#TB used to be an adorable menace as a hatchling but also eager to play and learn. he calmed down a lot and is a big loving doof now.

[mistfallengw2]

🖊🖊🖊 for Tocchix!

@mystery-salad

Want me to gush about my OCs? 🖊

*vibrates* okay so that's 3 right? 👀 I'm picking: little brat, drinks and TB!

1- Tocchix was a total brat as a kid. He couldn't stay still for long and he'd take full advantage of his fledgling shadow magic, climbing onto/getting into things he was not supposed to just to see if he could do it. It got particularly bad after his mother's sudden passing, with the added motivation of wanting to be part of the Order of Whispers one day pushing him beyond reasonable risks. After going too far one time and actually risking it big, his dad had a serious talk with him about it all, and Tocchix realized just how much he worried every time. Feeling terrible about it, he started behaving perfectly around him (later also Alyt and Myrn) and eventually stopped for the most part after moving to Lion's Arch, but in the meantime, everyone else was fair game if he was sure he wouldn't get caught, which was most of the time.

Case in point, he was never caught climbing onto one of the historical labs under Rata Sum to recover a trinket for his and Bunnie's secret project, but he still might be the reason a few of the older Metamystic's professors have stopped letting progeny roam around the area during school trips without intense supervision. He still claims full innocence about the Moa accident, though, he just found himself along for the ride.

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2- He's an absolute lightweight and he knows it! Just a sip is enough to make him babble and giggle for no reason, and he's completely drunk after an ale or two, let alone something stronger, yet somehow he is usually spared from serious hangovers.

Many of his friends tried to take advantage of that quirk to make him take his mind off of things during his darkest years, but he quickly caught up to that and knew it did him little good overall (the temporary levity was not worth worse nightmares), so he very rarely indulged them. The one exception was Zrii and only in a few special occasions, as she never tried to get him to talk about his feelings and instead was just fun to be around, especially while drunk.

One can then understand why Adamas quietly freaked out for a bit when, around mid-IBS, Tocchix explicitly invited by him to go drink something together, to the point he was sure that something serious had happened. He was not entirely wrong, as Tocchix wanted to ask for advice about Huki, and he needed to be under the influence to talk about such things without crumbling about his past.

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3- Tocchix is the proud "dad" of one of the first domesticated skyscales (first batch of hatchling after the first experiment with the Commander), TB!

What does that name stand for? No one is sure, actually. Tocchix never wanted to have a pet, let alone a freaking dragon, and while he agreed to help out with the baby skyscales due to circumstances (namely being roped into it while stuck in Sun's Refuge due to not wanting to be alone at the time), he was very adamant about it, so out of principle he never named the baby skyscale that had very clearly imprinted on him. Much to his annoyance, everyone else just called him "Tocchix's baby" and eventually shortened it to "TB", which then he used as the basis for a variety of nicknames (Tiny Bean, Teeny Bud/Buddy, Terror Bumps, Tremor Burps, Tender Bully, Tenacious Blanket, Trouble Boy, Temper Butt, etc), all with a funny story behind them, all in an effort not to call him "his baby".

Anyway, TB never left his side and Tocchix ended up growing attached to the little menace, so he kept him in the end (as everyone and their skyscales expected). Despite being a broad-horn bull and not exactly lithe, TB can be extremely sneaky and quiet, enough to accompany him on certain Order's missions, and he sort of acts like a therapy pet during downtime. He's also surprisingly good with kids and very gentle when he wants to, which does come in handy a lot nowadays.