#c: Vikedr

[void-botanist]

@vacantgodling in the Bakery Bitches AU (which hinges solely on the premise that Isabel, Rodney, and Hatt were somehow raised as siblings/if Fay and Lou got divorced the kids stayed with Lou) contact ERS has probably been banned. Possibly multiple times. Isabel and Hatt are like chill and normal petty siblings until it's contact ERS time and then they are possessed by what Fay can only describe as "the allure of the goddamn emergency room". Have they had to go to the emergency room? No. Have they beat each other into a pulp over a handful of cards? Repeatedly. Does Rodney play with them anymore? Absolutely not lmao but you know he lost several baby teeth to these shenanigans.

I think in Undermonster AU (where the whole premise is that there is a monster that lives under their childhood basement stairs, with Hatt as an optional sibling) they would fall prey to the classic childhood horror plot where they attempt to play contact ERS with the monster and end up with otherworldly injuries and a locked basement door.

In an AU I'm calling Scholarshipping Up to Salles (where the premise is that Isabel and Rodney got private school scholarships and Isabel becomes BFFs with Fabian instead of Spinder) I think Fabian has scars from Isabel taking this way too seriously (though he's probably managed to give her one right back), and he's so envious of Darnell, who doesn't get tackled nearly so hard. Literally he's sitting in the corner with a nosebleed thinking that she would be nicer to him if he were bi (and he's not entirely wrong).

In actual canon Isabel would still love contact ERS but who would play it with her (well except Tatya, which would probably make her not want to play)?

I was gonna leave it there but then I realized there are three other siblings who would play with less intensity but absolute tenacity: the Labissarns. And Vikedr, too. I kinda want to have Sheri witness them playing it because he definitely thinks that Gannet is not the kind of guy who would wrestle for cards - and play just as dirty as Eely, for that matter - but he totally is.

Sheri taglist: @kk7-rbs

[void-botanist]

Hello there! You've been visited by the random question fairy! ~ ☆

Do any of your characters tend to give nicknames? If so, what are they and to who? Why did your character give this person their nickname?

This took me a bit to get to but here we are!

I mentioned some of Ozen's nicknames before but nicknames/diminutive names are an important part of Gannet's culture, so he and his family give them a lot. There's a basic formula: take the first syllable of their name, reverse it, and add a bonus syllable. Which is how you get

Murne -> Rumma Negleeglo -> Gannet (this one's a little bit cheating but that's okay and normal) Leelarna -> Eely Katejor -> Taksha Vikedr -> Kivja

Some people use their nicknames as their normal names, or swap between them at will. It's very common for people like Sheri who are close to members of this culture (it doesn't have a name currently) to also be given nicknames. However Gannet's whole family is kind of competitive and they spend some time arguing over what form of the nickname sounds best.

Sheri -> Resh + ? Murne: Reshcha Gannet: Reshi (there's no rule against just using the end syllable of the starter name but Eely and Murne both say that's boring and cheating) Eely: Reshak Katejor: Reshna Vik: Reshresh (nobody likes this one except him - again, it's not against the rules, but it's boring and cheating - but it sounds like a nickname someone would give in his native language)

Sheri's supposed to weigh in and break the tie but honestly he doesn't care that much and he doesn't know who would hold a grudge about it. So unless something changes he currently has four nicknames (Vik just calls him Sheri to avoid taking sides), which everyone does agree is a very goofy situation.

[void-botanist]

thinking about that post that's like "the most unrealistic thing about Poirot is that we just accept the category of "greatest detective" as a normal kind of celebrity" and how in Old Canon Pajiir "inventor" was that category of celebrity, which is slightly more realistic but not as much as you might think. I did the equivalent of putting Bill Gates and Bette Nesmith Graham in the same room and saying "look they are the same amount of famous"

in related news I realized yesterday that in the course of recycling a lot of those people who used to be inventors I took two unrelated white redheads and separately made them both Black roboticists? which is not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice (they are Anni and Vikedr, who don't know each other but know of each other from both being friends of Gweltsen's. Vik works more with industrial/agricultural machinery and is Sheri's boyfriend's brother-in-law).