#city between

shoutout to platonic relationships so good they can make you recontextualize romantic songs

Nothing quite like the dissonance of reading a book character's name one way the whole time and then finding out the author, who CREATED said character, pronounces it a different way, and you can't say they're wrong even though your brain wants them to be wrong

Athelas: No, of course I had to jump! The first rule of being interrogated is that you are the only irreplaceable person in the torture chamber. The room is yours, so work it. If they're going to threaten you with death, show them who's boss. Die faster. And you've seen me do that more often than most.

When you think about it, the very existence of the Troika as a unit is hilarious. You are Zero, traveling around with your personal butler, bodyguard, and doctor Athelas. You're in Korea for some reason and you stumble across a fluffy dog that acquired a virus that turns him into a king cobra with a lot of FeelingsTM. His sister was also turned into a cobra and went berserk and you had to put her down for everyone's safety. He has Feelings about this and likes to flare his hood and display his fangs at you about it sometimes. He can also spit his venom, which is almost instantly fatal to your kind and there is no cure. He's good at mesmerizing and tracking other animals and you adopt him as part of your investigation team and found family. The cobra calls you hyeong.