#kate godfrey

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EverAfter (Ever After: A Cinderella Story) (1998) Andy Tennant

December 17th 2022

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Double Take (6.6, ITC, 1968)

"Now, Templar, please... You are very angry, yes?"

"That is an understatement."

"It will all be made good. You are here, now listen to me and sit down. I need something done, done urgently."

"Mr. Patroclos, let's get one thing straight. I very rarely do favours for the overprivileged - and never under pressure."

[thelongforgottenrealm]

LADY FIONA CALLEARY / DAISY RIDLEY

♛ Age: 25 ♛ Relationships: Eabha Calleary, Aine Lorcan (sisters), Cormac Calleary (brother), Finn Calleary (twin brother/fellow resistance member), Padraig Lorcan (brother-in-law), Ciara Varmont (cousin/fellow resistance member), Eoin Varmont (cousin), Bartholomew Varmont (uncle), Rian Stafford (enemy), Aria Stafford, Brigit Malconaire, Aisling Lorcan (best friends), Saoirse Frost (friend/fellow resistance member), Ronan Frost, Cillian Frost, Percy Reaves, Kale Brennan, Isolda Vane (fellow resistance members), Cassimir Malconaire (former interest), Percy Reaves (interest)

fuck the patriarchy!!

fiona challenges anyone to take her sister eabha and her brother cormac and look her in the eye and tell her that cormac would do a better job at managing an estate because he's a man

fiona: cormac is an idiot (derogatory) and so is finn (affectionate)

known to say whatever is on her mind and very rarely filters it, which gets in her trouble quite often! (in fact, it is a miracle that she was not put to death besides her father, who was executed when he refused to bend the knee to roderick)

it doesn't always make her the best resistance member ...

extremely frustrated by the lack of justice she sees!!!

which is how she came to join the resistance in the first place

she noticed saoirse coming and going at odd hours and suspected that she was up to something

so she dragged her half-drunk brother finn literally out of bed and followed her one night

which is how they stumbled across a meeting

fiona demanded that she and her brother be able to help in whatever way they could and -- to her delight -- ronan (albeit reluctantly) agreed

unfortunately, fiona has found that she doesn't have too much information that she can pass onto them -- besides whatever they manage to sneak out of rian's office -- but since lorcan fared so well in the war, they do have a good amount of resources and the resistance has found that they are happy to have their help in this regard

once had a thing for cassimir when he first came to malconaire when fiona was much younger! she swooned over him when she first saw him and told everyone that one day she was going to marry him but then promptly changed her mind the next day and is mortified that she ever felt this way

if you ever bring this up to her, you do so at your own risk

since the calleary family seat has been given to godfrey upon his engaged to her cousin, fiona and her siblings currently reside with her sister at lorcan, until such time as the estate that has been promised to her brother, cormac, can be renovated after the damages it received after the war ...

TAKEN BY KATE.

[forgottengodfrey]

OOC | Malconaire Hiding & AUs

CASSIMIR'S HEIR(S)

ok so @forgotteneithne raised some interesting points abt 1) who @forgottenroderick would replace @forgottencassimir w as lord of malconaire, should cassimir perish w/o a son/heir or whatever, (and since lizzy mentioned that the malconaires have no cousins on their father's side) that means that even tho there are several v healthy daughters running around (even if they had never been declared witches etc!) in roderick's eyes the line of malconaire is extinguished, so this would probs ultimately end up w roderick awarding malconaire to one of the following: @forgottenalaric @forgottensebastian bartholomew, or eoin, or (less likely given its strategic signifiance: he'd wanna keep it in the family) even to alistair. there's also a scenario where @forgottenedmund might be considered, even tho he's already got a nearby holding, but alaric or sebastian are the most likely candidates for this job (editing!kate: or ~are they ooooh ;D)

alaric is the person roderick trusts the most out of anyone (and sebastian is, in roderick's mind, as yet untested) but he ~knows alaric could hold malconaire in event of revolt, plus unlike edmund and arthur (as far as i know?), alaric doesn't yet have an astairan holding (actually ig the riverbend isn't ~technically astairan but its right there/was prev held by a naturalized astairan sooo?). HOWEVER, i can def see where roderick may have already gifted alaric the fens for these exact reasons! and he doesn't want to divide alaric's attentions/resources too much and thus leave him split and thus less effective etc etc

w sebastian, he ~is 'untested,' but he's also roderick's only son w/o an astairan holding (w the edmund caveat yknow idk). and he ~does trust sebastian, as much as he trusts anyone, really, so if alaric has the fens, then sebastian probs gets malconaire unless marian or arthur (or even sebastian himself! -- cassandra's 'failings' really reflect only on herself and her mother bc #woman unless it was smth huuuuuge like running off and marrying an astairan servant ;D jk jk but yknow) has ticked off roderick in some way right when this is going down -- this btw is an issue w ~all his sons re: this bc those family/inheritance politics ALWAYS at play in the bg lakdsjfkljsdf (daughters are not military leaders in roderick's brain so they're not considered at all for the position, even guin). in which case, bart or eoin are the candidates to get it

i actually think its possible that roderick might feel that bart has a lot on his plate, plus im guessing he's more ~administrative than ~warlike from his bio??? so roderick might just go straight to eoin?? it's also possible he makes bart lord w eoin as his 'castellan/stewart' or whatever so like...its in bart's name but everyone knows its really eoin's etc! (and/or one of those like ~styled situations where its one of ur dad's holdings but he's got so many you're as his heir sorta entitled to the use of one and called its lord etc etc etc) however, they're BOTH getting nixed if arthur's true paternity has come out, and that's the situation where we get alistair!

however, even here roderick is tailspinning re: who he can trust so its also possible in this scenario he reverts ~back to alaric and thus splits alaric's attentions or else has gone so far down the path of paranoia that he trusts ~no one and tries to hold it himself even tho obv he himself is pr busy w other stuff!

edmund also becomes a candidate in this scenario, w the malconaire and riverbend lands being formally merged under him, which isn't as i think of it really ~splitting his resources since they are, in fact, neighbors etc even tho there is the river there but still, that's any easy route for moving stuff so it still stands, and edmund doesn't ~technically have an astairan holding so yeah!

ACTUALLY ACTUALLY!! as im thinking abt this more, unless amira/godfrey/tristan/edmund has recently ticked off roderick, if this ever goes down, the more i think abt this, the more i think edmund might actually be ~the most likely candidate, even from the start. he's got the riverbend. he's already conquered malconaire so he has PROVEN he can hold it and it specifically/he's obv aware of its weaknesses etc, he doesn't ~actually have an astairan title yet, he's one of the three heirs, his uncle is his neighbor so he's got a seaborn alliance ~right there~ which would probs come to his aid if needed w/o him even having to ask, and he even seems to have good relations ~w malconaire

now, if this is after the witch thing, and so roderick is like 'edmund was LITERALLY bewitched by a malconaire witch,' then we're back to alaric or eoin being most likely (sebastian having ~also been thus bewitched and thus ~also out) but yeah!! needless to say, @forgottenamira and godfrey would def be pushing for this, ofc, but im guessing? @forgottenmarian and her faction would be ~against it? pushing for sebastian, perhaps?

so yeah the more i think abt it, actually, edmund, then alaric, then sebastian, then bart/eoin, then alistair, and finally roderick himself, are the most likely heirs to malconaire!

@forgottenrian would DEFFFFF try to put in a bid immediately when he hears cassimir's outta commission but he'd be rejected and yeah!

either way tho...if its a currently played character its def lizzy im realizing BAHAHAHA ;DDD roderick: the only person i trust for this job is actually just lizzy <3

so yeah! in any event, IF the witch thing hasn't happened, roderick would probs marry one of the malconaires to whomever he's giving malconaire to help quell any resentment of the ppl, preferably eithne but if she's married then brigit and so forth in order of age, w sonya being last since she's only an ~adopted of the prev lord and therefore doesn't carry his ~blood and we all know how thing roderick is abt bloodlines smdh

if the witch thing ~has happened, this person is still def getting an astairan bride (w the ~possible exception of edmund or sebastian since roderick is really weird abt his own blood mingling places via his kids etc laksdjfkljsdf), w preference probs going to a lorcan???? but really they can choose atp as long as she's of noble astairan birth or else SO rich/powerful/well armed that a marriage to her would help make malconaire impregnable in case of revolt etc aljsdflksjfkj

MALCONAIRES IN HIDING

and the other thing kate brought up is how godfrey will handle hiding the malconaires! ngl if he were a real person, i deffff think this would actually involve stowing them each at separate ends of the earth, esp since he's got sea power -- BUT, since this an rp and it all takes place in astaira, in separate ends of astaira BAHAHAHA and i'll justify that by saying that he doesn't know when he'll have to call them in or whatever so he wants them each close at hand, but he also wants to ensure that if one gets grabbed, the others are still out there etc, so they also don't know where the others are etc! he ~might split them two by two tho??

BUT ANYWAY!! i do think he'd probs work w the resistance network to get at least some of them out! he's gonna wanna make sure tho that only ~he knows the whereabout of at least one of them, tho, so that no matter if the others get given up he def still has one malconaire in the hand! i def feel like the fens are a pr good hiding place, lorcan another, probs kil-kennar another and so forth!

now, how does he divvy them up! godfrey def sees them each as having their own individual value and ill spell that out:

@forgotteneithne = key to malconaire! she's its lady and the ppl will rise for her/in her name! and we know our boy is jonesing for a rebellion as soon as the time is right!

@forgottenbrigit = key to the guardians! actual witch! she's the best one to help him uncover that sword and unbind the final key(s)! she's his best conduit for communicating w the guardians too and perhaps, thus, to foiling them bc if brigit trusts him and the guardians trust her, well, doesn't that just make betraying them all the easier??

@forgottenaoife = key to ronan/the resistance! i mean, @forgottenronan loves ~all the malconaires no question...but i think we all know that aoife has a v special place in his heart and, reckless as he's growing, well, that'll be easier and easier to exploit! now, he might learn too that aoife has the mind that's most like his own -- w the huge caveat that she's CLEARLY a mUCH better person lakjdsflkjsd but anyway!! lakjdfklsjdf she's watchful and creative and sees the weaknesses of others as well as her own strengths w a clear eye, etc, all of which might lead him to think she maybe could ~also play into the eithne plot esp if? she's open abt the will? godfrey would be her best route no lie to getting that thing published and prolifierated EVERYWHERE to further enrage the populace too btw!

@forgottenroisin = key to edmund's astairan affections! not just to the lad, himself, but specifically to endearing him to the astairans! ive already talked abt how godfrey wants to play up their love and then kill rosie (tho it was supposedly roderick/guin/arthur or whatever!) laksdjfkljdsf rosie: 'hey!' and thus sort of twist this tragic lost love situation into, like, edmund's fighting for you!!!! for astaira!!! for his love of house malconaire whom you ~also love and has been so maligned blah blah blah against the tyrannical emperor his own father!!1 but he chose YOU!!! etc and then get him hitched to @forgotteneilionora etc

so yeah!! as such they each have v different but v important roles in his schemes so yeah!! lakjsdfkljdskf as a result of all this, aoife and rosie are the two least likely to use the resistance network since he's specifically blackmailing ronan w aoife's wellbeing and he legit hopes to someday murder rosie and the resistance might not be too keen on that soooo lakjdsflkjdsjfjdf but eithne he'd actively love to see interacting ~w the resistance etc to help foment rebellion!!!! so she's almost certain to be hidden re: their resources, smth that'll also probs help build trust of godfrey within the resistance etc! so yeah! i don't have specific notions really beyond that atm but those're my thoughts on all of that!!

[forgottenciara]

ooc | Ciara & Fiona

Cousin! <33

So Kate AA had suggested that perhaps Ciara & Eabha had been pen pals and written to each other while growing up? And I can see where Ciara would have done the same thing with both Aine and Fiona?? (probably not Finn so much who is too lazy to write to a cousin he's only met like once alkdjflasjf and idk about Cormac?)

I'm not sure they saw much of each other, in person, though growing up since Ciara's mom died when she was born and her dad was often following Roderick around on his various conquests, but I do think that they came and visited them, at least once, when they were pretty young?

Ciara loves her cousins so much!! And honestly she definitely always wanted to be able to spend actual time with them, but this never really was what she envisioned??? I do think she feels a little awkward, too, that they have been displaced and she's gonna go live in their home when she marries Godfrey??? Honestly, I think she wouldn't be on board w/ it at all, except that she knows that Roderick would never give it back to Eabha and Ciara feels she knows Godfrey well enough to know that he will definitely take care of it/the people there and she really can't say as much for anyone else Roderick would put in charge??? So yeah.

But she does mean to care for it as best as she can when she becomes its mistress and would take Eabha's advise as law, pretty much, but she knows it still feels like she's kinda displacing her and she's not really cool w/ that but here we are???

Anyway, I'm not sure how Fiona would feel about all of this but Ciara would still try to make their relationship work!! Not sure if Fiona would have felt like Ciara is too much aligned with the enemy or not when she first arrived, but I feel like finding out that she's in the resistance when she and Finn joined would have potentially eased those fears if she had any????

Finn and Fiona joining the resistance has also definitely complicated Ciara's situation, too, haha, and I think will be a huge block in cementing her loyalties to the Astairan cause since now she literally has family fighting on both sides and whatever happens, someone she loves is gonna get hurt and she's starting to realize that Eilia is just so much better suited for this than Roderick (#sorryvarmontfam)

[forgottenamira]

OOC | Amira & Aoife

kate!! i wanna take this opportunity to apologize for amira in advance bc she is...the worst frankly lakjsfkjsdjf she sees everything and everyone as opportunities and threats and that's abt it. so honestly idk if amira knows anything abt aoife, but if she knew that seb has feelings for her, she'd see that as quite an opportunity to exploit her stepson/edmund's rival alkjsdfkljsdfj this is basically her view of all the malconaires tbqh she doesn't have godfrey's slightly more far-sighted schemes to destroy them to prop edmund up in the eyes of the populace, amira would simply see aoife as effectively living, breathing blackmail to help maneuver sebastian however she liked. as it is, she probs just sees her as a foreign noble who is likely just as scheming as everyone else tbqhe

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May Release!

Camelot - Fourth Broadway Revival

April 16, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video | Matinée

Cast:

Andrew Burnap (Arthur), Phillipa Soo (Guenevere), Jordan Donica (Lancelot Du Lac), Dakin Matthews (Merlyn/Pellinore), Taylor Trensch (Mordred), Marilee Talkington (Morgan Le Fey), Camden McKinnon (Tom of Warwick), Anthony Michael Lopez (Sir Dinadan), Fergie L. Philippe (Sir Sagramore), Danny Wolohan (Sir Lionel), Delphi Borich (Lady Sybil), Holly Gould (Page), Tesia Kwarteng (Lady Catherine), James Romney (Page), Ann Sanders (Clarius), Paul Whitty (Dap)

Notes:

Nice Video, shot from the side. the set obstructs the back of the stage but nothing is really missed. some nice wideshots and zooms.

NFT Date: November 1, 2023

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Beetlejuice - First US National Tour

February 18, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Justin Collette (Beetlejuice), Isabella Esler (Lydia Deetz), Britney Coleman (Barbara Maitland), Will Burton (Adam Maitland), Jesse Sharp (Charles Deetz), Kate Marilley (Delia Deetz), Juliane Godfrey (u/s Miss Argentina), Abe Goldfarb (Otho), Brian Vaughn (Maxie Dean), Karmine Alers (Maxine Dean/Juno), Jackera Davis (Girl Scout), Matthew Michael Janisse (s/w Ensemble)

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Extremely nice video, of Juliane's Miss. Argentina Debut. some washout but only in extreme wideshots. Overall a fantastic capture from the middle mezz in Rochester!

NFT Date: November 1, 2023

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masterlist

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simon 'ghost' riley:

riley family road trip (riley family au)

bug's coming out (riley family au)

simon comes home (riley family au)

riley family headcanons (riley family au)

silly goose simon after surgery

ghost/könig gunplay+knifeplay

simon x chronically ill!reader

captain john price:

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kyle 'gaz' garrick:

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johnny 'soap' mactavish:

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valeria garza:

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kate 'watcher 0-1' laswell:

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farah karim:

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könig:

ghost/könig gunplay+knifeplay

keegan russ:

doberman!keegan bunny!reader

nsfw alphabet

tf141:

tf141 as spotify playlists (ft. my oc)

multi:

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sal 'sally face' fischer:

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larry johnson:

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ashley campbell:

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william afton:

will x burn victim!reader

snugglefuck with will

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kaeya:

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diluc:

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lisa:

||*~criminal minds~*||

spender reid:

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elle greenaway:

nsfw alphabet

emily prentiss:

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penelope garcia:

penelope helping transmac!reader

double date with derek and savannah (trans!masc reader)

jennifer 'jj' jeareau:

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matt simmons:

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roman godfrey:

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billy loomis:

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stu macher:

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bang chan:

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lee 'lee know' minho:

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seo changbin:

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hwang hyunjin:

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han jisung:

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lee felix:

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kim seungmin:

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yang 'in' jeongin:

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||*~gravity falls~*||

wendy coudroy:

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stan pines:

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Kate AA | The Long Forgotten Realm (Calanion - Frost)

LAST UPDATED: 11/09/24 @ 9:47PM EST

Godfrey Calanion

Cassandra

Eithne

Sebastian

Ciara

Brigit

Aria

Tristan Calanion

Ciara

Aoife

Fiona

Brigit

Finn

Percy

Cassimir

Sebastian

Eithne

Cassandra

Cormac Calleary

Marian

Brigit

Percy

Sebastian

Fiona

Eithne

Aria

Alaric

Ciara

Kale

Cassimir

Eabha Calleary

Cassimir

Cassandra

Eithne

Ciara

Edmund

Kale

Alaric

Aria

Sebastian

Marian

Cillian Frost

Cassimir

Kale

Aoife

Eithne

Percy

Cassandra

Aria

Sebastian

Ronan Frost

Aoife

Edmund

Sebastian

Alaric

Aria

Marian

Percy

Brigit

Eithne

Saoirse Frost

Aine

Ciara

Eithne

Percy

Sebastian

Aira

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Title: Ever After

Rating: PG-13

Director: Andy Tennant

Cast: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Lee Ingleby, Kate Lansbury, Matyelok Gibbs, Walter Sparrow, Peter Gunn, Richard O'Brien, Jeanne Moreau, Jeroen Krabbé

Release year: 1998

Genres: romance, drama, fantasy, comedy

Blurb: A unique 16th-century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More's Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince...after beaning him with an apple.

[forgotteneabha]

OOC | Eabha & Cassimir

soooo as i said to kate w eithne, eabha's one of the few ppl close to eithne who def isn't against the eithne/cassimir marriage! she def isn't excited abt it or anything, but she would def do the same thing in eithne's place so yeah!!

also, since hanthom is so close and everything, i def think these two would've grown up together!! eabha was def always team og malconaire, so she probs wasn't the most welcoming person in the world tbqh!! but she was def more amenable than some of his stepsisters at least ig hahaha i do think as she got older and more mature and as he started to improve (plus she just plain got used to him tbqh!), she probs did warm to him

since they're both ~trade centered~ in the riverbend and hanthom, and were both destined to rule their respective pieces of land etc, i can see where maybe when they were teenagers there may have been some talk of a more formal alliance between them of some type, and the good news is that hanthom and the riverbend ~are now allied!!!! the bad news is that neither of these two have anything to do w any of that since its godfrey and edmund respectively who now control those places but...oh well alkjsdfkjldskjf

anyway!! my point is they probs had both personal and political reasons to get to know each other!! and i can see where there may also have been some talk, at least between lord calleary and bran, abt the potential of cassimir potentially marrying one of the callearies, even?

[thelongforgottenrealm]

LADY EABHA CALLEARY / KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

♛ Age: 30 ♛ Relationships: Aine Lorcan, Fiona Calleary (sisters), Cormac Calleary. Finn Calleary (brother), Padraig Lorcan (brother-in-law), Ciara Varmont, Eoin Varmont (cousins), Bartholomew Varmont (uncle), Rian Stafford, Godfrey Calanion (enemies), Eithne Malconaire, Brigit Malconaire, Eilionora Stafford, Laoirse Lorcan, Aisling Lorcan (best friends), Kale Brennan (childhood friend/occasional flirtation), Aleksander Royce, Alaric Varmont (potential husbands), Garbhan Stafford (past interest)

Like both Eithne and Eilionora, Eabha had her birthright stripped away from her when Roderick claimed Astaira

and while she does not see this as a blessing, ultimately it likely saved her life

her own father did not bend the knee and he payed for that with his life

roderick claimed the calleary family seat for his own and gifted it to godfrey upon his engagement to ciara varmont -- their mutual cousin

due to both the family ties and the fact that cormac, who is now her father's heir, was so quick to bend the knee, neither eabha nor her siblings suffered any more consequences from their father's actions, even if eabha, herself, never would have submitted to roderick

cormac has been gifted a smaller, more northern estate

but as it was damaged so severely in the war, she and her siblings are residing at lorcan until such repairs can be made

while eabha once had her independence, she now realizes that she is now under the less than reliable protection of her younger brother, cormac, and that she may need to find a suitable husband -- for she knows that cormac will only run his new estate into the ground

while she's not thrilled about the idea, nor her choices, she has come to the conclusion that either alaric or aleksander would, at least, be kind to her

she feels, however, that every move any of them make is being watched closely by rian stafford, who has been placed in charge of lorcan until her brother-in-law returns to claim it

she has an uneasy feeling that any misstep by any of them will result in their removal and that rian would be only all too happy to claim both lorcan and cormac's new seat for himself

is determined not to give up on her own people!!!!

doesn't trust godfrey, either, but is determined to make sure that they have everything they need and will go through ciara once they are married if she cannot go through him

(honestly has probably snuck back to hanthom once or twice with her sisters bringing food and supplies and just generally making sure they are all okay!!)

once secretly had feelings for garbhan stafford when she met him years ago but meeting him now again, she's ashamed she ever felt that way!!

TAKEN BY KATE AA.

[forgottengodfrey]

OOC | Astairan Books of Magic...

ok so as kate made me realize, @forgottenroderick is absolutely a vile book-burner (in additiona to his other atrocities...)! such heretical information must be purged from this earth in order to purify it! but don't worry ~too much bc our pal, godfrey, and his witchy sister @forgottenamira have some v decided thoughts of their v own on this topic!

roderick has def burned every single book of magic he could find in astaira!! however, he has ~not found ~all of them due to the secret interference of the queen and her brother

this would ABOLUTELY be viewed as a horrific betrayal if roderick ever found out -- not on the scale of marian betrayal tbf but she'd def be in the doghouse for a long time and godfrey would be banished and all those books would be burned and also somehow at the same time roderick would try to cover it all up bc he believes that if his own wife and her brother are betraying him it makes him look weak...

anyway, im thinking that these are probs stowed away in a secret sealed vault somewhere beneath hanthom that only godfrey knows abt...but which could potentially be stumbled upon should we wish it... ;DDDD

[forgottenamira]

OOC | Amira & Cassimir

amira: who??

no, but as i was saying to kate [ in my post to aoife ], im not sure amira knows much abt the malconaires and, unless she knows the princes (including her son!) spend all their free time there, she probs doesn't think much abt them except that they're probs scheming just like everyone else and can't be trusted just like everyone else alksjdflkjsdf she also wouldn't give a flying fig abt all godfrey's plots and schemes to use them she just...doesn't care, doesn't see how others are feeling, doesn't give af, she just wants power. so the most useful any of them could be in her mind is as like blackmail/bargaining chips to maneuver the varmonts.

the thing she ~will notice is when sonya starts maneuvering to pull an amira and get a married man to take her as her bride and then amira will be like 'that's my move, bitch,' and start poisoning her to make sure she doesn't conceive laksdjflkjdsfjkdsf

as soon as she realizes sonya's play, tho (possibly as soon as at the ball that's currently going on? since valentina will likely push sonya at roderick there), amira will start watching ~all the malconaires v closely and sizing them all up as potential rivals and tryna see what she can and can't get from them all, and atp she's more likely to start wanting to stir the pot in their lives and paying attention to who their allies are, etc etc and that's when she'll notice the varmont boys are there a LOT. i think her goal will be to use eithne to distract and manipulate arthur, frankly, (and aoife for sebastian, but that likely won't impact cassimir much).

this will be where cassimir will come in, bc as a rival for eithne's affections, he could prove terribly useful to her in maneuvering arthur where and how she likes. the specifics will probs depend on where things are when she starts paying attention to them and how she wants to move arthur at that given moment, but i think she'll want to at turns advise and thwart cassimir re: his affections to give and remove hope from arthur, galvanize him to action or not, etc. i do think that amira is v manipulative and can pull this off pr much in her sleep hahaha bc she's gotten good at pulling arthur's strings and just...playing the game in general over the years, etc, but i do think she'll decide to take a trip to the estate as soon as things have come together, 'to sample the native delights of our fine empire,' and get herself more closely acquainted w all the various malconaires, and begin manipulating ~them immediately akjlsdfkljdfad

anyway, i def think she'll believe that she can manipulate cassimir pr easily w a few well placed compliments and tips honestly lakjskjlfsdf i think she got good at reading ppl long ago and she'll believe that all he really wants is for someone to underpin his importance and, as a queen, she's in a good position to do that, yknow? so that'll probs more or less be her play at least at first honestly hahaha