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Character Name: Hypnos Canon: Hades (game) Canon History:Ta-dah.
Canon Personality: Hypnos is a generally friendly guy. He likes most people he meets. He has no problem talking to or engaging with strangers. In fact, for canon, it is a part of his job! Most of his friendly nature comes across as him being a bit of a tease towards just about everyone. New people he meets and old friends are all subject to his teasing. He loves to make jokes and give bad advice about any situation at hand (don't step on spikes if you don't want to die, just saying). He brings a certain level of joy and cheer to the House of Hades, which is an otherwise dark setting. His good-natured attitude is a breath of fresh air.
Although he is friendly, friendship with him can take a little time and energy to build. It's not difficult, but effort is absolutely needed to build a real level of trust with him to where he'd share more personal parts of himself with someone. Luckily, his easy going nature makes it pretty easy to spend time with him to build it to that point.
Because Hypnos comes across as an extremely easy going guy, it can come across as being lazy. He isn't necessarily perceived as the best employee, although he does develop a love for certain parts of his job. He has a love for making lists then completing all of the tasks. He found them to be helpful for ensuring he has time for all of his work tasks and things he enjoys (which is just...sleep, to be honest).
Because of his easy going nature, it is hard to frazzle, frustrate, or annoy him. Those buttons would have to be pretty intensely pressed in order to even get any sort of intense reaction (like anger) out of him. Or, if what is being said to him comes from a close family member or friend - he tends to take them to heart because they are someone he trusts.
Even though he comes across as fairly sure of himself and who he is, his self-esteem isn't always the best. He never really receives much praise and is more inclined to believe a criticism than a compliment, and certainly not one from one of his stern family members. (For example: when Nyx compliments him on his improved work ethic he assumes it must come from Hades himself rather than her). This comes across less in the form of talking down about himself, and more in the surprise when he does get a compliment.
Hypnos is deeply loyal and caring towards people he cares about - especially his family. Even though his family members all seem to express their care and love towards him in a very different way from him - at his core he trusts and knows that they love him. Once he has someone that he cares about, he's going go to bat for them in any way that he can. He takes their opinions of him seriously, and will listen should they provide advice. The opinions of his family and friends matter a lot to him. He cares about how they feel and he will take their words said to heart.
AU History: Hypnos grew up in a comfortable home with a single mother. She worked hard, provided, and he lived a great life with his siblings early in life. He comes from a fairly big family (both in the number of people in it and the stature of them, considering he is over 7' tall). Even though he's been treated well as the youngest of all of his siblings, he tends to be a bit of the black sheep of the bunch. While most of his family is extremely hard working and can come across as emotionally distant, Hypnos is a bit lazy and extremely friendly.
In his youth, Hypnos struggled with schooling and education, and came across as highly unmotivated in the classroom. That's probably going to happen if you spend half of your school day sleeping while in class. It isn't to say that he didn't put in any effort - his assignment books were always in order, but he rarely completed tasks while in the classroom. However, work he could bring home and complete he had a much easier time working through.
As he grew up, it was strongly emphasized that he would need to put in more work and effort to get anywhere or be successful. Through both his own effort and with the help of a teacher who cared and a couple of classmates, he figured it out. He managed to find methods to help him both accomplish his tasks and get the rest that he needed. By the end of high school, and at the start of college - he had developed a pretty good pattern of behavior that worked! After schooling he found a job working in accounting - finding that the organization helped him be successful and accomplish things, while also being able to enjoy his free time. He likes when tasks are done!
He currently does the books for Jane Porter's store, and is currently married to her. (Note that this has been discussed by both Fii and myself and is on the up and up!)
AU Personality Differences: There's going to be very few differences in personality! The biggest one is that in canon he had Zagreus as a source of motivation for him as his closest friend. The guy helped him heal his relationships with family, and he never had that. As such, there is some distance that is there still and doesn't seem to be seeking approval from them. Instead, he is motivated by his relationships with the people who are currently in his life and himself. However, Hypnos will still be a friendly, easy to get along with guy. He may tease too hard at times, but it never comes across as cruel. He's still extremely loyal and loves and cares for his family, even though they are distant from him at this time. People are still going to likely see him as being a bit lazy. He is still a very sleepy boy prone to just nodding off at random times.
Hypnos | Hades | Normal Modern AU
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Character Name: Hypnos
Canon: Hades (game)
Canon History: Ta-dah.
Canon Personality:
Hypnos is a generally friendly guy. He likes most people he meets. He has no problem talking to or engaging with strangers. In fact, for canon, it is a part of his job! Most of his friendly nature comes across as him being a bit of a tease towards just about everyone. New people he meets and old friends are all subject to his teasing. He loves to make jokes and give bad advice about any situation at hand (don't step on spikes if you don't want to die, just saying). He brings a certain level of joy and cheer to the House of Hades, which is an otherwise dark setting. His good-natured attitude is a breath of fresh air.
Although he is friendly, friendship with him can take a little time and energy to build. It's not difficult, but effort is absolutely needed to build a real level of trust with him to where he'd share more personal parts of himself with someone. Luckily, his easy going nature makes it pretty easy to spend time with him to build it to that point.
Because Hypnos comes across as an extremely easy going guy, it can come across as being lazy. He isn't necessarily perceived as the best employee, although he does develop a love for certain parts of his job. He has a love for making lists then completing all of the tasks. He found them to be helpful for ensuring he has time for all of his work tasks and things he enjoys (which is just...sleep, to be honest).
Because of his easy going nature, it is hard to frazzle, frustrate, or annoy him. Those buttons would have to be pretty intensely pressed in order to even get any sort of intense reaction (like anger) out of him. Or, if what is being said to him comes from a close family member or friend - he tends to take them to heart because they are someone he trusts.
Even though he comes across as fairly sure of himself and who he is, his self-esteem isn't always the best. He never really receives much praise and is more inclined to believe a criticism than a compliment, and certainly not one from one of his stern family members. (For example: when Nyx compliments him on his improved work ethic he assumes it must come from Hades himself rather than her). This comes across less in the form of talking down about himself, and more in the surprise when he does get a compliment.
Hypnos is deeply loyal and caring towards people he cares about - especially his family. Even though his family members all seem to express their care and love towards him in a very different way from him - at his core he trusts and knows that they love him. Once he has someone that he cares about, he's going go to bat for them in any way that he can. He takes their opinions of him seriously, and will listen should they provide advice. The opinions of his family and friends matter a lot to him. He cares about how they feel and he will take their words said to heart.
AU History: Hypnos grew up in a comfortable home with a single mother. She worked hard, provided, and he lived a great life with his siblings early in life. He comes from a fairly big family (both in the number of people in it and the stature of them, considering he is over 7' tall). Even though he's been treated well as the youngest of all of his siblings, he tends to be a bit of the black sheep of the bunch. While most of his family is extremely hard working and can come across as emotionally distant, Hypnos is a bit lazy and extremely friendly.
In his youth, Hypnos struggled with schooling and education, and came across as highly unmotivated in the classroom. That's probably going to happen if you spend half of your school day sleeping while in class. It isn't to say that he didn't put in any effort - his assignment books were always in order, but he rarely completed tasks while in the classroom. However, work he could bring home and complete he had a much easier time working through.
As he grew up, it was strongly emphasized that he would need to put in more work and effort to get anywhere or be successful. Through both his own effort and with the help of a teacher who cared and a couple of classmates, he figured it out. He managed to find methods to help him both accomplish his tasks and get the rest that he needed. By the end of high school, and at the start of college - he had developed a pretty good pattern of behavior that worked! After schooling he found a job working in accounting - finding that the organization helped him be successful and accomplish things, while also being able to enjoy his free time. He likes when tasks are done!
He currently does the books for Jane Porter's store, and is currently married to her. (Note that this has been discussed by both Fii and myself and is on the up and up!)
AU Personality Differences: There's going to be very few differences in personality! The biggest one is that in canon he had Zagreus as a source of motivation for him as his closest friend. The guy helped him heal his relationships with family, and he never had that. As such, there is some distance that is there still and doesn't seem to be seeking approval from them. Instead, he is motivated by his relationships with the people who are currently in his life and himself. However, Hypnos will still be a friendly, easy to get along with guy. He may tease too hard at times, but it never comes across as cruel. He's still extremely loyal and loves and cares for his family, even though they are distant from him at this time. People are still going to likely see him as being a bit lazy. He is still a very sleepy boy prone to just nodding off at random times.