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Car culture
If you wrote your characters into an AU where they were part of a culture/setting where they were expected to have cars, what would they drive? (Or if they are already there in canon, what do they drive?)
I have this thing where I know just enough about Car Culture to have opinions on this, but not enough to be secure in my answers.
(Brought to you by the modern-Southern-Gothic Locked Tomb AU I keep playing with in my head and will probably never write, where I think, but am not sure and could be argued otherwise:
1. The First - John drives a Tesla. Mercy drives a rose-gold Subaru station wagon. Augustine I think drives what might be a classic muscle car but it's hard to tell under all the dents and grime and patches. Gideon drives a vintage Land Rover. Cytherea gets other people to drive her.
2. The Second drive a Ford police interceptor.
3. The Third - Coronabeth drives a pink Cadillac XT5. Babs drives a red Mazda MX-5. Ianthe drives a hearse.
4. The Fourth - They share Isaac's mom's old PT cruiser.
5. The Fifth - Some kind of mom van/SUV, in green. And also a meticulously restored old VW bug, because they're *cool* moms.
6. The Sixth - Sex Pal drives a Prius. Camilla drives a Jeep.
7. The Seventh - Dulcie is medically restricted from driving, but is lethal with a scooter. Protesilaus has a van with both kids' car seats and a wheelchair lift.
8. The Eighth has some kind of overpriced penis extension pickup truck (probably a lifted Silverado?), in spotless white.
9. The Ninth - Gideon has a small, ancient, beat-up pickup. Harrow has a black Honda Element that was once her parents'. Ortus drives a tow truck.)
I have this thing where I know just enough about Car Culture to have opinions on this, but not enough to be secure in my answers.
(Brought to you by the modern-Southern-Gothic Locked Tomb AU I keep playing with in my head and will probably never write, where I think, but am not sure and could be argued otherwise:
1. The First - John drives a Tesla. Mercy drives a rose-gold Subaru station wagon. Augustine I think drives what might be a classic muscle car but it's hard to tell under all the dents and grime and patches. Gideon drives a vintage Land Rover. Cytherea gets other people to drive her.
2. The Second drive a Ford police interceptor.
3. The Third - Coronabeth drives a pink Cadillac XT5. Babs drives a red Mazda MX-5. Ianthe drives a hearse.
4. The Fourth - They share Isaac's mom's old PT cruiser.
5. The Fifth - Some kind of mom van/SUV, in green. And also a meticulously restored old VW bug, because they're *cool* moms.
6. The Sixth - Sex Pal drives a Prius. Camilla drives a Jeep.
7. The Seventh - Dulcie is medically restricted from driving, but is lethal with a scooter. Protesilaus has a van with both kids' car seats and a wheelchair lift.
8. The Eighth has some kind of overpriced penis extension pickup truck (probably a lifted Silverado?), in spotless white.
9. The Ninth - Gideon has a small, ancient, beat-up pickup. Harrow has a black Honda Element that was once her parents'. Ortus drives a tow truck.)
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The Cadillac boat is also valid. I put her in a truck because I see her doing work/hobbies where the truck is needed, and she is also 100% definitely the person everybody calls when they need to move a couch or take a load of old metal to the dump, but I think the specific vehicle depends mostly on what was available for $800 at the corner gas station when she turned 16. Probably she has one of each, and the land yacht is named Crux and the truck is named Aiglamene. They are both old and butch and get absolutely shitty gas mileage, either way.