#tpp benzaiten steel

[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

[vicioustoker]

happy birthday to my favourite twins ever i think about a very normal amount

[madzwashere]

Juno talking about Benten always makes me weep

[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..."

[i-didnt-do-1t]

Every day I think about how Sarah Steel smashed juno and benzaiten’s tv/moniter and Years later juno did the same to rita’s moniter and didn’t even seem to realise it

[deadlier-than-i-look]

Do you think Juno looks at Melee and Nureyev both willing to sacrifice years of their lives to a corporation for the slim chance to get their loved ones back. Do you think Juno understood the feeling of desperation in wanting to get them back but had long since accepted that the dead needs to stay dead

But do you think for just a moment he wondered what it would be like to have Ben back?

[preciousconstellations]

Benten gave a shaky chuckle. “I think that’s been building up in me for a while. I— Yeah, you’re right. I should probably wait until he’s better before I open that can of worms at him, huh?” “Perhaps,” Nureyev said with a wry look. Benten flopped back down into the chair next to Nureyev, pulling his leg up once more, and the pair lapsed into mutual silence. The clock continued to tick.

I drew this last year and I'm super excited to finally share it -- art for chapter 11 of here's to feeling alive again by DesertWillow. Go check out the fic, it's so so good!!

[pyrocephalus-rubinus]

I am just obsessed with the recurring themes of our lives as stories in the Junoverse.

Alessandra Strong reminding us that there are no Happy Endings in real life, only Happy Middles.

Juno being reminded that stories are a way humans have of trying to frame our lives in a way that makes sense, but real life is not that simple. In the reminder that you might want to become the villain in a story to make sense of it but maybe sometimes little kids who live in Oldtown die and no matter how much you blame yourself, it is just not that simple.

In the way Sarah Steel got her story stolen away from her. Andromeda's story, yes, but also her story. And how she couldn't deal with that.

How Juno tried to rebuild a story to survive, with him as a hero as much as he was embarrassed to admit it. And with the part of Sarah Steel pumping through his veins as the ultimate enemy. An epic of heroes and monsters. The way his life was not a simple story in which there was One Clue that would explain everything, One Answer from Ben that would make sense of it all.

The way Juno got robbed of his story by Ramses. Made all those sacrifices, those actions that felt heavy on his shoulders for a plotline that didn't exist. The plot twist was the unraveling of the story, leaving only pain and sadness behind. The way Juno was able to overcome that. To start a new story, to do with his life as he saw fit.

I also love the reminder that we do need stories like Mick's to keep us hopeful. To gather strength to face the big mean world. The acceptance of how useful and sacred the tool of "stories" is.

The way dreams - stories- like having a life of adventure among the stars with the one you love, or like having a home in a city that means death but also hope to you… that those are also necessary. But we can't live in a dream. And the dreams may pass, but it's okay that we dreamed them.

The way Juno could recognize the brutality of stealing Nureyev's story away from the thief. The cruelness of it. How he could sense it coming, looming from that door. How afraid he was for Nureyev.

The way Nureyev's only way of coping all these years has been telling himself a story over and over again. A story of martyrdom. A story of devotion… In order to keep Juno away and not succumb to the desperation to be next to someone he loves and feels like he doesn't deserve, he has been telling himself this story. This lie of how Juno would be better off away from him. How Juno would never understand the sacredness of his life's work.

All these stories, all these versions of what's going on… All these precious lives being used as little clogs of an infernal machine that does not care for stories. Only results and getting richer and richer…

Just ugh… this podcast…

[choofs]

hello tpp tumblr!! i’ve recently endeavored to try and understand how personality quizzes are made and spent a while putting this one together!

it would be really cool if you could take a moment to do it, and maybe even let me know what you think!

[hyperfixssession]

Listen was some of the shit Sarah Steel did unforgivable? Fuck yeah. Do I understand her in a way that makes my bones ache in a deep and horrible way? Fuck yeah.

[scarlettrust]

Ben was wearing his favourite shirt.

it wasn’t anything special; a white crew neck gone soft with a thousand washes, with yellow flowers embroidered over a useless pocket. But it made him smile every time he wore it. A smile that only appeared when Benten stood in front of the mirror- soft, and entirely for him as he smoothed out invisible wrinkles, turning to see how the lines fell on his lean frame

Ben was wearing his favourite shirt, the day Juno visited home.

it was the first thing he always reached for once the laundry was folded and put away. It was just a shirt, but it always put a skip in his step —cheeks dimpled and eyes shining. Any day he wore it would be a good one, because Ben had decided it would be. a good luck charm made of worn cotton and yellow thread. It had been his favourite since the day Juno had bought it for him, all those years ago.

Ben was wearing his favourite shirt, the day he died.

And Juno wished he could think about anything else.

[madzwashere]

Thinking about how Benzaiten loved to dance because “it made him feel like he was flying.” Benzaiten, a person who stayed behind, never leaving Old Town. A person who was chained down to one place because of his own morals. Benzaiten seeing his twin brother fly the nest and leave. Benzaiten being killed before he too could fly away from Sarah Steel.

[hunterbinx]

In a happier universe:

Annie: *wrestling with Mick who is twice her size*

Mick: *loosing to Annie*

Sasha: *throwing darts at Benzaiten*

Ben: *standing in front of a collage of their enemies and seeing how fast he can get out of the way of the darts*

Buddy: *standing off to the side with Vespa, Jet, Rita, Peter, and Slideboi*

Buddy: Who is in charge here???

Juno: *walks in through the door wearing a cool ass trench coat and sunglasses with grocery bags full of snacks and a cup of iced coffee in hand*

Juno: Sup Fuckers

[yourlocalspacecryptid]

can you draw juno and benten? :))

Wow what nice brothers! Sure hope nothing horrible and tragic happens to them

[ananxiousgenz]

just read through the monster's reflection transcripts for some research and on an unrelated note i am now crying thinking about benten and juno

[urjover]

IT’S BENTEN’S BIRTHDAY🔊🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔊‼️‼️‼️‼️🔊🗣️🗣️🗣️🔊‼️🗣️🗣️‼️🗣️🗣️🔊🗣️🔊🔊🔊🗣️ HAPPY 41 (??) KING