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[pridefall.livejournal.com]

SERIOUS POLL TIMEZ.

WHAT, if ANY, are your character's thoughts on being TOUCHED. It could be platonic, it could be intimate, it could be someone glomping them into next Tuesday: SHARE with us!

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[deadelfwalking.livejournal.com]

KOLTIRA GENERALLY DOES NOT PREFER TO BE TOUCHED. His body temperature is much lower than average (~60 degrees) and it therefore causes significant discomfort for anyone who touches him, skin-to-skin.

[spadassin.livejournal.com]

Scatty prefers to be touched only by people she trusts, and even then, not in an overly-intimate way. A handshake, a pat on the back, a squeeze of the shoulder--that kind of thing. But hugs are alright for people she knows and trusts, and kisses for Alex. The only other kind of touching she does is for feeding, which is kind of why she has an aversion to being touched in the first place. Also, touching-while-sparing is fine because it's not really an intimate thing.

Rikku loves physical affection! Hugs and being held are like awesome for her, as long as there are no wandering hands. But as soon as someone's palm inches towards her bum or chest, she'd punch them in the face. Kisses on the cheek are okay, but only from people she really, really knows.

PUDDING LOVES HUGS. That's all you need to know, since she's only nine years old.

[rock-it-punch.livejournal.com]

/IMMUNE TO FACE PUNCHES

[gamblers.livejournal.com]

Yuugi: Doesn't mind being touched by other people. He's to a certain extent anthrophobic though, so he's not completely gung-ho about it. He'll hesitate shaking hands with people, stuff like that. He's more comfortable with platonic touching from friends, and anything intimate from girls will make him blush and fidget. He'll respect a person's personal boundaries. HE ONLY GLOMPS FAMILY.

The other Yuugi: Doesn't like it. One of the tests Shadi gave him to check the power of the Millennium Puzzle involved lots of touching by zombies, and he freaked out about it. (There was a lot of emphasis on the clinging part of the riddle than the zombie part, so..) He even gets nervous with Anzu touching him. He's fine with touching other people, but fuck you if you're wanting to touch him.

TYKI MIKK

[simplyteasing.livejournal.com]

&black;
Do. Not. Try. To. Touch. Tyki. Even if it's casual or even if it's ~flirty~. Because of where I'm pulling him from, his Noah and his mind still haven't entirely synched together, so, even if he DOES like you, touching him will make the Noah RAGE and try to convince him to kill you. (Which he might very well do.) Tyki is the type of person who likes to be in control of situations, who likes everything to fall in neat, ordered little patterns that he can pick up on and exploit, so having someone SURPRISE him with physical contact presses a bunch of no-no buttons for him. It's like...well, you're trying to take away his POWER in whatever situation you're in with him, and his mind automatically makes the connection that LACK OF POWER = LACK OF BEING ABLE TO KILL SOMEONE. Which is, as most of you know, the only thing he really, really, really, really enjoys.

So, what I'm getting out here is that unless he initiates contact, touching Tyki makes a bit of his Noah side come out, which is a Bad Thing. And, even without the Noah's protests, he doesn't quite enjoy people touching him anyway -- this isn't a phobia or anything, just sheer "excuse you wtf are you doing" on his part -- and he doesn't quite want to be touched unless it's necessary because touching, obviously, implies a sort of want of more intimacy in any given situation. (Victorian Era social standards, yay!) This isn't to say that he'll go OUT OF HIS WAY to not be touched -- he is a lazy hobo, after all -- but he does naturally keep distance between himself and others at all times; let's say maybe around four to five feet, if they're just talking, while more intimate settings brings that down to two or three. And he absolutely just LINE FACES at people who don't respect personal bubbles, because, really, the only time Tyki HIMSELF will break a personal bubble is when he's about to kill you. So. It implies, to him, that the other person is dangerous on a very subconscious level.

& white;
Tyki's white side is obviously a bit more relaxed when it comes to being touched, but he's also certainly not going to go out of his way to go around touching other people, as well. Like Black Tyki, he gives people their space and respects personal boundaries; but, unlike Black Tyki he doesn't associate closeness with intimacy or implied violence -- no, he's too human for that. I'm working off the assumption that Tyki, basically, lived his life as an orphan for a very long time, and that, unlike the gentlemanly Black Side, White Side Tyki doesn't need to be in control of every little thing happening around him. He just goes with the flow, only really getting annoyed with people when they're all over him and kindly don't back away when he asks them to. AND EVEN THEN, it's not a very big deal to him because, lol, he probably slept in a pile of people or two at one point to conserve heat. So, while touching doesn't have all of thse IMPLICATIONS with White Tyki and also happens to be something rather normal for him, the moooost you'll probably get out of him is a pat on the back, or a hug. At most.

edgeworth's comment while on lunch break i'm already late going to work ahaha

[unnamed-nothing.livejournal.com]

Trowa is not a touchy-feely person.

He is not afraid of people doing so, for the most part. Typical things comrades might do--slaps on the back, a punch to the arm, a friendly arm around his shoulder (see original Trowa Barton)--tend to roll off of him like water on a duck's back; he sits through them with the same willful ignorance of any potential discomfort on his own part that he does most anything else that bothers him.

However, he has had so few other displays of familial-/heavily friendly-/lovers'-style affection directed his way from anyone that things like people openly hugging him will, in a manner of speaking, short-circuit his brain; he'll pretty much go stock-still and be completely at a loss as to what he should be doing, to which he'll respond by freezing up and doing nothing until they let go--or pushing them away if he really feels threatened by the action. Going more along from there, if someone he wasn't involved with caught him by surprise and tried to kiss him he'd probably stare at them with a mixture of confusion and irritation and then give them the cold shoulder after finding the fastest and surest way out of the situation.

Trowa will not really seek touch on his own, either; for the most part, he tends to demonstrate his feelings about others without needing to lay his hands on them in any way. He even prefers to fight from a distance, using guns, which is one reason the other forms he possesses in the City unnerve him--they fight with tooth and claw, up close and personal.

And as far as intimate settings... ah. Well. Thaaaaaat's a can of worms all its own, really. He tends to require someone else taking the lead at the start, at least for a little while. Being stupid about displays of touch-based affection at times can lend itself well to missing what someone is trying to get across to him intent-wise, save for very blatant moves which I'm sure everyone with any sense can imagine on their own and therefore save me the trouble of mentioning.

He's hesitant, mostly, and often looks to make sure he's not upsetting the other or causing discomfort, but once into the swing of things will carry on in fair confidence, not being oblivious to how things work and both able/willing to take advantage of 'known weaknesses' when given the opportunity. Minding, of course, that he does still tend to lend the other person the opportunity instead, since they very clearly already have a huge amount of his trust at that point anyway and it's more comfortable to have someone keeping things in check instead of making him force everything below ice just to be sure things proceed all right like he does all the rest of his waking moments. He does prefer to hover somewhere in the middle of gentle and rough treatment when it comes to himself, and often comes away from it with deep scratches or heavy bites and fingerprint bruises.

Afterward is not a particularly cuddly time; nor is sleeping in the same bed at night--he does so willingly, on the latter, but doesn't snuggle. Snuggling is simply just not his thing. It doesn't mean he's any less pleased by any intimacy had or the person he's with. He just doesn't go for it.

[notsoloyal]

HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTS THEN

[wolfofmibu]

dammit Ian you put this song stuck in my head




also Saitou hates anyone breaching his personal space but I KIND OF FIGURED EVERYONE KNEW THAT BY NOW

[spadassin.livejournal.com]

i love this song

[caststwoshadows.livejournal.com]

Desire does the touching, not the other way around. To touch Desire without permission or invitation is to basically send your desires spinning into overdrive. Most of the time, people want to touch Desire, to hold Desire, to control it, but it controls you.

Desire doesn't often touch people, although it's more inclined to touch and be touched by Family. Destiny is not an issue, it refuses to let Death or Dream touch it, but it's very familiar with both Despair and Delirium, and to an extent, I believe with Destruction. Desire is definitely the less intimate of the Endless in terms of how it handles people; it actually doesn't like to be touched.

Although every once in a while it'll find a person - Kara, from What I Know of Desire, for example - and it'll touch them, usually on the face, or very rarely, it'll hold someone's hand who isn't Despair.

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

No wonder it only ends up hurting Obi-Wan when he pokes it >.>

[easytochop.livejournal.com]

LMFAO WELL sooraya doesn't mind platonic touching as long as it's not someone who she's unfamiliar with and she's already expecting it! if some strange dude is like, idk, headpatting her then she'll be all like "o............................ i see that" ALSO SHE DOES HANDHOLD THIS ONE TIME BUT IT'S A SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT KIND OF THING BECAUSE JAY YOU SO CRESSY

ATSUKO DOESN'T REALLY CARE?????????? she doesn't like people touching her, as a general rule, but she doesn't get snappy about it unless someone's actively trying to hurt her or grab her ass. she will just slap people's filthy hands off her and that will be it!

riful does not like being touched without her express permission for any reason at all! not because she's uncomfortable with it, but because it threatens her implicit control and that makes her a mad panda. she will touch other peeps all the time for all kinds of hideous reasons, but nobody else is allowed to initiate intimacy of any kind unless they're like, the rare kind of person who she has given understood blanket permission to. and even then if like, dauf grabs her arm when she doesn't want him to she'll just be like "REJECTED >:(" and then rip an arm or two off. BUT SHE'LL LET HIM FIX IT IMMEDIATELY (i.e. by saying "oh, stop whining and reattach it u_u") BECAUSE HE'S HER MAN AND THIS IS A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP. THEY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OKAY DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT

lust touches people... all the time... with claws. BUT NO she doesn't mind being touched, but her intent has to be implicit and she has to either be close to the other person or be gaining something by doing it. she lets people in close when it benefits her to seem normal in general or close to them particularly, but when it comes down to her actual views on physical contact when she's not killing someone at the same time, she's pretty reserved. and cold. platonic gestures of affection are especially alien to her, except when it comes to gluttony! and even he gets more of the pet treatment than, say, hugs or whatever the fuck. she uses touching to make other people freak the fuck out, if she perceives them as being the type to freak the fuck out if, idk, someone's touching their face with fingers that can totally skewer them (I.E. THE RIDDLER LOLOLOLOLOLOL), in the same way that she uses sex appeal and PORNOVOICE MACH 10--but that is threatening, not emotional, because physical contact and sexual satisfaction and killing are totally intertwined for her, and it is all part of her agenda! it's also worth noting that we never see FATHAHHHHHHHHH touching, like, any of his kids, and he's lust's favorite person in the world. homunculus don't play like that. B|

[manslut.livejournal.com]

samuel doesn't give a shit and he will invade your personal space it is a promise.

george will brofist/brohug and be intimate with people he's in a relationship with (nobody here rofl)

barney doesn't give two shits

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

Shego and touching is kind of a one-way thing. Shego doesn't mind contact so long as a) it's in the form of fighting, or b) she initiates it. See, it's okay for Shego to touch people, but lord help you if you randomly decide to touch her without her permission. She's actually a pretty touchy feely person, considering she loves massages and tugging on Drakken's face and getting all kung-fu with Kimmie, but it's only if she makes it happen. However, in the last season that kind of died down a bit but only because the creators were shoving Drakken and Shego together, literally sooooo...yeah. She doesn't hate being touched, but it depends on the person.

AS FOR SALLY this is where shit gets complicated for me. I feel like she's a pretty touchy-feely person, but at the same time being touched also unnerves her ever since Eddie decided to get all creeper on her ass. She didn't end up as one of those "OMG DON'T TOUCH MEEE" kind of girls after she got the shit beat out of her, but I feel like it's kind of a difficult thing for her because physical contact is complicated. She likes hugs, she likes kisses, she likes sex, and she's a very personable person. I mean, her entire image is built around her sexuality and her body and whatnot. But she has image issues at the same time. And yet she also craves male attention. B| Eeeeeh, I guess I'll say she doesn't mind being touched, but it depends on the situation and the people in question. IDK man IDK.

AS FOR TWOEY he's a maneating plant so if someone's touching him that means they're close enough to be eaten. Also, he likes touching people. I mean, in the movie he moves his vines like all over Seymour and Audrey so. Yeah. Touching doesn't bug him. He doesn't know personal space.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

Sasdakljf I am doing two of these because of timeswitch.

CHAMBER = NO TOUCHY FOR HE IS A HIDEOUS MONSTARRR AND WILL KILL YOU ACCIDENTALLY. Seriously though he generally only lets Paige touch him. Oh and Angelo that one time when he was dying so that doesn't really count. The only time I can remember that he initiated anything was when he hugged Paige that one time.

Decibel = Still has a keen sense of personal space and will not actively initiate any touchy-touchy unless you are ~deep friend~ and even then it's usually like a platonic "I feel your pain" sort of way. Very manly. Not sissy at all.

But he won't kill you if you try to give him a hug. And he's more inclined to high-five/bro-fist/elbow you in the gut and all of that very deeply meaninful sort of bodily interaction with others.

[superxgrlfriend.livejournal.com]

[ BUTT GRAB. ]

[lilcreep.livejournal.com]

Damian: DOES NOT LIKE TO BE TOUCHED. He's been raised with the concept that every touch is a prelude to violence so unless you're his mommy, please not to be touching him kthnx. Unless you want a broken nose that badly.

Wally: Doesn't mind. He can be touchy with his friends, friendly arms around shoulders and that sort of thing.

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

oh but damian 8(
how will i scoop you up and slather you with attention?

[superxgrlfriend.livejournal.com]

My psych degree is flailing madly at all of your touch-phobic, repressed characters omg.

Due to the past trauma of being trapped in an untouchable body, plus the fact that Monet is a very physical, flirty woman, she needs to both touch and be touched. A good portion of the time, she uses her own touch as a way to exert control over the person she's touching, which is also HELLO DR. FREUD, but is very capable of intimacy. It's just not a side of herself that she's willing to show very often.

Monet's need to be touch is her most repressed, and it doesn't begin and end with pleasant touch. She has a tattoo (canon-based but never explicitly stated) because the pain was better than feeling nothing at all. She's very sexual and enjoys sex (this IS explicitly stated), and is not immune to seduction. (I mean, JAMIE FUCKING MADROX. God.)

In short, Monet is a hot mess.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

The City is like a repression parade or something. I think they all just need to group-hug every once in a while.

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Salaak finds anything more than a handshake uncomfortable, though he is getting used to shoulder pats, patronizing as they may be. *makes eyes in the appropriate direction..* He doesn't register himself as human enough to engage in physical interactions, nor does he want to, because the sensations can be really off-putting.

Jaime's cool with most platonic touching from people he knows and trusts, or handshakes/hugs from people he helps out. Chick hugs are awkward but okay for a second if they are not Abby or Brenda and...dudes don't hug, man. But he's been used as a lean-item or arm/footrest before, so he's used to that.

Clark doesn't really worry too much about hugs/being hung onto cause he's Superman and he saves people all the damn time and that's what scared people do. Now that he's vulnerable, he's quicker to break the contact if he can or he's concerned about something, but whahey. And ain't nobody kissin' him but his momma or Lois or catty that one time on that one cover

When Blue gets back, you do not touch Blue. Physical contact can initiate a kind of mind linkup where he can ~see your thoughts and memories. It's also a sign of great trust, and he will have none of that until he figures out there's folks here that know him and aren't like. Constructs of an evil machine empire. :\
But friends of Blue get all the platonic love you could want. Hand-holding, hugging, forehead-touching, all that touchy-feely stuff that's...probably awkward for some folks.

[rockpet.livejournal.com]

Clearly Salaak needs to get laid.





Not really, I just want to see the awkward of it all.

[liverletdie]

Let's see~

Tony, obviously, has very little qualms about being touched! That doesn't mean that he's touchy-feely, because he really isn't, but he doesn't mind the interaction of bodies in conversation, and when he's around women that he's flirting with, he's normally the one doing the touching.

Mara doesn't have too many qualms, but she doesn't like being touched by people she doesn't know. Only those that are close to her are people she doesn't mind being touched by, and getting close to her is kind of a long process. If she doesn't know you well, she's more likely to spin you into a choke hold.

Mitchell...isn't really touchy. He has no hang ups about it, but he's also uncomfortable with the idea.

Don't touch Illidan. :/ I don't think he has hangup about it, per se, but I do think he doesn't like being touched, period, except when it furthers what he wants.

Allison has severe hang ups about being touched. Period. She shocks anyone who tries, due to the fact that her and her father can't touch, and although she is slowly working past that from her last appearance, this has not changed at all. She absolutely hates being touched, and as she says: It's death to touch me.

[hollowish.livejournal.com]

None of mine like to be touched, except maybe Schrodinger.

Hank would rather be doing science-type stuff, Ichigo has some irrational phobia of women or anything remotely sexual, and Victoria would make your life a living hell if you touched her without her explicit permission.

Schrodinger on the other hand, loves to be petted or paid attention to. However, most people that try that better be people he likes, otherwise they will find themselves either dead or with their underwear paraded for the whole City to see.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

/spams ichigo with pictures of breasts


/BIG ONES

[grindcore.livejournal.com]

CARNAGE DOESN'T MIND BUT YOU PROBABLY DON'T WANT TO TOUCH HIM EVER

Ghost is extremely anti-physical contact so he'd sooner go intangible than accept a hug or even a pat on the shoulder or anything

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

LAKJDKLA GHOST IS ADORABLE.

/mimes a hug

/from afar

[pacifister]

Quatre wasn't raised with a lot of affection. His father rarely had the time and the problems between them started when Quatre was quite young, so parental affection is mostly in hazy memories. The single time he actually met one of his sisters, she was very willing to hug him. He seemed surprised by it, but willing.

To that end, he's affection starved, because he spent most of his life trying to get his father's approval or pretending that he didn't want it. Not to mention a long period where he hated the aspect of himself that was kind (ie. that wanted to show or feel affection).

Quatre generally touches people first, but he won't shy away from friends and such touching him either; in fact, he'll probably be extremely happy about it. A hand on a shoulder for friends, handshakes, etc. with people he considers close. He won't do it if he thinks it's unwanted, but he's generally pretty perceptive, so chances are pretty slim that he'll do something without asking, especially anything beyond a handshake, because he knows all about how easily things can be taken wrongly.

As far as romantic interest goes, he'll touch, kiss, cuddle, anything he can get away with. Privately, unless spurred into doing something in public. He was raised proper and displays of affection were to be kept in private. Of course, he has a rebellious streak about a mile wide and is likely to do some mild PDA in public just to see if he can get away with it.

[notsoloyal]

/touches with a scalpel

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

Eddie is keen on touching--as long as he's in control. If it's him initiating or him wanting/allowing it, there's no issue. However, the former rarely happens and the latter only applies to a select few personalities. He likes maintaining his distance--not merely for the sake of mystique, but also because it's simply hard for him to indulge in trust. And that sort of intimacy--platonic or otherwise--is a commitment to trust. Also, since more people who touch him do so violently, he's hasn't precisely positive associations. It really is case by case.

Parker rather enjoys touching pretty ladies. Otherwise, he's aloof. Only guy in his confidence is his cousin John--but if anyone can get close enough to be considered a friend and ally, Parker would express the typical show of fingers.

[is-fear-itself.livejournal.com]

And that sort of intimacy--platonic or otherwise--is a commitment to trust.

Just fyi I love how you worded that.

[objectiondenied.livejournal.com]

Phoenix is a touchy person, you have no idea. He'll shake hands, pat shoulders, ruffle hair, hug, whatever. Friends and family get a lot of hugs and hair ruffles. He was raised that hugs are a sort of cure-all for problems and does the Hug-It-Out thing a lot when people are upset, though he's likely to shrug it off if they're not interested.

As far as romantic relationships go, he'll hug, kiss, cuddle, and whatever else, whenever he can. Yes, that means in public too. I know, gross. XD

As for being touched himself? He enjoys it and doesn't mind, but it's in his nature to prefer to give others affection before himself. He's a giving guys and if someone will take affection from him, he'll load it on. Forehead bumping, hand-holding, and generally whatever he can get away with. He's good at remembering which people like what, so he rarely crosses lines once he has them.

[mistermoogle.livejournal.com]

MOG; Has no problem whatsoever with it! Hugs, highfives, ect...they're all good! He's not so much touchy-feely, but he doesn't mind others doing it to him if that makes sense.

VECTOR; Good question. If he knows the person well - Safeguard, for example - he doesn't mind touchy-feelingness. There's not many he has on that level, though, so beyond that he'll accept pats on the back/platonic hugs. Anything past that - especially by someone he considers a 'child' - will make him uncomfortable.

GANONDORF; No.

[notsoloyal]

so basically vector will always be uncomfortable

[bet-on-bolton.livejournal.com]

Troy LOVES TOUCHING but mostly platonic. he's very touchy feely and generally doesn't know the meaning of personal space. Anything above platonic has to be strictly with his girlfriend and very vanilla.


James and touching is... yeah. Kind of the total opposite from Troy actually. Anything platonic like hugs etc aren't something he really likes. Unless it's touching females hands, thighs etc in flirty manners. But James really likes his personal space. As for non platonic touching, he is all over that with teh ladies. In every manner possible. In every place possible.

[thusitisproven.livejournal.com]

I am doing these in separate comments you can't stop me.

Adrian goes out of his way to avoid physical contact. He'll shake hands if someone offers their hand up first and it's likely he'll grab a wipe afterward. He'll take things like hugs from friends, but that doesn't mean he enjoys them. It's very likely he'll tense up and ask them to back off if they cling too long.

Certain circumstances, however, will make him very touchy-feely. So don't give him alcohol, guys, if you don't want him touching your face and telling you that he loves you.

He's gotten a lot better since solving Trudy's case, but he's still fidgety at times when it comes to people, but occasionally he meets someone that makes him forget all of his neurosis. He'll forget to wash his hands fifty times, hug, etc. He's even danced with a few women, including Trudy.

Once someone has actually broken through that twenty foot wall, he's actually quite affectionate. He's been shown to hold hands, use and be used as a pillow, kiss, hug, hold, etc. When he considered adopting a child in one episode, he even rolled around and played on the grass with him.

Arriving in the City with no one familiar sort of threw up every single wall he has and shoved him back into his pre-end series behavior, so good luck getting much of anything out of him right now.

[hackeralastair]

I like this sharing thing!

ALASTAIR: he's tricky, because he is on the one hand, a young gay man who has a strong attachment to people he considers family, but on the other hand, has been through a lot of trauma and tries to project a sense of "I don't need any of you" once in a while. He's very situational. Platonically, he isn't a fluffy sort who will hug, but he does hair-ruffle and back-pat. Letting people into his personal space is on his terms - if he's in one of those independent moods, he will shrug off or avoid the contact he might have permitted in a more needy mood.

Regarding intimate touching - yes please more and thank you. :) He likes foreplay.

SANJI: oh dear god. What is personal space? Actually, in canon he attempts to get close to girls and always gets rebuffed (be it avoided or a fist to the nose) so all the girls kissing his cheek and hugging him in the City is like a dream come true. Successful contact with females will send him into a fit of triumphant dancing. Also, he's a martial artist so touching others is essential to kicking their ass. He's a friendly sort who will throw his arms over the shoulders of his comrades and fall asleep on women's laps.

[is-fear-itself.livejournal.com]

Jon typically doesn't like run-of-the-mill touching at all, although he will happily touch others when he feels like he has a point to make or a chemical to inject. He's definitely not well adjusted when it comes to displays of emotion or affection; as the Scarecrow he's vastly more playful and willing to make contact, but only when he feels in control of the situation.

Venom on the other hand loev personal space, doesn't hesitate to practically engulf people in his little bubble, sometimes literally. He's crazy too, but at least he's friendly. :D