#the carte blanche

[secretlyhuntokar]

Penumbra podcast Junoverse headcanons

(under cut because there are a Lot) ((Also spoiler warning up to Thief's Honour pt 2))

- Juno leaves notes in his and Nureyev's room on the Carte Blanche if he gets up before him so Nureyev doesn't worry he left again

- One of the main reasons Nureyev is scared of aging is because he's already lived a full hallucinated life and doesn't want to waste any second of his real one

- Juno wears a trenchcoat because Rita was really into old Earth noir detective streams when they first met and she bought a trenchcoat for him. And it was the first gift someone had bought for him in years.

- Juno still wears that trenchcoat to this day

- Nureyev once bought/stole Juno a new trenchcoat and while Juno thought it was a really nice trenchcoat and a sweet gesture, he never wore it because its not the one Rita got him

- Nureyev likes to see how many of Vespa's knives he can steal before she notices and yells/threatens him for them back

- Vespa taught Buddy how to play Rangian Street Poker

- The Ruby Seven is green because wherever it's from, Ruby is their word for green

- Rangian Street Poker varies very slightly across Outer Rim planets, and even more so on the Solar planets

- New Kinshasa's version of Rangian Street Poker is the most similar to the Solar version out of all the Outer Rim Variations

- Nureyev and Rita make each other jewelry. Rita hands the jewelry she makes to Nureyev directly, while Nureyev sneaks what he makes under Rita's door at night, or leaves it on her seat for her to find in the morning

- Rita is from the Cerberus Province or someplace similar to it. Or she spent a lot of time sneaking out to the Martian sewers while growing up and befriended the Martian sewer rabbits

- Jet didn't know how to wash his hair properly and one time it got especially greasy after changing the Ruby's oil or something, so Rita showed him how to clean it properly. Since then they try to have a 'spa day' sort of thing once a week

- The Mechanisms are somewhere Out There in Junoverse

- Buddy Aurinko has met the Mechanisms, and Vespa has not. She is definitely not jealous about that. Nuh uh.

- Buddy is naturally taller than Nureyev but she does not know this because Nureyev is always wearing heels that make him appear an inch taller than her. No matter what shoes she herself chooses to wear that day.

- Nureyev kept the handcuffs from the Murderous Mask ep

- The entire Carte Blanche has matching friendship bracelets that they made together (suggested by Rita and organised by Buddy). The Ruby Seven's bracelet was made by Jet and is tied around its steering wheel. Nureyev also made it one later on, which he hid under one of the seats.

- Juno has 10 eyepatches he frequently wears and they are all identical.

- Juno and Slip would've loved each other if they had the chance to meet properly. Platonically or romantically it doesn't matter. Either way, they would pretend to be jealous of each other around Nureyev for a while, until one day Nureyev catches them watching a shitty stream together, making fun of the bad writing.

- Slip didn't want to be revived

- Slip was sometimes conscious enough to hear everything that happened around him

- Slip calls Nureyev "Petya" either because that's the Brahman pronunciation of it or because he misheard the first time they met and it stuck as a nickname

- If Petya is the Brahman pronunciation of Peter, then Mag was the one who changed his name to "Peter" so it "sounded more Solar"

- Buddy and Vespa dye their hair together

- One time they were real tired while dying their hair, and accidentally switched the colours around. For a few months Buddy had green hair and Vespa had red hair. Vespa has a photo of her and Buddy with swapped hair colours as her comms homescreen

- Juno used to think diamonds were beautiful, and now can't stand the sight of them

- Ben would teach Juno to dance (I think this one is canon? Juno's "I had a good teacher" line in Man in Glass makes me think so? And it might've been brought up in other episodes too)

- Juno couldn't bear to do any sort of dance for years after Ben died

- Juno tried to keep the dahlias and roses Nureyev got him for his birthday alive for as long as possible, but they probably wilted either during the THEIA stuff or soon after he left Hyperion city. They still sit in his office though, and he has a photo of them from before they wilted that he looks at sometimes

- Buddy sometimes does her makeup in a green that matches Vespa's hair. Vespa does the same, but in red

- Nureyev used to not have a favourite colour, but it became gold after Man in Glass

[madzwashere]

Juno has the most dry skin known to man, like it’s CONCERNING how dry his hands are

[notreyev]

things nureyev didnt have to do (spoilers up to junoverse 5.02)

- trust mag

- kill mag

- become a threat to new kinshasan society

- almost die of starvation because he literally said “i’ll get you” to the People in Charge and now can’t show his face

- kiss slip

- fall in love with slip

- take coma drugs and pretend he was in a coma to board a ship with slip

- stalk slip to see where he was going and what he was doing

- gaslight slip

- join the poker game with slip & the benefactors and be a bitch the whole time

- trip the fattest balls off slip’s homemade drugs, making himself vulnerable to the benefactors

- life an entire life with slip in a coma he was put into by the benefactors

- wake up and sign his life away to save slip

(he’s only 17 at this point)

- serve cunt as rex glass

- be in heat around juno with the kanagawas

- in-credible!

- “you wouldn’t mind…taking me someplace warmer, would you?”

- kiss juno

- get arrested by juno

- serve cunt as duke rose

- train from nowhere

- steal the ruby7

- let juno see into his brain

- pretend he didn’t hear juno leave the hotel room

- choose the name “peter ransom”

- serve cunt as peter ransom

- LEAVE ON BUDDY AND VESPA’S WEDDING DAY?????

- the whole notebook thing

- gas dark matters prison with his colonge

- “do not come looking for me.”

- jump out a fucking window to avoid confrontation with juno

[unmechanism]

I wish I could peek into your minds and see how all the different audio fiction locations look like to you

[captainoftheussthagomizer]

“We are not mercenaries in this family. And though each of us has their reputation, we are not legends, either. We’re better. A legend is an old story, a dead thing, frozen forever. And we are very much alive; still in motion.”

-Buddy Aurinko, The Penumbra Podcast, S3E2

[trans-spider-man]

Every time Juno refers to himself as part of “The Aurinkos” i cry and scream and cry again

[nureyevs-worst-alias]

Juno: Nureyev, what the hell are you doing?

Nureyev, soaking in a literal bath of his cologne: I'll explain later just trust me

[of-swords-and-princes]

I went into this episode knowing that the Carte Blanche was likely going to get destroyed, so why does it feel like I'm Crowley watching the Bentley go up in flames?

[tifixation]

my roommate and i have a google sheet where we have compiled our thoughts on as many things as possible and sorted anything we could think of into penumbra characters. including but not limited to: favorite gatorade flavors, pasta noodle, pasta sauce, and pasta dish (all separate entries), chips, boba flavors, songs from the album blue neighborhood by troye sivan, etc. it now has over 100 different entries.

[germanich]

A man with an evil mind Who knows what you are

[murderandcoffee]

*buddy aurinko voice* found family? no, darling, this is a made family. I superglued these chucklefucks together kicking and screaming.

[notreyev]

junoverse characters as wet cats

juno

nureyev

rita

buddy

vespa

jet

mick

s*sha w*re

ruby

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Song of the springs", sculpture by Mademoiselle Blanche Laurent

French vintage postcard

[captainoftheussthagomizer]

“He’ll be lying on his side, propped up on one elbow and… he’ll say something like, ‘Fancy seeing you here, Juno,’ or, ‘What took you so long?’ or, ‘It’s been a while.’

So I press the button and as the door slides open I can imagine him so clearly surrounded by piles of dirty clothes and unwashed plates, but still looking like an emperor in repose, powerful and calm and in control.”

-Juno, The Penumbra Podcast, S3E25

[389]

La Carte Blanche (The Blank Signature), 1965 René Magritte

[theclassymike]

Happy 32nd Birthday to Cole and Dylan Sprouse! 🥳🎂