After re-reading my favorite Pendleton fics for the umpteenth time, I love that, despite the many different ways of characterizing the twins, everyone can agree that Custis's "best mind for business" translates to him being good with numbers and being busy at a desk all the time.
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got a cracky headcanon that has so much sugary fluff in it that i don't feel shameless enough to post it as a fic lol
so my bard wood half elf, layla, has a guild artisan background--i vaguely headcanoned it as a kind of backup career she prepared for, in case the swordfighting-and-barding around faerun gig didn't work out. so mostly like intermediate-level woodworking, with some textiles/embroidery knowledge on the side
and then in the case of the stuffed toys plot, she gets so pissed off about that, that she asks the flaming fist guard in charge of the donations storehouse if she could take the box of them and clean them up and fix them before re-sending them back to donations
'sure, why not' the guy says, 'i already filed my report on it and all. i'll keep one of them for evidence but take the rest'
then back at camp, her companions watch as she's cleaning off all these toy teddy bears, refluffing them, and tearing apart a bunch of fancy clothes they swiped off of cazador's palace after freeing astarion, and making little outfits for them
so u get some bears with princess hats, and bears with cloaks, and bears in like little doublets and such in shiny brocades and silks. some of them have little wooden sword accessories tied to their belts too lol
(she even gets gale to cast several fireproofing and waterproofing spells over the whole lot)
layla also ends up handing one (a teddy bear with white fur, in a little dark outfit with silver embroidery decorations) to astarion, who stares at it in puzzlement for five whole minutes
"darling," he says slowly, "as much as i adore anything that comes from your hands, you do know i am an over 200-year old elf right?"
layla holds up another teddy bear, this one in a little purple dress that also has embroidery done on it
"he comes in a pair," she says, wholly straight-faced. "they're supposed to match"
astarion's resolve crumples like wet tissue paper
he takes the teddy bear
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