#hope this is a good answer though skfjdsk i really loved it

[seasonal-writes]

Okay can I be unrepentantly sappy with an AU ask? is there anything (non-spoilery that you want to talk about of course!) completely unessential that either of the boys brought with them when they ran? or something sentimental that they had to leave behind?? I love love love learning more about characters by what objects they have/hold most dear, and I'm Fascinated by what they packed 👀 if this is something that will come up later or too much of a hassle to answer don't mind me, I'm just v curious!!!

hI THEO I FEEL LIKE I'M ALWAYS SLEEPING WHEN YOU REACH OUT TO ME DUDE I'M SORRY- anyway. also, Oh Boy i love this. umm, i feel like some of the things they took with them are kinda spoiler-y! not that they're necessarily IMPORTANT story elements, but they are going to be revealed and i kinda wanna let you all see what those things are! even if not all of them are technically sentimental. BUT. i will say a couple things that they took along with them :) so, i have this idea that in his free time, Grian did a lot of architectural sketches and things. typically it'd be on tiny slips of parchment or thin tissue paper, and maybe it'd be like buildings he dreams of putting up inside the kingdom somewhere. but jimmy definitely took one of those, maybe from a time where Grian had accidentally let him keep one while showing it off, or maybe Jimmy swiped it from his room in the day before they left as a final thing to remember him, just in-case. but tucked on him somewhere is one of those. i also don't know if this is mentioned in the story, but it's canon that Jimmy and his mother were very into gardening together. like, the Avian Palace garden's most special plants and flowers used to be maintained by the two of them while he was growing up. so, jimmy definitely found time to stick some flowers in a book to press and save them. this ALSO ties into the fact that he stole a few books from the library to read. :) and all he took to remember his father was the traum- *gets shot* BUT !! for Mr. Tango Top, he didn't really have much on him. Since he was like,, essentially planning on going back to the Nether when he visited the Overworld, since Jimmy was going to become prince-consort and move back with him (fun fact if ya'll didn't realize that oooh). but he had some of the essentials! Like, Tango has a really small bound notebook with a bunch of invention sketches and notes and things, since he loves inventing and tinkering. he also has one other thing that's (funnily enough) pretty important to him, but it's gonna be in the story itself so ya'll will just have to wait and see! but yeah! those are some items that don't necessarily have a ton of weight in the story itself, but might be mentioned at some point, so i felt i could share without spoiling too much. thanks for indulging my D&D-influenced habits of creating lore for character inventory btw.