𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 ♡

[qliphoths]

Headcanons are my absolute favourite part of RP, so I wanted an excuse to be nosy and read some of yours!!


This was a pretty popular one back on tumblr!
1) post your blank TLs
2) send each other fruits/questions!
Honestly, the fruits aren't necessary but they make it cute.

If this one doesn't suit your fancy, I'll post a TL with a
more detailed meme and you can send each other prompts
on that instead.
(credit!)

🍍 : how comfortable is my muse in their body? how do they feel about their height, weight, strength, and body type? how important is being attractive to them?
🍅 : how does my muse feel about plastic / cosmetic surgeries & procedures? is it something they have done or would do? do they mind if others do it?
🍏 : how stable is my muse’s physical health? do they go for regular or semi-regular checkups by a physician? do they have any diagnosed illnesses and / or take any medication? how often do they get sick?
🍎 : how stable is my muse’s mental health? have they been diagnosed with any mental illnesses and / or conditions? do they have any undiagnosed mental illnesses and / or conditions? do they or should they attend therapy?
🍑 : how meticulously does my muse look after their physical appearance? do they spend a lot of time on their hair, makeup, grooming, and clothing? is there a particular reason why they do or don’t?
🍒 : how much does my muse value companionship? do they constantly keep people around them, or do they prefer to be alone often? do they have or desire to have many friends? do they see every meeting as an opportunity to make a new friend?
🍇 : how would my muse describe their childhood? how much has it impacted the person they are now, or will become as an adult? around what age did they or will they start to mature, and why? do they wish to go back to their days as a child, or have they embraced adulthood?
🍐 : how intelligent is my muse overall? are they smarter than the average person, or less than? are they primarily self-taught, or did they acquire most of their knowledge in school? are they more street smart or book smart?
🍉 : which of the four seasons suits my muse best, and why?
🍌 : is my muse inclined to help others, or will they only do it when it benefits them, if at all? what makes them this way? has it ever gotten them into trouble, or inconvenienced them?
🍊 : does my muse desire romance? is it something they would actively seek out, or prefer to happen more ‘ naturally? ’ what is their love life like? do they have any exes or past flings, or crushes?
🍓 : how is my muse typically seen by others? does it ring true to who they really are? does their reputation matter to them?
🥝 : does my muse have any ‘ unusual ’ habits, interests, and / or talents? do they hide it, or are they proud of it?
🍋 : what kind of diet does my muse have? do they eat regularly, or the standard 2-3 meals a day? do they have to be reminded to eat, or are they likely to remind others? do they cook, or have others cook for them? do they eat healthily, or not so much?
🥭 : how important to my muse is their hometown, or where they’re from? are they proud of it, or considered a hometown hero? did they move away, or do they wish to?

Comments

16.

[prince_of_beasts]

Preferred mode of dress? Comfortable and covering. Dimitri's not a fan of showing skin; his frozen-ass home climate doesn't often allow for it, which is a convenient cover for the fact that he doesn't like his own body and doesn't want to anyway. Clothing from home involves a lot of layers, a lot of wool and furs in the winter, a lot of dense weaves with decoration that subtly doubles as reinforcement, because you never know when your rival lord's gonna crash your dinner party and you'll all have to get your swords out.

On the Serena Eterna, this is harder to get away with. Dimitri's been getting a lot of mileage out of cargo pants and long-sleeved tropical-patterned shirts (the worse the color combination the better). The biggest obstacle is finding a texture he doesn't hate -- he's not used to synthetic fabrics and probably never will be.

[prince_of_beasts]

Dimitri's religious beliefs can be summed up with a canon quote:

The goddess just watches over us from above ... that is all. No matter how hard someone begs to be saved, she would never so much as offer her hand. And even if she did, we lack the means to reach out and grasp it. That's how I feel about her.

Which is to say: a very specific shape of broken faith. Dimitri can't continue to believe in a caring Goddess after the shit he's seen, but he hasn't ceased to believe at all. On the other hand, neither does he hate her -- she's not enough of a presence to hate. It'd be as useful as hating the tides or the winter; it'd get him just about as far, and help exactly nobody. No -- if humans can't rely on divine intervention, then they must rely on human intervention. There are real human bastards to hate right here within reach, who are taking real actions with real harm to the people around them, and these ones have snappable spines.

By the same token, though: Dimitri doesn't consider religion a futile endeavor, in that it's a human endeavor. The reality or worthiness of any Goddess is immaterial. If it brings people strength and solace, then it helps, and Dimitri can't disdain anyone for grasping at whatever keeps them from despair.

His outward approach is a sort of improvised, personal syncretism, wherein multiple things can be true at once. Yes, Fódlan's progenitor goddess created the world and life upon it. Yes, the Duscur gods of sea and sky created the world and life upon it. No, they aren't the same being by different name(s). No, this isn't the same story through different lenses. Yes they are both true. Yes it's a contradiction. No it doesn't need to be resolved. (Dimitri's broken faith doesn't extend to the gods of Duscur or Almyra, or the spirits of Brigid, or anyone else. They never asked him to have faith in them. They have their own relationships with their peoples, their own promises and covenants of which Dimitri's not a part. His grievance is with his own Goddess, and her alone.)

Time as a passenger hasn't much impacted Dimitri's faith. He hasn't talked much to its resident deities, but it likely won't change his feelings. Someone small enough to touch and talk to, who can comprehend and function in the world on a human scale, is an entirely different category of being from what he'd consider divinity.

[fonomena]

🍒 : For a large chunk of his life Jade sure didn't really care about it! An early childhood of natural utter disinterest in interpersonal relationships would evolve into just completely kicking that stuff to the bottom of the priority pole during his resurrection obsession years, and so the friends he did acquire in that time mostly just sort of...barnacled onto him, unbothered by the unsettling personality traits that tended to repulse most everyone else. (Young Jade was a freak yall, this kid was all of the emotionally detached genius with none of the masking + genuine character development he's acquired by present-day lol). Jade would readily say he never really experienced loneliness when he was younger, and it'd be honest! Past that, even while finally acknowledging the necessity of interacting well with people in his post-obsession adulthood, and putting more effort into at least trying to act like a normal human being in a professional capacity...Jade's always been well aware that his cutting humor and generally disingenuous personality are acquired tastes for strangers--if his alarming reputation isn't already doing some repelling to begin with lmao. He was also fully accepting and content with this fact, and little inclined to improve those off-putting impressions for the simple sake of endearing himself to others more.

BUT THEN. Canon events Happened, and through having to travel the world with a gaggle of teens (+1 adult bless u Guy) by obligation for well over a year, he was forcibly exposed to the Power of Friendship for quite awhile! And came away...very fond, of those new friends. Unopposed, to the idea of spending time with them. In fact, once the major conflict of the story is over and there's no longer any reason for the party to stick together, everyone separates to attend to matters in their home countries and I feel Jade is rather put out by the idea that they'll never be able to travel together in quite the same way as they did before ever again. (When he thinks about it, anyway. Which he doesn't, obviously, because that's sappy and beside the point and--)

--Not that he had much time to really mull over that before being plopped onto this boat, Sail-wise! But the Friendship Poisoning has persisted all the same since then, and nowadays he's not really at all opposed to the idea of companionships happening, even if he still never really actively seeks it out and would still get kind of surprised if someone informed him they thought of him as a friend outright. Having comfortable interactions with others is, nice? There can be multiple positive benefits to being able to rely on others and have others rely on you, as it turns out? Maybe he really would actually experience a lil loneliness if he found himself entirely on his own for an extended amount of time these days...

🍉 : Definitely winter!! He was born in a village positioned far enough north that it was snowy year-round, and so that sort of environment was certainly a formative factor in his childhood. (And yes, he sure will have some Feelings about the snow resort coming up, to say the least.....) There's also the obligatory parallels to be made about the numb state of his emotional range in a normal day, and the way he can sometimes employ tactics or carry out actions seen as cold and ruthless without much in the way of hesitation, etc etc. Besides all that, winter is naturally his favored season anyway! Even if he never actually seems bothered by hotter temperatures at all...looks at that one volcano saga in canon......

🥭 : Keterburg has...baggage! It probably always will at least a lil, for him, even if by now Jade has made some personal growth in canon that makes thoughts of this place less completely unhappy for him--more bittersweet than anything else, nowadays. As mentioned above, it's where he was born and where he spent his childhood...and it's also where the most horrific mistakes of his life were made. The empty lot where Gelda Nebilim's schoolhouse once stood will always be there, as well as the gravestone memorializing her, and these will always be reminders to contend with every time he visits, even if he's come to better terms with it all.

Even without all the trauma, honestly, Jade likely would have wanted to move out of Keterburg sooner rather than later anyhow in his youth, likely to pursue higher education on the mainland of Malkuth as some form of fonologist; Keterburg's starting to grow and thrive as a sort of snow-tourism spot under Nephry's mayor skills these days, but in his time it was a pretty obscure and remote little town with few resources. Following the trauma that Sure Did Happen, then, Jade def had absolutely no issue with leaving Keterburg behind as a child to attend the Imperial Military Academy in Grand Chokmah (so he could pursue refining fomicry)--to the point of being willing to get himself by adopted by a respected military family to acquire the leverage for this!--and so, for a long while, his returns home were very sparse. Throughout his schooling he refused to ever visit; then, he dropped by once after the end of his draft in the Hod War, and another time a few years later to attend a wedding, both occasions mainly for his sister's sake. The third time would be during canon events by necessity after he was presumed dead in Akzeriuth for a hot minute. Now that he's improved relations both with his own memories and his sister post-canon, subsequent visits would be much...easier. Less off-putting as an idea, and perhaps finally a bit more frequent.

Funnily enough Keterburg in general does claim pride over producing two brilliant and fairly acclaimed minds in Jade and Dist, though: "Dr. Balfour and Dr. Gneiss are honored sons, prodigies produced by our fair city" or something to that effect...! Jade kind of. Wishes they wouldn't put it like that, but oh well...

49. (cw for some mention of vague suicidal ideation here haha oof) Is Jade afraid of dying as a concept? Not really. Though he would still strongly prefer not to, and so would take every measure possible to ensure it doesn't happen...!

But it's a little funny, because the underlying reasoning in this general will to live has actually fluctuated quite a bit over the course of his life. Fundamentally, Jade doesn't want to die anytime soon because he still has things he wants to do--this has always been the case, and it always will be now. But there was a decent window of time, after he gave up on fomicry as a means of resurrecting Nebilim, where a quiet and underlying sort of self-loathing often wondered if he deserved to die anyhow. If the world would have been better off without him existing altogether, even...a feeling that really Very strongly reared its head when some terrible abuses of fomicry came to light over the course of canon. There's a point in Abyss where Jade outright expresses a wish that he could travel back in time and kill himself as a child, before he ever achieved any of his childhood feats of genius that would go on to impact so many lives in such thoroughly horrific ways :(

He doesn't have this wish anymore, though. The self-loathing is still there, and probably always will be...but Jade did come to realize that his existence and his actions did produce some bits of good alongside the bad. He cannot discount this fact, and he also cannot throw away the chance he has now to do more good, while he still lives and breathes currently. Especially when acting otherwise would be an immense disservice to those who died before they ever got a chance to really live, and do the things they wanted to do. The plight of short-lived replicas in general, and especially Luke's death after only seven years of being alive--while making every clear indication of wishing he could continue living--these were observed experiences that Jade has taken thoroughly to heart, and are now a sort of talisman he holds close to his chest against that self-loathing that's never really gone away. He can't atone, but he can still...try to do better, and he has to keep trying for as long as he possibly can. No taking an early out, no shying away from the task at hand. Since he still isn't afraid of dying, he wouldn't necessarily flinch from sacrificing himself for dear friends or a much greater good--but he'd also have to find that there's literally no other option at hand, and he's not above taking long-term risks if it means there's still a chance at survival later.

This is why he's fundamentally against the idea of destroying the captain at the expense of destroying themselves in Sail currently, btw! If he's taking that route he wants a guarantee on a way to do it without killing them all, or at the very least a similar guarantee that every other possible alternative avenue has been completely exhausted beforehand. Some of yall may have a death wish but he's actually actively trying to deny his own and doesn't care for seeing it in others ok...!

[astrogator]

🍑 : how meticulously does my muse look after their physical appearance? do they spend a lot of time on their hair, makeup, grooming, and clothing? is there a particular reason why they do or don’t?

[astrogator]

🍐 : how intelligent is my muse overall? are they smarter than the average person, or less than? are they primarily self-taught, or did they acquire most of their knowledge in school? are they more street smart or book smart?

[astrogator]

🍋 : what kind of diet does my muse have? do they eat regularly, or the standard 2-3 meals a day? do they have to be reminded to eat, or are they likely to remind others? do they cook, or have others cook for them? do they eat healthily, or not so much?

[myagic]

I don't even have to headcanon for this one because Rita's weirdness is all very, very canonical...

There's her blastia (magitech) obsession that goes so far that she names them, talks to them, and just generally treats them like living, feeling beings, which is the main thing that has her branded as a weirdo in her hometown since she doesn't hide it at all

There's the cuter and slightly less weird version of the above, where she'll openly talk to cats and meow at them. Then again, this has its weird side too, although this is one she tries to play off and claim she didn't say anything. Even Rita has a line where she becomes at least slightly self-conscious about these things.

There's her habit of writing her name and/or initials on...her money. She claims it's so she can see when it comes back after it's been spent and so it can "bring its friends, too"--and she uses this as a reason to encourage the others to spend more money. Don't leave her in control of the budget...

III guess for a headcanon, you just know she'd be the type of person to talk gently to plants and play music to get them to grow big and healthy...

tldr she's a weirdoGENIUS and proud of it

[not_the_last]

'Unusual' is so subjective though! Okay, okay --

Cassandra is canonically a d&d Rogue. I've extrapolated from that to say that she's always enjoyed sneaking around in hidden spaces and people-watching from hiding, and that she's pretty good at it. I'd say she's proud of it and hides it, most of the time. :)

[not_the_last]

Cassandra likes her privacy, but has also been horribly lonely, and those are somewhat at odds. Her status at home makes it difficult to make lasting friendships, as everybody who lives in Whitestone and isn't one of her family members is technically one of her subjects, and anybody who can talk to her as an equal is inevitably going to leave.

I've headcanoned that she's fairly close to her personal guards, Trisha and Kynan (canon) and Bell (OC, no relation to Bertrand Bell). They're not her peers and can't ever be, but she relies on them absolutely and their loyalty means the world to her.

Here, of course, things are very different, and she's finding herself very much wanting to make friends -- without any clear idea how that works.

[not_the_last]

Nonfiction: military strategy, especially to do with intelligence. (It's canon that she reads them; the headcanon part is that she actively enjoys them.)

Fiction: adventure romance with happy endings.

[not_the_last]

Making a list. Most likely either things she plans to do once this period of enforced idleness is over, or things she would like to be doing instead.

shameless plug

[not_the_last]

FOR FURTHER HEADCANONS you may be interested to consult my Stories; I'm pretty much playing Cass in accordance with them.

how much further if you can spin -- fairly short, takes place during the Briarwood Arc and is heavily composed of nonsequential flashbacks, primarily a state-of-mind study.

forgive us the days forgotten to fear -- long, multichaptered, covers the entirety of Campaign 1 from the Briarwood Arc onward plus a couple of weeks after.

3 days later...

[neverleave]

🍍 : how comfortable are they in their body? how do they feel about their height, weight, strength, and body type? how important is being attractive to them?
He's very comfortable in his body and the only things he doesn't like are his height (wishes he was taller, but would never admit it) and shiki-related stuff, like his second set of fangs or occasional red rings in his eyes. He also hates the thought of looking 15 forever. He doesn't care much about being attractive, but recently he pays more attention to what a certain genius mage likes...

🍇 : how would they describe their childhood? how much has it impacted the person they are now, or will become as an adult? around what age did they or will they start to mature, and why? do they wish to go back to their days as a child, or have they embraced adulthood?
He'd say he had a normal childhood, and if he allows himself to open up a bit more, will add that his parents annoyed him more often than not. While he's always been mature for his age, it's more accurate to say he was disillusioned fairly early, seeing how his parents interacted with society and vice versa. He was bullied for having unmarried parents, and when he asked if they could just get married they just lectured him about how marriage was an old-fashioned and irrelevant concept. On the other hand, whenever he acted in a way his parents didn't like, they'd scold him. Natsuno thinks of his parents as people who do things half-measure, which pushed him to become an all-or-nothing person. He also came to believe his parents will never care about what he wants, so he decided to do everything in his power to become self-sufficient and independent. He definitely doesn't want to return to early childhood, because he was more helpless and thin-skinned then.

🍉 : which of the four seasons suits them best, and why?
Autumn. Melancholy and cold, but not as bad as one might think.

8. Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging?
Consuming campy media and playing games. He will rationalize the worst movies and silliest games as "i need to clear my head and there's nothing better around", but the truth is that he enjoys it unironically and just can't admit it.

Lately though, his favorite indulgence is being close to the aforementioned genius mage... his feelings about it are warm, loving and blanket. It's incredible and he never wants to stop.

21. Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?
Probably this.

22. How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?
Highly organized and neat. His closet/bed may be a little messy - he's a teenager after all - but his desk/important storage are always organized (shut up Jade he knew exactly where every knife was under the mattress). If he's taking notes, expect them to be neat and clear. His mind is similarly organized: he's rational and logical and tries to choose his words carefully in important conversations. He researches things carefully, even something ridiculous like a vampire invasion, and he tries to plan things in advance.

35. What makes them feel guilty?
Hurting people he cares about. He tries not to linger on guilt too much though, because he doesn't like regretting things or feeling sorry for himself. He'd rather suck it up, take responsibility and try to do better.

36. Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?
Extremely analytical unless someone he cares about is in trouble and then it's all emotion, logic's out the window.

47. How do they express love?
His love language is definitely "quality time." While he isn't particularly wordy about it, he's definitely devoted. He wants to spend time with the beloved person, will do 95% of what they ask him even if he thinks it's annoying or embarrassing, and wants to protect them at any cost. With that special someone, he'll also be physically affectionate, so expect a lot of handholding, hugs or just leaning against the other person like a cat demanding attention. Will definitely crash at their place without asking.

[be_seeing_you]

He has a predictable eating schedule. Always eggs and toast for breakfast, sometimes with bacon and beans if he's feeling like being traditional. He keeps lunch simple with sandwiches and then eats a heartier dinner. Given the choice, he does like to cook for himself and even for others. He is competent at it but doesn't usually do fancy meals. He's not obsessed with healthy eating, however, he does avoid eating sweets so he will stay trimmed. Since coming to Sail, however, that sweet tooth is starting to creep back.

[uncodlyawwesome]

eridan is the perfect example of a character with high intelligence but low wisdom. he loves maritime history and i like to think he spends a lot of his time reading. not even because he likes it, but because it feels like something Smart people do, and He's Smart, so...

in reality he is a 13 y/o who was raised by a fucking seahorse, sooo the fact that he knows how to tie his own shoes is pretty impressive to me. i think because he's the kind of guy who WANTS to be a know-it-all, he tends to look up everything people tell him, hoping to find some way where he can prove he's smarter (and therefore better) than them.

also, he has literally no social/emotional intelligence, and so the only way you can tell he's smart is when he isn't talking about himself. but he's ALWAYS talking about himself, sooooo....

[broshaw]

i'd say sharky was a lot more lackadasical about his appearnce back home than he is here on the ship. he lived largely by himself, with only his equally-fashion-minded family for company, and would probably live his entire life without pants if he could. the only thing he did was make sure he took a shower at least once a week!

then the collapse happened, the world ended, and sharky was like "damn, i miss soap." don't know wht you got until it's gone, right??? and post-collapse, there was no need to focus on anything but surviving. despite this, i think he did his best to keep his hair and beard brushed and like, free of foodstuffs and shit. i also hc that he would at least pretend to clean his teeth, which meant tht he managed to avoid losing any of them!

once on the ship, sharky spent like, a solid 2 months showering every day (2x times!) with lots of soap and cologne. he got help early on from effie with some fashion pointers, and these days he *almost* looks like a put-together individual. he's more meticulous than he was before about his hair, teeth, etc, but he hasn't gone overboard.

(there were like, 2 weeks in november where he wore the same 3 pairs of sweats as he slowly lost his shit over being possessed, but he's better now! promise!!!)

[ss_buttcrack]

He spends way too much time staring off into space thinking about stuff, or fiddling with his hands, or writing in a journal trying to make sense of the world. He feels like he should be staying busy but lately he's gotten more lax about it.

[ss_buttcrack]

His childhood was honestly good. He had some emotional issues about growing up in his father's shadow, being a Junior and all that, but he had two loving parents and two loving sisters and a good house in a good neighborhood. He didn't want for much. He went to an excellent school, got good grades, got into the space program. His life was comfortable and his career was successful. It made meeting people who came from very different situations a shock at first. He probably didn't really become completely mature until after the wormhole took him away from his comfortable life and threw him to the mercy of the universe. It did, however, give him a very clear idea of what love and support are supposed to look like. He wouldn't go back to being that shallow and naive version of himself now, even if it would cause him less pain. He's had his eyes opened and he knows how important that is if he really wants to make a better world.

[ss_buttcrack]

Here, Arthur is his best friend (and boyfriend, but it still counts). He's really close with Nobunaga and Bash too. On Earth, his best friend was his childhood friend DK. On Moya, if it wasn't Aeryn (his girlfriend) then it was D'argo.

His number one enemy is still the same no matter where he goes, Scorpius (and the Scorpius clone Harvey who lives in his brain.)

[ss_buttcrack]

On Earth, he was either in jeans and a t-shirt or it was cargo pants and Hawaiian shirts. He never cared much for dressing fancy. He doesn't really bother with fashion.

On Moya he's wearing whatever fits off the dead guys they encountered. Leather is better protection than cotton. He still doesn't really care about fashion.

[ss_buttcrack]

1. Summer! He misses Florida and the beaches and going fishing with his dad. He's not a fan of the cold.

2. Now? His favorite gun, Winona. He was willing to dive off a cliff to go get it. The other is his module, the Farscape One. Before he lost it, it was probably the puzzle ring his dad gave him.

3. He values privacy and feels like he never gets enough of it anymore. As much as he tends to blab, he actually is pretty careful about who he tells the TMI stuff to.

4. Can he have both? He is very pro-human (obviously) but he's spent a lot of time getting kicked around by people that make him feel really inferior. Yet, somehow, his ego survives.

5. You would think with how often he throws himself headfirst into danger that he wouldn't be afraid of dying, but hell yeah he is very afraid of death. He just isn't, apparently, properly motivated by that fear. He really is very afraid he will die out there in space and never see his family again and no one will ever know what happened to him.

[mistertwister]

The easiest way to explain it is "running away from home". The root of that, though, is wishing the last things he'd said to his family were different. He wants to think they knew he didn't actually hate them, but he can't clear that up anymore, and that might never sit right with him.

[mistertwister]

However he feels about the place, it's undeniable that living there impacted just about every aspect of who he was. All the bullying and lack of anonymity a small town brings turned him combative and touchy, and growing up on farms teaches you a certain kind of respect. All of his good qualities were grown in that soil. But being known as the kid who gets in fights is a self fulfilling privacy.

[fonomena]

🥝 : (This tidbit isn't even headcanon lmao but) Jade has always had a fascination with the anatomy of living things! This manifested in Very Unfortunate ways in his youth, as one of his favored childhood past-times was once killing monsters on the outskirts of town with fonic artes and then taking apart the corpses to figure out how the body parts worked. In later years he'd also become extremely well-versed in the anatomy of the human body, mostly thanks to the years he spent in his resurrection-obsession phase proctoring human experiments trying to troubleshoot the biology of flawed human replicas, alongside often needing to do things like pull more replica data from dead soldiers to further said research pursuits. (The rumors back home about him picking through corpses on battlefields wasn't entirely unfounded in that sense tbh....) By extension this does mean he can actually field basic medical assessments just mostly thanks to being well aware of How A Body Works, but Jade is still quick to assure any who ask that he's very much not that kind of doctor; in fact, he pleasantly points out at one point in canon that his skillset in this category is more fitting for a mortician than anything else. ...But yeah that aside, while he's long since outgrown that nasty childhood habit of just killing animals for fun willy-nilly, he does still have a rather off-puttingly keen interest in things like dissecting and taking samples from particularly interesting creature specimens he's never encountered before--you know, when a corpse of such a thing might happen to become available! It's actually really funny (and extremely fortunate) how the overall lack of living things besides passengers in Sail means nobody's seen this side of Jade in action yet LMAO....it was a close call on salamander island tho, if he wasn't so preoccupied about the upcoming heist he probably would have taken a scalpel to some critter or another there. Also we're not looking at him very briefly succumbing to his old bone-collecting habits wrt that one time after Skulduggery crashed a car off a cliffside that was an extenuating circumstance all around ok--

To dip into actual headcanon a bit, though...! And add something slightly less cursed to this smh: I also figure that Jade is moderately knowledgeable about styling long hair! Which some might find surprising, considering his general personality and the fact that he rarely does much with his own hair himself. When he was a child he ended up teaching himself how to do a few nice hair things for his younger sister, though, and the knowledge has stuck as a latent sort of thing. He got to tap into this recently on the ship via teaching Fio how to braid her hair......

18. Back home it'd mostly have been a sort of mental review of the day's events, or mulling over implications or latent suspicions about certain things he's noticed in interactions with others here and there. Usually he'd be writing physical notes about things in some form right before going to sleep, too, so in-bed thoughts after putting out the light for the night would just be a mental extension of that sort of process. In Sail it's still pretty much these things too! ...Though sometimes there's added worries about the rather grim outlook of everyone's overall current existence here/all the things that could possibly go wrong based off the sparse hints of upcoming excursions/whatever awfulness is transpiring currently/thoughts about home, sometimes. ...It all boils down to yet more reasons why Jade doesn't really sleep much on the whole, tbh, this big brain of his just does not shut up sometimes rip

27. In canon, and pretty much to this day, Jade's best friend was Peony Upala Malkuth IX. This is the current crown emperor of Malkuth! ...Jade literally broke into his house when they were children! It's, a long story, but to date Peony has always been one of the few people in Jade's life who actually almost completely understands how Jade ticks, as a general rule; in turn, he's also one of the few people who can generally engage Jade as a flat equal in snide troll combat, and when they aren't giving each other a hard time they both mutually value each other's insights quite a lot. Alas, in Sail Jade's had yet to find any one friend quite equivalent to Peony, though he does consider Tear as one of his closest and most trusted allies currently, thanks to all they went through together with the rest of their party over the course of canon events before finding themselves here.

As to worst enemy: It'd probably be Van Grants, back home, for the absolute awfulness he tried to pull in literally genociding the world's population to replace it all with replicas, setting aside the cruel things he also put Tear and Luke through. Though that problem has...been taken care of, by the end of canon. There's still kind of a lot of bitter baggage revolving around Dist for many reasons as well--especially being singlehandedly responsible for spreading around the means of using fomicry on human beings even after Jade tried to ban that knowledge--though after certain events even that vehemence has simmered down just a little. In Sail the captain is honestly still kind of Enemy #1 for myriad reasons, even if Jade isn't necessarily on board with taking him out just yet (see: the headcanon blurb wrt death and dying and how he'd Really Prefer Not To Thanks up above). The man may have had much less of a directly malicious hand in the last few events to befall the ship, but Jade still hasn't forgotten that he's still the one keeping everyone captive on this boat currently, and he also hasn't forgotten certain things like the battle royale, or his initial claim that he believes suffering provides greater power than joy. It'd sure be great if Skulduggery's belief in him being capable of change bears fruit, but that needs more time to actually be seen, and Jade's not about to stop being wary of things turning for the worse again anytime soon. Otherwise, though, he doesn't have any particularly strong outright beef with the other current passengers here just yet! So, at least, there's that...!

[fonomena]

🍋 : Jade admittedly didn't have a strong commitment to three meals a day in daily life back home; the more absorbed he gets in a certain amount of work, the more he tends to forget his own appetite, and the more likely he is to skip multiple meals in a day or just sort of snack sparingly between tasks. But when traveling with the rest of the party over the course of the game he probably ended up tracking meals a lot more closely! Just by virtue of certain other whiny youths being prone to complaining the moment they go too long without a food break of some kind smh. And now that he's on the ship, he's currently experiencing rather a lot more downtime than he's used to (you know, between The Horrors), so sitting down for some form of meal three times a day has actually become yet another way to pass that time with some very vague form of productivity, alongside it adding just a little more structure to an otherwise pretty aimless day (again, when there aren't The Horrors).

While Jade's not opposed to eating out sometimes, he'd usually cook for himself while living on his own, even despite the fact that he almost definitely had at least a couple servants at home in Grand Chokmah who'd be obliged to do it for him. He's Pretty Decent at cooking, too! As he mostly views it as just another particularly edible form of chemistry that can be interesting to mess around with, at the end of the day. He's part of the "why doesn't this boat at least have a kitchen to fiddle with ugh" coalition tbqh 😤 ...Though...when cooking for others he has a bad habit of Experimenting.....nothing lethal or overtly unpleasant, ofc, but you know!! How long would it take for someone notice their least favorite food being in a dish if it were seasoned or plated this certain way? How would this very mild poison react to this broth, and the person drinking it? If he substituted this for that, would a picky eater be able to tell?? Always be at least a little wary if Jade is cooking for you or handing you a weird new drink folks, even friends are not entirely safe--

Apparently his least favorite foods are anything containing pork or rappig meat, while his more favored foods are salmon, tofu, and wine (which is totally also a food ofc). Alongside these established canon preferences, I figure that in general Jade's probably quite inclined towards seafoods on the whole alongside salmon, especially sushi and the like! I imagine one of Keterburg's few claims to capital back in the day was a moderately robust fishing economy, positioned close to the sea as it was, so many of his childhood meals probably reflected as much. He also tends to incline towards healthier plates than not with a decent amount of greens, and smaller servings; not so big on sugary things at all, generally, though he does have just a bit of a soft spot for peppermint-flavored things and hot chocolate. There may or may not be very early memories of gathering in the schoolhouse with Nephry and Peony and Saphir after a long cold day roaming outdoors, and warming by the hearth while Professor Nebilim would prepare mugs for everyone...