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[ofheroism]

when: december 22, 2022 where: local park  who: OPEN

News travels fast in Valdez, and yet it still took Rosemary nearly three days to learn that the tragic loss in the fire was one of her own best friends (especially considering she’d never actually known where Ezel lived). 

In the week since... Valdez has been nearly entirely absent of one Rosemary Yilmaz-Koval. No overdone flyers for winter holiday events, no begging for camping trips, no podcast interruptions,  no emoji-filled texts. Now, a few days before Christmas, she can be found leaning against the giant spruce tree in the park behind the bakery, an untouched scone gone cold. Stare vacant and hair dusted in snow, Rosemary only offers an automatic greeting when the approaching shadow is too close to hope they haven’t noticed her. “O-oh, hello, how... how was your winter solstice ? Cozy, I hope...”

[ofheroism]

ROSEMARY & SAGE

location: mad batter, christmas morning

status: for @ofheroism

muses: sage akman + rosemary yilmaz

sage had been planning how to reintroduce herself to her sister for almost the entirety of the three months she’d been in valdez. she kept going back and forth with herself, initially about whether or not it was a good idea, then if she should be straightforward; every possible thing she could possibly overthink, she’d made sure to overthink it.

last week she’d decided that was it. she was going to show up where rosemary worked on christmas morning and it would be like a christmas miracle. she’d planned for every possible scenario. what she didn’t take into account during her excessive planning was that every word she knew was going to suddenly vanish from her vocabulary the second she looked at her.

she screamed internally as she stared wide-eyed, managing to get out what she thought resembled the sound of the word hello.

rosemary’s spirits have begun to lift since actually talking to someone instead of keeping her emotions bottled up, and while her holiday cheer is nowhere near as merry as most years, but a small smile graces her face as she rolls out the dough for a fresh batch of gingerbread cookies. working christmas morning is never a requirement, but rosemary has always volunteered to work if it meant keeping the store opened for the less baking-inclined or busiest citizens of valdez to have a last minute opportunity for treats. 

when the door rings with the bell of an incoming customer, rosemary raises her rolling pin in greeting, smile brightening. “merry christmas ! we have plenty of freshly baked goods for any holiday you’re celebrating ! ” her little spiel trails off as she looks at woman for a moment, as if some nagging in her head says she’s... familiar ? except, that doesn’t make any sense, because rosemary would never forget a familiar face. shaking off the thought and a bit of flour stuck to her apron, she continues. “ can i help you find anything ? we take custom orders too, but i should let you know those are booked until the fourth. goodness, that’s strange, isn’t it ? it’s almost an entirely new year ! ”  

[ofheroism]

@xdivinve​

Rosemary does her secret six-step knock before letting herself into Elliot’s apartment and wilting into his living room chair. “Elliot ! ” she calls out, dragging out the Ls in his name. “Please be home, I’m having an emergency ! Also, I brought brownies ! ” Of course she’d never show up somewhere without presents, even in crisis. 

[ofheroism]

{aslihan malbora; female; she/her} hey isn’t that ROSEMARY YILMAZ-KOVAL? the TWENTY-SEVEN year old HUMAN and a song that plays when you see them is BLOOM by THE PAPER KITES. They are known to be NURTURING and OVERPROTECTIVE. They have been in VALDEZ for THEIR ENTIRE LIFE and always remind me of sunlight peeking through the trees in a hidden meadow, freshly tied dandelion flower crowns, handwritten letters to cherished friends, hair dusted with flour from baking. what secrets will they discover?

BASICS

NAME: rosemary avalon yilmaz-koval

BIRTH DATE + AGE: october 12, 1995 – 20:44

GENDER: female

PRONOUNS: she/her

ORIENTATION: demisexual panromantic

SPECIES: human

OCCUPATION: event coordinator at town hall; baker at mad batter (weekends only)

BIRTHPLACE: valdez, alaska

FAMILY: adem yilmaz - biological father (hunter, deceased), zehra yilmaz - mother (hunter, deceased), taras koval - adoptive father (hunter),  sasha koval - adoptive mother (hunter), morgan koval - adoptive sister (hunter), xxx koval - adoptive brother (hunter?)

APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: aslihan malbora

EYE COLOR: dark brown

HAIR: dark brown

HEIGHT: 5′4″

TATTOOS: none

SCARS/BIRTH MARKS: a scar from her right shoulder to a few inches below her collarbone. it almost resembles the lines of three claws, but that couldn’t be right. she tries to keep it hidden.

PERSONALITY

ZODIAC: libra sun, gemini moon, gemini rising

MBTI: esfj, the caregiver.

ENNEAGRAM: 2w1, the altruist. social/self-preservation subtype.

ALIGNMENT: lawful good

TEMPERAMENT: phlegmatic-sanguine

ARCHETYPE: the caregiver / the moral compass

ELEMENT: earth

ASSOCIATED CHARACTERS: princess anna (frozen), starfire (teen titans), katie gardner (percy jackson), meg march (little women), kara danvers (supergirl), megan morse (young justice), annie edison (community), maybe charles boyle (b99) and jane bennet (pride and prejudice)

AESTHETIC: sunlight peeking through the trees in a hidden meadow, freshly tied dandelion flower crowns, handwritten letters to cherished friends, hair dusted with flour from baking, chamomile tea, white silk, waking up to freshly baked cinnamon rolls, oversized sweaters, holding hands with all your friends, an overgrown herb garden on the kitchen windowsill, pinky promises 

TW: parental and family death (by werewolf attack), mention of drowning and hospital

the only child of adem and zehra yilmaz, rosemary and sage were named after zehra’s love for herbalism. their family, a long line of hunters, moved to washington state before the twins were born, following a lead on a record number of supernatural cases in the 1980s. eventually, their assignments took them to alaska, and adem found he enjoyed the small community of hunters enough that he wanted to stay. zehra, learning she was pregnant, decided settling down was for the best. how many supernatural dangers could there be in alaska, anyway?

hunters are typically hereditary, in the sense that the skills and traditions are passed down from parent to child over the years. this life was expected of rosemary and sage, but while other children of hunters learned of supernatural creatures at a young age, zehra decided it was best to let them be children as long as possible, debating with adem whether to wait until they were at least ten or twelve to tell them or whether they were more at risk not knowing. 

when the girls were about eight, adem made a wrong move. he’d taken down a trio of werewolves. or, at least, so he’d thought. one had survived and remembered his scent, wasting no time in tracking him down. the family was staying at a lodge in chugiak with family friends right outside anchorage for the twins’ birthday, still absolutely not grown out of begging to go to the marsh wildlife boardwalk. the werewolf, near feral in their wolf form and even worse consumed with rage, had no mercy for anyone in adem’s family. shattering the wooden cabin door into pieces, only zehra managed to escape with a terrified rosemary in her arms. they ran until the earth ran out, and when the werewolf slashed at rosemary, it managed no more than a scratch before zehra shoved rosemary off the cliff. people went cliff diving here regularly, and perhaps it wasn’t safe, but an icy lake was better than being left for a werewolf. 

when their family friends, taras and sasha koval, returned from dinner, they were too late to catch the werewolf and found only zehra in her final moments. sasha’s hand clasped in hers, zehra begged her to look for her daughters, to keep them safe, and to keep them far, far away from the world they all knew. 

sage’s body was never found, and all a young rosemary could remember when she awoke in the hospital was the frigid temperature of the lake, a soul-freezing emptiness that left her feeling as though she’d never know warmth again. they told her it had been a car accident, that they’d driven off a cliff and only she had survived, that her vague memory of a splintered cabin was just her brain’s way of trying to process what she couldn’t remember. as more time passed, she believed she really must have imagined it. 

the kovals adopted her and kept to zehra’s last wishes. despite her being younger by several years than their son and daughter, they raised her as their own, and kept her completely oblivious of supernaturals, whether they agreed with it or not. for her thirteenth birthday, after a read of anne of green gables, rosemary asked to legally take the koval last name, too. 

she will introduce herself has rosemary, but her closest friends might call her rose. she’s fine with any nicknames except despises mary.

after losing her biological family, rosemary has been desperate to never be left alone again and puts down roots in as many friendships and community organizations as she can manage, often spreading herself too thin.

losing her brother-in-law was another terrible blow, but emotionally losing her sister morgan was the most devastating loss yet, since it felt like her own fault for not being able to reach her. 

is very big on platonic love and will hold hands and hug and snuggle with everyone without hesitation. probably seems flirtatious at times but does not flirt with anyone on purpose and is entirely oblivious to anyone flirting with her. 

tries to force everyone to have as much town spirit as she does and sees it as her personal duty to befriend every valdez newcomer so they don’t feel alone.

very old-fashioned, enjoys hand-written letters and texts like an old aunt who just discovered emojis, has no social media because wants to hear about your day in person.

secretly loves to paint but is self-conscious about it. is not at all self conscious about her baking tho. 

terrified of swimming/any body of water larger than a pond. 

top 5 theme songs:

bloom by the paper kites

Can I take it to a morning Where the fields are painted gold And the trees are filled with memories Of the feelings never told?

the lakes by taylor swift

I want auroras and sad prose I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet 'Cause I haven't moved in years And I want you right here A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground With no one around to tweet it While I bathe in cliffside pools

love grows (where my rosemary grows) by edison lighthouse

She ain't got no money Her clothes are kinda funny Her hair is kinda wild and free Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody knows like me. There's something about her hand holding mine It's a feeling that's fine And I just gotta say She's really got a magical spell

hey jude (remastered) by the beatles 

Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart, Then you can start to make it better.

i was here by beyoncé

I want to leave my footprints on the sands of time Know there was something that, something that I left behind When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I will leave my mark so everyone will know I was here I wanna say I lived each day, until I died I know that I had something in somebody's life The hearts I have touched, will be the proof that I leave That I made a difference and this world will see

Her Pinterest board is here.

His Spotify playlist is here.

— CONNECTIONS:

FAMILIAL:

TWIN SISTER - { 0 / 1 } - sage yilmaz - her twin sister she believes died in a car accident around age 8. for drama maybe she was actually turned into a werewolf and the one wolf felt bad and took her in?? - werewolf, turkish fc, female

ADOPTED FAMILY - { 1 / 2 } - morgan koval & OPEN koval - her adoptive family she was close to even before she was adopted. 

PLATONIC: 'I’D DO ANYTHING FOR YOU’ - { 2 / 5 } - chariya lin, ezel somsi - people rosemary considers her best friends, regardless of whether it’s mutual. treats them like family, is very protective (read: overbearing and meddlesome) of, tells everyone about how wonderful they are, etc. 

FRENEMIES - { 0 / 2 } - maybe a couple people that rosemary doesn’t outright hate due to insert redeeming trait here but is annoyed by bc they don’t seem to follow the rules or are too chaotic 

ROOMMATES - { 0 / 3 } - going along with her inability to ever be alone, rosemary has decided that having a full house will help solve that. is v messy bc always bringing in new baby plants and catching up on dishes from baking.

FRIENDS -  { 0 / ? } - regular friends, which is still probably how normal people treat their faves. she’s lived here her entire life and tries to be on good terms with everyone. 

ACQUAINTANCES - { 0 / ? } maybe they’re new to town or they’re just recluses and refuse to get to know her. 

CO-WORKERS - { 0 / ? } - others who work at town hall or mad batter. 

ANTAGONISTIC:

DISLIKED/ENEMIES - { 0 / ? } - did they hurt one of her best friends in an argument 7 years ago? did they tell her community events are annoying or unimportant? are they not lawful good? for being so nice, she writes people off rather quickly. 

ROMANTIC:

LONG TERM CRUSH - { 0 / 1 } - this could be someone who considers her an acquaintance, friend, or best friend, and maybe has no idea she’s into him or is aware but doesn’t feel the same (he could like her back but i don’t plan ships so absolutely not required!) but she thinks she’s been very obvious bringing him one cookie more than everyone else or little mundane things that are absolutely not proper interest signaling based on her usual personality. 

OBLIVIOUS TO LOVE - { 0 / 1 or 2 } - some one or someones who flirt with her bc they’re into her or maybe just looking for a fling and she simply has no idea because someone could get on one knee and propose and she’d still manage to think it was like a platonic bestie ceremony

OTHER - feel free to hit me up with any other ideas you have as well !

[ofheroism]

when: december 8, 2022 where: fiori’s pasta who: @angelwithshotgn​

     “Oh, that’s--wow ! ” Rosemary exclaims, perilously trying to re-synchronize with the conversation at hand. It’s not as though Callum Smith of all people is someone she doesn’t want to pay attention to, but her nerves are tragically high and this dress has her terribly uncomfortable and desperate for a cardigan, and -- that is not Morgan and Alex in the corner... is it ? She readjusts her purse, the strap chafing at her bare skin. “ I just... would love to hear about why you decided to become a mechanic, Callum ! Was it your life’s dream ? ”

[ofheroism]

@dusklxght​

“ Get up, sleepyhead ! It’s quite difficult for the sun to say hello when you refuse to rise ! ” can be heard from the other side of Alex’s bedroom door. “I’m sure you aren’t abandoning me to go to the farmer’s market alone ! ” Rosemary leans against the hallway wall, undeterred. “ You know we’ll miss the fresh pistachio macarons if we dilly dally around all morning ! ”