#al:an TAUT lore

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the thing about fennivra is that I initially planned to have him be kind of an asshole and distance himself from solvesran after the incident because idk what to do with him in the traveling arc but like…. what if he Got It?? what if he was also intrigued by anomalies?? what if he distances himself anyway and it’s a more explicit betrayal??

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okay okay okay hold on now

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wait wait wait okay so if Sol kept up the veiling after marrying Lazul, being unveiled in the aftermath of the Incident would add like so much to the devastation actually

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why are robots

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And because the royal family name is publicly known (Avavirase) the private family members would rely on the surname conventions to further obscure their identities. The surname conventions being matriarchal and passed down from both parents, if applicable. For example:

If Jane Smith-Taylor and John Miller-Jones had a child, Jane’s mother’s surname and John’s mother’s surname would be given to the child.

If the child, Jamie Smith-Miller, went on to have a kid with Jordan Wilson-Brown, their child would be named Jessie Smith-Wilson.

The only exception being the Avavirase name, which gets passed down no matter what.

(this next part is gonna have lots of fucked up names)

So, Amavalyn Avavirase and Clarinesra Tesmonasine are the parents of Queen Veselka, making her full name Veselka Avavirase-Tesmonasine.

When Veselka and Eldrolise Nedonavir are married, Eldrolise’s full name becomes Eldrolise Avavirase-Nedonavir (and the Nedonavir name would be hidden from the public). Their child would be named Solvesran Avavirase-Nedonavir.

And so, because Solvesran has two last names, The Public would know her as Solvesran Avavirase. Then because of the the veils/privacy thing they wouldn’t know what she looked like, and so Solvesran Nedonavir would be allowed to be just a scientist.

(1. Last names aren’t changed when someone gets married, the Avavirase family is the exception again.

2. It’s common for people to just use their mother’s name for signing things, schoolwork, casual introduction, etc. etc.

3. I hope any of this made a lick of sense 😅)

I already established in my head that Valnira has a no paparazzi law or something and I think it’d be interesting to expand on that and give the royal family a privacy law. So like the queen’s kids (and sometimes spouses) would wear veils to events and such so that no one knew what they looked like? Which I imagine would allow them to Just Be People and not have a constant body guard, y’know??

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the disgraced princess / a crisis of faith