So yeah, about the ask you had unclear what I was refering: yes I meant what kind of personalities is bill attracted to.
Had to wait a couple days to answer this until I had time to dig up and review the original post about what he's attracted to; and honestly, I think it already covers almost everything. Take out the physical traits and you get:
Weirdos. Being weird, in and of itself, is attractive to him. Gotta be a high quantity of weirdness though.
"Brooding artist" types (his description). Mostly if they make art of him, but even that aside he likes people who view the world around them like an artist. Brooding optional but "thinking deeply & romantically about the world" mandatory.
People who have fun by Bill's definition of "fun": party hard and live to tell the tale. Reckless eagerness to jump headlong into danger a plus.
Similarity to him. This might mean a similar history but it could mean similar personalities. Bill's personality is shaped by his history, so why wouldn't someone else's be.
Extravagance with material possessions. That might mean their love language is gift-giving, or it might mean they go broke spending everything they have on luxury and thrilling experiences. Live loudly, enthusiastically, generously, and with little heed for future consequences.
Nerds, provided they have something else going for them besides just being nerdy. More broadly: intellectual curiosity and a functioning brain.
I think that one's worth elaborating on, since it gets into Bill's psychology. Bill's a trillion years old; knows more about practically anything than practically anybody; has seen whole worlds rise and fall, along with all their civilizations, cultures, discoveries, inventions, and people, over and over again; and by now, he passes vast swathes of eternity by partying/dissociating for longer than the human species has even existed. Even though he never really quite grew up, he's still old and tired and bored.
But there's still wonder out in the multiverse—wonder in things he's seen billions of times, wonder in things that are just slightly different from the other billion he's already seen, wonder in looking at something he's seen before in a brand new way. He knows it's there, he's just gotten too depressed and lazy to go looking for it.
Merely knowing stuff doesn't impress him—he can "know stuff" in circles around any mortal and most immortals—but excitement and enthusiasm for knowing stuff gets him to wake up a little to the world around him, which is something he sorely needs.
But again: they've gotta have other things going for them. If he runs into a nerd who's just nerdy and doesn't otherwise bring anything else to the table that Bill's into, he's just like "ugh what's this geek droning on about this time, go away."
And these other traits off the original list aren't quite things he's "attracted" to, but that makes him more likely to pursue someone anyway:
If somebody's an emotional doormat who'll do anything he says and let him take the lead in all matters, he's more likely to date them. And also, exploit them, use them, abuse them, and leave them. He's not actually attracted to doormats, though—it's kind of a turn-off, really, he finds people with a spine more interesting—but people with a spine are more likely to stand up for themselves, which makes it harder for Bill to get away with all the shit he wants to pull; so ultimately he's more likely to pursue somebody he likes less but can control more.
I don't think he's really "attracted" to people who worship him—the more of a zealous follower someone is, the less likely they are to be an interesting person all by themself, really. But like. It's an insane turn on. Biggest turn on. Call him your god and his brain shuts off and he gets a little light headed as all his whatever-he-has-instead-of-blood immediately rushes to his wherever-the-hell-blood-gets-redirected-to-in-his-species. When he's that into being worshiped, I think the fact that he isn't technically into the person doing the worshiping is kind of a moot point. So he's not exactly attracted to people with a tendency toward obsessive devotion; but he's had a disproportionate number of partners who have that personality trait, since that makes them more likely to be obsessively devoted to him.
All of the above is off of the original "stuff he's attracted to" list. I can't think of many personality traits he's drawn to that aren't already covered. Extroversion, optimism, maybe similar "screw the laws of physics" political opinions, maybe a tendency to re-sculpt the truth in the same way he does... Yeah, that's all I got, I already hit most of the points in the initial ask.
I realize these are "personality traits he's attracted to" instead of "personalities he's attracted to," but a personality is just a soup made up of various traits. I'm not gonna go like "oh yeah he's attracted to ESTJs" or something. Grab multiple of the above traits and slap them on the same person and that's appealing to him.
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Nah because Rosebird and Taiqrow is both hilarious when they try to explain it to Yang and Ruby
Yang: so my birth mom left and my dad hooked up with my mum who stepped up but then my mum who stepped up stepped back down to go fuck my birth mum so my dad then went on to hook up with our uncle?
Summer: ...it's a bit more complicated than that.
Raven: But she's also not wrong.
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Kinda strange idea i know wont happen, but the other journals end up alive, and TBOB gets a journal harem.
oh, i bet it would just love to get triplets, wouldn't it.
But, no—half the joke of Journal 2 is that it's jealous of "siblings" that aren't even alive, they're literally just books. The reason J2 is alive is because that's the book Ford stuffed most of his spells and curses into, and they interacted oddly. Living books aren't gonna become A Thing, there's just one lone anomaly (possibly two if TBOB is cursed enough that it could be alive).
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Since discovering your work during the pandemic, I have practically inhaled everything you've written. Your stories are amazing. The characterization, the worldbuilding, the plots, the sex, the trauma and recovery, everything is just so top tier and a very small part of me wishes I never stumbled across your stuff because now I can read subpar fics, only this quality and above which I'm sure you know is hard to find. That's why you're writing these stories after all!
I'm really enjoying all of your current ongoing fics and am looking forward to your planned ones too, like Mallory & Mount and Vexteria and Glamour Gods.
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This is like the best, thank you so so much! I'm so glad you've been enjoying the writing / getting something out of it. Just ahhh *rolls around in this ask the way a golden retriever rolls around in autumn leaves*
And yeah it's true, I am very much writing these stories because I can so rarely find exactly what I'm looking for. I find a lot of good stories! But like, they're not kinky, or there's not enough hurt/comfort, or the trauma-recovery isn't quite there, or they're not long enough, or etc. etc. etc. I guess I'm just Goldilocksing my way through writing stories I want to read, one serial at a time. It's an absolute miracle that these get to be enjoyed by others too! For a long time I felt like I was such a kind of freak for wanting something so specific I couldn't find it!
I don't know what will happen with Glamour Gods, it's definitely not forgotten. I don't know if there's much room for long-form science fiction urban fantasy paranormal kinky romance but like, maybe one day. :D I'll just keep adding to the playlist until then!
Thanks so much for sending the ask! You're awesome. :D
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