♦ When he was very young, he used to dress up in flower crowns and pretend he was a girl. Show of hands if you're surprised. Anyone? Anyone? Despite this, he's got his share of latent (?) misogyny going on...
♦ Only halfway headcanon: he's one of those 'problem children' who seeks negative attention because he's hungry for any attention at all. This means that if he's absolutely insufferable to you, he probably really likes you. See also: pulling Ciel's hair, everything he says to Gilbert Nightray.
♦ Headcanon: his favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood, mostly because he's dramatic and identifies really strongly with it. Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty are up there, too, and he also really loves Hansel and Gretel, because brother complex.
♦ He's got a ridiculous oral fixation, and spends an inappropriate amount of time touching his mouth and stuff. Headcanon: this fixation extends to other people's mouths, too, though; Claude's mouth was always something special to him, and he likes sticking his fingers in Ciel's mouth whenever possible. Gross.
♦ Headcanon: his weirdo creeper relationship with Ciel's teeth has a bit of a Freudian excuse for it, too. In Victorian England, it wasn't uncommon to have one's teeth pulled and sold off for various... purposes. This was often a practice reserved for lower class folk with some nice teeth still in their head. Alois is quite proud of how nice his teeth are now - after some tailoring from Claude early on in their contract because fuck dentists - but to the grubby street urchin still stuck inside him somewhere, Ciel's mouth is a veritable gold mine.
♦ He DOES wear trousers sometimes, specially in the winter. (Headcanon: but when the trousers come out, so does the trouble. One of my favorite running gags for Alois in game is that if something terrible happens to him, he's usually specified as wearing trousers that day. Maybe his thighs are good luck...)
♦ By the by, his sometimes questionable sense of fashion functions primarily as a visual statement: Fuck you, I'll do literally whatever I want. Perhaps you can appreciate exactly how bold his shorts were in the Victorian era. He appreciates audacity.
♦ Headcanon: he really does enjoy the occasional scrap with other boys. It's fun to assert his dominance, and he likes to lord himself over people. He has a good tolerance for physical altercations like this, so it doesn't really bother him.
♦ His favorite colors are traditional wedding colors of the Victorian era.
♦ Halfway headcanon: back in the 'honeymoon phase' of their contract, Alois and Claude were quite friendly with each other, each indulging in their own silliness with one another. They'd while away some nights playing hide-and-seek or having ridiculous household adventures. It was very warm and sweet, and that's why Alois lost his shit so hard when Claude strayed from him; they really did behave like a honeymooning couple, and losing that was positively awful.
♦ Having grown up an impoverished whelp, Alois had to hammer his previously thick Cockney accent into the much more refined Queen's English he uses today. In game, though, he likes to slide back into that lower class accent on occasion for fun, mostly at people he's quite familiar with already. It's sort of an in-joke with himself.
♦ He's so good at lying about his past and identity that it doesn't even mentally register as a lie. Not even his own heart can perceive his untruths as anything but truths.
♦ Alois Trancy: master of identity theft since 1885.
♦ Headcanon: Alois Trancy was of German and English descent, while Jim Macken came from the Irish and the Roma. Alois-as-Jim's father was an Irishman; his mother had gypsy blood, accounting for Luca Macken's darker complexion and the prejudice against their family.
♦ He absolutely looooves dancing, (headcanon) and his favorite is the Argentine tango.
♦ Oftentimes, especially with anything longer than a note, his handwriting starts out as a very fine, if complicated, cursive slant. He tends to get bored partway through, though, and his lettering becomes progressively more sprawling, and heaven help you if he's got to write a couple of pages' worth of anything: it'll culminate in him essentially dragging his pen across the paper in a rush to get it all over with already.
♦ He is ever so romantic, and loves stupid symbolism. He cries over fairy tales like a tumblr girl cries over the BBC.
♦ His favorite food is greasy fish and chips................
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♦ When he was very young, he used to dress up in flower crowns and pretend he was a girl. Show of hands if you're surprised. Anyone? Anyone? Despite this, he's got his share of latent (?) misogyny going on...
♦ Only halfway headcanon: he's one of those 'problem children' who seeks negative attention because he's hungry for any attention at all. This means that if he's absolutely insufferable to you, he probably really likes you. See also: pulling Ciel's hair, everything he says to Gilbert Nightray.
♦ Headcanon: his favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood, mostly because he's dramatic and identifies really strongly with it. Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty are up there, too, and he also really loves Hansel and Gretel, because brother complex.
♦ He's got a ridiculous oral fixation, and spends an inappropriate amount of time touching his mouth and stuff. Headcanon: this fixation extends to other people's mouths, too, though; Claude's mouth was always something special to him, and he likes sticking his fingers in Ciel's mouth whenever possible. Gross.
♦ Headcanon: his weirdo creeper relationship with Ciel's teeth has a bit of a Freudian excuse for it, too. In Victorian England, it wasn't uncommon to have one's teeth pulled and sold off for various... purposes. This was often a practice reserved for lower class folk with some nice teeth still in their head. Alois is quite proud of how nice his teeth are now - after some tailoring from Claude early on in their contract because fuck dentists - but to the grubby street urchin still stuck inside him somewhere, Ciel's mouth is a veritable gold mine.
♦ He DOES wear trousers sometimes, specially in the winter. (Headcanon: but when the trousers come out, so does the trouble. One of my favorite running gags for Alois in game is that if something terrible happens to him, he's usually specified as wearing trousers that day. Maybe his thighs are good luck...)
♦ By the by, his sometimes questionable sense of fashion functions primarily as a visual statement: Fuck you, I'll do literally whatever I want. Perhaps you can appreciate exactly how bold his shorts were in the Victorian era. He appreciates audacity.
♦ Headcanon: he really does enjoy the occasional scrap with other boys. It's fun to assert his dominance, and he likes to lord himself over people. He has a good tolerance for physical altercations like this, so it doesn't really bother him.
♦ His favorite colors are traditional wedding colors of the Victorian era.
♦ Halfway headcanon: back in the 'honeymoon phase' of their contract, Alois and Claude were quite friendly with each other, each indulging in their own silliness with one another. They'd while away some nights playing hide-and-seek or having ridiculous household adventures. It was very warm and sweet, and that's why Alois lost his shit so hard when Claude strayed from him; they really did behave like a honeymooning couple, and losing that was positively awful.
♦ Having grown up an impoverished whelp, Alois had to hammer his previously thick Cockney accent into the much more refined Queen's English he uses today. In game, though, he likes to slide back into that lower class accent on occasion for fun, mostly at people he's quite familiar with already. It's sort of an in-joke with himself.
♦ He's so good at lying about his past and identity that it doesn't even mentally register as a lie. Not even his own heart can perceive his untruths as anything but truths.
♦ Alois Trancy: master of identity theft since 1885.
♦ Headcanon: Alois Trancy was of German and English descent, while Jim Macken came from the Irish and the Roma. Alois-as-Jim's father was an Irishman; his mother had gypsy blood, accounting for Luca Macken's darker complexion and the prejudice against their family.
♦ He absolutely looooves dancing, (headcanon) and his favorite is the Argentine tango.
♦ Oftentimes, especially with anything longer than a note, his handwriting starts out as a very fine, if complicated, cursive slant. He tends to get bored partway through, though, and his lettering becomes progressively more sprawling, and heaven help you if he's got to write a couple of pages' worth of anything: it'll culminate in him essentially dragging his pen across the paper in a rush to get it all over with already.
♦ He is ever so romantic, and loves stupid symbolism. He cries over fairy tales like a tumblr girl cries over the BBC.
♦ His favorite food is greasy fish and chips................