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brbarou · 1 year
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great news!! huey and monica are croatian
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esperanzacboronial · 10 months
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Recent Baccano! art dump:
1. Humer
2. Renee covered in blood (it’s not hers don’t worry)
3. Lesbians. They really do exist
4. Monimoni is 4 years old and she will bite you
5. Whatever the fuck this is
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abyssalplein · 1 year
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The free, sample pages for the new 1700s Baccano! manga, for the viewing pleasure of Tumblr B! fans:
Ch. 1
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empiriical · 1 year
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as soon as i’ve officially added rail i have so much to say about them && huey && elmer. if you even care.
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toushindai · 5 months
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Life-Sized Blogging
toushindai / 30s / cis female (she/her/hers)
A known bisexual. Administrative coordinator by day. Writer also by day. Asleep by night, unless something’s gone terribly wrong. Autistic, at all hours.
My special interests take the form of serial fandom obsessions. It’s currently and very narrowly whatever the fuck Rauru and Ganondorf have going on in Tears of the Kingdom right now. If you followed me for (counts backwards on fingers) Hades, Transistor, Baccano!, Soul Eater, or any other fandom I don’t post about anymore, sorry about that. I do not have any control over the direction of the special interest.
I write a lot of fanfiction, specializing--I may as well cop to this, I think it's been the case since I was in college--in what we'll call eroticized power dynamics. You can find me on AO3. You'll also find me occasionally peddling my wares on my nsfw twitter. My main twitter, wallofillusion, should be considered defunct at this point.
Below the cut, I'd like to highlight a few of the fics or fic series that I'm proudest of for each fandom.
Tears of the Kingdom
Questions of Kingship: Two PWP one-shots followed by a multichapter plotted work. Elements of dubcon and noncon throughout. Recommended if you like made-up politics, think TOTK maybe should have thought a little harder about the implications of its made-up politics, or just want to see two horrible men who hate each other fuck about it.
Following Ganondorf's oath of fealty to Hyrule, Rauru "invites" the Gerudo chief to stay at Hyrule Castle while Gerudo's subsumption into Hyrule is negotiated. It's a strategic action; Rauru does need to keep an eye on him. But his frustration with Ganondorf's false humility hides a desire that even he is not comfortable with, and Ganondorf has his own plans for the self-styled king of Hyrule.
Hades
Hello it is I a megzag main. reach out and grasp will be your best starting point. It focuses on Megaera's friendship with Thanatos and how it is affected by her (and Thanatos's) relationship with Zagreus. This series is available as a pay-what-you-want e-book at itch.io. From there, feel free to branch out; there is a lot of porn here and some things that are not porn. A further guide to my Hades fic can be found here.
Transistor
Not so much of the power dynamics in this fandom but I love Red/Boxer so much. I am not immune to a sword with a gentle voice. Here's the two of the on the verge of becoming a couple; here's what was as far as I can tell the first Red/Boxer smut on the entire internet even though I showed up three years late. Here is a post-game fic in which they finally must discuss the final act of the game.
Baccano!
Maskmaker trio my beloved. I've written over 100k across two separate "Monica is alive" AUs and my sole comfort is that I could never be as obsessed with this thought as Huey is.
Mad Religion is a one of my masterworks: set in the 2001 of an AU where Monica never died, Huey and Monica stumble upon a branch of SAMPLE only to discover that Elmer has already stumbled upon the cult on his own and is trying to make their sacrifice smile. Because that's what he's for--isn't it? If you like writing dealing with unnamed religious trauma, this one is for you.
Other than that--wow I cannot even begin to summarize my work in this fandom. Here's Ronny and Maiza getting to know each other in 1711. Here's Huey being the worst father imaginable to Liza. Here's a lil tone poem of Huey thinking on Monica and Elmer in the 1930s. Conversely here is Fermet leaning real hard on Huey's boundaries. There's more out there, my friends, but it's so scattered. I'm not even mentioning Ronny/Lucrezia here.
Soul Eater
Hello it is I a Medusa/Stein main. And also a "Stein's relationship with Lord Death/authority" main (I was working through some things at the time).
What it Means to Lose Control: When Stein has to give up control in order to fight, some are more than willing to step in and claim it from him. A Medusa/Stein divergent AU. I turned this into an e-book, with some side stories included; you can get that here (mobi | epub)
A God without an Ego: An examination of the relationship between Stein and Lord Death—where it works and where it falls apart. Looks like I never put this one on AO3... well, I'm not linking each piece individually on ff.n. The best way to read these ones is on e-book (mobi | epub)
Prior fandoms
If you want to go further back than "the tail end of my college years" godspeed and for god's sake please don't tell me about it. WallofIllusion on ff.n, you'll find some The World Ends With You, some Ace Attorney (original trio), some Death Note, and some Yu-Gi-Oh!. Also more Soul Eater than I transferred over to AO3.
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When Huey tells Victor in Vol. 14 that his second-worst memory is "being unable to save my wife's life back in my hometown," and Victor musters a "...Hey.", that's him reliving watching Lucrezia's ship explode and conducting a frantic, futile search for Lucrezia afterword. 100% that. Even if Narita hadn't planned that part of 1711 yet.
Of all the things for Victor to have in common with Huey outside of their alchemic/scholarly mindsets, Narita chooses the most emotionally charged option via "long-dead lady loves" ...who remain the dead women in Victor & Huey's interrogation room because Victor has a job to do and Huey's not about to tell Victor that Lucrezia is, in fact, not at all dead.
Every. Single. Interrogation. Huey cordially indulges Victor while sitting pretty on the knowledge that he sent Lucrezia some sweet immortality elixir back in the day. (So did Fermet and Elmer, but who's counting?)
(Can you imagine Huey idly telling Victor as much in 2003 and Victor having to briefly contemplate the idea that Lucrezia is alive thanks to Huey? Victor's brain fries on the spot, already overheated with outrage that Huey's not only known but been in contact with Lucrezia.)
Huey could—if permitted to prove his claims—utter a few names, locations, and other details that might lead Victor towards a reunion with his 21X-years-deceased lady love within the month.
He doesn't do that since revealing he's connected to the Dormentaires would be a Stupid Thing to do. Sure, jeopardize 1935, why don't you.
He doesn't do it because I imagine that Lucrezia, at any point post-1711, would have reminded Huey to keep her a secret from Victor (should H & V meet again). Perhaps she'd even make that a petty stipulation in some deal.
He doesn't because watching an emotional man express complicated emotions over a long-dead, tricksome lover might be some sort of health hazard. Watching Mr. Emotions express raw anticipation of reuniting with his tangible, alive, never dead loved one might even be self-harm. Eh, but who says Huey still has a self to harm? Being immune to situations like this is his specialty.
(He doesn't because, hey, Victor already has the alive dame. Huey does not.)
Telling Victor about his desire to reunite with Monica is...not happening. Never mind any jabs Victor could make about Huey being loveless and unloveable; imagine what a waste of time it would be to trigger Victor thinking of Lucrezia and getting sentimental. Well, more than the "save my wife...hometown" line did.
Victor is sentimental about her. This is the man who signs off his reports to Lucrezia with "Yours alone" (LN17, Interlude II & III) while knowing he isn't "hers alone." In that second Interlude, he admits, "If I get the chance, I’d like to board that boat, too," but immediately quells Lucrezia's imagined fears by adding, "Don’t worry, I won’t leave for America on my own."
He probably wouldn't have, given his incentive to remain on Lucrezia's (much smaller!) continent. His love for Lucrezia gently tethers him and his scholar-adventurer's spirit. This is the man who came to Lotto Valentino "hoping to find was something out of some heroic drama, an evil secret society," and personally expose their dastardly deeds" (Interlude I). Szilard had mocked him. "What’s wrong with that, though?" Victor writes. "Alchemists can dream, can’t they?"
They can also go around picking anti-slavery fights with aristocrats, aka Victor's hobby. They can dream of exploring America, a land far from the immediate reach of said aristocrats, and conduct pioneering research, especially if they fancy themselves "a scholar by nature (with) a thirst for knowledge," like Victor still does in 1935-A, Ch. 2.
Victor's sense of justice presumably drove Victor into the employment of the federal government, whenever that first happened, but we've less information on when and why Victor became as patriotic as he acts. I think Victor has a longstanding need to be somebody with a cause, whether that's the dashing hero who liberates a town from an evil society, the activist who confronts pro-slavery aristocrats, the noble scholar who pursues and generates knowledge...
...or, in this case, an agent of a governing body who has sworn to support and defend (the Constitution) of the United States against all foreign and domestic (Huey) terrorists. Lucrezia will die of old age someday. Szilard is hunting us immortals down; so much for guaranteed eternity. This young nation is fragile—but what might it evolve into, in this land beyond the Old World's stuffy reach? If Victor perhaps becomes the Patriot for a sense of greater purpose, he may develop some genuine loyalty as he watches young America evolve over the decades, from rebelling against his former countrymen in the Revolution to choosing the path of emancipation.
(And perhaps he envies all the inventors and scientists who America keeps spitting out or inviting in from overseas. Patriot life nowadays is relegated to deskwork; Huey is busy tinkering with all sorts of contraptions and keeping busy with alchemy while Victor is reaming out some newbies in an office for the sake of a short-lived ego boost. This Victor has lived through wars and atrocities that the Victor who was ill one day into Lotto Valentino could never foresee.)
If Lucrezia still has (copies of) those reports, maybe she'll have remembered that Victor mentioned Niki in them and therefore decide to include Niki as part of the surprise, without any forewarning of Niki's inclusion. "Remember Niki? You mentioned her in your reports from Lotto Valentino, but that was so long ago." Niki was with her when they had that close shave with Victor and Jessica, which ~~along with some B! fics~~ means I have to entertain the possibility of a double surprise.) I mean, what if Victor had spotted them? It's not impossible.
If Victor sees Niki outright, that 'damnably ill' sickness he felt in Lotto Valentino may very well resurge.
He absolutely will remember Niki because he was impressed by the strength she had for a young person who endured what she did. "I think it was so painful that she had to maintain that distance to be able to speak of it at all," he writes to Lucrezia (LN17, Interlude I). He attempts a joke about Niki being no match for Lucrezia, but it's just a feeble coping method for writing about Niki's "revolting" account.
There's little doubt that Victor and Lucrezia will slip back into their romantic groove once the dust is settled, but I do...think perhaps this older, changed Victor ought to acknowledge the dust first. I'm not sure I want him to revert to 1711!Victor and react the same way he did when he learned that Lucrezia faked her death, nor react like Carla did, since Carla was similarly young. The timeframes aren't comparable.
(I'm vaguely reminded of Archangelo confronting Renee over the downright evil (his words) activities she's carrying out at Nebula. It's not the same level of badness, at all, but the "what are you thinking" approach has something to it.)
I am somewhat interested in a scenario where Victor learns about the homunculi experiments and Huey's "Monica" motive, because I can imagine Victor getting drunk and saying "wow, I handled the loss of my love infinitely better than Huey / At least I didn't create sentient beings and put them through stressful experiments all in the name of reuniting with a dead loved one / Holy shit what the fuck."
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chancellorxofxtrash · 10 days
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Thoughts on elmer x niki?
I think he love her I hope they end up together
I think "love" for Elmer is different. Elmer is very... Elmer.
I think Elmer is... gosh.
Elmer is... emotions for Elmer are Fucked. He pretty much spells out he only cares for what others' smiles/happiness makes him feel.
That's the tragedy of Huey and Elmer as well. If Elmer were to die, it'd destroy Huey, cutting away his last thread to humanity. If Huey were to die, Elmer would be fine.
Elmer seemed close to Monica, but he is completely fine with her dying, because she died smiling. Had the same thought about Niki as well, hoping she died laughing, when he thought she also died.
THAT SAID Mask Maker OT4 forever, I love Huey/Elmer/Monica/Niki a normal amount.
Also on Niki's end, Elmer would be a better crush for Niki to have than FUCKING FERMET NOW WOULDN'T IT
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lottovalentino · 1 year
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and could a mentally ill person make a huey/monica/elmer star/sun/sea motifs chart
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baccano-gauntlet · 1 year
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BACCANO GAUNTLET ROUND 2 MASTERPOST
Lana v. Frank
Fred v. Leeza Laforet
Sham v. Pamela
Rachel v. Isaac Dian
Dallas Genoard v. Charon Walken
Huey Laforet v. Chané Laforet
Czeslaw Meyer v. Nader Schasschule
Gretto Avaro v. Esperanza C. Boroñal
Donatello v. Sylvie Lumiere
The President of the Daily Days v. Roy Maddock
Berga Gandor v. Carlotta
Chaini v. Claire Stanfield
Christopher Shaldred v. Eve Genoard
Angelo v. Victor Talbot
Kate Gandor v. Miria Harvent
Feldt Nibiru v. Laz Smith
Melvi Dormentaire v. Ennis
Donny v. Charkie
Carnea Kaufman v. Ronny Schiatto
Niki v. Edith
Mark Wilmens v. Maria Barcelito
Molsa Martillo v. Rail
Graham Specter v. Firo Prochainezo
Lebreau Fermet Viralesque v. Nice Holystone
Misery v. Adele
Lucrezia de Dormentaire v. Nile
Jacuzzi Splot v. Luck Gandor
Aging v. Lua Klein v. Fil
Carol v. Nicola Casetti
Paula Wilmens v. Denkuro Togo
Begg Garrott v. Claudia Walken
Ricardo Russo v. Tick Jefferson
Maiza Avaro v. Monica Campanella
Elmer C. Albatross v. Juliano
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boundlss · 9 months
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huey doesn't necessarily struggle to feel emotions, but he struggles to interpret them in himself---at least, that's how he is naturally. during the 1700s, this is much more relevant, as it's huey at his most raw.
however, by the 1930's, he's completely locked away any sap of feelings left in his heart that don't somehow relate to monica or elmer. i wouldn't call him entirely past the point of no return, but he's difficult then in a way he wasn't before (although that's not to say he wasn't also difficult before, either). of course, even that emotion is a little hollow as it relates to monica, seeing as he can barely recall her face.
in any case, he's at least gotten better at identifying feelings in himself. he just holds them at arms length and doesn't experience them often.
daily headcanons.
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closedcoffins · 1 year
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you have to promise me you won’t give up on that dream of yours. / elmer for huey after they FINALLY reunite. whenever that is.
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"I wonder whose dream that was, in the first place."
He only remembers the words, of course. Not even Monica's face could stand the test of time; only the bright blond of her hair has lasted as an image in Huey's mind. But even if he had remembered, he's so far removed from that past that he doesn't feel like any part of him is the same.
Are the hands that once held Monica's the same as the hands he has today? Functionally, they must be; Huey is near-incapable of physical change, and the part of his mind that still tries to divorce itself from any sort of emotion agrees that they were the same. But it doesn't stop him from feeling the intrinsic difference.
His smile that isn't quite fake but isn't quite real doesn't even twitch.
"Am I still grieving, or am I just upset that I've lost the ability to grieve her? I don't know the answer. I don't think I ever will find out." His voice---surely not the same voice that had once spoken to Monica---is steady, despite what should be tumultuous feelings welling up inside him. "I'm a little tired, I think."
There's a flash of emotion in his smile, but it's not a happy emotion.
"You're so absentminded already; you should forget about that person's dream. Ask me to smile, Elmer."
I might only be able to if it's you.
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misc. prompts. / accepting.
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brbarou · 1 year
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monica and the boys...love them
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esperanzacboronial · 1 year
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I’ve finally migrated some of my Baccano! playlists (including previously unfinished ones) to Spotify. Links below.
Miracle Boy 
I need shine, I need shine, I need shine  Step away from my light, I need shine
Living Phantom 
There's a certain kind of madness That just cannot be explained Under sympathetic sadness Beastly anger left untamed
Set Yourself on Fire
It was then he heard his intuition say We were all basically alone And despite what all his studies had shown That what's mistaken for closeness Was just a case for mitosis
A Better Place to Die
And you've broken your only doll What will you do with a girl If she's refusing to be alive?
Trust in Me 
Before you illustrate I'd rather state I'm not the man you think I am I'm not the man you think I am
Sons of Witches
And I'll use you as a focal point So I don't lose sight of what I want And I've moved further than I thought I could But I missed you more than I thought I would
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rookswarlock · 6 months
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b! ask game: 8 and 12
8. Favourite headcanon you’ve made?
Apart from minor character design headcanons I actually do like to come up with different fun details about each character; some examples bellow (my personal favourites):
Luchino and Illness have a brother-sister dynamic and she often helps him with props for his magic shows and of course she picks the costumes for him and does his face paint if necessary
Maiza and Ronny are big 60s 70s and 80s music fans (they are your average dads what can I say)
Elmer knows a lot about constellations since him and Huey used to watch the stars while on the Advena Avis
Ladd feels guilty about what happened to Leila and is often filled with remorse for not being able to save her life (Narita needs to write a more detailed backstory for Ladd, Leila and Who I’m getting desperate)
I could ramble on and on about my headcanons tbh it’s fun and the possibilities are endless
12. Favorite canon pairing? Favorite non-canon pairing?
Its very hard to pick only one pairing but canon: Isaac/Miria (who doesn’t love these two) Huey/Monica
and non-canon: Maiza/Ronny Huey/Elmer Illness/Claudia
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eccedentesian · 11 months
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CHARACTER PROFILE: ELMER C. ALBATROSS
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FULL NAME. elmer ██████████ albatross.
NICKNAME. el, el-el, elross (all names he gives himself — no one ever uses them for him).
ALIASES. the child of calamity and light (epithet by the cult he was raised in), the smile junkie (by his friends, && sometimes his enemies), mister happy ending (by some of the strangers he encounters).
PRONOUNS. he/him.
SIZE. 6'1".
AGE. timeline && verse dependent — defaults to 25, well over 300 in canon.
ZODIAC. aquarius.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES. fantasy: common, elvish / canon: english, italian, some japanese, some spanish.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.
HAIR. blond, short && messy. it gets paler in the summer, almost white.
FACIAL HAIR.  none. for better or for worse, he's never been able to grow it.
SKIN TONE.  pale && fair.
BODY TYPE.  as a child, elmer was dangerously thin && scrawny, but he's filled out some over the years. most of his build isn't muscle, && he's not especially athletic, but he can swing around a heavy sword without much trouble.
VOICE. loud, cheerful, somewhat abrasive. it sounds like he's smiling when he talks. speaks in a vaguely northern european accent.
DOMINANT HAND.  right.
POSTURE.  fairly relaxed, but upright. doesn't usually slouch, as a slope in his shoulders stretches his back uncomfortably.
SCARS.  so many. making a scar map wouldn't help, because it's easier to describe where he's not scarred: his face, neck, lower arms, && lower legs. everywhere else has more scarred skin than less. his back, in particular, has a nasty burn scar on his upper back between his shoulders, which has been scarred over with more injuries.
MOST NOTABLE FEATURES.  his smile, which is sunny && bright, && fully unwavering. that smile is pretty distracting, but anyone who looks at him long enough would begin to notice that his eyes are almost always closed (or at least closed enough to not see them well, though they're a rather striking pale blue when you can see them).
CHILDHOOD.
PLACE OF BIRTH.  an unnamed village just north of thorakaas.
HOMETOWN.  elmer lived in the village for the first ten years of his life. he spent the next five in myros, && six more after that in iir. ever since, he's been on the road so much he doesn't have a single place of residence. based on where he spent the most time in his early years, the village probably counts, but elmer doesn't consider it home. if he had to name one place, he'd probably consider iir to be his hometown.
SIBLINGS.  none biologically. his friend esperanza, who first brought him to iir, is like an older brother, however.
PARENTS.  unnamed && unimportant. even elmer doesn't recall their names, if he even knew them. they were simply mother && father.
ADULT LIFE.
OCCUPATION.  adventurer...? elmer doesn't really put a name to what he does, && if you asked him, he'd probably say he's unemployed. he used to study alchemy as a child, but doesn't practice it anymore. more objectively, you could call him a healer, a humanitarian, or even a missionary, if you ignored the religious connotations. in the end, elmer's only focus && goal is making everyone in the world happy. so whatever you'd call that.
CURRENT RESIDENCE.  honestly, that's a great question. in his d&d canon, he's on his way to monoa for the foreseeable future.
CLOSE FRIENDS.   fantasy: chiusadov 'huey' laforet (best friend since childhood), esperanza borognal (like a brother), alvize montclair (a fellow alchemist he met in colombe), kor anikava (a new friend with a strong bond) / canon (additional): monica campanella (other best friend along with huey), niki.
FINANCIAL STATUS.  not great, but he's okay for the moment. eventually, that money is going to run out, though.
DRIVER’S LICENSE.   in canon? yeah. (thanks victor)
CRIMINAL RECORD.   again, in canon? it's complicated. in fantasy/d&d canon... you could say that. wanted in colombe for deserting the mission he was hired to complete. wanted by the keshir army in usben for assumed kidnapping.
INTIMACY AND ROMANCE.
ORIENTATION. el oh el. asexual && bi-demiromantic. however, this doesn't mean he wouldn't have sex, nor does it mean there's a real chance of him feeling romantic attraction to anyone, let alone being in a healthy relationship. if anything, he might be huey-romantic, && that's a big if.
PREFERRED EMOTIONAL + INTIMATE ROLE.  doing whatever it takes to make the other person smile. that's it. that's as deep as it gets.
TURN OFFS.  honestly i can't really answer this. it doesn't really apply. pain, i guess? just like in general, though, not even exclusive to intimacy.
TURN ONS.  can i say a big, genuine smile? again, that's kinda it. that's definitely not a sexual thing though, it's just... yeah.
LOVE LANGUAGE.  acts of service, babeyyyyy. words of affirmation might be a close second. that said, "love" is a strong word — this is more his preferred method of making people smile.
RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.   sorry to disappoint, but the answer to this is that if elmer were in a relationship, he'd be wildly inconsistent. he could be extremely attentive until someone else needs cheering up, && then he would completely ignore his partner to help them instead. like in most things, elmer's intentions are incredibly selfish, masked by superficially altruistic behavior.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CHARACTER’S THEME TUNE.   'blossoms' by the amazing devil: and i stare at the soldiers before me / all my blossoms that have waited to fall / and i walk / and i walk / and i walk / and i walk / knowing every last one of them is painted in light / as I make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right
HOBBIES TO PASS THE TIME.   honestly? just talking to people. elmer is known for just sitting himself down in a tavern && striking up conversation with everyone who comes through. he's also a big fan of pranks && practical jokes. in canon, he also loves video games.
LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.   slightly more right brained, though he has certain left-brain tendencies.
SELF-CONFIDENCE LEVEL.   when it comes to 99% of things? out the roof. more than he should be, probably. when it comes to his own ability to be happy...? not so much.
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It's easy to guess when i go back to reading Baccano! again cause i feel th urge to see fanart right away. I love young Huey's design. And Monica looks so sweet. And Elmer, i love whenever Elmer shows up
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