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• Yoshimitsu attempted parkour in high school, he thought he’d be amazing at it right off the bat…he was not. Chance laughed so hard it hurt, Yoshimitsu’s everything hurt from falling.
• Chance was bit by a dog as a child, he’s been iffy with them ever since.
• Aurora has a bedazzled red phone case, she did it herself (there was glue absolutely everywhere)
• Irving really wants to play dungeons and dragons with the gang. He has their classes sorted out and everything!
• Ash LOVES a K-drama. All of us are dead had him hooked, but he doesn’t object to a romance one…
• Mateo is a big fan of exotic pets. He had a bearded dragon as a kid!
• Yoshimitsu and Chance were both huge mamas boys when their mom was alive, but Chance had a sprinkling of daddy’s boy in him too. He thought Franco was the coolest and always got so excited when he let him sit on his motorbike
(this comes from a conversation I had with Lucy— hi Lucy— where we talked about how Franco didn’t really start abusing the boys until his wife died, and in chances POV we see it’s much easier for Yoshimitsu to cut their father off than it is for chance, who mentions that he still loves him)
• Chance has a couple scars on his face that are super faint. One on his forehead he got from flipping off his bike trying to do a wheelie, and one on his lower lip going down to his chin from being shmacked by a guy with a big ring
• Yoshimitsu actually put a lot of thought into choosing his name— he ended on Yoshimitsu because it means ‘good light’ or ‘ray of justice’ (Yoshi- lucky, good/ mitsu- ‘right’)
• Aurora really enjoyed maths in school. She had a lot of career dreams that changed everyday (highlights include an archaeologist, an explorer, an astronaut) and she looooved those little kits where you get a little shovel and hammer and you dig into the block to find gems and stuff.
• Irving is TERRIFIED of spiders. He will scream. Poor Irving dreads Halloween when those stupid fake spiders are everywhere because the entire gang is devoted to hiding them in the most obscure places. He found one in his cereal (which he spilt all down his suit)
• Ash gets gifted a lot of his boats that he builds by the gang for Christmas. They keep a communal spreadsheet of ones they’ve already purchased to make sure he gets no doubles. He really appreciated the efforts they go to and the time they take to make sure he gets something he likes. Aurora bought him the Lego titanic one Christmas— although it’s not the same he loves it.
• Mateo is a fan of country music, he bought a guitar and attempted to play it while the gang was sitting on the beach around a fire at sunset and got absolutely slimed out. Poor Mateo. Aurora took a photo and wanted to make t-shirts to mark the momentous occasion.
• Chance and Yoshimitsu have to compete at EVERYTHING. They grew up near a beach and are both pretty good surfers, so they competed at that. They also used to go on trips to the alps or aspen to skii/snowboard and they keep a running list of who can get down the fastest. They competed at running (chance is a little faster), who’s stronger (Yoshimitsu wins most of the arm wrestling or the ACTUAL wrestling). They also attempted to teach Aurora and Irving to surf (they swore never ever to try again) .
• Aurora and Yoshimitsu go on the most random side quests. You won’t hear from them all day and they’ll come back having received their certifications in scuba diving. Ash also does this but usually by himself, and he doesn’t reveal it to anyone until it’s necessary ‘oh, yeah guys I can actually pilot the submarine don’t worry’ ‘Ash what the fuck’
• Ash ADORES the holidays. Christmas has always been his favourite holiday, he always makes them get one of the real trees and chooses the biggest, prettiest one. The whole family gets involved in decorating the tree, and they do secret Santa, make Christmas cookies and Yoshimitsu always makes Christmas dinner. He also does thanksgiving!
• Mateo looooves taking photographs of everyone. He has actually amazing photographs of certain people who can’t stand being photographed (chance p demands Mateo delete them {he does not}). He also loves to do landscape photography of the areas around the mansion.
• Irving has been Franco’s n1 hater since college. Him and chance shared a couple classes together and they somehow became fast friends even though chance was a bit of a dick, he was nice enough when it was just Irving and him. Chance never really spoke about his family other than ‘I have a brother’, but he came back from Christmas break with a black eye, Irving put his lawyer skills to use and eventually got it out of him what happened, and he has hated that man ever since. In the short time he worked with Franco when Chance and yoyo were still in the gang he spent every meeting thinking about how likely he was to get shot if he just right hooked him.
• Aurora knows all the lyrics to Hamilton, she went to see the show so many times. Her favourite characters are Maria Reynolds and Angelica.
• Chance is an INCREDIBLY picky eater thanks to Franco starving him as a teen (mentioned in his POV). He didn’t have any control over his food, so now that he’s away from his father he takes control over it. Despite his complaining he trusts Yoshimitsu won’t give him food poisoning, he’s always wary at restaurants and has to be convinced to try new things (he usually doesn’t)
• Irving also loves Hamilton. His favourite character is burr, obviously. Prodigy lawyer to prodigy lawyer. He knows all his songs off by heart.
• Yoshimitsu was originally planning on bleaching his hair blonde but Rory convinced him not to…thank god for Aurora. He dyed his hair red himself and his bathroom ends up looking like a gory murder scene, and his head, face and hands look like he’d been bludgeoned.
• Chance has a personal vendetta against being ticklish, It’s a very closely guarded secret, but he really really hates it, he plots murder for a good couple of hours.
• Mateo is allergic to apples and has bad seasonal allergies that makes his eyes swell up.
• Ash has 20/20 vision, auroras is good enough not to need glasses, Yoshimitsu probably needs reading glasses, chance has a prescription but wears contacts, Irving also wears contacts. Mateo is practically blind his prescription is THICKKK.
• Aurora will forever keep the photos of chance and Yoshimitsu she took when they were kids (she was a teen, I think). Them in 90’s denim overalls? Adorable.
• Ash used to buy his pug outfits as a kid, he’d save his pocket money up and pay for it himself, he does the same thing as an adult only the clothes are much bigger because Seymour is…much bigger.
• Irving’s guilty pleasure movie is legally blonde (he likes law movies, sue him!)
• Chance loves flying
• Yoshimitsu has seen all the marvel films. Every single one.
• Aurora can do KILLER eyeliner. She sometimes practices on the boys, but hers is always sharp and perfect. She serves face.
• Mateo can tap dance
• Franco made Yoshimitsu play an instrument too, he chose the trombone. Franco quickly regretted making Yoshimitsu play the goddam trombone.
• Aurora can actually name a lot of the stars and constellations
• Irving found out he LOVED tiramisu on his and chances trip to Italy, he’s spent his time trying to find one that lived up to that exact tiramisu he had on that trip but has never found one.
• Chance LOVES Star Wars with all his heart, he’s an anakin skywalker sympathiser (me too, chance) and has a lot of opinions about it, he knows the most random bits of lore and was absolutely heartbroken with the way padme and anakins love story ended. The obi-wan series broke him. Aurora also loves Star Wars, her favourite characters are Rey and ahsoka. Her and chance fight tooth and nail over wether to watch the prequels or the sequels (both were gifted tickets to go do the build your own lightsaber thing, they LOVED it)
