#cafe extras

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Babies

Top is Andry and Sol, bottom is Kent and Thorne

As my mother would say: It's Hard To Be Little

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Somehow I never know when this is ahead of time but

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to Sol, Pax, and Larkspur!!

And also, happy tdov to, you know,

Me!

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i was holding off on posting this cause i wanted to clean it up and maybe add color but at this point that seems unlikely so

cafe trio 

this is either soulmate au or like... One Month after where we currently are lmao

pose very much ref’d from this extremely good post by @mcnuggyy

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22, 30, 32?

22. Likes dragons

me

I think Kent and Art probably both spent a lot of their respective adolescences being very deeply into escapist fantasy. They actually maybe read some of the same series, since I think they’re about the same age; maybe they could bond over that if they ever met (which is nice because i...... do not think they would get along very well in general).

Art has put in some quality hours daydreaming about having a pet/best friend dragon that could let him ride away into the sunset a la The Never Ending Story 3 or whatever. But like maybe a fire-breathing one so it could just casually torch his dad’s house on the way out.

Kent is probably very attached to like... Xanth, or something, some series that he definitely read Too Young that is way more violent and/or Explicit than the kind of thing he would actually Like, but that Chase was into and recommended to him, and he got slightly obsessive about reading so he could talk about it with his brother. Then he spends several years Not Thinking About It until after the events of Cafe at which point he starts like... having interests again and remembers being really really into dragons as like. The one part of the series that wasn’t particularly violent or sexual.

Also I feel like Sol might be really into dragons because Liking Dragons Too Much feels like transmasc culture to me but that....... might actually be a sampling bias lmao

30. Will sends meme in the group chat

Pryce Gallegos speaks in 60% meme references and Ari..... genuinely might not know what the internet is? there are times when they really might as well be speaking different languages.

32. Likes socks

Art doesn’t like being barefoot (it makes him think of being locked in his bedroom/at Micah’s compound/in the hospital) and wears socks at all times, usually including sleep. Funky socks become the go-to easy gift to get him when you don’t have other ideas, like a dad getting ties for Christmas. He does not have room for them in his drawers and is not very sentimental about most physical objects; and also he has very small feet so regular men’s socks don’t really fit him, so a lot of them end up getting donated. He keeps any pair that have swear words on them, though. This is his favorite pair, courtesy of Rona:

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2, 20, 28, 29?

2. Has non-stop puns

Pax. At first it’s highly antagonistic and they only do it to piss you off; like all other aspects of their personality it evolves into sweet goofy nonsense if and when they decide they Actually Like You.

there is a very high chance of Pax and Sol developing a classic Pun Enthusiast/Pun Hater dynamic, in which case Kent will also quietly start making puns and Sol will relish the attention threaten to murder both of them.

20. To solve other peoples problems, they say to murder the problem

Art, obviously, both because he’s a Small Ball Of Under-Expressed Rage, and also because he doesn’t know how to express empathy appropriately and his go-to shorthand is, “that shit sucks, do you want me to kill that person for you.”

Also Raven, but she like... means it. And is disappointed if you tell her not to.

28. Gets lost easily

Ari knows the five blocks surrounding his apartment extremely well, and is Immediately Lost anywhere else, even if he’s been there before. His ability to form new memories is not great in general and “where things are in relation to other things” is one of the things he has the most trouble with. He only remembers the streets around his apartment because he’s Memorized Them On Purpose, like goes through a mental list in his head of what the buildings are and what he knows about them. It was very hard work and now he can Never Move of he’d have to do it all again.

29. Likes to work out

Pax! And Sol, actually, and I just realized in Soulmate AU where gyms are still open they can go together which makes me very happy :3

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👠 for Kent & Pax, Art, and Pryce? (I think footwear is neat tbh)

👠 What kind of shoes does your character usually wear in daily life?

Kent is fairly boring when it comes to most fashion, including shoes, though it’s not so much that he doesn’t have good taste as it is that he’s been too closeted for too long to really figure out what his taste in clothes is. He spends pretty much the whole apocalypse in the expensive but increasingly-fucked-up dress shoes he wore to the cafe in the first place.

Assuming they all survive the apocalypse, he’s going to have his first chance to have any kind of personal style at all, and Pax and Sol are going to give him different kinds of mostly-well-intentioned, mostly-very-bad advice.

Pax likes wild and crazy shoes, especially platforms with, like, spikes on them, though they usually just wear black combat boots when they’re working, so that’s what they’re stuck with at the moment. They’re happy enough about that, because it’s a bit hard for them to find interesting shoes that fit them, so they take extremely good care of their shoes, and they figure they’re better at fighting zombies when they don’t have to worry about getting blood on their shoes. They think the boots are boring so they don’t care what happens to them.

Art spends, like, a Wild amount of time barefoot. When he first meets Karim his feet are all cut up cause he’s just run like five city blocks with no shoes, which I guess is an artifact of not being allowed to leave the house for 3+ weeks. He’s also barefoot for the entirety of his time with Micah, obviously, considering he was literally In Bed when he and Karim were kidnapped, and he hasn’t put shoes on since then cause he’s been, you know, In A Hospital Bed.

All of which is to say that I... have no idea what kind of shoes Art wears?? I do know he has unusually small feet, and he probably prefers slip-ons.

Pryce owns one (1) pair of actual shoes and they are the red canvas sneakers he’s wearing when Ari Lifts Him Off His Feet. They’re pretty plain and at this point they leak really bad whenever it rains but they are also bright red and he’s actually weirdly attached to them.

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for fun, some soulmate au Visual Aids

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SO UH IN EXTREMELY EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!! i just got my Finished Commission from @pittssmitts​, an artist i LOVE and UH

BIG EYE EMOJIS ITS PERFECT........ soft apocalypse trio art. i shed tears. look at my idiot children.

and more importantly Matteo’s art is ALL quality and his rates are VERY reasonable and i cannot recc him enough tbfh