Profiling Permission/Information!

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Reid is a profiler. That means he can deduce everything about you by walking into your bedroom.

Here, if you specifically DON'T want him to be able to profile your characters, please say so and we'll figure out an IC reason he can't together.

Alternatively, if you want to help me have him profile your character, please tell me a bit about them and their mannerisms either in brackets are right here. Thank you!

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[lightningbearer]

Geddoe isn't very talkative and is a fairly private person, so he's hard for most people to read, but there's plenty of small cues if you're looking. I try to be sure to include what I can in action tags, but will also happily explain in more detail OOCly anytime on request. :|b

Some things of note though that aren't likely to come up in regular action tags:

-Geddoe is actually much, much older than he looks; he's actually 112, he just hasn't aged in the past 70+ years. This definitely comes across in subtle ways in his attitude at times.

-He tends to deliberately keep a distance from people. A lot of this is just having a bit of a standoffish attitude that can be easily written off as him just being a grouchy old man, but there's definitely some deep-running sorrow and regret there for having outlived so many people he's held dear and having to look forward to outliving any more he meets now.

-An appearance note, but he always wears gloves. If/when he's convinced to actually wear the outfit he was provided with instead of standing out horribly in his leather armor, he will still insist on finding a pair of gloves (whether full gloves or fingerless) that he will be wearing at all times. You would be very hard-pressed to find out why he does this, though, as it's something he's been hiding for literally decades. :|b (spoilers: it's because there's a powerful magical thingy in his right hand)

-Despite all appearances to the contrary, he's actually a total idealist at heart, tends to admire goodhearted charismatic leader types (e.g. RPG protagonists, Rider from Fate/Zero, etc) and prefers to let someone else be in the spotlight rather than trying to play leader himself.

...and that's all I can think of for Geddoe for now, but again, feel free to poke me if we're ever threading and something comes up you want to know more of!

Which, then, leaves me with the more fun of my two characters, namely Sion. Sion I would say is going to be REALLY damn hard to truly read- it'd be easy to find out that he's a king and where some of his allegiances lie, and even that he may be lying about some things, but overall he should be hard to read. He can lie with precisely the same confidence that he tells the truth, and the fact that he hid his inner turmoil and plans from even the people closest to him for months, even years, is a major factor in the plot at points in his canon.

However, some things totally are fair game, including:

-He seems to prefer to avoid/defer confrontation and settle things peaceably whenever possible. This isn't solely because he lacks the means to do much by strength of arms, either- he genuinely believes in wanting things to be best for everyone.

-Ryner is like his absolute most favorite person in the world and therefore Sion's single biggest weakness. Sion will do truly stupid things if Ryner is involved/at risk somehow, and even without that happening it's not hard to see that Sion's a bit protective/possessive of him at times.

-Particularly if you observe him for a length of time, Sion can appear to be a little too perfect; no one could smile so much even when dealing with unpleasant things, etc, and so on. Building off of this, then, it's possible to tell from observation that he is a lying liar at times, just difficult to pinpoint which those times are. He's hiding something, but good luck figuring out what on earth that could possibly be....

-He's actually had a pretty rough life, and so despite his appearance is actually a decent fighter. This almost never comes up though, but yeah you can tell he's been trained enough to be able to hold his own against most people, and he's alert enough to notice details and be difficult to sneak up on, though he of course would generally only make mental note of his observations rather than comment on it.

-Again, something that might take some observation because Sion is really good at faking it, but he tends not to form deep bonds with people easily. He genuinely likes people, but he'll keep them at arm's length much of the time. This is most pronounced when confronted with women who take a romantic interest in him, because he'll steadfastly refuse to get involved in any such relationship no matter what his own interest is. Much of this stems from his childhood generally being full of terrible things and people close to him being killed; from Sion's point of view, it's simply safer for people NOT to get too closely involved with him.

...so yeah, basically there's more to Sion than meets the eye, but he's hard to pin down beyond "this guy is an idealist but also a charismatic liar" sort of thing. Though again, feel free to ask for more details! Even if it's not something that would ICly come up, I'm always happy to explain. |Db

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Alright, all noted. If I need more info, I'll be sure to ask or try looking it up. Thanks so much!