Alright, iz time to cook.

[@Asuras] First off, gonna put forward an idea for worldbuilding, where the independent mages of the City, once they become capable enough not to be a complete liability to those around them, are invited to join a loose collective or union. Basically, my thought is that it'd serve as a body for the Houses to request third-party fixers to handle problems or issues that'd require plausible deniability, and it also serves as a way for independent mages not to get completely bullied into bad deals by Houses, in a kinda 'if you fuck with one of us, the rest of us will maybe possibly take action'.

Also should confirm: is this in the US????

[@OwO] If you want, it could be the situation where Amaya looked out for Macaron during her early years, in more of a 'teach her to cook food and get odd jobs' kinda way. Probably saw something sympathetic in the literal teenager. If they were extra close, one of Amaya's particular crafts could have been formed/obtained initially to mentally soothe Macaron during particularly bad nights in the City.

[@Estylwen] Don't think that there's any actual reason for Amaya and Reina to have any significant relationship with one another, but Amaya herself probably has a negative bias towards Obscurity peeps, because it's pretty likely that her whole life/family/friends/town got fucked over by Obscurity peeps. Maybe it's a case where they encountered each other before during various hunts of Manifestations. Maybe it's a case where Reina, being the head of the family, has heard of lesser members of her House being killed within Labyrinths or secluded portions of the Dark City, and what information could be extracted from their desiccated souls point only towards a blinding shaft of light.

[@Remram] Amaya probably has no trust for the Dark Sphere Command because whatever the fuck did they do for her? Certainly, they didn't do jack shit about mass disappearances of people and the mind-wiping of the town. She'd have been more alright with it if the government was completely ignorant about the matter, but now that she knows their asses have an actual presence within the Dark City, it's like, bitch. Y'all fucking suck.

That being said, did you have clear ideas/plans for The Mist, or did you plan on Asuras handling most of it? Figured it'd be interesting if Amaya encountered/knew of The Mist herself, due to her particular line of work.

[@Kronshi] Don't got nothing, unless you think it'd be funny if House Falloch had an open contract on Oz, because the possibility of him exposing Family Secrets after leaving them was too high to simply let be. Then they could have met when Amaya considered jumping his ass early on, before reconsidering it since his scruffy, asocial ass reminded her of Macaron and she went to give him a heads up about it instead.