machine gunners' rising renewal

"I really like how someone using a gatling gun is just a super-effective semaphore for them being batshit insane. You know?"

Profanity isn't usually Seren's style, but a little bit of judicious mirroring around Frye will do that to them. Vivanne doesn't curse either, except for in the finest little snips that would be so expertly effective if only she really meant them.

But since she doesn't use a gatling gun, she is of course not batshit insane. In fact, she's much the opposite - a Prospector who wields a shield and a sniper rifle, one of Commander Vandham's favored eggheads (and, subsequently, a friend to Phog in a way that only she knows). Her sole crack of whimsy, if you could even call it that, is her baby pink mix of knots, braids, coils, and frizz. So she and Seren get along great.

...in Seren's mind. And Mx. Sirius really, really tries.

They figure, judging by how much patience Viv ever seems to have, at either the minimum or the maximum, she must view Frye as at least a little bit crazy, right? Because everyone knows that Frye is a lot crazy. A lot level-headed, too, but that's not for everyone to see.

Now, Vivanne may be a fair bit closer paved to the rules than Seren, but there's no way she thinks "batshit insane" is a value judgement against Secretary Nagi and Engineer Koo, right? There's no way Frye's wifey (yes, that's genuinely what he calls her) is a rule follower like that.

It would explain why she's difficult and inaccessible for a rule-flicker like Seren, though. Seren is explosive at all times, except when tasked with actual serious work. Vivanne is serious at all times, except when frustrated enough about something highly specific that she just has to explode.

to clarify for myself so that i didn't just choose an indiscriminate fruit salad of black hair styles and elements: vivanne has bantu knots on one side flipped over the top, braids on the other flowing down from the side part line, and a mixture of coils and frizz around her forehead (these have more obvious root regrowth without the extensions) that she sometimes lays into edges. i specifically wanted her to be distinct from yolanda, because i was toying with this fryewife concept (the easiest way to start a new cross i fear) and then immediately met yolanda and well what was even the point of all that. so now vivanne will have a murderina-style thing with her...to be continued