#what she remembers of her mother

[funeralhomewifi]

Meet the Rook

Hemlock de Riva

tagged by @midnightwind (hi ily)

1. Name?

Hemlock (Hem) de Riva

2. Gender?

Female (She/Her)

3. Age?

Early 20s. I have her being 19 when she was exiled, so depending on how long she was gone to start of game... let's say 22ish.

4. Are they more optimistic or pessimistic?

Oh, she's a big pessimist.

5. Are they introverted or extroverted?

Introverted until she gets to know you then you can't get rid of her.

6. How do they display affection?

Snark.

7. What is their greatest fear?

Losing her way/purpose. Exile really fucked her up, Viago was her guiding light.

8. Do they have siblings? Older or younger?

Nope. Maybe. She was by herself when Vi found her and she barely remembers her life before that

9. Did they grow up nurtured or neglected?

*waves hands around* she's an orphan who was raised by Viago (and Teia)

10. What is the worst thing they did to someone they loved?

Probably fighting Viago when he exiled her.

11. Has anyone ever saved their life?

Viago on multiple occasions. He plucked her from near death (not dead enough NOT to ask him for the dagger that killed his mark who hurt her) and decided that a girl named Hemlock was too good to leave behind.

During training, there was an incident with a boy that slit her throat, she used her magic to cauterize the wound and killed the boy. Viago cleaned the burn and pulled her from general training.

Hem is prone to Sad Bitch Hours (she takes after me, like all my ocs) and felt particularly alone in the lighthouse helping everyone work through their shit. Lucanis steadies her, he gets it, he understands responsibility and expectations.

12. Do they believe in love at first sight?

No. She probably more than likely finds Lucanis interesting and going forward, finds comfort being around him.

13. Are they in a relationship?

She and Lucanis eventually got there.

After the Pantry Incident™️, Hem resolved that "oh, well he's gonna be first talon and I wouldn't wanna be around me either" and puts him at a healthy distance again, doesn't really seek him out, etc. I imagine Teia noticing their little looks and then after The Incident, it's Lucanis looking at her with his distant wet cat eyes and Hem just like "no he just looks like that".

HOWEVER, Hemlock gives in and stays in her room in the Cantori Diamond for the first time since leaving, kinda emo.

Can't decide what event it's after, but she needs a shower, and just sitting there after and oops Lucanis walks in and Hem tells him to stay bc "oh I can't have the Demon of Vyrantium running from my room, what will the Fledglings think" and Keep In Mind: Hem Naked (in a towel but you know) and Lucanis wanders her room looking at her trinkets and settles behind her. Intrusive thoughts (Spite) wins and he touches her hair bc he's likely never seen it down and unbraided.

Anyway, there's body oil and a massage and 😌🤭 and they Discuss Their Feelings.

14. Has your character ever been in love?

No, she's been Interested in people and that backfired when she was in training. Hem wasn't particularly interested in relationships, probably a bit on the demi side. Kinda see her having a lil fling with Chance Candide or something to fulfill her Seduction Training.

15. Are they most likely to fight with their fists or their tongue?

She's mouthy, but needs to be feral and attack sometimes.

16. What is their choice of weapon?

She's partial to using her staff and orb. She does prefer the element of surprise.

17. How many weapons can they use?

Staff, orb and dagger, poisons, teeth if necessary.

18. If they could save one person, who would it be?

Before everything, Viago. After the Exile... Probably Lucanis.

19. What is their greatest regret?

Not being Enough, never meeting expectations although she tries her best.

20. How do they respond to a threat?

Someone: I'm gonna kill you!

Hemlock: Damn... You promise?

[bet-on-me-13]

Sam is Adopted

So! Have you ever noticed how Sam doesn't look like either of her Parents? Her Mom and Dad are Blonde and Ginger, and neither of them have Purple Eyes. How would Sam ever come from either of them?

She tells people that she dyes her Hair and wears Contacts, but the reality is that she was adopted as a baby by them. They had just found out that Pamela was Infertile and they wanted an Heir foe their company, so they decided to Adopt a kid.

But the Adoption Agency didn't have any kids who would realistically look like them, so they just got the first kid they found.

She had been left at the Orphanage by her Mother citing an inability to raise her and an unstable income. She never told the Agency her name, but told them that the baby's name was Sam, named after her Grandfather.

Sam was raised knowing that she was Adopted, but never really put much interest into it. Until one day when she decided that her adoptive Parents support of the Anti Ecto Acts was a step too far for her. She took an Ancestry DNA Test to see if she could find her Bio Mom to get away from them.

The results came back, and she found out that her Mom was a woman from Metropolis named Lois Lane.

[demaparbat-hp]

In your Spitfire AU, since Zuko is looking after Lu Ten II, what happened to Ursa?

Zuko is slightly older in the Spitfire AU. He was banished at fifteen, his head a little clearer and denial a little weaker than in canon. After his first look through the Air Temples, Zuko decides that if he can't find a myth, he might as well search for the next best thing.

Finding Ursa isn't easy, but in time he makes it to a secluded house in a near-forgotten part of the world. His mom is there, older and stronger and alive.

But she isn't alone.

And Zuko, as it turns out, didn't keep the best company during his search.

When Ursa is discovered and her secrets are laid bare for assassins (for Ozai) to find, she begs Zuko to take his little brother and run. She'll do anything it takes to protect her children, even if that means leaving them behind to keep a target off their back. Ursa diverts attention from them and allows Lu Ten's ancestry to be kept a secret. She orders Zuko not to follow her again, and disappears.

Zuko is left with a little three-year-old brother to raise and a mother he cannot hold onto.

[wasyago]

day 16482 of trying to figure out what color jay's magic is

[taxinealkaloids]

horrible children who are. so so mean to each other

[lazy--lillies]

Yknow what yeah maybe Bianca didn’t actually have to raise Nico after their mom died because they were put in the Casino where they were both looked after and were only there a week then immediately got put in a military school where they would’ve been separated and looked after anyway. But maybe they were also born into 1940s Italy where men are coddled and women are mummified from birth and she would have felt the pressure to look after him anyway. Maybe she worried about him like a mother, and felt that worry grow after their mother died, and maybe she was scared of it because she knew she would let it become her if she stayed near him. And she wasn’t ready for that, so she did the only thing she could think of. She ran.

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

[kaitcake1289]

IMPLIED TVC SPOILERS !!

"[...] so she could stay in the same flat-chested, hairless-crotched 14-year-old baby doll body as her mind and spirit turn 19, 20, 25, 63, 358..."

[immediatebreakfast]

Also not only did Mina make the documents, she backed them up! Dracula BURNED THEM. But she had made them in triplicate.

She is always one step ahead. Like a chess master.

My girl was doing cartwheels around that vampire fool so hard that his only move was to give her nightmares on earth, and religious trauma in an attempt to stop her...

And Mina STILL ended up doing cartwheels around stupid Dracula even with the host mark on her forehead via backing up documents, and turning him into a fucking gps to guide everyone so they could turn him into ribbons.

[fairuzfan]

Zionists/Symathizers who say "Palestinians should be taken by Egypt/Lebanon/Jordan and just live there forever" have no idea what a refugee camp is like.

[bowiestarzzz]

hey mom, why do i miss the people who hurt me?

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

Joseph, just like Chika, had someone weak and helpless in his care. However, when the threat of death from starvation drove him into a corner, he refused to abandon the one he promised to protect. Unlike Chika

[quietwingsinthesky]

i think river and amy try to do some sort of mother-daughter bonding exercise or trip or something exactly one time, and it goes horribly. it's the most uncomfortable thing they've both ever done, and that's saying a lot. they never try to do it again.

[ihaveforgortoomany]

Vertin’s orange hat and thinking of her wearing it until she fist fights Arcana gives me the same energy as Jason Todd when he was Robin , no elaboration

(my very little info about DC and what people kept saying about J tells me Jason Todd rides a bike)

Yes this is a bionicle moc, one part of my self-moc (which my OC Watts is very much inspired by heavily)

(Yes this also before Vertiny got her holiday outfit)

(Btw the bike is 100% an Akira reference, and has existed since 2020)

[anywaymuahahahaha]

I don’t like m*thers d*y. In fact I hate it. I always feel so lost. So alone. I drew this when I was feeling really sad. One day I’ll cross the parallel and we’ll meet again.

[bogkeep]

read a very poetic post asking why doesn't christian imagery focus on the inherent horror of giving birth in a barn and virgin mary's hands coming away sticky with blood etc and i am focusing all my powers to not be pedantic directly at this person because i learnt about this in art history!!!!!!! i may be raised atheist in a mostly atheist culture, but it turns out western art history consists of 75% weird facts about medieval christianity. i even remember some of them!!!!

from what i can remember literally every single detail of any event in christian canon has been up for thorough debates, especially stuff like "how DID jesus get conceived?" "how DID mary give birth??" and usually there was some person receiving a vision from god who goes to tell the pope about it and becomes a saint as thanks. jesus got conceived like light shining through a window. he was born by simply appearing when mary raised her arms. thus mary remains a virgin three times over (she was a virgin before, during, and after the birth). what does this have to do with art history?? The Symbolisms. there's paintings of a single ray of light shining through a window and onto mary. baby jesus is always perfectly clean despite having just been born in a barn. holy mary wears her blue robes with three star pins, symbolizing her triple virginity. at least that was the symbolism for this particular strain of christianity at a particular time, i'm sure the agreement on what happened changed or split over time and place - it's not like there's a zillion different types of christianities out there with different takes hahaha