#kashimah the magnificant

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♫ for Warlock! Will as well as one for Kash and Ari

Warlock!Will: Building a Mystery - Sarah McLachlan (You’re so beautiful, a beautiful fucked up man)

Kash: The Dream - The Birthday Massacre (Now she flies over clouds in twilight skies / Nothing to bind her, no one will find her this high / [...] And for the first time she feels just fine)

Bonus: I See Fire -  Zyrah (Inappropriately triumphant response to a fiery cataclysm)

Ari: Sanctuary - Paradise Fears (Pretend that you’re a ray of light when you’re a broken candle)

Bonus: Winter - Tori Amos (When you gonna make up your mind / when you gonna love you as much as I do)

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How bout 20, 22, and 24 for the headcanon ask!

Send me headcanons to match with OCs!

20. To solve other peoples problems, they say to murder the problem

ROOK. Ahraminta supports punching the problem in the face, but doesn’t immediately go straight to murder. Juniper Oakshadow has a very big sword that she is always happy for an excuse to use as well.

22. Likes dragons

Kashimah Farlong is a dragon, thank you very much. (She’s not. She’s a fire genasi with as many red dragon disciple levels as nwn2 let me give her. But she insists she’s a dragon.) ...Selwyn had a conversation with a random red dragon who wasn’t trying to ruin his life and left it going “...I suddenly understand why people try to seduce dragons,” so TAKE THAT HOW YOU WILL. THANKS SELWYN. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT UNTIL IT HAPPENED. Hazard is pretty consistently delighted when the party runs across a dragon npc, but tbh I’m not sure how much of that is that she likes dragons, how much is that she’s relieved to see someone who recognizes a motlos, and how much is just that I adore @skeleton-adventurer‘s dragons. 

24. Would bake a cake for a friend who is sad

Xolinn. Donan actually had a whole rp thread that was him... trying to bake a cake for Neeshka. His partner in crime for that was Grobnar though, so it was... an excellent disaster. (It might also have been less to cheer her up than as a bribe, but still, he would.) Alastroine might if she knows that this is a friend who enjoys cake, but it might not be her first idea.

And, as always, there’s Nikki from my middle/high school years

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I like how you can tell Zhjaeve “But I don’t have enough shards to make it complete” when you’re going to reforge the Sword. As if your KC will just sit in their room sometimes and lay the shards out and try to make a sword from them. Shiny silver jigsaw puzzle

And then the Sword isn’t even shaped like a normal sword, so just imagine: Your knowledge of swords is trying to fit the pieces together one way, and that OBVIOUSLY isn’t working, and some part of your intuition (aka, the shard inside you) is trying to fit them together some OTHER way. and that one IS working, kind of, in that some of the shards actually seem to fit together along their fractures, but it doesn’t look very swordy at all. (especially with the missing bits)

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✗  Lying: Ok I am obligated to say Kash is the best, because of That One Time in MotB where she successfully lied to a mind flayer. Also because she just has no shame. Rook also has no shame and actively practices lying. 

But they’re also both sketchy af, so in terms of Best At Lying To Normal People: Zoe. Who goes and lives a normal life after adventuring by pretending to be completely mundane, and gets away with it (until either Adventuring Friends show up and recognize her, or some sufficient threat comes to town and she just calmly whips out her hellmurder crossbow to take it out)

(Nara probably does something similar tbh.)

(also good at lying but sketchy af: Arizan’s mom the Leira-worshipping illusionist, who is lying at least half the time she speaks. And sorcerer!AU Arizan deserves a mention, because he’s not as much a Leiran as she was, but still definitely has bluff maxed out and Uses It)

◌ Cleaning Up: UMMM Let’s say Maina. Cause she had to keep a tiny room in Candlekeep well managed, and actually cared enough and liked order enough to DO that.

…clearly I don’t have enough domestic headcanons if this is all I came up with but w/e

❃ Dancing with a partner: William’s parents were nobles and decided that just because their city was a volcanic wasteland, that didn’t mean their son shouldn’t at least be Respectable at nobility things. So he’s had dancing lessons. Which puts him at a MASSIVE ADVANTAGE compared to most of my characters. He’s probably the best in a “You are at a ball and are expected to dance with lots of strangers” kind of sense.

Actually Hlifrun has also had dancing lessons, and is honestly probably better at it than William is, but it’s less surprising from her. Also, she’s usually the one playing the music.

Ela also knows how to dance, but probably thinks it’s funny to switch the lead with her partner in the middle of a song. Without warning them ahead of time. So she’s probably got like 1-3 people who know how to manage this and she’s INCREDIBLE at dancing with them, but otherwise she’s just going to troll the other person until they trip over her. And then she will laugh at them. William refuses to dance with her.