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Mary Oliver, from “Blue Iris”, Devotions

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random hcs about brella and their baby, part one of ??:

they're 26 and starting to talk about the possibility of kids in the near future, but end up with baby #1 instead. totally unplanned but loved to pieces. they are the first in the group to become parents, not that anybody would expect differently after all - stella's end goal had always been to have a family of her own to go with her design career.

she spills the beans after a mission. she's still wearing her blue and orange tac suit and is tired as fuck, but brandon thinks it's the right moment to talk about what's going on in her head, so she just tells him there might be a chance their life plan will speed a little. they end up buying a bunch of tests on the way to their apartment, and as her suspicion is confirmed, she wonders how long it will take for the tac suit to be too small.

she ends up taking a break from field operations, deciding to help tecna and timmy with tracing maps for a while. she gets bored to death sometimes, but she also gets to do some astronomy work when T2 let her take more responsibilities, so it's cool.

brandon wants to know if it's a boy or a girl, stella doesn't care. by doesn't care she means that beside her grandmother all solaris women had girls and so will she. on week 18 brandon doesn't have the heart to tell her the paper say it's a boy, but when he does tell her, she just starts rescheduling every single project baby related because this changes everything.

on week 24 they end up fighting over color palettes for baby's nursery: stella wants it yellow, brandon wants it mint. on the third day of discussion about it radius barges in and decides that baby needs to know what the colors of his family house are, so he commissions a painter to turn the walls into a sky - there's the sun, clouds, doves, everything screams solaria.

they're on a name hunt, and at some point stella dreams that she's out in the garden and it's time to go to sleep, so in all her infamous graciousness she calls out for the name sebastian. when the little boy jumps out of the bush he was hiding, she wakes up, and just knows that's the name. brandon suggested calling him skandar, in honor of sky, but stella warns him that he can't be godfather and also namesake, so they settle for sebastian. skandar makes it as middle name tho, and sky cries his eyes out for twenty minutes.

stella hears from marion that before domino was destroyed, luna and radius had appointed her and oritel as godparents in sign of their life long friendship. stella thought it was funny all things considered, because her son would have had bloom as godmother so they just subconsciously kept doing their bff thing. the fact that sky was he godfather made it all even more funny for some reason.

sebastian's got his dad's hair and her mom's eyes, in the sense that they're golden but also that he needs glasses before he even learns to read. being stella and brandon's child is a blessing and curse, especially when everybody crowds them to see the baby while they're trying to do their grocery.

when he's got the age for kindergarten, sebastian becomes bas, his hair are styled like his daddy's and dresses just as posh as his name is. he loves sports, which makes auntie aisha proud, but he also likes to randomly smash bottons on his keytar and pretend he's the star of a rock show, which prompts to fake entire concerts with auntie musa in the living room.

there is no "bad cop" parent between stella and brandon, but he tends to be more permissive, which means that at times bas throws tantrums at stella for picking his side like daddy does, and while she thinks it's ironic, she ends up having to teach bas that he can't always have it his way. the spoiled brat attitude comes with the role of being crown prince, and while stella appreciates the fact that brandon is willing to let their kid make his decisions and learn from his mistakes, she can't help but clash with him about how the kid needs to take it down a notch like she did. it gets better with years.

they raise sebastian as bilingual, but he picks up on spanglish a lot quicker because it's more common around his peers. when he gets older he tries to learn more greek to make his mom proud, because in case you were wondering, this kid is a momma's boy through and through despite everything.

stella resumes her work fairly soon after bas started kindergarten. brandon took his time to get back in routine, and he suffered from the change the most. as bas grew up brandon kept on checking on him all the time and be vocal about stuff, because with him nobody ever really took the time and he grew all serious and broody, and he doesn't want his kid to think he's got to keep it all for himself. they talk a lot, break a lot of toxic masculinity traits that bas picks up from hanging with his peers. bas turns out to become way more well adjusted than his parents and they're thankful for that.

at fourteen he asks uncle riven to teach him how to style his hair all spiky and stella nearly has an heart attack when she comes back home, brandon behind their kid mouthing to tell their son that he looks great. after that, by the time he graduate high school, bas had straight up copied all of his uncles hairstyles and looked awesome in all of them. brandon bragged about it with the boys for days.

baby #2 is put on hold when stella's career skyrockets even more, so for sebastian's sixth birthday they decide that auntie roxy can gift him a dog. there's a picture on the fridge with 7yo bas and 1yo oreo, posing for the camera as their respective empty breakfast bowls laying on their heads.

while most of his male friends-cousins go to red fountain, bas decides he's cool enough to drop the bomb and tell his parents he would rather study magic at oskuria college. he makes a point that he'd be close to home and that's all that takes for stella and brandon to be on board. he doesn't tell them that he wants to be a wizard because uncle nabu makes it look so awesome.

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Villanelle + that deep breath she takes to stop herself from crying

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“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again.”

— Haruki Murakami, The wind-up bird chronicle

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Carla Rosón + Lu (3.04)

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1x07 | 3x03

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

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