✨: Sakki and Cidda have a weekly date night every Friday! They stay late at the office and get energy drinks from the vending machines, and usually end up in Sakki's treehouse in the northeastern end of campus.
✨: Eviia recently got one of those fancy Canthan life support systems for the medical wing! It was stupid expensive, but there's a lot of surplus budget from Q1 since the manned division is still grounded and working on lucrative terrestrial contracts.
I thought of a fun scene while trying to sleep last night and felt like writing it out. Nice and short, but it’s a good read if you want more insight on Yukii, Eviia, or Sakki’s personalities :3
Yukii leaned back in her wicker chair as she scrolled through the dense document on her datapad. The sunset felt warm on her face, streaming through the clouds to the balcony of her coworker’s apartment. “This… seems low,” she said, squinting at the screen.
“Business negotiations are one of my many specialties.” Eviia, the apartment’s owner, spoke without turning away from the balcony’s edge. The view of Ljos setting over the ocean was the only reason she felt regret over the planned move to Kryta, and she wanted to soak in the sight while she still could. She sighed. “I did have to commit to a longer lease to get the lower rate, but-”
“But you know our construction plans and don’t expect another move any time soon?”
“Exactly.”
Yukii chuckled. “Once we get that antenna built, we’ll be stuck there for a while.” She reached the end of the document and set the tablet down on the small glass table in front of her. Eviia turned her head to Yukii, still leaning on the railing.
“Stuck? It’s not like you to talk like that.”
“It was a joke, Eviia.”
“Ah.” She turned back to the ocean view. A faint beep played from inside the apartment, and the balcony door slowly opened. “Sakki. Nice to see you using the door for once.”
The new arrival stopped mid-step, halfway across the threshold. “I got tired of your downstairs neighbors always yelling at me for climbing on their railings!” Eviia could hear the pout on Sakki’s face.
“And?”
“And I don’t want to have to pay to replace their windowsill again.” She paused, noting Yukii’s confused expression. “How was I supposed to know that thing was held on with tape?”
Yukii laughed, stood up, and pulled Sakki in for a hug. “You’ll have to tell me that story later tonight, Novachaser.” The last word was spoken in a teasing tone, through a smile. Sakki pulled away and pumped her fist in excitement.
“Does that mean we got approved? Please please please tell me we got approved, I’m tired of our tiny office!”
Eviia picked the datapad up off the table and held it out for Sakki. “We did. With quite a large grant and a low lease on the facility grounds, might I add.” She paused and waited for Sakki to take the tablet. She did so, scrolled through until finding the relevant numbers, and whistled.
“Dang, you weren’t kidding. We might actually be able to build that dish our fearless leader keeps talking about!”
“Is that why you let me have the krewe chief title? To call me that?” Yukii put on a show of being hurt, but Sakki knew she was just teasing.
“Nah, I just hate the paperwork. You two are so much better at it than me anyway -”
Eviia cut her off there. “You’re a division leader, Sakki. That means paperwork for you too.”
I’m really proud of this composite so it deserves its own post! Eviia and Vivi are having a heated discussion over the volume of goods passing through the logistics hub while Sivva patiently waits for her sister Cidda to rescue her arrive.
12. How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?
Eviia keeps one of those Executive Backscratchers in her office at all times. If Sharper Image existed in Tyria, she'd have all of their corporate junk (purchased from her own salary, of course.) Other notable trinkets include a Neutonn's Cradle and one of those levitating globes made of laser-engraved stainless steel. The globe was a gift from Takka's team (that they made in-house) as thanks for dealing with all of their extraneous purchase requests.
19. What is their favorite number?
First place is Zero, because it means the budget is balanced perfectly :) But a close second is 1328, the year that the Foreign Soil Research Act was enacted by the Arcane Council. This act is what allows S.P.A.C.E. to receive grants from the colleges and council in Rata Sum despite being headquartered in southern Kryta and operating in Istan (soon to be Shing Jea).
32. Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke?
She absolutely loves to tell the story of the worst accident Takka ever had. Takka is a bit of a speed demon, and has an entire garage full of mono-cycles, so eventually she was bound to take a nasty spill. Thankfully, she was wearing safety gear, but she still ended up with a few broken bones and needed to be dosed with painkillers. Eviia, as the krewe's head physician, personally administered care to Takka, and had to listen to all of her slightly-out-of-her-mind ramblings. Takka denies this, but according to Eviia, she's very sweet and was more concerned about the trouble caused to the medical staff than her own pain and damage to her bike.
Eviia is a fun character to write about! She's a bureaucrat, very corporate and by the book, but it's clear she actually cares about the people in her organization, and not just the accounting. That being said, it's always nice to have someone willing to pick up that torch when it comes to getting funding for the next launch vehicle (and the fact that she can treat the chemical and magical burns from tinkering with the fuel just a bit too flippantly is a fantastic bonus as well). Thank you for the ask 💞
Hoeny, tawny, a d ember for Kanni and one more of your choice :3
Thank you for the ask! I'll be answering for Kanni and Eviia.
Honey - Have you ever considered marrying someone? What is your opinion on marriage in general?
Kanni: Oh, starting strong here, uh. Yes. I think. It's not really been anything I've thought about with any seriousness, but yeah I can see that being nice. In general. Probably in specific. Probably? It's a bit soon can we move on to the next question -
Eviia: No. Absolutely not. I don't date at all, actually. Not because I couldn't, mind you, I just don't see any point in any of it.
Tawny - Cats or Dogs? (or any animal for that matter)
Kanni: Definitely snakes. One of these days I'll be getting a terrarium installed in my- sorry, the observatory so I'll have some company on days when my partner is busy.
Eviia: Cats. Dogs and I don't tend to get along, and I'm afraid I don't have time to take care of anything more exotic. One of those hairless ones would be nice to have around the medical wing, now that I think about it...
Amber - Do you wield any sort of superpower? If so, what is it?
Kanni: Are you being literal or figurative? Because I'd definitely call the ability to take pictures of nebulae so ludicrously far away a superpower, but that's more of a group effort and can't really be used to, like, save the world or anything.
Eviia: I save lives and handle the entire krewe's worth of paperwork. What more could you possibly ask for?
