#Nell's ever-changing fashion sense is probably one of my favorite parts of writing her

[margridarnauds]

For the OC thing: 1, 17, 20, 8, 9

Thank you!

1. most likely to clean up everybody’s crap without asking

Either Eleanor or Atria. Eleanor because she can’t stand any form of clutter and keeps an absolutely immaculate workplace and Atria because she’s used to keeping her storeroom+the school in order (+ she lives with Ada and she’s just...used to it. It was one of the things she just accepted when she began a relationship with her. Also, most of her childhood years were spent with Berenice and Khensa, so she’s used to being the friend who cleans up everything.) 

17. most likely to use any and all excuses to take off articles of clothing

Honestly, I struggled with this one, because my first thought was either Robert (in the creepiest possible way), Eithne (Because...kelpies), or Berenice (who I eventually disqualified because Ber loves her clothing way too much to ever actually *enjoy* discarding it, unless Bran is the one helping her with the discarding.)

Then, after much thought, I decided that, despite being for all intents and purposes the embodiment of the prim and proper Elizabethan woman, Eleanor is actually VERY quick to adapt to the less cumbersome fashions of the Fae once she stays with them and that, if/when she’s ever able to get over her “programming” (I really don’t have another word for it), she’ll probably qualify. Because the girl’s half selkie, she’ll be discovering who she is for the first time in her life, and the Elizabethan court dresses really aren’t *her* so much as they are what she’s been told all her life she should be, and so she’ll be doing everything she can to be less confined, both physically and mentally. 

I think it would take a lot of character development on her part to get to that point, I don’t have her necessarily planned up to that point, and I’m not sure that she’ll ever admit it if she does get to that point, but I do think that once she gets over that reflexive shame (because why would she want to remove any of her clothing unless she was a Bad Woman?), she’ll probably be there, though I’m not sure she’ll ever entirely own her sexuality the way that Ber, Eithne, Ragnhild and Diane do. (If not, since her sister, whose name I am still debating despite having had her around for at least six years at this point, will probably qualify in her stead, since in many ways she’s Eleanor if Eleanor had been allowed to be herself.) 

20. most likely to sing better than expected

Ada and Bran, despite both being severely rusty. (Ada out of grief and Bran because he just hasn’t wanted to)

8. most likely to flirt to get what they want

Berenice, more likely than not. She had a very good role model growing up. 

9. most likely to laugh at a funeral

Cat at Giles’ funeral, specifically around the time that they got to the sermon praising him.