✿ Headcanon: he has a very poor sense of time! Having been alive for well over a thousand years, and remembering so little of it, it's difficult for him to gauge the length of months and years. (The concept of New Year's celebrations was very bizarre to him for this reason!) To demonstrate, he feels like he was looking a long time for a way to free Kainé from his curse on her, but if you asked him, he wouldn't be able to guess how long.
✿ Headcanon...: the songs on the official piano collection are songs he can play... It's so meta, but he's on the back and inside covers, FIGHT ME.
✿ Halfway headcanon: he loves Italian food... Sure, he comes from a post-apocalyptic world, but his butler was created back when Italy still existed, so Emil gets some delicious pasta dishes.
✿ This is some of the more extreme headcanon that will never be used anywhere ever, but I like to think about it... Emil and his sister Halua were, thirteen hundred years ago, largely of Russian and German descent. Originally from a wealthy family, the Hamelin Organization was their last hope for safety. (THAT WENT WELL)
✿ He's crushing hard on Nier. In the game, this is more evident with Brother Nier than it is with Father Nier (lol canon AUs)— even then, though, Emil is freakishly overzealous about protecting ALL of his nakama. Seriously, he gets surprisingly hysterical.
✿ He's partial to stories of romance...
✿ One of the first signs that Kainé might not be so bad is that Emil trusts her implicitly, no matter how violent and abrasive she is. :U His affection for her is born of her willingness to accept him and his freaky eye curse immediately, despite him having hidden himself away for years and years in order to keep from hurting or scaring other people. They might seem like near polar opposites, but they're a little more similar than one would think, as seen when they separately come up with the same bizarre, made-up expletive for a particularly nasty monster...
✿ Headcanon: he stopped aging just a couple months shy of thirteen, meaning he never reached his growth spurt... :( (Canon fact: he's only about 4'7"! ;_; )
✿ He can wield a staff(/rod)...! Though he's never shown to do this while still blindfolded (and some other spoilery stuff), his character sheet lists it as a weapon. All in all, he's more formidable than you might think.
✿ Slightly headcanon...? His eyes petrify 'anything' he looks at— but if something's caught in his peripheral vision, it won't turn to stone. (Though, let's not test that...!) He can look at things like the sky and the sea, too, since they're not something you can really petrify, but he prefers not to because that's how accidents happen. The petrification curse, though, is hax enough that he's needed to be knocked out before a boss battle for game plot's sake.
✿ He's named for Ludwig Emil Grimm, the younger of the Grimm brothers.
✿ Headcanon: he's prone to playing repetitive music to pass the time; he spent so many centuries whittling away the days doing next to nothing alone in his manor, after all. That's how his musical hobby developed in the first place.
✿ It's uncanny how good he is at walking around without running into things...
✿ He names his attacks after himself like a magical girl............................
✿ A neat party trick of his (and VERY USEFUL SKILL, all things considered) is that he can identify the general age and sex of a person by listening to their gait. He's usually pretty close in his guesses, too!
and, SPOILERS ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
✿ He was born over a thousand years before his friends, and he'll survive for at least hundreds of years after they die. :( :( :( Cavia is suffering...
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✿ Headcanon: he has a very poor sense of time! Having been alive for well over a thousand years, and remembering so little of it, it's difficult for him to gauge the length of months and years. (The concept of New Year's celebrations was very bizarre to him for this reason!) To demonstrate, he feels like he was looking a long time for a way to free Kainé from his curse on her, but if you asked him, he wouldn't be able to guess how long.
✿ Headcanon...: the songs on the official piano collection are songs he can play... It's so meta, but he's on the back and inside covers, FIGHT ME.
✿ Halfway headcanon: he loves Italian food... Sure, he comes from a post-apocalyptic world, but his butler was created back when Italy still existed, so Emil gets some delicious pasta dishes.
✿ This is some of the more extreme headcanon that will never be used anywhere ever, but I like to think about it... Emil and his sister Halua were, thirteen hundred years ago, largely of Russian and German descent. Originally from a wealthy family, the Hamelin Organization was their last hope for safety. (THAT WENT WELL)
✿ He's crushing hard on Nier. In the game, this is more evident with Brother Nier than it is with Father Nier (lol canon AUs)— even then, though, Emil is freakishly overzealous about protecting ALL of his nakama. Seriously, he gets surprisingly hysterical.
✿ He's partial to stories of romance...
✿ One of the first signs that Kainé might not be so bad is that Emil trusts her implicitly, no matter how violent and abrasive she is. :U His affection for her is born of her willingness to accept him and his freaky eye curse immediately, despite him having hidden himself away for years and years in order to keep from hurting or scaring other people. They might seem like near polar opposites, but they're a little more similar than one would think, as seen when they separately come up with the same bizarre, made-up expletive for a particularly nasty monster...
✿ Headcanon: he stopped aging just a couple months shy of thirteen, meaning he never reached his growth spurt... :( (Canon fact: he's only about 4'7"! ;_; )
✿ He can wield a staff(/rod)...! Though he's never shown to do this while still blindfolded (and some other spoilery stuff), his character sheet lists it as a weapon. All in all, he's more formidable than you might think.
✿ Slightly headcanon...? His eyes petrify 'anything' he looks at— but if something's caught in his peripheral vision, it won't turn to stone. (Though, let's not test that...!) He can look at things like the sky and the sea, too, since they're not something you can really petrify, but he prefers not to because that's how accidents happen. The petrification curse, though, is hax enough that he's needed to be knocked out before a boss battle for game plot's sake.
✿ He's named for Ludwig Emil Grimm, the younger of the Grimm brothers.
✿ Headcanon: he's prone to playing repetitive music to pass the time; he spent so many centuries whittling away the days doing next to nothing alone in his manor, after all. That's how his musical hobby developed in the first place.
✿ It's uncanny how good he is at walking around without running into things...
✿ He names his attacks after himself like a magical girl............................
✿ A neat party trick of his (and VERY USEFUL SKILL, all things considered) is that he can identify the general age and sex of a person by listening to their gait. He's usually pretty close in his guesses, too!
and, SPOILERS ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
✿ He was born over a thousand years before his friends, and he'll survive for at least hundreds of years after they die. :( :( :( Cavia is suffering...