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𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏.
Benjamin didn’t want to show up for work today. That’s a fact. However, he didn’t have much of a choice. The bar was strangely empty compared to most other nights and he took comfort in that if only for a moment. He heard the door open as someone walked in to take a seat. He took a deep breath and hoped for the best as he approached them. “Evening.” He greeted with a small smile, “What can I get for you today–” He recognized them alomst instantly when they locked eyes. He let out a soft sigh. Great.
open starter // ( feel free to assume connections if you’d like! )
the arch in her brow climbs ever higher, pronounced against an otherwise stripped countenance. what little interaction she’s attained with the man behind the counter, she’s not enjoyed, and now it seems the mutual apprehension has been elucidated by the mere halt in his offer. she does not defer from her seat, nor the brunt of what she suspects will be a thoroughly uncomfortable exchange. ` evening to you, too. a gillywater sounds lovely right about now. ` a guileful simper writs across her lips, un - characteristically un - painted. ` has anyone ever told you that you’re not particularly adept at masquerading your aversion ? `
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𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒘𝒚𝒏 .
hi peaches !! ira here, with an intro that’s long overdue -- though i have for you what i hope is a concise and compact breakdown of miss selwyn, whom i’ve taken the liberty to craft from scratch with bases only in the lore and ethos of the nearly - extant selwyn family. i am so super duper honoured and thrilled to be a part of this family and cannot wait to get to know all of you ( and your beautiful muses ) so please leave a like on this post if you’d like to plot and i’ll come forth to plot very shortly !! 𝑻𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑮𝑬𝑹 𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 : poisoning, attempted murder, anxiety, madness.
⧼ park sooyoung, cisfemale, she / her / bare by wildes + a near parasitic need for catharsis, rivulets of water gleaning off the wing of a jet - black swan, the deadly routine of lovelessness. ⧽ ━━ hey, isn’t that DIANA SELWYN ? i read a daily prophet article on them, once ; the TWENTY - THREE year old [ pure - blood ] WITCH is a [ HOGWARTS alumnus who has gone on to be a SEEKER FOR THE HOLYHEAD HARPIES. ] i’ve heard they can be quite SEDULOUS & SCINTILLATING, but i don’t know … they came off very INSOUCIANT & DELPHIC in that interview. it really is hard to know what to believe these days though, isn’t it ?
𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑼𝑫𝑬 ... the girl’s nascent years are bled across wars. cassandra selwyn is a starling, a songbird, a divine phantom in the clutches of wayward men, but she is not a mother. diana comes to her as headaches often do -- once afflicted, soon dismissed. what binds her departed flesh to her is not love, but a garish desire to keep her own divinity adrift, never to be snuffed out. she knits her progeny in her own image, and marvels at her ingenuity, her likeness -- until her daughter wades into the throes of girlhood and threads through colours she’s never managed to. jealousy rankles as deep as it cuts, and venom festers where there was once hope for a kindling of kinship. on the eve of diana’s seventh birthday, cassandra selwyn coaxes a slurry of belladonna and aconite into the child’s supper. diana is found, salvaged from a husk of a home, and lives to cross the threshold into another year. her mother would vanish and eschew any efforts to locate her for a decade before she materialises again, in the alcove of a casket, embroidered with pallor and strings of belladonna.
now unmoored, diana astounds and baffles the best of her peers and teachers with her aptitude for flying and alchemy ( though they were often kind enough to prevaricate the notion that her mother had been an exceptional alchemist ) and preens under the swathes of glamour and praise. now oscillating between two realms of understanding and two platitudes of ‘ morality, ’ she’s entreated to unspool, on her own, the ideals of purity and nobility that her mother had managed to indoctrinate in her and what she’s inculcated on her own, standing on her own two feet.
𝑻𝑳𝑫𝑹 : she was raised in the image of a starlet mother who, upon realising that her own daughter had grown more precocious and promising than she had at that age, took it upon herself to poison her own blood. the attempt failed and her mother fled, leaving her in the care of a foster family who never could get through to diana. now, as the newly inducted seeker of the holyhead harpies, she’s grappling with the symptoms of disillusionment and anxiety that her mother had displayed, and has to stand stalwart against the decision which has to be made in the eminent war.
𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑵𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 ... everything and anything under the sun would be dearly appreciated and cherished !! i’ll whip up a connections page fairly soon ensuing this, but for now, i’d love for her a fair few friends, acquaintances, arch - nemeses, frenemies, flings, will - they - won’t - they’s, companions, and those who empathise with her position in the limbo between ‘ light ’ and ‘ dark. ’
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