#Trixie is the only real stoner among them but Silas also partakes of this world's 'weed' for his chronic migraines

[void-botanist]

📁📁📁 :3 (from @kahvilahuhut)

All right, time for some stoners and one of my favorite little backstories that's barely relevant to TFA. So, as of the latest draft, Zel's brother Zalen, his partner Silas, and their friend Trixie all live in a rowhouse on Hoscha, the island next to Elbas.

Trixie has a jacket covered in patches that she doesn't get to wear much in this tropical climate, but wore all the time back in her northern home city. Her most prized patch is from a combined neighborhood in that city that no longer exists, because it sprung up as an administrative necessity and then split again a few years later when the second neighborhood got richer and more populous. She loves the idea of liminal places and would be the first person to volunteer to go explore an abandoned building even if (maybe especially if) she's high, which she is often is in her off hours.

Where Zel is a disaster bi (she's both but the disaster is more all-consuming), Zalen is a bi disaster, or at least used to be. He's ace but was also that guy in high school who would get out of a relationship and instantly be "in love" with someone else. That spontaneous fall also happened when he became Silas's roommate in college, but then they spent like 12 years living together and he really did fall hard. Despite not being a reformed villain (though he was a villain way back in the earliest drafts of this world), he follows the same pattern of doing something well-meaning but not great and only realizing later that it was not great.

Silas is very sweet and fastidious and excellent at understanding other people's feelings, which means he collaborates easily at a variety of things, like cooking with Trixie, home improvement with Tirias, and being Zel's second brother in a meaningful way. Unfortunately he is not so good with his own emotions, which means he didn't confront his feelings for Zalen until after Zalen graduated and moved to Hoscha with Trixie, leaving Silas with a half-empty apartment and a cushy architect position he didn't feel like he could leave. Ultimately he decided that it didn't matter whether he was in love with Zalen or vice versa because a house without Zalen couldn't feel like home.