My different incarnations of Velvetfrost and their opinions on vanilla extract:
Wormwoodverse!Velvetfrost: Ant doesn’t understand what it is and assumes that it tastes like vanilla. He steals a bottle from the kitchen and drinks the entire thing. Velvet has to carry him to Corpse’s clinic to get his stomach pumped. He never lets Ant live it down.
BoD!Velvetfrost: Both of them are fully aware that it’s a rare, exotic spice from southern Essos, but does this stop Velvet from trying to dump an entire bottle into his cake mix for the bit? No. Does Ant have to physically stop him by wrestling the bottle out of his hands? Yes.
SO!Velvetfrost: Velvet “pranks” Ant by telling him it tastes delicious. However, vanilla extract is basically like crack cocaine for Crysalasians, which leads to The ZoomiesTM and Ant being subject to batshit insane paranoia hallucinations. Both of them are traumatized.
Flip!Velvetfrost: Velvet has to go to the store on the way to the woods to get cake ingredients, so Ant ends up finding it in his backpack, and despite Velvet’s protests, Ant ends up sticking the entire bottle in his mouth and just. crunch.
He then proceeds to complain about the nasty ass taste for the next hour, while completely oblivious to the bloody, broken glass-filled mess he turned his mouth into. Velvet is fascinated and horrified.
IRWSAYH!Velvetfrost: They both attempt to take shots of it like it’s hard liquor. Gumi has to drag both of them to Ponk. She is disappointed.
They’d argued about it, but in the end they let Gumi hold the knife.
They had all knelt in a circle beneath the tree of Life and watched as she cut the fruit into eight juicy-gold pieces, equal in size. Boomer always said she let the knife slip on one, carving into one slice and making its neighboring one larger at the cost of its own size. Sam always claimed his piece was the slightest bit larger than everyone else’s. None of them know who got the smaller piece, or if it even matters.
To the immortal, things don’t become less significant. They just go on longer. It has been thousands of years since the eight of them stood beneath the tree of Life and shared its last fruit. When next they meet someone will still bring up that smallest slice, someone else will announce who they think ended up with it.
Been awhile since I remembered to post my AO3 link here BUT if any of y'all like DSMP, PPCrew, or especially Funz... Check out the band AU I started awhile back. Just posted chapter 27!
so in the greater context of things because we’ve realized we’ve not said a word about this save for dms with @boonbeenblade
it’s a sam and eret centric space opera au! like star trek basically LOL. it’s dual povs with sam as the captain of a starship who gets rescued from near-death by eret, a merc and rogue pilot. eret then joins his crew, half against their will, and ends up becoming a sticking point. it’s full of emotional ups and downs, unconventional relationships, and space hijinks. it’s not quite a st au but it draws a lot on that vibe so if you’re a trekkie you’ll definitely like the series ^^ it features the badlands and ppcrew pretty heavily
as for the more recent ah. stripper lore, born from a sugar high set of feverish dms, that. basically punz features heavily in the au because he and eret are close, and eventually through eret’s convincing and demands gets brought on sam’s ship. sam vaguely recognizes him. eventually he realizes he and punz worked at the same strip club back when he was in the flight academy. he accidentally brings up this fact in the middle of conversation, which ends about as splendid as you’d guess
also, their stripper names were emerald and pretty kitty. do with that what you will