Catalena Prompts- Antioch

Antioch's always found something oddly soothing about building things up and making things with his paws. When asked about his favorite hobby, he used to default to cooking, because, really, who doesn't like something good to eat? It was one of the one things he learned from both his mother and father, both willing to teach him a skill that didn't require any sort of magic, and their small tips and tricks allowed him to work towards the proficiency he has today. But in all honesty, cooking has always been a bittersweet task to focus on. When necessity calls for it, he'll make a dish to fill his and his guild's stomachs, but it's difficult to find full joy in a task he used to cherish doing alongside his mother and father, when his older siblings were out practicing magic that was always just outside of Antioch's reach. And when his father started to get sick, cooking became a task he would do to alleviate his father's work around the house. And when his mother retreated into herself in her grief, cooking became a task he would do to make sure that she would eat. 

And when he set out on his own, cooking became a desperate necessity that stopped him from going to bed hungry.

Cooking can never bring him the same joy that it used to, but the one pass-time he'd say brings him the most... satisfaction, one would say... would be crafting furniture. 

Antioch's father, before anything else, taught him the importance of crafting things by hand. Though a merchant by trade before settling down with Antioch's mother, he made what he sold, and took pride in his ability to do so. Antioch's father taught him how to create furniture (other things too, but mostly furniture), to put it bluntly. From start to finish, his father imparted to him every possible nuance connected to making high quality, practical pieces of woodwork, and Antioch soaked it all up like a sponge. Even after his father became sick, he still taught Antioch through words rather than practice. 

No matter what he seems to face nowadays, Antioch finds nothing more soothing than the methodical movements of sanding down wood.

It definitely doesn't hurt that making his own furniture cuts down on costs. And he'd swear up and down that what he makes is far sturdier than anything he could buy.