#Onething about me is. I will write words electronically

[dankovskaya]

omg for the ask game!!! 7, 13, 14 and/or 15 i love hearing abt kiana <3 <3

Hiiii kat thank u <333 15 was in the last one so I'll do the other 3

7. How do they talk?

You know I haven't actually put a ton of thought into this but the short answer is: Badly. The only person she has ever spoken to frequently and at length is Waylon so she sounds pretty comfortable and casual with him and can be relatively talkative but to basically everyone else it's...bad. She stays quiet a lot of the time out of protest and unwillingness to engage with people and she puts on a kind of Aloof demeanor as a defense mechanism so a lot of what she does say to people is brusque and intentionally offputting but a side effect of this is that she is also very shy and easily embarrassed in social situations and doesn't really know how to talk to people even when she wants to 😭 a HORRIFIC lack of social interaction and particularly with anyone near her own age is one of her defining features. In terms of accent or whatever she sounds endearingly similar to Waylon.

13. What kind of friends do they have?

None. In her mind at least LOL. There are definitely people who she encounters semifrequently who are nice to her and who she can have conversations with (particularly people she knows from jobs (which I'll get into in the next one 😏) and the person who braids her hair <3) but she would not consciously consider these people to be friends because she doesn't really see them more than she has to and she doesn't feel like she could ever be fully herself with them (whether or not that's really true.) The problem is that she is interacting with them while heavily HEAVILY concealing everything about herself that might come off as abnormal as is her default but she's also acutely aware of how fabricated her public face is so they aren't really interfacing with Kiana as much as the "normal person costume" she wears to move through the world with minimal resistance. Jason is a odd situation because he offers the unique experience of genuinely not giving a fuck about the way that she is and not indicating that he finds anything about her particularly weird or gross or out of the ordinary (even though that doesn't mean he's nice or whatever, he just does not fucking care and has seen way, way weirder shit) while also being monumentally weird enough himself that she gets to feel like "the normal one" in comparison (which is correct) which is why, even though there are other people in the peripheries of her life who she could feasibly befriend, she gets oddly fixated on Mr Tomato Head and not any of the rest of them. He comes off as unusually "safe" to her. But it's vital that 1) they are veritably friends for quite a while before either of them would ever admit the fact to themselves and 2) they will continue to be outwardly in denial of it even then. Kiki because she is shy and way out of her element and has trouble being emotionally vulnerable with people and Jason because he can't reconcile his Red Hood mission and his weird un-death purgatory state with being a human person who has friends in general even though he obviously cares about her.

14. What do they do? (Occupation, quest, etc.)

This is a funny one because Kiana has been largely dependent on the institution of organized crime to be supported and housed and all that for like, a full decade but she's never actually directly participated in anything illegal as much as she has. Watched and enabled I guess LMAO. But yes um she doesn't legally exist so just going out and getting a job would be hard plus she looks like a snake therefore she depends heavily on Waylon's underground connections and what all of this translates to is a resume full of very normal mundane jobs at very obvious money laundering establishments. The most recent of which is at a nightclub which she enjoys because the dim lighting and loud music and all of that mean that no one is paying attention to her and even when they are they don't tend to notice anything odd about her. But her state of dependence is very obvious which can and has lead to people taking advantage of it but it's not wholly unbalanced because when Waylon is known to be At Large a sane person would prefer not to risk getting eaten for treating his kid badly. That being said it's a relatively small circle of people who know who Kiana is and her relation to Waylon and it would be unideal for that circle to expand much so it's kind of a delicate balance because threats can be hurled in both directions and Kiana is just sort of. Stuck in the middle of that.