also going back to sword thing- classically trained fencer specializing in sabre, self taught in rapier and two-handed sword

oooh!! i kinda picture cartographer quaver as being someone who very much likes Solid Facts™️ so the idea of her getting to know sentient los angeli and and having to kinda be like "hm these are my friends and i will Never know everything i want to abt them but yknow? maybe just this once, that's okay"

she has powers that relate to manipulating the physical space of the Shadows - basically folding it to create shortcuts through the shadow plane to other places on the immaterial plan. in addition, she sort of has absolute power over her surroundings while inside the shadows, and has the limited ability to create liquid shadow and shadow-based constructs outside of it

Oko would be like: says vague and confusing things while actively changing shape Cartographer silvaire: SUS. SUS. SUS.

Oko and Silvaire get along too well for anyone to feel safe

The story of how they know each other and how they met varies but it does involve: a party, a lot of powerful beings in the same room, drugs?, A Cat, and 23 (and counting) different endings

Since Oko is only a fae queen and Silvaire is a God there is some tension of like. Oko being somewhat intimidated. But she would never say that

Oko is our saxophone lady. Please give her this creative outlet. I feel like Silvaire and Oko form the backbone of our NIGHT TACOS MUSIC GROUP

ska, a genre with a defining feature of the beat emphasis being shifted by . . . approximately one semiquaver (I think, I forget how British English note names work)

and so they stay fairly close until she gets staticked near the end of the season

hm. cool aunt energy

Silvaire has like one of those knifes you tie around your leg under a dress or something

art thief Silvaire is basically a Shadows Warlock. she started out learning shadow magic as a means of teleporting into secure places. eventually she tried teleporting somewhere but her path intersected with the legscraper, causing her to get stuck in the shadows until she got switched out with conman via will

lootcrates put everyone into cute little hamster balls and chucked em into LA at 200 miles per hour

I guess in a way, Silvaire was the beginning of the generation of players who replaced Lift OGs and Steals was near the end of it (although roster changes really accelerated in these later seasons)

I had Rylan O'Lantern as Steals' closest friend originally because they were both not quite of this world, both replacements for incinerated team captains. And I guess I've been thinking of relationships with Shadows players because they weren't even on the active roster for a full season. The other player I had Steals close to was Concrete Mandible. So maybe there's a complicated relationship with Silvaire there, how they're partners in crime (and maybe more) but she also (accidentally) consigned ConMan to the shadows.

"I may only know like two Wyatt Masons before meeting you all but to my understanding of how the tacos work through them I think that means we're basically family now"

it seems like more of a taco thing to say but also i imagine with her connection to jas there's a connection that's sort of like family

wyatt mason (one, or masone) localizes into the lineup at the same time quitter and aly are on the team. they bond and hang out for a while before their egg cracks and starts going by jasmine. silvaire helps jas start presenting how she wants by loaning her old clothes and whatnot. even though she's not any sort of fashionista, she has some experience is that, so it's definitely a good experience for jas

she'd never been outside tokyo in any sort of permanent way, it was always either an away game, a concert, a portrait commission, or for some heist

as for what she thinks? she probably hated it at first

i like the idea of gachapon being something like. the team that wins the blessing gets to do a gachapon for what random shadows player the team gets

maybe unifying these: hated being randomly transferred, but eventially she got acquainted with everyone and started looking into how LAi's Shadows worked?

basically, she's kind of obsessed with succeeding on her OWN terms, in as many ways as possible, out of spite

party god comes on and makes the most extraordinary, decadent brisket anyone in the UNIVERSE has ever tasted. yummy takes a bite and says it needs more tissue paper

Silvaire is worse because it's not just horrible inedible objects turned into food it's actual edible food made inedible through a series of choices that are in fact mistakes

ok small headcanon about art thief silvaire: kinda bad at cooking

YUMMYS YOUTUBE CHANNEL GETS ANOTHER CHEF

Silvaire can make little semi-sentient balls of shadow she calls Hemlocks

They're sort of like homunculi, they can follow simple commands and see and feel and whatnot. Silvaire can also look through them if there's more than one in existence, and in theory can send her own consciousness into one and escape death possibly