Confined spaces

Tagged as Daud

Creator: Hiaen

Description:

Daud roof headcanon. Again.

Daud has some issues with completely enclosed spaces. Places where he can't see any easy exit. Places where you can get trapped.

Hc that the reason he keeps the roof like that is because he can't sleep properly in completely enclosed spaces. In every lodging he's ever had, he always made sure to have a window (preferably a skylight), that he always kept open while sleeping. Even during the harsh Dunwall winters, he'd keep it ajar.

If he has to hole up somewhere for the night mid-mission, he crawls in deserted attics or even sleeps on a roof in the open, when the weather allows it.

It doesn't bother him much while awake, he can walk around in a normal house or vehicle. But he still gets uneasy in completely enclosed spaces. Locked rooms without windows. Saferooms. Cells. Pits, especially, make him grind his teeth. When the Whalers use the sewers to move across the city, he refuses to pause until they're near an exit.

He can't properly sleep unless he feels some fresh air on his face. Also he finds it comforting to be able to see the outside, especially a bit of sky, when he blearily look around his room half-asleep. Or even while he's working, he'll be reading a report or planning a mission and he'll just glance up at the roof hole, or to the side at the window, and yes, the outside is right there, right in reach.