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1: What does their bedroom look like?
Given that she lives alone and doesn’t often entertain, Vivian doesn’t really treat her bedroom as a sanctuary, the way she does when she’s lived with someone else. Other than the usual bedroom furniture - bed, nightstand, dresser, full-length mirror on the outside of the closet door - she’s managed to cram in a small desk that no one is allowed to touch, chair, and a single bookcase. The bookcase holds her collection of erotica, the books she’s finished reading while in bed and hasn’t gotten around to returning to her slightly more organized shelves out in the rest of her apartment, and, though she doesn’t make a point of this, whatever books are serving as inspiration or needed for research for her current writing project.
While she isn’t a slob by any means, Vivian also isn’t the neatest person in the world, and so there are more than a few articles of clothing strewn about and hanging off doors or furniture. Once in a while she makes an effort to organize and neaten the jewelry and beauty products strewn across the top of her dresser. Most of the time, though, it’s a jumbled mess of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings vaguely gathered on one side, and basic makeup products and tiny bottles of perfume oil mostly on the other, with her brush thrown anywhere and hair ties scattered all over.
The only things in her bedroom that are kept meticulously organized are her writings, filled notebooks and loose papers all neatly filed - and hidden - in the drawers of her desk, and her sex toys, which are always returned either to the closet, nightstand drawer, or one of the two chests under her bed after she’s cleaned them.
8: Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging
My first reaction is to say books, but Vivian doesn't consider books to be an indulgence so much as a necessity - they're actually an item on her budget, and they come before food.
I suppose it would be corsets, if only because all four of the corsets in her closet are custom made to her measurements and of materials of her choosing. But Vivian doesn't really have any particular feelings regarding purchasing them. Like most everything else she owns, they're something she wanted that wasn't a necessity, she had the financial resources for them, she purchased them. She enjoys the way the garments make her feel when she wears them, and they're usually something she wears for herself more than for any particular partner. In fact, she doesn't often advertise that she has a collection at all - it's something of a secret of hers.
11: Intellectual pursuits?
Aside from reading - and her personal library consists of both fiction and non-fiction, the former leaning heavily towards fantasy and historical fiction while the latter covers a wide variety of subjects - her one big intellectual pursuit is art history. Growing up near NYC, Vivian had the floor plans of most of the major art museums memorized well before she went to work for SHIELD, and she renewed her memberships at each of them when she was assigned the city. When her schedule allows - which is increasingly rarely nowadays - she'll audit art history courses at local colleges. Her specific interest is in late 19th and early 20th century art.
Among the non-fiction on her shelves are books covering feminism, art history, psychology, genetics, mythology, world religions, world history, gender studies, folklore, literary criticism, and several foreign language textbooks, to name a few.
13: Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?
Pansexual, though she’s likely to call herself bisexual if she doesn’t think whoever she’s speaking to is familiar with the term or how the two differ. Vivian recognizes that sexual orientation is a wide spectrum; and at the end of the day, so long as it’s between consenting adults, she really does not give a single fuck about who someone is or isn’t sexually attracted to. Unless they’re attracted to her, in which case many fucks are given and may even occur.
17: Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress
Vivian likes keeping things simple. Jeans, a blouse or nice shirt, and a jacket, if the weather warrants it. She figures the outfit can either be made more practical with boots, or dressed up slightly with heels. Getting dressed doesn’t take a lot of thought or planning on her part. Vivian learned as a teenager that she really doesn’t have the patience to try to mix and match clothing, or pick through a dozen possible outfits, so how easily it can be thrown together with anything else in her closet is a major factor in deciding whether or not to purchase an article of clothing. Bra and underwear go on, then usually the first clean pair of jeans that’s near to hand, and then she’ll glance through her closet to see if there’s a particular top that catches her eye or seems appropriate for whatever her plans for the day are. Once her shirt is on, she’ll do her hair and makeup, pull on socks and shoes, grab a jacket, and go.
The exception to the ‘no planning’ approach to dressing is, of course, if she’s deliberately dressing for someone else. Then there’s deliberation on everything from what (matching) undergarments will both be appreciated and work with the clothing she has in mind, to what stockings will have the best effect, to which garments and which shoes go best together.
22: Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?
Around people she knows she’ll doodle. Alone, with no one to see, she will write. Vivian's writing is probably her biggest secret. She's been writing since she was a child, but what comes through in her writing is a very different view of the author than what she lets people, even the ones she's close to, see of her. So far there is no one in her life who knows about this past-time.
Vivian is not religious. You can see more on that topic, in Vivian's words, over here.
44: Superstitions or views on the occult?
Vivian was always one of those kids who wanted to believe the ghost stories but never could quite bring herself to, because more than anything, she requires proof of things. She can be described as an occult agnostic - not entirely certain she believes in occult occurrences, but not entirely willing to discount the possibility altogether. Vivian does have one strange little quirk, however, which stems from having read far too much folklore at far too young an age - she will never say the words 'fae', 'faerie', or 'faeries' unless she's touching iron, and even then, only reluctantly. Because, as she says, "You don't want to draw their attention, and it's better safe than sorry".
*****In verses where the supernatural/occult is an accepted presence - when she's interacting with muses from shows like Supernatural, or members of SHIELD's Unnaturals department, Vivian's occult agnosticism becomes a specific thing - she accepts that the occult/supernatural exists in general, but requires proof before believing in any specific being/incident.
