#even if in this verse their relationship could potentially be a tad more dramatic....

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AND THIS IS!! FOR VERSE THREE:

🔥 What kind of pieces has he done through wood carving? Does he keep these pieces as personal items or gives them away to other people? 🔥 What are his favorite books to read? Has he retrieved any kind of information from books as to use them for his skills or any situation he's faced? 🔥 What are his favorite scents when it comes to bath salts? 🔥 Does he have a pocket knife he always uses or that's always with him? If so, is it personalized in some kind of way; maybe added marks or something to it? 🔥Is there a situation you'd like to write out in this verse but haven't? 👀

Also feel free to skip any questions here IUWHEDWHD; HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL, TAKE MUCH CARE, MY DEAR FRIEND!!

now the victor is on the hot seat ( nosy questions for the birthday enby w/ @jeoseungsaja )

HI ALEX!!! here i am again with more of your WONDERFUL QUESTIONS :DDD thank you again for these; i will try to answer them all to the best of my ability <3

🔥 What kind of pieces has he done through wood carving? Does he keep these pieces as personal items or gives them away to other people?

okie so i was actually going to recon this headcanon ( there are a few things i want to revise for this verse especially with what i know about hyuk now here 👀) into more like, yes he does do wood carving, but it’s not really the artistic kind ^^’ i’d say it’s more like, you know how some people will pick up a random stick and just start shaving away at it until there’s nothing left? Yeah that’s the kind of carving patrick does….i wouldn’t be surprised if when he and hyuk are at the beach, that’s typically how patrick passes the time– he finds a random piece of driftwood and just idly shaves away at it while listening to the waves and enjoying hyuk’s company <3

🔥 What are his favorite books to read? Has he retrieved any kind of information from books as to use them for his skills or any situation he's faced? 

In this verse, he hardly reads fiction, mostly because i’m assuming that the books published in panem are probably pro-capitol. Books from before that (think of say, pride and prejudice, etc.) are probably found in the capitol, but you won’t be seeing anyone in the districts getting their hands on these legally at least–). So i could see patrick being more interested in reading say, history books? Anything related to history even though he knows that most accounts are, again, pro-capitol…this probably also ties into his capitol public persona as an academic, where he’s considered a ‘historian’ regarding panemian history….of course this’ll come back to bite the capitol in the ass 🙂

( on a note of after the second revolution, i could see patrick like, writing just one book on a comprehensive history of panem, one that cover both the districts and the capitol and it’s complete with interviews and primary and secondary sources….he had that published and then fucked off into obscurity aka he wanted no cameras on him ever again. he probably also played a role also in setting up a national university for both the district and the capitol students…although he would stick to teaching history in solely district three for the rest of his life <3 )

He will also read about science books and about the other districts/the capitol. The latter, he uses to kinda?? Get a better sense of the places he’s either stuck in or could be visiting, while the former, you could say it’s a paranoia thing just in case he’s ever thrown back into the games for a second time– this being said, i do think before he reaped, since he and hyuk did sneak out to the one beach at the edge of district three, he did do some reading about marine life and forest survival…whether that information actually did help him out though, who can say 🥲

🔥 What are his favorite scents when it comes to bath salts? 

Probably nothing too fancy, but he definitely would hate anything that was too…sweet-smelling, like roses or vanilla. I could see him liking more of the refreshing scents kinda like, eucalyptus, peppermint or tea tree. Considering that often he take a bath after meeting with snow’s ‘clients’, i think he prefers sharp smells as the scent would ground him to the present moment. Keep his thoughts from spiraling too far. 

🔥 Does he have a pocket knife he always uses or that's always with him? If so, is it personalized in some kind of way; maybe added marks or something to it?

i could definitely see him having one although it wouldn’t be anything fancy. I could see his favorite being say, something you’d find in the black market, something secondhand from district three. Mind you, he probably did get a fancy pocket knife here and there from snow’s ‘clients’, but i don’t see him keeping them…most likely he would’ve given them away or simply just thrown them out.

as for his usual one, the personalization is probably something very simple, like a carving of his initials into the handle. Just in case it gets lost ( although i don’t see that happening ever since well…never assume a dog no matter how sweet doesn’t know how to bite 🙃)

🔥Is there a situation you'd like to write out in this verse but haven't? 👀

Ahhhhh my favorite question on this list, alex i’m afraid you’ve opened pandora’s box here JFKLSDJFLK :3 

But honestly? I think the connections that he has for this verse already do a wonderful job with fulfilling all the hypothetical situations i’d write him into ( and if there is more…well i do know who to ask ;D ) that being said…

i would be interested in writing patrick in the initial aftermath of felicity’s passing OR in a case where hyuk is say, kidnapped by the capitol (aka there’s no guarantee that he’s alive or dead) ? of course that would be super depressing so it’s not like we would have to go all in depth, but at least i would like to see a patrick that is perhaps temporarily unhinged as that’s not a side that comes out often and i have yet to see what that would look like in action. in the case of hyuk being ‘missing’ since hyuk here is patrick’s rock, take hyuk away and any stability that patrick is known for showing would probably just…crumble. like yeah, he’ll act he’s perfectly fine and composed but he’d also be consistently two steps away from a breakdown…probably would need to be sedated at some points in time to calm down :’(

if we’re talking about hyurick tho, this is going to be so vague, but i wanna write it all with you :D firstly bc hyurick has my whole heart and brain space BUT also i am genuinely curious to see how they interact in this depresso verse!! whereas in the black knight verse, they are on the same side and do agree on what the right thing is to do even if they throw barbs at each other :’DDD; here, however, just based on what you’ve told me about hyuk so far, patrick and hyuk each have very different ideologies/ways of being in this society. So i am curious to see how they navigate their friendship/relationship despite disagreeing on this very fundamental level…and also seeing how they might accidentally screw each other over in the process too ( aka hyuk tries to start rebellion things and patrick tries to sabotage said plan bc that’s gonna get hyuk killed 😣).

that and the reunion kiss we talked about 👀i need a play-by-play walkthrough of that PLS 🥺🥺🥺

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Alright at last I am about to lay down some information about Metal!Erik

Brace yourselves because this gonna be long. 

So first, I think I should start with backstory?..

Erik became a victim to human trafficking at the age of five, when his mother sold him into an illegal circus. He endured all kinds of horrors from being locked away, beaten and mocked to being raped. It lasted four years until the circus was seized by police. Erik was taken to an orphanage, however little better awaited for the poor boy. Unwilling to live there shunned and loathed, he ran away in less than a year. After wandering in the streets of Paris aimlessly for two months or so, he met Antoinette (Madame Giry). She was a few years older than him, ballerina in training, an orphan too, but  chaperoned by the theater as a young shooting star. Antoinette took pity in Erik, thus hid him in the vaults of Opera house and took care of him. Urban Legends whispered the theater was haunted, so it was easy for Erik to pass as a ghost. In Opera Populaire, he discovered his genius and undying love for music. When Antoinette turned eighteen, already a quite famous dancer, she at last was able to make herself Erik’s legal guardian after gaining him fake documents. Life was not smooth for them despite her salary. Erik was tormented by severe mental disorders and emotional problems, struggling with rapidly developing addictions and lack of social skill. Antoinette’s lover left her with child. But they were strong, they survived. Erik soon found his love for metal. It seemed like an insane idea back then, however he decided to try and combine his two most beloved branches of music. In such way, he became Phantom, one of the first to perform symphonic black metal. It took time, it took sweat and blood, people acknowledge how exquisite his talent and skill was. Antoinette, seeing his potential, dropped her new job as a ballet coach and became his manager. Around thirty five, Phantom was already a metal legend. In his free time, he draws a lot as well. He even had contributed to some architecture projects. 

Now some facts that vary, amrite? 

Metal!Erik is based on Gerik, so he is natural blonde, however he dyes his hair black. His hair nearly reaches his waist, falling in charming lush curls. His beard is dyed too. Yes. He actually has a fucking beard. 

His relationship with his deformity is a tad different than in original verse. Yes, of course he loathes himself for it and tends to blame it for many misfortunes (after all, it was the reason why his mother despised him and sold him into the circus). But he does not go as far as thinking of himself cursed. He lives in modern times. He knows the diagnosis, capillary malformation. He still hides under a mask or corpse paint, but he knows he is ill, not damned. 

He is quite heavily tattooed, has tongue piercing. His ears are pierced in nine places.

He fell in love with metal because it was dark, unbound music. Art of outcasts. Sound of freedom. 

Phantom can be counted as an one-man-band. All studio records are done solely by himself. For shows, Madame Giry hires guest musicians. He mostly tends to play keyboards and vocals during shows, but guitar at times as well. 

Yes, he does still compose some clean symphonic music and he does still enjoy Opera. 

He is a loner. He rarely befriends people, even fears them. If not Madame Giry, he would be lost. He mostly tends to leave the house in the evening or at night. He communicates little even with fellow musicians, but interestingly, tends to at times answer fan messages. After all, it’s easier to do through the internet. 

He is not too fond of being photographed unless he is on stage.

His mental disorders include severe PTSD, anxiety, depression, insomnia, night terrors, panic attacks and occasional hallucinations. No need to mention emotional trauma, self loathing and lack of social skill. They already had been mentioned before... 

He smokes occasionally as well as struggles with drug additions. He had been to rehab a few times. Yes, he does drink, but it does not affect him much. 

Unlike original verse Erik, he knows what to do with his body. It would be a hard feat to actually date, but he has had occasional one-night-stands, especially in younger years. Back then, he would at times even use sex to get his way.

However he does long for love and sincere affection. Perhaps even secretly for a family (well he does have Antoinette and Meg though). 

In this verse he sees Meg as a younger sister and a friend. He would die for her, he would kill for her. This can be flexible though.

Madame Giry to him is a sister, a friend, a motherly figure and the bad cop. She is mostly the one to keep him together. They had always been there for one another and would will be. 

He has a few cats. He tends to bring stray cats at home. 

Madame Giry has him work part time in a tattoo parlor in hopes to improve his social skills. 

He despises religion and any form of ignorance. He is deeply into occult. 

Remember in this post X I stated I can portray Erik as a sort-of hermaphrodite? Well, with this addition (without it if you are alright or more comfortable with simple mpreg and no scientific justification), the story gets all the more dramatic. At thirteen, he had an abortion. I speculate he got his way for the fake documents. He did not want to get rid of the baby, but he was too weak and young to carry it. The pregnancy would have either ended with miscarriage or his death. At fifteen, he gave up a baby for adoption. The one-night-stand most likely has something to do with Antoinette being able to adopt him, as it’s not very realistic for an eighteen year old to gain custody without some not very legal aid. He wept, he wanted to keep and raise the baby, but understood there was no way he could support it. He still regrets the parting (if your character wishes they can encourage him to look for the child, but he deems it hopeless). Two miscarriages followed in his twenties. For these quite horrendous experiences, as much as he would yearn for a family, it frightens him to even think about it. Getting pregnant again would frighten him immensely because he would have little hope of everything turning out alright. 

Sooo... for now, that's it?.. I may update this, I may not...