#for context to the unaware: kite is a gnoll

[mylordshesacactus]

Ooooh question 12 for any and/or all of your DND characters?

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What perfectly-normal-to-them-thing does your OC do that confuses/pisses off/terrifies their neighbors?

Benny: Ironically, it's actually NOT the dire boar or the polymorphed adventurers or the planebound helldogs or the poison crops. Their neighbors, in the very small and extremely isolated and otherwise legitimately completely normal mountain village of Arrowfelle, know about all those things.

They consider Benny's family to be upstanding and dependable members of the community--they're generous with what magic they have, they're polite and down-to-earth, they've never once charged for any kind of medicine or healing potion. They're good neighbors. Not too proud to accept help from others, either. Benny dated a nice boy from a neighboring farm for a few years when she was younger, they ended things on good terms, nobody had any issue with her being a tiefling.

Away from home, however, the fact that (around a trusted party, anyway) she casually speaks--and writes her personal notes and letters home in--conversational Infernal openly and like it's no big deal? Tends to freak folks out.

(On a much pettier note, the fact that she calls her dog "my love" can weird people out until they realize that in Benny's mind that's an inherently familial form of address--it's what her MOM calls her, don't be gross.)

Rinda: Goddamn paladins always trying to adopt my stablehands--git! go on, git! marge, get the broom, we got another one--

(Rinda and her wife Talet own a small home in a largely inaccessible stretch of rugged mountain--they don't have neighbors, and it's by choice.)

Atri: She's a genuinely devout cleric of the Goddess of Death, which is enough to freak a lot of people out--even though Atri herself doesn't do the like, emo Aura Of Menace thing. She cares deeply about the dead and the undead, and believes very earnestly that death is a natural part of life and not to be feared. Essentially--it's not that she DOES anything, it's that people get Weird when they learn you're the director of a funeral home.

Kite: Do I need to say it.

Sedge: She's an EXTREMELY martial druid (Sedge in the background: I'M NOT A FUCKING DRUID) so like. Circle druids see this girl who legitimately hates nature (not in like, a pokemon villain way, in a "camping sounds like hell no thanks" way) and it's off-putting. Meanwhile, other sword jocks see her casting sunlight spells and summoning vines. And it's off-putting.

Lorne: Miss Lorne Cooper has been requested to stop slaughtering her enemies with a battleaxe on school grounds, as while her peers emphasize that the level of bloodlust is extremely understandable given a career in academia, it makes the undergrads nervous.

Concorde: STOP FUCKING MY SISTER--

Honestly, legitimately I think the thing that other sailors get weirded out by is that Concorde is like..........normal friends? with a lot of the sex workers at her usual ports of call. She's also a regular client of many of them! But there's a lot of girls that she knew as a kid or something--or, frankly, several that she recognizes are her "type" in a way that would quickly turn romantic for her, and she recognizes that that's not fair or healthy when what they were proposing was a business transaction.

So she's not good for locker room talk.

And then also I think some people find it a little odd the wistfully reverent way she talks about her naval patron--it's too weirdly devoted for a simple benefactor, and, for those who are aware that she's a warlock but don't know the story behind her, the level of fervent loyalty looks downright creepy.

(When an eerily bone-white tiefling warlock with blood-red highlights closes her eyes and smiles faintly and talks about her 'patron' and his 'good opinion' of her and how she 'owes him everything good in her life' and only wants to 'repay his gifts' by 'achieving something great in his name,' smart people start backing away slowly.)

(He's an ancient bronze dragon who saved her life when she was a child--he's not her master, in her heart he's her father. She just wants to make him proud someday. She doesn't realize she already has.)