#holy ghost is just kind of like 'don't worry about it. we needed a third guy to compete the trifecta'

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The Father the Son and the Third Secret Thing

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What would the Exiled crew (yes even Lionel 🙄) be for Halloween

OHOH this is a fun one ty Ilysm. Halloween doesn't exist here but we will pretend they have all our modern conceptions and culture around it

I am so sorry to do this to you but I don't think Caparal would dress up. As a kid he probably did some halfassed costumes. Basic stuff, spider, wizard, idefk. When he was 8 he realized that there's a cheat code for this holiday which is "just go as a sheet ghost" and he abused that. He stopped getting in costume entirely when he was 14.

First Halloween after they met (let's say they're post-story here so Caparal and Rye can interact without Caparal either giving one word responses or frothing at the mouth how much he wants to strangle this man), Rye asks Caparal what he's going as. Caparal gives a noncommital shrug and says, "Well, I dodged any invites to Halloween parties, so I don't have to."

The pain and confusion that briefly flashes across Rye's face here is enough to make Caparal completely reconsider it just for his sake.

Rye loves Halloween. He spends hours and hours dreaming up costumes, agonizing over what to go as, etc. (In the second + third iteration of his character, he was actually a tailor!) You are prroobably surprised by this, but it'll make more sense once I tell you that he's so convinced that it'll make him look stupid he never once goes as anything. He has even kind of half convinced himself that no, he doesn't actually like it, because holidays are for children who haven't learned the cruel realities of the world or whatever haha.

So yeah, Rye was confused and pained because his question (which if Caparal knew Rye's internal context of, would have considered it an insult) was responded to with an "I don't want to" rather than a "I can't", which broke his brain a bit.

Don't worry, though, Delayne convinced them to get in costume!

Delayne didn't make Rye, but the threat of her disappointment was motivation to briefly overcome his weird internalized bullshit.

Rye goes as a character from a play, I think. Someone tragic. I'm imagining him finally in costume and tearing up in the mirror like those "I just put on a binder for the first time!" videos. It's really well made, too. He spent a lot of time on it.

Caparal's a sheet ghost, obviously.

Delayne considers matching with Rye even though she didn't really like the play, but when she suggested it and there was somehow more panic in his eyes she backed off.* I think she'd go as something water themed. Paint some scales on her face with kohl or something. It doesn't have much significance to her--she just went with whatever seemed fun!

(* he was scared of the vulnerability that comes with matching costumes. If she pushed, he would have accepted it gladly)

Lionel also isn't one much for costumes (too stressed! Ach, you want him to have another event he has to prepare for?). If gently prodded, he would, though. He'd go as famous poets or philosophers... this guy is such a nerd. Jester you're going to hate me for that one.

Andrea goes as classics (ghosts, witches, etc) but also some not-so-classics. I could see her as a lion. Those are probably her favorite animal. (🚨🚨 ALERT ALERT. NO RELATION TO THE MAN NAMED LIONEL. THIS IS JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS LION ENERGY. THE NAMES OF THIS ANIMAL AND THE PIECE OF SHIT BEING SIMILAR ARE AN UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE🚨🚨)

Character I still have not named from Rye's past would go as a wizard which is just their sense of humor. Holy shit I think this might be the first solid fact I've ever told you about them? I really need to name them damn

Thank you for the ask and thank you for reading ily <3