get to know me: favourite characters: Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf (1988-))
"You got three brothers: John, Howard, and Frank. You're really mean with money. You're a tremendous physical coward. You once spent an afternoon on the Samaritan switchboard, and four people committed suicide! Your middle name's Judas, but you tell everyone that it's Jonathan. You sign all your official letters A.J. Rimmer, B.S.C., and B.S.C. stands for Bronze Swimming Certificate. You're a cheating, weaselly, lowlife scumbucket, with all the charm and social grace of a pubic louse."
"Gotta admit, bud, he's got a handle on ya there."
Thinking about Rimmer and he is the most character to ever character, huh?
He’s an asshole. He has a crush on Jesus yet is not Christian. He makes most things worse for himself and blames everyone else. He’s a coward. He’s rude and unfriendly, yet still makes that fucking heartfelt sandwich speech. He once lived with a clone of himself and drove himself to move out because he couldn’t stand it. He’s autistic. He severely hates himself yet has a massive ego. He literally almost killed himself through a being that was born from his own self-loathing. He’s so deeply in the closet that he’s misogynistic. He’s canonically asexual and has only had sex once for 12 minutes before he died. He has been dead for 3 million years and is entirely composed of light and machinery. He gets uncomfortable when his female self flirts with him. He has failed the same exam over 11 times. He has cross-dressed. He absolutely can’t stand his alter ego even though everyone else loves him. He’s been bought back to life and he kneed death in the nuts when he was about to die again. His first kiss was his uncle who woke him up snogging him thinking he was his mother. He claims to be unable to stand his roommate but has been living in close quarters with him for 30 odd years. Oh and best of all: he committed genocide which killed everyone on his ship as well as himself- and it was an accident.
Rimmer is biromantic asexual. (Internalized homophobia, though; he believes that he is broken and tries to act as if he isn't in order to "fix it".)
Kryten doesn't identify with any gender, but he does usually use he/him pronouns for simplicity.
The Cat does, in fact, have a tail! He just hides it so no one pulls on it.
Lister enjoys making pillow forts, especially when he wants to watch his favorite shows.
Lister's also intersex because I said so.
Rimmer secretly cares deeply for everyone aboard RD. Yes, even the skutters. He knows all of their names and pronouns and everything.
Lister was heavily influenced by David Bowie, KISS, and the Sex Pistols. They all made him want to learn to play guitar and perform.
Kryten is SUPER into reality TV.
He has gotten everyone else into it.
They watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians together.
KOCHANSKI??? TRANSFEM.
Lister wants to decorate jackets for the other Boys From The Dwarf (tm), complete with all sorts of patches and buttons that he feels like they would identify with.
Rimmer loves to paint. While soft-light, not being able to do that upsets him greatly.
He is also VERY tactile. Being hard-light has made him far happier than he would ever admit simply because he can touch.
The Cat has made it his mission to try to bedazzle Rimmer's 'H'.
Holly is genderfluid who doesn't give a damn.
She's like. "She/Her? Yep." And then randomly goes, "Actually, he/him. No wait-"
They have game nights and such! Movie nights, too. They once all made friendship bracelets for each other.
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