Random Thieves Guild Headcanons
Vex is really great with kids, she says she hates kids but if she sees any of the kids from the orphanage she just friggin melts and gives them a treat or toy or something
Sapphire and Vex are partners in crime (literally)
Brynjolf is bisexual and tops when he’s with a woman but absolutely bottoms when he’s with a guy, you will fight me on this
Brynjolf is a mom friend
Vex is a tsundere
If Mercer could go back in time, he would kill himself before he killed Gallus, he was consumed by the promise of limitless power that the skeleton key entailed and made so many mistakes because of it
Gallus and Mercer reconciled after a while after Mercer was freed from his contract to Nocturnal
Everyone in the Guild is a really weird nuclear family
They also are a massive gossip circle so they always know all the tea on everyone in Riften
Tonilia acts like she doesn’t care about anyone, but she does look after the guild
Sapphire and the LDB quickly become friends
A party is almost always started in the Flagon whenever Karliah visits
Bryn and Karliah are pen pals
Instead of other Nightingales using their afterlife shadow luck manipulation to help all thieves in general, Mercer uses his specifically for the LDB, Brynjolf, and Karliah
Dying really put things into perspective for him and he decided to start righting his wrongs once he was a guardian of the sepulcher
Nocturnal secretly treats the Nightingales like her kids and if Skyrim had Facebook she would post to the other Daedra how proud she was of her dumbass children
When a Nightingale is ordained, Nocturnal turns their eyes purple as a sign of her ownership over them
This is why Karliah’s eyes are purple, and Gallus’ eyes were purple as well before he died
Mercer’s eyes are brown because of his stealing the Skeleton Key
The LDB retains their previous eye color as their Dragon Soul is harder to alter, but their eye color can flash to purple when they are experiencing a lot of emotion (despair, joy, rage, etc)
Brynjolf secretly simps for the LDB
Thrynn absolutely wrote ‘‘Advances in Lockpicking”
Brynjolf, Karliah, and the LDB go on heists together
The Guild shadow mark is placed near or on all properties the LDB owns
Riftweald Manor became another home for the LDB, but they just leave it open for members of the guild most of the time
Karliah always took immaculate care of the Nightingale Blade before giving it to the LDB, as it was her only means of remembering Gallus by
She goes to the Nightingale ordainment chamber in Nightingale Hall to meditate
Sapphire obsessively steals every type of sweet/candy/treat she can find
Niruin wants to start a brothel (this isn’t a headcanon, this is true)
They’re all thick as thieves
