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rainbowfic2024-08-25 11:40 pm
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Warm Light #14
Name: shadowsong26
Story: It's Not Simple to Say
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Warm Light #14. We all write our own endings and we all have our own scars
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight Main Stage), photography, canvas, seed beads, gift wrap (engagement)
Word Count: 270
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Emily Horndil
Warnings: Discussion of family estrangement.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Emily is Mariko's paternal great-grandmother.
When Emily got engaged, her future in-laws asked about her parents.
Of course they did, it was a natural question to ask. In most cultures, the bride's parents play some kind of ceremonial role in things.
She gave a vague answer about an estrangement, and thankfully they didn't press (her in-laws were fucking amazing, defying all the stereotypes).
But it was the first time she'd thought about them in a long time. Or, well, it was the first time she thought about the person she'd been when she cut ties, the person she might have grown into if she'd stayed.
Did she regret it?
No. Of course not. Her parents--the Family as a whole--they weren't bad people. But the whole...thing, the history, the supposed immortal ancestor, the weird cult-y aspects...she couldn't live with that. And she didn't want to drag her children, when she had them, into that either.
But she wondered, sometimes. About that girl, that woman. About the things she'd given up to get where she was. About the ways being completely on her own for a while had changed her.
She wished that it could have been simpler, though. Easier. Less painful, for all of them.
She didn't regret leaving, no. While there were things and people she missed, and she regretted not knowing that other girl, she was happy with who she was now. Where she was now.
She toyed with the ring on her finger, and put all of that in the past, where it belonged.
She had a new family now, and that was what mattered.
Story: It's Not Simple to Say
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Warm Light #14. We all write our own endings and we all have our own scars
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight Main Stage), photography, canvas, seed beads, gift wrap (engagement)
Word Count: 270
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Emily Horndil
Warnings: Discussion of family estrangement.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Emily is Mariko's paternal great-grandmother.
When Emily got engaged, her future in-laws asked about her parents.
Of course they did, it was a natural question to ask. In most cultures, the bride's parents play some kind of ceremonial role in things.
She gave a vague answer about an estrangement, and thankfully they didn't press (her in-laws were fucking amazing, defying all the stereotypes).
But it was the first time she'd thought about them in a long time. Or, well, it was the first time she thought about the person she'd been when she cut ties, the person she might have grown into if she'd stayed.
Did she regret it?
No. Of course not. Her parents--the Family as a whole--they weren't bad people. But the whole...thing, the history, the supposed immortal ancestor, the weird cult-y aspects...she couldn't live with that. And she didn't want to drag her children, when she had them, into that either.
But she wondered, sometimes. About that girl, that woman. About the things she'd given up to get where she was. About the ways being completely on her own for a while had changed her.
She wished that it could have been simpler, though. Easier. Less painful, for all of them.
She didn't regret leaving, no. While there were things and people she missed, and she regretted not knowing that other girl, she was happy with who she was now. Where she was now.
She toyed with the ring on her finger, and put all of that in the past, where it belonged.
She had a new family now, and that was what mattered.
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Yep. It's kind of complicated because it's a messy emotional situation, of course, but at the same time it's not really complicated at all? It was the only choice she felt she could make.
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1) "I don't know where I'm going, but I don't think I'm coming home/And I said, I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead." - Alone Together, Fall Out Boy
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