#silvaiarin

[madame-vera]

bit of a strange one today, but tell me about a signature dish that your OCs make! Is it a family recipe? Something they make when they’re sad? Stressed? And for people with original universes this is a chance for you to infodump and/or flesh out the cuisine of your world!

👀👀👀 oh i love this one! fun XD

Verita

Jjamppong (spicy korean/chinese seafood noodle soup) - she cooks it from scratch with the help of her partners family. Everything from the seafood stock to the spice mix to the sauces to the hand pulled noodles (La Mian) are all carefully prepared together. As such it's a rare meal for special occasions and when they really really feel like it. She makes is very spicy.

Her everyday signature dish is Capped Stew. It's a thick stew made with water, animal fat, mushrooms and whatever veges she happens to have available. She favours rabbit, sweet potato and ginger. It's called 'Capped' because she also steams a thick, naan-like, herby flat bread over the top of the pot while it cooks, like a bready headcap. Afterwards it's eaten as is or ripped and dropped into the stew like soup dumplings.

Yuuji

Makes a good curry rice, spicy and savoury rather than sweet. He makes good flavoured rice balls too.

Myra & Lillith

Myra makes a good curried beef soup. Lillith makes good stacked pancakes.

Silvaiarin & Lale

Silvaiarin is good at making shredded vegetable fritters, cheesy chicken bakes and skirt cakes (small friand like cakes, very fluffy, shaped like meringues). Lale is good at steamed stuffed seaweed, charcoaled handpies and Kilnsly balls (sticky dough balls, fried or baked, stacked for coating)

Celine & Filor

Their cooking experience is limited to military rations so I'd reconsider before eating anything they cook for you.

Florian

He does the best cupcakes ever. And individual cob loaves

[madame-vera]

name the OC (again)! — which of them confesses first? and why? how does it happen? (this is ur permission to ramble about them for a bit ehehe) and if you’re one of those mean authors /t who doesn’t let the characters get together, why?

Now this is tricky see, my OCs are the sort who just drifted together.

When asked when they first started dating they can never give a straight answer, or at least not an immediate one, as the best either can manage is to pick out the vague bit in-between definitely were and definitely weren't. This made things very difficult to explain to Silvaiarin's family, the poor thing. Lale didn't have to worry because it all happened right in front of their side of the family. Their sisters find it hilarious.

Silvaiarin (Vaia)

Vaia first realised Lale loved him and they were together when Lale kept seating him at the table spot reserved for partners and Lale's family kept referring to him as such. After he noticed that all the previous tender moments linked together in his mind and it all just clicked.

He first received verbal confirmation of their relationship when Lale started calling him 'Zophiana', a cringy overly sweet term of endearment along the lines of soulmate and beloved usually reserved for long lasting married couples, people with decades to their union.

He first realised he loved Lale when he found himself thinking upon him fondly when he was clumsy and feeling a hurtful longing whenever parted for too long and trying to think up ways to get back. (They live on separate continents and had family obligations to see to. They only met for family business and free trips.)

Vrulalkah (Lale)

Lale first realised Silvaiarin loved him and they were together when Vaia used any reason to hold hands and cuddle and go on dates.

He first received verbal confirmation of their relationship when Silvaiarin kept referring to his family as his own and vice versa. He was very flustered when even his own mother kept dragging Vaia around town and calling him hers.

He first realised he loved Silvaiarin from the first time they met and he kept getting flustered.

All these happened at different moments so there's no clear answer.

[madame-vera]

what jobs do your OCs have? if they don't currently work (be it legal or black market dealings), what occupies their time?

Verita: is an advisor and high ranked government worker specialised in the making and enaction of federal policies and liaison work with others. Her main achievements are in the medical, military and immigration sectors.

Myra: makes prosthetics and travels a lot. She especially loves the homecall part of her work.

Lale: works in agriculture & domestic affairs in the family business. He's an administrator and decision maker but sometimes he goes to help out to keep his perspective grounded. When his family shifts major responsibilities he sometimes helps out with port management and logistics.

Silvaiarin: sometimes helps with the sociocultural part of his in-laws business. But mostly he acts as a translator for people and translates various books. He also likes helping out with events at the library.

A/N: These are just possibilities. I'm still deciding for sure. (except Myra)

[madame-vera]

if your OCs were put into a college AU, what would they be like? (if your characters are already in a college setting, what would they be like in a fantasy AU?)

Verita

Vera would be absorbed in research projects and have the weirdest double degrees while dipping into various other courses/subjects whenever she has the time. She's the sort who'd have a professor hand her a degree/diploma and be shocked because apparently she'd managed to meet the requirements while messing about. She'd probably focus on agricultural technologies with a focus on fungi, micro-organisms or fermentation.

She wouldn't be in any clubs but she'd help out with major events and tutor/guide new students. The women would especially love her because no aggressive man could get past her. She'd get along with most of the professors, and she'd avoid or be very extremely diplomatic with those she wasn't. She'd be seen as weirdly well-connected and respected among the whole campus, and maybe partnering ones as well. if you want to be introduced to someone you've no connections with she'd who you go to.

But she'd only have a few truly close friends. Exactly as she likes it.

Silvaiarin

He'd absolutely go to another nation, or even a whole other continent, for his studies. He'd take the time to learn about the culture of his place of stay and explore the place until he knows it like his own home. Vaia would come to love the place as home and maybe even stay there for good. His sister predicted this, his parents did not.

His course would likely be a cultural/social science type and a double degree with whatever his interest is in at the time. If it's available it would be a part time study so he has more time to work and have fun about the place.

Myra

She works on prosthetics so she'd go to the best place with medicine/biotechnology/engineering and the like. She'd hyperfocus on it and delve very deeply into into the research circles, get permission for personal projects and try to get into practical programs, especially in rural areas. She'd be well known at the local bars and cafes (she does blow off steam sometimes)

[madame-vera]

if asked, in canon, how would your OCs respond to the question, “Are you interested in finding a romantic partner?

Verita: Not yet. I'll wait until these pricks (enemies with a fondness for starting on loved ones when killing) are sorted out (dead. very very dead.). Anyone looking for a relationship with me now is just asking to get killed. Wouldn't mind a few lovers though. Why? Are you looking? (teasing) she does get a partner though

Myra: Eh. I mean, I'm not saying no but I'm not really looking either. If it happens it happens

Lale & Silvaiarin: they just sorta look at you and hold up their matching wedding bands

If it's pre-marriage Lale would either get super flustered and try to escape or blather on about his darling until the asker wishes they could just poof away and never ask ever again. Silvaiarin would just smile at you and move the conversation on. He's not upset or nervous or hiding it or anything, he's just curious how you haven't noticed what he considers a pretty blatant relationship. He's looking forward to seeing how long it takes/how much you see until you get it. Basically, he's laughing at you but being polite about it.

[madame-vera]

An embarrassing personal anecdote of your OC(s) and/or what other characters like to tease them about

His family loves teasing him because he gets super clumsy when he's flustered, especially around his spouse. He was so clumsy when he first started courting them his siblings were starting to seriously wonder if he'd live long enough to make it to his wedding day. And if he did if he'd make them a widower on day 1. His partner didn't find out they were the cause of his clumsiness until his siblings blabber on their wedding day.

What his partner and family likes teasing him about the most is his most embarrassing personal anecdote, and the reason he *mysteriously* wears gloves everywhere.

When he was young and drunk he wandered into a tattoo parlour and left with and a colourful kissmark tattoo on the base of his fingers.

It's a kissmark because his partner kissed his hand with lipstick on. It's colourful because the lipstick was applied by his young nieces. He'd ordered the tattoo to look exactly like the lipstick mark on his hand. He's embarrassed in part because he was drunk and underage, and because it's just so sickly sweet & adorable.

His own mother was too busy laughing to be upset. When his partner finally wrestled the glove off him, they couldn't decide if whether to be flattered, happy or relieved that they hadn't kissed him somewhere more obvious, like his face.

They love it to bits though, seeing it always makes them all happy and buzzy, they showed it to their parents when they questioned his devotion and their sister even used it as a wedding story. When strangers ask about it, it's the number one way to keep their partner chatting their forever as they go over ALL the details.

They especially like that they can see the events of the night on the mark, a dark splotch from chocolate, a purple streak from where their youngest niece got in her sisters way to force her own colour, a sparkly pink from their mothers guiding hand, a bit of bright green an older niece. It's a mess but they love it to bits, it always brings a smile to their face.