#fates above

@justahufflepuffnerd Thank you so much for the ask!

Hey @alittlewarlord thank you for the ask! Fates is probably the best one for this, so: You’re considered an adult at the age of 20 in Vilandra, so I imagine that’s when the biggest parties are thrown then. Alcohol is technically illegal until you’re 20 as well but obviously no one really cares about that (if the UK is anything to go by lmao). 

The only real notable thing about weddings is that there’s no sort of homophobia or anti-LGBT rhetoric, no one gives a shit about who you get married to and it’s all legal. What species you choose to marry, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game, so racism (species-ism?) is pretty rife. Some places are a bit more accepting (fey/human marriages or human/mixed marriages are a lot more common and accepted) but nothing’s technically illegal. 

Speaking of outdated traditions, this was more for Xan’s family in particular, but there are some families who follow what they call “The Old Ways,” where they insist on having blood heirs, as opposed to adopting an heir and them being seen as valid like everyone else does. So poor Xan is initially betrothed to Keon via heavy guilt tripping and pressure on him as the family’s heir. Thankfully that all gets called off after his accident and he winds up with Sil, giving a big middle finger to “the old ways.”

Does “Orealis,” (oar-ree-arr-liss) sound too on the nose for what is essentially fantasy Siberia?

Hi @happyorogeny thank you for the ask, I am absolutely taking asks for Tender Tuesday!

@catrillion​ Thank you! As we all know Trin is best boy, so asks are fun:

Do they like rain?

I think so - Arcascen is a notoriously rainy part of the country, and he finds in peaceful to just sit on his bed and listen to the rain as like a sort of calming exercise/meditative technique. 

6. Describe their eyes.

Trin has wonderfully pretty eyes, a vibrant teal blue like the ocean on a pristine beach, that radiates blueish green when the waves crash to shore in sunlight. Ironically it’s a fairly common shade for Arcascen (well, green eyes are and they’re just green enough to count) so he blends in better than the other two do. 

8. Any phobias?

witty deadpan snarker with an awful taste in gallows humour since he has approximately five million things wrong with him and he knows he’ll die

but he’s just decided to shrug and roll with it because if you can’t make jokes about the fact you’re gonna die then that’s just a miserable existence

takes it as a personal achievement that doctors never expected him to live past five and now he’s nearing his mid-20s and still trucking along until something like the flu kills him before he’s 30

he also has a nice dynamic with Xan, which I like. because on the scale of twins you have Trin (horribly traumatised, we don’t talk about Maria) to Merin (essentially a parasitic relationship and this is why no one likes Os), and these two are just like “yeah my brother’s an absolute prat but we chill and play video games and the bastard makes better things in Minecraft than me, how dare he.” it’s remarkably chill and feels very real? bc Trin and Merin are the extreme versions of being a twin and these two are just like “what oh yeah I have a twin, I forgot about him, yeah he exists.”

@hannahs-creations So remember that post about me replying to asks on time? Yeah that didn’t happen lmao