This isn't on request but I really love it anyway.

SOLANGELO: Thanks! Hmm, seems interesting. The triplets are always fun. I'll see what I can do!

Jem: Indeed it is. Yeah, you?

writinficsandbreakinhearts: I have an answer: VERY CUTE! Heck yeah Kam is great. Interesting prompt. I don't ship Flinh, but I'll see.

L: Hmmph. Well, I ship it. And I could go on for hours about why, but I'll spare you. Anyway, thanks! It was one of my favorites to write.

Mallowmelt: Shannon did. She was the one who killed Kenric, after all.

MarellaIsTheBest: Thanks! I might want to use some, but my disaster self is probably too shy XD. Maybe once we're already dating, though. Assuming I ever get a girlfriend. Which is unlikely. Maybe it did. But on the other hand, Tam will have to live with Keefe's cheesiness forever, which is horrifying.

Okay so this is basically just a character analysis of Biana with six short paragraphs of Linh romance sprinkled in at the end.

But honestly, it's just a character analysis of Biana.

Also, Linhiana excluded, this is 100% canon and I will never be convinced otherwise.

Okay, enjoy!


Even before she manifested as a Vanisher, Biana always felt invisible. She couldn't remember a time when she hadn't been hidden in her brothers' shadows. In her family's shadow. That's always how she was known. Biana was "Fitz's sister," "Alvar's sister," "Alden's daughter," "The youngest Vacker," but she was never Biana. She was never herself, independent from being labeled by someone else's identity.

And then she started going to Foxfire. Instantly, she was popular. And being the naive girl she was, she thought that people wanted to be her friend because she was her. Because she was beautiful, and strong, and brave, and smart, and kind... and all the traits that she saw in herself, but no one else saw in her, so she started forgetting about those traits as well. She thought she was popular for being herself.

She thought that right up until friends started coming to her house. Her house itself was their first motivation. Everglen was beautiful. Almost all of the elves had beautifully fancy houses, mansions. But Everglen was especially awe inspiring. And it inspired awe in her fake friends... and the house inspired them to come over.

And then they got a little older, and girls started noticing boys. (Girls except Biana, that is.) And when they noticed boys, they noticed Fitz, who was handsome and older and charming and had the most beautiful teal eyes. (Biana rolled her also-teal eyes at the thought.) Girls, her friends, would say "oh my gosh, Fitz Vacker is soooo hot!" and sigh dreamily. To which Biana would reply "Ew, guys, he's my brother!" and forget all about it.

Then they would come over to her house, her beautiful house. And they would ask "Is your brother home?"

Biana still oblivious, would always reply "I don't know. Do you guys want to play base quest?"

"Mmm... how about we do makeovers instead?"

"Um... okay."

And the girls would do makeovers, and once they looked beautiful, they would see Fitz and giggle, twirling their hair.

And then they wouldn't even come over in the first place, not unless Fitz was there.

"Do you guys want to come over to my house?"

"Is your brother going to be there?"

"Um... I think he's sleeping over at a friend's."

"Oh, um, I just remembered I'm busy tonight. Sorry!"

"It's fine," Biana would say.

It wasn't fine. Her friends didn't even care about her anymore- all they wanted was to get close to Fitz, just so they could have him as a boyfriend.

To her friends, the people who should have seen her, she was now invisible.

So she decided that she didn't want to be invisible anymore. She wanted to be beautiful.

So Biana started wearing makeup. She started wearing prettier dresses. She styled her hair differently. And sparkles. Sparkles, sparkles, sparkles. They made everything better, didn't they?

She was sparkly and beautiful and fabulous, so she wouldn't be invisible.

And then people saw her.

But Biana quickly realized that people still didn't see her. They saw the sparkles and then stopped looking.

And her fake friends were ignoring her more now than ever. Now that they had boyfriends, the invisible girl vanished from their thoughts.

Fine, Biana decided. Maybe I'll find a boyfriend too. And I won't be invisible to him.

She didn't feel any attraction to any boys. She just didn't want to be invisible. And then she noticed Keefe, her brother's best friend. He was loud and outgoing and charismatic and- okay, handsome. He was extraordinarily visible. And as his girlfriend, she would be visible too.

Biana started flirting with this visible boy, hoping that he would see the sparkles and the beauty on the inside, and then he would look past that and see her sparkly, beautiful personality. The personality that she was beginning to doubt she really had. She doubted it more and more every day. Since it was so invisible to everyone else, did it even exist?

But Keefe barely even noticed her. He only noticed a new girl, an beautiful one with long blonde hair and brown eyes. When the girl arrived, everyone noticed her. Biana couldn't help being jealous of this girl. She was visible. And she tried to resent the spotlight too. Sophie, if you tried being invisible, you'd never complain about a spotlight again.

And Sophie never saw Biana either. She looked right past Biana and into Fitz's teal eyes.

And it continued like that for a while, with Keefe seeing Sophie and Sophie seeing Fitz and Biana getting more and more invisible every day.

When I manifest, I'll have a really amazing power, Biana told herself. Something so spectacular that no one can ever look away. I won't be invisible anymore.

When Biana manifested as a Vanisher, she cried.

Invisibility had always been something she told herself would go away. One day she would be visible. Biana was determined of that.

And Biana told herself that she had so much to make her who she was, even if no one could see it. She was powerful, despite the makeup and dresses. She could fight. She could stand up for herself. She was strong and brave. She could be kind and caring. She was cheerful and friendly and funny. She was Biana Vacker, and she was so much more than invisible.

But now she was a Vanisher. Her ability was to never be seen. Her existence was defined by invisibility. She was destined to fade into the background. To vanish.

Biana cried and cried and cried. She cried because she would never be seen. Her deepest wish, her deepest desire, was to be visible. And her manifestation was proof that she could never be anything more than an invisible girl.

But then she had to put on a brave face. She manifested, and that was something to be celebrated. Yeah, right. So she smiled and flickered in and out of sight, scaring people and cheering about her new ability, that she loved oh-so-much. And everyone fell for the act. Why wouldn't they? All they could see was the surface, anyway. Biana's pain had to be invisible.

They ran away, and Biana remained invisible. Sometimes literally, always figuratively.

And then they met two new twins. Two twins with black hair dyed silver, and beautiful silver eyes. And Biana should have been staring at the boy. He was staring at her, after all. And he was handsome, definitely.

But Biana's gaze turned to the girl. She was beautiful. And the girl's gaze returned to Biana, and their eyes met.

And Linh became Biana's friend. She didn't have any interest in Fitz whatsoever, that much was obvious. So out of everyone she could choose to spend time with, why did Linh choose Biana?

Linh became the person who grew to know Biana better than she knew herself. Linh was the person who told Biana she was beautiful with or without the scars. Linh chose Biana to be her shoulder to cry on when Tam left, over everyone else.

Linh was the only person who Biana trusted enough to confide in about feeling invisible.

Linh was the one to softly pressed her lips against Biana's and whisper "You've never been invisible to me."

Biana never felt invisible again.


Okay so Shannon has a ton of characters and honestly none of them except Keefe and Sophie get the depth they deserve. But I feel like so many of them provide such great opportunity to dive deeper into their character and add to them and write character analyses badly concealed in ship oneshots. For me, that's what makes Keepers so fun to write for (well, that, and the intricate worldbuilding). And, I might be biased, but I think Biana's character has just enough canon to get a sense of who she truly is and enough left ambiguous that so much exploration is possible, and that makes her the best for analyzing and writing. Or maybe I just love her. Who knows.

Well I hope you enjoyed my character ana- oneshot! It's a oneshot! Ahem.


If you have a oneshot, feel free to request it! Tell me...

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MOOD: (Not technically required, but helpful) Fluffy? Happy? Tragic? Tragic is kind of my default, in case you were wondering...

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Your semi-obedient author, A. Fan