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Character's Name: Dain (True Name/Ol designation 2-X-36-7)
Character's Canon: Deltora Quest (books)
Canon, AU, Canon OC, or OC + CRAU (if applicable): Fan AU
Backtagging: Y
Threadhopping: Y
Fourthwalling/Canon Puncturing: Y
Hugging: Y, but it'll take a little time to get to know you before he's comfortable enough to allow it. Then he'll probably react with apparent coldness; don't worry, he's just processing how he actually feels instead of just performing the expected response. Future hugs will likely be more natural and welcomed
Flirting: Y but he'll be very confused as to why him and think it's some mind game at first.
Shipping: Ask first
Fighting: Very conditional Y; at the current time, he is unable to harm a person, and "person" is defined by his impressions of someone. That includes being unable to properly defend himself; he can block some blows, but can't fight back, and sooner or later will succumb to shaking that resembles a PTSD response and leaves him a helpless target.
Injury (include limits and severity): Y, everything except a blow to the heart (or the Shadow Lord brand when he's in his true form). Watch him lose entire limbs, complete with blood, only for them to dissolve and him... probably be frozen from the inability to restore his form until he's alone. He will greatly resent it if it was done without express permission, but he can take almost anything.
Killing: Only with prior discussion/permission
Manipulation: Y, but he's good at recognizing manipulation (it's part of what he was created for) and will likely manipulate right back
Telepathy/Mind Control: Y, but he'll consider telepathy a violation unless it's requested (or just a simple form of talking because the person using it can't use other methods), and mind control will make him freak the fuck out

Warnings: He's a child soldier slave who has only recently figured out that he was a slave and still doesn't realize how young he is in comparative human terms (he only developed any sort of sense of empathy less than a year ago). His backstory involves a lot of fantastical experimentation as might be expected from a Sorcerous Dark Lord who likes tinkering with his creations in order to "improve" them. He's also somewhat desensitized to human suffering and experimentation (or rather he's getting sensitized to it after initially being conditioned to think it was normal). And he might have accidentally psychologically tortured humans who were already slaves treated brutally by staring at them to study how they act. Then his treatment at the hands of his creator after his creation were textbook abusive, with the Shadow Lord telling him he had to prove he deserved to exist and making it clear that disobedience and failure would be punished, no matter the reason, that he must always remember that he's an extension of his creator's will, but if he does distinguish himself with his performance, he will be rewarded. He's realized that this is all wrong, though he can't fully articulate why yet, and is likely to state something horrific as a matter of fact, though negative reactions will be noticed and he'll ask what's wrong with what he said, wanting an honest explanation.

In short, he's a mess of bad conditioning who is still figuring out all the ways that it was bad and is only just starting to build a coherent ethical framework, and his backstory involves torture, slavery, experimentation, mutilation, abuse, coercion and death.

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