#$ jaax ~./headcanon

[amethyst-noir]

✨🌸🔅 happy, sex and appearance headcannons for strange?

Thank you! 🥰 (I totally read over the Strange part over there and wrote all three of them as Ironstrange. Thankfully, I caught it before I hit post. Stephen all the way here! 🦋)

☆ - happy headcanon --> The day he woke up in his bed in the Sanctum and if felt like home for the first time is one of his most treasured memories. The sun came into the room in the perfect angle to bathe everything in golden light, the Cloak was draped across his body and lazily waving a greeting at him and he just knew that, after a lifetime of searching, he finally is exactly where he belongs.

✿ - Sex headcanon --> Stephen is no blushing virgin but he’s also not a fan of quick one-night stands. He needs a strong emotional connection to a person before he’s willing to sleep with them. He enjoys being petted and caressed, foreplay is very important for him to get in the mood. He has no problems with submitting to his partner, if things naturally go that way, something that clashed horribly with his self-imagine in his former life. Try to force him and he’s gone in a nano-second. Sex is not that important to him.

☼ - appearance headcanon --> Stephen very carefully cultivates his old image as cold and arrogant asshole when he’s out in the public these days. He has zero desire for anyone to see his vulnerable side; he has Wong and Christine who truly know him and that has to be enough. Better to be known as the arrogant Sorcerer who looks at everyone like a piece in a chess game than the man who cries himself to sleep most nights because his hands hurt and his past choices haunt him.

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                                                                           ❝ — jaax are you flexing right now? ❞

[lordcustythependletwat]

✅❌💓💢🔫 for u, king

Jaax please have mercy...

✅ How did you get into Dishonored?

My dad got me the game from some garage sale or something, and I played it all the way back in 2017, although dumb baby me couldn't get through Coldridge so I left it. Then it wasn't until late 2018 when I picked it back up and now I'm here.

❌ Any unpopular opinions?

By default having the Pendleton twins as faves should already count as an unpopular opinion but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I got nothing else.

💓 Favorite Heart line?

Fave. Fave on main. Because fuck you/j

"He has one of the keenest minds for business in all of Gristol."

Custis boy...himb smart. I think about it a LOT since damn that's quite the achievement. I also think about what that necessarily MEANS too, but in my headcanon I've thought it meant he good with math uwu. Either way I'm 👀. There's also the "Custis is considered the smartest and the cruelest of the Pendleton brothers." that goes hand in hand with that, and the fact that he has TWO heart quotes saying that he's smart... Damn his ass wasn't smart enough to not get killed by Corvo tho smh smh

💢 Least favorite protagonist?

God I love all of them funky Marked, but in terms of gameplay? I would say Daud? Even though he has his special Blink, his Void Gaze is so hard to detect runes and bone charms with.

🔫 Least favorite character?

Honestly I REALLY don't have a least favorite or at least a character I outright hate, but usually H*ram Burrows is what I say, just cuz he's an ass and also just eugh. Him slimy.

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mundane headcanons || training

Lacking the finality of death and dumped with Light cording through a system, a Guardian’s body still needs to be tested and trained in order to keep in fighting fit shape. Jaax, in particular, utilizes the need for such as a means to keep busy. Idle hands, idle minds, idle anything can do no good — the Titan’s general amiable mood is direct result of him keeping so busy so that nothing has the ability to latch on and sour thoughts. Amalgamated here is what is typical of Jaax throughout a normal week.

• Weekly Routine: You best believe that a regimented and nailed down schedule is what keeps the Titan in balance while he’s at the Tower — not a day goes by where the routine is dropped or paused, days may be shifted or traded accordingly if there’s other outside forces at work — in fact, the only way to actually halt it would be a mission. He’s got a strict regiment of days for chest and biceps, back, cardio, legs, shoulders and triceps, and two days of rest — of which may or may not be spent with the bullets below. Through this, though, Jaax is very much a sociable person. You want to join him for a day? He’ll be thrilled for the company — let him bench press you or something. • Light Training: While it’s a different kind of muscle to keep in shape, the importance of it goes hand in hand, perhaps even exceeding at some points, that of the flesh. The ability to keep that connection with the Light a thriving and fit thing is a bit more nuanced than weight training. Typically either paired with aforementioned cardio days, Jaax trains his Light accordingly. Void is his preferred subclass — you can bet he knows, on average, how long he can hold a dome and what his personal best it — however he has dabbled in enough Arc to get somewhat of a taste for it, even if the unfamiliarity with it leaves his fingers numb at times. • The Crucible: There’s no real limit as to what days Jaax will pair this with, it is a favored activity, so he’ll often run through when he can — responsibly. Training against others in a setting where they’re meant and encouraged to beat each other up in a positive, reinforcing sort of way is refreshing. The best way to keep on edge is, of course, to train against the unpredictability of other individuals. It keeps mind and body sharp, despite the wear and tear it’ll mark the latter with. However the Guardian doesn’t binge through the Crucible — the Titan knows his own limits, and if the Shaxxbots show any inkling of comment of warning, he will take it. Burning out is not beneficial, in any form of training. 

RELATION HOOKS: Maybe you've bumped into him working out, maybe a regular workout partner for a few of the days, his leg day matches up with your back day or something, or maybe you slowly cruise on your sparrow while he does cardio running who knows where (because he def prefers that rather than any sort of treadmill). There's also room to work on Light Training with him — and of course the Crucible, either be it someone he purposefully teams up with, or purposefully aligns up to go opposite on to spar against. Feel free to assume any of these when writing with me.

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mundane headcanons || relations

It’s worth noting that those who are all housed up in the Tower likely know each other, in passing at the very least. They train together, fight together, exist together, and weather through insufferable events to regroup and push on. It’s highly likely that those who are capable of knowing Jaax — location, timeline, etc — probably have at least has seen his face somewhere.

• Friendly: The Awoken is a reasonably agreeable person. He’s confident without slipping into too arrogant territory, enough to strike up a casual conversation with nearly anyone, no matter how threatening or plain the other person may appear to be. He enjoys people, and thrives in an environment where he has plenty of interactions. Jaax delights in mingling and keeping busy, and companionship in the form of friendships are something he values greatly — even if it’s no more than a name and maybe one like topic, he’s apt to catch onto details and retain them when it’s regarding a person.  • Professionally: Working with Jaax cuts out some of the shenanigans, but it doesn’t cull them entirely. He does tend to have a habit of talking a little too-casually, or say things that may border on crossing lines of what is proper, but hardly is it ever meant to be malicious. For the most part he is a fine example of work ethic and gusto, his enthusiasm for finishing a job direct and controlled. Sometimes he can be a touch spontaneous with how things get done, but at long as the job is finished and everyone’s coming out of it mostly unharmed, things are good.  • Intimately:  Oh boy. This will earn it’s own post with more details at some point, but not today. To put things frankly, Jaax is a heaux. He enjoys keeping busy, he enjoys physical activity, and he enjoys social interaction — thus he doesn’t mind getting in tangles often. The Awoken is clear and casual about his affairs, no strings attached and no ulterior motives mapped out. Intimacy is a form of stress relief for him, and he deals it without much severity. He’s not the sort to limit himself in terms of who can be any sort of partner, an equal opportunist across all fronts, however he is not keen on keeping any sort of partner. Commitment is a big red flag, thus why he is so brashly honest about intentions when they do come up.    • Fireteam: Scrap everything about being a commitment-phobe in the prior bullet, because the members of his Fireteam are noted exceptions to that. They are the closest things to him, and individuals he will drop everything for to be at their side — doesn’t matter who he is with or what he is doing, if the ringtone of a Team member comes through, he will stop what he’s doing and take it, no matter the circumstances. 

RELATION HOOKS: Friendships both personal and professional are welcome in all degrees of longevity and strength. Intimate relations can typically be assumed in most cases, but don’t expect any fluttery romantic feelings to be floating around on Jaax’s end — hit me with a msg just for the okay to assume such a thing between muses, he might get around, and might not have any limitations, but he would've had to experience some inkling of attraction (fleeting, imagined, or otherwise). His Fireteam solidly has Lambda-5 as a member, while the third party is left ambiguous for the most part — as of right now a permanent third is not open, however the idea of filling in for a missing-third-party is something that can be asked about!