#ask milenko

[vampiresuns]

D for Anatole, Amparo, and Milenko, A and I for Valeriy <3 and R for JC!!

They say it's better late than never because this took me forever to ask. I blame Valentine's being on a damn Monday and my job being after my mental sanity. Anyway, thank you for your patience Dani, ily

Anatole, Amparo and Milenko

D   :   DATE.   what is your muse’s ideal date? where / who with / etc?

Anatole

A restaurant, maybe a play, or just dinner are his go-to dates. The dinner option might turn into a picnic, which will probably include coffee.

Likes bookshop dates and ice-skating dates too.

He is, however, rather open to something you might want to suggest, although he prefers museum dates to not be the first date.

Arcanaverse, he'd prefer you didn't take him somewhere with the sole purpose of showing him off. He will notice, he will leave.

With who you ask? If you're good at conversation, taller than him, high intelligence low wisdom/book smart with a degree and not an ounce of common sense in your body, and a bottom or a vers congratulations! You might be eligible for a date with Nana.

Amparo

Do not ever take her to the theatre if you're the one asking her out and it's your first to fifth date. That's where she works, and she is passionate about her job but that's not the only thing she does.

Taking her dancing is a very good choice however, she also enjoys coffee dates, but the café has to have some quirkiness to it or she'll 'meh' about it.

Escape rooms or gothic-esque experiences? Please do! She'd love if you take her to a treasure hunt.

If she spends the night, she'd like the coffee date to happen as a breakfast for two thing.

With who? She likes spirited people who are both willing to live the adventure and the lowlife, someone who will support her (and maybe spoil her just a little) and has a deeper outlook about life.

Milenko

This man will literally do anything, and I do mean anything.

He, however, is likely to take you to dinner to a hole in the wall little place he knows well, and who is most definitely underrated because it's the best dinner you'll ever have in your life.

Fairs, markets and festivals are his second go-to.

He probably won't ask you to dinner at his place until later on, but if you're lucky that he's cooking for you at your place, then god bless your soul you won the jackpot.

He's very curious and chitchatty and enjoys people who like a good, well meaning debate.

He likes people whose egos are not so big that they smother the whole room, kind people who are open minded and have some consideration for an art or science (which are really the same thing) and who is willing to listen to him as he will also be willing to listen to them.

Valeriy Radošević-Cassano aka 'Valerius'

A   :   AFFECTION. how does your muse show affection?

Through complaining, quality time, and most importantly: if Valeriy doesn't want you in his life, you will not exist in his life. The tricky part is, however, that he's very good at pretending he has consideration for you, when he actually doesn't.

If he lets you decide things to do with him, that's also a good sign. Nor that nor this will sound like big things for other people, but they are for him: if he's asking for your opinion and actually goes through with your opinion for private matters, he might as well consider you the most important person on earth.

I    :   I LOVE YOU.   does your muse find ‘i love you’ easy or hard to say?

It is the hardest thing he's ever had to say. He's the kind of person who, even in private, has a hard time saying it and often leaves the sentence unfinished. You have to trust his charged silence and the little things he insists on doing (again in private).

A. Julianus Sanlaurento

R : ROMANCE. is your muse a romantic or a cynic?

This is a matter where JC would rather risk silliness and ridicule than tough it out, because cynicism might as well be their mortal enemy. In the I want you out of this world, not in the homoerotic way.

Aside from me thinking this might be the ultimate feeling I try to evoke with the "arcana" julesverse, this bit from Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley does sum up how JC sees things:

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed -but it returneth.

[vampiresuns]

You sent me a list, I send you a list - I and J for Artemisia; C, N, and W for Milenko; B, R, and S for Nana; and Z for Amparo? Thank you in advance for your worms

it is,,, worm time

A–Z of Character Mannerisms/Behaviours asks (accepting!)

Artemisia

I. Impression: What do other characters first think of your character, based on their body language and way of speaking? Is this first impression usually accurate?

It depends on the context.

Artemisia is a trained public orator and while she can be friendly, she likes to keep the workplace appearances if she's in work or academic environments. Good posture if a little closed off. When she isn't, however she tends to retreat into herself and it's very easy to tell the difference.

Artemisia inherited the Cassano stance, as well as Cassiopeia's cross arms when she's annoyed and it probably the most likely to tap your foot at you if she is. Most usual first impression is that she's a put together person who might be different levels of tight-up. Even when she's dealing with people there's this aura of put-togetherness and slight never letting go. She says she doesn't exude Cassano vibes but literally anyone who's been in contact with any Cassano ever can tell she's one by just looking at her.

J. Judge: Is your character quick to judge other characters on their mannerisms, or do they prefer to get to know someone before judging?

She tries not to. Even if she focuses on more meaningful actions, because that's the fair thing to do, she might still dislike someone out of the impression she has of them. How she treats people doesn't rely on this exclusively though, she does like to be fair.

Milan

C. Confidence: What mannerisms does your character have when they’re confident?

Swing to his walk, loose, confident smile, he crosses his arms similar to Anatole (one in front of him that he uses as a shoulder rest for the other) with very lose mannerism or straight up talking with his hands. He's letting the moment carry him, and he's in it and one with it.

N. Necklace: Does your character have mannerisms based on the things they wear, such as pushing up their glasses or checking their watch?

He tugs at his necklaces by the charm part and clicks the heels of his boots when he's about to stand up. He doesn't pick at his clothes too much, but he does pull his sleeves up if he's trying to concentrate and make sure his clothes are in place before he's about to change the activity he was doing or when he has to attend any sort of religious service because he wants to look presentable.

Speaking of that, whenever he has the habit of pressing his headwear (either his kippah or his taqiyah) against his head because he thinks he looks weird with headwear. According to him he doesn't have a "hat head".

W. Wiggle: How often does your character fidget? In what ways do they fidget?

Milenko will fidget if he's idle, bored, or talking to someone if he's nervous (case in which it often involves moving things around him in a seemingly uninterested manner. He'll pick them and move them without really thinking about it). If he's thinking while working with others he tends to shake his pen against his hand, or steeple his fingers, expand them and bend them, while he rests his forehead against the space between his index and his thumb. Also pulls his own hair. If he can swing his feet while sitting, he will.

If he stops moving all together, either he's going into fight or flight response, or the water magic kicked in.

Anatole

B. Bold: Does your character mock other people nonverbally? Have they ever gotten in trouble for making a sarcastic facial expression?

God, yes. Specially when he was younger, as he was a particularly argumentative teenager. He wasn't mean just expressive and argumentative, and he has the most mobile eyebrows known to man. He scrunches his nose and raises his upper lip in a snarl, his eye roll is Fear-of-God inducing, and if you've really done it, he does a sort of snort-snore while he rolls his eyes like he's a slot machine.

Don't give him your opinion if he has not asked and he doesn't know you, don't be harmfully and blatantly incompetent, do not speak over him, and he hates when people get in his personal space and do not back off when he asks. Bares repeating that purposeful incompetence and apathy make his blood boil, and if he's in Consul mode and you've tried him one to many times, you'll know he's not happy.

Otherwise, he waits until he's out of sight or people turn away. King of 'dropping the ruse' moments. I'll talk about that in S.

R. Relax: What mannerisms does your character have when they’re relaxed?

If engaging with someone: Weight on one side, slightly bending that knee, arm crossed over his front and using it as an elbow rest for his other hand. Chronic hand talker, signature slightly raised left eyebrow and a soft, cat-and-cream smile. Starts "dancing" in place like a videogame character and puts his hands on the back of his waist and pulls himself forward some. If he's sitting, he'll lean closer to the person he's talking with, even lean against them if they're physically close enough and emotionally close too.

If he's just on his own, he'll just. stop minding his posture so much, goes into idle raccoon considering his environment mode, or lies down with a leg bent and the other spread. Sit's like a 1920s gay in a soirée with other unspeakables.

S. Secret: Is your character good at communicating using nonverbal mannerisms? Do they have any “secret gestures” with other characters? If so, what?

He DOES. He's a man of languages and always ends up crafting inside cues with people he's really close. One of my favourites is how he'll run his fingers on the inner forearm of his partner until he can lace their fingers together when he wants attention.

Speaking of communicating nonverbally, when observing the Nana in the wild, you must know that when he doesn't want to give you information or he can tell you're trying to get a reaction out of him, he'll become an unreadable bastard. When he mentalises himself not to give an inch of a reaction to anyone he doesn't. This is a transferable skill, he uses it in a lot of scenarios.

Amparo

Z. Zest: How much does your character use movement to express their feelings? Do they jump up and down with excitement, or do they keep it to a slight smile?

Amparo's a case in this regard, because while she's expressive she also defaults to introversion because she is an introvert. Her smile if wide and contagious, and if she's excited and with someone, or excited with someone, she'll hug you if it's fine by you or grab you by your upper arms. Victory fists are also a feature as is grabbing her own face and squealing at times. Her anger is expressive, though her sadness is numb and reclusive. She's an actress and a dancer and movement is her main tool of work. You cannot impersonate or live without movement.

Yet, sometimes, specially when she's alone, her expression is mostly blank, unless she's talking to herself. If she's lost in her own head or her own feelings she has this far away posture as if her own head is her own world. She'll blink and realise 4 hours passed and she didn't even notice.

Sometimes, she plays at keeping things to herself just because she can. She's used to being on stage and when she's on stage her energy is being poured into something else, into this iteration of her being and her emotionality is another tool in her repertoire. So she likes to do the opposite and hold things that matter to her to herself, not because she can't open up but because she can choose not to.

Her window is always open so she can leave the room, if she so pleases.

[vampiresuns]

No surprise here, but I would definitely jump on Milenko’s route! Kip would get her shot too in another playthrough, but I crave poetry and theater and inky fingers so… me first!

I’d save Ozy for Nana and tell him to bring a notepad bc I personally want to know more about the ins and outs of the Vesuvian court

I could see Sascha being interested in getting to know Amparo more. I know for a fact that she would want a first row seat to any of her Moth performances.

Milenko is blushing at the attention, he didn’t think he’d merit it, yet he insists he won’t disappoint. He’s honestly a sweetheart and a 10/10 choice.

Nana is more than available for a Court 101 or a crash course if you want one, not that he’d turn Ozy down about it if he asked him himself. He’d be thrilled to tell him how it works and the history of it. We know this already but he’s perpetually surprised Oz’mandias likes him (if you ask for my opinion, though Nana’s trying to shut me up about this, he thinks Ozy’s out of his league which is hilarious because this is Aelius Radošević we’re talking about, he is the league)

You have given Amparo attention and she would be delighted to reciprocate, Sascha is very invited to the backstage after one of her performances and a drink afterwards if she’d like to. She might even get a perfumed letter with an invitation!

[vampiresuns]

A and R from the dirty headcanons for your main four!

I was asked A already, and I asked you if you wanted to change and you went for R + S, so let’s go. Under the cut for 🍋

R - Routine (do they have a routine when it comes to picking up one night stands? do they have scheduled sex with their partner? are things spontaneous or planned ahead of time?)

✴︎ Anatole

Nana’s prefers sex with partners to one night stands. He will still have them, and he has had his couple of sex only flings, but that’s not his preferred option.

If he’s gonna do flings or one night stands he prefers to keep him that way. Established amount of time, hermetic, safe. All boundaries are all always previously discussed with him, and he will be keeping to them.

You can change things along the way, there are a couple of notable times where what was supposed to be a fling ended up in a relationship (Leon and Haider), but he likes genuine connection and honest communication, and if that’s too much effort into a fling or a one night stand, the door is very wide.

He’s high demand for a high reward.

He needs to find you nice and good-looking, after you pass the safety boundary test, that’s all he needs. He is the least likely to have one night stands with someone he just met, even if he is aware that’s kind of the definition of a one night stand.

Partner-wise, it depends on him and his partner, always. Sex involves two people and for the sake of this man’s trauma and his mental health never forget it involves two people or you’ll fry his nerves.

So it’s a mix of planning and spontaneity. Sometimes you want to set a scene with props, or bondage, and you need time for that, usually.

❥ Amparo

The key is to give her attention. If you pass the vibe check and you know how to get her attention, you’re going to find yourself with the possibility of a one night stand. Lucky you.

She doesn’t always knows in what mood she is in before having sex (she just knows she’d like to have sex with you) so she’d very much like to discuss things at least briefly. She’s less nitpicky than Nana because no one is as nitpicky and Nana (and he’s allowed to be) but you know, the point of one night stands is to have fun, so let’s talk fun.

With partners she’d like to be more spontaneous. She is fairly so, but once again, there’s mood discussions, unless you’re into something specific, so it helps her to materialise the horny if you talk about the horny. Also, if she’s going to receive and you’re doing penetration, she has to prep before, so you can’t hit her out of the blue for that.

Anything that doesn’t require her receiving penetration though is more likely to fall into spontaneity. Just don’t before she has a play.

☽ Milenko

He likes having sex with people he can flirt and have conversations with, and that doesn’t change with one night stands or partners.

If he feels that something between you, he is very likely to make a move. If you’re not into it, then you’re not into it and there’s no problem here.

For scenes and things which require specific things, he would prefer to at least have it discussed before, at some point. Not even when, just tell him what you have in mind at some point, and he’ll do the same.

He’ll accommodate his partner if they preferred planned sex, though. Everything is game with Milenko, he’s the king of being easy going.

⟡ Artemisia

Art SUCKS at making moves on people, because she never knows if she’s reading the cues right or if she’s hallucinating. Just tell her, please, just don’t flirt with her at work that’s weird.

Seriously though, she’s spent half her adult life wondering how do people even get to have the possibility of having one. When they do happen she just hopes for the best and shoots her shot, and if it happens it happens.

She prefers planned sex, actually. ‘We could have sex later’ works as planning enough for her. Just gives her a heads up so she can say no, or get in the zone, the sexy zone.

S - Sleepy sex (do they give oral to wake their partner up? do they like receiving oral to wake up? do they like fucking their partner awake? being fucked awake? how about being fucked to sleep at night? do they have lazy morning sex?)

First thing I gotta say is none of mine are ‘wake up someone with oral’ or ‘wake me up with oral’ people. I personally prefer situations where everyone is awake and can clearly consent, and kinkwise that’s not one of my things. Same goes with fucking someone awake. It’s a hard no.

✴︎ Anatole

Just like I said he’s most likely to masturbate because he can’t sleep, if he’s with his partner and they’re awake, his going to ask if they like to have sex, because why not?

Sex at any time of the day is fine by him, but  he does like sex when his day is done. It’s a good time to unfold, and what better way to relax than fucking.

Lazy morning sex is one of his favourite activities though. Breakfast of champions, what better way to begin your day than with coffee and sex. He’s more likely to bottom during morning sex too. Some nice, lazy riding to go with him getting head too, please and thank you.

This is the only one I’ll mention it again, but with Nana is worth saying it: never, and I mean never wake Anatole up with sex, or by anything other than kissing his face. Do not ask him to do the same. You’ll find yourself partnerless. Fucking him awake or asking for the same is absolutely out of the question, and if you have the audacity to try it out of the blue (assuming you haven’t discussed it) you’re also going to find yourself partnerless.

If you wanna have sex and he’s sleeping still, please just wait for him to wake up.

❥ Amparo

Sex at night is romantic, sue her. Change masturbation with sex if she’s with her partner, and besides, when you live with your partner every night can be date night if someone (not her she can’t cook) makes a nice dinner.

And all nice dinners need dessert.

Welcomes morning sex always, but specially when both of you can stay in bed for hours without a single obligation

☽ Milenko

He wakes up at the crack ass of dawn, and though he often just goes back to sleep for another hour or two, if you wanna use those hours having sex, he’s game.

Make it lazy, sensuous, make it so that he goes into his day a little more whimsical than yesterday.

And the nights were made for loving, so...

Okay, I lied. I’m mentioning it again, but you know how I say anything goes with Milenko unless it’s one of his hard nos? Waking someone up with sex, of any kind, or being woken up with it, is a hard no for him. Makes him uncomfortable. You can wake him up for sex, tho.

⟡ Artemisia

She’s learnt to find the appeal of morning sex, because she didn’t understand how people had the time to both have sex and get ready in the morning.

She prefers afternoon sex for daylight sexy activities in all honesty.

But sex at night before sleeping wins here. There’s nothing better than tiring yourself out with your partner and sleeping like a log next to them after sex? Just yes.

[vampiresuns]

mayhaps 25/26 or 27/28 for your whole set? whichever gives you more brainworms

OC Questions: Accepting ✨

Why not all?

25. What is their biggest flaw?

✴︎ Anatole: Doesn’t know what ‘giving up’ means.

❥ Amparo: Can come across as unnecessarily abrasive. Prone to get stuck in between things or problems.

⟡ Artemisia: Unnecessarily closed off. Prone to self-depreciation.

☽ Milenko: He’s my perfect boy (He’s a melancholic bastard who gets all worked up about being unable to connect with others because no one understands him, because he doesn’t make sense, but he does nothing to make any more sense).

⚡︎ Julianus: Stubborn, does not think this is a flaw. Is both extremely assertive and terrified to assert themself at the same time. Prone to self doubt. Their own worst critic.

26. Are they aware of their flaws?

✴︎ Anatole: Probably the OC who knows himself the best, Nana is very aware of his shortcomings and has learnt to use even those in his favour. However, what he considers a shortcoming of his, might not be the same flaws others see in him.

❥ Amparo: No. Maybe yes about getting stuck, because she’s afraid of it.

⟡ Artemisia: Yes, but thinks they have more flaws than she actually has.

☽ Milenko: Yes, mostly at peace with them.

⚡︎ Julianus: No, because they have an exacerbated view of their own flaws.

27. What is their biggest strength? 

✴︎ Anatole: Hope, connecting with others, power of will.

❥ Amparo: Zest, passion, confidence.

⟡ Artemisia: Duty, ambition, compassion.

☽ Milenko: Creativity, love, understanding.

⚡︎ Julianus: Power of will, passion, determination.

28. Are they aware of their strengths?

✴︎ Anatole: Yes.

❥ Amparo: Yes.

⟡ Artemisia: No.

☽ Milenko: Yes, but with humbleness.

⚡︎ Julianus: Sometimes.

[vampiresuns]

11, 16, 17!

OC Questions: Accepting ✨

I’ll answer them for all because why not?

11. If they could make a mark on history, what would they like it to be? 

✴︎ Anatole: He is his own mark in history. He is deeply aware history will remember him, and he hopes he is remembered for being extraordinary.

❥ Amparo: Her craft. She wants to be remembered as an artist.

⟡ Artemisia: For making the world a fairer place. She is less at ease at being her own mark in history, unlike Anatole, but once she wraps her head around it, she goes for it.

☽ Milenko: Love. Remember him as a lover whose name was writ in water.

⚡︎ Julianus: Having lived a life worth living. Love is a close second.

16. Are they religious?

✴︎ Anatole: No. He’s interested in learning about religions, but does not have a sense of religious faith.

❥ Amparo: Yes. Her religion is one I am yet to make lore of because I keep postponing it.

⟡ Artemisia: Yes, same as Amparo.

☽ Milenko: Yes. He was raised in an interfaith (Jewish and Muslim) household. He explores religion through both, as two ways to approach One God. The Jewish side of his family draws from the Sephardic and Beta Israel traditions (he is supposed to be Bosnian-Ethiopian), as for the Muslim side, he is closer to Sufism.

⚡︎ Julianus: No. Was raised in a religious household, and lost their sense of religious faith. They have a lot of faith, in general terms, or they’re learning to have it, but not in a religious sense. They will make worshipping jokes about their relationship with Saoirse, but they’re just that.

17. Where were they born? 

✴︎ Anatole: Bgraz, Ilvaska, DFB (Democratic Federation of Balkovia); in modern au, Zagreb, Croatia.

❥ Amparo: Vesuvia. In modern au, Venice.

⟡ Artemisia: Vesuvia. In modern au, Venice.

☽ Milenko: Vesuvia. In modern au, Venice.

⚡︎ Julianus: City of Altazor, Altazor. In modern au, Santiago de Chile.

[vampiresuns]

oh you know i gotta hear about the gang's MBTI types

Having in account I only use these to see how they think/organise their thoughts, Julianus and Anatole are INTJs, Amparo is an INFJ.

I’m not entire sure about Milenko and Artemisia, but I’d say Art is likely to be an ISTJ and Milan an ENFP.

I do build more with astrology than MBTI, but as an extra, I can tell you Nana’s parents are probably INTP or ENTJ (Vlad, I’m not sure) and ISFP (Louisa), Atanasie, Milenko’s uncle, is probably an ESFJ, and Valerian is without a doubt an ENTJ.

[vampiresuns]

💐 for all!

Ty!! | Planty OC Asks

💐 What flowers would be used in a flower crown for your oc? Why those choices?

✴︎ Anatole: Irises, hollyhock, zinnias, heliotropes. Irises are his favourite, but they also mean eloquence, good news, faith, hope, wisdom, compliments and passion, depending on what colour you use. Hollyhocks for ambitions, zinnia’s for ‘thinking about you’, and heliotropes for devotion.

❥ Amparo: Ferns for confidence, pink roses for grace, gladiolus for strength of character and conviction, and red carnations for passion.

☽ Milenko: Orchids, orange blossoms, plum blossom and Ivy. Crown him in grace, good fortune, beauty and a long life and faith. Crown him in G-d’s most wonderful creations, crown him in perfumes like Attar before him.

⟡ Artemisia: Azaleas for temperance, bluebells for constancy, hydrangeas and purple hyacinths.

⚡︎ Julianus: Green carnations, the symbol of the followers of Oscar Wilde; flowers from Arrayán (myrtle) trees to disperse sorrow and for good luck; añañucas for they bloom in deserts and red poppies so they never forget where they’ve been. Also, for sacrifice. Flowers from the Ulmo tree for they make the sweetest honey, chrysanthemums for fidelity and friendship, but also: Tansy — ‘I declare war against you’.

[vampiresuns]

🍀 for everyone!!!

🍀 Who has the best luck of your ocs? The worst?

✴︎ Anatole doesn’t believe in luck. Chance is chance, and chance is neutral. It matters more what you do in the face of chance.

❥ Amparo doesn’t believe in luck either, but they don’t think they’re unlucky by any means. Also more concerned with what you do in the face of Chance. Missed chance is more unlucky than bad luck itself.

☽ Milenko thinks he’s lucky — and he is lucky — but the reason why he considers himself lucky is because he has a family who loves him, a job he likes, a pen and a quill, friends and music. Perhaps even a lover. Who could consider themselves unlucky with those?

⟡ Artemisia doesn’t like this question, it makes her anxious.

⚡︎ Julianus doesn’t think they’re lucky — though they kind of are. While they also think it matters more what you do with your chances, they do tend to abstractly regard lucky. Would like to think themselves of neutral in the face of it. However, when it comes to Saoirse, they think they’re the luckiest bastard in the planet. That’s it. They won. It wasn’t a competition but they won.

[vampiresuns]

🌴 for all of them? 👀

🌴 If your oc could go on vacation to anywhere they’d like, where would it be?

✴︎ Anatole has a couple of choices, but he’d go (almost) anywhere. The place is less decisive than it being, for example, with a lover so they can have an nth honeymoon. If it’s with family then he just wants to go to Balkovia or to any of the Vineyards — the Radošević Vineyard or Valeriy’s. Wherever they go after is of no mind to him.

❥ Amparo: Galbrada.

☽ Milenko: Also statistically likely to go literally anywhere, except perhaps Macawi because well, everyone’s young at some point. He’s never been to Hjalle, however, and he would like to go to Firent, if he’s fully honest.

⟡ Artemisia: Luxury cottage in any mountain range, literally any.

⚡︎ JC: Would go anywhere but Firent, no offence to it, but they’re sick of it. Galbrada sounds nice — but they also just want to go to Balkovia, but in all honesty? They already travel everywhere. Not opposed to spending a week in @apprenticealec‘s Rodrigo’s crew.

It’s an elaborate coat heist.

[vampiresuns]

🌵 for everyone!

🌻 for Nana!

🌱 for Lenko?

🌳 for Amparo?

🌵 Who’s the prickliest of your characters? The softest?

From prickliest to softest:

Anatole/Julianus: Slow to anger, but easy to rile up. Both of them believe in being kind and polite (but not nice) until you cross them one too many times and then buddy, it’s on you. Good luck. Also, both of them have mean death glares.Not to be trifled with — Nana has a sword and he will use it, and if Jules’ anger or displeasure isn’t enough to convince you to fucking stop, they have an eldritch entity for a partner who will very happily remind you to leave Jules alone. Also, both of them are scorpios with ADHD who are also very fond of their organisational systems and passionate about not being interrupted. Just don’t.

Artemisia: According to Amparo, she was a cactus in her previous life. Granted, Art is prickly with Amparo and the other two alone. If, say, she met Julianus, she’d think they’re a bit odd but very agreeable.  

Amparo: She’s competitive, she likes to go first, and while she’s generally fun about it, the fun starts to end when certain things are not her way. She doesn’t like tardiness in rehearsals, nor people who can’t do theatre etiquette, and she most definitely does not tolerate bigotry and is statistically more likely to be snarky about it to you than Anatole himself.

Milenko: Maybe it’s because even with all things considered, like the diaspora feelings and the water, and the general indecipherability of Milenko, he is the best adjusted out of all of them. Like, by miles. He’s pretty easy going too, and while Jules’ is also very lenient about people just being [insert vague hand gesture], Milenko doesn’t have their underlying temper. Milenko isn’t a “not to be trifled with” unless you’re a guard, a noble or someone who is unbelievably rude; Milenko’s more of a why would you inconvenient Milenko. Like why would you. What did he ever do to you. Also, he’s the most understanding out of all of them, and the best at actually comforting others.

🌻 What little things make your oc happy? Would they admit that they make them happy?

✴︎ Anatole will admit to most things on the sole condition he is willing to admit them to you, and you’re not trying to coax them out for ulterior motives other than genuine connection. He can tell, he will tell.

The list is vast, because despite it all, he’s a pretty hopeful and optimistic person — brutal realism aside — but let’s say: a good cup of coffee, spending time with his friends and loved ones, the sight of a handsome man* who’s blushing, cake, flowers — irises are his favourite, learning, languages, the sea, mysteries of any kind, a well laid argument, a well played game of chess, fencing, swords in general, music, the feeling of the orchestra playing louder when a play is about to commence, playing the harp and the piano, winning, knowing he loves and that he is loved in returned, a job well done, Nadia’s laughter, Natiqa’s mischief, Milenko’s wonderful brain and Amparo’s encouraging zest, competence, his parents, making his uncle laugh, his friends (again), Medea’s smile and Leonore’s vacation prone braincells, realising that his good is good enough, doing things for their partners, and this is specific of the Kani-Jules verse but you’ll appreciate it: getting Zurkhi shoes.

🌱 What are some of your oc’s dreams? Goals?

☽ Milenko would like to start a family one day — whether it’s just him and his partner, plus pets, or those plus children, he’s indifferent too, but he’s the most pro-having-kids of my four, closely followed by Amparo. He also dreams about writing an epic poem about Vesuvia, and there are some attempts in the making.

He would like to live his best life, so he is able to love to the best of his capacities. He wants to do good for the sake of doing good, so he goes to bed knowing he planted the palm cuts in his hands before the day was done. He wants to ask the right questions, and above all, to spread joy, to know that joy is bigger.

🌳 What are some things your oc is proud of?

❥ I could pick a lot of things for Amparo but I’m going to go with one: that people told her she could not both be a lyrical actress and a ballerina, and she went and did it anyway. That they told her she wouldn’t withstand the training and it’s now her name the one in posters announcing shows in different parts of the city. That she is La Cassano, not just a prima donna, not just a prima ballerina. She is THE prima, because fortune favours the bold, and ain’t she so.

[vampiresuns]

happy birthday milenko! are you doing anything fun to celebrate today?

Milenko clears his throat, standing as tall as he can. “Your humble poet’s guide to a very Birth.”

“It reads as follow. You first wake at the crack ass of dawn, mutter a Modeh Ani as you wake up properly, probably chug some cold water to be somewhat more awake for the Sabah-namaz, and then I’d normally clock back to bed until it was 8 am, but Octavia, my roommate, insist on waking up around this time to make me birthday breakfast which just means we end up passing out after eating until around Nine — it doesn’t matter in whose bed.”

“If I didn’t have dinner with my family the night before, it means I’m bound to end up having lunch or early dinner at the Palazzo, but in between that I still have to work, and I do that until I’m no longer doing that. I spend some time with my family until the night falls and it’s when the most fun part begins.”

“I’m probably full of love and full of food, but maybe not of Cake because I always give half my portions to Nana because I know how much he likes that, but he always says it’s not necessary for me to do it, and I never listen to him about it anyway.”

“He’s a tragic lightweight which means he better have eaten before we go out either bar hopping or just getting drunk with friends — buuuut if I have a partner at the moment, I don’t mind turning in a smidge early for private celebrations because the beauty of love is that our capacity for it expands the more we choose it.”

“While we’re at it, do you want to go out with us?”

[vampiresuns]

Happy birthday to Milenko! I must know - what does he usually do on his birthday/how does he celebrate?

Astoria’s cheesy ass also sends him a birthday kiss

Milenko wraps his arms around Astoria’s waist from behind, leaving kisses along both their temples as he speaks. “I generally have dinner with my mothers the night before?”

He gives Astoria a kiss. “But sometimes I have early dinner with my family, and then usually Lele, Nana and I go cause mayhem somewhere.”

He blows a raspberry to Astoria’s neck, laughing a little as he speaks. “I always stop at the Palazzo at some point, and I have to stop by the Sphinx, usually Octavia will have something prepared for me whether I want to or not, but hey, you don’t turn whatever age you turn each year every year.”

“Maybe this year I’ll turn in a little earlier, you know?” He kisses the top of Astoria’s head this time, unable to hold a smile. “A little private celebration, beloved?”

[vampiresuns]

Neptune for Nana and Jupiter for Milenko?

✴︎ Neptune for Anatole is here

Jupiter: Name one of their fears. Only one. Elaborate why they have this fear (if there is a reason).

☽ For Milenko it’s being misunderstood. In his opinion, there’s nothing worse to be misunderstood and altered by a half-perception of you, or being loved in a way you cannot understand. He also has an understandable fear of being assaulted in the street in the sense of being beat up for no reason, or being robbed in the middle of the night and being hurt by it in a way which might endanger him.

The latter absolutely has to do with what’s described in his Arcana Echoes Hometown post, and Hometown fic: Baby It’s A Wild World.

I know this said only one, but I think this ties with everything I’ve already said and I want to talk about this aspect of Milenko. There is in him an anxiety of “how do you go back to a place you weren’t born in, but follows you anyway?”. How do you go back to a place which became a living hazard for people like you simply because you exist. How do you go back to that, when a ‘foreign city’ that’s not really foreign because you were born there — instead, it’s a city that is not all of you — has housed you so safely, so wildly, so well?

How do you live if not through the stories of your elders? Of a place you know well but you see as borrowed, despite you have every right to claim it as your own when you don’t feel like you have the right?

He has written into existence nightmares out of what was supposed to be bucolic, but what is Terror if not what you cannot comprehend? Isn’t it terrible and terrifying to be misunderstood? Isn’t it better to just not be known? How do you not carry this fears with you when you feel yourself, and fear you are untranslatable to the point of being tiresome?

[vampiresuns]

Mercury for Art!

Jupiter for Amparo!

Venus for Milenko!

Neptune for Nana!

Mercury: What is their Zodiac sign? Do they have one?

⟡ So far, I know Artemisia is a Libra Sun with a Capricorn Moon

Jupiter: Name one of their fears. Only one. Elaborate why they have this fear (if there is a reason).

❤ Amparo fears being subpar, to live so many lives (of others) she has no life of her own, and related to the last one, she fears the will only have a half life, always sitting in the same room with the Dead, while life happens outside her window.

Venus: What would their Heaven look like? What would they want their Heaven to have?

☽ Milenko would tell you he is no one to tell you what Heaven looks like. Heaven is a constant conversation, it is a constant question, and ultimately, he doesn’t have the answer. He would go back to the water, and through the water he would go back to God. Or he’d have to try again. Death is not an end, rather a connection flight to somewhere else. Whatever he didn’t learn here, he will probably learn there, and then, well— One way or another, he is unconcerned, there’s questions to be asked that his mouth hasn’t pronounced, and there’s deeds to be committed that his hands have yet to know of.

Heaven in an idyllic way doesn’t exist to Milenko. It’s not something you’re given, it’s something you make, and it’s not something you make alone. All of his views of the afterlife are tied to his religious view of the world, and they will always spur questions he comes up with on his own.

Neptune: Your muse is given a chance to change one single thing of their past, what would it be?

✴︎ Anatole wouldn’t change anything. Sure, there are a couple of things which have happened to him that he wishes hadn’t happened, but listen— what do you mean by ‘their’ past? Their choices? Events? Change how much? One way or another, what could’ve been is an illusion, there is no could’ve been, there only is what happened.

He made his choices for a reason, and to make different choices is to be a different self. He is more concerned about the choices he will make.

[vampiresuns]

8, 10, and 12 for your main four!

8. Do they have any piercings/tattoos?

Same as in canon. Amparo is telling me she has a middle of the chest, between the tiddies kind of tattoo.

Artemisia has his ears pierced, has an industrial and a septum but constantly takes the last two out.

10. Can they drive? Are they good at it?

I already answered this one but few more funfacts

Val doesn’t lend Nana his car (and Nana can’t drive it anyway), and Vlad when he picks someone up at the airport, and he always regrets it. Nana has never done something to the car but the Stress. He doesn’t ask Louisa for her bc Louisa drives manual.

Amparo likes old cars. She just refuses to drive, she lives in VENICE, she doesn’t need a car and uber exists.

Milenko talks back to his GPS

Artemisia’s dream car is a mini cooper

12. What’s their favorite movie, the one they have to show all of their friends/partners?

I didn’t answer this before but from the lists from when I answered, Nana will always show you Paddington (he feels this movie in his soul), both of them. If you interrupt him while he talks about it in a Bad Way, or make fun of him, it’s statistically likely he will dump you.

Amparo will always show you Persepolis. She says Marjane reminds her of Violeta, Milenko’s mother, and her favourite scenes are the Eye of the Tiger one and the one with God and Karl Marx.

She’s also VERY likely to show you the opera she’s currently obsessed with/has in rotation. She’ll try to sing everything.

Artemisia always suggests the Handmaiden and Moonrise Kingdom for movie nights depending on the mood. Art’s other ideal movie night is watching bad horror films and judging them.

Milenko has cast everyone in his own remake of Mamma Mia and the movie he will Always show you is Romeo + Juliet.