#kidquest ask

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awesome lesbian couple + evil and intimidating horse -> Soleil/Sophie + Avel

you have no idea how much effort i put into getting them to blush for the meme.

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you know i always love to hear about whats going on with soleil over here if youve got anything <333 but if not… maybe like ignatius?? whats goin on with him

I honestly need to put more thought into Soleil. She's still happy and likes to spread cheer around with people, and likes women. A bit of a voracious reader thanks to her mom. Though she kinda... sucks... at magic, though she's a bit better at it than some of the other people around the group hi physical guys.

I'll definitely need to discuss this with my co-creator to flesh her out more, but as an enjoyer of soleil her impact on the group is still There it's just that her backstory is just. she was raised lovingly by her father and mother and makes jokes about things and is very, very oblivious to the girls with a crush on her. (she does still flirt it's just in a heirs of fate way and she's very oblivious to her own crush #autism)

now, IGNATIUS. I can talk about him a bit. :3

(got long. under cut.)

see, Ignatius is one of the three kids (with Sophie and Percy) that were sent out to try and bring Kana and Dwyer (and their group) back to Xander for some purpose. They do not actually know the real purpose. because percy ran off before Siegbert was able to fully inform him Oops. Ignatius is friends with Percy and Sophie! This is all fun and fine!

Ignatius, alongside Sophie, are immediately doubtful upon seeing the kids but are loyal to their parents and have to be swayed via chatter. He's also a bit easily scared so hearing that kana can turn into a dragon followed by it Happening does convince him. But he does his best anyway!!

... so then it's like... he's friends with... sophie, daughter of beruka (a retainer), and percy, son of elise's retainers.... and he's just the son of two border guards. how the hell did he end up at the castle.

Well, well well! when he was young, he and his parents were out in the town. He got a bit nervous about some of the crowds so he went off to hang out near the edge of the forest. This was where he met a VERY young percy, crying his eyes out. This was then also followed by Sophie, who was still super bad at expressing herself at the time, worried out of her mind because she was supposed to be babysitting percy.

The three of them have a fun time playing at the edge of the woods for a long time until their parents all come by looking for THEM, worried. And the three of them introduced themselves to each other and, due to really liking each other, promising they'll try to meet up again!!

It doesn't really happen. Not for a while. But Ignatius always goes out to the edge of town to stare at the castle, where he knows they are. And Charlotte is especially encouraging him to try and go ask about that knight's daughter, but he really doesn't like that pressure, so he resists... up until there's a tournament to be held!

People are getting antsy at the lack of war, and Xander thought a good way to let some of that energy out is to have a tournament. And those who impress him might get some type of reward.

Charlotte is like omgggg you should do this. Benny also agreed. And Ignatius just kind of wishes he had a chance to see his royal-adjacent friends again. So, he agrees, and he goes.

And he does very, very well. He's good at armored combat, and not many of the others participating are good against it. Not even Sophie.

Sophie, who sees him and goes IGGY???

So after that tournament is concluded, Sophie and Ignatius excitedly meet back up, and Percy is also there (he was forbidden from participating in the tournament.) Ignatius, even if he DIDN'T place well, is invited a spot on the knight's crew with Sophie. And Ignatius is hesitant because he LIKES being with the border guard crew, with his dad. But... well, some part of him also thinks of his mom, and the pressure that comes with wanting some more money. And he kinda hates that he's thinking about that!

But he also wants to be with these friends again. So he accepts.

And he has a very nice time being with them.

... skip forward some time later after the whole capturing kana and dwyer debacle, and suddenly they're a PART of that group, and Ignatius is nervous but trying his best not to be. And even more so when a group of thieves attack where they're trying to sleep for the night. Hi nina's crew. But after that situation is smoothed over, they have a whole lot more people traveling with them.

The one person other than Sophie who tries to comfort him about this... is the nina thief oc, Fenrir.

Hi. Yeah Fenrir is Ignatius' thief boyfriend, the type of guy Ignatius' needs: not concerned about royal life at all, able to comfort him in a way he understands... and also magically strong.

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Anyone from Shiro, Nina and Kana, is anyone else not cis?

this was always the intended dwyer experience also. We have discussions surrounding their rescue of Corrin from her feral dragon form where we stuck a 'maybe refer to me neutrally??' from dwyer in there, because Dwyer agenderism.

he would SO benefit from being Not Either Gender being a possibility. He tried Kana's way of things once, hated it, and retreated back.

additionally: both asugi and velouria are a big shrug regarding the gender they were assigned at birth.

Asugi's chill with going with whatever pronouns people use for him. and as far as Velouria's concerned, the pronouns she uses are I/me/myself (because that's how she refers to herself), and her parents use the terms Pup and Darling for her. Modern au, they'd probably have access to other nonbinary terms (asugi any/all pronoun user, and velouria just seeing the agender flag and going 'yeah that fits' and not changing anything else)

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Very tall, long straight hair, usually closed eyes but opens them sometimes, tanned, Onmyoji outfit with red accents, red flower in her hair, thunder based scar on her back, Izana's forehead marking on the back of one of her hands.

basically looks really similar to her father but with either setuna blue or blonde hair. wait would setsuna blue turn lime if partially bleached? if yeah shes lime

i cant wait for Nikita's 5 seconds of screen time <3 feel free to change her name tho

no colors because i draw like that but hello here's izana daughter. nikita is going to get 5 seconds of screentime getting her first Big Prophecy and since it's about fucking VALLA she's gonna get confused about it.

we've decided dwyer's met her before when jakob took him to take your kid to work day.

hair color can be either the setsuna blue or the lime of lightly bleaching it.

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hi gamers :) as the resident Hinata Guy i need to know about kidquest hisame. rinkah is such a good choice as his mom btw, flame tribe hisame goes hard. and i also said “YES!” out loud when i saw he is not only shipped with shigure but also poly (like his dad) FUCKING POGGGGGG

HIII FRIEND HIIIII!!!

I yammered about hisame, below cut.

So, Hisame is both heir of the flame tribe and also goes out to visit his dad in regular Hoshido. Echoes of the deeprealm dynamic but without the deeprealms existing. He goes out there to help broaden his horizons a bit, and help bring new knowledge back. The Flame Tribe is opening back up after Rinkah married a dude there.

He says he's good at switching roles between being the heir of the tribe and also being just a regular guy, and sometimes that is true!

but it DOES play up his bossy tendencies that are already existing in his character. And he does have a Thing where people have to live up to their roles if he sees them, which is why when he sees his dad's friend's kid Kiragi who is the current heir apparent due to Shiro being missing acting super bubbly and energetic he's like no no no we're supposed to be equals! you're supposed to be on my level as a formal leader. I'm going to set a good example and be formal.

which kiragi, of course, disagrees with! but that's hisame for you. Hisame gets to see that Kiragi's way does work for the kid group they're with, and Hisame goes along when the Prophecy gets handed out because he needs to make sure they can all handle themselves and then keeps going because he made a bond with Shigure and he... he sees something that worries him.

anyway hinata is TRYING to make Hisame be a little lighter on the heir stuff, but. This is essential. Hisame thinks Hinata is cheating on his mother? Hinata is not doing this. he is just in a poly relationship with Oboro, Takumi, and Rinkah. It just kind of happened, probably not a formal thing at all. But Hisame is kind of blowing off this advice to be less formal.

Rinkah is even trying to tell him. but hisame is like this is a SCANDAL and you're being forced to live with it!!!! and Rinkah just kinda has to laugh and give it up. She does encourage the Kiragi rivalry. Maybe it'll spark his own flame (flame tribe metaphor way).

uhhh what else. hisame and shigure were only really casual acquaintances before the journey, as with hisame and caeldori, and it's only really when their journey gets going that they bond. and for shigure especially. and then later on, Hisame sees a kindred spirit in Forrest....

Oh! And, of course, he's still into pickles because his dad hated it. he has a stash in the flame tribe mountains. he even brought as many as he could as possible before his trip into Hoshido this time and he's worried about it getting low during his travels to nohr!!

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May I ask which 4 adults are coming to Valla because depending on the answer I may be even more worried lol-

Hinoka, Laslow, Selena, and Odin!

one of these may be more surprising than the others.