Um,
Lexicon wank just broke Insanejournal's bandwidth. Therefore, Steve Vanderarc or whatever his name is indirectly hindering with our RP shenanigans. Good Lord, and I wanted to catch up during lab hours.
Nope, IJ's host sucks and they might've lost like a month of database. Noooooo eso es todo el jueguito y 3/5 4 de mis personajes ;____;
So on the meantime, I'll go with the headcanon meme to procrastinate.
Howl Jenkins
- He was fast enough on his feet to be a regular team member, sure, but he wasn't really THAT good at playing rugby. He had no sense of team unity. And he kept pissing the other players off flirting with sisters/girlfriends/whatever. No wonder the rest of his mates forget about him for meetings and games.
- One of the hardest things about marrying Sophie is the way he has to LET her clean up the bedroom because now it's hers too. The spiders had to leave for good. The dirty magazines and other secret stuff are now hidden way away from the bedroom so she won't snoop around important things (yes, porn IS important).
- His name, his hair, everything from his life pre-Ingary: he has always believed they're so plain. He hates being plain. Wouldn't being a wizard mean he could be extraordinary? So why not changing the things about himself he dislikes at will? That's the real reason he reinvents himself, more than vanity (which is also a factor) or hiding from others (also a factor).
- Calcifer might be a sneaky little bastard, but Howl considers him a good friend and is fine with this. After all, he has also been a sneaky little bastard to the fire demon, too. If anything, they bonded out of wickedness.
- He seldom says "I love you". Not to Sophie, not to little Mari, not to Morgan. Because admitting it would be expressing his deepest feelings way too loud, which is funny if you think about how melodramatic he is. Because admitting it would be establishing a strong tie. So he slithers it out and hopes his actions speak for him.
- He's a closet Celtic and Arthurian geek. Merlin and druids are the real reason he took courses on "magic" at university to begin with, and made it his thesis. He was so pissed off when his stuff was thrown out by Megan because his books on Celtic lore are now lost. But he didn't yell at her for THOSE explicitly because Sophie and Michael were there, and it was embarrassing for him to let them know he's such a dork about the subject, even if they don't know what the fuck that is.