#alicent is so repressed that she would not be able to physically process that she’s a lesbian for like YEARS to where it becomes comical

[prideprejudce]

alicent: i just want you to know that i have always treasured our friendship together. we have always been good companions since we were little girls and i want nothing more than to continue this good friendship we have built

rhaenyra laying on the bed next to her completely naked covered in lipstick kiss marks: uh yeah whatever you say

[quillparchment]

Cradlesona: Linda Summers

Me?? Making a Cradlesona?? It’s more likely than you think! Also thanks @lovingsiriusoswald​ for the template~ 

also, don’t need to credit the artist if you ARE the artist *finger guns*

Name: Linda Summers

Basic Info: Nicknames: Lin (by Edgar) Birthday: September 19th Age: 25 Height: 168 cm Blood Type: AB-

Physical: Eyes: Teal Hair: Very light brown, reaches her mid-back, wavy, and often tangled Accessories: Large round glasses Features: Pale skin (from being indoors all the time), large scar on upper shoulder, mole behind right ear Illnesses: No specific illnesses, but long-term repressed memories of childhood and teenage years. 

Social: Affiliation: Red Army Occupations: None Relationships:

Edgar Bright Love interest, former childhood friend at school. He typically drags her out of the library and gets her to do her basic tasks when he realises where she’s been. They often argue with each other in jest over various topics of expertise and inexpertise, and end up helping each other out. 

Luka Clemence Former childhood friend along with Edgar. Until Edgar finds her and tries to bring her back to normal society, they do not have contact, but they get along well once they meet again, if a little distant, until she regains her memories. 

Zero Often sees her in the library reading. He suspects that she may not ever leave, and brings this to Edgar’s attention, prompting their first meeting in seven years. Would like to make her acquaintance but has never known how to approach her. 

Jonah Clemence They meet every so often, but Linda has never talked to him beyond the basics of desserts. If she did start speaking to him, she’d probably get put off by his attitude and and up sassing him.

Lancelot Kingsley Lancelot is aware of her constant presence in the library but has never looked into it deeply. Her mother was friends with his father, whose death was ordered by Amon long before the former King of Hearts’, as she found out too much about Amon’s true intentions. 

Kyle Ash They haven’t interacted before, until Edgar brings her to him concerning her lost memories. After that, they have weekly sessions regarding how to bring the suppressed memories back and how she can work through them.

Blanc Lapin Linda admires Blanc, but has never met him in person, as he is the only one known to travel between Cradle and the Land of Reason. She hopes to meet him and convince him to take her to the Land of Reason at some point.

Seth Hyde Linda has never interacted with Seth in person, but Luka often recounts things about her to him. Seth has sworn that if he ever meets Linda in person, he would try and ingrain the proper aspects of social interaction in her. 

Alice the Second If Linda were to encounter Alice, she’d immediately proclaim herself Alice’s best friend and try to get Alice to tell her all about the Land of Reason. They’d probably get along pretty well.

Personality: 

Linda has a vast amount of knowledge about various and random topics, but due to her withdrawal from society, has limited understanding of how to apply them to real life, and therefore comes off as ditzy or even stupid. 

Another effect of this withdrawal is that she tends to keep quiet more often that not, but when she speaks, she is often blunt with her tone, not aware of how others may react to it. This does not mean that she is shy, though. 

Once she becomes reacquainted with society, she becomes more aware of how her words are perceived, and maintains her quiet, calm disposition, but is a lot more careful with her words and tone choices. 

However, around Edgar, and to a degree, Luka, she allows herself to be more open and direct. 

Family and History:

As a child, Linda was raised by a single mom in Red Territory, having been adopted. Her mother, Eleanor, worked as a scholar and raised Linda until her teenage years, when she ended up delving too deeply into the history of the Magic Tower and Amon discreetly had her killed. 

This caused her to forcibly repress her memories as she threw herself into her research, planning to escape Cradle. After graduating, she spent all her time in the library, learning all she could about the Land of Reason and what it was like there. In addition to that, she researched more into more randomised topics solely to keep her distracted. 

Linda used to be friends with Edgar and Luka, who were in her year at school, but after graduating she stopped interacting with them altogether, in favour of reading. 

Skills and Special Abilities:

Able to understand and process information quickly

Can use magic, but only in small bursts and for minor things

Can play the violin

Can sew relatively well

Can understand people easily after encountering them in a social situation

Paired with:  Edgar Bright

Life in Cradle:

Lives alone in Red Territory, and spends most of her time in the library to read. Linda does not have a job, as she plans to leave Cradle soon. At this point, she does not go out, instead opting to use her mother’s old clothes and get food from cafes near the library. She occasionally goes home to do her laundry and clean up her house. On the days she doesn’t go home, she bathes in a bathhouse near the library. 

[athyrabunlord]

Below is my rambling response to @argnatien’s lovely review of 3.3k words (?!??!?!?) for LLSHP AU ch16~

I had hoped to finish ch17 in February but oh, it’s April now XD;;; So I’m definitely way later than you. But! I’m still very happy to receive your feedback! Yes, I did intend this chapter to be ‘quieter’ in terms of actions, but definitely still a turmoil in terms of emotions. The thing with the ending chapters of Arc2 is that, the characters were not given time to truly absorb the aftermaths. Everything happened so quickly, back to back, and suddenly their world is turned upside down. It’s not just Yoshiko – Dia and Riko are abruptly gone from their peaceful school life. Chika and You learned about what really happened to them but they never got the chance to talk to Riko about it.

I think I mentioned this already, but I’ll stress again that, if it weren’t for the carbonado necklace, Riko would have ended up like Frank and Alice Longbottom. She was subjected to not just one but several Cruciatus Curses on top of many Legilimens. It was a difficult scene for me to write as well, though I still strive to be as realistic as possible given the circumstances.

Riko had immediately Obliviated You and Chika while their… ‘injuries’ were still fresh, so to speak, while it’s already too late for Riko. Her mind was broken already, so there’s no point in Obliviating them. Besides, messing with memories is a crude method to deal with Cruciatus aftermath – it’s not done in canon HP verse. Unlike physical torture, I believe Cruciatus to be a direct attack on the mind to stimulate pain receptors, rather than actual attack on the person’s nervous system. So, if the mind forgets that it ever sent such signals, perhaps there wouldn’t be an aftereffect. Of course, all of this is just my assumption and play around with HP canon material XD;

Back to present, Chika said that being surrounded by friends and family would remind her that the pain from Cruciatus is in the past. What Riko needs now certainly is time and, as the girls have discovered, Dia to be with her too. I can’t elaborate more on this point but indeed, there is hope. Hope is what Aqours is all about.

Dia was raised and shown in public as the heiress of the Kurosawa family. They could not just outright disown or strip her of her title for no reason, that would be even worse shame than the current suspicions she now faced. Hence the best countermeasure they have for now is to keep her from public eyes. There’s the matter of her relationship with Riko as well. Though the Sakurauchis is an old family with prominent background, their lineage is nowhere as pure as Kurosawas. Both women, different social status, and now this incident… Dia and Riko indeed face quite a lot of obstacles.

Grounded in her family home, unable to contact friends and left with only thoughts of guilt and regret, Dia’s not in a good state in many ways (as briefly shown in ch17). Dia is not privy to Riko’s condition, so her mind would just keep wandering and assuming the worst. As Dia-oshi (that’s hard to believe probably, considering what I’ve done), it’s difficult for me to imagine how much pain Dia’s been experiencing but had to keep inside her with no way to vent her stress.

My parchment paper analogy is my attempt to differentiate Magical healing from Muggle healing process. For Muggles, we have equipment like MRT scans, EGG scans etc. So, as I try to rationalize how Healers work, the parchment analogy came to mind. Ink is indeed the stressor and is unpredictable, as in what sort of stain the ink would make on the paper is dependent on how the ink is dropped upon it. Thoughts/experiences change the pattern that the ink runs on the paper. Chika and You mentioned how their minds are like ‘dried parchment, one that’s been stained before but the ink color has long lightened.’ So, just how can Riko’s ‘parchment’ be salvaged?

Yes, you’re correct, she was just having a PTSD flashback upon seeing the person who betrayed and tortured her. She had no idea it was ‘Yohane’ – she still thought it was Yoshiko. She definitely is in no state of mind to think about the why and how. ………… yeah, I deserve to be stoned by Riko-oshis.

Hmm, yeah, can’t comment much on Yoshiko & Riko atm. But yes, Yoshiko will not go anywhere near Riko in fear of triggering another panic attack. I don’t remember what I said to you for ch15’s review LOL I agree, trust is indeed hard to regain.

Can’t comment much on the Yohane-Yoshiko connection either. Just as how Yoshiko can do certain things Yohane can’t (ie cast the Patronus), there are things Yohane can do that Yoshiko can’t either. The how and why shall be revealed in the remainder of Arc3. Yoshiko’s bad Occlumency is due to the fact she’s not ‘whole’. Yohane is definitely more accustomed to handling matters related to her soul, having practically grown up with such knowledge and those wings being a natural occurrence for her. In the alley, Yoshiko was practically losing control and attempting to force her way into Yohane’s mind, and so Yohane abruptly cut off the connection.

Specifically, it was Yoshiko’s emotional attachment to Hanamaru’s broken wand that stopped her from going berserk. To her, the broken wand was a remnant of the ‘old’ Hanamaru, from a period of time where things were still good. As hinted in past chapters, being the one to be able to approach Yoshiko while those tendrils were rampant, Hanamaru is a key factor in calming down Yoshiko.  Emotion is another key catalyst for the black tendrils. Finding out that Yohane had tortured Riko caused such undulated anger in Yoshiko. Clues from past events will be accumulating and adding up, and of course more to come. Good speculations, that’s all I can say for now 😃

Yup, playing around one’s soul definitely isn’t healthy for the long run, especially when you use said soul fragments as a form of weapon or defense. In a way, you could say Yohane-Yoshiko are damaged already. Neither of them is whole after all. Again, great speculations!

Hanamaru is connected to Yoshiko in a way, ever since the Dementor incident as a child. (ch17 sheds some light onto that mystery) She hasn’t been aware of this connection, at least not consciously, but she’s always been able to locate Yoshiko at Hogwarts (between classes and whatnot). After the Chamber of Secrets event though, she becomes aware of it without understanding what it really means. Seeing the Augurey enables her to make a comparison/metaphor, and so she stated that she could hear Yoshiko’s soul crying.

Foreshadowing… welp, ch17 did reveal more things haha

I’ve been fascinated by Augurey since I first read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which listed them alphabetically. So in the very early planning stages of this story, I thought of Yoshiko right away and wanted it to play a significant role. Ch17 does reveal more than it being a symbol. The Hogwarts registry that writes down the names of magical children is an Augurey quill, that’s why I chose to use it for a purpose in this story as well.

Just as how Professor Koizumi coaxed Ruby into letting out her emotions in Interlude2, Hanamaru managed to do so for Yoshiko. The poor girl needs it, it’s not healthy keeping everything inside after all. It’s mostly guilt, she keeps telling herself she doesn’t deserve to be comforted and she’s in no position to be crying when everyone else have suffered so much more. I’m glad that you as a reader find the moment satisfying, as I intended it to be in spite of the overall solemn and melancholic tone. Ch17 presents a different catharsis for her, another one that she needs, and for Hanamaru as well.

<_< ah yes memories. I’ve always found Obliviate a very fascinating spell – a dangerous one too – yet it was never expanded much in the HP canon. The most poignant instances would be Gilderoy Lockhart stealing credit, Hermione to protect her parents, and Bertha Jorkins who got tortured by Voldemort and regained her memories. All of these have different impacts, positive and negative, on characters and the plot.

And so, I did a little variation amongst the members – the Memory Charm saved You and Chika’s lives; Riko extracted her memory into the Pensieve before her mind cracked; Yoshiko’s own memories being disjointed due to the whole Horcrux issue; Hanamaru’s memory repression being purely psychological.

I make them suffer a lot don’t I… (but this is nothing compared to other AUs I had for them LOL *gets shot*) But personally, I find things so much sweeter (or, bittersweet at least) if there was suffering beforehand. The saying of ‘you won’t realize how much you miss/need something until it’s gone’ kind of feel.

Again, I must say I’m beyond amazed at the 3.3k review. Like, holy moly, that’s longer than most some of my blips already! I really appreciate all these feedbacks though – it lets me see how a reader views the story, and it brings me joy to see the little nuances here and there noticed and appreciated. I’m also glad to elaborate upon/share the more intricate details that have no room in the storytelling.

Thanks again!

[cookehenry90]

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