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2022-03-04 04:22 pm
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appearance

The Iron Bull's in-game model is, I think, about 6'6", but I've gotten the impression he was intended to be taller before coding issues and time might have interfered, so in situations where I'm allowed to indulge myself I put him around 7'6". Either way you'd like to play it is fine.

Broad shoulders, broad trunk, thick core, lots of strength training that'll be obvious because he's almost never wearing a shirt, even if it's very cold. Dark brown-ish/black horns, cragged and knotted like tree bark, go straight out from his head, parallel to his shoulders, for a little over a foot on each side. They stretch a little less than the width of his shoulders before bending up and back and thinning to sharp points, and the skin on the top of his head between them is bare with the same dark color and bark-like texture. The back of his head is shaved smooth, and his chin and upper lip are covered in black stubble. His ears and chin are both long and pointed, his nose likewise with a long, flattened-looking tip and his cheekbones are strong and low. His right eye is that indeterminate grey or maybe greenish-blue whose exact shade is kind of hard to pin down and the spot where his left used to be is usually covered by an eyepatch. (For situations when it isn't, the closest we've got to a canon image of that part of his face is an image from the side, here.)

His skin is grey and covered in scars going in every direction and I'm going to go ahead and list the major ones here partly just to see if I can. If you'd like to just say he's got scars everywhere that he's got skin and be done with it feel free to skip this whole next paragraph.

So: There are a couple parallel puckered ones about a foot apart from his right shoulder going unevenly down diagonally across the shoulder, the bottom of his right pectoral, and down near the bottom of his ribs, and an indented scar going straight down underneath the middle of his right pectoral. He has one puckered scar diagonally from the inside of his left pectoral and one almost horizontal a little below that on his ribs, another indented one going diagonally down toward his left hip, another couple of indented ones diagonal over the middle and the bottom of his sternum, another indented one going diagonally a few inches down the center of his belly and disappearing under his belt, a couple pale, smooth ones in a diagonal line down his right shoulder and the back of his bicep, a curving, deeply indented one moving down the front of his right shoulder, another slightly less indented one a few inches behind that, and yet another indented one curving from his right elbow to the front left side of his forearm near his wrist. He has about twelve mostly-shorter ones of all types going in different directions across his back and a small, indented one on the righthand side of the back of his head. His face has two narrow, smooth scars moving diagonally down from his right cheekbone near his nose, and another smooth and narrow one down from near the bottom lefthand side of his nose over the lefthand corner of his upper lip. His eyepatch has three scars moving diagonally from his brow into the top of his eyepatch, and one smooth, squiggly scar and one longer indented one moving out from the eyepatch's left side. His left hand's ring and pinky fingers are cut off a little past the middle knuckle, and his right hand has a puckered scar on the side near his thumb, from near his index finger's bottom knuckle diagonally over to the index finger's metacarpal.

There are lots of other little ones, including what looks like a couple high up on his left pectoral that are mostly covered up. But I think those are the main ones. Going to call that a success.

There's an illustration of Bull from one of the World of Thedas books here, and an in game picture of what he looks like when he's just chilling out here.


Bonus info: The cool kids still do moodboards, don't they? Go ahead and try this (nsfw) one out for me. Y'all think I did it right?
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2020-09-26 05:43 pm
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How's My Driving?

 
 
 
 
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2020-09-26 11:39 am
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permissions/opt-out

 
permissions
    backtagging
In memes and PSLs - absolutely. I just want to have fun, it doesn't make a difference how long you were gone.

In games - if it looks like it's going to change our CR, talk to me and we can either cut the past-thread short and decide how we want it to have ended, or put present-threads on pause while we finish up the past one. It can get tricky to play with a character in the present when what's happening in the past could change how they interact.
 
    threadhopping
Ask me first, it depends on what's going on.
  
    fourthwalling
Bull's going to think the character doing it is out of their mind, but sure.
 
    shipping
Romance
With a character like Bull if an adult character seems into him it's likely he'll roll with it and slide into an affectionate friends-with-benefits thing very easily. I'm cool with that, although the only character I'm automatically into playing out him getting seriously romantic with is Dorian Pavus. In every case, though, I'm going to default to platonic unless we're in a shipping meme/are working from a romance prompt, or if you've told me you want to play out shippy stuff.
 
Sex
Ask me first, sometimes sex scenes bore me but I am interested in the occasional one, especially if it's going to change their relationship/their characterization or if they're going to be doing some of the BDSM stuff Bull likes. I don't have any actual experience with either sex or BDSM so I may ask you for clarification on what Bull should do, which could be frustrating for some people, but I think getting more experience at writing those things in a closer-to-realistic way could be fun if you're up for helping me learn.

Also writing out sex scenes is only an option in the first place if both you and your character are at least in your 20s, and if their sex is consensual (although the characters themselves entering into negotiated noncon play/ravishment fantasies/etc is totally different, something Bull is canonically into, and something I'd definitely be interested in playing. But the characters do both have to know it's not real and know the safeword. Maybe we could play out a little bit of the characters working the details out beforehand? Let me know what you're up for, I'm not sure how rp-ing that kind of kink tends to work). 

(Any other kinks or fantasies your character would have? Bull would probably be up for helping them play that out. Could be fun. Let me know, and I'll let you know if I'm down for playing it out.) 
 
    hugging/kissing/etc
Go for it, 99.9% of the time Bull loves that shit. Just know that if he reads it as flirting, and if this is the .1% of cases where he's not into that, instead of rejecting the person right off his first reaction is probably going to be what he considers obvious hints at rejection rather than saying no outright.
 
    fighting/injuring/killing
Let's get a rough plan of how it's going to go first, I've had too many fight threads get not fun real fast to play out characters fighting each other without talking about it first.
 
    telepathy/mind-reading
Bull would hate it so much, which is why I love the idea. Let's get a rough plan of this one first too.
 
    opt-out
Topics that people may need to be aware of before their characters interact with Bull are: 

Bull's past as a member of his culture’s version of the secret police, prolonged fighting in a chaotic place where he saw a lot of horrible shit, seeing friends die, having PTSD and a mental breakdown, the consideration he gave to ending his life during that period (he ultimately decided against trying, and openly talks about it in canon, when asked), and voluntarily going into government-administered brainwashing/reeducation. He's also hypervigilant, paranoid about whether unfamiliar people are going to put poison into his food or drinks, and casually imagines how to fight and kill people if they become threats, 'in case it comes up'. His fighting style is brutal and bloody and faced with people he can think of as 'the bad guys' he revels in it, so if I write him fighting I'm going to default to reflecting that mindset with no out-and-out criticism of the actions it can lead him to.

Bull usually won’t talk about those parts of him or his past in detail unless those topics come up (for example if he happens to mention Seheron and a character asks him about it, that will probably lead to at least some discussion of those topics). He also might talk or think about liking violence or needing it and seeing himself more as a tool to be put to some use than as a person, and if the topic of the authoritarian government he grew up under comes up, he'll probably defend its policies (possibly even after leaving the Qun, if to a lesser degree).

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2020-09-24 04:53 pm
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tracking

GAMES
ill met by moonlight
October
 
Two newbies adjusting very differently meet in a way Bull wasn't expecting. And also hates. It's not Karou's fault.
 
Bull gets hit with his worst fear pretty much as soon as he gets to this weird new place, because he's lucky that way.
November
 
meets Phaedra and learns the word 'vampire'
 
meets Satsuki in the library 
 
December
voidtrecker express
March
 
April
 
with [personal profile] stabgremlin 
 
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MEMES & PSLS
2020
January
 
February
with [personal profile] runs 
 
March
 
April
 
May
 
June
 
July
 
August
September  Hi I love you will you be up for a while!
  with [personal profile] looking_sharp
October
 
November
December


 
2021
January
February
March
April
 
May
01. tfln
 
June
 
July
 
August
September
October
01. tfln
 
02. h/c
November
with [personal profile] troubleyan 
 
December
2022
January
February
 
March
April
 
May
 
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June
July
August
September
October
November
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December
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2023



secrets revealed meme

2023-03-01
with [personal profile] fade_away 
with [personal profile] leti 
with [personal profile] cuttingremark
 
march texting
2023-03-05
with [personal profile] ombranera 
with [personal profile] idkthechampion[Unknown site tag]
 
























































 
sexy ama
2023-03-05[Unknown site tag]
 


inachinashop: (Default)
2020-04-24 01:26 pm
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opt-out

Topics that people may need to be aware of before their characters interact with Bull are: 

Bull's past as a member of his culture’s version of the secret police, prolonged fighting in a chaotic place where he saw a lot of horrible shit, seeing friends die, having PTSD and a mental breakdown, the consideration he gave to ending his life during that period (he ultimately decided against trying, and openly talks about it in canon, when asked), and voluntarily going into government-administered brainwashing/reeducation. He's also hypervigilant, paranoid about whether unfamiliar people are going to put poison into his food or drinks, and casually imagines how to fight and kill people if they become threats, 'in case it comes up'. His fighting style is brutal and bloody and faced with people he can think of as 'the bad guys' he revels in it, so if I write him fighting I'm going to default to reflecting that mindset with no out-and-out criticism of the actions it can lead him to.

Bull usually won’t talk about those parts of him or his past in detail unless those topics come up (for example if he happens to mention Seheron and a character asks him about it, that will probably lead to at least some discussion of those topics). He also might talk or think about liking violence or needing it and seeing himself more as a tool to be put to some use than as a person, and if the topic of the authoritarian government he grew up under comes up, he'll probably defend its policies (possibly even after leaving the Qun, if to a lesser degree).

If you need me to make sure any of these topics don't come up in his action, dialogue, or his internal narration, please let me know! All comments should be screened for this entry, so anything you say should stay private.