#ooordis

Elijah:

“Spiders. Spiders, all the way. Or just insects in general, really. Anything creepy, crawly, and with lots of legs.”

Athena:

Elijah:

Something that scares him--aside from spiders, of course--is just emptiness. He may be cold but he fears feeling empty so much, and it’s something he tries to avoid as much as possible.

Athena:

“Ordis, Ordis, Ordis, look what I made!”

To say Elijah was excited was a bit of an understatement, as he didn’t really get energetic a lot of the time, but he sure as hell wasn’t going to try to put a damper on his energy. Especially not since he’d finally created a good music box--with help from studying Octavia’s Mandachord--that could play any data oriented around music without it just giving off discordant screeching. 

Send “📂“ for a random yet completely useless headcanon I have

//I don’t think you have, from what I remember. But it’s all good! I love making headcanons~

Goddammit, he broke it again.

Elijah let out a small huff as he observed the broken heating system that was sitting before him, icy blue eyes narrowed in concentration--and mild irritation. This was the second time he’d broken the damn thing and he wished he could just get to the faulty wire that was causing problems in the first place. Now he was likely to get his sisters groaning at him that he’d failed to fix the heater and that it was cold, something that could easily be fixed just by wearing a few more layers of clothing. But he’d try to fix it anyways, as their parents were out on a business trip and the twelve year-old was already quite capable of fixing mechanical pieces himself. At least, what was around their compound, anyways. 

Well, he was fixing it himself until his older sister came into the room and plopped down beside him, munching on... something. She was always eating weird things that Elijah just couldn’t see how they were even any good. Which is why he politely declined when Athena offered him some of whatever it was that she was eating, making her shrug. 

“So, think you can get it working again, ice prince?”

He scoffed at the nickname and glared at her as he picked up a tool before turning back to the heating system. Living on Venus was a pain but it beat living anywhere else. Just needed a good heating system.

“Go away. You’ll know it’s fixed when it starts to heat up here, Athena.” 

“Wow, okay. Rude as ever, little ice prince. I hope you’re not teaching Briar how to be an absolute stick in the mud.” 

He just gave her a look paired with a dismissive hum before he went right back to what he was doing, trying to find that damn wire as she got up and walked back out to the kitchen. She could deal with his haughtiness, just like she did all the twelve years he’d been around her. 

But he just....

     “Doing? How am I– you are asking Kaema? Me? How I am– I don’t remember the last time someone has asked me that! I don’t even know what to say! Oh! Wait. I know. You want Kaema to run a systems scan. Please standby.”

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Her memories only go back so far, anything beyond that lost to the shadows of her past. Still sometimes they found their way to the surface, and when they did, it was while she dreamed.

The echo of footsteps down the darkened corridor. The world being pulled out from under her feet. The walls split and crack and she looks around in fear. Someone is reaching for her but their fingers slip through her hands as a shadow rips them from her. Everything is falling, and she's falling, and the Void waits for her; to kill her and change her-

Lux doesn't scream this time, but she wakes in such a panic that she fails around for a moment before pushing herself up against the wall her bed sat against and tugged her blanket near. With wide eyes she trembled, her mind still stuck in panic mode from the visions she saw.