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Hello Ren!!! You get several paragraphs about Fay and Lou's terrible divorce :D
They're like the inverse of Sorian and Avis, because it was less clear-cut what exactly made everything fall apart. There were first the general resentments of Fay being mostly a stay-at-home mom while Lou sunk way too much of his time in the bakery - simultaneously a moneymaker, a status symbol, and the target of Fay's ire. But this was a simmer of a conflict. Things didn't start escalating until Isabel came out as trans when she was 11. Neither Fay nor Lou had any trouble with this, at least until Lou made it all about him. He would never ask Isabel to be someone she wasn't, no, but now he was left high and dry with no son to inherit his bakery, to carry on the patrilineal tradition he'd singlehandedly revived. All that time he spent there was a waste without an heir, you know?
Fay took this as proof that he did care about the bakery more than his family, and they started to fight more and more. In his deepening unhappiness Lou accidentally found a new love interest (along the lines of "she happened to help me with bakery taxes" or something) and realized that oh, maybe he really didn't need to be in this miserable marriage anymore. I think it's actually more interesting if they were "good" and never banged prior to the divorce, because that was immaterial as soon as Lou told Fay that he'd found a new partner so maybe it was time they broke up. This was the moment when Fay's poorly attached hinges flew off and she began throwing everything of his in a pile at the bottom of the stairs, followed by screaming at him to leave so loudly that the neighbors could hear.
After that the divorce should have been quick but they argued about the bakery revenues and the house and custody of Rodney and Isabel (who were 10 and 13 when the whole debacle started and pretty clearly sided with Fay, because at least she'd always been there) and whether they could get a fault divorce (honestly I'm not sure but Fay wanted one) and finally, a year and a half later, the divorce was finalized. Lou let Fay offload the house onto him and she, Isabel, and Rodney left for Antarac. He got remarried to his new partner, Annette, who he's still married to, and they later adopted a kid, Hatt, who's the middle sibling age-wise between them, Rodney, and Isabel. I have yet to work out a lot of Hatt's background but between them and Annette, Lou has learned quite a lot about how not to be transphobic and also how not to be weird by adding a "Be My Heir" letter into the mix of yearly birthday cards to your son (just don't do that). Hatt is all too happy to be the heir to the bakery but had the advantage of being adopted as a teenager and therefore not raised with Expectations like Isabel and Rodney (I suspect they were like Annette's nibling or cousin to begin with). Annette ends up low-key being Isabel's hero because she had a double mastectomy for cancer reasons and therefore also has a flat chest.
I'm indisposed for doodles/picrews atm but I want to make some of them later and get their designs a little more nailed down.
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I know Ed is meant to be the smartest guy in Gotham but when it comes down to it, I often pause stare at the screen for a long period of time just completely bewildered.
I inhale, then exhale: "Edward Nygma you f**ked up" then proceed to cry.
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"Maniac Tried To Kill Us..."
The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #3 (January 1995)
Dave Stevens, Danny Bilson, Paul Demeo, Michael Wm. Kaluta, Arthur Adams, Sandy Plunkett, Stan Manoukian, Vince Roucher and Isabelle Rabarot
Dark Horse Comics
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hello and how are you?
We had to come scurrying over after we found your WIP Name Game! Honestly, a lot of those names make us want to ask after them, this Work seems to be filled with good things, but!
Can we see something from these parts? Whatever you want to share? ( •̀ω•́ )σ
Farewell to the Ancestors, Tatiana Arvenswold, that secret option from the tags that you want to scream about
Have fun with it too! If ya wanna pass or go wild, then this is your invitation to do so! we're entirely intrigued!
☕ Natsume Rune, @365runesoftheamalgamations
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Thank you so much for the ask! I actually talked about the one that made me want to scream over here, but "queueing" is a similar sort of scene, where Spinder gets into a different unusual conversation. The Nicea has been queueing for a warp transit for hours, Tristan has taken a sleeping pill, and Rodney is left having to make his first non-training warp transit:
The door slid open six inches and Spinder blinked sleepily up at him. “What?” he said with the distance of someone still shaking off a dream.
“We’re clear to transit in a few minutes, and I just need someone to sit on the bridge with me while I do it.”
He raised his eyebrows but didn’t argue. “Let me get some pants on. I’ll be right there.”
The door shut again. Rodney decided to trust him and go back to the pilot’s seat. Tristan’s seat. It felt too big, even though it was only marginally larger than his own. He was about to take the unnecessary step of strapping himself in when he remembered that his coffee was halfway across the bridge and went to grab it. Spinder showed up at the same time, half-covering a massive yawn while he dropped into his usual seat. The pants he’d put on were just the lower half of his flight suit, zipped up to his waist with the sleeves tied over it.
"Farewell to the ancestors" was previously an almost-empty scene where I planned to have Tristan visit the graveyard where most of her family is buried and say goodbye to them before the trip, but this ask made me want to work on it some more:
Tristan climbed to the top of the hill, weaving the familiar path through the generations of her family’s gravestones. At each one, she ran a hand over the small dome carved from the top of the stone, feeling the grooves left by increasing generations of hands. On the oldest markers at the top, the dome had started to become a valley.
And "Tatiana Arvenswold" is one of my favorites. This is deep into their space journey, after assorted disasters, when Spinder and Isabel first meet Tatya, who stays with them pretty much to the end of the book:
Isabel was aware of someone passing their table, but didn’t look up until a pale brown hand rapped on the tabletop. Standing over her was a person whose brown hair seemed to be all cowlicks, even into their loose ponytail, with a scruffy half-attempt at a chinstrap beard and a wide baby-pink collar choker peeking out past the massive triangular lapels of their khaki jacket. They were completely ignoring her in favor of Spinder, and she prepared herself to bolster his defense.
“Hey, are you Spinder?” they asked. “You look just like the picture Gwinny sent me.”
Spinder blinked. “I am. Are you…the warp witch?”
They grinned. “Tatiana Arvenswold at your service. She-her or whatever you feel like.” They turned just enough that Isabel could see the silver heart-shaped ring in the front of their choker. Their eyes lingered on her face, and at first she thought they were looking at her bruises in order to make a dumbass comment about them. Then she got a full once-over, and when their eyes met again Tatiana’s gaze was thirsty. “And who are you?”
“I’m Isabel,” she said. “The captain of the Nicea.”
“Oh, nice, nice. So, uh, y’all in need of a warp witch? Or a finder?”
Nicea taglist: @kahvilahuhut @malloen8c @outpost51 @writernopal @athenswrites
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My toxic trait is consistently trying to make my s/is “realistic” knowing damn well there’s nothing realistic about 90% of the source material
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"Just Plain Spooky!"
The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #3 (January 1995)
Dave Stevens, Danny Bilson, Paul Demeo, Michael Wm. Kaluta, Arthur Adams, Sandy Plunkett, Stan Manoukian, Vince Roucher and Isabelle Rabarot
Dark Horse Comics
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