#it's so hard to imagine viv and isaac in any kind of 'normal' nonmagical setting

[skittidyne]

i finished ur book ahhhh!! aaAHH!! i love ur characters so much i love isaac i love mirai i love christine i love them all!!! i have a questión.. if ur characters were to have "normal" nonmagical professions, what do u think theyd be?

i'm so glad you've enjoyed it!! you're also the first person who has admitted they love isaac! how does that feel :3c

i feel like my little cast of misfits would boil down to "professional couchsurfers/bums" but here are some Actual Thoughts put into things!

vivienne would be a professional student. she makes money participating in tests and trials and studies, plus publishing the most niche academic papers you can imagine, and gets consulting fees for even more niche stuff. no one is precisely sure what her field of expertise is anymore.

dana is still a bookshop manager because she enjoys it :3 walker would still be a law intern, too, and emil & christine would still be teenagers. (emil would work part-time at the bookstore. christine probably volunteers in her free time, when not grinding for a 4.0+ gpa.)

mark runs a self-help shtick. blog posts, webinars, in-person vaguely therapy-ish meetings, he's published two books, etc etc. is it a job? who knows. it does make him money, however, and he's good at encouraging people, so there's that.

natalie runs a moderately successful etsy store selling homemade cosmetics, bath bombs, scents, and some one-off pieces of jewelry. she has excellent email customer service but enjoys not having to do in-person customer service.

isaac would work as a freelance beta tester and probably help with indie games on the side, plus freelance video editing for streamers when he gets bored/needs cash.

sam is a professional Good Boy. (omg could you imagine him as a professional cuddler)

mirai would be like. some sort of adrenaline junkie youtuber/influencer. they just do the most batshit things you can think of, make videos of it (while screaming about the safety measures you should take that they're ignoring), and get the most random sponsorships you can imagine. isaac occasionally helps edit their videos into something approaching coherency. but only sometimes.

megan is still in med school hell, i'm sorry. it's their calling in life.

codi would probably be [REDACTED], still mistaken for an assassin by dana.

lucien would've invested early in apple and amazon and now is a professional rich asshole.

thomas would be a high school teacher, either english or history, the type that also teaches one-off classes like psych and anatomy or something because they can't get a dedicated teacher for such a small part of the curriculum. he also coaches both basketball teams. he gets very into it, especially during games, but ofc the high schoolers think it's hilarious and egg him on.

#ask #anonymous #it's so hard to imagine viv and isaac in any kind of 'normal' nonmagical setting #they're made to be immaterial fringe weirdos #(i say immaterial because they're TRYING to be ignored and stay under the radar with their skills)