#subsistence prep

10 years prior  

still the oldest sibling, and still reminds his siblings to brush their teeth religiously 

parents own a bakery; truly hates waking up early and swore on his life he wouldn’t be a pâtissier because getting up at 5 AM to make bread sounds awful 

had a habit of making friends with people who were the odd ones out, and by high school had assembled the most obnoxious group imaginable

can’t stand people that are unreasonable and let them know immediately when they’re out of line 

picked a fight with the annoying underclassman taking advanced courses

accidentally adopted Riddle into the friend group as well, and decided that as his reliable seniors, surely they should let him live a little. skip a few classes, earn a one way ticket to Mrs. Rosehearts’ ban list, the usual

fairly average in all that he did, but did pick up to try a little harder in his final years of high school 

forcibly recruited into baseball, on account of his height and build. didn’t think he was all that great- but apparently good enough to help pad out his applications to get into college 

10 years later (28) 

that’s dr. trey clover to you. 

he’s a dentist now. dreams do come true 

Riddle’s college, and current, roommate. still unsure where they got a cat, but dubbed it Che’nya. puts hats on it sometimes 

made Riddle a dropout cake when he pulled the plug on med-school

bakes as a hobby, and will when his old friends get together to catch up 

thinks it’s funny when people he used to know walk into his practice and realize it’s him and not some other Dr. T. Clover 

                                ||   SUBSISTENCE  PREP.   ||

Ten years prior...

A kind, solitary man who lived a life of illness. Baizhu had spent much of his time in and out of hospital care, and as a result was well acquainted with many of the doctors in Spirale for his visits were long and frequent.

His weak and frail constitution prevented him from living what most would consider a normal life, but he found fulfillment in the arts—particularly that of flower arranging in the traditional Chinese style. Alongside his work as a florist, he often entered flower expos to display and sell his work whenever in good health. This garnered him relative fame within botany and artist communities, and those of which who knew of him held him in high regard for his craft.

However, his secluded lifestyle hindered the formation of close relationships. Still, those who knew of Baizhu recalled him for his kindness. ( Or others, his cleverness. )

Despite this, he fostered a good relationship with the likes of Ajax and his family. Ajax regularly visited the man and brought him general goods like groceries and such on behalf on his parents; in kind, Baizhu returned the gesture by sending the youth on his way with flowers for his sister, Tonia.

He also had an albino pet snake named Changsheng. Neighbors looked after her when he was away.

In-Between...

Grew particularly close with a client of his, Kratos Irving. Baizhu often sent the widower with bouquets for his late wife after taking note of his struggle.

After several years of this, his health took an unexpected dive. On the cusp of losing his life entirely, Kratos repaid the years of kindness with an act of the most charitable degree: donating organic tissue that ultimately prolonged Baizhu’s life.

Now, ten years after...

Now at the age of 37, Baizhu has made a full recovery from the operation. While not completely cured of his illness, he is thankfully in the best health he’s ever been in.

Still has difficult days, however. He might stay in bed during these bouts of illness, or use a mobility aid like a walking cane. 

Kratos has since moved in with him, and now they share their lives together as platonic domestic partners. It works for them, seeing as living alone is not quite ideal for either of them. Kratos gains company after his son moving out, and Baizhu gains someone to look after him.

He’s still remained in close contact with Ajax, and now that he’s started his own family with his partner Kaeya, Baizhu is something of an uncle to their children. This is very important to him, and he values having them all to hold close.

Still has Changsheng! She might be a little feisty in her old age, but Ajax and Kaeya’s kids adore her.

No longer works at a flower shop due to availability; his health is often unpredictable. He does, however, teach floral arranging classes at a local development center in Cotes every Tuesday and Thursday. It’s a new breath of life into his craft to share it with others.

He also still enters floral expos! His work has been even further recognized for its artistry over the years; he attributes that to new inspiration.

10 YEARS PRIOR. 

❥ ace grew up in a home with his parents and older brother. while not particularly close with either of his parents, he is very close with his older brother. 

❥ being a quick learner, he was quickly dubbed one of the “gifted” kids when it came to academics. he grew up taking the harder classes, barely having to study or work hard to have to get good grades. despite this, due to his smarts he was a bit of a perfectionist. 

❥ he was also apart of the popular kids in his middle school. an easy to get along with guy with a cheerful exterior mean he was constantly surrounded by people and friends. 

❥ in high school that teenage angst and gifted kid burnout hit really hard. he was sick of having to put on a certain act to keep his old friends, promptly dropping it and dropping all of them. he purposely took easier classes, became cynical towards school, and was rather unmotivated to do homework despite finding it easy to pick up. 

❥ in one of his classes, he got paired with deuce and the two quickly became close friends. it was rare to see either of them without the other. 

❥ due to his lack of turning in homework, he ended up having to do after school tutoring where he met riddle. through riddle, he ended up meeting trey and cater. 

❥ he actually ended up making a few friends after getting close to deuce and the others. he even ended up joining the basketball team! 

❥ he still was pretty burnt out from school though, graduating at a pretty average level. nothing too special or crazy. 

10 YEARS LATER.

❥  now 26, ace works as basketball coach at the local school after going to college for kinesthesiology. he mostly teaches the younger kids, but he does occasionally ( unfortunately ) sub for the older kids as well. 

❥ he lives in an apartment with his boyfriend, deuce. the two began dating before deuce ended up dropping out of college. ( ace finally confessed. good job. ) they have a basketball couch. this is really important. 

❥ ace makes sure to make time to play basketball with his two friends, floyd and jamil. 

❥ and all those friends he made in highschool? he actually didn’t push away -- in fact, he keeps in contact with them and will even invite them over for game nights and movie nights. 

❥ of course he keeps in touch with his family, his brother more than his parents. not out of malice, he was just never close with them so it’s about the same relationship they had as he grew up. 

SUBSISTENCE PREP. 

10 YEARS PRIOR:

The son to a rather prestigeous and infamous family - the surname Draconia is a staple name within Spirale. His family owns a very high takes business within the city, having a wide range of network.

Can speak a wide range of languages.

Was always mostly to himself growing up, though extremely close to his guardian figure, Lilia Vanrouge, and was very protective over him.

Didn’t have a lot of friends at all, save for two named Silver and Sebek, but the two still acknowledged Malleus alongside the wealth of his family, as well as his position.

Malleus was very ample at academics and especially athletics and was seen as a rather talented student all around, however dismissive and quiet he was to the usual social conversation.

He had his rivals, but Malleus would only humor them, more-so than indulge.

Malleus was often left out of social activities with his peers, including any birthday celebrations or regular outings.

He held a very intimidating yet admirable reputation, but his relationship with most others was too distant for his liking, although, Malleus would hardly speak on the matter outwardly, and it was only ever recognized to some extent by his guardian.

Malleus excelled his studies with top grades, and later would move on to take over his family’s business.

TEN YEARS LATER:

Malleus is now 30, and is still the heir to his family’s business.

This makes Malleus entirely desirable and susceptible to enemy rivalling companies and other such organizations that can be considered more lowkey to dismantle the wealth and stabilization that his company has.

Malleus has since trained in a lot of combat privately, for safety reasons.

He is mostly holed up by himself and is still someone with hardly any friends.

His is a lot more sectretive but still holds both an admiration and yearning to branch out.

Because of this, Malleus actually tries to often frequent bars and nightclubs in order to socialize, but only when the time is most opportune whilst disguising himself.

◇ ~ 10 years prior ~ ◇

Family has finally settled down while he's in high school, no more moving despite his initial concerns that they would move again.

His older sisters are still very pushy and have embarrassed him on a few occasions when they were still attending school by posting embarrassing photos and still do when coming to pick him up from school and saying plenty about when he was a kid/things he still does now

After meeting Riddle and Trey in the advanced courses, despite the rocky start they got along well and even gained two baby chicks to join the crew

kind of blew up on social media and might have decided not to bother going to college. Though he did promise Riddle he'd at least finish high school.

◇ ~ 10 years later ( 28 ) ~ ◇

Actually managed to stay relevant on social media and is a popular influencer

He's starting to try and phase out of that now ( with riddle's encouragement ) and start a music career AND showing an interest in photography.

He visited Ace and Deuce's apartment one time. saw how ugly their couch was and is now currently planning to spring a free remolding of their place on them by force he has said and I quote "It's too ugly for me to be in here, if I'm going to visit again you need to fix this." so he's taking it into his own hands and will be letting them know about this soon.

Has settled down on the #hashtags and lingo but he can't help it, it's a habit now.

In subversion:

Seles was the heiress to house Wilder, who spent most of her time basically under house arrest due to her mom being paranoid about Seles’s safety

(this is because her mom did some Shady things, and didn’t want to jeopardize her or Seles’s wellbeing after all she’d done to get to where she is)

She believed her brother was dead. Turns out he wasn’t. She got mad at him for faking his death, not knowing the truth of things. She thinks he must hate her a lot, and blames herself for it all.

Always accompanied by her butler, Tokunaga. She doesn’t go anywhere without him.

She was sent away safely, but is a bit jealous of the other her who seems to have a much better relationship with her brother.

After 10 years passed:

At 25 years old now, things have gone a bit downhill for Seles. ok, a lot downhill.

Her mother died when she was 18 under mysterious circumstances. in truth, Seles herself did it and Tokunaga helped her cover up the incident

That happened because she learned some of the truth about what her mother did in the past. ultimately though, she blames herself for breaking apart her family (or more specifically, zelos’s).

She doesn’t make that many public appearances and tends to stick to the manor, but she’s gotten quite a reputation as a very cold businesswoman. She’s short and to the point, but she manages her estate quite well despite her youth.

Her family business deals in a lot of things, but one of them is weapons to fight against the CPNs. For all the rumors that might surround house Wilder, the products they make are extremely high quality.

Seles herself has trained to fight, and proficient enough to handle CPNs on her own if the need arise. She has enough staff that she usually doesn’t need to, though.

Appears to be very strict on her house’s staff to outsiders, but is actually doing her best to be kind in her own way. She’s just not very good at letting her guard down ever, not even in her own home.

Refuses to look into anything about her brother, because she’s convinced that he must despise her. Tokunaga and Sebastian have tried to tell her otherwise and try to get her to reach out, but she refuses quite firmly.

Extremely lonely, the only person she trusts in the world fully is Tokunaga. He’s basically her father considering he more or less raised her himself. He’s also the only person she’ll be honest with.

PREVIOUSLY...

A child of two very busy, borderline neglectful, parents. Because they acted out in public school, they were homeschooled by Waver for a year, and was far closer to him than their actual parents. Unfortunately, Aunda befalls the same fate as their Isolan counterpart (albeit at a younger age), and is orphaned when their father tried to out-drive a train (and failed.) Adopted by a relatively young Waver, they took his last name, and grew up in a much better environment than they were born into, with an actual loving parent.

During Subversion...

Anda Velvet (Aunda) and Anda Teika (Anda) met up with each other and immediately hit it off, with the former affectionally referring to Anda as their long-lost cooler twin. Together they tried looking for their friends to send them home until Aunda could no longer stay safely. Before Anda returned them home, Aunda gave them a bottlecap keychain to remember them, and returned home with Waver and Zal.

Anda, happy to see at least one reality where they live happily, always hoped their counterpart would live an unburdened life. And Aunda, aware of the burdens of Anda’s, always prayed for fortune for their dear ‘sibling.’

Physically, the two differ a bit, with Anda being the more built of the two and Aunda being on the lanky, scrawny side. However, Aunda is smarter than their counterpart, and is a naturally quick-thinker.

Ten years later...

Following their love of film and movies, Aunda works at the television studio on Sunset Circuit as one of the main film crew and editors. They also host a podcast on scary movies and famous movie monsters, because... of course they do.

They’re well-liked for their easygoing attitude, and seemingly boundless empathy and optimism. And though they have their own apartment over on Sunset Circuit, they’re not often in it, and prefer to go back home when they’re not working (or going to hang out at Zal’s place!)

Still, they never did forget the version of themselves on that other island with that horrible curse. And every year during the Festival of Life, they offer a little lantern boat for Anda.

went to same school as his half brother to study to become dentist, to prove himself somehow

on the side did freelance jobs as bouncer/bodyguard, punched his half brother and got disinherited and his father made sure he’d never  get work at his line of work  

but like whatever he’s somehow graduated and ends up joining some gang but is barely there and ultimately just creates trouble

didn’t end up proving anything but managed to become a dentist - his clients just mostly ended up becoming mobsters.....

still weak ties to his family (also still a child born out of wedlock) but they’re all alive, his half brother being the only one that really tries to keep contact with him 

depressed, among other issues still

10 years later: 

37 years old

 went to jail at some point, his half brother tried to bail him out but Ogata refused 

his half brother still sends him postcards but he won’t respond :( their father has died, his mother is somehow still alive but in hospital care

dentist for mob and also only private dentist in this particular area of fibonacci, affordable but kind of creepy

he’s skilled sure but still creepy

two cats walking free at reception, other one (bastard) is  hissy + territorial, other one just curious and might even sleep in your lap (bullet)

hates treating people with good teeth

lost his eye at some point but they tell he still has a good aim

still depressed with some other issues on the side, did go to therapist (mandatory after being released from jail) but he didn’t like it 

drinks a lot