Send Me A Character

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And I will tell you my:

• First impression
• Impression now
• Favorite moment
• Idea for a story
• Unpopular opinion
• Favorite relationship
• Favorite headcanon

Experimenting with collecting my answers to this ask game over here in the comments, since Tumblr is being...Like That.

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Anonymous asked:

Hi! ☺️ Can you do the ask game for Prudii then?

Prudii

[clonecumber]

Thank you! I probably should not have attempted this after my bedtime. I'm sleepy as hecks. But I got the motivation, so here it is!

First impression : So this guy was my absolute favorite Null when I was kid? Even though my copy of True Colors didn't even have the short story for some reason? I can't actually tell you what tripped the lever for me; I just thought he was neat, I guess.

Impression now : Okay. Of them all, I have the weakest grasp on Prudii, I think. Unlike Jaing, where I have a fairly consistent characterization and am just feeling out why I think he's that way, Prudii still waivers like a heat mirage sometimes. So, feeling it out: He's patient for a Null, which mostly seems to mean that even though he gets annoyed quickly, he'd rather just take a couple deep breaths and try again rather than just punch out the source. Probably why he gets tapped for training purposes, even if he struggles to handle certain personality types, and even though he can get flustered/frustrated when someone can’t or refuses to keep up with him when he’s trying to talk to them or explain something, r/ Atin not following the conversation he was trying to have in Odds and Prudii promptly clamming up. He seems like he’d overall be a pretty good teacher when things are going well or the speedbumps are small, but a trainee being difficult or struggling to learn would probably trip Prudii up pretty bad - as in, I feel like he would probably take both kind of personally and it’d stress him out disproportionately. New teacher blues. He’d try really hard, though.

Comparing him to A'den is kind of interesting, especially how they react to Atin. Prudii's more high-strung, and his patience is a conscious decision that requires effort and practice. Atin is pushing his buttons through most of Odds, but all he does is get quieter and more exasperated (and maybe a little neurotic, like when he keeps prodding Atin for the reaction he wants, but the point is he’s trying), and even when he's obviously annoyed, he's usually trying to pretend he's not and approach the situation calmly. A'den just seems to have fewer buttons in general, making him more naturally chill in comparison, but when his buttons do get pushed, he lashes out (sorry, Niner).

He seems pretty boisterous by nature when he’s happy or safe, but seems a little self-conscious about it, like - again with Atin, because Atin’s brand of Judging You seems to really get to him - when he immediately assumed Atin was annoyed with him directly after pulling the escape stunt and swung from proud of himself and a little excited to weirdly insistent about explaining why he did the reckless thing, so Atin shouldn't be mad at him. I sort of get social anxiety vibes from him, honestly. He tries to be confident, and can get caught up easily in the moment, especially when around his brothers, but he's also the one stumbling to a verbal halt and pulling back in on himself, or getting defensive at anyone nearby like he feels like he has to explain why he's being loud or happy or reckless or taking up space in any way. This goes back to what I said earlier, where Prudii is very insistent, even when it's visibly frustrating him, that someone agree with him or otherwise understands and validates everything he does, even if it's just a random RC Private tapped for a random mission who he may as well never have to interact with again. I see this as an insecurity thing?

He also seems like the one least likely to interact closely with someone outside his immediate family by choice, which is probably why we see so little of him. Seems like he might prefer standard social scripts or other roles he can learn to perform when he has to engage with other people (the way he talks to the pilot and even offers Atin use of his name is a little stilted/scripted and not as natural or effortless as we’ve seen done before, and even Atin notes discrepancies in the act. To me it seems like he might be copying Kal or Mereel’s charm but doesn’t quite get it to the same extent, or at least that he fumbles it when he’s uncomfortable, and “trainer” is a role he can learn to fulfill, but if he has to meet up with any of his trainees outside of that context I can see him hitting a bit of a wall...okay, this parenthesis is too long, I’d need a whole other post for this, lol). I also feel this may, in part, be why I automatically think of him as the one most kneejerk defensive of Kal, behind Ordo. It’s twofold: He knows how to be the Dutiful Son and knows what’s expected of him in his relationship with Kal, while his family also is his safe space, so to have that status quo shaken up or threatened is probably deeply, deeply alarming for him.

Absolutely unbeatable at hide and seek.

Favorite moment : The fact Prudii called up A'den to warn him about Atin, lol. Or called up A'den to complain about Atin after their mission together in Odds. It's just funny to me. Atin, you scarred him.

Idea for a story : I'm gonna be honest. I have no idea. How about they're all playing Among Us and - even though this is a game about assassination and sabotage - Prudii actually being kind of bad at it because the game mechanics nerf the crap out of him. This absolutely offends his entire shit. He hates this game, but also refuses to stop playing it.

Unpopular opinion : Not super applicable, but okay, let's see: Prudii's tween phase was legendary. (You be developmentally 12 and be literally named Shadow and not have a Phase.)

Favorite relationship : Who does he even talk to? Uh. A'den, I guess? Since apparently he calls A'den up to complain about RCs being mean.

I did ship him and Niner for some reason when I was a kid, though. My multishipping ways started young.

Favorite headcanon : uhhhHHHHHH. All right, sure. Favorite is pushing it since I just came up with this on the spot, but: Probably one of the grumpiest of the Nulls right up there with Jaing, he just tries not to be. Is very suggestible, though. Leave him and Jaing alone in a room together, and the amount of salt you'll come back to could easily explode the hearts of thousands.