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Talk about Ann

“ When I first got custody of my sisters it was overwhelming. I had a twelve year old, a nine year old and a baby when I was first put in charge of them. I didn’t know what I was doing. But I needed to learn fast if I was going to make sure they stayed under my custody. Ann helped me learn a lot over the years and I think I wouldn’t be as successful as I was without her. I hope she knows how much she’s helped. @mrsmamathompson

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Sully knew the feeling about having to get out. It had been a lot harder when his youngest sister was still a baby, because he just couldn’t take her and Selina places together often since Sel, had been around 11. Now things were a lot easier and he could just take Sera with him like things were now. “ a lot of places with nowhere near as good food “ he added also. He always loved to hype up the bakery just cause it felt like home. “ no I know the feeling. Imagine all four of us in one apartment. I have to get out a lot more now. Also this one here always wants to talk to people “ sera did not inherit Sullys more shy qualities in that respect @lucydriscoll

"I know, there's worse things I could be doing." Lucy smiles, glancing up towards Sully as she squeezed the little girl to finish the hug. "But if I don't get outside at least once a day I feel like I've totally wasted my time. You know?" Standing back up again, Lucy adjust the bag strap on her shoulder. "I get a little stir crazy."

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“I don’t always find the humor in everything but it does help me feel less stressed out when I am able to laugh about things more.” He explained. Sully had a tendency to always be stressed out so this was a welcome change for him at least emotionally it was. “ I’m very lucky that I have a little sister to hand things off to. It makes it seem like it wasn’t a waste. Honestly she would probably think the thing was for her to begin with “ he added giving her another small smile.

“ oh not even close to everything. I just have to always use quick thinking with everything “

When it came to the idea of haunted furniture it was still funny how sully had such strong opinions about it but didn’t seem to actually believe what he was saying. “ wouldn’t that be just how life works. You get your dream item but it’s haunted by a Victorian ghost child, who has strong opinions about tv shows you watch “ he added to throw in some more levity. “ honestly what else would it be? “

“ unfortunately I don’t watch a lot of horror. I’ve got a bunch of little sisters at home and one of them is six. I couldn’t really get away with watching horror so my lore is a bit rusty “ he admitted with a small smile. That was the last thing he needed. His baby sister walking in on some scary movie. “ burning it makes sense though. Why is it always the attic ?” @esmemaxwcll

Esme raised an eyebrow, a grin spreading across her face as she listened to Sully. "You know, I can’t blame you for finding it funny. I would be infuriated if something didn’t fit, but it’s hard to deny the humor in it, especially when it's something as ridiculous as a ‘mini couch’ for a doll. At least you’ve got a good reason to pass it off to your sister." She chuckled, shaking her head. "Seems like you’ve got a solution for everything, huh?"

When Sully mentioned the Victorian ghost child, Esme's expression shifted into mock horror. "Oh no, the dream couch and a haunted kid? That’s a two-for-one deal you didn’t sign up for. I’d burn the whole place down before I let that happen." She paused, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Honestly, though, I think you’re right—if a ghost was gonna haunt something, it’d probably be the couch, because let’s face it, no one gives up a good couch without a fight."

At his question about the movies, Esme leaned back in her chair, her arms crossing. "Well, if it’s a really bad haunting, they usually try to burn or destroy the thing, but I’m guessing you haven’t watched enough horror to know the classic tropes. Trust me, tossing it out the window or burning it is usually how these things go. If not, they just get dragged into the attic and that’s definitely where the ghost gets its second wind."

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Talk About Sage

“ Sage is the love of my life. And I don’t say things like that often, because abuse for a long time I didn’t think I was supposed to be with anyone. Losing my parents and then having custody of my sisters sort of switched my priorities. It made everything else hard to balance and I didn’t want to break up with Sage, but she understood. She always understood things better than I can. And even after we broke up, she stuck by me through everything. Through the courts, through the late nights of taking care of a literally baby. She was always there when I needed her. I never fell out of love with her, even when I couldn’t be with her. I regret not proposing to her when we were younger. If maybe we had gotten married back then or at least been engaged things would have been easier? I don’t know for certain but I know my life is so much better for having her in it “ @sagexmackenzie

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👪 someone in my muse’s family

“ I have three sisters that I take care of . Well Summer is over 18 now and she says that she can help out more with things with the family but I always tell her to focus on herself when it comes to her working. I don’t want them t have to ever worry about more for things they want or school. When our parents died, I worried about how we’d survive but I had money put aside for all three of them. Summer doesn’t want to touch it cause she wants to make sure my youngest sister Sera is provided for. See, with Sera I’ve been her only parent. She doesn’t remember our parents at all and so I’ve essentially just been her dad. That’s always been hard to wrap my brain around because she’s my kid but she isn’t, I want her to know who our mom was but I also know she sees Sage as her mom because she sees me as her dad. I just don’t want it to be confusing for her, I just want her to be happy “ @sagexmackenzie

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Sully had loved to read. It was always the easiest way to be entertained growing up because there were books everywhere. He just didn’t really have much time for it now. Not when he had essentially been a single parent for a number of years. His focus was on his sisters and when he did have time to read he mostly ended up falling asleep halfway through a chapter. “ I think it’s true there was a lot of cocaine with some of his earlier stuff which I think does make sense when you read some of his works. It can be a lot “ he noted before giving her a small smile. “ oh I never judge anyone by how they appear when it comes to fantasy. I’m part of a D&D group and I feel like we all seem very different “ he added “ yeah I think so. I like stories that deal with what would you do if you could change the past “ he noted before letting out a small laugh. “ yeah sometimes it’s hard to read something you’re forced to do. I don’t know I just really liked a lot of that stuff. The Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein modules were always fun. I think Octavia might be fun to look into she has a very down to earth and real world approach to the sci-fi genre. @orianacperez

Oriana had always complained about reading in school. Honestly, the books that she was forced to read were never good. She preferred to be in control of what she read and pick her own adventures. Reading had never been something she hated. Although she rarely had time for it—at least until recently of course. She always loved getting a good recommendation. "I can't say I've read much King. I was never a fan of his earlier stuff, but I do like his fantasy. I might not look like it, but I do love a good fantasy novel." She nodded. "That does sound interesting. A cool mix of historical and sci-fi." Oriana didn't read a ton of sci-fi, but maybe that would change in the coming years. "I hated most of the books I had to read for school, but there was no required reading at my... well high school equivalent. I haven't read much Octavia Butler. But I don't read a ton of sci-fi either. I have to be in the mood for it."

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Sully didn’t take it too hard when his little sister would run to the attention of his friends instead of him. Sera loved to cling to him most of the time as it was and he appreciated that she had such a loving group around her no matter where they went. The little girl was just following Lucy around as Sully returned the hug. “ it’s kind of funny you’re saying that like it’s a bad thing. “ sully mused for a moment before giving her another smile. Sera started tugging at Lucy’s side again and mentioned that she wanted sully to buy her a cat. The fact his little sister was dragging Lucy into it now made the delivery boys eyes go wide. “ be careful Lucy, she’s gonna try to get one from you if I end up saying no” @lucydriscoll

Lucy, as happy as she was to see the both of them, beelined for the little girl. Scooping her up, and swinging her around in the air in greeting, "Sera-Bear!" Finally, once the child was reunited with the ground, she turns to give Sullivan a tight squeeze of a hug. "Just visiting, gotta get out of the house at some point or ill read till dusk."

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Sully stuttered a bit with his words wanting to have some sort of a response back but he knew that Sage got him and he just gave her a small smile instead. “ you win “ he noted before kissing her cheek

“ you know you could probably get me to agree to anything you wanted without resorting to my weakness “ he joked. Because he never said no to Sage, but he also never said no to his baby sister There was something about watching Sage and Sera interact that always made Sully so happy. He had to give up on them once so that he could raise Sera, but Sage always had stuck around. Even apart she was important to how Sera had turned out so far. Like they had sort of raised her together. It made him realize he should have maybe stuck it out back then. They would have probably been married now. Who knows what would have been. But he liked what he saw now even if things had been rough to getting here. Sully grabbed Seras jacket and put it on her as she continued to bounce in excitement. she held up both her hands for Sully and Sage to grab and Sully smiled at Sage again. “@sagexmackenzie

“Not letting yourself have fun is a form of being mean to yourself. We’re going to have fun today, that’s an order.” sage let out a playful humph at that.

“That’s exactly why I called her.” Sage laughed softly and she bounced up off the couch to her feet. “I’m gonna grab my purse!” Just as she said it Sera had walked into the room and sage explained their plans. The little girl squealed with excitement and Sage bounced on her own feet excitedly. “Let’s go!”

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“ I really think it would annoy me if that happened to myself but i can’t help but find it funny. I always try to check if there’s a size description too. You never know what could happen “ sully noted. He had that kind of luck that meant he would get sent something hilariously small but on the bright side he had a baby sister who was starting to get into her doll phase

“It would be worse if you really liked the couch. It could be your dream furniture item and then all of a sudden there’s a Victorian ghost child haunting it “ he teased. For someone who claimed he didn’t believe in ghosts he clearly had thought about this more than once

“ do people ever just throw the item away in those movies? I don’t watch enough of them to know “ @esmemaxwcll

Esme smirked, her arms crossed as she leaned against the counter. "Oh, for sure. Nothing like thinking you're getting a six-foot antique wardrobe and ending up with a dollhouse version instead. It’s the gamble of the century."

She tilted her head, her expression shifting to mock seriousness. "But haunted furniture? That’s a whole other level. Like, imagine you’re just trying to chill on your new vintage couch, and suddenly it’s creaking out Morse code or some ghostly moans. Honestly, I’m not sure what’s worse—the ghosts or realizing you got scammed and cursed."

She let out a short laugh. "At least with miniatures, you just feel dumb. With haunted stuff, you’ve got a whole horror movie plot unfolding in your living room."

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❣- What calms your muse down?

“ sleep? I don’t think I’m ever calm about anything at any time in my life. I’m often a ball of stress and unfortunately that’s just how my brain works. I used to not be like this but when I spent over a year in court trying to keep my family together it sort of changed a lot in me. If it’s not sleep it’s really just Sage and everyone at the bakery. The bakery gives me this sort of safe space to be able to breathe and focus on things in front of me And of course Sera. She's what makes everything worth it in the end.“ @sagexmackenzie @thelizaxevans @noellexdriscoll

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ツ- Can your muse speak any other language other than their main one?

“ no im painfully aware i can only speak English. I took Latin in school cause i wanted to go into the medical field but i can’t tell you anything about that stuff at all”

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Does [name] want to marry?

“ of course I do. I should have honestly been married by now to be honest. Which I know sounds so wild considering how old I and and how I really only just got back with Sage, but I knew back when we were in high school that she was the one. I wanted to propose before we graduated college. My mom had given be one of her rings and everything. It was just life got in the way. I don’t know if she knows that fact. But I would have married her when we were twenty and I would marry her now “ @sagexmackenzie

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✆- What your muse’s phone gallery is filled with?

Sully and our children. By children I mean Sera

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Sully honestly didn’t want to fight Ravi so he knew not to press it further especially because sully didn’t ever want to argue with anyone especially not his friends. “ I’d rather not make you mad on your birthday, so I promise not to press it any further “ sully said holding his hands up in surrender. He didn’t have a lot of time to be around friends so he wasn’t gonna mess anything up when he got to be around them. Plus with everyone drinking, he knew filters would be down for the evening. Even his own would be a little less guarded

At hearing the fact there was no salt or lime left though maybe silly wanted to change his drink of choice, but he let out a sigh and threw caution to the wind. “ but this man likes lime “ silly joked before nodding his head and lifting his cup up. “ it’ll be quick. Let’s go for it “ @ravirussell

"The best ever and don't let me ever hear otherwise or I'll fight about it. Even with you."

Ravi was far from the sort inclined to get into brawls -- especially ones stemming from compliments -- but the steady flow of alcohol that evening was both emboldening him and chipping away at his own filter.

He makes his friend follow him to the drinks table, the tequila was clearly a favoured drink of choice that evening from how half-drained the bottle was and he had no qualms about emptying it further.

Ravi twists off the cap and pours a generous measure for them each into two red solo cups, placing the bottle down still open so he could lift one to Sulley and keep one for himself.

"We've got no limes left and I don't know where the salt went so we're going to have to just down it like men and deal with how nasty it is. You ready?"

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“ the ones where people think they’re being haunted?” Sully asked as he thought about what esme was referring to. Did he believe in ghosts? No, people who were alive were way scarier than disembodied spirits. “ I think that’s a risk with buying anything online. I admit I do kind of find it funny when someone buys something like furniture and it gets sent to them and it turns out to be a miniature. I would hate it if that happened to me but it’s still pretty funny “ @esmemaxwcll

"Really? Because mine has been great." Esme shared, "I mean sometimes I go in this weird rabbit hole of watching those ghost tiktoks randomly which terrifies me but you know it's not that bad." The blonde laughs lightly and shrugged, "I know, I mean there's Etsy but sometimes you have to be careful on not getting scammed. I seen a few tiktoks talking about those."

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“ I never realized how much skill that takes to do all at once. I mean working on nails is hard enough but then also having to hear and pay attention to what others say to you without being distracted and also stepping in to help. You must have the best concentration out there “ sully offered giving Victoria a small smile. He felt like he could barely keep an eye on Sera and then help around the apartment sometimes how was Tori able to just paint tiny objects on nails and then hear her clients gossip?

“ Good point. I mean summer reads a lot. Selena has always been the hardest one to figure out but she’s been more open lately. Like she isn’t treating me like the parent she doesn’t want to talk to as much. Sera is easy to shop for. She always tells me different things. She’s still in her Bluey phase. And that stuff is everywhere. She wanted a Muffin plushy. So I’ve gotta find one of those. “ he noted before smiling a bit. “ I’m a lot better at handling it now than I used to be. I was close to my sisters before but you know I was also starting college and dating my girlfriend so I sort of had different priorities. In a way I’m glad I have a better relationship with them now. Even if how it happened was my worst nightmare “ he admitted

“ I feel like I talk your ear off all the time as it is “ @victoriaxsanchez

“I’m practically an expert in gift-giving—comes with the territory of running a nail salon and playing part-time therapist. Everyone spills their holiday stress while I’m painting snowflakes on their nails.” She tapped her fingers on the table thoughtfully. “Selena’s already ahead of the game if she’s thinking of Christmas nails. She’s got taste.” Victoria’s smirk widened before she leaned in conspiratorially. “As for the rest of your sisters, here’s the trick: don’t try to figure out one gift for all of them. Think vibes. Is one of them into books? Another obsessed with skincare? Or should we just raid a chocolate shop and call it a day?”

Her expression softened. “And yeah, I get it—talking helps. You’ve got a lot on your plate, but it sounds like you’re handling it. You’re showing up for them, and that’s huge. So, you ever need an ear—or a shopping buddy—count me in.” @sullivanxshaw

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