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Juno hears Nureyev stress about being old one too many times and dyes his hair white so Nureyev has to stop complaining about greys or risk saying something negative about his lovely wonderful Juno.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #i don’t know I just like the idea of Juno having white hair #at some point Nureyev realizes he’s the youngest member of the crew and has to lay down for a bit #he tries saying “well it looks good on you” once before getting solidly shut down

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

My favorite trend in fanfics is when Nureyev and Vespa have completely civil conversations but only when in private or talking about their trans related healthcare.

#the penumbra podcast #peter nureyev #vespa ilkay #Vespa May hate him but she respects him as a patient and a fellow trans™️ #idk I’ve just seen this a couple of times

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Vespa has requested to review streams ahead of time to check for particularly creative homme/femme-fatales after the “incident” when they watched “Holes”(2003). Nureyev, on seeing Katherine Barlow show off her venomous nail polish, decided that he HAD to have it. No one is sure where he got it (though Buddy did ask for a bottle) but now he’s got a fun new weapon and Vespa looses a little more sleep each night remembering that, NOW, her little problem is venomous.

#the penumbra podcast #peter nureyev #vespa ilkay #she asks Buddy to let her “declaw” him #Buddy is still unsure if she meant confiscating the polish #Cutting his nails #or removing the whole nail bed and all #the lipstick was ultimately ruled out because 1) he would not be doing anything that would prevent him from kissing his beloved Juno #and 2) it would make Juno upset for him to be kissing other people unnecessarily and he would NOT be having that #Buddy is equally guilty of taking inspiration from these stream icons Vespa just doesn’t care as long as it’s just her wife

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Bentin always supported Juno academically, making him actually do his work and pushing him to skip a grade. Juno refused to do anything that would separate them, so Bentin worked overtime to keep up with him.

Juno, in the other hand, did his absolute hellbent best to help Bentin with his dance career, constantly practicing with him and working jobs on top of school from eight to afford classes without worrying about “Ma’s” spotty income.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #benzitin steel #love let that be how you spell it #gotta love the absolute lack of labor laws in Oldtown #the two loved and supported each other #Juno used to keep injured animals in their room while he took care of them #Bentin would risk life and limb for any one of these animals #for no reason quite so much as he knew Juno loved them #i have no idea why I’m so sure Juno excelled in school other than the Proctor incident

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Juno deserves to dress slutty, as a treat.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #he's hot your honor #let him have this

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Juno and his friends used to go swimming in the cooling pool of the old nuclear reactor which supplied power to oldtown. He has since learned that breaking in to a high security facility every weekend was great practice for his future career.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #the oldtown trio just chilling in this huge dark room #deadly radiation levels down below if they were to go down #and they just did not see the problem #Juno learned to swim in that reactor what do you mean it’s dangerous? #as long as you stay above about 15 feet your fine #don’t quote me on that number #I just don’t want to look it up right now.

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Given the general untrustworthy nature of any major establishment, it's pretty common in Old Town for people to wear nice jewelry that can be turned around and pawned rather than keep too much in the banks.

#the penumbra podcast #old town #the practice carries over to New Town just for the sake of tradition #Juno can therefore accurately guess the value of a piece within 1-10 creds #based off a tradition of women wearing gold because they couldn't open bank accounts #Did you know women in India still hold about 40% of the world's gold? #am I basing this head cannon off anything? no #do I believe it full heartedly? without question #mostly I just had an idea that for some reason the crew was on the run without any access to creds #and juno just starts removing piercings from increasingly unlikely places until sorta weighting it all and saying it should cover #he's dead on

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Buddy: you know Juno, you need to stop being so hard on yourself.

Juno: sorry, I have to. It’s part of my religious beliefs.

Buddy: …which would be?

Juno: That there’s a higher power and they hate me specifically.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #buddy aurinko #Juno: originally they hated both me and my Ma but they sorta gave that up #Buddy: this ideology is toxic #Juno: this ideology was a gift from my mother thank you very much

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Truth or Dare-

Nureyev: truth or dare (my dearest detective)

Juno: dare

Nureyev: I dare you to kiss the person who your most attracted to in this room.

Juno: Ok. Hey Jet!

Nureyev: *GASP*

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #injured thief noises #“No kisses? No kisses from my dearest darling detective? Jail for detective! Jail for a million years!” #Juno’s joking of course but he thought it would be funny #Nureyev specifically said attracted to because he knew if he said love Juno would pick Rita #it’s worth noting this was not the most disastrous or theatrical round that game

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Juno after graduating top of his class from the police academy.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #the harley quinn show #Just another way Juno is like Harley #so maybe don’t do do drugs right before giving a serious speech #wait I forgot the timeline #did Juno meet Diamond before or after graduating? #oh well I’ve already put too much effort into these tags to go back now

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

I’ve finally figured out how to explain Juno’s job;

Buddy is the master architect of every crime. Juno is the engineer who comes in and makes sure the thing actually gets built.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #buddy aurinko #Buddy comes up with plans and Juno scraps half of it in favor of it in favor of something that actually works #nobody can predict everything #and it’s important for a heist to have someone who can notice that they have a problem and come up with a good solution quickly

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Rita has 20 pairs of glasses and they’re all cat eyed.

#the penumbra podcast #rita penumbra #tell me I’m wrong #she can never find any of them either

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Nureyev discovered just how low Juno’s expectations for an SO actually are and decided to just change that whole situations.

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

I think we both know Nureyev is Gomez.

Juno and Nureyev are about ten years from achieving their final forms: Mortica and Gomez Addams

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #the addams family #Just #Nureyev ADORES pet names and being very loving #juno seems a bit less public about how much he adores Nureyev #and the idea of a calm confident Juno who’s being doted on 24/7 #he just deserves it

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

Juno and Nureyev are about ten years from achieving their final forms: Mortica and Gomez Addams

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #the addams family #anyways that’s my hot take for the year

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

There’s a lot of potential in a Corpse Bride style Penumbra AU.

When Peter Nureyev receives a proposal from none other than Madam Zolotova, one of the richest people alive, he’s naturally thrilled. This is the solution he’s been looking for, what will finally free him from the debt following him around like an oncoming hurricane. Whether or not he actually loves, or for that matter even particularly tolerates her is another matter entirely. He goes out one evening to practice his vows. After all, if he’s going to pull this off, everything must go according to plan.

Everything starts to go wrong for Juno Steel when he learns what exactly his police chief and more importantly future mother-in-law has been doing behind the scenes. So he tells his fiancée, Diamond, saying he thinks he needs to tell everyone what it is her mother is up to. She stops him, says there’s no good in that, that too many people are in on this. No, what they need to do is run away together. They agree to meet at a quarter to ten at the edge of the wastes. Juno comes in his wedding dress. Well it turns out there was some drift in their plans. He came looking to get married, and someone else came to see him get buried. He doesn’t really know why he stuck around, but it all seems to finally pay off for him when a strange man proposes to him. It looks like his luck is changing, right? Right?

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #the corpse bride #of course this differs from the cannon movie plot #was it Diamond who killed him? who knows! #Rita has now been turned into a maggot #I’m sorry #im still working out the details

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I physically cannot get over this fic:

In it Juno is a Swan Maiden, similar to a cross between selkie and siren mythology. It is absolutely fantastic.

(Some folks just have too much sorrow growing in their lungs, too many poems scratched into their throats, and they just have to sing it out of them.)

(sing to keep from drowning, sing to stay afloat)

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #i sing silently (so I don’t feel unclean) #fan art #this is just one example i have so many more #i love the logic that Juno would be a swan rather than a seal because he is just. so full of rage