#labon dnd

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🍆 for... Olly, Danya, and Labon; 🌽 for Lemon, Ursula, and Tadhgan; 🍑 for Dealer's Choice x 3?

This one got longer then the last one lol so under the cut!

🍆Does your OC have any favorite form of affection, physical or otherwise?

Olly - This dork is very affectionate, but he doesn’t want you to know he’s actually soft as an uncooked dough. He is very fond of receiving physical affection, and if you give him any gift to matter how small he will treasure it literally forever. He has a whole drawer in his office dedicated to little knick knacks his sisters and cousins have gifted him, including a whole bunch of little rocks from baby Lemon. 

When he’s testing the waters of being friendly with someone he’ll start giving little gifts. Mostly extra bits of food, making sure their drink is topped off, the occasional pastry shoved in their hands and a grumpy “I am not carrying your ass back if you pass out from not eatin. Eat.”

Once you’ve reached the friend level he’s more physically affectionate. Smacking an arm, dragging you into a one armed hug, lightly shoving you out of the way, gentle roughhousing. He also will show more of his awful dry sarcastic humor. If he’s sad he takes a lot of comfort from having his head in someone's lap and playing with his hair or scratching around the base of his horns. 

If you manage to reach romance level with him. Congrats! He will now only be able to sleep properly if he’s touching you in some way. 

Danya - Any and all affection really. Danya is not picky about the affection she receives because she’s just so excited to have it at all, but her favorites to receive are for sure quality time and physical affection. Hand kisses, someone sharing their craft with her, and just existing in the same space are all very high on her list. She tends to show her love with gift giving, words of affirmation, and physical affection. 

Labon - This fool is all about receiving physical affection. A kiss on the cheek from Durhil will sustain him for hours. Once his feelings are returned he’ll curl around or beside Durhil in either form. Biting is a form of affection, but it’s never hard and more like a hold than anything else unless she asks of course. He is horribly awkward about it, but he really loves words of affirmation and will save any scrap of paper that said he did a good job or that he’s a good person and squirrel it away to pull out later. 

🌽How does this OC feel about acts of affection? What's their favorite act of affection, physical or emotional?

Lemon: This girl thrives on affection, and looks for literally any scrap of it she can. It’s what keeps her bad feelings about…basically everything at bay long enough to process them or at least bottle them up and ignore them. Lemon does have a pretty strong preference for receiving physical affection and words of affirmation. Someone wanting to braid her hair, have a snuggle/halfling pile, or bringing her food are very high on her list of preferred forms of affection. More emotional forms include either listening to someone infodump or doing the infodumping, collaborating on projects, being a soundboard for ideas, or trying to keep her safe. She has awful attachment issues and is pretty rejection sensitive because of her parents, but also struggles with having deeper emotional bonds with people she does care about because that means she’s a burden and they’ll leave her behind. She’s unfortunately quick to trust people who show her any affection like ignoring what exactly Flask might do with that many baby mimics because she’s been Nice and is helping Sugarcane lol

Ursula: Affection for affection's sake is a weakness. It should be a tool to gain favor. That said she enjoys receiving gifts, and does take pleasure in quality time with the people she deems as suitable company. 

Tadghan: This boy is so damn awkward with physical affection but does enjoy it. He’s pretty handsy with his friends and family, gentle roughhousing and the occasional bit of snark, but he’s really big on quality time! He and Lemon used to spend hours in the forge while he worked and Lemon curled up with Aodhan, his drake, reading or researching. If you use him as a soundboard for thoughts/ideas/etc he’d be thrilled and do his best to help however needed. Big on either doing or receiving acts of service. 

🍑What sort of traits does your OC look for in a Significant Other? 

Tsisia: Cici is big on getting to know someone as friends before she wants to jump their bones. Someone with a good sense of humor, who doesn’t mind that she can get a little bit rambly from time to time, gets along with her family, tall and handsome helps a lot too. She’s looking for someone to match her vibe and wants to laugh with her. 

Doran: Not the one he currently has that’s for damn sure. Before everything happened he was attracted to smiles. Someone who was a little bit goofy, but who still had his back in a fight. Nice arms, strong jawlines, able to talk to fill the silence since he was pretty reserved even before he got married. He tended to lean toward kind of class clown type people. Doran is a bit of a secret romantic, and does like big gestures, especially if they take into account the courting rituals of his home. Some of them are quite romantic to him and he was looking forward to them. Now after he’s been married he just wants that to end but feels trapped because of internal politics. Doran just wants to be able to trust a partner again but has accepted he’ll never get that again and focuses on his work. 

Lonan: Currently he thinks having a romantic partner is a waste of time. He is busy trying to research and develop new spells to better understand magic. So demisexual it takes at least three years of knowing him before he even starts to maybe have a crush on someone. If he did have a crush though, it would be on someone who can match his level with arcana and have the drive to learn so they can be a partner in research and life. Someone who fills in the spaces he lacks, like his lack of social skills or more worldly knowledge. He wouldn’t admit to it outloud, but being an introvert cooped up in a wizard school for most of his life may not have been the best thing, even if it did get him away from his parents. He’s unfortunately a bit of a social hermit and tends to piss people off without meaning too because he’s too direct. 

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This is Labon Reynard, my five foot tall idiot of a son! He is an urchin assassin turned inn keeper, and a shifter homebrew class (similar to the kitsune race in Fire Emblem but with fey heritage) that I really should try to hunt down again since I’ve lost his character sheet. His beast form is stuck between a big white fox and a white ferret, but his shift isn’t always the most stable and different aspects of his beast form sometimes pop out.

He is the unofficially adopted son to the co-owners of Steam and Steel, Avi and Embric. Labon currently runs a tavern/inn called The Lucky Lily with the phantom of his former mentor and previous owner of the Lily, Lif. He also cares for and maintains a spy network of street urchins, many of who he knew when he was on the streets himself. He has run with a gang, become a thief/assassin, and now deals in information.

Labon took one look at Durhil, fell ass over head for her, and has fumbled his way through trying to impress her ever since. Durhil working at the Steam and Steel has made this both easier and an actual nightmare. The Dads are awful and take far too much joy in teasing Labon for how soft Durhil makes him.

He has a pet pigeon named Basil, who has one leg and can’t fly straight. Labon also does fire dances on weekends or for festivals with his poi/meter hammer style for extra cash and maybe to impress Durhil is it working has she noticed???

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dnd character ask meme! Danya - 1, 9, 11, 37 Lemon - 4, 12, 15, 30 Labon - 2, 6, 10, 21 Amaryllis - 7, 13, 18, 22 Laura - 8, 14, 16, 19 Zimri - 5, 17, 33, 35

This took forever but here we go!

Danya -

1. What kind of clothing does your character like to wear? Do they have a style? Anything they avoid wearing?

Danya tends to wear dark cool tones, black, and white, with silver accents. Her style is best described as somewhere between a lawyer and a dominatrix, though she leans much closer to lawyer. Pencil skirts to mid knee or calves, various high necked blouses, and a jacket are most common, though she does occasionally wear less form fitting dresses. She avoids anything too casual in public since she is very aware she is representing the Family, though at home after dinner she changes into expensive layered night clothes with long sweeping robes. Chiffon, lace, and silk are her favorite fabrics.

9. If someone gave them flowers what would they do with them?

Panic internally about why someone is giving her flowers first, unless it’s a cousin/Ed then she just accepts them happily. If anyone outside the Family gives her flowers she will stare confused at the flowers, thank them and ask why they’ve given her flowers, internally panic briefly about if she should return the gift with more flowers? Either way they tend to end up in her office, and if they were given by someone she’s pining for she’ll stare longingly at them throughout the day and sigh.

11. How do they feel about casual endearments?

She loves them, but can sometimes be painfully awkward so she doesn’t know how to respond if someone new uses one on her. It’s bad enough when the hires call her Miss Danya, but an actual endearment from anyone she likes would overload her systems. She does sometimes call Ed my jackdaw or some variant of, and the family of course all have their nicknames, so those she is fond of. She finds it to be a lovely example of showing you love someone. Post-feelings talk with the hires they all get a lovey nickname.

37. How would they pass the time on a train?

She is very much a reader/workaholic, so she will either be reading up on whatever location she is going to, or catching up on research for work.

Lemon -

4. Would your character sing along to a vaguely familiar song, even if they messed up the lyrics as they went?

As is tradition in the family, if you do not know all of the words, you must make the new words entertaining. She’s not awful at that game either, but she’s no bard. She totally sings along though, especially in a big crowd or with her family. The smaller the group the less likely she is to sing, because she gets a little shy.

12. What color would they paint their room? Would there be a design on the ceiling?

She prefers blues, greens, white, and yellows in her room. The walls would be a nice pastel blue, light wooden floors, fluffy rugs, bed big enough for cuddling. If she could have a design it might be something like an accent wall instead, with a landscape of a place she thought was especially pretty. She’s not much of a decorator though, she just likes comfortable things and softer colors.

15. What’s a sound they can’t stand?

Rude ass customers and the sounds the chickens make when you slaughter them for dinner. She can do it, but the sound still makes something churn in her gut. Her cousin broke a bone once falling from the hayloft and the sound she made when she hit is another sound Lemon Did Not Like.

30. Have they ever tried to count their own freckles? Do they count other peoples?

Baby Lemon used to keep up with and try to hide every new freckle, because she knew if there were more of them then her mother would try another home remedy to get rid of them. She finally has reached a weird inbetween with her freckles, both loving and hating them all at once. She does try to count other peoples though, mostly some of her cousins and once Tadhgan’s very light ones. Their freckles are cute after all, and she liked mentally connecting them to make pictures.

Labon-

2. What’s their current hairstyle? Has it changed? Do they change it often?

When he was a kid it was long, and his mother kept it in a sort of undercut style with the sides braided and the top kept loose. When everything went down with his clan and he ended up in Waterdeep, it became a choppy mess that he kept short by cutting with his knife, and pulled back out of his eyes with a scrap piece of cloth. Currently it’s an artfully messy bob-ish look, but he’s been thinking about growing it out more and wearing it like he did as a kid.

6. Do they usually sleep in a certain pose? Does it change?

Labon pretty much always sleeps curled into as small of a ball as he can, arms around himself to protect his ribcage, and tucked away somewhere hidden. Even in his beast form he sleeps curled up as tight as he can be. The only time it changes is if he’s sleeping with Durhil, then he just becomes her backpack or curls into her instead of himself. She is Very Warm so he prefers sleeping with her.

10. Would they sneak out at night to look at the sky?

At home the clan were nomads, so peeking his head out of his tent wasn’t really sneaking, and later being a homeless street urchin in Waterdeep meant a roof was a luxury. Once he got pseudo adopted by the owner of the Lucky Lily, Lif-as well as the smith/shopkeep duo of Avi and Embric-he still didn’t really have to sneak out. His room at the Lily was at the very top, so all he had to do was open his window and climb up to the roof. So sneaking out no, but stargazing yes.

21. Do they touch or mess with their horns/hair a lot?

All the time. It’s part of why his hair is always messy. He does it mostly to self-soothe himself when he starts to get nervous/anxious/depressed/etc, and if he’s in partial shift he’ll groom his tail with his claws.

Amaryllis -

7. How would they react to eating something that was spicier than they expected it to be?

If she’s with her partners or trusted advisors, she meeps out a quiet “oh no” followed by a scramble to get a bread roll and milk. If she’s in public or at a dinner with important people and needing to maintain her Lion Empress facade, she saves her bread roll for cases just like this. Amaryllis would delicately dab her mouth with a napkin, take a few bites of the roll in between chatting, and do her very best to regulate her breathing so she doesn’t look like she’s dying. This is hard when she’s albino and any red in her skin if painfully obvious, but she’s gotten better at it over the years.

13. What helps them fall asleep when they’re having trouble doing so?

Tea! She grows her own garden to make teas with, so she’s involved in the process from start to finish. Going through the steps of making tea helps her calm down, and then she has her sleepy tea before trying to go back to sleep. Just after the coupe when her mind was racing with plans she would wander the halls, inevitably end up in the throne room, and slowly make her way back to her chambers. Once Zadok came to the castle sleeping with them helped immeasurably. They’re such a stable presence and that helps Amaryllis sleep easier.

18. Would they sing a lullaby, if the opportunity arose?

She would! Her father had one he used to sing to her about the flowers in the garden growing up, so she most likely would sing that one.

22. When they speak, do they have a default tone of voice? If yes, do they try to change it? Why?

Yes! Her accent is a weird combo of French and British, sort of like Cassandra from DA:I, and depending on who she’s with or her goal the tone changes drastically. Her default is actually quite soft, and she has a fairly standard alto register, the kind of voice you’d want reading a bedtime story or a love poem. When she’s got on the Lion Empress facade her tone shifts to a colder harder edge, and dips just a little bit lower, so she sounds authoritative and a little bit threatening.

Laura -

8. Are their hands steady?

Somewhat! She used to be a waitress/bartender with her papa at his tavern, so she’s got good balance and isn’t super shaky, but she’s no surgeon.

14. Do they tend to run hot or cold? Do they do anything to deal with that?

She runs a little cold, but honestly doesn’t bother with it much, outside of curling up with one of the girls or maybe grabbing a blanket. Laura is fairly low maintenance when it comes to things like that.

16. Would they draw patterns in frosted windows/fogged up mirrors? What would they draw?

She would, but just random patterns or silly notes as a pick me up for whoever comes in next.

19. Do they see patterns in the world around them? Do they point them out to people?

Laura is very good at reading the weather based on clouds and the ocean, most likely inherited from her mama, but those are really the only patterns she bothers with outside of her partners’ skin. Which sounds awful, but they have either tattoos or scales which is endlessly interesting to Laura, she will wax poetic about how interesting they are. She will also use the word interesting 100 times because while she is the daughter of a bard she is very much not one and words aren’t her strong suit.

Zimri -

5. If they wear any, how does your character go about applying makeup?

So canon Zimri uses kohol and charcoal to give her eyes a smoked out wing, as well as a red lip stain nearly everyday. Her eyes are a gold-ish orange-ish color, so she thinks it helps for her to have some extra definition around her eyes. She applies it quickly in the morning, and washes it off before bed. Modern AU Zimri is as deep into the world of makeup as you can be, and it takes her a solid two hours to put on a face. Her foundation isn’t super heavy, and she doesn’t do much contour other then some light bronzer, but she does get very excited about eye makeup, highlighter, and various lip colors. And body butters with highlighter in them. Make her all gold and copper and she’s very happy.

17. Do they fidget? How and/or with what?

Zimri will fidget with her earrings sometimes, or various rings. She’ll pick at her nails with another nail if she’s really bored, but she doesn’t really fidget out of nerves, more to keep her hands busy because she’s bored and trying to stay awake.

33. Where are they in a group hug?

Wherever she can squeeze in. She isn’t super short, but compared to her partners she is, so I imagine she either jetpacks herself to one of them, or is in the middle.

35. Do they sing with their head voice or chest voice?

Shockingly Zimri sings with her chest voice the most. She thinks it makes her sound more sultry when she uses her chest voice compared to her head voice, but she knows to adapt to the audience she has, so she’ll switch as needed.