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I read the first few and was like "yeah, okay, let's do this one"
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Have you ever sat down and just...wanted to answer all the questions of a meme for one character regardless of prompting?
pharadyne
Collins: 21, 28, 40
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Collins
40. How do they respond to a loose handshake? What goes through their head?
Visually he might not respond depending on where he is and what he's doing, but he might purposefully squeeze harder to hurt the other person 'by accident'. If he really already has distaste for someone and doesn't care who notices, he'll show it plainly on his face.
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In his head he's thinking 'weak prey'. He's thoroughly disgusted by such a clear sign of weakness. He has no respect for someone who doesn't even at least try.
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28. What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?
He is likely to lie to get a specific reaction out of someone if he wants, so there's definitely validation to this with him. But it depends on the situation and such? But like, for example, he'll straight up say he's looking for someone but lie about what for. Or who he is.
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Like, in canon he dresses up as a police office and lies his way into someone's apartment by calling Arthur a "lying, manipulative, killer who will do anything to get what he wants." The irony is he's describing himself and what he's doing.
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Anyway, he's likely to say something normal to get what he wants which is abnormal... and probably to get as his current prey.
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(If this question had a more specific meaning, then it's completely lost on me.)
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He also might be straight up about something if he's not worried about who's hearing it and mean exactly what he wants. Like telling his prey his intentions and then doing it.
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But that's just, like, intimidation tactics for him when he's in a torture session. /cough
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21. What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?
What's common etiquette? lmao, that's me, not him. hmm.
Actually, I headcanon that he's pretty polite and well mannered in regular society. A fairly typical Irishman kind of polite. Helps old ladies across the street one minute, will fuck up your shit the next.
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So I guess if he disagrees with anything (and he probably does somewhere along the way), he still just follows it (most of the time).
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Daddy taught him good manners, and Daddy's whip made sure he fucking followed them.
pharadyne
the handshake thing is especially interesting to me because norton often offers very dainty handshakes just to see how the other person responds
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ahaha. yeah, handshakes are a good way to gauge someone. especially in ye olden days that was how people first got to know another person, they were very important. still are in certain areas/times.
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I was told never to give a faint handshake in a job interview, it says a lot about your demeanor.
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giving a limp wristed or sideways or dainty handshake gives the signal you can be walked all over or have no confidence.
pharadyne
same. my 5th grade teacher spent classroom time teaching us all how to do Correct Professional Handshakes
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that's where Collins is coming from. you're weak, you're pathetic, you're prey to someone like him.
pharadyne
so useful in my adult life!
pharadyne
meanwhile Norton has a habit of offering a hand that's somewhere halfway between offering a handshake and offering a hand to be kissed like a lady and assesses how the other person responds. and if they go for handshake, it's a dainty one.
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1930s era dude, you're getting a handshake unless you're a lady lmao
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In my experience you're never going to get anything but a handshake but also /stares at where I live. shrug
pharadyne
Norton is from the 1950s, he's just also very very gay. So gay no closet could hide this gayness. (The Handshake Test is a barge thing he started, not something he did in the 1950s. Although he would present his hand for a kiss at certain clubs. And in canon has a delicate handshake when shaking hands. But the blending of the two as an assessment is a
pharadyne
ship thing he developed.)
pharadyne
Yes!
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