indigo/luno/rui ☆彡

- headcanoning that vano was a part of the gen1 circus-goers, the most ironic thing about their design from the get-go is that they look more humanoid compared to the rest of the cast.

- however, in the real world they often felt far from human due to alienation and preferred identifying with nonhuman beings, such as cats and the moon and a few other things. caine did make sun / moon and cat allusions in their design, and yet kept the one thing they thought would be gone after putting on the headset

- there’s a sort of magnetic field around the center of vano’s body that allows the seperate glass shards to be stuck back together again once retracted. while there is no map to their body, the pieces can technically be attached any which way

- ↑ the glass shards will all collapse simultaneously (save for the head) into a big pile when vano holds their breath long enough. they had a lot of trouble daydreaming and zoning out in the real world, finding it difficult to snap back to reality. when this happens for any longer than a minute or two in the circus, they collapse against their control. it gets a bit frustrating knowing you can barely use escapism anymore when it’s been your healthiest and most used coping mechanism thus far

- some of the shards are easier to break while others simply bend. vano doesn’t like when these break (since it’s one of the only things that act like a pain receptor) and they never know when it could actually happen — vano didn’t know that the easiest ones to break are the ones located around the areas where they have bodily insecurities. they like it when they have autonomy over their body and so this weird “mystery snap” rule makes it all the more concerning to do almost anything

- apart from the layering, vano is relatively 2d. any costumes vano is given ends up becoming some odd collage variant so it would actually fit on their body. they don’t know what to do with these after an adventure or whatnot so they either get thrown away or stored somewhere if they look nice enough

- they have a considerably difficult time expressing and feeling emotions properly. when unknowingly feeling some heavy emotion, a small two or three-frame animation replaces their avatar with either their sun part or moon part for a few seconds. the sun is used for what appears to be negative emotions, and vice versa for the moon. even if vano feels like that’s not the right feeling, whatever is shown in front of everyone is what they’re allowed to perceive of it

- outside of the circus, vano doesn’t specifically work with artifical intelligence (like everyone else if in theory the others are programmers of some kind at C&A), but rather they make robots that incorporate ai instead of simply making computer programs. they’re considered eccentric among coworkers and are often more focused on their own work and daydreams than others. then again, a lot of the stuff they do is passion projects but they’re for humanitarian purposes