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13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

Sana uses a medium amount of emojis. Standouts include ✌️ (used when she is boiling over with rage but pretending things are normal), 💥 (used when she is trying to communicate she is exploding you with her mind, mostly directed at Malk), and 🔥 (this is a gimme, he uses it as her default "I like this" tap back).

Oskar uses emojis sporadically, he is still learning and often misinterprets or misses implicit meaning behind emojis. He uses 🤠 as his default smiling emoji (better than standard because it has a hat), will send 🫀 as a heart, responds to messages he doesn't like with ☢️ (as in it's radioactive waste), and 😹 is his laugh react (better than standard because it is a cat).

Zai is late to the game on emojis. 🫂 becomes a staple of trying to express a genuine solidarity when words aren't working--while 🍻 is more of a "fucking cheers, bitch". They pick up 🥺 from Weary and mostly deploy it back at only her but more than once the individual Dregs have been hit with it and absolutely bewildered by the impact. She's baby, your honor.

Malk is the certified emoji champion of the group. Definitely uses the most, often times in place of any cogent meaning. 👯‍♂️ becomes agreement ("lets do it"), 🕴 when he bombs in the group chat and no one responds, ✨s all over the place for EmPhAsIs. He'll respond to takes with 🌶 if he thinks it's good and 🧂 if he thinks you're being whiny. 😔 is used often when he is apologizing for shenanigans.

Beck does not use emojis. 👎 gets the most mileage but 🏅 is a lethal insult. It stands for "here's your special pretty princess award" and she uses it to call others a wuss. Given her infrequent responses and comedic timing, it gets dropped about six times a year and each time it's devastating.

Weary uses emojis normally. 🥰 is definitely her most used because she's delightful. 🍅 pops up when Sana tried to emulate Malk's spicy chili and clicked the wrong button (grink coded). And yes, she originated the bottom eyes in the Dregs groupchat. She flashes 🥺 and can get anyone to do anything. She is a mastermind.

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

I evaluated this as kinda, modern AU where all of the characters go through their arcs as much as possible in a world where they could also have all the clothing in the world necessary to develop aesthetique™.

Sana - starts very grungy, working to cultivate her aesthetic at local Goodwills. Connecting with her father yeets her into somewhere between mod and "tennis core" as the kids say. She has a way she's expected to look and while she can't manage full yuppie. In this AU, she then gets shipped out to boarding school at which point she pivots to what I can only describe as "bunhead" (think Natalie Portman in Black Swan) which she finds comfortable and mixes with a leather jacket and other rich-kid attempts at a biker aesthetic. Sana is always picking an aesthetic that lets her be a little slutty without needing to make it look like she's putting in a lot of effort (which is why she didn't really ever do full prep). She's prideful enough that she dreams of hitting a perfect Cher Horowitz 90s-2000s prep but I think lands in a moderately feminine and scholarly twee.

Oskar - has less metaphor wrapped up in his wardrobe. I think he starts in very crunchy cargo shorts and is very granola. With chacos. I think as the gang are cultivating their personal aesthics I think he gets excited about it and winds up with a colorful mix of New Romanticism and Buffalo Style. He doesn't plan outfits, so the transition happens on a weird gradient where he's wearing a neon windbreaker, bolo tie, and keens at the same time. King shit.

Zai - goes from hard prep (the only clothes made available to them) to taking a lot of Sana's hand-me-downs and starting grungy but developing towards almost a hair metal vibe trying to establish self expression (and borrowing clothes from Sana) that kinda helps crack her egg. I think eventually she settles back into a pastel grunge.

Malk - He's had the most cultivated aesthetic out of all of them and has known what he's wanted since day one. There's some kind of baseline peacock revolution (think Beatles-Monkees-Hendrix psychodelia) for all of the patterns and maximalism. He has several vintage and commisioned pieces that he has spent so much of his and his parents' money on. Someone calls him soft-boy and he throws up.

Beck - She also has had less modulation between aesthetics. She likes looser silhouettes, her daily is somewhere between skater and athleisure but she rocks a lot of flannel, denim, and dirty workboots when she's home on the commune. She seeks comfort in her clothing more than anything else and dresses for herself and only herself. She sees the fact that it makes her wardrobe more androgynous as an absolute win. Weirdly, I think it could potentially evolve into a kinda baseline hipster but I think it's more likely that she would take a hard deke through lolita: hyperfeminity for herself and only herself.