#maintagging no gods no masters

[clowntiggles]

I'M BACK AND I COME BEARING HEADCANONS

DOEY MY MAN DOEY THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU

He is a tickle monster first and foremost. He's giant and a shapeshifter, it's practically hardwired into him.

And he's a caretaker, as if he needed any more coding.

Games of tickle monster are very common in the Safe Haven, and he's honed his beastly performance to a fine art. Even the older toys run in (fake) fear. He takes any chance he gets to play monster, it's as much a distraction for him as it is for them (and he likes being little devious).

SO teasy, terrifyingly teasy. When he's not playing monster, he's baby talking you into an early grave or playing innocent, like he's never even HEARD of tickling before and he has NO IDEA why you're laughing so much and he simply MUST investigate this.

Sprinkles puns in their for good measure. What do you mean they're bad -- you're laughing, clearly you find them hilarious!

Of course, even the mightiest beasts have their own weaknesses.

Since he's a shapeshifter who can bend metal beams with ease, it's safe to say tickling him is a challenge. But no matter how many arms he gives himself, he doesn't have eyes in the back of his head, and he can be caught off guard and overwhelmed as much as anyone else.

Ticklish basically everywhere, mostly because his torso is 90% of his body. He doesn't really react much to light touches, but kneading and other such things have him cackling in no time.

It only takes a few rounds of tickle monster for the others in Safe Haven to develop a taste for vengeance. At the end of the day, it doesn't take much planning or coordination to go "everyone get his ass".

It's one of the few situations where his strength is actively detrimental. He can't risk hurting the 30-odd kids and teens viciously attacking him, so he has to stay as still as possible while being tickled half to death.

His immediate reaction is to curl up like a pill bug and tuck all his limbs in, both to protect himself (it doesn't work) and to protect whoever's tickling him from potentially dangerous flailing (this part works, fortunately). However, if he doesn't get his nervous energy out somehow he'll simply explode, so all of it goes to his legs, disrupting his protection ball. His habit of kicking and stomping can betray his ticklishness before something even tickles enough to make him laugh.

His laugh is the silliest collection of sounds ever. It changes cadence wildly the way his regular voice does, oscillating from loopy giggles to belly laughs to rough barks, and unlike his voice he has no control where it chooses to go.

DOES NOT SHUT UP; any time he can talk though his laughter he will be talking, even if all he can get out are muddled words and scraps of sentences. Yet oddly enough he never tells whoever tickles him to stop huh that's so weird I wonder why that is.

Whenever someone tickles him he kind of HAS to let them do it for their own safety, but aside from that little concern he genuinely enjoys it. Protecting the Safe Haven (and being basically the only adult figure in the area) is a stressful, exhausting job. Seeing the kids happy lets him know that his efforts are worth it, and being able to laugh so freely takes his mind off of things, even if only for a few moments.

Final note, does stuff going through his body tickle? Yes and no. It mostly doesn't. Both inside and outside have pretty much the same level of tactile perception because it's all the same material, so when something goes through him he can feel it like he were touching it "normally", and it's generally not a ticklish feeling the way most things you tough aren't ticklish. But because it's the same amount of feeling, it CAN be ticklish.

Stuff inside his body can't move very freely due to the pressure of being surrounded by several hundred pounds of playdough, so it generally isn't enough to make him laugh, but it can be enough to make him squirm and kick and his voice wobble.

The scenario I'm imagining is that the player tries to grab him with he grabpack, only for him to grab it right back by letting the hand sink into his torso. He intends to hold onto it while giving them a scolding about how we do NOT use our grabpack on others, but the player constantly tugging on the cord and making the hand move quickly begins to take the bite out of his voice, much to his chagrin.

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Fic / Taglist Masterpost

Fics (by fandom)

Critical Role a trust slowly gained -- oneshot AU in which Bren Aldric Ermendrud, Scourger of the Empire, joins the Mighty Nein under the alias Caleb Widogast to spy on them [read on AO3]

here, at the end -- oneshot, SPOILERS for Campaign 2 epilogue [read on AO3]

Dragon Age Crown of Laurels -- slowburn enemies to friends to lovers, Nathaniel Howe/Aedan Cousland/Morrigan. Begins during Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and continues into the years of aftermath. [read on AO3] [blog tag]

Spearmaid of Alamarr -- DA:I, Revas Lavellan dies in the Fade. The woman who remembers being Revas Lavellan walks out. [read on AO3] [blog tag]

The Precipice of Change -- affectionately titled Inquisitwors and a collab with thedivinewhitetail. A Vashoth mercenary and a Dalish spy hear rumors of something gone wrong at the Conclave and go to investigate. Then they wake up, marked with strange magic. What are a couple of non-Andrastians to do when everyone is suddenly looking to them to fix things? [read on AO3] [blog tag] [sideblog for the fic]

Doctor Who when she needs me -- oneshot, the Thirteenth Doctor and Jack Harkness and a much-needed moment of comfort. [read on AO3]

in darkness we see starlight -- oneshot, AU, Thirteenth Doctor/River Song. The Doctor regenerates. River is with her. [read on AO3]

Truce in Time -- oneshot, a Christmas gift for one of my housemates, featuring his Rory-as-the-Master and the Thirteenth Doctor. [read on AO3]

An Awful Lot of Running To Do -- on hiatus, a series in which I present the changes to canon if the Doctor had stayed around on Messaline for a few extra hours after the death of his daughter, Jenny. currently sitting at two whole chapters, but the outline extends well into Capaldi’s time and a little bit into Whittaker’s. [read on AO3] [blog tag]

home is where your hearts are -- two-part series, a fiftieth anniversary AU in which Gallifrey rebuilds, the Eleventh Doctor goes searching for home, and the Master is adopted by some refugee children. Featuring: the Moment as the deus ex machina it deserved to be, Romana, the Doctor’s mother, and Susan Foreman, along with a few other cameos. [read on AO3] [blog tag]

Good Omens when this is blown over -- oneshot, episode 6 missing scene. Aziraphale and Crowley and the night after the last day of the world, and some much needed rest. [read on AO3]

Star Wars the found families ‘verse -- on hiatus, series, my heart and soul went into this and then Disney killed my inspiration but by god I’m going to write the rest of it one day. Rey is a Skywalker, raised by the ghost of her grandfather on Jakku. Many things are different. Many things are the same. Queerplatonic Jedistormpilot, stormtrooper rebellions, Force ghosts in abundance, Mara Jade, and much much more. [read on AO3] [blog tag]

Welcome to Night Vale chill radio host times -- on hiatus, a series AU set sometime after the events of Triptych, featuring Kevin in Night Vale, angels, and the act of finding one’s self again. [read on AO3]

Misc Tags

flora rambles (for nonspecific writing posts), flora writes (maintag for writing excerpts and fic updates)