#if he is blank tho? or looks casually cheerful? he’s probably suffering internally shdjskd

[wishing4nuclearwinter]

🤥 💥 and ⚾ for sol?

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

Sol is an incredibly good liar. Even most people who are close to him can’t tell when he’s lying. It’s part of the reason (among many) that Boone became so antagonist towards him for a while - when he realized that Sol had been lying to him about extremely important things from the get go and Boone barely even clocked it. Absolutely destroyed any trust between them. Sol tries his hardest to be honest with his friends and found family, but it’s something that is deeply ingrained in him from long before Goodsprings. He lies to survive. Though even after Goodsprings he doesn’t mind lying to people he doesn’t care about. He had both the NCR and Caesar in his pocket for a time because of it.

That being said, Arcade learned how to read him very quickly. Sol’s tells are subtle and pretty much any verbal or fidgety cues are hidden under his speech disorder and stimming, but the biggest thing that tips Arcade off is facial expression. Sol kind of looks perpetually miserable, it’s just his resting face. When he’s lying or trying to hide an emotion (which is often), his expression becomes extremely casual and/or blank. It’s reassuring to most people, but Arcade immediately knows that something is being hidden. Boone learns this eventually as well which makes him relax around Sol a bit more.

💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?

Sol has a very difficult time even identifying his emotions. He feels them all so strongly both mentally and physically and so many of them feel the same to him. He struggles to deal with quite a few of them, even the good ones

But I’d say the one that gets him into the most trouble is guilt. He lives in a sea of it and it has almost killed him on multiple occasions. It drives him to doing outrageously reckless things and to push away anyone who tries to help. The guilt about his past was nearly insurmountable for a time. But even once he learns to cope with it, he still has issues with both big and small things. For example, his memory is awful and he can’t help it so he’ll forget things like anniversaries (his grip on the passage of time is also poor) or doing things he promised he would or meeting up with someone somewhere. It always absolutely tears him up inside when he realizes he’s forgotten. The guilt eats at him constantly and he will often go above and beyond to try to make it right but even so.

⚾ BASEBALL - can they play sports? what is their best position if they play a team sport? what's their strong suit (speed, power etc.)?

Hmmm Sol certainly hasn’t ever played any sports, but he would probably make a good athlete. Absolutely no contact sports or heavy lifting though.

He’s fast as hell and can run for a nearly inhumanly long time so he could very easily do most types of track and field. His agility is also maxed and he is very small so certain types of gymnastics would be good.

In my Dragon Age AU version of him he is a mage archer and I do believe he would be a fantastic archer given his skill sets as a sniper. I don’t know if that counts as a sport but it’s in the olympics so whatever

He’d be better at solo sports than team sports, but if he has to be in a team then making him the captain is the best move. He is good at organizing people and is tactically minded