#about leonora

I was tagged by @fereldanwench 😘 Thank you so much!

Rules: create a look-book for one (or more) of your ocs using this meiker and then take this uquiz and share their results.

VOX MONSTERA

DOLL'S EYES

This is the poison of unchecked vices. You slip into hallucinations. You are wracked with convulsions. The delirium threatens to overwhelm you. What are you running from? You look in every direction, wild-eyed at every turn, seeking some reprieve from what torments you. Each vice brings new consequences, and the price of escape seems too great, and yet you cannot seem to face things head on. If you aren't running from yourself, I hope you find a true way to freedom soon. And if you are running from yourself, perhaps you would do well to realize your pain is not something you can simply escape by avoidance. You deserve healing just as much as the ones you love. Someday, soon I hope, you will know this and feel it and reach inward to grant yourself all the kindnesses you offer others. That is the only true way to peace for ones like us. Oh, and if the pain of it seems too great? I hope that you realize you don't have to do it alone.

LEONORA VICE

BELLADONA

This is the poison of falling in love. You taste it and your heart beats fast. Your eyes dilate, you fall into deep delirium. You may be a bit dramatic and impulsive, and it gets you into trouble sometimes, but you just can't help yourself. It's in your blood. You love because it is the truest beauty you've found in this harsh world. Even when it's hurt you before, when it's poisoned you, you still find a way. They may call you naive for still believing in it, or vain for making yourself and your surroundings so meticulously lovely. But to love like this is brave and noble, and I hope you find the beauty you seek. Chances are, it's within and all around you already, if you know where to look.

Thank you for your asks always!!! 💕

🚓 - River Ward

Leo’s mostly ambivalent about River. They only met once, during an event for Jefferson’s campaign, and were introduced very briefly. She heard a few things about him, including his oh-so-heroic intervention of Rhyne’s assassination, but other than that she doesn’t know much.

If they were to actually interact, I think Leo would find him a mostly harmless idealist who could, in her opinion, make a fantastic chef if he’d just quit the force.

(Oooh maybe a little protege AU one day???)

👱‍♀️ - Meredith Stout

They may or may not have had a brief fling.

It wasn’t anything serious, and Leo found both herself and Meredith being very distant so they just… stopped seeing each other one day.

Leo has a lot of respect for Meredith and what she does. Though working as a chef can be stressful, it’s nothing compared to the life-or-death work Meredith does day in and day out.

They haven’t spoken or seen each other since the last time they slept together, and neither really cares to.

👁 - Sandayu Oda

Ooooh! Leo loves Oda, but not for the right reasons, mind you.

She finds him inflexible and overly serious, so teasing him is a little pastime of hers whenever he happens to be in town. Oda tolerates it, and if she catches him on a good day, even enjoys it a little. She considers him a source of entertainment but not much more than that.

Thanks for the ask, Wash! 💕 I love that you asked about Saul and Mitch 😭😘

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Vox

🔧 - Saul

Ooof!

Saul is an amalgamation of a lot of complicated feelings for Vox. Here’s a post that explores that a little more, but the long and short of it is that she both admires and absolutely detests Saul.

Much like with Panam, Saul can’t help but get into an argument with Vox any time they’re in a room together. He holds respect for her but their ideals tend to oppose, which leads to a lot of tension… sometimes of the sexual kind.

In the end, when the Aldecaldos leave for Arizona, they part ways with a mutual regard and never see each other again.

🔫 - Mitch

Vox holds Mitch in high esteem. From the moment she met him Vox found him a comforting presence, someone she could tell held a kindness in his heart few people did. Though they did not interact much outside of anything involving Panam, Vox has always thought that, if she had ended up following the Aldecaldos to Arizona, her and Mitch would’ve been great friends.

To this day, she sometimes wonders how he is and wishes him well.

Leonora

(doesn’t meet them in her canon, but here’s how I think they'd get along if she'd followed a plot line more similar to corpo-V)

🔧 - Saul

Leonora commends Saul for his pragmatism but judges him for his failures. Though she doesn't necessarily get on with Panam either, she does believe that Panam would make a better leader because she's not afraid to do the things that need to get done. In some regard Leonora finds Saul to be a bit cowardly, though I think it's mostly because of her lack of understanding of him as a person and their vastly different upbringings.

Mostly, Leonora likes to stay out of Saul's way and will only really talk to him when absolutely necessary.

And please don't ask her to get involved in one of his tiffs with Panam...

🔫 - Mitch

Respect.

Though Leonora doesn't ever learn much about Mitch, the man exudes competence and intelligence. She's heard about his military past and the person he is just kind of... makes sense to her. There aren't a lot of people out there Leonora's really interested in knowing more about, but Leo could spend hours asking Mitch about himself.

For Vox: ❔ & ⛔

Thank you for the ask! 💕

LEONORA VICE

🔵 - What activity to do with them to get them relaxed and in the mood?

A nice dinner and a lot of pampering.

She’s the type of gal who gets going when she’s well taken care of, so taking her on a date and making her feel like the most important person in your universe will have her at the palm of your hand.

✔️ - Which things do they enjoy especially when having sex?

Reverence.

Leo loves it when her partners treat her like a goddess in bed, because she thinks she’s better than everyone. 🙄 So any adulation and flattery from her partner make her feel her best during sex. And also outside of the bedroom…

VOX MONSTERA

❔ - How to tell your muse is horny?

She’ll look at you like she wants to eat you!

Vox is also a very touchy-feely person with partners, so maybe a suggestive caress on the thigh or a kiss on the neck as a signal that she’s gearing to get going if she’s in public. If she’s in private, she’ll just jump on your lap and tell you she wants it now.

⛔ - How would they signal their partner that they are not into something during sex?

:3

I’m extra so I’m gonna answer these for both Vox and Leonora. Thank you for the questions! You can find them here.

🎽 What kind of clothes and shoes does your OC typically wear? Is there a particular fashion or reason behind why they choose those clothes?

I answered this previously and it’s such a long answer I thought it’d be best to just link it here.

I loved answering it, so thank you for asking!

🔔 What does your OC believe in? (Not really sure exactly what this questions means but I’ll do my best lmao)

Vox

Vox isn’t one for beliefs, but if I had to say she believes in one thing it’s soulmates. And not just romantically; she believes some people are just meant to walk the same path in life.

Leonora

Leonora believes in hierarchy. She’s very much a “respect your elders and those in positions above yours” type of person.

🙊 What is your OC's worst flaw? Is there a time this flaw has challenged them or caused them to fail?

Vox

Vox’s antisocial tendencies are probably her biggest flaw. Having difficulty making friends (or actively instigating fights) made her adolescence very lonely and stunted her ability to connect to others later in life.

Before becoming friends Jackie, mostly at his insistence at first, the only people she really had were Vik and Padre. She also didn’t have a lot of partners before River, and most of those few relationships ended disastrously.

Leonora

Hi! Thank you so much for the ask! 🥰 Questions here.

Leonora Vice

💢 What kind of pet peeves does your OC have?

Leo is very much a stickler for etiquette and formality, so anything that goes against that is a huge no-no for her. Particularly, she hates people eating with their mouths open!

🤞 What is your OC's greatest dream or desire?

Her biggest goal is to be executive chef and owner of the best restaurant in Tokyo. She's put it off to travel, learn, and take on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities (such as being the Arasaka's personal chef), but she's thinking about the menu, aesthetic, and operations nearly every single day. She keeps a little notebook on her at all times to jot down new ideas.

🤗 Who are the people your OC considers their closest confidants? Do those people feel the same way?

Masako, her mom, is at the top of the list. She's Leo's number one confidant and the only person she told after becoming involved with Goro. Masako is here for all of it and does her best to offer a mix of good advice and encouragement, even when she doesn't agree with Leo's decisions.

On the flip side, it's Michiko that considers Leo a close confidant, though Leo's very touchy about getting too close to her "boss". It doesn't help that Michiko is extremely observant (she figured out Leo was sleeping with Goro almost immediately) and picks up on Leo's mood very easily, which makes it hard for Leo to hide from her. If it wasn't for that division though, Leo would feel the exact same way about Michiko.

Vox Monstera

🦁 Does your OC follow a moral code? Have they ever broken it, or been challenged by it?

Not exactly. Vox has never been squeamish about doing what needs to be done, though she will refuse to take on jobs that require her to hurt people that don't deserve it. She does take on work for free if she feels strongly enough about the reason, and will jump to help anyone who needs it.

🤺 What is your OC struggling or fighting for?

This is a rough one! It changed a lot throughout her story.

At first, it was for Jackie's happiness; Vox didn't care much for the money or fame, but she wanted to help Jackie achieve his dreams. It's a huge source of regret for her that she allowed him to lose his life over it and wishes every day she'd talked him out of taking the Konpeki Plaza job.

After that, it was solely her survival. Though Vox has never been one to care about her mortality, it was a sense of rebellion against Arasaka and what they dragged her into; she didn't want them to be the reason she lost her life. It was this that solidified her relationship with Johnny the most, their shared anger and indignation.

Thank you so much for your ask!

The only one of these characters Leo has canonically met is Vik, so I’ll write about how Leo would get along with Dum Dum and Johnny.

⭕ - Dum Dum

Turn around and run. Leo would want nothing to do with anyone remotely associated with Maelstrom. She’d be terrified the entire time they interacted and would vow to never, ever find herself in a situation like that again.

🦾 - Johnny Silverhand

Johnny and Leo would despise each other! From everything she’s heard about him (all very corpo-biased, mind you) he seems to be a radical ideologue, a dangerous threat to the carefully maintained system of Night City.

Johnny, of course, would consider Leo to be just another corpo cunt, the boot keeping him and everyone like him down.

There’s characters that I think would get along if they were to get to know each other past a superficial level, but Johnny and Leo are not them. If anything, they’d hate each other more the more they learned about the other person.

🩺 - Viktor Vektor

Leo was immediately taken with Vik. His level of expertise, professionalism, and discretion are hard to find in Night City, even among corpos and high society.

She credits him with saving Goro’s life, which she’ll never be able to repay him for. After the events of the heist, Leo ditches her ripperdoc and begins exclusively seeing Vik for any cyberware needs. Through these visits she also meets Misty and becomes a regular client of hers as well.

Though they’re not friends, per say, Leo feels very comfortable around Vik and even shares some things during visits that she doesn’t share with just anyone; Vik is one of the few people that knows about her relationship with Goro after Leo kind of casually mentioned it to him one day.

Thank you so much for your questions! I apologize for taking forever to answer!

Can't find the full prompt list, so I can't link it here. Sorry!

Leonora Vice

👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻 What are my muse's requirements for a potential partner? - copied from a previous ask

Leo has a strict list of requirements for sexual partners and an even more intensive one for romantic partners.

She is, firstly, very much a "don't date below your class" type of person. Intelligence and charm are important, and so is respect. She tends to lean towards people who are good at what they do with humility; she believes praise comes from those around you, not yourself. Leo also values her independence a lot, so she demands her partner do the same (no clingers, please). This sounds silly, but Leo prefers dating people without families? Leo herself finds family a drag and kind of unimportant (except for her mom!), and would rather not have to deal with all of that.

As far as looks go, she doesn't really have a "type"; for Leo, it's mostly about personality.

👠 What was my muse's last serious relationship like?

Actually really nice?

She was dating the proprietor and executive chef of a renowned restaurant in Night City, Mikaela Shaffir. Both are passionate, hard-working women in a male-dominated field, so they got along fantastically well long before they began a relationship. Though their perspective jobs required a lot of time and attention, they always made the best of the little time they had together and even co-created some really complex, interesting dishes during their time off that now grace both of their menus.

Their relationship ended when Mikaela got an offer to open a restaurant in Piedmont that she couldn't turn down right around the time Leo was being considered for the position as the Arasaka's chef. They parted ways very amicably and are still good friends (who sleep with each other sometimes, ahem) to this day.

👍🏼 Does my muse prefer to be asked on a date, or would they rather do the asking?