#sauron the cat on the prowl

[acidiccherry]

Okay,

I don't think we, Haladriels, discuss this moment nearly as much as we should.

When Sauron pulls Galadriel into his illusion, he disguises himself as her brother Finrod.

Just look at this! When he started it, he really thought he had a chance of convincing her and pulling her to his side. But she didn't buy his theater performance, and, as she slowly stood up and walked away, it probably felt for him as if a handful of sand was seeping through his fingers, as that chance was withering away inevitably.

He lost his temper completely.

Her back was turned on him, so she couldn't see him, but we, the audience, did. He was calling for her desperately, his eyes darting around, he breathes heavily, he didn't know what to do here. He, the control freak himself™, had zero control over the situation.

He needed her next to him so much but he couldn't bring her there. So in his extreme desperation he shouts "Look at me!", and that moment was so intense for both of them that in transition to the next illusion Galadriel lost her balance and leaned forward (I think both because of sudden change of location to water terrain and the scream).

Wow. I mean, just wow.

(a little clarification: by "he needed her next to him so much" I mean at all times, not just in that moment)

[wistsandmagic]

💫For Nic and Kei and 🌳 for Jazz and Prowl. :p

I know who you aaare you can't hide behind glasses~

Also long so readmore'd. *dead*

💫What is your favourite fact about this character and why? As 'terrible' as it is of me, for Nic it is the fact that he is forever proud of the fact that he is the walking stereotype of a bisexual disaster, and still yet manages to be the world's biggest teddy Bear of a man. He loves being this way and I swear to you half the things he does he does on purpose just so people will roll their eyes at him. He loves it.

For Kei? I think it's the fact that he is so much stronger than he looks or acts. The fact that he can pick both Nic and Seph up and haul them around with hardly any effort whatsoever despite looking like a two-legged stick insect will forever be hilarious to me, and he is smug about it. I could go into his personality a lot more deeply because he genuinely is a complex character, but...no. It's just the fact that he is a tall twink who can pick up his tsundere wifelet and his bear of a husband and cart them around like they weigh nothing and be smug about it while he does. It just proves how much of a quiet troll he is.

🌲 How deeply does your OC feel? Are they typically empathetic or do they have a hard time connecting with others in this way? What are they like when offering support and comfort to someone they care for? ....YOU WOULD HAVE TO PICK THIS ONE FOR JAZZ, AMY. *Dead*

Jazz...feels a lot. A. Lot. Yes, on the surface he is a calm, cool cat, chill with just about anything and completely unfazed by all the shit that goes down, but that's the surface. Jazz actually is pretty chill and laid back, but that does not mean he does not have a deep breadth of emotion. Jazz is an emotional bottomless pit. He feels everything and feels it deeply, he's just really, really good at dealing with those emotions. And in the case of most negative ones, he's good at hiding them at the surface so he can function however he needs to to survive and get through the negativity. You rarely see him break down in tears, but when he does, he 'calm cries', quietly, just letting himself feel it, and then he gets up and carries on. ...like, most people never realize when Jazz is mad. He remains calm and talks things out, he deals with his anger, and doesn't tend to take it out on people. If Jazz has visibly snapped and reacted in anger, you have incited Sauron levels of fury in him and you should be very afraid.

On the flip-side, it means his positive emotions are an equally bottomless well. He loves hard, laughs hard, and lets himself feel all of the joy at the tiniest little things. It's probably a good thing that he is a tape deck, because he usually has some kind of music to help him stim off some of the joy when it gets too much even for him to remain laid back over. That's one reason Jazz has music playing from his speakers more often than not. It's letting him bleed off some of the excess everything he feels and helps keep him chilled out.

Which means yeah, he's very empathetic. He connects with people easily, and almost everyone likes him to some degree. He's friends with some people that 99% of Cybertronians HATE and he loves them genuinely and deeply, and they trust him. It also means he generally knows the best ways to offer comfort without overwhelming whoever he's comforting. Most people simply take comfort in his presence, because he's calm and soft, and generally unfazed by whatever people tell him. He's also a hugger, so that sometimes helps, too. Weird qualities for a ninja, but hey, it's worked SO far.

...Prowl, on the other hand, is an emotionally-constipated brick. He feels things, but he does not process them. Occasionally you can get him to laugh or smile, but it's kind of rare. Prowl is not a soft bot. He is not good at expressing emotions, and he generally comes across as stiff and uncomfortable even when he's being genuine and quite happy. He does tend to express anger a little better, but he also tends to let his anger cloud his judgement, which is very much so not a good thing. He also genuinely does not feel the depth of emotion that Jazz, his husband, does. Sometimes the depth of emotion there bewilders him, to be honest, and it makes him seem like he's really nothing more than an irritated grump when he's really just trying to process what emotion he is feeling and how to express that.

He's very much so not empathetic. He can be sympathetic, but he is not an empathetic bot in any sense of the word. Other people's emotions in any given situation fall into the 'bewildering' category more often than not, though if you are someone he likes or loves, he will do his best to understand, and if he has spent enough time around the person in question, he's generally better at understanding and resulting comfort than he is with mere aquaintances or friends that are not as close. But even then he still tends to be somewhat awkward and not quiiiite know how to offer comfort, but it's the thought that counts, right? 'Support' is a little easier. He understands the 'just be there for them to lean on' well enough, so that tends to be the extent of his 'comfort' to people. He knows how to be there, and he can do that even if he sucks at the rest of it. Part of this may be because he is severely face-blind and he is...vaguely uncomfortable most of the time HIMSELF until he recognizes people through means other than their face, but that only accounts for a very small percentage of the problem. (...though there are events in the 'near' future that are going to happen that is going to chaaaange his outlook on things just a LITTLE. Nothing like severe life-changing events to make your brain get permanently rewired!)