First Impressions, Etc
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impostor_syndromeVisual: Usually wearing a purple full-body protective suit of some kind. Which kind depends on the setting and occasion. For instance, a spacesuit (though typically a type that's a bit more lightweight than full NASA spacewalk gear), a hazmat suit/radiation suit, a diving suit, or a full-coverage set of motorcycle gear. If they've walked in straight from either of their canons they'll be wearing the spacesuit or the Lethal Company hazmat suit.
When they do change out of the protective suit and into casual or formal clothes, they favour trousers over skirts (although their taste in decorative flourishes can be more feminine) and will often still opt for something that covers a lot of skin with long pants, long sleeves, and a fashionable pair of gloves. They will also almost always keep the helmet on even if it clashes badly with everything else they're wearing, although a big hat that covers (most of) their face is an acceptable substitute in a pinch.
Aural: Their voice usually sounds human but not deep enough to be definitely masculine or high enough to be definitely feminine, maybe an alto or maybe a tenor or a vocal range spanning both. With the helmet on, which it usually is, they sound just a bit echoey, muffled, or electronically crackly as is appropriate for the design.
Olfactory: When they're wearing a real protective suit it smells like its materials and environment, so things like metal and rubber and seawater for the diving suit. If they've shapeshifted a suit on, then the smell of the suit materials is much fainter. If they're wearing a shapeshifted or not-fully-enclosed outfit, a very sensitive nose could pick up a smell like fresh mushrooms.
To a superhuman nose (canine level or better), the fungal smell is more noticeable and it becomes discernible that there's something very messed-up about their insides, at least if you're expecting human biology.
Demeanour: Casual, chatty, facetious, full of strange anecdotes and ridiculous comments but skittish about getting too personal. Not open about being a shapeshifter except to other shapeshifters. Frequently eating something.
Magical & Psionic: They're a biological being who doesn't have any training, or untrained special talent, for wielding magic or defending against it. Likewise for psychic powers. Their soul or psychic signature might be unusual in its composition, since they have a more-or-less unified consciousness but the cells they're made of are significantly more independent than a human's.
Magnus Archives fear associations: Stranger, Flesh, Hunt, Vast
Sensitive subjects (IC):
They have an assortment of ingrained fear responses derived from the Lethal Company monsters, and while some of them are so specific that they're unlikely to come up in unrelated circumstances, others certainly could. Glowing eyes in the dark, the sound of metal springs rattling and clanging, foxes screeching, people wearing comedy and tragedy masks, large jack-in-the-boxes, giant spiders (and it is specifically giant spiders; if the spider's smaller than a beach ball they don't care), 20-foot-tall screaming robots, if they hear the instrumentals for "Pop Goes The Weasel" while inside a building they'll automatically head for the exit even if they have to run to make it before the song finishes. Whether they react by running, hiding, backing away slowly or threatening the object of their fear with a shovel depends on what monster they were reminded of and how they dealt with it before. They also have a mild fear of heights due to a close call with getting ejected, on the Among Us side of their canon, but it only really kicks in when they're looking at a very long drop.
In the backstory for Pumpkin Hollow-verse (and any other continuity where they died before the RP starts, presumably), they were mortally wounded by a Masked and are now particularly anxious around things that remind them of it, like theatrical masks and vomiting. This wouldn't apply in other continuities where they were rescued from 20-Adamance alive, or haven't been stranded there yet, or are still there when they meet the other characters; then they just find the Masked the normal amount of creepy.
When they do change out of the protective suit and into casual or formal clothes, they favour trousers over skirts (although their taste in decorative flourishes can be more feminine) and will often still opt for something that covers a lot of skin with long pants, long sleeves, and a fashionable pair of gloves. They will also almost always keep the helmet on even if it clashes badly with everything else they're wearing, although a big hat that covers (most of) their face is an acceptable substitute in a pinch.
Aural: Their voice usually sounds human but not deep enough to be definitely masculine or high enough to be definitely feminine, maybe an alto or maybe a tenor or a vocal range spanning both. With the helmet on, which it usually is, they sound just a bit echoey, muffled, or electronically crackly as is appropriate for the design.
Olfactory: When they're wearing a real protective suit it smells like its materials and environment, so things like metal and rubber and seawater for the diving suit. If they've shapeshifted a suit on, then the smell of the suit materials is much fainter. If they're wearing a shapeshifted or not-fully-enclosed outfit, a very sensitive nose could pick up a smell like fresh mushrooms.
To a superhuman nose (canine level or better), the fungal smell is more noticeable and it becomes discernible that there's something very messed-up about their insides, at least if you're expecting human biology.
Demeanour: Casual, chatty, facetious, full of strange anecdotes and ridiculous comments but skittish about getting too personal. Not open about being a shapeshifter except to other shapeshifters. Frequently eating something.
Magical & Psionic: They're a biological being who doesn't have any training, or untrained special talent, for wielding magic or defending against it. Likewise for psychic powers. Their soul or psychic signature might be unusual in its composition, since they have a more-or-less unified consciousness but the cells they're made of are significantly more independent than a human's.
Magnus Archives fear associations: Stranger, Flesh, Hunt, Vast
Sensitive subjects (IC):
They have an assortment of ingrained fear responses derived from the Lethal Company monsters, and while some of them are so specific that they're unlikely to come up in unrelated circumstances, others certainly could. Glowing eyes in the dark, the sound of metal springs rattling and clanging, foxes screeching, people wearing comedy and tragedy masks, large jack-in-the-boxes, giant spiders (and it is specifically giant spiders; if the spider's smaller than a beach ball they don't care), 20-foot-tall screaming robots, if they hear the instrumentals for "Pop Goes The Weasel" while inside a building they'll automatically head for the exit even if they have to run to make it before the song finishes. Whether they react by running, hiding, backing away slowly or threatening the object of their fear with a shovel depends on what monster they were reminded of and how they dealt with it before. They also have a mild fear of heights due to a close call with getting ejected, on the Among Us side of their canon, but it only really kicks in when they're looking at a very long drop.
In the backstory for Pumpkin Hollow-verse (and any other continuity where they died before the RP starts, presumably), they were mortally wounded by a Masked and are now particularly anxious around things that remind them of it, like theatrical masks and vomiting. This wouldn't apply in other continuities where they were rescued from 20-Adamance alive, or haven't been stranded there yet, or are still there when they meet the other characters; then they just find the Masked the normal amount of creepy.