oh, right, should we also deal with previous relationships soon? because given how long the council members knew each other, they'd ought to have had pretty detailed thoughts of each other and often entertwined lives. like violet and zephyr. are there any other ex pairings or people who were best friends and just fuckin' forgot???

That's all up to you guys! I would say that they were all closer, given how it was literally 'be friends or be alone forever' back when the council first formed and all. But how close they each had been is up to us haha

Pfft. It's pretty easy as Basil gets along with 90% of the council members. As for Faust, he's there headache.

Honestly, with how chaotic Zephyr is, I feel like Faust and them totally used to be the headache together. A shared role of causing problems. Which probably sucked because of how Zephyr was the one to bring them all together lmao

Esta would get along with basically everyone, and, as healer, she also keeps everyone from destroying themselves... she may be closer to those who end up in her place more... the reckless ones-

Vi was obviously close with Z, as determined, but she could go back and forth on who she was actually close with, probably mostly based on who all is okay with her being rather overprotective and being... well, like a mother.

Sol is more reserved, so they'd probably just end up being close to whoever approaches them first and decides that he's worth the time. Him and Violet were pretty close before the whole 'everyone forgets everything thing,' but I'm not sure who all else would have been

Zephyr was totally someone who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Basil's or Esta's places, even before The Cataclysm.

i don't think i can really go very general for either of my characters' relationships (jiyun's especially majorly has to do with what other people think of her since she as a character is very reactive), but for what i can say generally, tao would probably try to get along with everyone but he'd have some complicated feelings about the people who try to help him (he, too, would be kicking and screaming when dragged into a place, except there would probably be some teeth involved too) and jiyun would talk a lot with everyone but would try to stay distant in an emotional sense.

I think Ariv and Sol probably would have been friends-

Maybe Ariv and Esta too, but mainly them and Sol :)

I love the idea that Ariv, who loves tea, was one of the sole people able to comfort Zephyr whenever it was needed by making them hot chocolate instead.

I get very much brother vibes from Ariv.