So I saw your post about taking some RE8 requests. Can I please have our favorite lady, Alcina Dimitrescu walking in to find her maiden crying/upset about being made fun of by the other maids for being chubby? I need the assurance that only a 9'6" woman is capable of.
Absolutely! I'm a chubby gal myself and boy don't we need that 9"6 Lady hahaha
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Aphrodite's Batch of Roses
Alcinas day had gone smoothly so far. For once, her daughters were behaving, the newest wine shipment had just been made that she had spent weeks preparing for, and lunch had been one of her favourite dishes.
The past week had been quite chaotic. Her girls never let her get off her feet and eventually Alcina did have enough. Once they were all sat at the dinner table yesterday, Alcina told them how truly exhausted she was and explained that them misbehaving did not contribute to that in any way.
The girls felt bad at an instant for their behaviour and promised their mother at least one day without them causing trouble.
And that day was today.
With a glass of wine, not Sanguis Virginis, but wine, she made her way to her atelier. She had been feeling quite artistic as of late and with todays silence she decided it would be a good time to start another project.
But what size canvas would she use? Oil or acrylic paint? Which brushes? Hard or soft? What would she even paint? Surely all the naked women paintings were nice to look at, but there were a few too many scattered across the castles walls.
Her peace of mind, however, was destroyed once she entered the sacred room and heard the heartbeat lingering about.
An annoyed scowl settled on her face as she groaned, looking around the room to find the culprit who had entered her atelier.
Every maiden in the castle knew that the atelier was off limits. The only one allowed inside, even if that, was Lady Dimitrescu's former personal maiden who had passed a few years ago. Ever since then its been only her inside the room. Last time she found an intruder inside, she cut off her hands and said.
"So you can not open doors you're not supposed to."
It was a particularly bad day for her at that, but oh well. Whats done is done.
"Show yourself, and I might spare you your hands, you little pest"
She hissed, all the calmness like washed away and replaced by pure annoyance. Her day had started so good! Why ruin it now!
The stutter in the persons heartbeat and voice caused her to nearly drop her glass once she noticed who it was. And once they stepped out, in what state they were in.
"I'm- My Lady I'm so sorry. I will l-eave right away."
She said, choking on her own tears as she began to fix her clothes from sitting on the floor.
Alcina stared at the little woman so hard she thought lasers might shoot out of her own eyes and through the woman's face.
Y/n muttered another stuttered apology while trying to not again burst into tears and make her situation with her lady even worse. Alcinas body turned as the maid passed her and walked to the door, but before she had a chance to leave, Alcinas hand wrapped around the young woman's arm and gently pulled her back.
Alcina cursed herself for not recognising that little heartbeat when she came in. She had listened to it quite a few times whilst she read or worked, finding this particular rhythm to be quite comforting. There was no fear when y/n worked, no worry to do something wrong. She was just focused on her task, and she was confident at that too.
The matriarch found herself reading at the same time you were a couple times. At first she had been worried when your heartbeat began slowing and just to check, she rushed to where she heard it coming from just to find you wrapped and surrounded in a pile of pillows and blankets in the library, so absorbed into the book you were reading that you didn't even hear your Lady come in.
After that, she reminded herself that whenever your heartbeat slowed, you were reading. And whenever it picked up for a few minutes, she couldn't help but quietly chuckle at the fact that you had probably gotten to a good part in the book.
She had gotten fond of you.
"Tell me," She said, placing her glass down on a small table before leaning down to your height. "Why are you crying in my atelier? You know no one is allowed to enter without my permission. And did you ask me if you may enter this room? No, I don't believe you did."
The leather of her glove was cold against your skin, your eyes eventually finding hers after Lady Dimitrescu wiped your tears for you.
"I know, my lady. That's why I'm here.. no one dares to bothers me in here."
You muttered quietly, embarrassed about the fact that this hadn't been your first trip to your lady's atelier.
Alcina felt a longer conversation come on, and she could definitely not bend down this entire time. She ordered for her maiden to sit on the ground, and to y/n's shock, the lady joined her on the floor.
"Why would someone bother you, y/n?"
You didn't hear your name come from your Lady often. But when you did, the sound burned itself into your ears for at least a few days.
Yet you didnt know where to start to answer her question. Sitting in silence, you tried to make up a start in your head. Alcina practically heard the wheels in your head turning as you thought. She sighed, cupping your tiny face in her large hands and making you look up at her properly.
"Y/n. Talk to me, that is an order."
Her voice was a lot firmer now. She originally did it as an attempt to show you that she was serious about this, but when she saw the new bunch of tears well up in your eyes, instant regret washed over her. Her stern expression dropped as she shook her head quickly.
"No no no, don't cry. Just tell me whats wrong, dulce servitoare"
You couldn't help but to start crying, looking up at your lady as she held your face in her hands. Leaning into her touch, she ended up pulling you into her lap and embrace.
Alcina didn't know what came over her in that moment, hugging a maid. But it felt like the right thing to do. She can curse herself for building a liking to you another time, but for now she had to find out what was going on.
Y/n sat in her lap and cried, cried her poor little human heart out on her lady's chest. And Alcina let her. Even caressed her back when she did, patiently waiting for her little maid to begin explaining.
"A few of the other maiden.." She began after a while, sniffling and rubbing her eye. "Well, they make fun of me from time to time and today it just bothered me a lot."
Alcinas head shot down to look at the woman in her arms, rage painted once across her face. Bullying?! In her castle?!
"They bully you?"
You nodded sheepishly, trying your best to just sink into her and disappear.
"Why."
The tone alone let you know it wasn't a question she was asking, you didn't have to look at her face to know that.
For as long as y/n had worked at the castle, which would be three years in a few months, there hadn't been a single case of someone being bullied. And now it was Alcinas new favourite maid?! She couldn't believe what she was hearing, but decided to get all the information she could get first before she went and cut out some tongues.
"Because I'm on.. well, the heavier side let's say. Dresses and gowns don't look too flattering on me my lady, they make fun of it."
Alcinas eyebrows knit together, so tight you could've thought it was a single one.
"They bully you because you weigh more? Because it makes you look different than them?"
Again, you nodded against her chest, able to hear the low growl rumbling in it somewhere as she kept it in.
Bullying because of someones appearance! She couldn't believe it. At once, she stood up with the maiden in her arms bridal style and carried her out of her atelier and down the hallway. No painting for today.
Y/n yelped when they suddenly stood up, holding onto her lady as good as she could.
"You know Y/n," She began, ducking under a few doorways as she walked through the castle. "I think you are the most beautiful maiden in this castle. Your looks are absolutely to die for, sometimes I find myself envying you even."
Your cheeks burned bright red as you laid in her arms. She envied you?
"Mmm, yes. You have a beautiful body and soul, draga. None of them can compare."
She set you down once you both had reached her garden, smiling down at you.
"Do you think Aphrodite looked like them? Thin and scrawny? No. She was a woman. She had strong thighs, belly rolls and maybe even a double chin." She chuckled, her heart making a small flip as she edged out a small chuckle out of you as well.
"You, my dear," She said softly, squatting down to your height and placing her hands on your shoulders. "Are my castles Aphrodite."
Your lip began trembling as tears once again burned in your eyes. No one had ever talked to you this way, and out of all people it was your own lady? You knew she spoke the truth, she hated liars.
Before you knew it, she had kneeled down and pulled you into another hug once again. Her large hand rubbed your back as you nuzzled into her shoulder, inhaling her scent and god she smelled lovely.
"You are absolutely magnificent y/n, don't let them tell you otherwise. I know what it's like. People back in my time, when I was still human, they never liked my looks. Not because I was heavy, no, but because of how I am proportioned. I was called countless names, some made me cry the way you have been crying. But I learned to love and embrace what they didn't like and how to make myself look good."
She pulled away, gently pushing you infront of her to take a good look at you.
"I will call my sister later today and we will get you some dresses that you feel comfortable in. Hm? How does that sound?"
She smiled, and so did you. Smiling from one ear to the other in fact. You quickly nodded at her words.
"It sounds fantastic, my lady."
Alcina pointed to a batch of black roses.
"Do you see that one rose that looks different than the others? It has more of a purplish hue.. the petals are bigger, more voluminous.." She drifted off, her eyes finding yours again as you nodded once more.
"Sometimes looking different and being bigger isn't a bad thing, draga mea. That rose is my favourite in the whole batch."
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