A message from goddammitmax

9 is a good number. Is that too many? *** *** ***

*Handel’s name was “George” at first because the human couple couldn’t tell her sex and they defaulted to male, same way people often do with birds.

*Tewarius is a bit of a workaholic and doesn’t have much of a life beyond work. Part of the reason is he is terrified of living a life like Sornal, taking money to be stared at for being different. This is part of how they met. Tewarius found his whole shtick bordering on physically painful to see roll into town, so he tried to strike up conversation with him and see if he could help him out of that life.

*Among spell book nerds like Trip, Atlas is a minor celebrity. Since these nerds are an extremely obscure community, that isn’t saying a lot, but Atlas has been an extremely prolific spell writer, and his books stand out for being full of bizarre and often acerbic footnotes and commentary, which only gets worse when he’s writing other spell writer’s books, which often contain under the radar digs at whoever wrote the spell he’s annotating.

*Peter used to live in an apartment before he grew out of scale with it, and found he couldn’t afford a bigger place.

*Enka told Seekali she was a woman so she wouldn’t find out later the best man at her wedding had been a lady and freak out. She got to be best man anyway.

*Calvin Weaver, the beekeeper that knows the Amber Rust, Blood Gold and Sun Glass Melliferian hives, started it simply by being very friendly with the foragers. This got him a good reputation that quickly grew until they trusted him to exchange favors for their honey, which he sells as a specialty item along side his regular honey that he gets from his own normal bees.

*Cecil isn’t a magic user himself, but he made discoveries that allowed him to create a more streamlined way to convert magic into sugar, and he uses that money to do his research without having to get grants.

*142857SG-AR used to be a singer, but the incident that required the arm transplants that make her look so mismatched and patchwork is also the incident that damaged her voice box, so her voice is now rough and delicate, so it wears out quickly. She still sings anyway.

*Calvin gives the Melliferians a lot of varied things at their request, but one of the most common things he gets them is candy. They mostly prefer the candies that are mostly sugar and little else, like hard candy, gummy candy, jelly beans etc., They don’t actually like chocolate, which Calvin has always found really weird.

A message from dancingcoyote

* x6

*RootLatch didn’t own any toys for the longest time. Normally sub-adults own at least a few toys and games and such. But she was afraid that if she spent her money on those things, it’d prove she was irresponsible and deserved her hardship. Kite and Thread found this unbearably creepy when visiting her apartment, like she didn’t even live there.

*Parker has a thing for time pieces because he doesn’t really understand time. He understands it in an experiential way, but not in the hard and fast consistent divided into parts sort of way implied by clocks and such. His forearms are covered in watches, he’s got at least four pocket watches on his person and there are clocks all over the walls in his bedroom. Not all of them are set for the correct time.

*Cecil can draw, and can draw quite well in fact, but doesn’t really think of himself as an artist. He doesn’t deny it when someone calls him that, but he really only knows how to draw because sometimes Agents react badly to being photographed. So when someone refers to him as an artist he kind of just goes silent and finds something to pretend to be looking at.

*Peter is unusually sensitive to sedatives and anesthetics, which is part of why he wears that medical alert anklet.

*Ipswich’s clone regrew many of it’s muscles over the years after the incident, even though they’d been removed. The arm wrapped around his chest sometimes tenses up and squeezes him, often in reaction to him feeling stress. He’s really high-strung and nervous by nature, so that’s basically all the time.

*All the things in jars know each other and congregate in Philo’s house. Often they gather on his kitchen table. He panicked the first time he suddenly found himself with half a dozen bizarre jarred things on his table, but now he just kind of goes about his business, since it’s not like they DO anything. Nothing he can see or understand anyway.