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ruthlesslistener · 2 years

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Taniks Headcanons

-Taught himself engineering and computer sciences so that he wouldn't be dependent on others. His style is well-known for being crude, yet efficient

Also mandatory disclaimer that I've only been playing for a couple of months now so if anything contradicts canon, that's why

-The very definition of feral. He doesn't know how to cook or anything, he just eats the components raw. Part of this is because his previous Kell treated their dregs like shit, part of it is just Taniks not being picky about his food. He's probably eaten roadkill before with no qualms about it

-Doesn't actually care about the killing part of being a mercenary, just likes the challenge of the fight. He's always seeking new ways to beat his old records, and has the trophies to show it

-Taught himself engineering and computer sciences so that he wouldn't be dependant on others. His style is well-known for being crude, yet efficient

-Fucks. A lot, actually. He's pretty sure that he's sterilized himself, so he's pretty much fair game. Generally won't go for anyone lower than a baron, though, partially because he's rough as hell and partially because he enjoys pissing off those who consider themselves to be higher-ranking than him. He'll do anything to get his dick wet, but he does have some standards, even if they're pretty much negligible

-Will not submit or listen to anyone unless they have the strength to properly impress him, and even then it's a gamble on if he's actually choosing to be respectful or just fucking with you. The leaders of most houses that enlist his service learn real quick that Taniks should be left to his own devices if they want to keep their arms, and to keep dominance displays to a bare minimum. Those who've had the most success dealing with him are the ones who know that he'll try to bait others into pulling rank specifically so that he can push back against them and make a fool out of them

-Rules are suggestions that are fun to throw around until they become a hindrance. So is honour. He likes to pretend to be honourable and follow his employer's whims, but it's never anything more than that- a farce

-One of the few Eliksni that actively spent a great deal of time away from any social groups, which reflects on his mental state. Eliksni are highly social beings, and part of the reason why Taniks can go from mildly amused to murderously unhinged at the drop of a hat is because of how isolated he is from other Eliksni. As well as the brain damage from several subsequent deaths, but that's negligible compared to the damage done by his lack of proper socialization/family structure

-Has many games downloaded to play in his visor when he's bored. Doom is one of them.

-Has purposely made himself immune to alcohol and most poisons, mostly out of boredom rather than necessity. If a guardian can't kill him, then poison sure as fuck won't

-Tends to avoid the hatchling, dreg, and elder sections of house ketches like the plague. Most assume that this is because he has a deep disdain for weakness, but others claim that they've seen him freeze up when he hears a hatchling cry. Taniks himself won't admit to such behaviors, and remains carefully neutral when the topic is brought up to him, so nobody knows what the actual answer is

-Has an odd fondness for raw carrots

-Surprisingly intellectually driven/curious; if he wants to figure something out, then nothing will stop him. If he wasn't batshit, he might have made a good scholar, scientist, or tactitian, but he was never given that chance, so now he whets the blade of his mind on the corpses of Guardians

-Intentionally rigged himself to be part machine so that he would never have to depend on others for Ether; all the rest of the machine bits just got added on the more he got mauled while killing things. Pretty much all that’s organic of him now is his lower abdomen and upper thighs.

-Not Riisborn, so no horns or nubs of where the horns might have once been, but if he did have them his head would look like a horned lizard. Observe.

-Any area that he lives in is extremely neat, with a meticulous level of organization that would startle most people. The only exception is his nest, which is almost always a barebones mess of whatever scraps he could find haphazardly chucked together. Comfort doesn't really mean much when you can turn off your pain receptors on a whim.

-Natural carapace colour is a muddy, super dark pink

-His scent glands have been obliterated, so he pretty much just smells like old blood, burning flesh, and hot metal all the time. He acts like this doesn't bother him, but he is far more territorial and possessive than any Eliksni that can scentmark their belongings

-...Come to think of it, pretty much all of Taniks can be boiled down to 'was treated like absolute shit as a child so now the lack of socialization and proper care makes me batshit crazy'

-Respects any and all Eliksni that can potentially kill him, however Eramis is one of the few people that he genuinely holds a deep respect for. This is because she never tried to pull rank on him and is an absolutely terrible enabler. As such, she is the only female allowed to use his broodpouch for its intended purpose, if anyone else even suggested laying eggs in him he'd claw them half to death. Just because he's sure he properly sterilized himself doesn't mean he's okay with some random asshole laying eggs in him, Eramis is pretty much the only egg-producing Eliksni he trusts enough to let near him during breeding season

-His sexuality is 'if it can probably kill me, I'm putting my dick in it'. Romance is completely off the table, there’s no way in hell he’s going to let himself become weak for anyone

-Compulsive picker/chewer, would claw his own carapace off if he had any left. Chewing is luckily relieved by gnawing on random crap, but until he replaced his body with mostly metal, he had to have his claws wrapped up so that he wouldn’t continuously tear open any wounds he got. Still pulls off his own metal plates, but he’s fiddled with the latches enough that he can easily pick them off and then put them back on again

-Can only fall asleep to the sound of soft music or the hum of a moving skiff/ketch. Any other form of rest is just him resting his body, he’s on much too high alert to fall asleep otherwise.

-When he does fall asleep he prefers the cat shrimp position

-Likes spicy food well enough, but prefers sweet things over spice. Or maybe in combination. Really anything with flavor is something he’s going to savor

-In all honesty I think the best summarization of his character is a feral tomcat that got separated from his mother far too early and is now roaming the streets as a wild beast that cannot be tamed. He either needs to be neutered to calm down or he needs someone to teach him how to mingle with other Eliksni, perhaps with force and a fuckton of weighted blankets

#destiny 2 #taniks #destiny #eliksni #taniks the scarred #the more i play the more eliksni hcs i get #too bad there's so little of 'em

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