Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time
8. Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging
9. Makeup?
Ahahahaha nope. He has a slight aversion to cologne and other fancyish scents that has stuck with him longer than the rest of his daddy issues - memories associated with smells can be hard to get rid of - plus a bigger aversion to getting prettied up in any sense because hooray stereotypical gender roles, but most importantly of all he's sort of broke and has better things to spend money on. Even getting himself cleaned up on a regular basis isn't terribly high on his list of priorities, although to his credit he usually manages it. If he shaves, it'll be at the same time as that - although he doesn't need to as often as he'd probably care to admit. But as it happens, he was lucky genetics-wise and isn't a bad looker even without really doing anything.
10. Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?
11. Intellectual pursuits?
12. Favorite book genre?
13. Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?
14. Physical abnormalities? (Both visible and not, including injuries/disabilities, long-term illnesses, food-intolerances, etc.)
A few.
- Prosthetic limbs, obviously. He covers them with his clothes, but these days doesn't try to disguise them beyond that - ease of maintenance is more important when you don't have any spares.
- Quite a lot of scarring on the right side of his chest and up his left thigh, where the above were attached. ...But no scars on his forehead.
- Gold eyes, which are just uncommon where he's from but more or less unseen on Earth. He pretty much never has this pointed out to him or thinks about it himself, but they're likely to crop up in any physical description just because they're rare.
- He isn't lactose intolerant in the slightest... in the medical sense.
15. Biggest and smallest short term goal?
16. Biggest and smallest long term goal?
17. Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress
18. Favorite beverage?
19. What do they think about before falling asleep at night?
20. Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?
21. Turn-ons? Turn-offs?
22. Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?
23. How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?
24. Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursuits at all?
25.How do they see themselves 5 years from today?
26. Do they have any plans for the future? Any contingency plans if things don’t workout?
27. What is their biggest regret?
... Mom. ;-; That day will probably always be the biggest. Don't get him wrong, though; there are plenty that these days come extremely close. Regrets are kind of a thing with him - by now he's gotten pretty good at compartmentalising so that he can move forward despite them, but he doesn't idly throw any of them away.
28. Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?
29. Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)
Deal with it head on! What's the point in dragging your feet? That doesn't mean being overly reckless about it and charging in without any plan, but one of his talents is the ability to come up with workable plans really quickly.
30. Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)
31. Most prized possession?
32. Thoughts on material possessions in general?
33. Concept of home and family?
They're one and the same, basically. The only times he really distinguishes between them are when he might occasionally still talk about himself as not having a home, but these days he mainly says that when recounting the fact that he literally burned his house down. He figures that even if he did think of a place as not home purely because he didn't grow up there, that isn't going to make it less real, so why not go with it? Privately he does want to someday settle down and have a proper home with a whole family again, but there's a lot he still wants to do before he'd be comfortable with that.
34. Thoughts on privacy? (Are they a private person, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)
He's very walled-off in general, even with people he genuinely trusts in his own way; he'll assume they understand him regardless of what he actually says, but explicitly opening up doesn't come too naturally to him, although he's been improving. It gets a little weird because this doesn't by any means stop him from rambling about his past, motivations and opinions at the drop of a hat - he even enjoys it these days, which might be a sign of said improvement - but under normal circumstances he's highly unlikely to give away anything close to his heart, where it could hurt him. However, he likes to have a handle on other people, and so doesn't respect their privacy all that much - he isn't going to rifle through other people's belongings or invade their personal space without a good reason, but neither are entirely safe with him. It could be said that he's not really expecting people to respect his privacy much in return either (equivalent exchange, right?), but tries to make it as difficult as possible to crack anyway.
35. What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?
36. What makes them feel guilty?
EVERYTHING. ...Well, no, but it's a habit he falls into alarmingly easily.
37. Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?
38. Would they consider themselves a Type A or Type B personality?
He'd complain about the hazy definitions and lack of solid evidence to support either of those being meaningful categories in the real world, never mind at all useful for their originally devised purpose. If only asked whether his own personality ticked the Type A boxes of "free-floating hostility", "impatience" and "competitive drive", though, he probably wouldn't deny it; he can lie about plenty of things with a straight face, but he's not that dishonest.
39. What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?
40. Would you say that they have a superiority-complex? Inferiority-complex? Neither?
Overall, neither, or nudging towards superiority - but the way he acts, it really depends on context. He doesn't come across as arrogant the same way he used to most of the time because a huge chunk of his expertise is useless now, but he's still smart and knows it, so he has his not entirely unwarranted moments... and not so warranted moments, because he's always going to be a little egotistical. Less overtly, on particularly angsty days, his guilt complex can be on display to borderline disturbing extents.
41. How misanthropic are they?
Not very, despite his outward and inner cynicism. He's too empathetic for it. Some people are bastards and amply demonstrate that they're bastards, but they are people, neither gods nor demons. The closest he ever came were the two years he spent by himself - he didn't hate anyone then, he liked the people he met just fine, but he'd given himself a mental hangup about connecting with any of them seriously, and on some level thought of them all as secondary. Since he learnt from that experience the traumatic way, he's leery of falling into that trap again.
42. Hobbies?
43. How far did they get in formal education? What are their views on formal education vs self-education?
44. Religion?
45. Superstitions or views on the occult?
46. Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?
47. If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?
48. How do they express love?
49. If this person were to get into a fist fight, what is their fighting style like?
50. Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?
1. What does their bedroom look like?
Spartan. He isn't in the habit of leaving his stuff lying around - five years of nonstop travel ingrains that into you, and a further couple of years of sharing a relatively cramped flat didn't do anything to shake that. Besides, he hasn't had much in the way of personal effects since he burned his house down, never mind since he crossed over; any flat surfaces or empty corners will be filled with books, notes and spare parts to the best of his ability, and very little else. His clothes go in a suitcase, though, along with whatever money he can spare (which, at the time of the movie, takes up way too much room...) and anything else he thinks he'd need if he had to leave in a hurry - that's another habit he picked up after leaving home.
2. Do they have any daily rituals?
3. Do they exercise, and if so, what do they do? How often?
4. What would they do if they needed to make dinner but the kitchen was busy?
In a bad mood, shove his way in like he owns the place and make it anyway. They can try to stop him if they want. This used to be what he'd do in a good mood as well, but these days he's a bit more likely to change his mind if he had involved plans and just grab something like bread before heading back out, or ask whoever's in there when a better time to drop by would be - if that time is too late for his liking, that's when he'd think about looking for food elsewhere. It's not as easy to be inconsiderate when you know you'll be stuck with this person for the foreseeable future.
5. Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)
6. Eating habits and sample daily menu
7. Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time
8. Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging
9. Makeup?
Ahahahaha nope. He has a slight aversion to cologne and other fancyish scents that has stuck with him longer than the rest of his daddy issues - memories associated with smells can be hard to get rid of - plus a bigger aversion to getting prettied up in any sense because hooray stereotypical gender roles, but most importantly of all he's sort of broke and has better things to spend money on. Even getting himself cleaned up on a regular basis isn't terribly high on his list of priorities, although to his credit he usually manages it. If he shaves, it'll be at the same time as that - although he doesn't need to as often as he'd probably care to admit. But as it happens, he was lucky genetics-wise and isn't a bad looker even without really doing anything.
10. Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?
11. Intellectual pursuits?
12. Favorite book genre?
13. Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?
14. Physical abnormalities? (Both visible and not, including injuries/disabilities, long-term illnesses, food-intolerances, etc.)
A few.
- Prosthetic limbs, obviously. He covers them with his clothes, but these days doesn't try to disguise them beyond that - ease of maintenance is more important when you don't have any spares.
- Quite a lot of scarring on the right side of his chest and up his left thigh, where the above were attached. ...But no scars on his forehead.
- Gold eyes, which are just uncommon where he's from but more or less unseen on Earth. He pretty much never has this pointed out to him or thinks about it himself, but they're likely to crop up in any physical description just because they're rare.
- He isn't lactose intolerant in the slightest... in the medical sense.
15. Biggest and smallest short term goal?
16. Biggest and smallest long term goal?
17. Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress
18. Favorite beverage?
19. What do they think about before falling asleep at night?
20. Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?
21. Turn-ons? Turn-offs?
22. Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?
23. How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?
24. Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursuits at all?
25.How do they see themselves 5 years from today?
26. Do they have any plans for the future? Any contingency plans if things don’t workout?
27. What is their biggest regret?
... Mom. ;-; That day will probably always be the biggest. Don't get him wrong, though; there are plenty that these days come extremely close. Regrets are kind of a thing with him - by now he's gotten pretty good at compartmentalising so that he can move forward despite them, but he doesn't idly throw any of them away.
28. Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?
29. Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)
Deal with it head on! What's the point in dragging your feet? That doesn't mean being overly reckless about it and charging in without any plan, but one of his talents is the ability to come up with workable plans really quickly.
30. Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)
31. Most prized possession?
32. Thoughts on material possessions in general?
33. Concept of home and family?
They're one and the same, basically. The only times he really distinguishes between them are when he might occasionally still talk about himself as not having a home, but these days he mainly says that when recounting the fact that he literally burned his house down. He figures that even if he did think of a place as not home purely because he didn't grow up there, that isn't going to make it less real, so why not go with it? Privately he does want to someday settle down and have a proper home with a whole family again, but there's a lot he still wants to do before he'd be comfortable with that.
34. Thoughts on privacy? (Are they a private person, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)
He's very walled-off in general, even with people he genuinely trusts in his own way; he'll assume they understand him regardless of what he actually says, but explicitly opening up doesn't come too naturally to him, although he's been improving. It gets a little weird because this doesn't by any means stop him from rambling about his past, motivations and opinions at the drop of a hat - he even enjoys it these days, which might be a sign of said improvement - but under normal circumstances he's highly unlikely to give away anything close to his heart, where it could hurt him. However, he likes to have a handle on other people, and so doesn't respect their privacy all that much - he isn't going to rifle through other people's belongings or invade their personal space without a good reason, but neither are entirely safe with him. It could be said that he's not really expecting people to respect his privacy much in return either (equivalent exchange, right?), but tries to make it as difficult as possible to crack anyway.
35. What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?
36. What makes them feel guilty?
EVERYTHING. ...Well, no, but it's a habit he falls into alarmingly easily.
37. Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?
38. Would they consider themselves a Type A or Type B personality?
He'd complain about the hazy definitions and lack of solid evidence to support either of those being meaningful categories in the real world, never mind at all useful for their originally devised purpose. If only asked whether his own personality ticked the Type A boxes of "free-floating hostility", "impatience" and "competitive drive", though, he probably wouldn't deny it; he can lie about plenty of things with a straight face, but he's not that dishonest.
39. What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?
40. Would you say that they have a superiority-complex? Inferiority-complex? Neither?
Overall, neither, or nudging towards superiority - but the way he acts, it really depends on context. He doesn't come across as arrogant the same way he used to most of the time because a huge chunk of his expertise is useless now, but he's still smart and knows it, so he has his not entirely unwarranted moments... and not so warranted moments, because he's always going to be a little egotistical. Less overtly, on particularly angsty days, his guilt complex can be on display to borderline disturbing extents.
41. How misanthropic are they?
Not very, despite his outward and inner cynicism. He's too empathetic for it. Some people are bastards and amply demonstrate that they're bastards, but they are people, neither gods nor demons. The closest he ever came were the two years he spent by himself - he didn't hate anyone then, he liked the people he met just fine, but he'd given himself a mental hangup about connecting with any of them seriously, and on some level thought of them all as secondary. Since he learnt from that experience the traumatic way, he's leery of falling into that trap again.
42. Hobbies?
43. How far did they get in formal education? What are their views on formal education vs self-education?
44. Religion?
45. Superstitions or views on the occult?
46. Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?
47. If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?
48. How do they express love?
49. If this person were to get into a fist fight, what is their fighting style like?
50. Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?