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🐑 (sheepishly) wrote in goose_ooc,
@ 2016-12-18 06:24:00

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GIFT GIVING MEME: Taking the OOC strain out of IC gift giving

It's that time of the year again when we stress out over what sort of gifts one fictional character should give to other fictional characters. Sometimes it's even more stressful than picking out gifts for your actual friends. Let's help each other out!

CHARACTER NAME:
WHAT DO THEY CELEBRATE?: Do they get swept up in the Christmas spirit? Do they LIGHT 'EM UP UP UP for eight nights? Is there a combination of different holiday traditions? Do they not celebrate at all?
GIFT-GIVING HABITS: Are they bad at choosing gifts? Have they ever been caught re-gifting gifts they didn't want? Do they always give gifts to each one of their roommates or are they bad at even remembering to give gifts to their best friend?
HOBBIES & INTERESTS: What would other people know about what they like? Do they have any themes or special interests they're known for? Ex: Levi likes Quidditch, music, dogs, and astronomy and his special interests (and aesthetic themes) are aliens and outer space.
IDEAL TYPE OF GIFTS: What sort of gifts would your character love to receive? Is there anything those close to them might realize that they could use? Do you have any links to items or lists to help us out? (If you google "Gifts for [Hobby]", sometimes there are already pre-made lists! For example, I could google "Gifts for reptile lovers" for Diego or "Gifts for astronomy lovers" for Levi and be rollin' in gift ideas. You can also search treasuries on Etsy!)
ANYTHING ELSE?: Anything you'd like to add to help with the fictional gift-giving process?

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ENNIS HARPER

sheepishly
2016-12-18 07:55 am UTC (link)

CHARACTER NAME: Ennis Harper
WHAT DO THEY CELEBRATE?: Ennis celebrates Christmas! His grandparents are Christian and celebrate the religious aspect of the holiday as well as the commercial aspect.
GIFT-GIVING HABITS: Ennis doesn't have a lot of money, but he has a lot of artistic skill and dedication to his friends so most of his gifts are hand-made. His close friends get scarves or sweaters every year, made out of yarn spun at his family's farm from magical sheep's wool. He gives heartfelt gifts to his roommates and he hates excluding people, so all of Ribbonfin gets at least one small gift even if it's not exactly personal.
HOBBIES & INTERESTS: Ennis's hobbies are knitting, sewing, ball jointed dolls (doll clothes making, painting faces on them, doll photography, etc), and his special interest is in Divination. Specifically, divination using bones and rodents although he uses the common forms of divination as well and enjoys trying new methods.

His personal aesthetic is mori kei/druidy and his character theme is "endearing morbidity", meaning he takes an interest in weird, morbid shit and finds a way to explain away the fear-inducing factor of it or twist it into an endearing trait. For example, he really likes creepy things and tries to find a way to sympathize with them by assigning a benevolent personality to them.
IDEAL TYPE OF GIFTS: Ennis likes anything morbid (as long as it's not too on-the-nose), occult-y, foresty, or handmade. He loves sweaters and cardigans and anything knit and he can't seem to get enough of them. He also loves anything with sheep, rodents, or moths.

Gift ideas: Mori kei gift list (Foresty aesthetic), Nature lover gifts, literally anything with a moth on it, NEW DIVINATION TOOLS!!!, new headphones-- he's always chewing through the wires on his, bones!!!!!! bone jewelery, straight-up animal bones, skeletons encased in glass displays or shadowframes, anything for his dolls as long as it's hand-made.

He's weird about dolls being gifted to him unless he's asked for them, but only his grandparents buy them for him or he saves up his money and buys them himself. Dolls are an incredibly personal gift to him and, to him, it's the equivalent of buying a person a dog.
ANYTHING ELSE?: I'M INTOXICATED AND SLEEP DEPRIVED AND ABOUT TO GO TO BED, I'M SURE I'VE MISSED A TON OF SHIT. Also, if you have any questions or want to see if Ennis would like {X} gift, just ask! ALSO, WE CAN TOTALLY HAND-WAVE THAT MY CHARACTERS GOT GIFTS FROM YOUR CHARACTER BECAUSE I KNOW PICKING OUT GIFTS IS SUPER STRESSFUL AND TIME CONSUMING AND I DON'T WANT TO FORCE THAT ON ANYONE. I'm gonna be doing a lot of hand-waving on Levi and Maggie because they'd both give out a lot of gifts but I just cannot sit here and think of gifts for every single character on the roster :^(

	Re: Bailey Hartman.. thewakingstate 2016-12-18 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	Teo's gonna give Bae a gift for Christmas because she puts out a lot of effort. She doesn't have to give him one but she's getting one lol (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Bailey Hartman.. cyrano 2016-12-18 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	OMG NO teo's name should totally be here, she loves tf out of him. He gets a gift from her every year :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Olivia Sanchez doyouevenlift 2016-12-18 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	I forgot to fill the anything else and that's a great metaphor for my life (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Quinn Cunningham doyouevenlift 2016-12-19 02:59 pm UTC (link)
	Let's appreciate that there's more Coppertales on her gift giving list than Azurcrest (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)