I feel like as a fandom we don't talk enough abt the aurinkos having the cure for radiation sickness and the implications
the ruby replicated the cure mother imperfectly so it only had one use, sure. but presumably the ruby KNOWS it can't perfectly replicate things so it's probably able to choose which parts to copy.
it chose radiation sickness. we NEVER see the ruby and vespa have any meaningful interaction, we never see them caring for one another. it could have chosen to attempt to cure addiction for jet, generic physical healing for juno but instead it looked at its FAMILY and saw that vespa needed the cure mother the most despite how minimal their interactions are and I love this just because that's what family is it's helping those amongst you who need it simply because you love them
(under cut because there are a Lot) ((Also spoiler warning up to Thief's Honour pt 2))
- Juno leaves notes in his and Nureyev's room on the Carte Blanche if he gets up before him so Nureyev doesn't worry he left again
- One of the main reasons Nureyev is scared of aging is because he's already lived a full hallucinated life and doesn't want to waste any second of his real one
- Juno wears a trenchcoat because Rita was really into old Earth noir detective streams when they first met and she bought a trenchcoat for him. And it was the first gift someone had bought for him in years.
- Juno still wears that trenchcoat to this day
- Nureyev once bought/stole Juno a new trenchcoat and while Juno thought it was a really nice trenchcoat and a sweet gesture, he never wore it because its not the one Rita got him
- Nureyev likes to see how many of Vespa's knives he can steal before she notices and yells/threatens him for them back
- Vespa taught Buddy how to play Rangian Street Poker
- The Ruby Seven is green because wherever it's from, Ruby is their word for green
- Rangian Street Poker varies very slightly across Outer Rim planets, and even more so on the Solar planets
- New Kinshasa's version of Rangian Street Poker is the most similar to the Solar version out of all the Outer Rim Variations
- Nureyev and Rita make each other jewelry. Rita hands the jewelry she makes to Nureyev directly, while Nureyev sneaks what he makes under Rita's door at night, or leaves it on her seat for her to find in the morning
- Rita is from the Cerberus Province or someplace similar to it. Or she spent a lot of time sneaking out to the Martian sewers while growing up and befriended the Martian sewer rabbits
- Jet didn't know how to wash his hair properly and one time it got especially greasy after changing the Ruby's oil or something, so Rita showed him how to clean it properly. Since then they try to have a 'spa day' sort of thing once a week
- The Mechanisms are somewhere Out There in Junoverse
- Buddy Aurinko has met the Mechanisms, and Vespa has not. She is definitely not jealous about that. Nuh uh.
- Buddy is naturally taller than Nureyev but she does not know this because Nureyev is always wearing heels that make him appear an inch taller than her. No matter what shoes she herself chooses to wear that day.
- Nureyev kept the handcuffs from the Murderous Mask ep
- The entire Carte Blanche has matching friendship bracelets that they made together (suggested by Rita and organised by Buddy). The Ruby Seven's bracelet was made by Jet and is tied around its steering wheel. Nureyev also made it one later on, which he hid under one of the seats.
- Juno has 10 eyepatches he frequently wears and they are all identical.
- Juno and Slip would've loved each other if they had the chance to meet properly. Platonically or romantically it doesn't matter. Either way, they would pretend to be jealous of each other around Nureyev for a while, until one day Nureyev catches them watching a shitty stream together, making fun of the bad writing.
- Slip didn't want to be revived
- Slip was sometimes conscious enough to hear everything that happened around him
- Slip calls Nureyev "Petya" either because that's the Brahman pronunciation of it or because he misheard the first time they met and it stuck as a nickname
- If Petya is the Brahman pronunciation of Peter, then Mag was the one who changed his name to "Peter" so it "sounded more Solar"
- Buddy and Vespa dye their hair together
- One time they were real tired while dying their hair, and accidentally switched the colours around. For a few months Buddy had green hair and Vespa had red hair. Vespa has a photo of her and Buddy with swapped hair colours as her comms homescreen
- Juno used to think diamonds were beautiful, and now can't stand the sight of them
- Ben would teach Juno to dance (I think this one is canon? Juno's "I had a good teacher" line in Man in Glass makes me think so? And it might've been brought up in other episodes too)
- Juno couldn't bear to do any sort of dance for years after Ben died
- Juno tried to keep the dahlias and roses Nureyev got him for his birthday alive for as long as possible, but they probably wilted either during the THEIA stuff or soon after he left Hyperion city. They still sit in his office though, and he has a photo of them from before they wilted that he looks at sometimes
- Buddy sometimes does her makeup in a green that matches Vespa's hair. Vespa does the same, but in red
- Nureyev used to not have a favourite colour, but it became gold after Man in Glass
No detailed graphics because I am both sick and busy. Idea came from tags by @dokidyke. Sorry if anyone finds the concept of this poll gross, I've only listened to half of one of these, and none of the other, and don't know what "semi-sentient" fully entails in either case. In general I operate by the Harkness Test for polls about how sexy a character is, and if someone makes an argument that one of these characters doesn't pass the test I'll delete the poll.
