I've been giving some thought to my fawn's character. I don't intend to RP on this website, but I do essentially view everything within the game as being in-character (even the weird stuff like deer stacking and water dancing) and want my fawn's personality/character to grow and develop as he grows.

No elaborate back story... The day he woke up in the forest for the first time WAS the beginning of his story. He's still mostly a typical fawn, but I'm getting a better sense of who he the more I play him. Right now, above all else, he's down for playing. The weirder the activity the better (this is where deer stacking comes in). On the other hand, he's generally uncomfortable with nuzzling. He goes along with it as not to upset others, much like a child often feels obligated to reciprocate hugs, but when he gets older (becomes a stag) he'll be less inclined to accept it for politeness sake. However, he's not really the rude sort, so I'm trying to think of a nice way to convey to nuzzly newcomers that it's not really his cup of tea. I was thinking having him back up and give them a confused look "Why are you doing that?" might subtly get the point across. Of course, it might also be too subtle. If they persist, maybe he could back up, confused look, shake head no, but counter it will a polite bow at the end to hopefully show that he's not shunning them or anything. I'm completely open to suggestions on how to convey that.

As an impressionable fawn, he watches sparring with awe regardless of whether it looks like play fighting, or something more serious, but I think he'll grow up to be a pacifist. Play fighting will still be fine, but in the face of an aggressive deer, he'll back down or run off. If he sees others fighting, he won't butt in... Unless it's a fawn. Granted, I suspect most players don't act aggressively to fawns, since they might be new to the game and it's a bit unfair. Hypothetically though, if he were to see such a thing, he'd put himself in between the bully and the fawn. He wouldn't rear up at them. He would take the beating in true pacifistic style in the hopes that they'd realize their own foolishness. If they persist for some reason, I suppose making my deer lay down would give them the message that they had defeated/injured him?

On the subject of fawns: while he is a fawn himself, he's not too keen on other fawns. He likes to play with the big boys, but as a stag, I think he'll really appreciate their innocence and curiosity and go out of his way to be nice and helpful towards them.

Lastly, he isn't going to 'like' does when he grows up... Well, in the vision of the creators, there really aren't supposed to be any does in this world, but I know people do play as does. Personally, I do think of them as being a single gendered race of beings, but with either masculine, feminine, or ambiguous 'spirits'. I don't know what most people's take on the TEF gender thing is, but from my perspective it makes perfect sense to have... well... essentially homosexual deer. haha.. Maybe that would ruffle some people's feathers, but that's their problem. He will prefer stags over "does".

That's all I have so far, but it's a start at least. Oh! Once he becomes a stag, I'll try my darndest to get the Orca mask, Magpie pelt, and purple flowered antlers ASAP.