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Alustin
- keeps a piece of quartz in the shape of a heart on a small chain in his storage tattoo (it was a gift from kanderon when he was a teen)
- His favorite color is dandelion yellow
- He likes shuffling cards and keeps several decks on him at all times
- wishes that he could learn other languages but because his first (and only) language was Ithonian
- pansexual and hates the idea of settling down with one person or any number of people for that matter and prefers to hop from partner to partner
- dislikes spiders but doesn't fear them
- before his affinities manifested, he hoped that he was some kind of fiber mage
- never knew his mother. She died giving birth to him
-sees kanderon as a mother and it hurt him greatly to betray her
- is horrible with young children and genuinely hates being around babies but understands that it's not the parent's fault oftentimes for their child crying
- is most definitely a cat person
- used to try and catch sand drakes and keep them as a pet
- dislikes gravity mages dated one had a horrible experience in bed with her and had to spend 2 weeks in the care of many healers at skyhold
- snuck into the library his first year at skyhold at least 20 times. Eventually he was just given a key to the main entrance so he would stop doing more and more dangerous stunts to try and get in
- for his 20th birthday he got severely drunk in Theras Tel during a sandstorm and took a ride on a dragon's back
- has exactly three overdue books from when he was a student. He knows where they are. He just refuses to give them back at this point because he's trying to set a record
- has flirted with the queen of the gorgons on multiple occasions and lived to tell the tale
- hates when his ears pop while he's flying and devised, several cantrips to drying prevent this (None of them worked and he's still mad about it to this day)
- absolutely loves musical theater and has tried to convince and has succeeded in a few cases getting the other librarians errant to go to several of his favorite performances while on missions
- absolutely hates rainforests for no particular reason as he says ( He has been almost eaten by alligators on five different occasions and has crashed into trees no less than 35 times while fighting inside of them)
- is double jointed
- is autistic 100% (I'm projecting)
- has a faint scar on his hip from a fire mage he dated
- has. A very dainty and almost unnoticeable tattoo on his lower back that he refuses to talk about how he got it and Will never admit to it being there
- on a completely unrelated note, dislikes ink mages specifically getting drunk around ink mages specifically ink mages who know how to tattoo
- Said tattoo is definitely not a tramp stamp. Why would you think that never ask that again
- has fallen off a cliff on three different occasions on purpose for dramatic effect
- has taken four separate drama classes at four different dates, all of which of his own free will
- can sing incredibly well
- when scared, screams in a very girly manner
- dislikes the color sage green
- loves the color forest green
- Yes there is a difference. He will argue this to the day he dies
- can juggle
- was a street performer for a summer during His time as a journeyman
- hates paperwork
- loves seeing how many paper airplanes he can throw at kanderon and land in her Maine before she notices
- Always smells very faintly of vanilla for some reason
- favorite food is in noodles
- Develop the spell specifically to shoot bananas and not their peel
- spent ONE night with Emmenson Drees that both of them refuse to talk about (they were extremely drunk)
- can dance in multiple different styles and extremely enjoys Flamingo and Waltz
- has so much money that he doesn't know what to do with it. Aunt gives as much of it as he can away. Despite this, he is incredibly rich
- despises teleporting
- dislikes growing out his facial hair
- is afraid of developing male pattern boldness and absolutely loves his hair despite the fact that it always looks Tangled
- His bed is piled with pillows and blankets so high that you would never guess that the bed is actually a king size with how little room he often has on it
- zones out quite a bit and when he does he looks like a fish
- has taken three classes on farming and decided he has no clue how to actually succeed at it despite knowing an incredible amount about it
- has a crappy sleep schedule when not held to a strict schedule
- absolutely hates waking up early and decides to get his least favorite activity of the day (working out) over with as soon as humanly possible
- keeps an enchanted bag full of popcorn in his storage tattoo for whenever the moment strikes him, he can simply pull out popcorn and start eating it for dramatic effect
- gets flustered extremely easily despite what he would like to have Everyone believe
- was extremely insecure and short for the first 2 years at skyhold before hitting a major growth spurt and is now the skinny string bean that we love him for being
- every year on the anniversary of the destruction of his home, he makes himself a cake and sits in his small apartment and lets himself mourn the loss of his family
- has an extremely fast metabolism and can eat like a pig without gaining a single pound (it's very difficult. For someone who needs to put on muscle as a battle mage)
- loves seasoned food