#i'm never relaxed! || muse: denizen

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birthday boy

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denizen’s spending the month of october in his home world. his birthday is today, his best friend simon’s is the 26th, and they haven’t missed each other’s birthdays in twelve years. besides, simon’s birthday has some rather unpleasant memories attached to it, and there’s no way denizen’s leaving him to face that alone again.

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@falseapostle​ asked: what’s their favorite method of self-care? {<- Denizen}

Locking himself in his room, away from the children and Ackerby, the orphanage directer, and just reading a book alone for a couple hours.

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CHARACTER STUDY: TRAITS & CHARACTERISTICS

BOLD all that applies to your muse.

• EYES: blue | green | brown | hazel | gray | gray-blue | heterochromatic | other (one eye is partially made of iron)

• HAIR: blonde | sandy | brown | black | auburn | ginger | grey / white | multi-color | other

• BODY TYPE: skinny | slender | slim | built | curvy  | athletic | average | muscular | pudgy | overweight

• SKIN: pale | light | fair | freckled | tan | olive | medium | dark | discolored | other (about 60% of his body is made of iron)

• GENDER: male | female | trans | cis | agender | nonbinary | demigender | genderfluid | other | doesn’t like labels

• SEXUALITY: heterosexual | homosexual | bisexual | pansexual | asexual | demisexual | other | doesn’t like labels

• ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: homoromantic | heteroromantic | biromantic | panromantic | aromantic | demiromantic | unsure | doesn’t like labels | polyamorous | other (aro-spec)

• SPECIES: human | undead | shapeshifter | demon | angel | witch | ghost | incubus / succubus | werewolf | alien | mutant | android | elf | unknown | other

• EDUCATION: high school | college | university | master’s degree | PhD | other

• I’VE BEEN: in love | hurt | ill | mentally abused | bullied | physically abused | tortured | brainwashed | shot | burnt

• POSITIVE TRAITS: affectionate | adventurous | athletic | brave | charming | confident | creative | cunning | determined | forgiving | generous | honest | humorous | intelligent | loyal | patient | selfless | polite | down-to-earth | diligent | romantic | moral | fun-loving | charismatic | calm

• NEGATIVE TRAITS: aggressive | bossy | cynical | stubborn | envious | shy | fearful | greedy | gullible | jealous | impatient | impulsive | cocky | reckless | insecure | irresponsible | mistrustful | paranoid | possessive | sarcastic | self-conscious | selfish | unstable | clumsy | rebellious | territorial | emotional | vengeful | anxious | self-sabotaging | moody | peevish | angry | pessimistic | slacker | thin skinned | overly dramatic | argumentative | overly protective

• LIVING SITUATION: lives at sea | lives with parents / guardian | lives with significant other | lives with a friend | transient | homeless | lives with children | unknown | other (lives at the orphanage where he teaches)

• PARENTS/GUARDIAN: mother | father | grandmother | grandfather | guardian | unknown

• SIBLING(S): sister | brother | none

• RELATIONSHIP: single | dating | engaged | married | separated | it’s complicated

• HAVE A(N): learning disorder | personality disorder | mental disorder | anxiety disorder | sleep disorder | eating disorder | behavioural disorder | substance-related disorder | PTSD | mental disability | physical disability | non-applicable

• THINGS I’VE DONE BEFORE: had alcohol | smoked | stolen | done drugs | self-harmed | starved | had sex | had a threesome | had a one-night stand | gotten into a fight | gone to hospital | gone to jail | used a fake ID | played hooky | gone to a rave | killed someone | had someone try to kill me

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Starter for @strawberry-barista​

Denizen Hardwick shifted from foot to foot and squinted up at the sign above his head, frowning. Wildkat. Probably. Mercy had shared whatever Tenebrous was that let her communicate with the residents of other worlds with him, but it could hit a few snags when it came to written language. Or maybe he just got a buggy version, who knows?

Frown No. 33--My Not-Girlfriend Saw Something Interesting, Wandered Off, And Now I’m Lost. It wasn’t the first time it had happened, it probably won’t be the last, and he’d found that the best strategy for dealing with it was to make like a kid in a grocery store: hunker down somewhere and wait for her to find him. Also hope she didn’t take out any lights or get the police called on her while he was gone, but he couldn’t exactly do anything about that except trust that Mercy could take care of herself.

Which she could. Denizen was... a bit less confident in his own abilities on that front.

It wasn’t that she intentionally left him behind or anything. She just... got distracted and assumed he was right behind her as she pursued whatever had piqued her interest, when the truth was he was probably either overwhelmed or distracted by something completely different and didn’t even notice she was missing until he looked around and found her gone.

With a sigh, Denizen pushed his way inside the café and plopped down in a chair--heavily, as he did most things nowadays. The place wasn’t very crowded, which was good because it had been a bit of time since he’d been in a city this big and everything was sort of overwhelming, but that also meant he would draw attention no matter what he did, which... could definitely become a problem once Mercy got here.

Okay. It was fine. He was overthinking things. He was just hanging out in a café for a while. People did that all the time. Even in... well, he wasn’t quite sure where he was, but frankly, he didn’t know if knowing would even help much. This wasn’t his world, after all.

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which type of protagonist are you?

overpowered sweetheart

you were probably gifted from birth, but humble about it. whatever it is--alien sun, parents with powers, or what i like to call the taco tuesday special (fell at breakneck speed into a radioactive vat of chemicals immediately upon birth)--your origins played a big part of your journey. that positive attitude and those grassfed morals sure aren't something you see every day! it's no surprise that you're a natural, but you have a lot left to learn about responsibility, and...it's probably not gonna come easy (sorry)

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tag dump! the tags are all lines from the books! (except my ooc tag, obviously lol)

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“I think the anticipation is just my anxiety...”

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@strawberry-barista​ asked: 14!

14. someone whose choices have drastically impacted their life

Denizen turned away slightly, adjusting his scarf.

“... Vivian Hardwick,” he mumbled after a moment. “I’m only alive because of her choices. The Clockwork Three would have killed me twice over, and that’s before I even got the chance to meet her.”

Did that make sense? Of course he’d technically met her when he was a baby, had lived with her for his first two years, but he didn’t remember any of that.

“Some of her choices were pretty damn terrible, though. Like pretending to be my aunt and avoiding me for a month because she was too much of a coward to own up to what she’d done. She was just going to die and take all her answers with her and leave me her page in the Book of Rust as what? An apology? An explanation?”

He shook his head. He wasn’t angry at her for it anymore--not really, not after everything else that had happened--but he could still feel the ghost of that rage when he thought about it too hard.

“And she didn’t tell anyone about the Clockwork Three, either, so they couldn’t prepare, a-and...”

It had killed D’Aubigny. It nearly killed Jack, and Grey...

Do you know how different things could have been if she had just told us about the Three?

Denizen swallowed.

“She changed the lives of everyone she ever came into contact, in one way or another. That’s just who she was--a force of nature. The great Vivian Hardwick. But... but she was my mom, you know? So I’d like to think I was the one she impacted the most.”

He sniffed, wiping at his un-covered eye.

“And I’m glad I got to know her, even if it was only for a little bit...”

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“I swear, if Ackerby didn’t already have a heart attack when I left, he definitely will when I come back. He probably thinks I’m dead. He probably held a funeral for me. He’s probably keeping all the lights on again, so the kids aren’t sleeping and the energy bill’s going up - this is going to be a nightmare.”

Not that leaving with Mercy wasn’t worth it, but it was certainly going to make things complicated back home.