Thank you!! I had so much to say so the last two questions are under the read more
2, what sort of music would they like? have you thought about what genres or bands do they lean towards? do they have a favorite song?
Hehehe have I ever... They will be listening to a lot of Italian and non English speaking bands as well but I'm still early in my look into the respective Italian subcultures so just these for now
Muros fav genre is two tone but he enjoys a lot of other ska, reggae, folk, punk, dub, new wave, and pop. His fav band is the Selecter but he has a soft spot for The Specials, New Town King's, X-Ray Spex, Bruce Springsteen & Zounds. Music is very important to him and two tone as a genre & the rudeboy subculture is so important to him as while he's growing up in Italy, not england, he still craves music made by people like him that emphasises pride in multiculturalism and often touches on the experience of being Black in an overwhelmingly white country [he fucking lovesssss the Selecters later stuff] A favourite song would be hard to pick but I think This Land by Zounds is one he really loves.
Rametta is more post-punk/new wave/goth but she still enjoys plenty of the above & earlier punk like The Partisans. She tends to go for Zounds, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure ect. Goth/the italian dark scene is very important to Rametta, it's where she first tried wearing skirts and more feminine clothes and she would escape all the baggage of people knowing her growing up to have fun [Muro also first really got into wearing mens suits via two tone so it's something they can bond over] and if asked her fav song would be True Love by Zounds because it's an aromantic anthem to her [& meeee]
5, how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?
Muro as an older teenager is either in coveralls at his job or a thrifted suit. Later on its more vest & jeans or fancier [and more often red once hes past his earky 20s] suits. He's got a pretty even split his whole life between practical simple comfortable clothes and then suits for when hes playing his persona. His approach to clothes hasn't actually changed much, just his resources and expectations others held. Like the original rudeboys in Jamaica, he wears suits in rebellion and to be contrary, to claim the higher class signifiers for himself as a poor Black kid and especially later on, demand the respect hes owed. Suits may have become the uniform for Mafiosi but well he's not one of them and wears them for his own reasons that are more in defiance of how people are expected to dress than to fit in.
Rametta emulates Muro outwardly with sharp skinny suits as a teen, adding her own touch of black lipstick and plenty of black eyeshadow mainly to stand apart from her older brother, but enjoyed a more casual gothy look when in private. After she transitions she switches to more feminine dresses & suits and suitskirts and dials back the black makeup when she's not in private, but continues to enjoy dressing casual and goth and using ridiculous amounts of eyeshadow when only people she trusts can see.
10, if they wear jewelry, what kind? do they prefer silver or gold? do they have a favorite gem?
Muro loves gold jewellery, but usually sticks to lone subtle pieces, like his rose & hanging leaf earing Elena designed and he made, incorporating gold in buttons, belts ect. He loves a red ruby.
Rametta wears a lot of chunky silver jewellery, in her public persona she tends to stick to just her classic milky blue set in silver as a statement necklace earrings bracelets ect but she goes all in on the jewellery in private, enjoying layering various finds. Her classic jewellery is based on a piece of costume jewellery she loved as a teen and while she knows how to look classy she likes that it looks cheap in comparison to the usual clear cut stones, a reminder she's not only the fancy rich upper class image she presents so often.
Just wanted to say, thank you so much to anyone who’s left a sweet word on my fics or a funny note in the tags this past weekend. Midterms weeks is upon me, and every bit of kindness has just been extra special to me as I’ve juggled essays and studying. <3 I love y’all.
Moegirlpedia is a Chinese wiki founded on October 12, 2010. It also has an English and a Japanese version, both opened on January 2013. The main focus of Moegirlpedia is animation, comics, games, novels, and other types of media, along with the subcultures that originated from them.
I was an editor there. Currently, the English and Japanese versions are terribly short on content, so I am showing this site around to others so that they might get interested in editing here. I even wrote a guide to navigate newcomers through the wiki (though it isn't finished… but I did write the basics).
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idk like forest/plants/jungle with neato colors, urban nights, or those two mixed together esp, cyberpunk (80′s cyberpunk is vv good), okay lmao vaporwave tunes, mecha!, spacey vibes (u kno… like!!! i did a paper on mars coloniztion but found out how theyre trying to learn more growing food on mars and thers that first space flower which is total aes), but also like. bruises, like v colorful bruises and cuts like good stuff.. this is the worst description ever but idk how to explain lol im p sure theres more but yeah theres my tag
