#edithpines

also, both of them are hypermobile. nene is the hEDS variety where she has all the miserable comorbidities and chronic pain (projecting) while rui is just extra bendy with no ill consequences. nene is furious about it

sometimes she forgets people view psychosis as scary. sometimes it is scary for her, but it's so deeply engrained in her life that the thought of *not* having hallucinations and delusions seems scarier.

when she told the rest of wondasho about her schizophrenia, they were worried for her at first, but they quickly realized that emu's reality is just different to theirs and that she's happy the way she is; they just need to support her. they listen when she tells them not to reality check her and are always there to provide comfort if she is having scarier symptoms.

her most noticeable symptom is "word salad" - her difficult to comprehend speech patterns. she also goes through cycles of anhedonia, where she loses the ability to enjoy things she likes and even feel happy. these are the hardest for her of everything. it happened really badly when her grandpa died and flares up around the anniversary of his passing.

her most common hallucination is hearing music. often, it's songs she's performed with her troupemates. she hums and sings and dances to it sometimes, which others just dismiss as her being odd.

her most frightening delusion is that the tsukasa, nene, rui, and the sekai aren't real. it's not one she gets often, only when she's doing really badly. she kept this one to herself for a long time before she accidentally revealed it while deep in an episode. the others were trying to comfort her, say they would stay with her and be there for her, and she said that it doesn't make any difference since they're fake anyway. she's very apologetic when she becomes more lucid, but they're just worried about her and want to figure out how they can help her when she's experiencing that delusion.

(i have schizophrenia and am projecting with this. begging apsychotics to be normal pls </3)

in japan, medical transition is banned for people under 18. rather than lay down and accept this quietly, rui acquires hrt for all of their friends who need it. is it illegal? absolutely, but when has that ever stopped them? their friends are both grateful and concerned about where they're getting it. the most popular theories are the dark web or that they're making it themself, somehow. only emu and mizuki know, but they have been sworn to secrecy and refuse to spill the beans.

ethnicity headcanons!! i don't think i submitted these yet,, hehe

Saki and Tsukasa - Ryukyuan (Okinawan). they lived in Okinawa when they were very young, but when Saki got sick they moved to Tokyo for her medical care. most of their family still lives in Okinawa and they visit frequently

Honami - Vietnamese. her parents are immigrants and she was born in Japan. part of why she was so desperate to be liked by her classmates is being bullied for not "looking" Japanese.

Shiho and Shizuku - Korean. their family has been living in Japan since pre-WWII.

An - Filipino-Japanese. her mom is Filipino, dad is Japanese. she speaks some Tagalog but not a ton (side note, i headcanon that she has dyslexia which makes learning new languages extremely difficult for her, especially since Japanese has its own unique and horrifically complex writing system. you're saying that she finally figured out kanji and now she's supposed to learn the fucking latin alphabet? yeah, no)

Akito and Ena - Ghanaian-Japanese. their mom is an immigrant from Ghana who moved to Japan for college. also, Akito wears his hair in locs. his stupid yellow streak is its own loc that he bleaches, but it's darker than in canon because he once used too strong of bleach on it and the whole loc fell off. An relentlessly made fun of him for it

Emu - Han Chinese-Japanese. i don't... have anything to say about this one really

Nene and Rui - Jewish-Japanese. they're second cousins so they have a common set of great grandparents. Nene is ethnically Jewish by birth and Rui by conversion (Jewishness is passed down matrilineally, and converts are considered ethnically Jewish). i'll admit this headcanon is very self indulgent to me as a future convert myself

Mizuki - Brazilian-Japanese. she speaks Brazilian Portuguese as well as Japanese and has an interest in Brazilian fashion

mod's (and others') thoughts are welcomed !!! if anything i said is weird or incorrect especially please let me know as i am not from any of these cultures or places

obligatory vaping is bad i do not endorse vaping. if you are under the legal age for it i especially do not endorse it. if you're of the legal age to then do whatever i'm not a cop but i think you're kinda stupid. these are just headcananons ok? ok

at the start of the vbs main story, both akito and an vape. an does it bc she thinks it's "cool" and akito bc he used to think it was cool and got addicted

during the main story, while akito still hates kohane, kohane sees him vaping and comes up to him like "shi-shinonome-kun, vaping is really bad for your lungs and-" and he blows vapor in her face

also during the main story, in an effort to impress an, kohane decides to try it. she takes a hit of an's vape but breathes in *wayyy* too long and hard (picture an going "kohane stop! stop! that's enough!" for a solid ten seconds) and coughs so hard she throws up. she never touches one again

tōya *hates* that akito vapes and has been pestering him to quit for years. at first akito didn't take it too seriously but then he feels the effects vaping has on his voice and he starts getting more serious about quitting. it takes a while (and tōya confiscating all of his vapes, and some nicotine patches) but he does do it, and meiko makes him a huge stack of pancakes in celebration

an also eventually quits due to her parents finding her pens and throwing them all away and the rest of vbs peer pressuring her into not buying any more. yippee for peer pressure!

!! lmk if this requires a warning label instead of answering it like this !!

shinonome siblings are blasian. i dreamed about it once and now it's canon to me LOL