been experimenting with the idea that in my OCs' timeline, Wren is the person who tips the dominos. the Masters start plotting to buy a new city, which would lead to London's destruction. and in response, she assassinates the one Most In Charge of the plan.

this leads to a series of escalations that costs an untold number of lives, but ends in the Masters, the Bazaar, and the royal family all dead or fled, and London Liberated. in time, the city heals. a stranger, kinder society blooms in the darkness.

not that any of this is of comfort to Wren, who leaves in the midst of the rebuilding. the new London is no place for someone like her, someone who knows only how to kill. instead, she will go to a far place, a frozen place - a place where she might better understand the ways of absence.

(that's what she thinks, anyway.)

From the ask game: what is your oc's favorite holiday?

Lucent is a big fan of All Saint's Wake! Back in Sharlayan, the clinic he volunteered at would throw a party for the younger patients every year, and he would put together a different noulith-incorporating costume every time. Ask him about his "sagacious tonberry" costume

Sav kind of looks upon all present-day holidays (particularly any involving the Twelve) with a mix of bemused amusement and nostalgia. I think he finds it hard to be in the festivities unless he's with someone - too many memories, otherwise. Too easy to drift off into the past. If You Know His Deal, he's more than glad to tell you about how the various holidays have changed over time, the traditions that survived across each era, and so forth.

I don't know if the doctor like... cares about holidays, really... he is Aware of them but they hold little personal significance for him beyond sometimes doing stuff with his friends that are kind of holiday flavored. The exception is Whitsun, and his attention is more on the eggs themselves than the festivities, per se

I almost said "oh yeah, absolutely, he's from Sharlayan after all" but then I remembered Urianger so

Anyway, yeah, he can! I don't think he particularly likes or dislikes it - it's just a thing that he can do when he needs to.

I wanna explore all of this through writing, not just a list of words + some of these are subject to change as always, but when it comes to mapping the crew's orientations to current-day lingo, it looks something like this:

• the doctor: kinky sex-positive aroace
• Rafael: pan(romantic/sexual) and polyamorous
• Wren: ace, sex-repulsed, and whatever you call "I fell in love Once and hated it and am glad it hasn't happened again"
• Felix: aro, ace of the "libido without attraction" flavor
• Nathaniel: quoi(romantic/sexual)
• Selcouth (formerly Nova): aroace and conflicted about it
• Nadia: lesbian and happily married

similarly:

• the doctor: full of every kind of love except romantic
• Rafael: has romantic feelings towards many of his friends and is perfectly fine with the fact that they don't return his feelings
• Wren: compares romantic attraction to being poisoned
• Felix: Cannot Comprehend Romance, considers it illogical and baffling
• Nathaniel: has no idea what his relationship with the doctor is, but it makes him happy so who cares about labels
• Selcouth: from a culture where romance is strictly forbidden. they are not sure if they would be able to realize they're having A Romantic Feeling
• Nadia: the relationship consists of her fighting monsters on the sea and descending to the bottom of it every so often to sing about her adventures to her wife who lives there

I did not Mean to make everyone in this group weird (affectionate) about romance in a setting where romance is a Big Deal but I'm having a great time with it