#first one is how rumours of randy being replaced by a creepy doppleganger start to circulate in school lol

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Do you think that your “human” Nomicon would be the type to stare at everyone? To the Nomicon, it might treat its staring as observing and assessing situations and people to see whether or not they’re a threat to be looked after. To everyone else… it’s just creepy.

I guess? The thing is, when its in a "human disguise" aka "wearing someone else's face", it already looks completely unnatural and creepy, so staring is like the least of people's concern, considering that Nomicon sometimes forgets people breath and blink automatically, and fidget/move/do a 100 micro motions a second, so it kinda just...doesn't do it, unless reminded. So yea it kinda does stare and completely ignores any human cues about prolonged eye contact and etc.

And when it is in its base form, its face is a black void with only pinpricks of green ligth for eyes so its kind of hard to tell if it is staring at you or into space, or if it has any expression at all?

so it uses doodles for additional emotion expression xD

Pfff, listen, despite how much I adore the thought of a 800 year old artefact having a beef with one rude teen, I do believe that Nomicon doesn't actually hate Howard. It is annoyed, exasperated, generally tired of his obnoxious, rude and disregarding behaviour, but it does not hate him. If anything Nomicon is somewhat amused by the amount of disdain Howard has towards it. And because of that it likes to mess with Howard.

Randy of course doesn't believe Howard that Nomicon sometimes purposefully messes with him, because why would a 800 year old book spirit will go out of its way to do it? ;)