#nerism

oh!! I love this question especially seeing as I’ve been writing a sort of modern au for some of the characters recently!! thanks so much for asking it :)

luna would run the family company (that does something… business-y) after her mother steps down and meets maria through the professional world because she works as a finance/banking lawyer. their relationship is as rocky as it is in valkrya and isn’t helped the homophobia of our world, but they make it there in the end. 

nicolai also works at luna’s company, which is how they become friends and how angelica and nicolai meet. I’m not totally sure on what angelica’s modern career would be? in valkrya she’s obviously a soldier, except that doesn’t translate well to our world seeing as she only joins the army due to war going on (I don’t think she’s the sort of person to become a soldier… just cause. it’s not like she enjoyed fighting at all). for some reason artist is coming into mind? or author? she’s a creative type, I think. when she and nicolai move in together they live in the most beautifully-decorated flat and have the entire cast around for dinner at least once every two weeks. 

nerism and marise are both journalists (the dying trade, but it’s what they’ve chosen), working at the same company. inferna is in entertainment somehow, I imagine? an actress maybe, I feel like that would suit her. anyway, she and nerism meet the first time in one of those classic romance film moments where they just run into each other on the street and it’s really cute, but of course they don’t know each other’s names and they don’t think they’ll ever meet again. but then nerism is given the job of interviewing her (because like I said she’s some sort of entertainment personality) and their relationship develops from there. 

aquilla is a scientist, I feel like? even though in valkrya she’s a war nurse, I don’t think without those circumstances she’d choose to go into medicine because she is not a fan of  blood or y’know, doctor stuff. I can imagine her as a biologist or a neuroscientist or any other science-y thing. she meets marise through inferna and nerism’s relationship. 

luna is pro airpods and doesn’t get why maria keeps telling her to not use them (“but they’re far more practical!” “please lu I’m begging you”). inferna would not be caught dead using airpods and struggles greatly with the fact that nerism uses them. she and marise band together in this and are somewhat successful in getting him to get rid of them (“nerism for once I agree with your girlfriend and if you don’t take them out right this instant I will be forced to take physical action”). aquilla has an android. neither angelica or nicolai are particularly opinionated about airpods and they are not about to try arguing about something technological they don’t quite understand with the younger ones (most inferna, queen of style and social sense that she is). 

Alright, I decided to have a go at finishing the first 5k words of Valkrya so I actually had something for these! Here’s a proper little excerpt from Nerism’s first chapter. (By the way, Jou Miyara is the diplomat who Nerism and Marise are assistants to). Thanks Raven for the tag <3

“Hey, Nes, you alright?” Marise asked.

“Uh, yes, sorry. The princesses of Valkrya. Princess Luna-”

Marise cut in. “Queen Luna.”

“Right. Queen Luna. She’s twenty-five – the oldest, obviously. Polite, reserved. Then there’s Princess Angelica, twenty-three years old. There’s not much about her, apparently she’s nice. Princess Aquilla is next. She just turned twenty-one. The youngest is Princess Inferna, who’s our age. And I’m sure I don’t need to reiterate what’s generally said about her.”

Marise let out a low whistle. “What were their parents on when they chose those names?”

“I hope that’s not something you’d ever say to one of their faces,” said Jou, glaring.

“Of course not,” Marise said, rolling her eyes.

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Inferna would be the coolest of cool mums. I mean, she’d embarrass the hell out of her kids because she’d always be playing the “hip, totally awesome mum” who wore young people’s clothes and always tried to use the ~modern lingo~, but I think they’d all love her for it.

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There were three of them – one middle-aged man and a younger man and woman. The young woman, no older than twenty, was wearing white tie like her male partner, and her long shiny black hair was out and tucked behind her ears. She surveyed the room rather critically, while the young man beside her seemed more in awe. His dark wavy hair fell to just above his shoulders.

“Fern, where are you going?” asked Aquilla as she stood up.

“To introduce myself,” she replied.

“I wish you wouldn’t,” her sister said, but made no move to stop her.

I love that song so much! I haven’t listened to that much Fall Out Boy but I did listen to that album when it came out and Last of the Real Ones was one of my favourite songs from it!