About the Empress odile au: where are the rest of the family? Do they meet? If they meet, are they on good or bad terms with odile? Does loop tell siffrin? Or any of them? About any of. Yknow?
I have been DYING to answer this!
So! As far as The Empress is concerned, she has no idea these other people exist. She’s never met the others in this AU, staying in Ka Bue instead of traveling and eventually rising to power because of coup d’état.
However! As part of her extreme agenda to reshape the traditionalist values outlawing Body Craft, she did recently approve for the establishment of the first House of Change in Ka Bue, which is to be run by Head Housemaiden Mirabelle and General Isabeau of the Defenders. Mirabelle and Isabeau haven’t met the Empress yet, but they hear that she is as terrifying as she is stubborn. Though she is allowing for missionaries of Change in the land of Expressions, so… maybe she really isn’t so bad?
As for Bonnie and Nille, they migrated to Ka Bue years ago in order to get as far away from Bambouche as possible. Now, they co-own the best crabbing restaurant the nation has ever seen, baby.
Loop knows none of this, and is languishing in the palace as Odile’s “prisoner” under the full impression that this is just some sick, twisted universe where Odile is the only one of the party that exists. To torment them or something. Is that sound logic? No. But it’s insulting enough having to hang with one shallow imitation of their old family. They don’t need three more, and so they choose not to think about it. Little do they know that the others are closer than they could possibly imagine…
(No news on Siffrin, though. Maybe they just don’t exist in this universe? Who knows for sure.)