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I was just gonna drop stuff like this in my development threads, but decided it'd be more fun to just sorta.... prompt these kind of things from everyone! This is a thread to write random little useless tidbits of info about your character. c: Kinda like head-canon central. It's not so much a game and more a fun way of character building and learning neat little things about other characters!! It doesn't have to be totally serious or even relevant. Just... you know... whatever!

I'll drop some first. No pressure to dump a lot like this, you can post like one fact if you want lmao. This is just a list compiled because I couldn't sleep last night ahahaha.

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TAWNY

• Tawny did dance/gymnastics and played volleyball growing up.

• Makes herself go to the gym twice a week in the evenings.
• Her nieces and nephews adore her. Probably because she is a lot younger than their parents and because she's kinda the 'cool aunt'. She takes them out when Cooper and Elise need a break or a date night. Lets them get away with a lot of things (and also occasionally swears in their presence, don't tell Elise). The youngest girls always beg her to do their hair. The eldest always gossips about boys and her high school drama and Tawny is here for that tea.
• Makes friendship bracelets when she is really drunk.
• Cooper and his family live in their childhood home. Visiting them is huge weird feels for her. It's always strange, especially around Christmas, to witness the house full of life, love, laughter, and so many people, when it was always just her and her father there growing up. Their eldest daughter has Tawny's childhood room.
• Matty dragged her to one of his D&D games in college. She was a human druid and had a terrible time. 0/10 would not recommend. Just stares at him when he brings up D&D.
• Her longest, actual relationship lasted just a couple weeks short of one year. Her partner getting excited about their anniversary definitely forced the snap.
• Could watch Moulin Rouge or RENT ten times a day and bawl every time.
• Begged her father for a pet rabbit as a little girl. Never got one.
• Placed 2nd in her first grade spelling bee (she couldn't spell spaghetti).
• Cut her own bangs throughout the entirety of her freshman year of college.

DANE

• The majority of his teeth are fake/dental implants/fixed bridgework.
• Has a metal plate in his skull from rolling a car when he was a teen.
• Dane has trouble getting to sleep, so he usually doesn't even attempt to until he's reached that point of exhaustion where you're knocked out cold within two seconds of your face hitting the pillow.
• Dane and Dino had a tiny treehouse when they were kids. Nothing special, just planks of wood nailed together by their maternal uncle before he died. The only thing they ever kept in there was a horde of soda and some candy — and then, a year or so later, the very first porn-mag they ever stole off of someone — but for some reason, they used to spend a lot of time in it. Even when they were teenagers, they'd still sit up there every once in a while — legs dangling over the edge as they talked about stupid shit over some stolen beer. The treehouse is still there today but Dane hardly ever thinks about it anymore.
• Dane put hair-remover in one of Grace's shampoo bottles when they were teenagers. Luckily Dino found out before her next shower (or else Dane might not be alive today).

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oh lordy I have so many unnecessary headcanons Dx I'll add to these later when I remember the other ones I have lmao


NOAH

• Growing up, Noah was made to play a few different sports. His mom thought it would ‘burn off his energy’ and ‘make him a team player’. It did not. The main one was soccer but he also spent some time playing American football, basketball, ice hockey, and table tennis. 
• Noah was forced encouraged to go in the confessional at church a lot. The priest was understandably concerned by the dodgy things Noah would come out with and still thinks about 'that weird St.Cloud kid' to this day.
• Noah (technically) has four exes. The longest-lasting was also the first; his college girlfriend who he started dating because she was a cheerleader/valedictorian type who kept dropping hints and he felt it was expected of him to reciprocate. His family loved her. Therefore he disliked her.
  
• He met Misti once  – outside his neighbour's house. It was chaos and whenever she remembers the encounter she's still blown away by the audacity (I might write a one-shot for this lmao)
• His neighbour is Ted Lasso.
  

EVE

• She’s squeamish but her favourite shows (i.e. The Vampire Diaries) can be kinda violent. The result? Squealing and covering her eyes whenever there’s blood on screen. She can’t stop watching though. She loves the drama too much.
• Being nosy af she’s the QUEEN of online stalking. Occasionally she really digs into who knows who, who’s dating, and who used to date, and she gasps dramatically and reads out her findings to her cats whenever she finds something juicy.
• Evening has an extremely low alcohol tolerance and she’s a reckless, huggy drunk who’s often accused of being a tease. Her precognition gift doesn’t work at all while she’s inebriated and she becomes very giggly and shouts speaks at a louder level than she does when sober.
• Has been on many skiing trips! The few photos her family have of her where she's not wearing black are of her in skiing gear. 

GRACE

• Her camera roll is full of selfies and her music playlist is full of 90s and 2000s hits. Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Gwen Stefani are her most played artists. 
• She sometimes talks to herself while she’s doing her makeup, pretending she’s a beauty guru filming her routine.
• Cher Horowitz is her idol.
• There is... so much stuff in the void. Things that will never see the light of day again because she's forgotten they're in there. Furniture, food that won't expire, you name it. Side note: since food doesn't "age" while in the void, it's very likely that people won't age while they're in there either. 
• Pink weapons are so cool. She has a collection.
• Has been to Comic Con multiple times. And yes, she dressed up because she thought it would be ironic.

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NOAH

• Usually sleeps on his side, but has been known to wake up facedown after a night out. If he’s sharing a bed with someone he WILL end up cuddling that source of warmth. Even if he hadn't wanted/intended to.
• Knows how to braid hair. He used to see his mom do his sister’s hair before church and for some reason the know-how stuck in his head
• Has read the entire Twilight Saga (his sister had the books). He thought the whole thing was insane and hated Bella, Edward, and Jacob, but if you asked him if he’d want to be in a throuple with Carlisle and Esme? Yeah. You know what, he would.

EVE

• Living with Mischief has forced her to evolve; crashes, thumps, and other loud noises no longer disturb her sleep. Her alarms no longer work so she leaves the curtains open to let the natural light wake her instead. Otherwise, gently tapping her or having Mischief jump on her face seems to do the trick.
• Has never, ever snored. But she used to sleepwalk as a kid and scare the crap out of her parents.
• She’s the big spoon. No, it doesn’t matter if the other person is bigger than her >:[
• Desperately wanted a pet bunny throughout her childhood. Almost went out and bought one when she moved into her own place but she took a wrong turn and passed an animal shelter. Now she has five cats…
• Has also read the Twilight Saga. Started the series assuming she’d like Edward (they share the gift of telepathy, after all), and ended the series with a big fat crush on Charlie.
  

GRACE

• Needs silence to fall asleep and is easily woken up. Sleeps hugging a pillow. Sometimes mumbles, usually too quiet to be understood, but if you listen really carefully you might just hear her say something like ‘that bag does not go with that skirt, I’ll kill you’.
• Really enjoys roller-skating. She went ONE TIME and hasn’t had the chance to do it again </3
• Had a pet hamster called Brian when she was little. He disappeared and she STRONGLY suspects Dane was involved. (Did she sleep-walk and void Brian one night? Is there an insane hamster floating around in the void somewhere? Who knows man, who knows…)

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• Tawny was inspired by my blind Warrior Cat OC, Littlecloud.
• I intended for her to be a lot more naïve and ditzy than she ended up being.
• I didn't anticipate her to be as relationship-avoidant and "sad-girl" as she is.
• She's less "doormat" than I initially planned.
• I've tended to struggle immensely playing female characters in the past. When I made her I was a bit scared that she'd end up being someone really hard to write for. But it's the opposite!
• She's afraid of dementia or getting old and not being able to differentiate between what memories are hers and what memories belong to others.
• She was almost named Emily.

• Dane and Dino were also inspired by my Warrior Cat OCs, Lizardstripe and Kestrelflight... though they were basically NPCs while I played their father, Elmstar (Antonio). I could wax poetic over my love for Elmstar and all the cool-ass (treacherous) things he did for hours and that translates to Antonio as well lmao. Dane's also inspired by Ladd Russo and Claire Stanfield from Baccano!
• I struggled very hard to come up with a Gift for him. Eventually, I decided Beast Summoning after rewatching Jujutsu Kaisen (because Fushiguro's demon dogs are cool af). But I flirted with him just being human or his gift simply being him having a really strong sense of smell and being able to track.
• Snowcone was gonna be a Doberman before I remembered Acker's robot dogs look like Dobermans.
• Snowcone was named by his mama.
• Dane's favorite song is Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright.
  
• Mona Amodio was the only act of rebellion in Antonio Wayland's otherwise strictly-obedient and family-conforming life. Born to poor, no-name parents, she was not of "notable stock" and far from the idealistic wife to rear future Wayland heirs. In a typical and characteristically-Wayland manner, Antonio — despite the protests and oft-verbalized disdain of many — married Mona anyway. She doesn't clean. Doesn't cook well. She's real goofy and loving most of the time but does has a fiery temper. Is the only person Dane will happily let slap him around (she's got a mean right hook that he's suffered a lot).
• Before Dino "died", Dane knew he was bisexual. But he never let on to Dino that he knew, because he was aware how uncomfortable his brother was with it. But if Dino ever grew to accept that and be open with it, Dane would have been pretty nonchalant about it all. "Yeah man, I know." Antonio is hugely/majorly homophobic, so Dane was briefly homophobic too as a child, but he grew out of it super quick when he realized that Dino was hiding and silently struggling with his sexuality.

• Gavyn was inspired by Jaskier from the Witcher and Joey Batey/The Amazing Devil! He's actually been a WIP for months but I was never satisfied with any face-claims lmao. I was going to use Joey Batey for the longest time but something about it didn't quite fit right.
• Fra Free, his FC, is like 5'8''? But I just can't have Gavyn be under 6'0 lol.
• Hangover-proof.
• He was almost named Clifford.

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CASS

• His last name was almost Arkwright.
• His FC was almost Matthew Nozska.
• He was almost an army brat rather than a hippie nomad.
• He was VERY vaguely inspired by fandom Dean Winchester (if you know you know).

• Cass is clueless when it comes to anything playing on TV ever. He's seen movies here and there, but rarely TV.
• He adores dogs, but has bad luck keeping them. He always promises himself he won't get another one, and he always breaks that promise.
• He's fascinated by urban legends and local cryptids.
• He has a collection of old comic books from when he was a kid, and occasionally he adds to the collection.
• His phone is a prepaid burner phone and it only has minutes on it when he has money to spare to buy them. It's an old model, and it's very beat up, with a cracked screen.
• Cass can fall asleep anywhere, in practically any position.
• He wants more tattoos, but swears he won't get any more names (we'll see).
• When he was a kid he thought the moon followed him around every night, and he still has a preference for the moon even though he knows better now.

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• Noah wasn’t supposed to be so flirtatious and jokey, which is weird because those traits are so core to how he acts now. His thing was originally supposed to be that he always seemed half-asleep; non-threatening because he’s just so chill, a little out of it and distracted most of the time. He’d be a lot more aware and vicious than he let on, and in some ways the Noah we have now is nicer than the one I had planned.
  
  
• Buddy boy is also more traumatised and sad than I meant him to be, though even he isn't fully aware of it and when he thinks of the past he tends to concentrate on the bad things he did rather than what happened to him.
  
  
• In the very, very early stages of his creation I played with the idea of making his gift a sort of sleeping spell where others would feel extremely tired when spending time with him (basically Allura’s power before I archived her too lol). His issues with his family would’ve stemmed from his parents avoiding him/locking him away because a) they needed to be awake and alert while taking care of so many other kids with gifts, and b) because one day his gift accidentally put down the family dog and they believed he’d done it on purpose
  
  

• Eve was meant to be cool and composed, a very calm yet extroverted lady who would only stare someone down if they insulted her (and sure she’d cry a little when she got home, but no one would see that). Now she’s a somewhat ditsy cry baby with anxiety and co-dependency issues. I’m trying to get her back on track, but we’ll see
  
  
• Eve was previously going to be a medium! Performing seances, helping spirits find peace, and generally hanging out with ghosts who’d whisper advice to her in tricky situations. Now she’s scared of them. idk what happened there lol but maybe I’ll buy a power upgrade for her one day and make it happen
  
  
  

• Grace’s power was going to be bugs. Yes, it would have been gross. No, I will not elaborate. Then I thought, what if she was basically a video game character? Like in animal crossing where you can stuff a whole sofa in your pocket? And thus the gift of dimensional storage was given :3

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• Dane doesn't read a lot of fiction, preferring instead to spend any free "study" time studying anatomy and non-fiction. The only fiction books he read was the Wheel of Time series when he was young. Dino read a lot of Tolkien though and they both love the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies (Dane surprisingly more so than Dino).

• Harry Potter/Hogwarts AU headcanons!
  
  Dino and Dane would have both been sorted into Gryffindor. Dino definitely would have ended up being a Prefect and Dane would likely be expelled by his third year for causing mayhem. Full-blooded. Both talented/naturals. Their Daddy would definitely be a Muggle-hating purist with Death Eater ties. Dane wouldn't give a shit about anyone's blood status and would probably be disowned by his family for running around with Halfbloods and Muggleborns. Dane would have been all about Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, and Magical Creatures whereas Dino would have loved the more boring things like Charms and Potions. On equal footing when it came to skill and intelligence but Dane never took tests seriously so had the worst grades (and didn't give a shit). Dino, on the other hand, would have been a model student. Both of their patronuses would have been dogs.
  
  Gavyn would be in Hufflepuff. A disaster student tbh with no natural aptitude for ANYTHING. Muggleborn and the first of his siblings to attend Hogwarts. His younger siblings, Tucker and Buckley would later follow him (sorted into Gryffindor) and have a terrible reputation to live down. Something bad happen to someone — Basilisk petrifying people? Ghosts terrorizing someone? It was probably Gavyn. Was recruited onto the Quidditch team as a Beater for his sheer size but always ends each game in the infirmary. His patronus would be a bear!
  
  Tawny would have wished to be a Ravenclaw and would be horribly upset, at first, to find herself sorted into Huffflepuff. Half-blooded (her father a Muggle and her late mother a witch). Her older siblings would have both attended Hogwarts many, many years before her, Emeli a Ravenclaw and Cooper a Gryffindor. Tawny's greatest interests would have been in Herbology and Divination. She and Gavyn probably would have ended up being fast friends and spent a lot of time in the greenhouses and whatnot. She would try her best to help him in his studies but he would be hopeless. Kept very small social circles and received an owl from her father every single day. Her patronus would be a cat.

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hi don't mind me I am throwing my characters into the Hogwarts AU

• Noah’s family are full-blooded but they repress their magic and try to live as muggles, so when his letter arrives he has to steal some money and run away, getting himself to Hogwarts without help. He’s immediately disowned and never returns to his family again, spending his summers at friends’ houses. He doesn’t bring an animal companion because none of the creatures in the stores like him lmao. He gets sorted into Slytherin and learns quickly from the schmoozing culture but doesn’t restrict himself to only making connections within his own house. Best subjects are Defence Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration (lightning jinxes and spells that change the weather are his jam) and he wants to be good in Care of Magical Creatures, studying the theory aggressively but, again, has trouble getting the animals to like him and regularly gets scratched up by various beasties. Otherwise he’s a good, high-achieving student overall – spending a lot of his free time in the library or practicing jinxes and spells in empty classrooms (honestly he’s sort of a more power-hungry Hermione?? everything is just so interesting and he wants to know it all. Doesn’t have any particular goals, just wants to be powerful™). Definitely tries to become an animagus illegally. Hates Quidditch with a burning passion and very smugly refuses to join the Slytherin team because hell yh he likes flying fast up in the clouds and is good at it too but no he will not waste his time playing in a team sport thanks. His patronus would be a black jaguar (elusive, cunning, territorial, good swimmer, most active at night/twilight – plus aesthetic).
  
  
• Evening is a half-blood: her mom is a muggle whereas her dad is a wizard from a very long line of magical folk. She brings a black cat to Hogwarts (and by the end of her time there, has acquired four more) and gets sorted almost instantly into Hufflepuff. Adores divination and, like her father, actually has the gift of prophecy, and later discovers she has a hidden talent for legilimency as well. She does well in Potions, Magical Creatures, and Herbology but struggles in everything else – particularly Defence Against The Dark Arts. Cried when she tried arithmancy for the first time. Spends a lot of time in the Hufflepuff common room playing ‘mom’ to the younger years and she makes huge banners every quidditch match to support her friends, but she never plays it herself and hates flying. Her patronus would be a magpie (curious and playful, social, likes shiny things). Sunny is born during Eve’s first year and so she keeps a diary of letters to give to Sunny when it’s her turn to attend Hogwarts.
  
  
• Grace has a long-ass conversation with the sorting hat and eventually gets placed in Slytherin rather than Gryffindor (where her sister is). Potions is not one of her strong subjects but she uses Polyjuice (made by one of her clique members) on the regular to stir up all sorts of drama in her year group. Her best subject is Transfiguration, particularly where vanishing and conjuring spells are involved. Her practical work across subjects is good but she needs to put more effort into theory; History of Magic is her absolute worst class and she cares little for Divination or Arithmancy either. Becomes a beater on Slytherin’s quidditch team and hospitalises several people. Throws a huge tantrum and destroys Slytherin’s common room when she isn’t made a prefect or head girl. Her patronus would be a lioness (proud and fierce, hunters, family-oriented, social, loyal).

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Just some randomness before I crawl to bed~

ASHLEY

• Dino's father is extremely homophobic and always has been. So, as a teenager, when Dino began to realize he was noticing other men, it was something he very adamantly repressed and kept clamped down. He had a couple of scattered crushes in his Guild days but what that realistically looked like was Dino simply keeping as far away from said crushes as possible (lest he look too long or say something dumb and be called out on it).
  
  Out of the Guild and away from his father now, Ashley feels a bit more able to address his same-sex attractions. But after living so long feeling unsafe with them, he remains somewhat hesitant. He once accepted the phone number of a hopeful young man he struck up a conversation with at the retirement home. The phone number was stuck to his fridge with a magnet for weeks as he tried to work up some sort of courage/resolve to text him. Eventually though, he threw it away.

• Though Dane was obviously the more promiscuous and "play boy" of the two Wayland brothers, Dino also had his fair share of loose relationships back in the day. He was just far less blatant and "in your face" about it. Never kissed and told. None of his relationships lasted long (as he was often spiraling and didn't want to burden anyone during his frequent breakdowns).

• Though Dino loves his mother, Dane's always been her "baby boy". He was never as close with her as he was.

• Every dog he adopts or fosters gets a colored collar with their name (and his phone number) hand-stitched into it.

• Physically can not stand the smell of vodka. Will gag. Too many blackout drunk nights and bad memories.

CHRISTIAN

• Though Christian came out as gay to his family as a teenager, and would be honest with his closer friends were they to ask, he wasn't open about his sexuality until after graduating high school. He didn't start actively dating until his Police Academy days.

• Margo almost very nearly talked him into becoming a stripper on the weekends. He'd be lying if he said he still doesn't think about it occasionally.

• Has only been in one serious relationship. It lasted almost eight months. Then Christian was dumped because he arrested one of his boyfriend's friends (he later learned they'd been fooling around together for almost the entirety of their relationship).

• Would never date/hook-up with someone beefier than him. If it's close, that's fine, but if his partner starts getting too jacked, it's 'bouta be a swole-off. And if they don't stop hitting the gym so damn hard, they might have to hit the streets. He knows it's terrible but he also knows he'll have some sort of weird problem with it. He himself isn't sure why he has this issue but suspects it comes down to insecurity at the end of the day.

JOHN

• While they'd poked and prodded at one another in a very "rival" way in the precinct for quite a while (and John was crushing hard), Eliza made the first actual move. Like an absolute pro, she and one of her friends totally Top Gunned him at a bar during a precinct bash. In front of all their friends and coworkers.

• John and Eliza's relationship, from that point, moved fast. John was head-over-heels and completely on board almost immediately. Eliza was only a little bit slower to go All In. They were married within the year.

• Eliza was a massive flirt. They got into many, many huge fights about her entertaining passes and setting unclear boundaries with other dudes who were (quite obviously to John) interested in her. It nearly broke them quite a few times early on in their relationship (before they were married). After one particularly bad night though, in which Eliza packed her things and John slept in his car in the parking lot of their apartment, they went out to breakfast. Didn't speak a single word throughout the whole meal. Then, on the ride home, John — unable to take it anymore — pulled over on the side of the busy highway and they actually talked. About whether or not they wanted to leave one another. What they needed to work on. What they loved in each other but what they hated more and couldn't put up with. Eliza said he was too jealous and he said he would do better. True to his word, he bit his tongue from that moment onward when it came to other men flirting with her. And Eliza dialed it back herself some in turn.

• John was only (seriously) injured twice during his time in the police force. The first time, he was stabbed through the left palm at a peace riot. The second time, he was shot in the right shoulder during a drug bust.

• Was terrified to be a father and didn't think he'd be a good one, especially if they'd had a son.

• After finding out Eliza was pregnant, they didn't announce it to anyone. But John kept his facial hair trimmed into a "Dad-stache" (that she both HATED and found HILARIOUS), made tons of "Dad jokes", and kept dressing up in "Dad attire" on nights out until eventually someone caught on.

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It's been a busy day at work, so between calls I've been procrastinating...

The Lancasters

• This is v3 of Maddison and Mason! Their first version, they were twins and gifted. Mason could manipulate electricity and Maddie was able to amplify or nullify other powers. She was mostly used as a battery basically. They were being rounded up by the government to be used as weapons, and they were part of a group that was fighting against that.
• In the 2nd version, they were in a post-apocalyptic tribe setting, and Mason was the older brother. Mason made them join a group that terrorized other people as they traveled and took whatever they wanted. Maddie was a recruiter for the group, because she looked innocent and was good at manipulating people into joining. She hated it, and ran away from the group without Mason. Shortly after, Mason left to find his sister, and they settled down in a town. As things settled and regrouped, Mason became a firefighter and Maddie worked as a seamstress, mostly mending clothing and blankets.
• Maddie has always been claustrophobic. She was locked in a closet as a young child, and left there most of the day.
• Mason was never supposed to be a played character, he was only supposed to be an NPC but he was actually played more than Maddie was in their first versions and he just came about as his own played character.
• When Mason became a firefighter, I didn’t even work in the 911 center yet. I only just became a fire dispatcher this past February, but it gives me a whole new insight on his character and career.

Genie (cw - suicide/self harm)

• For v1, Genie was a teenager locked in a mental institution. It was a front for illegal pharmaceutical testing, and there were all kinds of hijinks.
• She’s one of my oldest characters that I still actively play, and this is her 4th version - v2 was an extremely short lived slice of life, and v3 was post apocalyptic. She’s always had some basic constants: her mother completed suicide (or, was forced to in this instance), she had a bad relationship with her father, and she self harms to cope with her feelings. She’s always had the same FC as well
• v1 she was Genie Tanner, v2 and v3 she had the last name Donovon
• Her octopus tattoo was chosen because an octopus can camouflage itself, almost seeming invisible.

Ethan

• Ethan v1 was supposed to be a charismatic cult leader in the same post-apocalyptic world as Maddie and Mason. He didn’t turn out that way, he was just a nomad who hated how society was making the same mistakes that led them to their downfall.
• Ethan v1 was from a rich family, but he rebelled against elitist views.
• Ethan’s father, Alan Rivers, was a character I played on an HP site in 2009… He was so cringe, but he’s got some basics that remain the same. He’s still prejudiced, demanding, and expects his children to blindly follow his example. OG Alan was abusive, sexist, and a death eater. He had a high profile job in the ministry of magic and was basically untouchable (I was 20 when he was created, don’t judge me too harshly!) He had 3 sons: -Tomas, Aaron, and Justin - who all took after him, and a daughter, Bella, who was the first character I made and played on that site. Bella was scared of her own shadow and terrified of upsetting her father.

Emie

• She’s v2, v1 was post-apoc. While she shares some basic characteristics with v1, there are some huge differences. Emie v1 didn’t get along with her parents and she was an only child. They were wealthy, and she was very young (under 10) when the ‘world ended’, and she was basically adopted as the little sister of a pyromaniac character nicknamed Blaze.
• Emie still found yoga as an outlet for anxiety in v1, and she was very close with her ‘brother’. You couldn’t tell her she wasn’t really his little sister, because they had gone through so much together and he helped take care of her in the early years.
• Emie v1 was a kleptomaniac. She didn’t keep the things she took, but she would take something small and swap it with something she took from another place. It started as a way to see if the ultra rich would even notice, and it was a habit she kept doing.
• I like this version of Emie a lot better than v1.

Seth

• She’s my only character (so far) that’s completely original for Build God, but she’s already one of my favorites!
• The wanted ad for Seth’s character checked off a lot of the boxes for a character I was already thinking of making, who I tried to talk myself out of it because I wasn’t sure I’d be able to develop her backstory well enough. When I read the ad I knew it clicked so well with her, and then I just couldn’t stop myself from making her.

Annabelle

• Annabelle is also v2, but she did not come from the same setting as the rest. She was a ballerina who went to an arts college (Julliard).
• She answers to Anna, Ann, Bell, Bellie, and whatever other derivatives her brothers came up with. They tried to find a name that irritated her, but never had much luck.
• Annabelle v1 came from a middle class family, from College Station, TX. She had to have a scholarship for college and she only got to go because her brother’s both went to schools in state, and her parents were able to scrape together enough money to cover most of the gap between what her scholarship covered and what she could make working part time.
• Her best friends were a violin player named Noel and an actor named Jason. Noel turned out to be an actual princess.
• She’s always had a love for musical theater, probably because her oldest brother is a classical musician and they grew up with the arts being very prominently featured in their house.
• Her dad is from a Mexican-American family that has long roots in Texas, and her mom moved there when she was in her 20s. She met Mateo through friends, and her family didn’t approve of him (reasons include racism, classism, and regional bias), but she married him anyway and has no regrets.

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Katrina
-Katrina has a necklace that's a small smiling container of peanut butter. It was a matching necklace she had with her older sister Bianca, who had one with a smiling jelly container. Bianca was buried wearing her necklace and to this day Katrina only takes the necklace off to shower or go swimming.

-While Katrina absolutely loves a good heavy rain storm she has an intense fear of thunder

-She absolutely loves spicy food. When she was younger she used to carry around a small bottle of hot sauce to add to just about any food she was eating.

-While Katrina is normally so calm and sweet and hates causing a scene she absolutely hates bugs. Especially spiders. If she sees one outside she might just make a noise and move away from it quickly but if it's in a house, car, or anything kind of building with her she will cause absolute havoc. Katrina will scream, jump onto the nearest object as far away as she can and beg someone to come kill it. If there's no one there to kill it she will scream, whine, cry, and throw a fit as she tries to kill it. Then cry afterwards about how bad she feels for killing the poor little bug friend.

-Much like a cat Katrina will often find a nice warm sun spot to lay in and take a nap there in the middle of the day

-While Katrina doesn't know about her gift her parents do. When she was born the sunny day turned into a raging, violent thunder storm with strong winds that threatened to start a tornado. Because of this her parents named her Katrina, after hurricane Katrina.

-Katrina doesn't know how to flirt and doesn't usually know when she's being flirted with. Unless someone gets handsy and then Katrina becomes extremely flustered and shy. She will blush and get tongue tied a lot because she doesn't know how to handle it.


-Katrina will often talk or even sing in her sleep. There was at one point her sister caught her rapping in her sleep and recorded it. That recording is still in Bianca's phone which Katrina has stashed away in a box of her sisters old stuff under her bed.

Jacob
-Jacob unironically loves belly rubs. Even when he's in his human form. But he finds it really embarrassing so he doesn't tell anyone

-When he's asleep he will often still growl, whimper, whine, snarl, and kick his legs while he's dreaming as his dreams are normally in his wolf form

-Jacob knows he's a terrible dancer. He has absolutely no sense of rhythm and usually looks more like an dad at a bbq. But he still loves dancing terribly. Especially if it can make other people laugh.

-He doesn't really like soda. He will drink it if it's mixed with something alcoholic but if given a choice he'd rather just have water

-Jacob is a huge sleep cuddler and when he's not sharing a bed with someone he has two pillows that he wraps around instead

Jasmine
-Jasmine has a huge sweet tooth. She loves baked goods especially and her house normally smells like fresh baked cookies or brownies because of how often she bakes

-If she gets really stressed she has a bad habit of biting her nails. Which is something she's trying to quit doing

-Despite her dislike of alcohol and drinking in general Jasmine will still find herself in the bar after a really hard day

-She was the first one in her family to not only finish high school but also go to college in four generations. And she did it while pregnant and raising a child

-As a way to honor both of her parents she gave her oldest son her fathers middle name and her youngest daughter her mothers middle name

-Unless Jasmine is sitting in the front seat she gets horribly motion sick in cars

Gemma CW: mentions of death, animal attack, murder, and torture
-Gemma was absolutely petrified of dogs as a child because one time when she was four a rottweiler got loose from his owner, ran over, and put Gemma's entire head in his mouth. Luckily Warrick stepped in and managed to separate the dog from her with only a few minor cuts on her face and the back of her head but the moment was scary enough to cause Gemma to have a debilitating fear of dogs for years after. That she forced herself to get over to purposefully spite Dane. Now she absolutely adores dogs and the only reason she doesn't have one is because she doesn't feel she's home enough to give it the proper care and attention it needs.

-Gemma stopped growing when she was 12 years old. Much to her dismay as her sister continued to grow. For years she used to attempt to wear heels, wedges, platforms, anything that would give her a couple of extra inches of height on her younger sister. But six inch heels weren't as comfortable or practical to wear on a daily basis. So instead she was forced to settle into her seething over being so much shorter than Grace.

-She actually really doesn't like driving. She gets road rage easily and has gotten distracted while driving enough to be in nine different car accidents that totaled each car her daddy bought her. She's gotten a lot better since she was a teen and hasn't even gotten a speeding ticket since she was twenty but she still much prefers being a designated Passenger Princess.

-Gemma suffers really bad night terrors and will wake up in a cold sweat either screaming or crying at least three times a week. She's also known for sleep walking and talking in her sleep when she's stressed. Most of her dreams consist of being forced to watch Dane be tortured and killed while not being able to do anything to make it stop, being forced to choose between killing Dane or Grace, and chasing after Dino screaming his name but not being able to move fast enough before he's shot and killed. These are dreams she's been having since she was seventeen and she knows they come less frequently when she's sleeping next to someone.

-She absolutely loves having her hair played with. She's been known to sit in front of her friends or her sister and ask them to braid her hair just so she could feel their fingers running through it. She's also known to fall asleep within minutes if someone plays with her hair while she's lying down.

-She won't tell anyone but Gemma's been afraid of the dark since she was a child. Even now if she's not sleeping next to someone she will leave on some soft warm light string lights in her room so she's not in complete darkness.

-When Gemma is really happy or excited sometimes she'll start to float without realizing it. It used to happen a lot more when she was young and less in control of her abilities. It still will happen occasionally and if she's holding onto someone when it does happen they'll, more often than not, start floating with her.

-The easiest way to make Gemma flustered is remembering small things about her. Bringing her a pair of flats on a night out in case her feet get too sore in her heels, bringing her a bouquet of her favorite flowers just because, even something as small as bringing over some take out and her favorite movie to have a night in after a rough day is enough to turn her into a blushing mess.


edited to add some stuff for Gemma because I was going to explode if I didn't get this written down

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• Tawny knows English, Spanish, and ASL.

• Christian is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• Gavyn took three years of ASL in high school but the only thing he has retained is the alphabet. If you give him a minute, there's a 50/50 chance he'll be able to recite all the days of the week in Spanish as well.

• Both Dane and Dino/Ashley know Russian. Dane has an excellent ear for it and is a mostly-fluent speaker but he struggles when it comes to reading/writing it. Ashley, on the other hand, can read/write the language very well but he wouldn't be able to keep up quick enough to hold a natural conversation. Would have to ask someone to speak to him slowly in order to understand.

• Both Wayland brothers have terrible handwriting. Dane's is marginally better than Dino/Ashley's. Ashley is left-handed and Dane is ambidextrous!

• I, personally, headcanon that Dino taught Grace to drive (since Gemma is awful). But this is unconfirmed lol.

• Adding Christian to the Hogwarts AU. He comes from a pureblood family that would be a bit like the Weasleys — everyone knows their name because there's just so dang many of them everywhere! Savinos in every year. A lot of shining stars — this one's a prefect, that one scored perfect on the O.W.L.S, that one uncovered some huge campus secret, that one is the reason the 2nd year bathrooms were Out of Order for the whole year, etc. You get it. Quidditch stars, academic stars, wizards/witches known for their great magical prowess, etc. But Christian would have just been.... blaringly average in everything. Flew under the radar. Probably involved in a lot of student advocacy groups and the like but was never really outspoken or memorable in any way. But would definitely be the type of dude to hang around the common room and play "big bro" when first years are overwhelmed or someone is up late, stressing about exams. His patronus would be a blackbird.

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-Gemma is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and French as well as being able to speak a very little bit of Russian and some ASL

-Katrina is fluent in English, Spanish, German, Cantonese, and Korean as well as knowing ASL

-Jacob knows English and knows enough Spanish to speak it but can't read or write it

-Ellis knows English and Japanese as well as some cuss words in Spanish and German

-Imani's first language was obviously French and she sometimes slips back into it when she's very tired, concentrating, or very angry. She's also fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Swahili, and Yoruba

-Gemma and Katrina both have very small and neat hand writing. Katrina likes to dot her lowercase I's with hearts

-All three of Katrina's siblings taught her how to fight, despite Katrina hating it and crying every time she would train with them

-Gemma is a super sentimental type of person and has things like special birthday traditions she does for Grace, Dane, and Dino every year without fail. She will often keep pictures, handwritten notes, even things like stuffed animals or clothing items. She still has a hoodie in her closet she stole from Dane when they were kids (it's still slightly big on her)