#the ro'meave family bullshit as I like to call it

[theladyofrosewater]

I'm bribing yall with art so you'll listen to my current Ro'Meave lore that I'm using as an excuse to talk about Leona

Here’s the Ro’Meave Family Lore Dump for my rewrite you guys asked for. Buckle up because it’s going to jump around a bit and BOY do I have a lot to say. (very minor warning for my discussion of Zane and Kiki in canon)

I’m starting out with Gwyn and Mairwen, who are essentially just OCs to flesh out the Ro’Meave line.  Gwyn is the Ro’Meave heir and lord with Mairwen being their wife. Together they only have one child who makes it to adulthood, Garte. Gwyn however has an affair second child later on in life after Mairwen fell ill. the affair baby ends up being Malik, A.K.A the Lord of Phoenix Drop.

Malik gets basically banished from a young age with a nanny and Garte never finds out about him because family dishonor or whatever. Malik grows up bouncing around from village to village until the nanny who was supposed to accompany him falls ill and dies. Garte has become lord at this point but Malik heard rumors that Garte may have killed Gwyn and so settled down in Phoenix Drop where he married Matilda and they lived happily together for a while.

Garte of course marries Zianna like he does in canon and it’s Zianna’s family that has the big changes. Basically in my rewrite Zianna is the older sister of Lilly of Falcon Claw, who like in canon is Aaron’s wife. So this essentially makes Aaron the uncle of the Ro’Meave boys as well as giving more of motivation than besides love interest and revenge. This also makes Aaron’s son Jacob (knowing jess his name was a twilight reference) Zianna’s nephew and the cousin to the three boys

Garte and Zianna have Garroth early on in their marrige but when Garroth is 4 his parents get pretty frigid with each other and by the time he’s 6 he’s got two new baby brothers. Zianna has her affair like in canon except no one know who’s the affair baby if there even is one till much later. Eventually after the events of another draft that I have rotting in my notes Vylad ends up dead and Zane get’s shoved into the Church of Irene after someone stabbed out his eye. Then Garroth get’s engaged to Nicole while he’s away training at Brightport’s academy and decides to fake his own death on the way back and runs away to Phoenix Drop

Key takeaway with this is that Garroth when arriving in Phoenix Drop DOES NOT KNOW Malik is his uncle. Malik knows but hides Garroth because he thinks Garte is an ass (true) and then Levin is born and after awhile after Zenix is adopted into Phoenix Drop, the village is attacked, Malik dies and Matilda and Levin flee to Scaleswind while being chased by Shadow Knights. Garroth if he knew about Malik at this point get’s his memory wiped by Gene and doesn’t rediscover the fact till like season three

Then we get into the events of season one and everything kinda happens as normal until we get to Zane's arrival in Phoenix Drop

Okay now for the big can of worms

Leona

Leona in canon was originally heavily hinted at to be Zane’s daughter and then during season two Jess must have realized how fucked up Leona’s birth could be read and then said “Oh no her father could be Kiki’s old lover and its actually not as bad of a thing” Which considering Zane’s character makes like zero sense. When I watched MCD I never caught the implications but a lot of people have realized that what happened to KiKi could essentially be read as rape which….I personally DO NOT LIKE when stories have these elements so I knew that I would have to change that part of the story BUT I didn’t want to just make it so Kiki and Zane were a couple as I think that could be read in poor taste if I wasn’t careful. Zane is still an awful person but I needed to change something So here’s what I’m going to do for my rewrite. 

I’m going to make Kiki and Zane’s relationship consensual, Zane upon meeting her kept seeking out Kiki as she would be easy to sway over to his side, say a few sweet words give a few gifts and BOOM you have a very lovestruck magicks user who will soften up your image and potentially a useful ally. She’s essentially his Livia Cardew and as in my rewrite Zane 100% wants the Lordship of O’Khasis. He tolerates her, hell maybe he’s even a bit fond of her but he does not LOVE her, because he can’t. This version of Zane has had every negative trait enhanced and every positive one strangled and torn to shreds thanks to his father. He couldn’t love Kiki.

But Kiki loves him.

So when she finds out she’s pregnant she’s happy! She thinks she’s going to get married and have a child with someone who she thinks loves her why wouldn’t she be. So she sends a letter telling him all about it and doesn’t question why his next letter takes twice as long to arrive or how short it is. By the time he sends the next one it’s as if it never happened, he’s even giving her gifts and money for the baby promising he’ll be back soon. It’s only after the gang goes through the Irene portal does she start to question if he ever actually loved her. Kiki never stops loving her daughter and she wouldn’t trade anything in the world for her, she just wise the rose-colored glasses wore off sooner. I don’t think it’s a perfect solution, but I think it’s a decent enough start until I can talk to some people

But one more thing that’s swooping back round to the Falconclaw region.

How is Leona a werewolf

Basically in my version is because Leona just so happened to have parents who both have a VERY recessive werewolf gene and when they had a baby, that baby turned out to be a werewolf. Kiki gets it from the side of her family from Brightport and Zane gets it from his mother because she’s a native of Falconclaw. There is a decent chunk of the population in Falconclaw has this recessive gene it’s why many of them are immune to werewolf bites and many of them have werewolf traits themselves. And yes this does mean that Garroth, Vylad and Jacob when he was alive also have this trait.  While Leona being a werewolf can make her general life a bit harder it actually benefits her growing up thanks to striking resemblance she has to Zane and Zianna. Her ears and tail make it so no one would spare more than glance at her because if they looked closer they might just find a certain family resemblance.

also have a rough page of the family tree+ what I think Kiki's full name is

[selinas-ships]

1, 2, 3, and 4 for the self insert meme for Zane?

!!! Thank you Anon!!

1. What are the basics of your self insert? Name, date of birth, height, etc.?

So!! Her name is Vivian Ro'Meave, she is a half-werewolf (her ears and tail didn't fully develop until fourteen), she is five foot five, and her birthday is April 6, 1993 (ish. I'm still figuring out dates lol). She is the younger sister of the Ro'Meave brothers and the youngest of the Ro'Meave kids by mere weeks (again, still figuring out dates, so subject to change). Zane is her favorite of her brothers, she is adopted and very loved by her family!

2. When in canon does your self insert come in? Do you have a scene in mind for your entrance?

So, this really depends on what you count as the beginning of canon. If you consider Pheonix Drop High the beginning of it all, then she comes in beginning of season 2, as a Freshman! In season one, she would have been in eighth grade like Vylad would have been if he wasn't allowed to skip a grade, since they're around the same age. If you consider season one of Mystreet the beginning, then she would have come in during the first couple of episodes as a prominent character!

In Mystreet, I think she would have been introduced as Zane's little sister first and had come to visit him, which would imply that there's more to Zane than he's been showing since his sister came to visit him first and not Garroth, and Viv is just such a little firey ray of sunshine there would have to be something more to him for him to be her favorite brother.

3. How do the other characters generally feel about your self insert?

Obviously, her family loves her!! She is a spoiled little princess and she will be the first to admit it lol

She gets along well with Katelyn and KC, and is closer to Travis and Aphmau in terms of friendship. She and Laurance have this friendly bickering kind of dynamic and she and Dante also get along well! He gets on her nerves sometimes, but he's also generally fun to be around, so he gets a pass. She will call any of them out on their bullshit though.

She isn't as close to Lucinda, Kim, or Aaron as the others, but she respects them, and they respect her back.

She and KC become closer as friends the more KC and Zane get closer, and during Starlight, she is all for the two of them getting together, she adores it and is very supportive!

Overall, she's well liked by the others cause they're her friends! The people important to her like her, so that's all that matters to her!

4. Would you be considered a main character, a aide character, a villain, or something else?

Viv I feel like is a mix between main character and side character like her brothers are. I write her as very involved in the story, making her more than a side character, but as the story progresses, the main cast all become a mix, some being more involved in the story than others.