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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:

For the ask meme: A'den or Komr'k. Do they even have characters or personality? Who are they KT?

A'den

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I am going to do them both. Because I love them. Thank you, anon!

(kinda wondering why you gave me characters you don’t think have personalities though?)

A’DEN

First impression : Mountain man. Rugged. Gonna get those sun wrinkles. Kind of an asshole, but like, I forgave him.

Impression now : This is a man who has a lot of feelings and is absolute crap about not wearing them right on his sleeve with his whole-ass heart. Does not have a dissembling bone in his body, and no, looking at his siblings, I have no idea how that happened. Neither do they. It baffles them every day.

Definitely a rugged outdoorsman, but an extroverty outdoorsman. The kind of guy who likes camping because he thinks it’s a fun family activity, and he loves nothing more than to have a nice big crowd around his fire, to bicker about pitching tents and compete over who can catch the biggest fish and just generally really likes roaming around the wilderness with his favorite people. Wouldn’t enjoy it half so much if he were by himself. The kind of guy who seems like he should be a rugged lone wolf, but actually has best friends literally all over the galaxy and knows all their birthdays. Will probably nag you about being too skinny while heaping your plate with third helpings. 

Favorite moment : I made a whole post about him trying to make friends with Atin and I hold to that.

Idea for a story : A’den decides the clan needs to hold on to Levet because otherwise this whole-ass farm thing will fall down around their ears, and Levet doesn’t really have significant emotional impetus to hang around if a better offer comes along, probably. So he decides, entirely on his own, that he is going to go provide that emotional impetus. He is going to befriend Levet with ulterior motives for the good of the clan. He is very proud of himself for this decision, and gets right on that. (Back in Kyrimorut, his brothers clue in sooner rather than later, but it’s too late. Jaing probably wakes up in a cold sweat with his A’den is trying to be emotionally manipulative again bells ringing and just knows.)

Anyway, Levet catches a clue pretty quickly but A’den’s handy around the crops and kind of sweet, so it’s whatever. It’d be rude to call him out. A’den, predictably, falls head over heels within, like, a week. 

They get married, probably, which means A’den did technically succeed at his mission.

Unpopular opinion : uhhh, I feel like my take on him might not be very popular in general

Favorite relationship : Ny! Their friendship is cute, even though A’den flat-out admits the entire reason he approached Ny was because he thought he could use her since she was a notable soft touch (and I appreciated that A’den was so matter-of-fact about talking about that in front of Ny because any time the Nulls’ socialization is just a few steps left of typical is fun to me). Him supporting her with his hands on her shoulders while she had a really uncomfortable scene with Kal is also one of those that just stuck.

Also the fact that A’den’s attempt to recruit an unknowing minion for The Cause turned into him wanting Ny to be his mom. Which is where the idea that A’den is terrible at keeping any sort of emotional distance whatsover from anything or anyone came from. He is a horrible choice for anything requiring compartmentalization. It’s amazing.

Favorite headcanon : A’den is also very, very gay. Is about as aware of this as he is his own personal failings as a grifter, probably.

Kom'rk

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KOM’RK

(doing these back-to-back was a mistake I am fatigued. this one’s gonna be a bit lackluster I’m sorry I had it all planned out last night I swear)

First impression : Knife Boi. Quiet.

Impression now : Extremely high emotional intelligence, but honestly that just makes him more alarming, because I don’t feel like he has a very high sense of compassion outside his family, though he can fake it. The rare breed of a low energy extrovert, and probably can pull off the lounging broodingly in a corner thing when he goes to clubs, which probably pisses Mereel off. Very reliable, even to the point where Ordo turns to him for advice a couple times and even accepts Kom’rk chiding him when he puts his foot in it about other people, but whether or not that reliability is a trap door depends on his relationship to the person, and it is genuinely impossible to tell the difference in how he treats someone he genuinely cares about and how he treats a mark until he actively decides to drop the act. Basically on the opposite end of the spectrum from A’den. I’m pulling that entirely from the way he treats Jusik, which I will get to.

But he also loves his brothers and he does things like hole up in Jaing’s room and take over a corner for himself, presumably because he just doesn’t like being alone, which is fucking cute.

Favorite moment : When Jusik, failing to note the irony, asks Kom’rk to kill him if he ever decides Jusik is getting too comfortable with manipulating other people or subverting their free thinking, and Kom’rk - who is definitely not unaware of the irony - immediately goes, “Yeah, sure, bro. Will do.” One...that’s fucking cold for someone who’s been characterized up until this point as the reliable, level-headed one who was considerate of other peoples’ feelings, wow. Talk about turning on a dime. Two, even Jaing gets a bit nervous at Kom’rk’s easy answer, and I feel like that says a hell of a lot about how Kom’rk operates.

And probably how he feels about Jusik, without ever giving the actual empath a reason to doubt Kom’rk’s loyalty to his new brother that I’m not actually sure Kom’rk feels. Good luck telling that from his behavior, though.

Idea for a story : Kom’rk developing an actual emotional investment in this clan that isn’t just his brothers. (I vote Laseema.)

Unpopular opinion : are there opinions?

Favorite relationship : Jaing. A very interesting take on the those two guys concept that I adore. I also like the idea that Jaing “People Gloves” Skirata, was probably the one who followed Kom’rk “nobody got me a cake /jk /kinda not really” Skirata to the Outer Rim to provide emotional support for him while he self-isolated. Their dynamic is bloody and sweet, I think.

Favorite headcanon : Kom’rk’s one of the first of the Nulls to really understand how badly Kal did by them, and part of his desire to keep his distance is for that reason while he’s trying to sort it out.