#Alexandria is in her late twenties and she's the older sibling so.

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

Angst alert: Feargus, the Chosen One's nephew, is Kaga's son in my canon. The two don't meet until Feargus is 6 or 7 ish, after Kaga gets un-exiled for helping out with the whole Enclave situation

[theodorawalsh]

full name: theodora christina walsh

nicknames: theo, teddy, teds, tee, (mainly goes by teddy)

age: 33

dob: february 5th

hometown: atlanta, georgia

current location: wilmington, north carolina

neighborhood: midtown

occupation: journalist

gender: cis female

sexuality: heterosexual

relationship status: single

theme song: maneater - nelly furtado

TW: cancer mention, TW: breast cancer mention, TW: parental death

The 5th of February back in 1988 was a special day. It was the day that Alexandria and Christopher had welcomed their second child, and second daughter into this World. While their first child, and first daughter named Valentina who was just three at the time waited impatiently for her new sibling to arrive.

Theodora Christina Walsh was born, and she came out kicking and screaming. Beautiful light skin, with hazel eyes and blonde hair she was perfect they thought to themselves, and loved by so many. A little firecracker as Christopher nicknamed her. That’s exactly what she was.

Growing up, life was full of adventure for Theodora, everyone called her Teddy for short. She was spunky, free spirited and fun. Never had a dull moment. Always making things up with her older sister and causing mischief. The two were inseparable, but that changed when Valentina was eight, and Theodora was five when Alexandria and Christopher had welcomed their last child and final daughter whom they named Francesca Caroline Walsh. The two older girls made a pact, they made a pact with one another that if anything ever happened to their parents then they’d be the ones to look after the infant. They’d be the ones to protect their baby sister. That’s exactly what they did.

Sadly when Valentina was fifteen, Theodora was twelve, and Francesca was just eight their mother was diagnosed with cancer. Breast Cancer, stage four and non curable. It was late, too late in the game and it killed them as a family. It killed the three girls as they watched their mother get sicker and sicker . It killed their father as he became quiet and distant. Not really knowing how to handle three teenage girls as a widow. The man did his best. He did his best and even if Francesca was still young after her mother passed, Valentina and Theodora knew that their father was trying.

It was hard, there was no doubt about it. Growing up without a mother especially during your teenage years was never easy. Though their father became their best friend. She tried to be good and do good as her mother would always say when they left the house, but there were times when Teddy would test her fathers limits during her high school years.

Partying way to young and falling in love way to young. Though it wasn’t till her Junior year when Teddy realized she didn’t want to continue her bad ways. She wanted to make her mother and father proud. So she studied hard and got into Chapel Hill of North Carolina. . Theodora decided to take after her father and found a love of writing. So, she studied Journalism and got Straight As while graduating at the top of her class.

It wasn't until the women was twenty-eight years old when she got a job offer to become one of the lead Journalists for Wilmington Star News. After much consideration, Theodora decided to take it and has been in Wilmington for five years. She still keeps in touch with her siblings, and in touch with her father. They visit her from time to time.

[sophiagallos]

Full Name: sophia isabella gallo

Gender & Pronouns: cis female & she/her

Neighborhood: downtown

Occupation: journalist at glacier times

Positive traits: organized, creative & fun

Negative traits: bossy, lonely & stubborn

Length of time in Anchorage: five years

Faceclaim: monica barbaro

TW: parental death, TW: cancer mention, TW: breast cancer mention

The 5th of February back in 1988 was a special day. It was the day that Alexandria and Christopher had welcomed their second child, and second daughter into this World. While their first child, and first daughter named Gianna who was just three at the time waited impatiently for her new sibling to arrive. Sophia Isabella Gallo was born, and she came out kicking and screaming. Beautiful olive skin, brown eyes and dark brown hair she was perfect they thought to themselves, and loved by so many. A little firecracker as Christopher nicknamed her. That’s exactly what she was.

Growing up, life was full of adventure for Sophia. She was spunky, free spirited and fun. Never had a dull moment. Always making things up with her older sister and causing mischief. The two were inseparable, but that changed when Gianna was eight, and Sophia was five when Alexandria and Christopher had welcomed their last child and final daughter whom they named Averie Caroline Gallo. The two older girls made a pact, they made a pact with one another that if anything ever happened to their parents then they’d be the ones to look after the infant. They’d be the ones to protect their baby sister. That’s exactly what they did.

Sadly when Gianna was fifteen, Sophia was twelve, and Averie was just eight their mother was diagnosed with cancer. Breast Cancer, stage four and non curable. It was late, too late in the game and it killed them as a family. It killed the three girls as they watched their mother get sicker and sicker . It killed their father as he became quiet and distant. Not really knowing how to handle three teenage girls as a widow. The man did his best. He did his best and even if Averie was still young after her mother passed, Gianna and Sophia knew that their father was trying.

It was hard, there was no doubt about it. Growing up without a mother especially during your teenage years was never easy. Though their father became their best friend. She tried to be good and do good as her mother would always say when they left the house, but there were times when Sophia would test her fathers limits during her high school years. Partying way to young and falling in love way to young. Though it wasn’t till her Junior year when Sophia realized she didn’t want to continue her bad ways. She wanted to make her mother proud.

So she studied hard and got into Boston College. Sophia decided to take after her father and found a love of writing. The young women studied Journalism and got Straight As while graduating at the top of her class. It wasn't until Sophia was twenty-eight years old when she got a job offer at Glacier Times in Anchorage, Alaska to be one of the lead Journalists on their team. After much consideration, Sophia decided to take it and has been in Anchorage for five years.

POTENTIAL PLOTS:

Currently thinking about plots for her, but maybe I would like to see her be the owner of Glacier Times at some point in her life? She's been on the team for five years now & she's working her way up.

Maybe she gets back into her bad ways, partying & drinking?

POTENTIAL CONNECTIONS:

PLEASE bring me her two sisters!! Gianna & Averie. Maybe some coworkers or a male best friend?!

[amandajoyce118]

Friday Five: Women In History

Think of this Friday Five as a list of five women I wish Timeless had the chance to do episodes about. Why? Because it’s the last Friday of Women’s History Month. In honor of all the women who made history, I’m spotlighting five who often get overlooked this week. These are women who don’t get taught about in schools because, instead, we learn about their male counterparts. Or, these are women who had a big influence on a particular market, but few people know their story.

Five: Zelda Fitzgerald

I thought I’d start off with a woman that people are probably slightly familiar with, but maybe don’t know her full story. If her name sounds familiar, but you can’t place where you know her, that’s because she’s the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. If you went to high school in the U.S., or studied American Lit at all, you probably read at least one of his books, like The Great Gatsby. What you might not know is that Zelda was as good as, if not a better writer than, her husband.

Her husband regularly wrote down things she said when recounting stories to friends, stole her journal, and all around copied her work. She “inspired” all of his heroines. So, if you actually like his writing, chances are, you really like Zelda’s. She was trapped in a loveless marriage. He cheated on her, but wouldn’t allow her to have relationships with other men. He also attempted to drive her to a nervous breakdown so he could have her institutionalized. All around, not a great guy there.

Zelda actually got an offer to have her journals published at one point, but because of her husband, she couldn’t. She retaliated by publicly reviewing his writing, penning, “plagiarism begins at home.”

Four: Andree Borrel

A lot of posts have gone around tumblr about the women who acted as spies and assassins during World War II lately. Andree Borrel didn’t go that route, but in her twenties, she was recruited to train members of the French resistance.

She actually started off trying to help in the war efforts on her own. She traveled from France to Spain to fight against Nazi work, but thought her efforts were meaningless, and made her way back to France. There, she took a nursing course offered by the Red Cross and became field certified to help in the hospitals. Since she was under 21 when she did it, the hospitals wouldn’t allow her to stay and volunteer. That is when she started working for the underground.

She started safehouses that helped British soldiers who were shot down, escaping Jews, and spies. Eventually, she and her friends had to leave France when their safehouses were compromised. They made their way to England where they gave full reports to MI5 and began working for the Special Operations Executive to help the French resistance.

Not only was she recruited for the French resistance, but when they sent her back to France to start her work, she was parachuted into the area. She (and her partner for the mission, of course) was the world’s first female paratrooper. She was excellent at her job, but she was eventually captured. Andree was executed in a French concentration camp in 1944.

Three: Willie Mae Thornton

Everybody remembers the names of the singers. The songwriters don’t get as much credit. Today, they get a little more because so many singers like to write (or assist in writing) their own music. In the day of Willie Mae Thornton though, she was the Big Mama (yes, that was her actual nickname) behind the curtain.

She first started singing in church, like so many people from the south. When her mom died, she had to drop out of school and get a job to help support her five siblings. Eventually, she left home to pursue a career in music. While she could supposedly “sing pretty,” if she wanted to, she preferred to make her voice “big” instead. In other words, she didn��t conform to what men in the music industry thought of as a feminine sound. She belted.

Willie Mae wrote and recorded music that other people made into hits. “Hound Dog,” made famous by Elvis Presley? She sang it first and it spent a few weeks at the top of the charts, but she didn’t see any real profit from it. Her record sold about 500,000 copies, which was big for its time. Elvis’ version became the hit, selling 10 million copies just a few years later. Likewise, she wrote “Ball n Chain,” which Janis Joplin made famous. She also didn’t get the profits from that because the record company owned the song, not her. Joplin, however, hired her to open for her as a way to give back what the record company took from her. (I feel like she should have split profits with her, but that’s just me.)

(Side note: I almost wrote about Rose Marie McCoy here instead. Like Willie Mae, she was a black woman who wrote hits for other artists. She also wrote songs for Elvis. By the end of her songwriting career, she wrote more than 800 songs, including commercial jingles. I think she’s a little bit more well known since NPR has featured specials on her in the past, but probably not by much.)

Two: Hypatia

Since the other three lived and worked in relatively recent history, it seems prudent to go back a little farther - like way back. I’m talking fourth century. Hypatia was from Alexandria, you know, where the ancient library was that we all wish had survived disaster?

Hypatia was a scholar in the time that women weren’t really allowed to be scholars. All of the stories and historical accounts of the era paint men as the heroes in Greece and Rome, with women as the people on the sidelines being fought over or worshiping deities in temples. Hypatia’s father, Theon (not a Greyjoy, Game of Thrones fans) wanted her to have the same opportunities as men in their community, so he made sure she was educated in science, math, and astronomy. Eventually, Hypatia became a teacher.

Unfortunately for her, Hypatia lived at a time when Christianity was spreading throughout the ancient empires. Though she didn’t seem to subscribe to one religion over another, historians seem to consider her a pagan. She was tolerant of other religions, and was one of the people outraged when Jewish residents were ousted from Alexandria and Christians began targeting pagans. She was murdered by a group of angry Christians during Lent. She wasn’t just murdered either. She was stripped, had her eyes removed, and then pieces of her body were taken throughout the town and burned. For no reason other than she was seen as an enemy of the political leaders at the time.

I’ll admit that the first time I ever learned about her was a result of doing my own research after “Hypatia’s chariot” was an artifact in Warehouse 13. Despite the few things I’ve read recently calling her a famous ancient scholar, or a feminist icon, I doubt most people know her name.

One: Sayyida al-Hurra

For a time when I was a teenager, I was fascinated by the life of pirates. Not in the romance novel way, but more in the what-drove-a-person-to-piracy kind of way. I think most people, primarily as a result of Hollywood, become passingly familiar with pirates like Blackbeard and Anne Bonny. Glossed over is the Pirate Queen Sayyida al-Hurra, who actually held a long standing alliance with Blackbeard.

She was actually born into a wealthy Moroccan family and married a much older business man. She continued to run his business after his death. Her family, however, was forced to flee from Morocco when the Spanish declared themselves rules and Christianity started spreading through the region. (She was Muslim.) Eventually, she became the political leader of Tetouan and married a king. She didn’t even travel to marry, but instead, made him come to her, which was unheard of.

Holding onto her grudge against the Spanish empire for what they did to her people, she used her political standing to slowly build her pirate army and take on their ships. She made her little country rich with stolen merchandise and selling the Christians she captured into slavery in place of her people. She was also the foremost negotiator when it came to releasing Christian captives. She was the person European nations contacted to offer up ransoms, so she only sold people into slavery if the European nobles weren’t willing to pay. Sayyida ruled the western Mediterranean while Blackbeard ruled the east.

Sadly, history doesn’t know what happened to her. Though she remained queen after the death of her husband, her son in law overthrew her, and then… nothing. I’d love to see a movie speculating about her fate.

Obviously, there are thousands of women who were important to history. I picked five that I have found interesting, and ones who aren’t usually present in more mainstream pop culture (like the ladies of Hidden Figures, for example) for this list.

That’s it for this week! Tell me about a woman in history you think everyone should know about!

[musingaboutmuses]

Beth Greene

At the bottom of Pandora’s Box

Origin: AMC’s The Walking Dead - Canon Divergence after Hospital

Age: Defaults to 18+, but younger/earlier Beth is available on request

Orientation: Heterosexual Leanings, most likely monogamous

Crossover, OC, & AU Friendly

Beth was born Elizabeth Greene, daughter of Hershel Greene, a farmer, and his second wife, Annette. She had two older siblings, both half-Maggie by her father, and Shaun by her mother. Growing up on a farm, she has a love for all things living, and a respect for sacrifice. She was taught to have faith, a belief she maintained through hard times and easy.

When the zombie outbreak began, Beth was a sophomore in high school. She was young, and innocent, and for a short while her father was able to protect that naivety. This included his permitting her then boyfriend Jimmy (of a few weeks) to shelter on their farm.

Her mother and brother were attacked while walking, but Beth’s father believed they could be cured of their ailment. This began a collection of Walkers in the Barn. It ended about as one could expect.

It was during that time her family encountered Rick’s band of survivors, and entwined their fates in the time to come. Though Beth did make an attempt on her own life, after she faced life with new found hope. She maintains this hope and becomes a sort of symbol, an effect only enhanced by her musical inclinations.

No Swan Song Yet

Canon divergent verse in which even if Beth does get shot, it’s likely just a graze, and she survives another day.

Grady Memorial Hospital did not become Beth Greene’s memorial. Instead, she was able to rejoin her friends and patchwork family. When they established themselves in Alexandria, she found herself trying to find a purpose. At some point she started putting information up about supplies available, comings and goings in the community, and obituaries. This evolved, eventually, into a hand written newsletter she tries to post weekly-even if usually it’s more like biweekly.

In order to devise what needs to go into the newsletter, whenever she posts one, she has a regular garden meeting complete with sweet tea to discuss the news of the week.

Though she usually sticks inside the settlement, she has continued to learn survival skills-particularly hunting and cooking, so when she does leave the safety, she can take care of herself.

More than Survival

Canon Divergent AU in which Beth Survives, set after the time jump.

Beth Greene counts the years by where she’d be if things hadn’t fallen apart. But by now, she’d have finished college if she’d gone that direction-regardless of what degree she chased. She’s twenty-seven now, a woman in her own right. She’s grown, and she’s shed most of her innocence. Losing everyone but her sister has done a number on Beth-especially the father of her nephew and late brother-by-law.

She always knew her father would die before her, though she mourned him for a while. However, for a long while it seemed like Glenn and Maggie were going to have a happy ending and a family. That was stolen, however, causing Beth to be very wary of individual persons.

That said, Beth still believes in people as a whole. She still has her faith, even if she doesn’t always remember to pray before bed, or seek out sermon. She’s maintained her newsletter, but her role as reporter has grown. The newsletter is now more of a biweekly newspaper, aided by the recovery of a printing press.