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Amira had once washed floors. Scrubbing on her hands and knees, she'd bent her aching back and listened. The palace floors of Kolchis had been marble and mosaic, a thousand bright-hued tessellations glistening as the God-King's soft leathern sandals padded by. She did not look up when he passed. Could not look up. Scurrying low to the ground, careful that her pales did not clank together and discturb the divine presence, she retreated to the shadows at the sound of his tread. One such as she was not fit to be seen by so lofty a personage, but that was her power, Amira knew, as much as she resented it. She need only be ears -- unseen, unknown, she could creep anywhere in the name of scrubbing tiles. She could hear everything.

Now this stablehand balked, casting his gaze towards the hay-strewn ground. At least Roderick permitted servants to be seen from time to time, and this was no lowly scullery maid, besides, but he had ears just as Amira had and, it seemed, he knew how to use them.

A slow smile stole across her features. He really had been listening, she thought, watching his mannerisms. Well, she couldn't blame him. She listened, too, and what were those without power to do, save cling to whatever crumbs they could get? She'd made much of her own crumbs.

Flicking her gaze after the retreating silhouettes, Amira arched a sharp brow. "An orphanage? He does work quickly," she sneered. No sooner was Aria declared a bastard than, it seemed, Arthur had gotten her with one. Why else would they go to such a godforsaken place? Frowning, she made a note to have someone inspect Aria's bedsheets monthly and see if the truth of the supposition could be ferreted out. It might make useful blackmail, if true.

"That it is not," snapped Amira, though she didn't much care what conclusions he reached -- likely the same she was drawing -- so long as they did not interfere with her own machinations, an even which she considered unlikely. Turning her gaze towards him with deeper scrutiny, she reminded herself to speak to her brother of him. If he was, indeed, ambitious, he might make a fair spy, and Godfrey was forever expanding his network.

"And did you?" demanded Amira, her look measuring. She leaned close to the man, slid her finger beneath his chin to tilt his gaze to hers. "Did you 'get it wrong?'" Releasing him, she shook her head, more a gesture of consideration than one of disagreement.

Amira stepped away, icy gaze drinking in the stalls that went one after the other after the other after the other. In truth, such a one was a person in not inconsiderable power: a sabotage of a horse or saddle could easily harm even the most able rider, not to mention his ability to verhear, his power to observe how far a horse had gone in a given outing from its lather, dust, and level of exhaustion, and even divine where person the party had gone while cleaning out the mount's hooves and witnessing the kind of debris there. Yes, she thought, turning back to face him: a very agreeable spy, indeed.

"What is your name?" she asked. "And, more than that, what is you want?"

Tell Me Now | Amira & Percy

"You there!" called out the Queen from across the courtyard. She was coming fast, her velvet black cape fanning out around her as she moved.

Roderick's two queens could not have been more different. While Marian generally presented herself all in pretty warmth, Amira was cold and severe. As Marian decked herself out in color, Amira wore almost entirely black. Where Marian's locks ran like spun gold, Amira's were dark as ebony. And though their eyes were, at least, of the same hue, Marian's were limpid as the sky above. But Amira were cold and hard as chips of ice.

Raising a hand, Amira pointed, her gaze boring into Percy as he moved.

"You stood overlong saddling His Imperial Highness's horse," she said, entering the stable. She, too, had been watching, and she watched, now, eyes narrowed, as the groom stood before her. "Tell me, what does a native Astairan make of Prince Arthur's many conversations with the Lady Aria? Does it warm your heart?" She laughed, a harsh sound. "Something in your expression does not make me think so. I'm sure you do not require reminding that it is not for you to judge the deeds of one like His Highness. And His Imperial Majesty our great Emperor does not pay you to dawdle."

She smiled, then, but the look did not reach her eyes, save for a frosty, knowing expression that played upon her stony features, her grin staying merely upon the deep red of her lips. "You were listening." Amira knew this for a fact. She had been watching. "Whatever were they saying to so fascinate a farrier?"

#amira like game recognizes game im lakjsdfkljdskjfsd i did not see this coming #also im laughing bc like???? she thinks hes ambitious she has no idea laskjdflkjdsfjsdf #percy reaves #comment #tell me now #amira: an orphanage? what like a human zoo???? why would anyone spend their time that way? they must be scoping out somewhere to dump their #secret love child its the only explanation #no but actually its more like -- she doesn't believe ppl look out for each other and esp not royals no one ever did that for her when she #was in need and certainly no varmont has ever done that #so she assumes selfish motives from expereience

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forgottenamira · 10 days

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SOMEONE WILL DIE OF FUN HELPPPPP lkasjdflkj sdkljfalsjkdf but actually!!!!! also, amira being condemned to plan a party w cassandra would probs be her hell loop ;DDDD jk jk it'd def be watching her gm die but ANYYYWAYYYYY laksjdfkljsdajfjskdf it's a close second ;DDD

no but i do think that the face amira presents to cassandra is def mixed! but honestly its probs largely positive, amazingly enough!! hahaha she probs comes off v moody (which is frankly fair bc she kinda ~is ngl laksjdfkljsdf tho never say that to amira!!! hahaha) bc mostly amira's feeling is that cassandra, when she's the last of roderick's kids besides edmund, will ultimately be v useful to edmund, and so amira wants to be able to more easily maneuver her, BUT she also has v lil patience for her i feel like -- sometimes she's on best behavior and sometimes [ she's pulling a marcia ] tho NEVER in defense of roderick hahaha she does noT care abt him hahahaha but she does see cassandra as silly and spoiled and ignorant and entitlted, and amira's the only one who can see the "real" world in her own mind lakjsdflkdsjkf

ngl she deffff has a bigggg chip on her shoulder abt privilege and cassandra infuriates that part of her, and she certainly makes that felt from time to time like...ultimately her issues w cassandra have nothing to do w cassandra, herself!! but, rather, w everything she represents to her, and i ~do think amira has a picture in her head of who she ~thinks cassandra is that doesn't really have anything to do w cassandra, herself, but it enrages her and yeahhh fun fun fun!!!!!

so yeah!! mixed bag!!!1 generally, i do think amira holds herself in check and is nice to cassandra in the same way she's nice to ciara, bc she has a lot of discipline and cassandra's future practical uses to her son outweigh amira's own personal feelings towards her, but i also know that @forgottenmarian does NOT trust amira, so idk how much she might've taught cassandra re: amira?

but yeah!! honestly i do see her manipulating cassandra a lot and probs using her a lot like a spy in marian's own household tbqh asldkjfjkdsfj ngl she might've even used her to unwittingly poison her brothers once or twice lasjdfkjsdf and she def likes to ask her abt her day, etc, and try to filter through everything amira views as inanity to basically surveil marian and the boy slakjfsdkljfjsdf

CASSANDRA BELIEVES THAT AMIRA AND MARIAN LOVE EACH OTHER DEEP DOWN!!!!!1 SCREAMMMMM!!!!!!!! i love cassandra sm omg <3333333 meanwhile they're ~actually fighting bc amira literally poisoned marian's boys and marian knows but she just can't prove it!!! lakjsdfkljsdkjfkjsdf

COOL VODKA AUNT LKASDJFKLJSDKFJJSDF she's just got such KILLER energy ;DDDD no but honestly that really does make sense from her perspective!!! esp bc she often ~is kind to cassandra and her siblings (bc they can each be useful to amira! SCREAM!) when she's not busy being snarky so alkjsfkljsdf who knows!! and also you are 100% right about what amira would let cassandra get away with and her reasons for it!!!! hahaha 'go play, sweetie, stepmommy is busy making poisons for ur brothers' asdlkfjkkdlsdjfj ;DDDD

THINKS OF HER AS THE FUN MOM IM SCREAMINGGGG lakjsdfkljsdkjf;LFKJSDKLJF amira 'don't worry baby you'll be useful someday when ur only living sibling marries you off to some horrid old man in order to better secure his position as emperor' omggg but honestly i think im right to say that hanging out w amira probs ~is a pr good way to get back at marian if she's mad at her alkjsdfkljdsfj i really dont see marian loving that hahahaha

OOC | Amira & Cassandra

ok so cassandra is the stepchild amira is most likely to forget abt bc she is least likely to inherit, and ngl that is probs in cassandra's favor bc it also makes her the stepchild least likely to be poisoned asp alksjdflkjsdfjdf amira: 'ig edmund can keep this sibling...as a treat' alksdjfkldsfdsf no but it does ~also make her the one amira is most likely to ignore like catch amira going 'her??' a la michael bluth and abandoning her in a foreign country after edmund explicitly asked her to get to know cassandra, bc amira literally forgot she existed aklsjdfkjlsdf ;D

no but i feel like these two have literally opposite energies and frankly them tryna interact is probs objectively hilarious but anyway aklsjdfkljsdf i don't think amira cares much for cassandra bc she sees her rose-colored glasses as extremely vapid and irritating bc the only thing you'll hear amira say abt love is 'love is a lie men tell to steal your virtue' and 'love is weakness. cut love from your heart and perhaps you'll live long enough to have it broken' ljksdlfjksdjkf amira also legit despises marian and ngl that is DEFFFFF coloring her impressions of poor cassandra bc she's like 'marian WOULD raise such a child. she'll die when winter comes, and then perhaps marian will finally learn that roderick doesn't and never will care'

#ooc #cassandra varmont #what a healthy relationship omg #dslkajfklsjdfjksdf

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forgottenamira · 10 days

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oooooh, i love marian being from the ~og varmont nation!!! and yesss!! in roderick's bio it strongly implies that the empress (she also needs a name alksjdfkljsdafkj) was of that nationality, as well! ooooh and her dad maneuvering her into position!!!! and esp if he is/was part of or in with part of the og country's council or whatever, that'd be a great place to sort of subtly weave that together, too, bc roderick's insecurities are so powerful they've literally conquered like eleven countries!! ksadjflkjsdkfjsdf

god, poor marian honestly!! how awful esp when you've got a romantic heart and then to realize ur now just one of a number anddddd ur new hubby is this literal tyrant w V E R Y specific ideas abt what you've gotta do for him/be, like!!!!! our poor girlllll SOB

honestly, ngl, amira lowkey ~wants ppl to be scared to confront her, plus she's a heathen foreigner and i ~do sort of hc that the og varmont nation was strongly nationalist in cultural even pre-roderick, so marian having prejudices against her was probs smth that didnt surprise amira but frankly, even if it had, she probs wouldn't have cared bc, like...she doesn't know how to emotion hahaha but also she, herself, was anti-marian from the jump! well, at least as soon as it was clear roderick was sizing her up as wife #3, and not just a mistress or smth bc amira really doesn't care abt roderick so he can have all the mistresses he likes for all she cares alksjdfkljdsf anyway, i also feel its v possible that amira may have only enhanced a lot of those prejudices tbqh bc she def plays into a lot of those stereotypes, intentionally, in order to cultivate an iconography of fear so ppl'll hesitate to go against her and hers (is this wise? probably not! is she going for it, anyway? you bet! godfrey's headache is unending alksjdfkljdsf)

oooooh marian staying w her family and carrying her pegnancy w them!! i love that! amira's blood was BOILING lkasjdfklajdf im realizing that she probs thought marian was onto her and staying there for that reason!

dskljafjkdsf also, roderick would def be cool w her staying w her family while he was away fighting! as long as his wives bear and look after his kids and aren't embarrassing him (or having affairs ;DDDD), he doesn't really care what they get up to while he's gone ngl alksdjfkljsdf

but anyway!!! amira was probs pulling a roderick and feeling all paranoid for awhile after that bc 1) MARIAN JUST HAD A SON WHILE AMIRA'S STILL CHILDLESS ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME 2) SHES ONTO HERRRR like amira probs laid in a whole escape plan bc she was probs pr certain that marian was gonna report her to roderick and she was gonna get executed if she were caught alkjsdfjksdf honestly if tristan wasn't a guard before that time, this is probs when amira started fighting for that bc that would give her a window of retreat sldkjfaklsjdfj as well as a window into ~marian's life as well since i feel like the royal guards can go everywhere etc tho tbqh i think tristan is a MUCH better person than EITHER of his siblings lakjsdflkjsdf amira still like queen ravenna voice: 'you will do this for me!' if it ever came to that (tho idk that it ever did tbqh) asdkfljskdjfjsd oooh all her pregnancies coinciding w times of safety tho!!! that honestly makes a lot of sense!!

i do think that after arthur, amira started investigating black magic ++ giving herself tons of ~good herbs (as opposed to the toxic ones she was giving everyone else lkasdjfkljsdf) etc like literally anything to have a baby!!! i do think amira also poisons ~herself and edmund, as well, for poison immunity, but i do think she was also asp like 'ok guess i should risk it all and stop this for awhile if i want that baby' and yeah!! lskdljfaksdf but anyway!! i don't think he actually ~is, but amira believes edmund's birth was the result of dark magic, and she holds marian as directly responsible for whatever she had to do -- marian's fecundity forced amira's hand!!!! sdlkjfalksjdfksdf

omg yeah marian was feted and celebrated and lauded EVERYWHERE after arthur!!!!!!! and w both the empress and marian having given roderick a child and amira still having failed to do so, she was bitter af!!!!!! and defffff staring daggers out of the shadows lajsdfkljdsjf im also realizing that one or two of arthur and sebastian's poisonings might've been out of spite as much as practicality -- though she wouldn't have done it without that last also playing a part, bc frankly poisoning an heir to the throne is risky business -- but i had been thinking it had just been a practical move...im thinking now as i think abt it that there was a lil part of her that was assuaged watching marian's horror and distress laksdjfkjdsf Y I K E S

esp after that confrontation, which amira would've handled with her trademark creepy factor similar to what unfolded in [ that drabble ] between her and aria, half-smiling, half-sneering, keeping her cool and doing her utmost to play up her rationality vs marian's supposed paranoia for anyone watching ngl -- i could even maybe see smth unfolding a al [ the first 15 seconds of this vid ] w marian defending her kid a la alicent and amira calling her out a la rhaenyra, except in this case its more amira intentionally making marian look bad to anyone who might be watching, rather than an unveiling of true character or anything like that hahaha plus rather than accusing her of righteousness, she def accused her of paranoia but yeah!! the ~energy feels right to me hahaha

it does make sense!!!! and honestly, i think in their own way each of her kids inherited some of her romanticism/idealism and, in arthur's case, anyway, is a better person bc of it!!! amira, though, just sees that as a weakness and is frankly glad it isn't in her!!! she's not just a pessimist, she's a a full-blown nihilist honestly and she truly believes that gives her a leg up in all of this alksdjfklsjdf and poor marian bc she's so so right abt amira!!!

ooooh but you're so right and i love it!!! ok so about to geek out at you, but anne boleyn in her day had a number of mottos, the most famous of which being 'the time will come,' and 'the most happy,' but two that i've always felt kinda fit amira are 'let them grumble, this is how it is going to be,' and 'me and mine' -- i love the idea of that last one being smth that both amira ~and marian can relate to!!! they are both women who would ultimately do whatever it took to protect themselves and their kids -- in fact, ultimately, that's amira's whole reason for noticing or caring about marian and her children, frankly! and that commonality actually being at the heart of their fractured relationship is i think smth that could be really fascinating to dig into!!!

OOC | Amira & Marian

gah, talk abt complicated alkdsjflkjdsf even if both these ladies were total angels (unfortunately, amira is however a demon alksdjfskljdf) are in an objectively difficult situation no question lakjsdafkljdsjf

but yes as i mentioned...amira is the worst so unfrotunately that only makes the whole thing worSE!! our girl amira frankly resented marian from the word go, too, bc she'd only been married abt a year when marian started moving in on her man (aka the man she was already sharing bc she'd done the same thing to his prev wife lkajsfkljsdf)

to be blunt, amira does NOT love or even care abt roderick!!! she's literally planning to kill him someday when it suits her!!!! lakjsdfkljsdjf but roderick is incredibly useful to her!!!! tho significantly less useful if he 1) can't give her a baby and 2) is having babies w other women instead!!!!!!!! like, the whole reason she married roderick was to ensure that she'd someday be the emperor's mother, and here this idiot goes bringing other wives home when he's only given amira a single YEAR's chance to try and conceive. talk about inconsiderate smdh alksjdfklsjdfkdjf

so yeah, the point is, it really isn't even personal but amira ~instantly loathed marian she was a muchhh bigger fly in the ointment to amira, initially, than even the empress bc she started popping out kids before amira did, and those kids were, worst of all, boys!!!!

still, she'll never hurt marian and ill tell you why but it requires some backstory. so i hc that amira actually poisoned the empress to death when -- tho she hadn't formally announced it to the world yet -- she found out she was pregnant again and amira was like 'i can't risk her having a son bc she has precedence over me and that's what im bsing edmund's claim on' so yeah she killed her, but then roderick was so woe begone and shattered by her death that amira was like 'huh i just made guin's claim stronger, didn't i?' and so she's def not willing to risk roderick having a smiliar reaction, should anything happen to marian.

as a result, she despises her, but she's also like 'did you have all your peas? drink all your milk? you WILL stay healthy, dammit!' but all while poisnoning her on the dl to keep her from carrying a baby again lakjsflkjsdfkj so yeah i feel like there's just a whole lot of weirdness here!!1 amira also sort of...goes on jags where she's by turns kind to or rude to marian's kids, bc sometimes if, say, sebastian or arthur is dueling edmund, amira'll go over and bandage and clean their cuts and touch their face and say v gently 'my, you're doing so well, my sweet boy. won't you try just a little harder? you're so brave, i know you help your brother grow strong, and he needs you right now to help him. will you do it?' etc or else she'll snipe and sneer at them in a corridor just bc they stepped on her hem or whatever and like alksjdfkljdsfj

basically it all comes down to what serves her and edmund most. she believes the rivalry between their sons strengthens edmund, but she also believes that he'll need to kill them someday bc she's known there would be a war from the moment marian announced to the family that she was w child honestly lakjsdaflkjsdfkj

i do also think they're v different women, too -- they both aim to be good moms, yknow, but they go abt it in as opposite a way as you possibly ~can yknow? and marian seems to have this romantic streak, whereas amira is all clear-cut practicality, and amira struggles w emotions, feeling them, expressing them, understanding them in others etc, whereas marian seems like she's v attuned to those things in others? like...they just seem like this study in contrasts to me? so i feel like there's lots we could make out of that!!

akslfjksjdf idk!! but im excited to explore them heehee <3

#ooc #marian varmont #another novel laksdjflkjsdf im so sorry

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Aria/Amira - “ we all have secrets, don’t we? ”

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The room was dimly lit: sunset's last gasp splashed across the far wall while all else around the two women fell into ever-deepening shadow. Amira paused at the lady's voice, stilling even as she extended a hand to pull back the curtains.

Aria's words had in truth taken her by surprise but, lips curling into a smile, she considered that they ought not to have done. The former princess was of an outspoken bent. Was that an Astairan quality, she wondered, or simply an entitled one? It was hard to say with those who had never known true want, Amira often felt. They knew so little of this world while thinking to own it all. Disgust rippled over Amira. It was strange, this: two women in this dark room. One a rumored witch. The other...

Arching a brow, Amira turned to face Aria, limpid orbs drinking in the younger woman with curiosity. "Bold words," said the queen, approaching slowly. Stretching out a hand suddenly, she clasped Aria's, hard gaze biting into Aria's before a smile once again suffused her features and, slowly, she lifted Aria's hand, inspecting it with eager gaze.

"There is something more powerful than secrets, girl. Facts."

The hand was elegant, sporting long, tapering fingers and fine digits. Slowly, she turned it over. She opened Aria's fist with her other hand. Her fingers grazed the young woman's palm, running across it, tracing the lines cut into it, reading her skin just as if text were written upon it.

"A fact for you, child: my grandmother was a witch. You know this, I am sure." Another smile. Her hard eyes glittered like coal in the gloaming light. She pushed Aria's thumb flat, sweeping fingers across the lines in her palm. "And I was fortunate. I learned much at her knee."

Locking her fingers around Aria's wrist, she gazed a moment more, and released her suddenly. Her eyes found Aria's own. "How much is known of the great Calainon here in Astaira, I wonder?"

Amira tilted her head. Her gaze measured. Palmistry had taught her, though still less than she might have wished. Aria's face would not prove so blank.

"He was much as you are, my ancestor: a heathen heretic who worshipped demons, as my husband might tell you. The witches of his line long continued the pagan practice after him. My own grandmother was one such. A seer, some here might call her, though that was not our word for it. A fitting term, however, for that is what she taught me, ultimately: to see." Amira's smile was cold. "Shall I tell you what I see, bastard of Stafford?" Amira's gaze roved the lovely face, ever darkening in the twilight, green eyes seeming to glow as the last rays of the sun stroked her cheek and, at last, Amira's smile dropped. "I see you."

Witch.

#this is set after the whole ~healing situation im imagining #ask #askbox #aria stafford #drabble #just amira displaying behavior™ lakjfkljsdjkfsdf another day another creep apparently #also don't know what this is sdjlflskdjfkjlsdf

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forgottenamira · 20 days

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Spock freaking out Boimler in 2.07

#just reblogging this so that you guys know #this man smiling/laughing is legit presented as a (humorous) jumpscare bc its so wild/weird/unnveringly unnatural for him #and i def feel like that's how it feels when amira #smiles/laughs (tho probs minus the humor lbr ;D) at least 50% of the time for that same reason basically lakjdsfalkjdsfj #even on those occasions that she doesn't ~intend it to be mencing it usually still is ;DDD #about #image #and i esp want you to know this re:#tea for three

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forgottenamira · 29 days

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amira, probably: maybe if marian wasn't such a COWARD who wanted to protect her kids from pain -- god, can you imagine? what a cringefail mom move -- maybe they'd stand a chance of defeating ~my son and surviving to claim the throne. as it is, ~im the only parent around here actively cultivating pain for my kid like a responsible adult!

dskljfadklsjfsdfj also

the malconaires: stepmoms suck, huh?

sebastian: i really hate when they poison you. it just ruins a great meal, yknow?

the malconaires: ...

its ok, sebastian, they'll understand soon when valentina tries to burn them alive aklsjdfakljfdsfldf no but i make myself laugh klsdajfskldjfjksdf

no but honestly that makes sense!!! poor sebastian!! i ~do think she is much more likely to be kind to sebastian than to arthur, but i also think that makes sense in the context of their situation since arthur is a threat to edmund etc but amira certainly has moments of encouraging arthur too! for instance, i think she really tries to set up lots of play dates etc w edmund right before she poisons them!! lakjsdfkljdsjf bc even if they survive it'll be worse on edmund if he either said smth particularly nasty to them the last time he spoke to them, or if his most recent associates are really pleasant alkjsdfjsdf (srsly where ~is that best mom award smdh laksjdfakljsdf)

poor marian!!! she's only tryna warn them of the truth!!! meanwhile w amira being so calm over there, save the occasional snide comment or whatever bc arthur stepped on her hem or whatever, and amira being known for gently and painstakingly nursing both edmund and even her purported rival, the late empress, in her final illness, and being repeatedly kind to marian's kids, etc, it all has to be so confusing laksjdfkljdsf also one of her brothers is literally a bodyguard to them all, and the other is one of roderick's most trusted advisors! alkdsjfkljsdf and sure the older calainons deffff give off sus vibes at times but how much they both love edmund is v clear, esp godfrey (amira holds everything and everyone a bit more at arm's length alksjdfjsdf) aklsdjfkdsf but yeah!! my point is that makes sm sense honestly!

akdsljfkljsdf honestly is ~anyone as unhinged abt anyone else as avelina is at alexandir?? lajsdlkfjsdjf ;DDD no but in this case marian's actually right!! but like cassandra of troy, she's destined to be ignored and thought mad for her foresight it would seem SOB

amira, nice mom voice: i made this food just for you. its your favorite. enjoy! (threat)

jk jk -- she would never be that obv abt her poisons its def his meal that's poisoned and someone else made it and hands it to him etc in fact she never ever has a single thing to do w it </3

OOC | Amira & Sebastian

so!! this is a weird af relationship bc, like, its nothing at all remotely personal, in fact amira probs finds sebastian a refreshing presence, but she has every intention -- and has since the moment of his birth -- of murdering him some day sljfalskdfjkdf and also she's his stepmom lakjsdflkjdsfj but also she probs, like, cleaned his cuts when he was a lil kid and gently and encouragingingly told him that he had to work harder to hit edmund. how else was edmund to learn to avoid being hit? to her, sebastian serves a really clear and really important function, and she's grateful to him for all his hard work. also, she wants edmund to love him bc it'll make him stronger to defeat and cast down someone he loves to survive alksjdfjksf so!! it's all v twisted frankly alkjsdfkljdsf

she's like 'if i can keep edmund's pain in a controlled environment, i can make him stronger while also keeping him safe so that by the time he breaks the chains of that controlled environment, he'll be ready to take the world by the throat, and he'll finally be as safe as anyone may ever be' alksjdfaksdfjk and she sees this as the best thing she can possibly do for him and a mark of her genuine love and concern for her boy lakjsdfkljdsjkf

#ooc #sebastian varmont

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forgottenamira · 29 days

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OOC | Amira & Marian

akslfjksjdf idk!! but im excited to explore them heehee <3

#ooc #marian varmont

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forgottenamira · 29 days

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OOC | Amira & Sonya

amira might have quite fe w co-queens atp but she does NOT want another one alsjdfkljdsf if she knows that valentina's tryna set up sonya w roderick, she will noT be abt that and i am so sorry in advance tbqh lakjsdfkljdsf

#sonya malconaire #ooc

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forgottenamira · 29 days

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Witches FAQ

(I started to post some of this on Kate AA's entry about her headcannons, but I figured I would post more information here as I thought more about everything!)

How does one catch/identify a witch?

It's not easy!!! A witch is defined as someone who can see creatures from the other realm (whether you call these creatures demons or guardians is up to your religion). Those who believe them to be demons are often driven mad by The Sight and everyone around them knows they are suffering. Generally, these people are less likely to be identified as ~witches~ are more likely to be identified as "possessed". While some extremists would believe that they deserve to be put to death just as any other witch, more lenient leaders will simply imprison them (for their own safety). But ultimately, those who are "possessed" tend to be driven to the point of taking their own lives.

On the other hand, those who have The Sight and are not driven to madness by seeing the demons and, instead of trying to avoid them, actively provide them with gifts/encourage them, are definitely witches and 100% need to be put to death. The biggest problem here, is that it is generally easy for a witch to conceal that they are a witch, if they wish it. On rare occasions, witches have performed magic (the details of which I will outline later), but ultimately their abilities is something that cannot be proved.

Most witch trials have come down to witness testimonies where there have been multiple sworn accounts of people saying that they have personally been told by the accused that they are a witch or that they've seen them perform magic. Sometimes even that they've seen them bestow gifts or speaking to "something that was not there". All of these accounts generally cannot be proved beyond the word of the witness, so being accused of being a witch (especially in places where they honor the single god) is a very easy thing to have happen to you, if enough people will testify against you! (Which makes the fact that Roderick didn't have any sort of trials with the Pyke Walk even more unhinged and I love it)

What sort of magic can witches preform?

Generally witches do not have any abilities beyond The Sight.

However, guardians can bestow some low level magic to witches if they choose. This typically manifests in basic healing abilities (the ability to instantly cure any ailment/injury that is not fatal) and premonitions (that don't always come true but is just one possible future). They also can help strengthen the invisible protections between this world and the next.

Guardians are proud beings and they don't generally like to share their powers. Even if though they often have some affection for the humans who can see them, they do ultimately see them as lesser than and do like the superiority their own magic abilities give them. But in times of Great Peril, they are often persuaded to do so. (This could be as simple as the home in which they protect is in danger, or the gods, themselves have returned. @phabblebabbles -- Aria could definitely already have these abilities considering her current situation, but I'll leave that up to you!)

But keeping these abilities secret is also an easy thing to do. The guardians know it is in their own best interest to help train the witches to do these things, but also in such a way that they will not be detected -- especially if they are surrounded by enemies, which they often are if they've been given magic. The risk with this is, of course, is that they could potentially be seen, especially if they are caught healing someone.

There has been an account of the gods bestowing similar powers as their own onto witches -- which is what ultimately spurred the myth that should the gods return, one might be able to harness their powers for their own. (I'll have more details on this, later, but there are no official accounts of this in either Astairan myths or history, as the event was supposed to be buried and forgotten).

#ooc #about #(kind of)

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dskfasdjfksjfk HONESTLYYY tho in torally different ways, both godfrey and amira think ppl just exist for them to push around the board like pawsn to get their way -- godfrey just thinks he's ultimately doing the right thing, whereas amira frankly doesn't care alsdkjfksjdf

honestly, despite what arthur might say teehee that makes a tonnnn of sense!!!! godfrey (and by accident rosie but that's mostly just her dragging him along tryna help everyone, both him and the ppl of malconaire tbqh) is maneuvering edmund as the protector and savior etc f the ppl of astaira, and thus their last best chance (for what it's worth, this is also smth godfrey truly believes akjlsdfkdjf) and amira's like 'yeah the astairans are many that makes sense' so she's going along w it tho she again doesn't care abt the astairans and is more thinking abt them as canon fodder tbqh lakjdsfkljsdf FORTUNATELY, godfrey is def more a face of the thing than amira hahaha

amira would def be down for women in power!! she didn't like have to climb the ladder as a mistress-turned-queen and would've been happier just cutting roderick entirely out of the equation, however amira aint sticking her neck out for a single other soul besides her boy -- and *maybe* her brothers in some situations honestly lakjsfjksdf like...godfrey ~is a reformer, big time, that's his whole raison d'etre and, sure, he'd sacrifice whatever it took to achieve that, but ultimately that's what he is working towards!! but amira's like 'i had to find a way out of the muck. if you're smart, you'll do the same' and she's def like 'that's a you problem' basically so, yeah, ladies in charge sounds great!! but she's already done what she could to put a lady (herself) in charge and everyone else has to do the same alkjdsfkljsdf

now, all that being said, would she espouse these interests privately in the hopes of claiming an ally for edmund/getting what she wants? 100%! frankly, she'd espouse things she ~doesn't believe in to get her way akljsdfkljsdkjf

amira: do yourself a favor, honey, cut that dead weight outttt. if you aren't gonna marry that, don't risk losing the one you've caught over it. no man's worth losing to have! id know: i bagged an emperor

no but honestly that makes total sense! amira's never really cared abt anyone the way eithne cares abt arthur, and she also just thinks of arthur as someone she's gonna kill when he's not longer useful to her anyway so she's like 'why waste your time' kalsdjfklsdfjdsf that being said amira would never give free advice unless 1) she's super annoyed/drunk or 2) she thinks it might in some way benefit herself laksjdflkjsdfjk

OOC | Amira & Eithne

ok so as i said in [ aoife's post ], and in [ cassimir's ], i think amira will have big plans for the malconaires...but none whatsoever at the start. she won't see them as anything to note until she has a reason to notice them, basically. once she does, tho, she'll realize she can maneuver arthur pr easily through eithne, and that'll def be a thing of great interest to her, so i def think she'll start manipulating cassimir in order to do that and yeahhhh poor eithne honestly lakjsdfkljsdjkfdf

#ooc #anyway im so sorry abt her always alkjsdflkjdf #eithne malconaire

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this got so long!!!!!! dsklajfkjsdfjsd ok chapters it is alksjdfkljdf

AMIRA & MOTHERHOOD

oh yeah i agree big time! edmund is def not to know abt like 90% of the things amira does, as far as he knows she just stands around looking avaguely menacing and getting embarrassed when edmund doesn't perform ;DDD no but you know that one ep of arrested development where michael is feeling really overwhelmed at work or whatever (idr the details i haven't seen it in a long time) and he goes to lucille, but when he gets back and the ppl troubling him have literally disappeared and michael is shocked (and in his case slightly horrified/freaked out hahaha) and lucille basically just tells 'mama handled everything, kiddo, don't ask too many questions,' but she's v hands off the rest of the time except when she explicitly wants him to do smth for her -- that's basically the kind of mom amira is klajsdfkljdjf

i mean, that being said, i do think she's slightly more in his life than lucille bluth hahaha i do think she hand taught him abt basic medicines and poisons and she is def the mom who like wanted her kid to do their homework quietly and then come show it to her before bed so she point out all its faults ;DD no but her intention was just to teach him. i do think she was also SUPER intense abt I AM HIS HEALER NO ONE ELSE TOUCHES MY SON except her brothers (tristan was also posted in his rom 24/7 when he was ill btw im sure etc etc) bc she didn't trust anyone else to nurse him since she knew first hand you can use that to kill someone lakjsdflkjds

side note: i do think roderick didn't esp like that bc its not dignified for a queen, and kinda supersiticious given her priestess past, but when she played on his paranoia that someone might try and kill his kid, he relented...esp bc he was probs in some other country fighting anyway and by the time he heard abt it edmund was probs out of danger anyway hahaha also, idk if anyone ~did try to poison edmund, but amira probs thinks so but it just didnt work bc she was already poisoning him, herself dlskajfskdljfjdf where's her 'best mom award' already honestly lajksdfkljsdkjf

but yeah she's not exactly soft and sweet. she was v blunt abt how he'd have to be tough as nails if he wanted to survive even when he was little and probs the sort of tell him to stop trying when he was five and had a cut or whatever laksjdfakljsdf godfrey: 'let him cry, amira, he's only a boy.' amira: 'he's not only a boy. he's a prince. and he's my son. he mustnt be seen to weep.'

AMIRA'S HEADSPACE/AMBITIONS

amira, having just poisoned her rival and thus created unwitting another one in guinevere: 'at least now i know for sure how to manipulate roderick's true affections'

honestly i think to care abt amira at all is to have complicated feelings abt her!! she's not an easy person to love hahahah i do think she knows that but i also think she's mostly like 'ppl fear strength' when actually ppl just don't like assholes alskjdflkjdsf but here we are hahahah

ooooh him not fearing losing it all would honestly kinda worry her!! that's the thing that like...motivates pr much everything she does and so i think that's super interesting that he doesn't feel the same! and honestly that makes sense bc i really don't think his uncles have the same feelings abt it so edmund can clearly see its not a universal etc plus, yeah, just everything you said i think that makes sm sense! but itd freak her out that he's 'not taking this srsly' if she knew he felt that way bc as far as she's concerned you're either terrified of that or ur not being srs -- she doesn't really feel her brothers are v srs for a similar reason, yknow? (in tristan's case tho i do think he was sheltered but anyway)

but anyway she'd be like 'hes gonna get himself killed or worse this way!' and meanwhile godfrey's like 'take a lil of ur hemlock. it'll slow ur heartrate -- maybe that'll calm you a touch' alksdjfkldsjfjdf (they def argue a lot abt edmund and his upbringing and, while im sure they tried to disguise that from him, im sure edmund knows at least a little abt it just cause you can't entirely hide that from a kid)

oh yeah i feel like she's defffff been clear from the start that one way or another he ~will be emperor and that was the prupose for which he was born lkajsdfkljdsjf and she would legit like...say that straight out. no sugarcoating. 'i gave you life for this purpose. you will do this for me in return' lakjdsfkljdsfj and on the other side, roderick just sending him disappointment letters alsjdkfkljsdf edmund turned out miraculously well, honestly alksdjfakljdf my god lakjdsfkljsdljfsdf

EDMUND'S REBELLION

omg his rebellion!! honestly that was a good one bc it'd def strike at her where it hurt!! she's giving him ever opportunity she can!! she even gave him (some) witch knowledge tho she knew her grandmother would be rolling in her grave over that!! she had to give him every opportunity she could!

honestly i ~was thinking that her attempted murder of arthur probs came out of roderick cozying up too much to marian or smth like that, but now im like -- omg if edmund was pulling this amira was probs like 'ur not good enough to survive on ur own' and decided to off his chief rival before she realized that just ~telling him that could work on edmund as a motivational tactic alksjdfklsjdf lakjsdflkdjsfjdf which also btw might be a big part of why it was so half-hearted an attempt bc she still thought arthur could strengthen edmund in the right circumstances lasjkdflkjsdf that being said, she deffff tried to hide the attempted murder from edmund like that was def just a bizarre, violent, and harrowing illness that, sure, acted just like belladonna poisoning but what could that possibly have to do with amira??? she wasn't anywhere near the boy!! ;DDDD

ooooh that makes total sense and i love that for him!!! and godfrey honestly defff wants him to be a good and able and active emperor!!!! in fact, he's betting literally the entire world on the idea that he ~will be alksjdfkljsf honestly tho i don't think ~amira really cares how active an emperor he is, just as long as he makes sure no one takes the job from him!! let the ppl starve!! amira doesn't care! they'll just have to find their own way to survive just like ~she did!!

AMIRA VS VARMONT

oh biggggg timeee!!! that's frankly why all his siblings (w the exception of cassandra!) are still alive!!! she believes that competing w them sharpens and hones edmund and makes him stronger and better able to survive!!! she does plan to ultimately kill them all (except possibly cassandra bc amira doesn't think she could ever realistically become empress, and her marriage could prove useful to edmund, but if cassandra becomes collateral damage, amira wont shed no tears laskdjflkjdsf) [ this ] is actual footage of a varmont family dinner w amira as ron and everyone else as all the rest of the varmonts honestly hahahahaha

but yeah! esp between ot3: succession kids that is her personal pet rivalry akldsjfkldsf but yeah as you said esppppp arthur bc she frankly doesn't really see guin being the ultimate heir, if roderick ever does get around to choosing (which frankly amira isn't cputting much stock in in the first place hahaha) and she doesn't see guin fighting for it if he ~doesn't bc she doesn't want the throne hahaha so yeah she's esp invested in that sweet sweet arthur/edmund rivalry for sure lkjasflkjkdjf

AMIRA'S LOVE

ughhhh poor edmund honestly!!! and honestly??? idk if amira knows he's experiencing this but like??? she'd be so proud of him successfully concealing part of himself as needed!!! she's like 'wow ive done such a great job then!!' bc that's evidence of his strength aljfkljdsf amira...come on, man alsjfkljsdf

ANYWAY lkajdfkjdsf but honestly even she would be a lil sad bc like...she does ~wish he could be happy but she believes happiness flies in the face of strength and she ultimately prizes his life over his happiness and believes that's legit the choice he's being faced with and ughhh i think when she was 18 years old holding her newborn, the son of a egotistical tyrant in her arms for the v first time, she promised her baby that she would do whatever it took, no matter what it was, to ensure he survived and that promise frankly trumps absolutely everything -- she's gonna do whatever it takes!!!! even if it means killing him inside so he can survive whats to come!!! </3

OOC | Amira & Edmund

hiya, it's ya mama!! ummm idk how to tell you this but...godfrey's the fun parent klajdsflkjsf amira is too busy tryna one-up varys at court and being all 'you embarrassed me today' when edmund fails as a motivational tactic lkasjflkjdf (and we've already discussed the kind of dad ~roderick is akljsdfkjsf) BUT don't let her fool you!! where roderick is all fire, amira is all ice and if you touch her kid you WILL quietly and painfully die -- not that she'd ever tell edmund that beyond smth along the lines of 'no one else matters, only us' bc her parenting is a++++

ANYWAY!! edmund is 100% the product of her ambition like...lol she don't give a flying fuck abt roderick! as far as she is concerned, roderick is a tool in multiple senses! ;D honestly, edmund ~is the person she cares most abt (sorry, bros!), but like...he's #2 in her life bc the thing she cares abt most isn't a person at all -- it is ultimately revenge/power (they're the same thing to her -- miss thing is a slytherin ;DDD) <333333 she's def got a 'the world is at your feet or its at your throat' mentality so she ~does 100% see gaining revenge/power as protecting edmund in her own weird way bc she's been at the world's mercy before and she'd do absolutely anything to make sure that edmund never is -- like, making him emperor is, in her eyes, the only way to keep what happened to ~her and to godfrey from happening to her baby, but that is still 100% more important than his happiness!!! and she would 100% acknowledge this openly there is no dancing around it alkjsfkljsdf like, she doesn't really believe in gods as such (just that there ~are super powerful beings out there that it pleases men to call gods), but if she did, that whole 'god doesn't want you to be happy, he wants you to be strong' quote is 10000000% amira's whole mentality so that's fun!!!

anyway, she's def raised edmund as mommy's lil warlord <3 he must be strong if he wishes to survive what's to come!!! (she also thinks roderick is actually weak af and that's why things have gone as abysmally as they have) also lowkey think amira might've poisoned guin's mom bc she was worried she would have a son </3 and amira can compete with marian for roderick's affections, but not w his og empress, so she didn't think edmund would stand a chance of ruling if the og wife ever had a son. like...amira's been looking towards this war since the first day she clapped eyes on roderick and said 'imma seduce that man' alskdjfkldf also tbh i don't think it actually ~was black magic that produced edmund but i think ~amira thinks it was alksjdfaljksdf so!! that's fun ksjdfaklsjfaksdf amira: you know what really spices things up in the bedroom? black magic babies!

ANYYYYYYWAY, she had edmund specifically and intentionally to create the next emperor and then stupid marian beat her to the punch (i.e., hearing about marian's pregnancy is when amira turned to black magic to ensure she'd conceive) but then amira really fucked up and started to actually care about edmund!!!! #whoops so she was like 'no more babies! i will not become weaker!' and that's why edmund has no full siblings aldksjfskldjf

so, re: amira's opinions abt the future!! she isn't really worried about guin becoming empress bc she honestly can't see roderick w all ~his hangups ultimately wanting guin to rule, what w being a woman, and besides -- and much more importantly bc amira doesn't give af what roderick wants tbqh -- guin obv doesn't wanT the throne so she aint gonna fight for it after roderick dies (in fact, bc of this amira is 100% fine w roderick picking guin -- she'll just oops! tragically die of grief after losing roderick, just like her mama did, and then BOOM edmund for emperor aljsflkjsf), but arthur ~will fight for the throne. sebastian's hardest to nail down, but he ~is male, so ppl of the varmont empire might still amass behind him, so amira means to axe him too someday, just for good measure

i do think once or twice, she has tried to kill arthur and sebastian when amira thought roderick was on the brink of making a decision she didn't like (yeah? that one really really srs childhood illness arthur had? poisoned by his stepmama, but tragically -- tho he nearly died -- he pulled through after all :/) but i do think she was only halfhearted even then bc i think she believes that the competition makes edmund stronger so his bros get to live a lil longer ig alsdjflksdf but she probs has been poisoning marian for awhile, just enough to keep her from conceiving again lkajsdfkljsdf bc amira realized too late that poisoning wife #1 actually made guin's position stronger w roderick and she def doesn't want that for arthur and seb, so marian gets to live lkajsdlfkjdjf

#ooc #edmund varmont #godfrey calainon #roderick varmont #arthur varmont

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Tea for Three | Amira & Aria & Eithne

"Here," said Amira, forming a smile. "Sit here."

The room was ana small one, intimate in its scale and yet, made of almsot entirely glass, open to the sky. It had been one of Eilionora's favorite rooms in all the palace, but she had scarcely seen it since the Varmont occupation had begun and, now, she might have been stunned to see it so transformed by sudden winter in spring. Ice licked the wide glass panes, its frosty prints seeming to tune the pale stone all to muted marble.

Still, Amira welcoming to young women into the room -- one of whom was amongst its rightful owners -- took little heed of winter's wroth or its frosty caress upon the building in which they weathered it. At the recent ball, Amira had noted the attentions which her stepson, Arthur, had unabashedly paid to each of the two women she'd invitd to tea and she turned her apprising gaze upon them, instead.

Though she smiled, there was something in the gaze that left something wanting -- some strange hunger that never seemed to leave her. Emotion had long since ceased to be natural to her, and its facsimile she wore with some difficulty. The only thing she felt was raw. She no longer recalled how to doll it up with sweetness. Her eyes were dissecting where she meant to appear warm. So she smiled, wolfish, heedless of the effect, and welcomed her unwilling guests.

"I am so glad you were, the both of you, able to come. I know my stepson, dear Prince Arthur, will be most pleased to see you both," she added, arching a brow. "He is so very fond of you each."

#tea for three #aria stafford #eithne malconaire #comment #as promised aklsjfkljfjds #amira like 'is this what a happiness looks like? idr. does this make them feel at ease?' everyone michael scott voice: GOD! GOD NO!

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honestly alaric is right not to trust amira as we both know!! and honestly she doesn't really much effort to conceal just how sus she really is? she's like 'im roderick's queen and the mother of his heir: thats all that matters. let them grumble, this is how its going to be' and obv she's not untouchable -- she knows firsthand how easy it is for a fellow royal to poison one of their own! but she keeps everyone on #teamcalainon immune to poison, and alaric can't publically move against her so she still feels pr safe (as safe as she's ever felt, anyway!)

i do think she considers alaric a potential threat esp once roderick dies (amira in a monotone: quelle tragique) bc i do think she knows he's wise to her and he's team arthur, but she would still prefer to bring him to her side tbqh! now that she's got ciara pr well locked down thanks to godfrey, tho, she's frankly probs a lil less worried abt that then before they had one of the og varmonts on their side

how do you think alaric might react to the potential revelation of arthur's true parentage btw? would that throw him to team sebastian? like roderick, would he assume none of marian's kids are roderick's? either way, would he just look elsewhere, do you think? (or idk ig he might stay team arthur who knows hahaha but yeah alksdjfakljdf)

honestly, tho, amira doesn't mind him thinking she's a witch. she might be a lil overconfident, but she doesn't think roderick would hear of it if alaric tried to bring charges against one of his wives esp when she's given him a calainon son (amira also might suddenly decide its time to get pregnant again after all if she thinks someone at court is moving against her tbqh) amira is v much NOT a romantic, she doesn't give a flying fig abt roderick except insofar as he is useful to her and her clan, and the only reason she's sorry she hurt and then killed the empress is bc it improved guin's position to roderick lakjsdfkjdsf but is was still worth it to ensure she never had a son sdklafjsdkjfakjsdf she's def the type who if someone said to her face that she might be a witch she'd be all like 'is that what you believe? perhaps you ought to speak more quietly. witches do so love to cast furious spells.'

ooooh! he suspected her when the boys were deathly ill! it probs didn't help how she only came into their room to cackle menacing and leave to go throw a 'the princes are dying' party jk jk (only on the inside!) i do think she def wasn't showing much sign of sadness but she was of the opinion itd be much more sus if she pretended tears or smth over it, so she just behaved calmly and got on with it. idk if she was accurate in this thinking or not but alksjdfjdsf here we are

i ~do think that really big childhood poisoning of arthur, the one where he almost died but ultimately pulled through, she was expecting to be called upon to nurse him, since she was a healer before she was a queen, and that had worked really well for her w the empress bc she ~had been called, and thus was able to slowly kill her rather than make it sudden, so that it looked like illness etc. i was thinking that perhaps that's part of why arthur survived -- that she wasn't called again after all she could do for the empress was 'ease her passing' sdlkjfakdsjl but as a result of not being called, amira wasn't able to administer further doses to arthur and, being a child and resilient, he was thus able to recover etc.

but anyway, maybe alaric's suspicions are why amira ~wasn't called to arthur's bedside when he was so 'ill?' like whether he was just like 'lets not bother poor amira she has such a young child of her own to look after and we cant risk him being infected too' or whatever, or was straight up like 'yeah i dont trust that witch' hahaha maybe he persuaded them to at least ~try another healer?

anway, rgardless of that, i def think amira is def civil back to alaric, but nothing more. if she's aware of his suspicions, she probs isn't as concerned abt them as she ought to be, but her main focus re: him is that she would love to bring him over to edmund's side, so i think she does encourage edmund to spend time w his uncle, etc, but she's less anxious abt that now that they seem to have ciara locked down hahaha that being said, if/when it come sout abt arthur's paternity, ciara will no longer be ~quite as promising an alliance as she initially thought ('great we literally got into bed w the traitorous varmonts' also if/when she learns abt the affair i feel like that's the most respect she ever had for marian 'who knew she had it in her to pull that off' laksdjfakljsdf), and she'll probs be trying to angle edmund to pick up alaric again hahaha

ooc | Alaric & Amira

Alaric does NOT trust Amira and literally never has!!!! TBH, I think she left a sour taste in his mouth from the start given her heritage (Alaric isn't positive she's a witch, but it would not surprise him ONE BIT if she was and he fears what she might do, down the line!) PLUS the fact that she was Roderick's second wife and basically the start of Roderick taking multiple wives!! To Alaric (who is secretly a romantic at heart shhh you didn't hear it from me) it also just shocked and surprised him that Roderick would do that to his first wife, who Alaric was so convinced he was in love with?? Which only really makes sense to Alaric if Amira IS a witch and cast some sort of spell on Roderick!!!

He's def civil to her though, although I think it's probs clear to Amira that he's not her biggest fan??? That being said, he shows her all of the respect she deserves as Roderick's wife and won't hear a word said against her in public but he still watches her v closely and ngl probs suspected her once when one of the other varmont boys got mysteriously sick ~side eye emojis~ but he's literally never had any shred of proof to any of this but still!!

#ooc #alaric varmont

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