Musings about Food Fantasy

Mod's name is Kit, though historically, there has been a mod named Nicole. Hablamos Español, pero no nos acostumbrado. 課長キーの日本語がちょっと…それでも、僕は努まますよね！

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The Two Types of Headcanon:

Ones you spend hours researching and double-checking the cannon to make sure it's in-character and reasonable without conflicting with well-established timelines, likely complex in the connections it makes between canon plot points and to justify its fitting snuggly between them

Baseless BS but close to your heart so it's canon now

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Crab LB: Hey, can I get a sip of your water?

Long Bao: It's not water.

Crab LB: Ah, vodka! I like your style, bro. Nice—

Long Bao: It's vinegar.

Crab LB: Ha... what?

Long Bao: It's vinegar, Crabby.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Turkey, Turducken, American Corn Bread, Mashed Potatoes, Salad, Eggnog, and the rest of the Food Souls!

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I just summoned Soft Serve, and I already ship her with Milk Tea.

Classical Literature Girlfriends 🤍🖤🤍🤎🤍

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I've summoned four Souls in less than two days, and I feel bad for not having the opportunity to settle each one in and learn what they're like :(

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I have successfully commissioned Zitui Bun, and ho boy. There is something to talk about.

He has a rabbit.

The rabbit's name is Momo. He looks like a manjū, and eats willow branches to the dismay of his owner, and he's so round and fat that you can plausibly mold him into different shapes.

And he and Zitui Bun have matching little flower adornments.

I thought that this was very important for you all to know.

Also, Zitui Bun himself is a delight, but more on that later.

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Headcanon #10

Sandwich leads games of cards while everyone's on break at the restaurant.

What are they plying? I don't know. They change it up every so often, too, because that's the beauty of cards~

Sandwich loves teaching the others his favorite games, having people to play with, and being able to bond with the coworkers he's been serving alongside since his summoning.

Hawthorn Ball loves learning the ins and outs of the gameplay and strategy. She's catching on fast, but still approaches each game with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Similarly, Jiǔniàng is in the learning stages, though she's more reluctant to get into it. However, the shy yet deceptively-clever girl really blossoms as her skill, and in turn, confidence, grows.

Jello enjoys hanging out with work-friends, quickly becoming friend-friends, away from the pressures of an idol's life. Pudding plays too, as he fancies is his duty as her manager, but comes to find he genuinely enjoys playing, despite himself; it jives with his managerial, logical mentalscape.

Cheese is a good player, and she clearly has a lot of fun. Like, she's super theatric. Ah, yes, she sees your full house, but! Read it and weep!! Royal Flush!!! She and Takoyaki are similar, energy-wise, and often play off each other, but Takoyaki is far more into talking smack than the dramatic reveal.

Skewer is a cutthroat card-sharp, and unapologetically. She's here to win.

Ume Ochazuke spends half her time in Big Sister Mode, giving little tips to the littler or newer Food Souls as they're learning the ropes, and the other half playing like a shark, at players she sees as being able to take it, like Pudding and Skewer. Sometimes, with that sweet little grin, she's bend the rules, just to see if the others will catch her. Watching her is chaos. She's just having fun.

Rice doesn't play, really. She's fine watching, and ho boy is this a show.

Then, one day... Pancake comes in with three decks of Uno cards mixed together...

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Headcanon #idk, 9? Let's say 9.

Coffee sings "Cup of Roasted/Poisoned Coffee" from The Guy who Didn't Like Musicals as he goes about his restaurant/café duties. He unironically likes this musical, low-key mostly because of Beanies, and you better believe he hams it tf up for "Poisoned Coffee."

Chocolate sometiems plays the role of Mr. Business and harmonizes with his boyfirend, because he is... the latte hottay.

Bonus: Black Tea barges in sometimes shouting "WHAT IS THIS?! A WHOLE 'NOTHER A-SECTION???" with Milk standing behind her, hands forming a heart where they rest on her hip. Yeah, that's right; if she wanted to be in a musical, she could be in a damn musical. She'd kill it in Brigadoon.

(I actually do think she would do well in Brigadoon ._. I mean, she's canonically this etherial sea spirit who comes and goes in the cold ocean mist, if Pirate's stories from the Balcony / VIP Room are to be believed, and you can't tell me that the modern UK and teas don't go hand in hand. So... consider this a bonus headcanon.)

Tiramisú is on vocal rest. I said she's on v— damnit, Emma.

[reference video for all my fellow Food Fantasy fans who didn't sign up for this Starkid nonsense:]

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when people ask why i play so much pokémon

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BOOOOOOOYYY am i EXCITED for ZITUI BUN SHARDS

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there is a shanty for every situation, including guillotining the rich

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—Junmai Daiginjō, to Mackerel Ichiyaboshi

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A Foundational Headcanon

With the rise in Fallen attacks and the general population decline associated with living in an apocalypse where all food is hunted/forged by the rich and/or literal immortal supernatural warriors, which is all canon, it's fair to say that the hotel industry isn't booming.

Sure, you, master attendant are well practiced in the dark and ancient art of summoning powerful spirits to do your bidding, with your diamonds and embers and crystals galore, but your real advantage was buying and fixing up one of those gigantic inns from the bygone pre-apocalypse days.

You've converted the majority of the ground floor into a restaurant, and in the boiler room and basement, away from the eyes of polite society, you've set up your laboratory, where you summon Souls and hatch Fallen eggs in attempts at domestication. At first, you didn't know how you would fill all the space offered by the building, but once your staff grew to its approx. 200 individuals, it almost makes you woozy to imagine not having it.

You tried to ensure your Food Souls rooms neighboring those with whom they've had centuries-long friendships, and eventually some of them decide to move in together. You don't have any roommates, though, because poor thing, your room is essentially your office. However, the fact that you live unaccompanied in that room doesn't stop Food Souls from checking in on you, nor does it stop a few from spending the night.

There are more little headcanons here and there —like Coffee wanting to open Satan's Coffee House 2.0 in the penthouse a la Raskin's The Westing Game, or the Double Scoop twins wanting separate rooms, but then one of them just bunks with Moon Cake across the hall for a night and then the two go back to wanting to be together— but all in all, you and your Food Souls live happily under one formally-hotel roof.

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I just downloaded the Japanese voice overs, and... oml I used to study Japanese, but it's slapping me in the face how little I remember, like, am able to follow and recognize as it's spoken. But! I love hearing the alternate expressions of the same characters; gives ya a better feel for what the creators were going for, y'know? Or, they reaffirm impressions you had of them in your primary language, or it lets you step outside your own sphere to see how your and another culture handle the tyoes of characters... or any of combination thereupon. All good and cool things.

But all in all, most of the characters I've heard speak sound 150% more Non-Binary in Japanese and that makes my little nb heart flutter~

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I’m not 100% sure I even know who these people are. It’s Doughnut, and… Beggar’s Chicken? Male!Toso? Dang, that hiatus killed me -_-

UPDATE IS IT BUTTER TEA I AM AN IDIOT

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I have been corrected again. This is... Fondant Cake and... Champagne. According to anonymous sources. Idk these folks.

But! Reblogged with the correct tags so that y'all who DO know them can read whatever that QR code gives you.

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So, I checked the blog inbox for the first time in, what, two years? I'm so sorry for abandoning all of you who asked for things 😖 I'm starting on some of these prompts, but I full-on already have other writing obligations, and with any of them, I get about 1k words in before entirely forgetting they exist 😳

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Are we sure she's grilled squid? Because she can roast 😭