every important/interesting/fun detail i noticed in roman holiday for anyone who can’t and does not want to read the book (SPOILERS AHEAD)
-roman was a teenager (an old enough one to be a strong fighter) when neo was eight, making him most likely 8-10 years older than her.
-at the same time, lil miss malachite was in her 30s. With this in mind, roman was probably also in his 30s by the time of his death in v3, meaning neo was at least 20 years old at that time.
-lil miss has apparently had the same outfit for roughly the past 15 years.
-neo played video games as a kid, including plenty of driving and flying simulations. gamer neo confirmed.
-neo seems to be able to vocalize as far as things like gasping, sighing, and laughing. her laughing is said to sound like hiccuping.
-neo’s heterochromia is natural, and her parents would be her wear a brown contact lens over her pink eye when in public.
-neo’s imaginary friend, who she got her current name from, was purely in her head as a younger kid, but later became one of her illusions.
-neo uses texting to communicate when she can’t do so with gestures.
-roman was a member of the spiders
-melanie and miltia did indeed once live with their mother in mistral, and roman shared a safehouse with them, as he was the only person lil miss trusted to protect them. roman seemed to care for them as younger sisters, though finding them annoying.
-the twins are a year older than neo
-roman worked with a woman named chameleon while part of the spiders, who had a one-sided friendship with and crush on him.
-capivara - giant ratlike grimm with glowing red streaks running along its body, with white barbs on the end of a long tail, long, sharp claws, and double rows of finger-length teeth. comes from the deserts in menagerie.
-neo had a tutor named aurelia, rather than attending any school.
-roman was kicked from the spiders after undergoing side jobs for his own purposes, after which he moved to vale.
-the mistrilian city of kuchinashi, the setting of the grimm campaign, in mentioned, as is a character from it, lemon.
-roman’s mother left him in an orphanage in the town of wind path as a child, kickstarting his inability to trust people.
-neo literally tried to learn to pick locks from online tutorials.
-neo picked up the idea of using a parasol as her weapon after she used one to slow her fall from jumping out of a window after accidentally setting the family mansion on fire.
-’the girl that fell through the world’ was named alyx- very clearly an alice in wonderland reference.
-after the fire incident, neo’s parents sent her to an all-girls academy.
-two huntsman show up named roch szalt and kandi floss and i’m laughing my fucking ass off. and you guys thought trivia was a bad name.
-we meet junior’s father, hei xiong, and the three bears references are very blatant. the guy loves oatmeal. he knew neo’s father and used to bring her fairy tale books as presents.
-roman got his pumpkin motif because it was the first thing offered to him to cover up the tattoo he’d gotten while working for the spiders.
-hey howdy hey the malachite twins ended up at the same academy as neo. they were bitter enemies.
-neo was made to use a voice app to communicate at the academy, which she hated.
-the fairytale ‘the gift of the moon’ is referenced.
-neo does indeed use her semblance to make half of her hair pink to begin with, but later dyed it in order to save aura.
-neo met roman for the first time after following the malachite twins and saving him after the twins and a bunch of spiders corner him.
-neo’s emblem comes from the symbol of the academy, and represents harmony and balance, which is explained to her by the academy’s headmaster after she approves of neo’s change of look.
-neo was secretly tasked by her headmaster to keep an eye on and capture roman, and she properly learned to fight there. of course, as she gets closer with roman, she ends up wanting to help him instead.
-the first time neo referred to herself as neopolitan is when she introduced herself to roman. it was initially a cover to not reveal too much about herself to him, but she decided it felt right and took on the name for real.
-there is an initial bit of what (ahem) some people might consider ship tease when neo and roman talk for the second time, but this is dropped very quickly and can probably just be passed off as neo being an at-the-time 18yo girl who’d not really had any close encounters with older men before. she does give him a kiss on the cheek near the end, but then she also tussles his hair, implying more of a familial bond (but we knew that already).
-roman had been wearing a bowler had for years, but it was neo who gave him the one he wore in the show. the feather has a transponder in it that neo uses to find him. she also later gives him the outfit he wears.
-neo designed her weapon, but roman ordered it for her from a weaponsmith in mistral.
-remnant has a ‘dr pepper’ copycat called ‘dr piper’.
-a car described as a sedan is mentioned. either real-life names for types of cars are used in remnant, or this was an oversight.
-neo’s been able to pilot aircraft since she was 18. she learned from online training videos.
-lisa lavender plays a role in saving roman and neo at the book’s climax. not joking.
-at age 18, neo was too short to see over a steering wheel :’)
-roman doesn’t kill neo’s parents :/ they instead end up killed, along with hei xiong, when their mansion explodes.
-glynda is apparently vale’s most famous huntress.
