---- Taldon Nickname: Tally Personality: optimistic, cheerful, impulsive, exciteable, compassionate, enthusiastic, passionate, creative, imaginative, impatient, restless Appearance: short steel-blue hair, steel-blue eyes, short, slender Taldon is a university student, majoring in computer science. Living in student accommodation, Taldon shares an apartment with his two roommates. Despite his strong friendship with these roommates, Taldon prefers to spend his time alone in his room, playing videogames or writing. Outside of university, Taldon has a part-time job as a barista at a local cafe, where he is well-liked by his regular customers (and is occasionally even asked out on dates). Taldon's passion for videogames comes from a heavy reliance on fiction to entertain himself - as a child, he was often very lonely and struggled to make friends due to his shy nature, so turned to books, comics, and the like to provide the stimulation and camaraderie that he was unable to get in reality. Later, when he began to play videogames, his habit of reading expanded to fanfiction and various wiki entries and forums. Now, he prefers video games that reward exploration, investigation, and puzzle-solving rather than those that require fast reaction times or brute-force attacks. Of course, he still enjoys games that employ these mechanics, although his preference lies in uncovering the story of a game or delving deep into the characters and their motivations with an almost compulsive obsession. While Taldon has had very few relationships, and none that lasted more than a few weeks, he has been best friends with his current roommates since they met, back during their first year. Both are older than Taldon, and the age gap led them to be especially protective of him. Taldon's relationships with other people, however, can easily crumble under his tendency to pursue his interests rather than attempt to forge lasting bonds. This means he sometimes lets friendships slide or takes up a new interest at the expense of his social life. While his roommates worry about him, their advice is usually ignored: this isn't to say that Taldon is stubborn, but because his impulsiveness outweighs his consideration, and he is simply not as inclined toward looking after his connections with others. Despite his frequent loneliness, Taldon is actually quite extroverted - given his lack of shyness and his proclivity to try and get along with everybody, he is happy enough to be in crowds and enjoys going out, particularly to concerts or events centered around his current hobby. In terms of his romantic relationships, Taldon is relatively inexperienced and has yet to seriously fall in love. He has not engaged in casual sex, preferring to wait for someone he is serious about, even if this means turning down offers from some of his admirers. In contrast, he is extremely confident about his body and has a high sexual libido, often reading or writing explicit content about his favourite videogame or book characters (although he temporarily struggles to look at such characters again after 'defiling' them through his writing).