- thaddea has a gym membership. tries to get anah to join her when she goes to the gym but anah usually stands there and watches her. struggles with her hair so always asks anah for help.
-hawthorne sometimes bakes. he’s not great at it, but he enjoys it. gets his siblings to try his stuff. specifically likes baking cupcakes.
- lambeth does yoga every morning. she loves herbal tea too. she loves incense. and gold jewellry.
- cadence secretly listens to showtunes. her fav movie is girl interrupted because she loves winona ryder movies (me too).
- mahir is apart of a book club. he goes every thursday. drinks loads of coffee. loves watching movies. watches atleast one every night.
- anah gives herself a pep talk in the mirror every day. she also loves watercolour paintings. and rabbits.
- archan also goes to mahirs book club. they give eachother book recommendations. he also loves herbal tea. his guilty pleasure is rom coms.
- francis is always trying out new recipes and asks unit 919 for recipe ideas. also he has loads humidifiers in his room.
- morrigan loves candles. almost set fire to her room once though. as she usually does. and there is a stray cat that comes to her window every day and she feeds it.
okay when a wundersmith turns 100 years old, they get a hall in the school of wundrous arts, right? so logically; the squall hall.
besides the puns, do you think that’s where the lessons will take place? and what would it have in it? what purposes do the halls even serve? do they just spawn in with stuff in them or is it decorated by the wundersmith? and if a wundersmith doesn’t live until 100, do they still get a hall on the day they would’ve been 100? that would be so sad for the people who knew them.
Love your cooking headcanons. I feel like Mahir would be good (enough?) at following recipes from other languages or cultures— but only exactly. The moment there’s an ingredient or tool that he doesn’t have, is extinct, etc. he panics and doesn’t have the ability to improvise or adapt. He loves to say that he knows how to cook a bunch of stuff… but that’s only in theory. If you tried to ask him to cook something he’s not able to, he’d make excuses until you give up. Perhaps this is something he’d be able to get over, with the help of Francis or a class.
Also: Love your confidence in Marina “No, Francis, I got it from the shop like a normal person” Cheery, lol
Yeah that's exactly the vibe I get from Mahir! Most recipes I've seen rely on the reader at least having basic cooking skills so they don't have to go into mind numbing detail, and Mahir just doesn't have that (not that he would admit that, I think...).
You're so right about Marina lmao I just love the idea of her baking so much </333
She's very average for an 11-13 year old; she probably helped the nuns make meals by peeling potatoes or something. I don't think she would do that badly if she tried. I also think that by the end of Hollowpox, she has barista-level skills at making coffee.
Thaddea
No creating, only destruction. If someone does not put food in front of her, she will simply drink the blood of her enemies. Good for her, wish that were me
Francis
Hear me out, he's not actually that good jk. I'd imagine he would try to avoid cooking when he's trying to relax, or at least just make simple comfort food if he wants to feed himself (his standards for simple are probably...interesting, though).
Hawthorne
Great at making little snacks he has to share with Baby Dave, also excellent at making mud pies. Very aesthetically pleasing, not so edible.
Morrigan
Has never cooked a day in her life, has never even looked at a stove; the cook at the manor would always chase her out. She would burn water. Every cooking related conversation she has with Francis ends with him staring off into the distance in horrified silence.
Cadence
Assuming she lives only with her mom and grandmother (and goes to school? did the kids go to a school before wunsoc?? 🤨), she probably only has to cook herself lunch sometimes. So she's excellent at making kraft mac n cheese, and not very good at anything else (pulling from experience here lol).
Arch
Why learn to cook when you can shoplift? jk unless?? I can't imagine him cooking, but I CAN imagine him enjoying a good TV dinner or something. I like to imagine him browsing the frozen meals aisle and picking out the most random and possibly disgusting stuff, like Kids Cuisine Gourmet Shrimp ✨
Lam
She's probably in the same boat as Morrigan...the only saving grace she has is the abiltiy to forsee disaster. Her water may burn, but it will never boil over, yk.
Mahir
I think he might have an idea of basic techniques and what to do in general from studying languages/cultures, but he has never cooked anything before and has no experience. Not quite as bad as Morrigan, but not good either.
Miss Cheery
GREAT at baking; she's only really interested in making deserts and sweets, and every other cooking skill she has is the bare minimum she needs to survive. Undercooked, underseasoned, the whole nine yards.
Roshni
She also has the bare minimum amount of skill you need to survive...she'd rather order something from a cafe and read than make her own food. She has more patience than Marina, at least, so her food isn't so bad.
Jupiter
Maybe he's good at no-cooking-required meals (sandwiches, salads, soups technically) since he has to survive his fancy Captain-y trips somehow. If you actually make him cook something, he will hand you back a burnt crisp that only vaguely resembles the ingredients you gave him.
Squall
I don't think he ever touched a stove before coming to the Republic. The process of learning was nothing short of a disaster in which he nearly starved or died several times, but he's probably good enough now.