#incursus

HOW THE FUCK HAVE I JUST SEEN THIS NIKOLAI, PLEASE I AM IN FUCKING TEARS I NEED TO OPEN MY INBOX MORE BFGSDJBGFREDUGFAUEISBGRABGRAEIUBG

cybernetics/implants/robo part tierlist. id put kat in scifi shit but i think he should also hum like an old pc fan so i can make fun of him/j

the og girlboss!

- I imagine her childhood was very ‘icy glares and silent treatment-y’-kind with a side-serving of ‘any one who addresses problems is the problem’ from her parents (and also that they just weren’t around a lot bc - business). 

- Also she was taught from a young age that the servants were really just some pointless beings not worth talking to. There was however one governess she actually really felt close to and who actually cared about Aurelia and she asked her to take her to see the city down the hill once so that she could see how people live there and she did. But when Aurelia’s parents found out that she had taken Aurelia away from Hammerlock-owned premises, she was fired and shamed and could no longer hold a job as a governess anywhere. And in fact, Aurelia never saw her again.

- As a kid, she often felt jealous of her brother bc with his outdoor-sy activities and bug-searching habits (which is all very rebellious by Hammerlock standards) he got a lot of attention while the few times her parents noticed Aurelia was on the rare occasions that she did manage to fall out of her role or act untoward in a situation and the response to that was usually a stern talking-to about how she embarrassed the family - bc that was pretty much their parenting: You can do what you like, as long as you can do it quietly. But there wasn’t a lot of positive reinforcement. This kind of lead to being ‘evil’ becoming one of her favourite past-times. 

-  She’s a brilliant chess player with an Elo rating of >2000

- Both her and Alistair learnt to play various instruments as children. Aurelia is particularly good playing the violin. She likes to put her own, very theatrical air to her interpretations. 

- She was actually married before, in her mid-to-late twenties and her wife was from ...wherever it is that Ember is from. They actually divorced pretty amiably and her ex-wife is the reason why Aurelia peppers so much French words into her conversations (also bc it sounds fancy but pssh) 

- Her own planet is...surprisingly habitable? Freezing cold, of course, but her policies aren’t half-bad. Not so much bc she really cares about making life good for her subjects but because she realised that she will actually make more money if she gives the inhabitants the means to stay productive and as long as she treats them better than the corporations do, they actually come to her planet so the economy grows.

- Listen, while she might not like her brother she would still have left a very offended message if she had still been alive and he hadn’t invited her to his wedding. That’s just poor etiquette.

Despite her posh demeanor, she is actually very uninterested in the stuff that most other people in her social circle talk about. And tbh the fact that she was raised to think that ‘oh no my servant ordered my new space yacht in purple and not in burgundy’ and ‘my polo pony bit its art therapist!’ were the depth of human despair paired with being told not to talk or interact with any poor people led to her lack of interest in other people’s lives and feeling removed from most other people. She just thought they were all boring and overly concerned with nonsense that she couldn’t relate to.

- Yes, she can fence and she has settled various high-society disputes she got involved in with a duel.

- One of her favourite books are The Brothers Karamazov (or some cultural equivalent there is in her time. But then, she also knows King Lear so she probably knows Earth-time literature). When Alistair is being particularly self-righteous, she compares him to Alyosha.

- In turn, her time on Elpis was the first time in her life that she worked alongside people from outside of that social circle and that’s part of the reason why she becomes more invested in other people’s fate and grew as a person throughout the game.

- She is the definition of: “How much could it cost? 10 Dollars?” and back on her Elpis, her team frequently had to save her from being scammed by the locals.

- After she left, she actually offered a hefty sum of money to buy Timothy’s contract but she never received a response.

- She loves the opera and theatre. In her boarding school she got to act in plays sometimes but her parents mostly discouraged it.

- One of the reasons she likes ice so much is because it’s elegant. Fire and corrosion and explosions are all big messes - ice is a slow, silent killer that does not make much of a mess.

- She begrudgingly came to admire* Athena and even offered her a job as her bodyguard after she left (not that she really needs one but having an ex-Atlas assassin as your personal bodyguard sure has class). But that would have meant that either Athena would have left Janey behind which she didn’t want to or for Janey to resettle her entire business which Janey didn’t want to, so it didn’t work out (Or at least...came as close to admiring her as she could possibly be.

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AURELIA HAMMERLOCK

Sexuality Headcanon: bisexual babeeeeeeeeeeee

Gender Headcanon: transgener

A ship I have with said character: timrelia or whatever she and nisha have going on

A BROTP I have with said character: athena and aurelia as the only sane people on the moon

A NOTP I have with said character: cant think of anything

A random headcanon: let her play the piano all dramatically

General Opinion over said character: madam please kick me into the fucking stratosphere

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TIMOTHY LAWRENCE

Sexuality Headcanon: canon bisexual

Gender Headcanon: trans demiboy solidarity

A ship I have with said character: too many (rhysothy, timoxxi, timhelm, timrelia +more)

A BROTP I have with said character: sit with me here and consider rhys vaughn and preop tim all being goofy ass intern buddies

A NOTP I have with said character: zaneothy? zanothy? nothing against it its just not 4 me

A random headcanon: he is rhythm game god. he will play dance dance revolution spinning on his head. his sense of rhythm is impeccable and yet normally he'd trip over his own feet just walking around.

jk, i respect these gays (they genuinely helped me get thru lockdown and also are in my paracosm as basically comfort paras) and myself too much

Do it 💖💖