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the-chaotic-christian · 1 year ago

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Smalls

He has a bad habit of fiddling with his sword pommel. It’s bad because, more than once, someone has assumed he’s about to draw the weapon and presumed he was aggressive. He’s not, just distracted or thinking.

He rarely stutters or blushes and only does so when he’s severely embarrassed or nervous. Heather brings out both and it’s mildly terrifying for him.

Smalls would rather do anything than cook. He’s not bad at it, he just really, really hates washing dishes, which was a required part of meal-making according to Wilfred.

Speaking of doing dishes and chores in general; he’s perfectly okay with doing them and doesn’t think it’s below his station. If he messed up his room, he can clean it, okay?? No one else needs to do it. It’s also a privacy thing, because he absolutely hates when people poke through his stuff without permission. Part of that is because when he was living in the Palace while the First Warren was under occupation, Daggler’s guards would go through his things with zero respect for privacy or any sense of decency.

When he was a kid, he would occasionally disappear for whole days. The few times this happened nearly gave Wilfred a heart attack, because Smalls was (and still is) very good at hiding from people. He was always found safe and okay, and was always more irritated that he’d been found in the first place.

Smalls hates being underground because of a very bad experience in Daggler's dungeons when he was about ten years old, and it was only made worse after his Dragon Tomb experience. Some days he can’t even stand being inside; he feels trapped.

The only time he actually gets annoyed about his height is when people make assumptions about him based off of it. This gets cleared up pretty quickly because he will quite literally stare them down until they apologize, or someone interrupts and corrects whatever they said (usually Heather or Wilfred). The thing that really bugs him is being mistaken for younger than he actually is.

Smalls will eat anything within arm’s reach. It’s a bad habit that Wilfred has been trying to break him of. Since he went hungry more than he’d like to remember as a child, he tends to eat more than he really needs to. He’s getting over this, but it’s a bit of a struggle. He will try anything once, and both Evan and Picket have taken advantage of this at times. On the list of weird things he’s eaten; A rock (Made him sick, regretted it immediately, done on a Evan’s dare, because they were stupid and like ten), Carolina Reaper (Spiciest pepper known to rabbitkind, almost threw-up, but managed to keep it down, Also Evan), snail (Sort-of cooked, stole it out of the pan in the kitchen. Not on a dare, he was curious. And nine, so it seemed like a good idea at the time. Didn’t really make him sick), And Locust (It was cooked, thank goodness, and long dead. Picket dared him to do it, and discovered the hard way that Smalls didn’t take dares as a joke. Didn’t make him sick at all). Smalls is secretly rather proud of having eaten these things, everyone else who knows about it simply thinks its weird.

He started drinking coffee when he was ten. He drinks it straight black, no sugar or cream, and won’t touch it if it does have any in it. Heather has banned him from having more than six cups a day, and while that might sound like a lot, his usual before she instated the ban was twelve. One for each hour.

Whittel terrifies him and no amount of convincing from either Heather or Picket or even Wilfred will make that fear go away. Picket thinks it is hysterical, and Whittel is completely oblivious. No one really wants to know what Smalls will do if someone spills about it.

Unless someone reminds him, he will completely forget to eat, drink, or shower. He once passed out from lack of food, and from then on Wilfred quietly made a habit of having someone check on him every few hours. Smalls is oblivious to this.

He will read anything, but definitely prefers mysteries and thrillers. Wilfred is slightly concerned by how dark some of the books he reads are, but considering his everyday life, he leaves it alone. Heather does not and won’t let him read the books out loud to her, the one time she did she had nightmares for months. Smalls, admittedly, felt very bad. Weirdly, he never gets nightmares. Not from books, at least.

He's extremely touched starved (Wilfred wasn’t exactly touchy-feely, so he gets hugged like, once every other year) and definitely craves affection. Won’t ask for it though, because he’s afraid he’ll burden others.

Smalls never wakes up screaming. He does wake up crying and he’s seriously ashamed of it and was extremely embarrassed the first time Heather found him like that. As a kid he was taught that crying was a weakness, so he learned not to do it in front of others. He suppresses a lot of his emotions in general and needs a lot of validation to even acknowledge them. He has emotional break downs at least every other week, but never in front of others. Heather’s the only one he trusts enough to be vulnerable with.

Smalls rarely curses but when he does, it’s nasty. He spent too much time around military personal when he was young to not have a sailor’s mouth. He usually feels bad about it after, especially since Heather chews him out about it most of the time.

He really likes to draw and he’s good at it too, but rarely has time for it.

He’s a Slytherin but would have been a hat stall between that and Gryffindor. It was his ambition that really won the day.

Introvert, dislikes most sentient interaction (Unless it’s with Heather, then he’s content to sit with her all day)

Heather

She’s a little self-conscious about all the scars she’s picked up throughout the war and usually wears clothing to hide them. The one from Vitten especially bothers her, because it was a point in her life where she felt completely helpless and alone.

The general populace loves her. Not just because of the Scribe of the Cause thing, but because she’s a genuinely sweet and nice person. What they don’t know is how genuinely terrifying he can be in a rage. Once when she was angry like that, Jo addressed her as ‘ma’am’ and it’s become a trend with the Fowlers (Including Picket) and many of the soldiers. Even Evan and Smalls will do it if she’s seriously angry.

Heather is still very afraid of tight spaces and will do anything she can to avoid them. Like Smalls, some days she doesn’t like being indoors.

She’s only two inches shorter than Smalls. When they first met, she was taller, but he grew a few inches during the war so now he’s just barely taller. Heather is mildly annoyed by this, but doesn’t say anything.

She can beat Smalls in a sprint, but not endurance. She teases him about it, and it’s one of the few things they bicker about.

Smalls was the first to call her the ‘Scribe of the Cause’, and it really irritated her at first. Now, he’ll occasionally tease her a bit with it, and she secretly really likes it. Picket gets annoyed whenever it is brought up, and accuses them of flirting and generally just acts the little brother.

She loves the rain and could spend hours watching it. When she was little, she would always beg to play in it, and when no one’s watching she’ll still stand outside while it’s storming. So far, no one’s caught her.

Heather has a massive sweet tooth and especially loves chocolate. Picket has used that against her and bribed her with it before. Her tolerance for spice is pretty high but she doesn’t like it all that much. She refuses to ever eat a bug and thinks that Smalls is insane for ever having eaten one, and isn’t much of a risky eater in general. She has enough common sense to say no to a stupid dare, so that probably has something to do with that.

She drinks tea and only tea, with a ridiculous amount of cream and sugar too. Smalls and Picket have both tried to get her to like coffee, but she won’t, and she particularly hates the way Smalls drinks it.

Heather placed in the top 1% her last year of taking standardized tests.

She will read anything she can get her hands on, unless it’s a thriller. Then she would honestly rather die. She prefers fantasy or historical fiction, and, weirdly enough, anything about dragons absolutely fascinates her. Everyone is completely baffled by this, and Smalls doesn’t get why she can read that but not thrillers. The only thing they both like are mystery and detective stories, though they both usually figure out the answer to everything way before the protagonist does.

She hates doing laundry. It was her chore back in Nick Hollow, and she hated every minute of it. There’s just something about it she finds particularly gross.

Heather hates to sleep. Truly hates it. Her dreams are extremely vivid and dark, and very upsetting. She’d rather pull three all-nighters, crash for a whole day and not remember what she dreamed about, then sleep like a normal person and have to deal with how disturbing her night visions can be. Not to mention that half the time they’re prophetic. Occasionally she can be convinced to get an actual night’s rest, but not often. When she does sleep, often she’ll have night terrors where she’ll confuse reality and what she’s seeing in her head.

Heather was bullied a lot as a kid, and with her hot temper she got into a surprising number of fights, though, to be fair, she didn’t instigate most of them. She got both her front teeth knocked out before her adult ones were ready to come in, so she had a big gap for several years before hand.

Heather is actually a lot more like her mother than people give credit; while she appears quiet at first (and she is) she has zero qualms about inputting her opinion, and her temper is completely her mother’s, though she has much better control now than Sween did at her age.

Her older sister instincts trigger around Jo, and at this point she’s basically adopted him as another little brother. Picket has informed him this is both the best and the worst thing that could have ever happened to him.

Heather has a bad habit of skipping meals when she’s really focused on something, whether it be research or her latest writing project. Everyone has discovered that the best way of doing this is nicely reminding her, since she’ll only ignore you if you try to force her. But if she still won’t budge, then someone (Usually Smalls) will step in.

If Heather’s swearing, then the situation is really really really bad, because that girl reserves such language only for the direst of situations. She does not condone cursing, and hates it when other do so.

Smalls is the only one who has successfully coaxed her down from a panic attack.

She’s a Ravenclaw. I don’t think this needs much explanation, she’s the most intelligent, driven character in the entire series.

Ambivert.

Picket

He hates asking for help. This is basically canon anyways, but I think it needs to be said again. He asks for help as a last resort and no sooner, and there have been multiple times that Smalls or Heather or Weezie or somebody has come to his rescue when he’s gotten in over his head. It still annoys him most when Smalls does it, but he’s gotten a lot better about snapping.

He relies on Heather for protection way more than he’d like to admit.

Picket and Smalls bicker and fight all the time. Evan has informed Picket that this means that Smalls has accepted him as a permanent fixture to his life. Evan explained that because he moved around so much, Smalls had to force himself not to get attached or except anyone new into his life, because it only damaged him more in the end. So if he’s willing to interact regularly with Picket, that means that he’s accepted the fact that he’s sticking around. Picket, naturally, is somewhat at a loss at this and, if he’s being honest, a bit depressed.

Picket has a fatalistic sense of humor that mildly concerns Heather. Weezie thinks it’s hysterical, and Picket, Evan and Jo sometimes have full-on sarcastic conversations about death. Smalls even joined in once. Heather has to restrain herself from losing it nearly every time they do so, though her slate isn’t exactly clean either.

Picket’s a Gryffindor who looks and sounds like a Slytherin.

Is a serious introvert, like, worse than Smalls kind of serious. Absolutely hates any kind of formal social event but it usually guilted into it by Heather or dragged by Weezie, who is an extrovert on par with Evan.

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