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Herald viktor from my jayvik avatar au 🤭

So here are some facts about him;

In here his hair is chopped off because jayce had braided it for him when he was healing and viktor didn’t like how it reminded him of jayce and in a fit of rage he cut it off (but he keeps the blanket smh)

He doesn’t need to use his queue anymore that’s why it’s tied up, when he becomes machine herald well…he chops it off

He carries the songcords of his followers tied to his cane because why not

some more The Archive Undying sketches! someday i'll be brave enough to do book scenes.

So The Archive Undying is one of my favourite books of the year (and I've read some truly spectacular books) for many reasons. One of them is the descriptions of food in it. I was wondering if you could talk a bit more about the spices that Sunai uses and the teas they drink, so I can feed my obsession with the book in more ways?

OHOHOHO 1) thank you, 2) i also am a complete nut about good food descriptions in fiction so here, for your indulgence, some answers to your questions + some extra notes:

Sunai's nomadic existence means he will squirrel away whatever he can get his hands on, but for that curry in the first chapters I was imagining a spice mix that he whipped up at some point when he had access to a full kitchen to snitch from. That curry still kind of sucks because he doesn't have much to build it from. What he WANTS is veg, protein, and aromatics, and all he has is maybe some dried veg (if we're being generous) + maaaybe some dried soup base + some coriander and cumin and chili and the dregs of a mix to pull together with water and pour over rice. DISAPPOINTING.

Tea is v popular in part because it's kind of a luxury -- all agriculture in non-AI cities has to make the most of whatever space is considered safe enough to actually cultivate en masse, and you're generally going to prioritize sustenance over tea. So as a consequence there's a ton of variety in tea, bc you get people growing all sorts of personal projects (tea plants, herbs) as well as foraging in the wilds (if they can get away with it).

Khuon Mo's cuisine is fruit and seafood-forward; chili is popular but used more as an accent than a fundamental flavor; favored starch is rice; edible flowers for formal occasions/rituals (funerals, marriage, coming-of-age, etc.).

Veyadi absolutely would have just bitten straight into that onion if Sunai hadn't stopped him.

I took a few liberties with Tucker's design here lol like I know he wears a beanie (I think) but i really liked the hat on him! it matched the rest of the outfit imo

What do yall think

Has anyone said this yet

what probably happened that night they met when sunai was too drunk to remember anything

It’s one of trauma’s funny tricks. It lurks in the wings until you’ve proven your strength by carrying everybody else through the performance, and just when you’re about to take your final bow—bam! Kicks you right off the stage.

— The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon

Soon, my child