#the penumbra podcast headcanon

[ratwizz]

Season 3 Juno is healthy enough to do eyeliner daily. He's grown.

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[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]

Nureyev gaining weight on the Carte Blanche because he finally has a steady food supply 😭

[notreyev]

juno was stealing sarah's cigarette at 12 yrs old and trying to look cool smoking on a street corner but he kept fucking coughing and embarrassing himself

(weakly) "damn these cigarettes.. COUGH.. theyre strong....."

mick, sasha, ben, and annie all laughing at him... his eyes watering from the smoke... "fuck you guys... HFCKKK..."

[podcast-official]

can't stop thinking about how if juno and nureyev had a kid nureyev would probably wrap juno and the kid up in his arms at the same time and kiss both their foreheads and smile softly and say "hello, my loves" every time they'd all been apart for more than like thirty minutes and both juno and the kid just kind of rest in the knowledge that the two of them are peter nureyev's favorite people in the entire whole universe.

literally doesn't matter how old the kid gets. it still happens whenever they see each other.

[cloverjester]

Peter Nureyev is so funny. What gender is he attracted to? Juno Steel. What are his pronouns? He/him or ar least that’s what his definitely real ID said. What’s his gender? Thief. What’s in his pants? Your wallet. He’s not giving it back.

[waters-and-the-wilde]

Juno: I'm proud to identify as a morosexual. I am attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. Nureyev mistook Jet's sourdough starter discard for a forgotten mug of his nutrient paste concoction and downed the whole thing before wondering why his breakfast was 'a bit tingly' and now i daydream about taking him to Venus for our honeymoon

[lesbian-jack-barnabas]

if you have health issues/chronic illness/a disability nothing will make you feel better than saying your fave has it too. Arthur Lester has chronic migraines! Peter Nureyev has agoraphobia! Rat A81 has plantar fasciitis! Cecil Palmer has ADHD! Warren Godby has CIU! I’m!! Fucking!!! Winning!!!!

[bamfwizard]

in honor of the birthday of the lady himself, "elements of juno that I headcanon or would draw in my version"

-chronic sweatpants wearer unless it's nureyev's turn to choose his outfit (they probably have one day, called something dumb like Fancy Friday, where Juno gives Nureyev permission to choose his outfit. it evolved into him taking the opportunity to style his hair, do his makeup, etc. Juno is content because it makes nureyev absolutely ecstatic)

-peacock feathers and motifs everywhere (probably a peacock feather patch on his boots)

-oh yeah, boots. big doc marten ass boots. chunky fucks. multiple pairs in diff colors. roses/dahlias on one of em

-mercury alchemical symbol earring on one ear, just because I've seen an earring like that and want to buy it because it's peak nonbinary fashion

-prefers minimalist or simpler clothes because he isn't much for receiving gifts, but most of his wardrobe just kinda.....appears there. it's obviously from nureyev. like, he knows that. a lot of it is more expensive than one would expect but he knows it's stolen and for some reason that comforts him?

-dresses whenever a heist or job allows for it. prefers sleeker, form-fitting ones that drive nureyev INSAAAANE

-curves curves ass ass so much ass and curves hips and booty just so absolutely hhhhgggg

-heels but never over 4 inches because he'd trip

-a few faded but very fashionable tattoos, most recently a tiny rabbit on his ankle

-GOLD EYE SHADOW EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME ALL OF IT HHHHH

-rita and him dyed the tips of their hair magenta at the end of s2 because FRIENDSSS

[reddstardust]

Please consider demisexual Peter Nureyev 🙏

[steadysapphics]

The lesbians in Penumbra Podcast are severely underrated. Shout out to lesbians in the Penumbra, I love you so much and would 100% die for you.

[femsanzo291]

Thoughts due to doing a beach fic with the Junoverse characters and how well they can swim.

Vespa the strongest swimmer due to having grew up in the swamplands and needing to know how to swim to survive. Theatens not to save the others when they get over their heads, but will save them when they inevitably do.

Jet can swim quite well but often doesn't as he can just stand up in most pools and water that the people he's with wants to swim in. Helps Rita into her pool floats and makes sure the floats don't float off with Rita in them.

Juno is surprisingly good swimmer for having grown up on a desert planet, but does not love to swim. Likes waiding in water and walking in the shallows and along beaches.

Rita loves the pool and the beach cute bodies on display in cute swimsuits all for her to be able to look at. Can swim, not the strongest and loves lounging on a pool float or on a lounger with her snacks

Buddy was once a very strong swimmer is no longer after all the radiation damage. Loves to walk along the beach and get her feet wet.

Nureyev will not get his face or hair wet at all. Can swim, not the best but can, if he has to do it, if he knows how to swim at all. He would have learned for a heist required it but otherwise doesn't know how to swim. Does not understand why people would do it recreationally but that is because he has not worked on anything that would help him not get exhausted quickly and only works on it around heists that need it. Also has to be lathered in so much sunscreen because he will burn when on the beach.

The Ruby7 just loves watching the rest of the crew have fun when they go to the beach.

[notreyev]

peter nureyev with a cigarette habit (bows and walks off stage)

[podcast-official]

juno steel and peter nureyev are such an audhd power couple

[headphonesleatherjacket]

season one doodles

[waters-and-the-wilde]

okay speaking of wrestling and also apropos of 'Rita drags him in by his tie', I was previously having Thoughts about imminently post Got His Ass wherein Rita is bound and determined to drag Nureyev kicking and screaming back into being family again so uh. scenario.

Rita corners Nureyev for A Conversation after they Get His Ass, like plot resolution denouement loose ends and stuff where he's in the clear debt-wise, made his peace with Slip however that looks, he and Juno Have Talked but they're like just on the other side of Having Talked. like Things Are Okay but also everything's just so raw and they're being So Careful with each other, it's like the early days on the Carte Blanche again and it's hard to shake the feeling that any more disturbance is going to topple whatever they're trying to rebuild

so Nureyev is just. his whole brain is full of fire alarms. he's vibrating in place like a greyhound that just got picked up at the shelter after it got spooked and ran away from home. this time he has no high ground as the injured party, he and Rita have known each other for a year now so there's a lot less of her initial 'sniff out the new beau' hesitancy, and sure he knows Rita well enough that it's obvious she's not gonna up and Ruin Him on purpose when she wholeheartedly volunteered to get him out of the mess he was in but still. she's the most unpredictable person he's ever met, he has no idea how this is going to go.

like logically he knows that he and Juno are working shit out and logically he knows that Rita's kinder than the people in her life deserve and might continue to tolerate him, but ultimately she's Juno's best friend who might well just be about to give him the mother of all 'you're on thin fucking ice' shovel talks, like she can't possibly still approve of him anymore right??

so he's scrambling to do preemptive damage control, he's throwing everything he's got into trying to Fix This. going on about how he knows what she must think of him and how sorry he is and that all he has to say for himself is that he only wanted to keep Juno safe, that he couldn't bear the thought of dragging him down with him, not when he was free and their family was together and he knows he should have ended it when Juno asked him to and he just wasn't strong enough and Rita's like. yeah that's nice i know Mista' Nureyev, hey can I tell you what I said to Mista' Steel when he told me about leaving you in that hotel?

and Nureyev shuts up and braces himself and nods very seriously and then she's like, actually you might wanna take off your glasses for this, and now he's extra confused and possibly even more terrified, and she waits until he's put them in a little case and set it on a side table and then there's just kind of a blur and a whole Rita NYEEERRRRRRAAaGGHHH!!!! noise and WHOOMP

pillow to the face

(for context. in my brain. I sorta presume that Juno told her about what happened with Miasma at some point in the aftermath of Newtown bc he owed her an explanation about both times he went missing, and yes she was glad that Juno didn't run away on an adventure across the galaxy without her but she knows a dick move when she sees one and also probably has the full context of baby Mista' Steel's self-sabotaging romantic choices (Juno said there was a whole thing about him walking out when he was with Diamond so I am assuming that Rita was privy to any number of related incidents over the course of those years). finding out that he passed up the chance to run away on a romantic adventure with the mysterious and dashing gentleman who he'd been mooning over for month, who was apparently also smitten with him the whole time and saved his life and tried to take care of him when he lost his eye?? she waited until he was staring into the bottom of his glass and then started whaling on him with a pillow)

anyway Nureyev doesn't get a chance to do much except yelp and sputter and get his arms up before she whacks him with the pillow again. and again. and starts yelling like 'YOu! are! such! a! big! dumb! baBY! Just! 'Cause! YOU! Think! People're better off! Without you! Don't make you! All! Noble 'n stuff!'

and he gets with the program pretty fast, which is to say that he's just on the floor letting her do her worst because that's just what's happening now

'alright I yield! I surrender! have mercy your honor!'

'DAMN! RIGHT! YOU! DO! DidN'T! Captain! Mom! Teach! you! aNYThInG! Big! Stupid! Tough guy! Tryin'a! Do it all! Yourself! We're! S'posed to be! FaMBLY! Now you're! Stuck with us! FoReVeR!!'

tackles him with the pillow. starts tickling him. both of them are shrieking. he vaguely registers that Juno has appeared and is slouching in the doorway 'my love i beg of you call off the attack i'll do anything' and Juno's like 'sorry honey i'm a little busy' and is holding up something that is probably comms-shaped and 'Nooooo, Juno how could you, JUNO SINCE WHEN DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECORD THINGS'

(and the thing is Nureyev was just letting it happen because he assumed this was catharsis for Rita's sake and sure it's not not for Rita getting it out of her system but she processes things pretty fast you know? and she runs out of steam and goes off to get a snack and he's just there on the floor with his hair in his face kinda punch-drunk and Juno sidles up and sits beside him and whoops turns out Rita found the Release Feelings Valve and Juno's like 'yeah she does that. went a lot easier on me but I think that was mostly because I'd just gotten out of the hospital when i told her about all that.')

(a couple months later Ruby turns up to scoop Jet in the nick of time from a dangerous raid on Dark Matters and he asks what it's been up to and it pulls up the footage that Juno copied to the databanks. he gets a good kick out of the fact that Rita was on the same page about the whole 'he is solitary and overconfident and alone he can only fail' thing and that she got the opportunity to address it in the most rita way possible)