#but obviously the vrisroseradia(+kanaya) love triangle(square) is a powder keg waiting to go off

[vriskaserketdaily]

ugh okay hear me out. aravrisrose au where they run a business as psychics. vriska (fake psychic) does like your typical tarot card crystal ball fortune telling schtick, that just so happens to be scarily accurate. rose (maybe-fake maybe-real psychic) does the palmistry/tea leaves/acupuncture/reiki/spells & potions type psychicry that entails her giving u basically solid advice while learning all she can about u for future sessions to make it seem like she ~just knows~. also does tarot but as with her other stuff it's basically psychoanalysis disguised as fortune-telling. aradia (real psychic) is a medium who communes with and sends off the dead. is attending mortuary school in her time off and is a registered death doula. she Actually Does ~just know~ and was the one who reached out to start a business.

rose is available by appointment only and doesn't take calls. she has a fairly regular clientele of hippie/witchy/woo-woo types who totally swear by her, some of whom very much want to apprentice to her. vriska handles all the calls and most walk-ins, and makes her bank by overcharging tourists who are coming in "just to try" a psychic (#scam kween). her scary-accurate predictions are the only reason ppl think she's for real, because she goes a lil over-the-top in staging the scene and kinda hams up the whole spooky psychic thing to the point where part of you is like yeah she's totally fake. she's just good enough to leave you thinking she might be for real though.

aradia takes neither appointments nor walk-ins and is not available by phone. mostly she just snipes a customer from their waiting area, apparently at random, or grabs the phone from vriska's hand as she's about to start finessing. it always turns out that that person has a truly desperate and sad case, and/or is under a legit curse/haunting/other supernatural issue. whatever aradia does, it helps people, and she will often show up to her clients' homes unannounced to do . . . whatever it is she does. rose thinks aradia is just an especially subtle grief counselor, but vriska is creeped out enough by her to think she might be for real . . . but not more real than vriska! she's just a lil wacky and takes the gig too seriously.

with the three of them combined, their reputation is one of a genuine legit business that doesn't prey on the grieving and/or gullible (though those demographics are their bread and butter). aradia does not allow the other two to do mediumship, though vriska could tooooooootally pull it off, c'mon! if they do get a party that wants to have a séance, they refer them to aradia, who often says no (but sometimes says yes and produces incredibly cathartic results).

vriska and rose have a mildly antagonistic passive-aggressive work relationship because of their differing philosophies and psychic methods---rose thinks vriska is a total hack and vriska thinks rose is a psychology school dropout (not far off from the truth) and they both privately fantasize about pinning the other to the wall for some totally civil words about how to be a psychic. if you asked them though each thinks the other is a totally real psychic with very real Special Gifts and Unseen Powers. definitely.

aradia and vriska have some clearly unresolved issues from when they were both kids---rose never learns all the details but apparently vriska did something very bad when they were in middle school, and to this day believes she has to earn aradia's forgiveness. aradia seems to have moved on and generally acts neutral to friendly towards vriska, but once or twice rose has overheard vriska ugly-crying at the closed door to aradia's office, and sometimes gets the vibe of insane tension of some kind between them.

rose is aradia's favorite coworker (another reason vriska fucking hates rose's guts) because like aradia rose actually does try to help people, and rose appreciates aradia's death-positive attitude. they've actually met up outside of work a few times for coffee and bagels (on purpose---rose and vriska have run into each other at the local lesbian bar a few times, always when vriska is (pretending to be? for some reason?) messy-drunk), and aradia and rose have similar tastes in literature and music. they find each other mutually fascinating and might have even been sort of dating for a few months now?? (rose has another girlfriend they never see or meet who makes all her own clothes and has a massive garden---rose is always bringing in vegetarian casseroles or showing off the dresses this girlfriend makes her. apparently they've been dating since high school and she sounds suspiciously similar to vriska's middle-school ex kanaya, but vriska never catches rose's mystery girlfriend's name. mary something???)

eventually they start stocking books and crystals and herbs and stuff and become a full-on witchcraft shop (sorry, shoppe) that hosts workshops every tuesday night (rose's deal) but they still make bank on psychic readings and stuff. things are going pretty great for them!

until a certain pair of sleuths roll around determined to prove they're a bunch of frauds and scammers. (it's jane and terezi.)