#and also i am slowly getting through asks folks as;lkdjfs brain is not cooperating; my apologies

[kerra-and-company]

📔😊⭐️🍐 for Finch? :3c

@mystery-salad

Finch hours!! Thank you thank you :3 :D (Also, that first emoji is showing up weird on my computer for some reason, but I think it's the notebook, so I'll answer that one, and apologies if that's not what you meant!)

📙 What kind of subjects (of conversation, of discussion, in school or whatever) does your OC find interesting or engaging or that they can talk for hours about? What kind of stuff do they just find fun? What things bore your OC to tears and they couldn’t care less about? Why?

Finch will absolutely ramble about whatever its latest project is, particularly anything related to the specifics of integrating magic and technology. Or about stealth tech, or about how the environment affects visibility and interacts with technology, or about the specifics of how its own magic works, or--well, you kinda get the idea. Anything in this vein that it finds even vaguely interesting, it will talk to you about as long as you're willing to talk to it. (Assuming you're someone it trusts at least a bit, that is.)

Finch is not a weaponry expert, and it doesn't particularly enjoy discussing that type of technology--less because it's boring and more because it's not really in Finch's wheelhouse. (Also, partially because it's had some not-so-great discussions with people on this topic before and is wary of the various paths that a discussion about weapons can take.) Something solidly boring to it...paperwork. That's not something you'd necessarily have a discussion with it about, but it absolutely hates paperwork, particularly paperwork that's way too complicated for something simple. It would very much hate the type of "busy work" homework that students in our world would get, too--sitting down and putting in effort to do something both uninteresting and without a worthwhile outcome is The Worst. (Also, its worst enemy is definitely the Ministry of Transit xD--I'm half-joking, but only half.)

😊 What can make your OC smile even when they’re feeling down? What cheers them up and makes everything feel better for them? Is your OC generally a happy person and do they enjoy making others smile? What about your OC makes others happy?

Drawing it into a conversation about the things it enjoys would probably be able to make it smile, almost always (or at minimum distract it from whatever was going on). Stuff that could cheer it up: spending quiet time with people it cares about, going through its assorted collections of odds and ends (mostly small, rare, and/or obscure technical components), having a decent warm meal of some kind. Is it generally a happy person...it generally has a lot of energy, but not necessarily generally happy. Just generally bouncing off the walls, so to speak. It does indeed enjoy making people it cares for happy/making them smile. As for what about it makes others happy, for an abbreviated list: it very easily slips into unbridled enthusiasm for things, has only gotten progressively more unafraid to call out crap (which to be fair makes some people very happy and other people very irritated), and is generally a sweetheart unless it has reason not to be.

⭐ What is your OC afraid of? Any crippling phobias or some such? How do they act when scared and what helps them calm down? Does anyone ever find your OC scary? Why?

Deep water. Like, not water in general, but specifically water that's deep enough that you can't see the bottom. And if it's too scared (which is a pretty high threshold, to be fair) it will fully vanish into shadow and yeet itself as far away as possible from whatever is terrifying it. If it hits that point, it often needs to be alone for a bit afterwards, but eventually having people there and more of a sense of "normalcy" will help as well. As for if anyone ever finds it scary--specifically for its specter magic, sometimes, or in the rare cases it loses its temper.

🍐 What is your OC’s mentality? Are they overall positive? Negative? A bit of both? Describe their thought patterns and reasoning behind their choice making!

Maybe slightly positive-leaning, I'd say? It's more neutral than anything, but it has historically put a positive spin on some situations because it's needed to do that as...I guess a coping mechanism is the best term for it. If it put a negative spin on everything, it would be doing a lot worse, and also probably would never have run away.