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What Does Your Hero Smell Like?

Nimue

Auror
Oh my god, Lothar apparently smells like goose down and integrity. The funny thing is that he might smell like integrity, if that was ...a thing you could smell. As for the goose down, maybe I'll have to put him in a puffy jacket for the rest of his scenes. Love it.
 

skip.knox

toujours gai, archie
Moderator
OK. One of my heroes is half elf. She smells like forest and energy. What? Even better, my secondary hero is a gnome. She smells like football and envy.

Both my heroes are still rolling on the floor. Not entirely sure if they're laughing or gagging.
 

pmmg

Myth Weaver
I got Volcano and Scotland for my main hero, and Volcano and Moonlight for my main Heroine. Not really what I would imagine, but I see if I can work that into the story somewhere--though I am not sure how Scotland would apply...I don't think there is a Scotland on my map.
 
Oh my god, Lothar apparently smells like goose down and integrity. The funny thing is that he might smell like integrity, if that was ...a thing you could smell. As for the goose down, maybe I'll have to put him in a puffy jacket for the rest of his scenes. Love it.

I see the various results as being emblematic rather than necessarily literal smells, so integrity works. But some of the literal smells could be worked into the story also if they fit.

I actually fell into a hole when trying to settle on the name I'd use for one of my MCs, a kind of obsessive-compulsive punching of keys as I varied spelling and tried out new names until I found something that somewhat "fit." But this forced me to consider many possibilities. The name I'd settled on beforehand now looks wrong, and I'm glad I worked through my initial qualms with the ideas I'd originally had for the name. So even if random, it was fun to use as a spur to thought.

Edit:

I actually came up with the two above by using a given name + family name combination. If I go with first names only, I get, respectively:

"board rooms and defiance"

"thunderstorms and hunger"

These actually fit the two characters, the first especially because he's from a family of wealthy merchants but is a much younger son who has run wild before the story starts, complicating things for his family.
 
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Ban

Troglodytic Trouvère
Article Team
Thin Mints and integrity.

Truly the things that come to my mind when I imagine a drug-manufacturing pragmatist.
 

La Volpe

Sage
Ha, quite hilarious.

Kovik, my rogue soldier is: Wool and midnight. Not sure about the wool bit, but the midnight is pretty accurate, I guess.
 

Tom

Istar
Tomrin smells like rain and Paris, apparently. If he existed in our world I suppose I could see him as a cafe-lurking Parisian who watches the rain while moodily swirling his mug of coffee.

For fun I decided to type in my secondary protagonists too. Miekkhal's scent is linen and fate (what does fate smell like?), and Aeyu's is...pepperoni and greed?? Okay...?
 
I tried it for another of my protags and got "oatmeal and hope." Hope? I guess. Oatmeal? Uhh.

I guess this is my fault, since I tend to pick stupid names for my characters.
 

La Volpe

Sage
La Volpe apparently smells like "leather and conviction".
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Ban

Troglodytic Trouvère
Article Team
Banten smells like... Blackberries and Lust


Well I guess I just discovered a whole new side of myself. Can't say I'm displeased.
 
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