#Siobhan hating wyll is slowly becoming my favorite joke

[silvertonguedcharlatan]

random OC ask: how does your OC express affection? how does it vary based on the relationship in question?

Siobhan expresses affection both in a tactile manner and by using her listening ears.

Details below

Both of these methods operate on a sliding scale of the more she does the thing, the more she likes you. Given that she hasn’t spent a ton of time around people recently (forest hermit) feeling comfortable enough to touch is a big step for her and directly correlates to how much she likes a person.

For example:

she’ll give shadowheart big hugs because she likes her and they’re best friends and if Jaheira or minsc were to grant her one she would cry because she loves and respects them So Much.

She would give Lae’zel one of those pat on the shoulder/nod combinations as a sign of respect.

Gale gets a pat on the back for doing his best and wyll gets a halfhearted limp wristed handshake at best (she doesn’t like him a ton).

Halsin gets a high five and a “good job buddy”

She and astarion will be fully making out in camp (or in public who knows they’re sickos).

The listening part is more specifically how attentive she is when you’re talking and how much she takes your opinion into consideration when making decisions. She weighs an opinion more if it comes from someone she loves and respects. And less if it comes from someone who she doesn’t care for. (Yes this means that if some she hates has an objectively good/better plan she will not be following it) (we can’t all be perfect). The more she likes a person the more of an effort she put in to listening to them and being present in conversation (it’s hard for her since before the tadventure nobody was ever really talking to her, forest hermit and all).

More examples:

she pays very close attention to astarion, Jaheira, and laezel because she likes them and respects their ideas about “fundraising and supplies acquisition”, life in general, and battle respectively.

She respects Boo’s intelligence and respects that minsc also respects it so they have the privilege of her ears.

She will listen to shadowheart but the amnesia thing makes it so most of what she knows and can offer are enhanced interrogation techniques.

She used to listen to gale more but decided better of it when she found out how readily he agreed to kill himself and not try literally ANYTHING else.

She doesn’t listen to wyll anymore, once was enough.

She also doesn’t listen to Halsin a ton, she knows exactly what pearl of the oak fathers wisdom he’s going to drop before he drops it so she doesn’t have to (the only time she ever did was to break the shadow curse because ONLY he knew how)