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filthydipper) wrote2018-12-31 05:50 pm
filthydipper) wrote2018-12-31 05:50 pm
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ic: headcanons
& animals
Yngvi was not allowed a pet as a child, that was an extra mouth and it taught poor life lessons for the Carta so absolutely not. He was pretty scared of dogs because when you're a dwarf and people have dogs that are, comparatively speaking, bigger than you are, who flood into your city? No he did not like dogs for a long time. Then he met Bronson who was a chill old dog who had a shitty life and Yngvi got better about dogs. He actually is surprised each time he meets an animal that he's not viscerally offended by it. And he loves nugs. He was never allowed a nug ever but he thinks they're cute.
& food
Yngvi's favourite food is anything. The concept of a favourite food is so bizarre to someone who spent a chunk of his life fighting for it or getting it taken off him as a punishment even when he didn't understand what he did wrong or how to not repeat it so that sounds like some sort of rich person lie. He'll complain about certain foods for the sake of complaining and to sound less like a tragic mess but the boy will eat anything.
Yngvi is a bottomless pit. He might not always need to eat but he grew up where food was't always a certainty so he'll make room for food and he's got a bit of a fucked up metabolism from childhood shortages of certain things so he will burn through that food fast.
So long as Yngvi gets to eat, Yngvi wouldn't care what food he was eating if he was forced to eat one thing for the rest of his life, it's always going to be the thing that happens to you when you never knew when or where your next meal was coming from. Seriously, as much as he 'complains', those are just token complaints. All the world's a stage.
Yngvi's idea of eating is 'eat as much as you can and a bit more for the road' with a side of 'stuff extra in your pockets for later'. It's endearing until you realise he's eaten a week of supplies in one sitting before he turns around to ask 'so lads what's for lunch?'
For all that he loves food, only a fool would risk eating Yngvi's cooking. He can prepare yo some fine charcoal, rocks or grass. Other people cook for him. He can roast a nug real good but that's pretty much it.
& drunk
A drunk Yngvi is a disaster and a masterpiece at once, depending o the company, how much drunk there is and you can still rely on Yngvi to fake it if he must. (Either being drunk or being really great, nothing to see here folks, it depends.) Usually loud. Handsy. No concept of personal space or where his feet are and where they're going. More likely to threaten you for no reason. But if he's upset then the truth starts to spill out of him faster than he can catch it and he can become worryingly maudlin because guess what, his life was shit and he's having to face up to that. Also has little control over his head and if he tips it too far in one direction his whole body is going to go with it.
& sleep
Snores like a little piggy if he sleeps on his back, roll him over and you're fine. He does slobber in his sleep so that's an issue, super attractive quality in a boy Yngvi. Yngvi can and will sleep anywhere. Just point and he'll go. (He's got a pile of furs Asher made before he got sick and died, Yngvi sleeps in those like a tiny feral animal.)
Yngvi doesn't need much sleep. A few hours and he can be up and good to go, something that was trained into him. He doesn't enjoy it and it more depends on his mood and what's going on because there are times he'll pass out for twelve hour stretches if he's been burning the candle at both ends but three/four hours is the average for him to feel as fresh as he's going to feel.
& the body
Yngvi's hands are covered in scars from learning how to make traps when he was a kidlet and even now when he's been working on new components etc. Scars he won't explain but are clearly from times he's been stabbed very viciously around the ribs and kidneys that are very old. Lots of the stuff from Boneflayers jobs all got healed up because yay for mage healer buddy. He's got a bunch of freckles on his back that you could possibly turn into a constellation but he thinks the person that told him was very drunk, still they were sweet to say it.
Yngvi is all dirt-stained in every available pore so sun have fun trying to bake through the filth. Pretty hardy against most elements so he gets windburn more than anything else which causes him no shortage of grief. Doesn't like things like velvet or silk or really anything you would think of being 'fancy'. poultice textures too, that wet but not totally wet mulchy feel. Disgusting.
Yngvi has super expressive eyes and eyebrows, there's always a lot going on around there that he never managed to get full under control, or his mouth, they're not always doing a lot at the same time, he did manage to learn that much so he can employ that to distract or confuse people.
Tends to have fidgety hands, cracks his knuckles often especially when he's trying to make a point when he's annoyed.
Scuffs his feet when he's pissed off, thinks it makes him sound like a big man but makes him sound like a petulant child.
Yngvi sounds like the rattle of trap components in his pockets, you'll hear him making a lot of noise unless he's making the effort not to (which he can) or unless he combat rolls up to you for reasons. He's got a heavy tread since he's a dwarf and low to the ground. He's not really made for being the absolute stealthiest. Fidgets by way of knuckle cracking and working with trap components so there's almost some sort of noise coming from him unless there's a damn good reason for him to not make one.
& family
Yngvi doesn't know who his mother is, much in the same way he doesn't know who his father is, who his siblings are (Gunnar is his cousin by actual accounts, neither of them are aware of this) but it's kept in a record somewhere so if he honestly and truly wanted to know then it's within his power to go and find out. He was raised communally and he varies in the amount of mothers he says he has because that number really did vary. But he did love them in his strange grasping goblin way of loving that was just 'this is a person that pays attention to me'.
& education
Yngvi has had no real formalised education beyond reading and writing and numbers. His has all been 'on the job' because I figure there's something kind of like a weird apprenticeship thing with baby Carta dwarves where if you're born to it you're hurled in and just doing whatever you need to do. He knows more than he wants people to know about Orzammar politics and a few other subjects from on the job learning.
Possesses a surprisingly larger knowledge of languages than people would expect or Yngvi willingly reveals which comes from having to learn them growing up in the Carta for jobs and from all his travel with the Boneflayers. Common, far better dwarven than a surfacer Carta boyo has any right to, very good Orlesian with mangled pronunciation, conversational elven, insults and courtesies in Nevarran and Antivan. Yngvi absorbs what might be useful to keep him and his alive.
& free time
When it comes to collecting things, he's a tiny packrat, likes to collect possibly useful components he might never use but he wants them so he'll keep them. Obviously nugs because there are twenty. Likes oddly shaped bottles to send to Gunnar for his alchemy so if he sees empty perfume or potion bottles or anything he'll swipe 'em and send those off. Most things need to fit in his pockets. Yngvi's still new to the concept of 'this is mine and no one is taking it away from me' so he will keep stuff that has no intrinsic use or value because it is his.
Yngvi wouldn't say he has any creative outlets because he wasn't encouraged to have them because they were wastes of time and/or resources so a lot of things had to be made to look productive but he really enjoys working on new and interesting trap mechanisms, it's a true joy even if he almost loses fingers to it. He liks to doodle stuff in the margins of pages when he's drawing said components too. Making up all his stories is something he loves and he'd never call himself a storyteller, that's sounds far too merchant-like or some sort of deshyr thing, it was all part of the job/training for him too considering his skill-set in the Carta but he enjoys it when it isn't trying to cover for something painful or raw. He's also really started enjoying writing stupid letters to the Boneflayers since he's been away from them with all the mundane things about his days and his random thoughts and things like 'what is this weird tree in Halamshiral, Melisende and Liadan you know elf trees in alienages best explain to me ladies and do you have theories???')
& weather
On a stormy, overcast rainy day Yngvi is not a happy camper because what is this uncalled for bath from the heavens? He looks like a small drowning rat, tends to hide, hissing with his booze until it's over.
However, he enjoys storms because he's a contrary little shit and he can make up stories about why a storm came to be over clear skies when he's bored.
& name
His name might come from 'Ing' which possibly means 'ancestor'. (I didn't know that until after I picked it, I just liked how Yngvi sounds as a name but given how he thumbs his nose at all the old traditions etc. it's a fitting name.)
& childhood
Yngvi was brought up in Darktown because it was better to keep the kids out of the way of important things going on elsewhere so as a result he had some nasty scrapes that involved being threatened with knives, mainly by humans and mainly by Fereldans. This is part of why he isn't a fan. Generally his childhood involved a lot of 'here, you're going to learn this' and if you were bad at it you got yelled at in front of people, cuffed round the head, sometimes humiliated in front of the rest because you were a shit who couldn't do anything right, and usually you didn't get fed. Yngvi pretty much learned humour to cope at a very young age. He didn't get out of Darktown until he was in the double digits because in the eyes of the older dwarves, what good was Yngvi to them until he was that age? Runty little shit of a dwarf being pulled out of too many scrapes? Absolutely not, stay in Darktown. But this is where Yngvi developed his clannish behaviour. His mentality of 'these are my people how dare you I'll fight you mate come at me' plus the loose association of what makes up a family because his was huge, ridicuous, and constantly in motion.
Yngvi's first real memory involves a time when he was getting beaten up pretty severely by human kids when he was very young and roaming around with some other kids in the Carta. Shivs were involved at one point and it was very much not a good time, it's not something he consciously dwells on but he was very much the runt of the litter and a lot of how Yngvi is came about from incidents like that. The kids were patched up and immediately put into 'this is how to deal with humans' lessons right away. How he treats Blight refugees stems from that because all those people flooding into Darktown was a bad time with people scrapping for food and resources. Only the Boneflayers know that story, Yngvi would murder anyone else who knew because he doesn't talk about it, it's no one's business.
& sexuality
Yngvi is pansexual, genuinely scared of every dwarf girl he's ever bedded but that's a story for another day.
& religion
Yngvi can claim to believe in anything faithfully for whatever part he has to play but honestly he doesn't believe in things he can't really witness with his own two eyes. You can see spirits doing shit and magic doing stuff but all this Maker and Creators and the Stone crap you're all high on your own bullshit and letting people take you for a ride. Deep down maybe, just maybe, he likes the idea of the Avvar gods because of Asher giving a shit about Yngvi and how in the end he'd get to be free in a way he's never been and never will be in his life.
& possessions
In Yngvi's pockets: between 1-4 nugs, trap components, coin (most of it stolen), booze, playing cards (not a full deck because why would he need that), brass knuckles (several), a worry token from Gunnar, various herbal remedies also from Gunnar, small worn bronto toy he's somehow held onto from childhood (the one bit of softness he ever had) and a spoon (formerly belonging to Emeric Vauquelin)
& attitudes
If something negative or tragic happens to Yngvi, he'll say he blames others but a lot of the time Yngvi blames himself because he had a shitty Carta childhood involving a lot of 'Yngvi why did you fuck this up look at what you fucked up' but like hell is he ever going to admit that to the masses.
Yngvi is actually fairly quick to trust you if you are genuinely nice to him because his needs are few and honestly he really does know how to kill you, he's spent a whole life knowing how to kill people bigger and stronger than him so in a strange way it makes trusting them easier.
When it comes to chilren, Yngvi is that guy that yells at kids, has screaming matches with toddlers and babies, tells twelve year olds to heck off and tell everyone else that they're like twelve so shut up but if they can deal with tall tales then he's good. He only really likes kids in the Carta that are very young, or the rare time he's been to Dusttown where he can be generous, same with the alienage, those kids get a genuinely nice side of Yngvi where he's decent with them and they get money, treats, toys, goodies etc. Also Aura Hardie, Asher's son Bjorn and all of Asher's nieces and nephews are treated with genuine love and awkward gentleness.
Surprisingly, even Yngvi does find some things repulsive and/or disgusting. Orzammar politics especially but generally most politics given that they push down the little guy; saying that means Yngvi reveals he has a working thinking brain which ruins part of his whole act as well as showing more emotion than he's comfortable with and has been told is acceptable by everyone who raised him in the Carta. So outside of his few exceptions? Good luck. How the Dalish elves treat non-Dalish elves? That cuts far too close to the bone for him with the way Orzammar dwarves treat other dwarves and the issue of surfacer and casteless nonsense, he has no time for that and it's honestly pretty triggering depending on how someone words it.
If you're in a service job, it depends who and what you are. If you're a fellow dwarf like him then Yngvi will treat you exactly as he finds you but if you're a merchant's guild dwarf he'll be a dick. If you're an elf then he'll treat you exceptionally well and tease you if you're a friend. If you're human it depends. Doglords? Yeah, get the fuck out of Kirkwall you ruined it and Orlesians go fuck yourself and the perfume you bathed in.
Yngvi tends not to think about consequences in general, they're a weird set of things other people are supposed to think about on his behalf but if he was allowed to murder one person without any consequences? Someone super high up in Orzammar just so he got bragging rights about it. And a big statue. He'd want a big statue. Bigger than any other statue in Orzammar. Not paragon status because he's not here for that bullshit but a giant statue for the hilarity.
Criticism? Of him? What is there to criticise? He can't read suddenly, he doesn't know. On a serious note: badly. Depending on the situation or what he's doing, sometimes it'd involve a pretty volatile and full-on character assassination of the other person, down to threats and intimidation, leaving traps, trying to ruin their life etc. Completely out of proportion. Other times he can shrug it off and laugh, fuck you he's flawless. He was raised Carta, they weren't forgiving of any sort of failure, flaw or weakness, and Yngvi's still young. Time away with Asher changed some things but his upbringing was rough and left some very deep impressions. If someone close to him criticised something minor, he might not care but if it was something deeper he'd be upset. If Asher had ever criticised Yngvi he would've been absolutely crushed.
Yngvi would like a sky burial. He'd be free in a way he can't be in life.
Yngvi has a strange mish-mash of beliefs/beliefs in creation as one would expect growing up as he did with a violent rejection of all things related to the Stone because he rejects anything coming from Orzammar, rejects that the Stone would allow the highest of them to rise and treat the casteless and lower castes as they do without punishment. (He wouldn't articulate that part.) He mostly had exposure to the Chantry but he didn't trust that growing up and it wasn't really something he understood exactly because there wasn't a place for a dwarf boy was there? After Asher came along he really got more into Avvar beliefs because it was Asher's way and Asher was one of the first actual caring positive influences in his life, and he got to experience it all for himself with gods that really did seem to always be with a person. He does think that the Maker is there and ignoring everyone, and that there probably is something with the elven creators too because even if he doesn't like the Dalish there's enough alienage ones believing it too that sold him on it. So. Weird mish-mash of beliefs but mostly Avvar even if he doesn't do the praying bit, just sort of quietly believes that they're still around and watching out for folk that Asher cared for at least.
When it comes to being on a team or going solo, it all depends on the situation. Yngvi's used to team situations where he's one part of a much bigger thing because that's what growing up Carta means on the face of it and then he went into the Boneflayers but in both situations, he was able to do things on his own. He loved the Boneflayers because he trusted everyone and he's realised how big a difference that makes. So if he had the choice, solo it if he can't really control the people he's working with. It's why he didn't actively recruit people into his criminal underground investigations.
For someone who can talk themselves up like the greatest hypeman in town, Yngvi has a pretty crushingly negative view of himself. He'll call himself what he is but he'll make it sound like a joke but Yngvi really doesn't think much of himself at all, he was never taught to as a child, he was an investment and nothing more, a mouth to feed that meant others didn't get fed, he didn't learn personal value until Asher picked him up and took him along with the Boneflayers. He struggles so much with reconciling his upbringing with his place in the world, with what he might want in life, with all his fears so yeah he thinks he's the lowest form of gutter trash.
& confrontation
How to deal with confrontation by Yngvi: scream at it. Punch it. Throw traps, combat rolls, and squawks. Repeat in the hopes of an audience and assistance.
Threat removal and Yngvi really depend on what the threat is, who he happens to be with, and how drunk he is. The situation with Emeric Vauquelin is a good example of Yngvi managing to do both at once.
If Yngvi was challenged, he would stand and fight rather than run away. It's like a small dog that has no idea it's a small dog. He'll fight. He'll also cheat.
& alignment
Chaotic neutral; he wants his freedom and doesn't really care what he has to do to keep it, willing to be on some sort of side if you pay him.
& speech
Has a thick 'laddish' kind of thing going on, tends to shorten words all the time, says 'oi' to just generally get the attention of a person instead of it being a real exclamantion. Constantly drops the final 'g' from most words. Tends to call people by things that aren't their names because that betrays a familiarity he's not good with usually. Has notably horrific Orlesian thanks to the accent but he hams it up to a ludicrous degree because you need to do what you need to do in this world. He likes to talk in strange rambling metaphors because he was taught not to share his real feelings about things but he's more articulate than it might seem if you can keep up with him and play along. Most people don't and Yngvi is so uncomfortable with his emotional and mental state that he can't just talk openly so he gets frustrated and cuts himself off a lot too.
Yngvi was not allowed a pet as a child, that was an extra mouth and it taught poor life lessons for the Carta so absolutely not. He was pretty scared of dogs because when you're a dwarf and people have dogs that are, comparatively speaking, bigger than you are, who flood into your city? No he did not like dogs for a long time. Then he met Bronson who was a chill old dog who had a shitty life and Yngvi got better about dogs. He actually is surprised each time he meets an animal that he's not viscerally offended by it. And he loves nugs. He was never allowed a nug ever but he thinks they're cute.
& food
Yngvi's favourite food is anything. The concept of a favourite food is so bizarre to someone who spent a chunk of his life fighting for it or getting it taken off him as a punishment even when he didn't understand what he did wrong or how to not repeat it so that sounds like some sort of rich person lie. He'll complain about certain foods for the sake of complaining and to sound less like a tragic mess but the boy will eat anything.
Yngvi is a bottomless pit. He might not always need to eat but he grew up where food was't always a certainty so he'll make room for food and he's got a bit of a fucked up metabolism from childhood shortages of certain things so he will burn through that food fast.
So long as Yngvi gets to eat, Yngvi wouldn't care what food he was eating if he was forced to eat one thing for the rest of his life, it's always going to be the thing that happens to you when you never knew when or where your next meal was coming from. Seriously, as much as he 'complains', those are just token complaints. All the world's a stage.
Yngvi's idea of eating is 'eat as much as you can and a bit more for the road' with a side of 'stuff extra in your pockets for later'. It's endearing until you realise he's eaten a week of supplies in one sitting before he turns around to ask 'so lads what's for lunch?'
For all that he loves food, only a fool would risk eating Yngvi's cooking. He can prepare yo some fine charcoal, rocks or grass. Other people cook for him. He can roast a nug real good but that's pretty much it.
& drunk
A drunk Yngvi is a disaster and a masterpiece at once, depending o the company, how much drunk there is and you can still rely on Yngvi to fake it if he must. (Either being drunk or being really great, nothing to see here folks, it depends.) Usually loud. Handsy. No concept of personal space or where his feet are and where they're going. More likely to threaten you for no reason. But if he's upset then the truth starts to spill out of him faster than he can catch it and he can become worryingly maudlin because guess what, his life was shit and he's having to face up to that. Also has little control over his head and if he tips it too far in one direction his whole body is going to go with it.
& sleep
Snores like a little piggy if he sleeps on his back, roll him over and you're fine. He does slobber in his sleep so that's an issue, super attractive quality in a boy Yngvi. Yngvi can and will sleep anywhere. Just point and he'll go. (He's got a pile of furs Asher made before he got sick and died, Yngvi sleeps in those like a tiny feral animal.)
Yngvi doesn't need much sleep. A few hours and he can be up and good to go, something that was trained into him. He doesn't enjoy it and it more depends on his mood and what's going on because there are times he'll pass out for twelve hour stretches if he's been burning the candle at both ends but three/four hours is the average for him to feel as fresh as he's going to feel.
& the body
Yngvi's hands are covered in scars from learning how to make traps when he was a kidlet and even now when he's been working on new components etc. Scars he won't explain but are clearly from times he's been stabbed very viciously around the ribs and kidneys that are very old. Lots of the stuff from Boneflayers jobs all got healed up because yay for mage healer buddy. He's got a bunch of freckles on his back that you could possibly turn into a constellation but he thinks the person that told him was very drunk, still they were sweet to say it.
Yngvi is all dirt-stained in every available pore so sun have fun trying to bake through the filth. Pretty hardy against most elements so he gets windburn more than anything else which causes him no shortage of grief. Doesn't like things like velvet or silk or really anything you would think of being 'fancy'. poultice textures too, that wet but not totally wet mulchy feel. Disgusting.
Yngvi has super expressive eyes and eyebrows, there's always a lot going on around there that he never managed to get full under control, or his mouth, they're not always doing a lot at the same time, he did manage to learn that much so he can employ that to distract or confuse people.
Tends to have fidgety hands, cracks his knuckles often especially when he's trying to make a point when he's annoyed.
Scuffs his feet when he's pissed off, thinks it makes him sound like a big man but makes him sound like a petulant child.
Yngvi sounds like the rattle of trap components in his pockets, you'll hear him making a lot of noise unless he's making the effort not to (which he can) or unless he combat rolls up to you for reasons. He's got a heavy tread since he's a dwarf and low to the ground. He's not really made for being the absolute stealthiest. Fidgets by way of knuckle cracking and working with trap components so there's almost some sort of noise coming from him unless there's a damn good reason for him to not make one.
& family
Yngvi doesn't know who his mother is, much in the same way he doesn't know who his father is, who his siblings are (Gunnar is his cousin by actual accounts, neither of them are aware of this) but it's kept in a record somewhere so if he honestly and truly wanted to know then it's within his power to go and find out. He was raised communally and he varies in the amount of mothers he says he has because that number really did vary. But he did love them in his strange grasping goblin way of loving that was just 'this is a person that pays attention to me'.
& education
Yngvi has had no real formalised education beyond reading and writing and numbers. His has all been 'on the job' because I figure there's something kind of like a weird apprenticeship thing with baby Carta dwarves where if you're born to it you're hurled in and just doing whatever you need to do. He knows more than he wants people to know about Orzammar politics and a few other subjects from on the job learning.
Possesses a surprisingly larger knowledge of languages than people would expect or Yngvi willingly reveals which comes from having to learn them growing up in the Carta for jobs and from all his travel with the Boneflayers. Common, far better dwarven than a surfacer Carta boyo has any right to, very good Orlesian with mangled pronunciation, conversational elven, insults and courtesies in Nevarran and Antivan. Yngvi absorbs what might be useful to keep him and his alive.
& free time
When it comes to collecting things, he's a tiny packrat, likes to collect possibly useful components he might never use but he wants them so he'll keep them. Obviously nugs because there are twenty. Likes oddly shaped bottles to send to Gunnar for his alchemy so if he sees empty perfume or potion bottles or anything he'll swipe 'em and send those off. Most things need to fit in his pockets. Yngvi's still new to the concept of 'this is mine and no one is taking it away from me' so he will keep stuff that has no intrinsic use or value because it is his.
Yngvi wouldn't say he has any creative outlets because he wasn't encouraged to have them because they were wastes of time and/or resources so a lot of things had to be made to look productive but he really enjoys working on new and interesting trap mechanisms, it's a true joy even if he almost loses fingers to it. He liks to doodle stuff in the margins of pages when he's drawing said components too. Making up all his stories is something he loves and he'd never call himself a storyteller, that's sounds far too merchant-like or some sort of deshyr thing, it was all part of the job/training for him too considering his skill-set in the Carta but he enjoys it when it isn't trying to cover for something painful or raw. He's also really started enjoying writing stupid letters to the Boneflayers since he's been away from them with all the mundane things about his days and his random thoughts and things like 'what is this weird tree in Halamshiral, Melisende and Liadan you know elf trees in alienages best explain to me ladies and do you have theories???')
& weather
On a stormy, overcast rainy day Yngvi is not a happy camper because what is this uncalled for bath from the heavens? He looks like a small drowning rat, tends to hide, hissing with his booze until it's over.
However, he enjoys storms because he's a contrary little shit and he can make up stories about why a storm came to be over clear skies when he's bored.
& name
His name might come from 'Ing' which possibly means 'ancestor'. (I didn't know that until after I picked it, I just liked how Yngvi sounds as a name but given how he thumbs his nose at all the old traditions etc. it's a fitting name.)
& childhood
Yngvi was brought up in Darktown because it was better to keep the kids out of the way of important things going on elsewhere so as a result he had some nasty scrapes that involved being threatened with knives, mainly by humans and mainly by Fereldans. This is part of why he isn't a fan. Generally his childhood involved a lot of 'here, you're going to learn this' and if you were bad at it you got yelled at in front of people, cuffed round the head, sometimes humiliated in front of the rest because you were a shit who couldn't do anything right, and usually you didn't get fed. Yngvi pretty much learned humour to cope at a very young age. He didn't get out of Darktown until he was in the double digits because in the eyes of the older dwarves, what good was Yngvi to them until he was that age? Runty little shit of a dwarf being pulled out of too many scrapes? Absolutely not, stay in Darktown. But this is where Yngvi developed his clannish behaviour. His mentality of 'these are my people how dare you I'll fight you mate come at me' plus the loose association of what makes up a family because his was huge, ridicuous, and constantly in motion.
Yngvi's first real memory involves a time when he was getting beaten up pretty severely by human kids when he was very young and roaming around with some other kids in the Carta. Shivs were involved at one point and it was very much not a good time, it's not something he consciously dwells on but he was very much the runt of the litter and a lot of how Yngvi is came about from incidents like that. The kids were patched up and immediately put into 'this is how to deal with humans' lessons right away. How he treats Blight refugees stems from that because all those people flooding into Darktown was a bad time with people scrapping for food and resources. Only the Boneflayers know that story, Yngvi would murder anyone else who knew because he doesn't talk about it, it's no one's business.
& sexuality
Yngvi is pansexual, genuinely scared of every dwarf girl he's ever bedded but that's a story for another day.
& religion
Yngvi can claim to believe in anything faithfully for whatever part he has to play but honestly he doesn't believe in things he can't really witness with his own two eyes. You can see spirits doing shit and magic doing stuff but all this Maker and Creators and the Stone crap you're all high on your own bullshit and letting people take you for a ride. Deep down maybe, just maybe, he likes the idea of the Avvar gods because of Asher giving a shit about Yngvi and how in the end he'd get to be free in a way he's never been and never will be in his life.
& possessions
In Yngvi's pockets: between 1-4 nugs, trap components, coin (most of it stolen), booze, playing cards (not a full deck because why would he need that), brass knuckles (several), a worry token from Gunnar, various herbal remedies also from Gunnar, small worn bronto toy he's somehow held onto from childhood (the one bit of softness he ever had) and a spoon (formerly belonging to Emeric Vauquelin)
& attitudes
If something negative or tragic happens to Yngvi, he'll say he blames others but a lot of the time Yngvi blames himself because he had a shitty Carta childhood involving a lot of 'Yngvi why did you fuck this up look at what you fucked up' but like hell is he ever going to admit that to the masses.
Yngvi is actually fairly quick to trust you if you are genuinely nice to him because his needs are few and honestly he really does know how to kill you, he's spent a whole life knowing how to kill people bigger and stronger than him so in a strange way it makes trusting them easier.
When it comes to chilren, Yngvi is that guy that yells at kids, has screaming matches with toddlers and babies, tells twelve year olds to heck off and tell everyone else that they're like twelve so shut up but if they can deal with tall tales then he's good. He only really likes kids in the Carta that are very young, or the rare time he's been to Dusttown where he can be generous, same with the alienage, those kids get a genuinely nice side of Yngvi where he's decent with them and they get money, treats, toys, goodies etc. Also Aura Hardie, Asher's son Bjorn and all of Asher's nieces and nephews are treated with genuine love and awkward gentleness.
Surprisingly, even Yngvi does find some things repulsive and/or disgusting. Orzammar politics especially but generally most politics given that they push down the little guy; saying that means Yngvi reveals he has a working thinking brain which ruins part of his whole act as well as showing more emotion than he's comfortable with and has been told is acceptable by everyone who raised him in the Carta. So outside of his few exceptions? Good luck. How the Dalish elves treat non-Dalish elves? That cuts far too close to the bone for him with the way Orzammar dwarves treat other dwarves and the issue of surfacer and casteless nonsense, he has no time for that and it's honestly pretty triggering depending on how someone words it.
If you're in a service job, it depends who and what you are. If you're a fellow dwarf like him then Yngvi will treat you exactly as he finds you but if you're a merchant's guild dwarf he'll be a dick. If you're an elf then he'll treat you exceptionally well and tease you if you're a friend. If you're human it depends. Doglords? Yeah, get the fuck out of Kirkwall you ruined it and Orlesians go fuck yourself and the perfume you bathed in.
Yngvi tends not to think about consequences in general, they're a weird set of things other people are supposed to think about on his behalf but if he was allowed to murder one person without any consequences? Someone super high up in Orzammar just so he got bragging rights about it. And a big statue. He'd want a big statue. Bigger than any other statue in Orzammar. Not paragon status because he's not here for that bullshit but a giant statue for the hilarity.
Criticism? Of him? What is there to criticise? He can't read suddenly, he doesn't know. On a serious note: badly. Depending on the situation or what he's doing, sometimes it'd involve a pretty volatile and full-on character assassination of the other person, down to threats and intimidation, leaving traps, trying to ruin their life etc. Completely out of proportion. Other times he can shrug it off and laugh, fuck you he's flawless. He was raised Carta, they weren't forgiving of any sort of failure, flaw or weakness, and Yngvi's still young. Time away with Asher changed some things but his upbringing was rough and left some very deep impressions. If someone close to him criticised something minor, he might not care but if it was something deeper he'd be upset. If Asher had ever criticised Yngvi he would've been absolutely crushed.
Yngvi would like a sky burial. He'd be free in a way he can't be in life.
Yngvi has a strange mish-mash of beliefs/beliefs in creation as one would expect growing up as he did with a violent rejection of all things related to the Stone because he rejects anything coming from Orzammar, rejects that the Stone would allow the highest of them to rise and treat the casteless and lower castes as they do without punishment. (He wouldn't articulate that part.) He mostly had exposure to the Chantry but he didn't trust that growing up and it wasn't really something he understood exactly because there wasn't a place for a dwarf boy was there? After Asher came along he really got more into Avvar beliefs because it was Asher's way and Asher was one of the first actual caring positive influences in his life, and he got to experience it all for himself with gods that really did seem to always be with a person. He does think that the Maker is there and ignoring everyone, and that there probably is something with the elven creators too because even if he doesn't like the Dalish there's enough alienage ones believing it too that sold him on it. So. Weird mish-mash of beliefs but mostly Avvar even if he doesn't do the praying bit, just sort of quietly believes that they're still around and watching out for folk that Asher cared for at least.
When it comes to being on a team or going solo, it all depends on the situation. Yngvi's used to team situations where he's one part of a much bigger thing because that's what growing up Carta means on the face of it and then he went into the Boneflayers but in both situations, he was able to do things on his own. He loved the Boneflayers because he trusted everyone and he's realised how big a difference that makes. So if he had the choice, solo it if he can't really control the people he's working with. It's why he didn't actively recruit people into his criminal underground investigations.
For someone who can talk themselves up like the greatest hypeman in town, Yngvi has a pretty crushingly negative view of himself. He'll call himself what he is but he'll make it sound like a joke but Yngvi really doesn't think much of himself at all, he was never taught to as a child, he was an investment and nothing more, a mouth to feed that meant others didn't get fed, he didn't learn personal value until Asher picked him up and took him along with the Boneflayers. He struggles so much with reconciling his upbringing with his place in the world, with what he might want in life, with all his fears so yeah he thinks he's the lowest form of gutter trash.
& confrontation
How to deal with confrontation by Yngvi: scream at it. Punch it. Throw traps, combat rolls, and squawks. Repeat in the hopes of an audience and assistance.
Threat removal and Yngvi really depend on what the threat is, who he happens to be with, and how drunk he is. The situation with Emeric Vauquelin is a good example of Yngvi managing to do both at once.
If Yngvi was challenged, he would stand and fight rather than run away. It's like a small dog that has no idea it's a small dog. He'll fight. He'll also cheat.
& alignment
Chaotic neutral; he wants his freedom and doesn't really care what he has to do to keep it, willing to be on some sort of side if you pay him.
& speech
Has a thick 'laddish' kind of thing going on, tends to shorten words all the time, says 'oi' to just generally get the attention of a person instead of it being a real exclamantion. Constantly drops the final 'g' from most words. Tends to call people by things that aren't their names because that betrays a familiarity he's not good with usually. Has notably horrific Orlesian thanks to the accent but he hams it up to a ludicrous degree because you need to do what you need to do in this world. He likes to talk in strange rambling metaphors because he was taught not to share his real feelings about things but he's more articulate than it might seem if you can keep up with him and play along. Most people don't and Yngvi is so uncomfortable with his emotional and mental state that he can't just talk openly so he gets frustrated and cuts himself off a lot too.