Vanir smells like clean metal, sanded wood, and storms. She smells warm and comforting, and full of life. She wears subtle perfume for New Monarchy balls.

Rohan smells like sawdust and nothingness. They smells like a gap in the air, and like the Earth. They don’t wear perfume or cologne.

Lo smells like sunlight, summer, fresh dirt, and hot steel. She borrows Selena’s perfume sometimes, but not often because she ends up using too much and smelling way too strongly.

Warning I am shit at music choices tbh so some of these might be kinda rubbish and not fit terrible well

Vanir: King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men // Get Out Alive by Mel Parsons (this video is a live version because the studio version you can only listen to on the actual album/there’s no video of)

King and Lionheart BECAUSE VANIR AND ANYA LOVE EACH OTHER THIS MUCH OKAY.

Get Out Alive just reminds me of Vanir’s incident from the Vault, but more so of Anya after Vanir saved her from being Taken!Anya so... listen it’s just a lot about Vanir being Anya’s little Guardian Angel.

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Rohan: Once We Were from the Dragon Age Tavern Songs // I Don’t Know What The Weather Will Be by Laura Mvula // BUT ALSO Walking With A Ghost by Tegan and Sara

Once We Were has just always worked perfectly for the Destiny Universe for me, and I feel like it sums up Rohan’s way of remembering the Golden Age while also looking to the future? It works for Rohan at any point in their life reall, I think.

I Don’t Know What The Weather Will Be I always imagined as a lullaby Rohan sings to Jem & Willow’s twins. It plays out a little bit like a conversation between one of the twins and Rohan, and I really really really love it? It doesn’t sum up their character that much but it definitely reminds me of them every time.

Bonus! Walking With A Ghost just makes me think of Rohan & Osiris a lot that’s p much it

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Lo: More Than A Feeling by Boston // Someday Never Comes by Billy Valentine and the Forest Rangers

More Than A Feeling is the first time Lo was like shit Selena is beautiful and I want to kiss her but like I REALLY WANT TO KISS HER AND KISS HER FOREVER??

Someday Never Comes is Lo when Selena is dying and she doesn’t think there’s any way to make her better, because she doesn’t understand why the world is such a shitty place.

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Alli: False Knight on the Road by Fleet Foxes // I honestly can’t think of another good one for Alli sorry

False Knight on the Road makes me think of Alli going after the Nine. (Think of the Child as Alli and the Knight as the Tower? idk it’s hard to explain)

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28.) If your character’s life was a genre, what would it be? 

VANIR WOULD BE A MAGICAL GIRL ANIME

Rohan would be a noire detective genre crossed with secret agent james bond/mission impossible type stuff

Lo would be... a romantic comedy??

Vanir’s two favourite outfits are:

Outfit One:

Cute white and blue striped panties with frilly lacy edges and a tiny bow on the front of the waistband (her favourite pair) and a matching bra

Black short shorts

White thigh high socks and sporty shoes or tall boots (knee-high or possibly thigh-high)

A simple, loose white and orange patterned shirt

A long-sleeved sweater that’s a little too long, so it comes halfway down her hands and she can fiddle with the ends of the sleeves (thick black and white striped with one vertical orange stripe down the left side)

Outfit Two:

Fancy black and semi-see-through lacy lingerie (her “I know Yútú is coming over tonight” pair) (thanks Nova ;D)

A pleated skirt of soft material

Work boots

Nice flannel dressy shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows

A little black scarf if it’s cold

Formal Outfit: (because I decided that their formal outfit would be fun to do too!)

Underwear varying on whether Yútú is there (simple white panties and plain bra if she isn’t, sexy lingerie if she is)

A custom-made/tailored knee-length Chinese qipao dress, the same orange colour as her eyes, with swirling black detailing

Neat, loose black trousers underneath

Neat but simple dancing shoes

Rohan’s two favourite outfits are:

Outfit one:

Black boxer shorts, matching sports bra

Skinny jeans

Tough work boots

Loose white shirt

Outfit two:

Black boxer shorts, matching sports bra

Plain black trousers

Tough work boots

White work/suit shirt

Formal Outfit:

Black boxer shorts

Sleek dark trousers

Neat, slender black shoes (slightly raised heel)

A hidden leather holster around their right thigh, concealing a sidearm

A short, white robe-like shirt/coat that falls down to their knees on one side, and mid thigh on the other, forming an angled skirt over their legs, with loose sleeves and a cutoff back

A smooth satin sash embroidered with the designs of the consensus

Lo’s two favourite outfits are:

Outfit one:

Plain white panties and a supportive sports bra

Loose, tough work pants

Practical boots (not too tough and restricting though)

A junior warlock’s robe, with the sleeves cut off, so it is more of a sleeveless short-skirted dress than a robe (beige)

Belt for tools, with pouches for little bits and pieces (and maybe a piece of candy)

A simple warlock bond

Tough work gloves (tucked into the back of her belt when not in use)

Goggles

Outfit two:

White cotton boxer shorts, sports bra

Denim shorts (or a similar, durable material)

Practical boots

Plain white T-shirt or tank top with the Häkke logo across the chest

A red flannel shirt that’s one size too big for her, with the sleeves rolled up, left unbuttoned

Black fingerless gloves (if she’s driving)

Goggles

Formal Outfit:

The brightest hot pink pair of panties Lo owns, and a push-up bra

A far too-nice tailored dress commissioned by Selena. Form-fitting, with pleated skirts and a slit along her left leg, a low hem that brushes her ankles on the right side, and goes halfway down her calf on the left. The same metallic blue colour as her hair

Simple but nice blue shoes

A simple pendant with a little blue stone in it (it looks kind of like a sapphire but it’s just a blue stone)

Blue eyeshadow and subtle lipstick (with Selena’s help)

Clip-on earrings, partly hidden by her hair

Alli’s two favourite outfits are:

Outfit one:

Plain white women’s panties

Tight black pants or skinny jeans

Tough work boots

Plain crop top

Outfit two:

A pair of Kels’ panties

That’s it, just Kels’ panties

Maybe a shirt

Formal Outfit:

A pair of plain women’s panties (once they’re in a relationship, he will borrow Kels’)

Smooth, pressed black trousers

Neat black dress shoes

A neat, plain white dress shirt

Deep purple (looks black in dark lighting) suit jacket (also slightly too big for him so he usually takes it off and rolls up his shirt sleeves)

Vanir’s hands are smooth metal over tough synthetic muscle. Her hands are extremely responsive and quite sensitive. Along her knuckles, the back of her hand, and around her fingers, she has clean white metal casing, scarred grey by arc-use along the knuckles. The pads of her fingers and thumb, and her palm, are all sensitive synthetic muscle, which is black in colour.

Her hands are smooth and sensitive, always clean, and gentle. But her fists are deadly.

Rohan’s hands are small and almost delicate. Their skin is dark and weathered, but their palms are light, and very soft. They have clean-cut nails that they never grow out. There are not many callouses on Rohan’s hands, but the skin is tough and weathered.

Lo’s hands are rough and dirty. Her nails are slightly jagged from biting their tips – she is trying to stop doing that, but it’s a hard habit to break. Her hands have many small burns and scars across them, and her palms are calloused and tough. She is missing two-thirds of her pinky finger and the end segment of her ring finger on her right hand, both of which have been replaced by small Exo-like prosthetics.

Her hands are almost always covered in dirt, grease, or metal flakes from working with mechanics and welding.

Alli’s hands are smooth and made of dense metal. Like Vanir’s hands, Allis are made up of synthetic muscle and mettal carapacing, but his have more metal and segments. Even across his palms there it is divided into small sections of carapacing that is semi-soft, like the pads of many animals’ paws. His hands, like the rest of his body, are designed so that their casing can all slot together seamlessly to lock them down with armour and make them impervious to their environment.

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26.) Second day of favorites! Favorite comfort food, favorite vice, favorite outfit, favorite hot drink, favorite time of year, and favorite holiday.

Note: I’m changing this one a little bit because I want to do a day of outfits, so I’m taking that bit out and making it the Day 27 question instead.

I’m also changing “favourite vice” to just their most present vice, because favourite doesn’t make sense to me there.

Vanir:

Exo’s don’t really have comfort foods since they don’t eat… but Vanir finds the act of baking stuff pretty comforting, usually chocolate brownies or cookies, that kind of thing.

I don’t know about favourite vice, but Vanir’s wrath is something to be reckoned with. She is incredibly difficult to anger, but when she is in a fury she can be incredibly destructive. Just ask that one hunter who called Anya a bitch.

Again, Exo’s don’t really have favourite drinks since they… don’t have drinks.

Vanir’s favourite time of year is autumn. She absolutely adores the colours of the landscape in autumn, loves watching the leaves fall from the trees in the tower and watching the valey beyond the City turn red and orange. She just really really loves how the season affects the landscape.

Vanir’s favourite holiday is the Chinese Lantern Festival. It lights up the City and she loves seeing how happy everyone is for the festival and how vibrant and alive the City can be. Plus she loves it as a piece of her cultural heritage.

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Rohan:

Rohan’s favourite comfort foods are savoury pastries and muffins.

Distrust and a lack of faith is probably Rohan’s most prominent vice. They struggle to trust and have faith in others, and even in the Traveller, which is seen to many to be a bad thing. Rohan doesn’t think it’s a bad thing at all, though.

Rohan’s favourite hot drink is herbal tea. It helps soothe and calm them and keeps their mind fresh and focused, and they love both the taste and the sort of ritual of tea drinking.

Rohan’s favourite time of year is summer. The summer temperature and climte reminds them most of their first life in Hawaii, and it has a special nostalgia for them.

Rohan’s favourite holiday, now that they have a family they found in Jem and Willow, is Christmas. They always spend it together as a family, and Rohan cherishes that dearly.

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Lo:

Lo’s favourite comfort food is cookies! She’s always a slut for chocolate chip cookies.

Lo’s greatest vice is definitely sloth. She could absolutely just say in the sun all day every day and do nothing whatsoever. She often needs quite a bit of encouragement to do work (even though she enjoys it when she is doing it) rather than to just lay around in bed or in a beam of sunlight all day.

Lo’s favourite hot drink is a milky coffee like a latte or a flate white. They’re not fussed, so long as it’s not too watery and not too bitter.

Lo’s favourite time of year is summer. Lo loves warmth and sunlight like crazy, so summer is absolutely her favourite time of year and the time when she is most active and excited.

Lo’s favourite holiday is Christmas. Because presents.

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Alli:

Alli’s an exo so he doesn’t have a favourite comfort food.

Alli has a few vices; he’s lustful for Kels, and he has pretty hurtful envy for the love she felt for Thalor. They’re both born out perversions of his love for her, and over time he has worked very hard to fight both and become a better person.

But his greatest vice is wrath. He still bares a deep and furious hatred for the Cabal, and harbours resentment for the Tower for abandoning him long ago. While he’s improved his character in terms of the first two, he’s still not great with his anger about these things.

Alli is an exo, so he doesn’t have a favourite hot drink.

Alli’s favourite time of year is winter. He likes it because he knows he can endure it incredibly well. He likes the harshness of the cold and loves seeing the snow and the ice, and he likes that it never reminds him of Mars, even the tinest bit.

For Vanir? YÚTÚ

Vanir always wanted a pretty storybook romance deep down. She wanted a girl with a bit of mystery and a hell of a lot of charm who could sweep her off her feet and just make her fall in love at first sight and all that fairly cliche sort of stuff. Vanir is totally about that.

Her romance with Yútú wasn’t exactly storybook, and it didn’t tick all those boxes of her sort of ‘dream’ romance, but Vanir wouldn’t have it any other way and she loves Yútú more than she ever imagined.

For Rohan? ?

Rohan never wanted a romance in their life, and they never felt the need or desire for one. Rohan is happy without any romance at all.

Lo’s dream girl was a princess that she could pick up off her feet and speed away into the sunset with. Selena fits her pretty perfectly, even if their relationship didn’t play out at all like it would in a kids fairytale.

Vanir isn’t at all superstitious, but she finds the nature of superstition really interesting and loves learning all these weirdly silly things humans used to do (and some still do) out of superstitious habit and stuff. She also looks into superstition just in case so she can make sure not to do anything that would make Anya uncomfortable due to her beliefs.

Rohan isn’t superstitious either. They have a similar interest for superstition, but they use it more as a method of manipulation for people in order to get information from them.

Lo is a little bit superstitious. She puts a lot of weight on luck and could probably easily be suckered into buying things like rabbits feet and whatnot if Selena wasn’t there to be like “No, Lo.”

At the same time, she doesn’t know many superstitions or anything, so it’s mostly a sort of street wariness that’s developed into odd habits and such.

Vanir would time travel back to the golden age, just to see what her life was like before she died and had her memory reset. Later in life she would just like to time travel back to when Anya was alive and give her a big old hug.

Rohan probably wouldn’t time travel, but if they did they might go back to before Osiris was exiled and try to convince him not to be so radical/extremist and hopefully get him to stay and work with the tower better.

Lo would time travel back to when Mercury was terraformed rather than a Vex planet just so she could sunbathe there.

Vanir's absolutely constant passion for pretty much everything is pretty damn defining. She is almost always in an incredibly good mood, happy and bubbly and just loving life.

Rohan's inherent suspicion of everything does affect their day to day life all the time. Their work just makes them incredibly distrusting of people on the whole.

Lo's illiteracy tends to affect a lot of their life, but she's working through it.