[ID: Fanart of the character Juno Steel from the Penumbra Podcast. He is a lean white person with short, messy blond hair, long sideburns and scruff on his chin. He has a pair of sunglasses pushed up on his forehead and a mild frown on his face. He is standing with both hands in the pockets of a dusty brown trench coat. In addition to the trenchcoat, he is wearing a pink camisole, blue-and-white plaid flannel, a red skirt, black leggings, and brown boots. End ID.]
i recently started listening to the penumbra podcast, and i have a very strong picture in my head of what juno steel looks like to me that is not at all based on anything other than the sound of his voice and the noir atmosphere
since valentine’s day is next week, here you go. have some junoverse valentines!
[ID: a set of 9 valentines, each with pick up line and a digital drawing of a junoverse character on a colored card that says “to:” and “from:” at the bottom. the cards are as follows:
juno steel smiling softly in a yellow dress with the text “I’d go through a season-long character growth arc to be with you, valentine.” | vespa ilkay with her arms crossed beside the line “Would you be my… heh… wife?” | sasha wire holding up a blaster with the text “I always aim for the heart, valentine.”
rita munching on chips beside the line “Will you be my valentine?”, followed by a smaller paragraph of text that reads “*Just like in Valentine Kills 2: The Return of Dr. Love-Man when Riley and Elphana had to go on the run together through the Plutonian countryside to escape the terrible curse that had been placed upon them, and ended up finding love along the way–”.
peter nureyev smirking with the text “Call me a fool if you like… but I think I may want to be your valentine.” | buddy aurinko sultrily holding a wine glass with the text “I know how to make a special lady feel special. Maybe if you’re very good that’ll be you, valentine.”
jet standing with his hands behind his back beside the text “I do not experience sexual or romantic attraction, but I will gladly spend today with you, as you are a close personal friend who I respect.”
mick mercury making a heart with his hands with the text “Humans are 90% water, but I’m 100% full of love for you, valentine.” | the ruby 7 with the text “*whistles*”. END ID]
cecil “we are not history yet. we are happening now. how miraculous is that?” gershwin palmer vs buddy “we are not legends either. we’re better. a legend is an old story, a dead thing, frozen forever. and we are very much alive” aurinko
i simply would like for alessandra strong to wrap me in her big strong bisexual arms and tell me i’m doing a good job. i just think that would be Neat.
Wait, I’m listening to season 2 and what happened with Captain Hijikata?
“ KHAN: You got spaghetti in those ears, Loo? Don’t they teach you curiosity in diaper-school anymore? Captain Hijikata! Of the One-Five-One, our goddamn precinct! It was the case of the damn decade and this walking pile of nitroglycerin decided to—
JUNO:
We really don’t need to get into the details, thanks.
KHAN:
We can’t trust him. Especially when it comes to taking down someone really big. Steel’s a glory-pig. Honor-hound. Whatever.”
What more info do we have on this? Is that the case that made Juno leave the HCPD? Glory-pig would imply that he would’ve taken a win that wasn’t his? Or tried to get under the spotlight at the expense of others? But that doesn’t really seem like something Juno would do? (Even though we don’t really know how a younger Juno would’ve acted in the HCPD). So maybe the bad reputation he got is based on a misunderstanding? Or him covering for someone?
An important point of this story is that it’s linked to Diamond is some way.
Because then in The Stolen City we have this :
“And I’ve got a lot of excuses, sure. My mother, my brother, all that junk that happened in the HCPD with Diamond and Captain Hijikata… but if I’m being honest with myself I’ve always been this way. From minute one.”
How is it linked to Diamond? What did Juno do?
I think I saw people talking about how the person Juno goes to see on Io at the end of season 3 could be Hijikata and honestly that would be awesome, I’d kill for some backstory, (but a part of me feels like maybe Hijikata died?? Idk that’s just a feeling I have nothing to back it up)
Actually, there are 3 people I’m very interested in from the HCPD time : Diamond, Captain Hijikata and Puck Falco.
When Juno meets Rita he tells her :
JUNO:
This can’t be happening. Is this a joke? You’re a prank, right? Falco set you up for this. Or Diamond, maybe.
I’m not sure of what we know about Falco but I’m pretty sure they’re important.
We know they were Juno’s colleague, I think they had the same rank since they were both detectives?
JUNO:
Sure, Rita, that sounds great. Hey, you mind bothering Detective Falco for a few hours? Got twenty pounds of paperwork and a serial slasher to deal with, so I’m, uh. Kinda busy.
And idk why I thought Juno had been in the HCPD for a while already but no they met quite early in his career :
RITA:
Okay, “Juno Steel.” I get it! You’ve only been outta the Academy for a few months
So that means multiple things :
1. Juno either knew Puck Falco and Diamond from the academy, or they just met quite recently.
2. Juno was either already in a relationship with Diamond in the Academy or it happened later and both possibilities are very interesting.
ANYWAY
I’m also interested in knowing the amount of time between Juno and Rita meeting in the HCPD until them both leaving and Rita buying the new PI office :
RITA:
It ain’t a gift. This is where I work, too.
JUNO:
What about the HCPD?
RITA:
Not anymore. I like doin’ good things for good people. An’…Detective Falco’s good people, but it just ain’t the same. Not after all that… y'know. I work for you, Boss. That’s just how it is.
Because that gap in the time-line could mean A LOT OF THINGS.
Anyway again,
We know Puck Falco was good since Rita liked them (I’ve also seen people saying THEY’RE the one Juno’s gonna go meet on Io and honestly, I’d love it too, I just wanna know more PLS ESPECIALLY since they’ve transferred to another Planet I think? I’m pretty sure) so Juno and them were probably close, maybe friends?
But once again, the incident is mentioned “not after all that… y'know”, that’s definitely mentioning the Hijikata thing? But WHAT?
We know it was a case, we know Juno got his bad rep from it, we know from Khan it was about “taking down someone big”.
(OK, sidetraking here but I’m thinking, it could’ve something to do with the Kanagawas? That may seem a bit random but I’m sure we’ve not heard the last of them sooo why not?)
But that’s just guessing, we don’t actually have any info on who that “someone big” could’ve been.
Anyway,
Going back to Diamond, we know from Rita that she was apparently gone before Juno left the HCPD so I’d say that case wasn’t what caused the relationship to stop, maybe Juno did what he did during that case after the failed wedding??? But Juno very clearly links whatever happened with Hijikata and what happened with Diamond so who knows? But, that’s all just guesswork and I have no clue if it would even make sense with the timeline
I don’t even know if my rambling makes any semblance of sense but I wanted to spill all of this somewhere, you’re free to correct me if I made any mistake or to add more info or your own hypothesis, I’d be very interested to have more opinions on these topics!
op how does it feel to be able to predict the future
in honor of the new tpp production script being released for patrons yesterday, here is a compilation of kevin’s stage directions being annoyingly relatable:
hi fellow white penumbra fans maybe now is our time to uh. *not* give our two cents about kevin’s statement?
i myself am struggling to process recent events regarding the penumbra team, and i can’t even imagine what it must be like to be a poc fan right now. this is not our conversation to be spearheading, nor is it acceptable for us to accept or reject the team’s statement.
right now, the only thing we non-poc fans should be doing is shutting the fuck up and listening to poc (trans/nonbinary poc especially) and boosting their voices on the matter rather than trying to assert our own.
tbqh if you arent listening to the Penumbra Podcast you should be. its cool twists on classic genre stories with a very intentional focus on underrepresented characters. heres a few
- a bi/pansexual noir detective. on mars. - a wlw outlaw who robs trains to feed her house full of adopted orphans - a knight who’s paralyzed from the waist down who still fights and hunts monsters
the stories and characters are all really really well written and acted. please support this podcast i love it a lot
agree yes this is all very true and real and important, i said without bias of any kind
Remember a little episode called “Juno Steel and the Train from Nowhere?” Well, @disasterscenario worked long and hard on this beautiful poster, and I consider it a Hanukkah/Chrimbus gift to all of us! We love you.
