FERIDE BANU AKSOY SCHONEKAMP. the widow schonekamp. grisha. owner of azamet and the aksoy export corporation.better than you.
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〉 〉 〉 𝙸 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙽𝙴𝙳 𝙸𝚃 𝙰𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙵𝙴𝙴𝚃 : a study on four people who molded feride to be who she is.
trigger warning for mentions of assassination, death, prejudice ( against grisha ), slavery ( grisha by non grisha ), the military, horrible parental behavior, arranged marriage with age difference ( abusive ), sex work.
𝙶𝙾̈𝙺𝙷𝙰𝙽 𝙰𝙺𝚂𝙾𝚈 : the only son of the general aksoy from the king’s first army, is only twenty four when he first arrives at kerch shores under the king of ravka’s orders. soon enough, his polished shoes are laddled with mud and dirt, and though he would become a notoriously passionate ambassador to ravka, he has little liking to reverence and protocol, and if he is aflamed to defend his people’s rights, he is more hands on than his previous or successors, and a very well - known face around little ravka. however love and effort he put in the ravkan cause — including keeping a close eye on the grisha of the land — was left unpaid as none rose to rescue when he was assassinated murdered during a family stroll upon a bridge. the culprit was never found, and the case quickly dismissed, the only trace of the aksoy family on ravka left on the hands of gokhan’s kerch wife, gaye, and his six year old son, serdar.
𝚂𝙴𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚁 𝙰𝙺𝚂𝙾𝚈 : his father’s panglossian ways were ripped from serdar as a child, and he instead grew with ambition and prejudice in his belly; the aksoy name grew besides that of a foreign politician, and into an enviable fortune, first at the hands of gaye, then at serdar’s, once he became of age. ambitious, ruthless, self - serving and cunning, he held a monopoly with trade towards ravka for decades, self - claiming favor of the ravkan king. everything in his life had been calculated: graduating with the best courses, living in the best neighborhood, rubbing the elbows of the right people, marrying a pliant kerch woman and siring children with her. none of them took root for long, and his eyes wandered to the beginning of his mistakes: burcu, a grisha, a kind of people that he loathed more than anything else.
discarding her would leave an ache he would soothe with power, wealth and indulgence; at 44, he becomes a member of the merchant council, but it is through a hazy night at the slums that he contracts a debt with a certain roebert schonenkamp who would be settled with his daughter, more or less gladly given to the brute. the relationship between father and daughter had taken several blows towards the years but it stood, even if tattered, and grew momentarily strengthened at the birth of his grandson, ercan. a few days before his 60th birthday, while overseeing the celebrations’ preparations, he fell from the 2nd story of his house; for the rest of the two years he’d live, he’d live in pain, trapped within his stiff, paralized limbs, watching what he dreaded most happen: his grisha daughter taking over all he held dear, and making it better.
𝙱𝚄𝚁𝙲𝚄 𝙳𝙴𝙼𝙸𝚁𝙲𝙰𝙽 : the second army had been all that burcu demircan wanted for as long as she could remember, and when she had the opportunity to be taken to the little palace, she went, never looking back. it was the way she had learned to live: not looking back, living the now; she enjoys the little palace, and dazzles when she is finally given her kafkan, and yet, when she first tastes war, she is stupidly surprised at how bitter it tastes in her tongue. after a particularly gruesome mission, in which she had seen all members of her squad murdered, some out of pity by her own hand, she swore not to use her powers ever again, and when she was ambushed by slave traders, she taken and brought to ketterdam. her own will was for folly, for she was sold as a grisha, employed under the merck household, and then the aksoy.
eager to please and with a disarming warmth, she burrowed her way into both valerie and serdar’s heart, but it would be a sojourn sentiment, soured as quick as the child in her belly grew. though passed as another’s, feride was raised and coddled and given all semblance of humanity by burcu’s hand; when their powers first appeared, it was burcu to notice, and to aid her young daughter in containing and harboring them just as she did the girl’s own heart. she was punished and exiled for it, the only teary goodbyes given to them the one on a scribbled paper under feride’s pillow, urging her to keep going, despite it all.
𝚁𝙾𝙴𝙱𝙴𝚁𝚃 𝚂𝙲𝙷𝙾𝙽𝙴𝙽𝙺𝙰𝙼𝙿 : mr. schonenkamp is just like every other rat from the slums of ketterdam: filthy to the core, is the first thing serdar ever tells his daughter of roebert schonenkamp, then but a nuisance endured during gaming nights. feride stays out of the way then, not bothering to return the smile offered, but as the years go by, she'd soon learn that while what her father said about roebert was indeed the truth, it was not only it. he was a clever man with ambition, and an eye for seeing an opportunity, and sticking by it, whomever it may ache. it was like this that he quietly built his own wealth, based on a brothel, a fighting house and one gambling dens of substantial renown around the bad parts of town. if feride had been stupid to show him her powers when trying to maiming him on their wedding night, he was not stupid not to see a point of advantage there — much like her father, he kept her powers a secrecy, but unlike serdar, he wished her not to be clean, but his own private weapon; a tailor was much use when his employees were not discarded, but reused, bones mended and bruises healed on the quiet of the night, a cloak keeping her identidy a secret.
for all of the gore she was exposed to under her husband's thumb, feride learned: not only how to properly use her power on people, for good and for worse, but also how to play the man, being the trophy wife that smiles when he orders her drink, and kisses him in congratulation when his bruiser of the night wins, just the way roebert wants. she is not stupid though — she may be a wife, but she is no partner, and most times she has no more will than the people whose contracts he owns. unwilling to have her child (or herself) be at a situation like this anymore, feride took matters into their own hands, and once it was all done, all that was left of roebert was a half mangled, burned body, a mansion in ashes; all bruisers and prostitutes were dismissed with compensation, only the gambling club, under new management, left. that, and his son, a child of four and something who would grow to call another man father.
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jackmait:
the ornately painted doors of the hummingbird gambling club had creaked open with the first of its many guests of the evening at a quarter to six ─ the harbor workers had been let off work for the day around fifteen minutes prior and their arrival had been forewarned by the stomping of their booted feet and the guttural carousing of their bawdy jokes as they greeted the smartly dressed man with a familiarity that draws curious eyes towards the entrance, hesitation tempered by the easy smile that spreads across the pleasant, if not bruised, features of the one called jack maitland. while he had been able to change out of the bloodied waistcoat that he had worn to collect a few debts on behalf of the barrel boss earlier in the afternoon, washing away the dried speckles of rusty brown on his skin in the washroom attached to his office overlooking the lower floor of the club, there was little that could be done to fix the rapidly purpling spot on his left cheekbone with such limited time and he had hoped that, in spite of his bruised face, he might still be able to draw in a crowd that would gamble their money away till dawn.
( around thirty minutes past two, he had called it a night, the lower floor of the club quiet but not inactive with the sound of cards being dealt and dice being tossed. his clean waistcoat had been slung over his shoulder, allowing his stomach to breath after several hours of playing congenial host, and he had tossed the keys to one of the guards, promising to return in a few hours to give them all their wages for the week. )
ercan had been surprisingly absent, popping in briefly around midnight to grab a snack from the bar while he watched the raucous of the den with an air befitting the prince that he was ─ jack had given him fifteen minutes before swatting him out of the doors with firm instruction to get himself home, more out of expectation rather than genuine reprimand. he certainly had gotten himself into worst situations at that age and unlike his younger self, ercan had several people looking out for him in the shadows who would run to his parents should anything befall him in his nightly adventures. still, for feride’s sanity and for the sake of his ear, he hoped the boy had listened lest jack receive a scolding in his place.
pulling the stretched hair tie from where it had been holding his long locks away from his face, he gave his head a little shake to loosen the curled strands and ease the throbbing ache that came with tying his hair up too tightly as he stepped through the manor doors, his polished shoes dragging in the dirt from the slums into the geldstraat neighborhood with each step he took. starting towards the living room so that he might find a table or a couch to prop his foot up so that he might undo his laces without falling over, the bruiser pauses at the sight of a familiar figure, stretched out on an armchair. unconsciously, the corners of his mouth lift upwards into a smile even as he lifts one foot, and then another, to silently ( as silent as humanely possible for him, at least ) pull off his shoes and socks ( a luxury he had gotten used to having after becoming acquainted with the widow schnonekamp ) so that he might lift up his woman and carry her back to bed.
( for a moment, he ponders the wisdom of potentially waking her up with the movement but surmises that an annoyed but sleepy feride now was much easier to tackle than an annoyed feride in pain come morning. )
bending over the armchair, he wiggles his fingers under the weight of her body until there is space to squeeze his arms under and around her, lifting the slumbering woman against his chest even as she stirs, lips pulled downwards in an instinctive grumble. ❝ and a good morning to you too, darling. ❞ the words are murmured against her head as she shifts closer to get more comfortable and he pauses in his stride up the stairs, allowing her to move and settle in his arms before he continues. the fondness in his chest aches so fiercely that he nearly crumbles on the staircase, smile stupidly wide even as she threatens him with a familiar softness that he has come to associate with affection from a woman such as feride banu aksoy. ❝ no, you won’t. you like my clavicle too much. ❞ a teasingly apt statement, considering that most of rounded little blotches of reddish purple on his neck and chest came not from an enemy but from his lover, the tip of her cool nose rubbing against the day - old stubble of his jaw.
jostling her a little higher in his grasp as the final few steps were taken, he kicked open the door to their shared room, grimacing when the doorknob hit the wall with a resounding bang ─ hopefully ercan was in a deep enough sleep to have missed that. ❝ sorry … ❞ he was not apologetic at all, the twist of his lips morphing into a grin that twinged lightly at the bruise on his cheek, forgotten until now. ❝ eager to get you into bed … i have to leave in a few hours to check back on the club … don’t want the boys to come knocking for their wages at the manor. ❞ with a gentleness that would not be expected of him, jack bends in half as he sets her on the soft mattress, maintaining his deferent position as he kisses at her cheek, fingers brushing away a few strands of dark hair from her face as he studies her features with a devotion that is reserved for a select few. ❝ what time did ercan come in ? ❞
“morning,” her lips form the words, but her brain, even in the haze of slumber, knows it is not, not yet — she has the practice to know so, from waiting for her father, her mother, her husband, jack and now her god damn son; she is glad it is the former, rather than the later who has decided to disturb her sleep, for however much she loved ercan ( and she did love him as if he was still attached to herself ), the embers of her rage were always easier lit by those of blood, by sickening tradition if not for anything else. jack is different, the way only he is and has ever been, and if he stokes the fire within her, it is of a different variation altogether; he is not immune, whatever he may say, and her eyes open a little more as he almost takes a fall — she only does not give him a jab right there and then because he is carrying her. “you gonna act like i’m heavy?” she is daring him to speak prompt denial. “or you’re tired? i can find you a replacement.” for the club, it’s unsaid, though there is a pause as she expects for his answer one could wonder — it was well known she did not trust anyone else to meddle in her affairs but him, however vague their relationship may present to the general public.
she lifts her head to glance at the door, poised features if only not for a small vein in her neck that pulsates, before she swallows her anger. maybe jack is just loud enough to wake not only her, but ercan, wherever he may be ( she hopes he is home, anyways. for him but also for herself ). her gaze shifts from awaiting, directed to the corridor, back to her partner’s face, and now, properly awoken, onyx scans his features, from the curls falling to his eyes, to his long eyelashes fanning his pretty eyes, to the mop upon his lips and then the blossoming patch of red and purple on his cheek. with familiarity, she brings one arm down, keeping another tight on his neck, as she grabs at his face, little gentleness in the manner she studies the bruise. “double shift, huh?” for most part, and for all his quirks, kaz brekker was a good enough partner, but if there was one thing she loathed about him was that jack was his, and at times felt more his than hers ( the only child of an only child, indulged all their material whims from the crib, sharing was not something they knew how to do, and even the thought of it never failed on making them quite sour ).
albeit displeasure is well - written on her chiseled features, and on the intensity her eyes lock into his, feride presses her lips to his, knuckle pressed to his hurt cheek on purpose even though her tongue seeks to caress his. it is only when they part that she moves, lifting her legs to rest around his hips to cage him in place, as her arm lowers from his neck to place upon his chest; just then, she tilts her chin, a motion for him to do the same, so she can trace a finger through the bruise, until it gives way to pink skin. “you think this shit on your face makes you look tougher to the patrons? the size of your arm does it, you don’t need to get punched in the face until you lose another tooth.” they distance themselves next, legs and arms, moving away so they may slip out of the bed through their own side. “then sleep. you look like you need it.”
they are not angry, not at all, not yet. they merely seek out to answer his question properly, and for that, she must leave the bedroom, and go down the hall, to the other occupied bedroom. the room is pitch black, but she would know the resting — if honest or pretend — frame of her child, and relief springs in her belly, making her return to the bedroom after less than a minute. “he got here later than he should have.” she points a glare in her man’s direction, the exhaustion clinging to her bones seems to be slowly dissipating, allowing her to walk back towards him. it was unfair of her, to expect him to take care of a booming club — more so now that a rat’s nest has been inexplicably blown up — and her brat, when they both had more responsibility on the hunch of their backs at his age than ercan wishes to take — jack more than feride, though she would not admit it so — yet she has no one else to blame for a child’s transgression�� than its father, and jack had been more ercan’s father than she would ever allow roebert to be ( nevermind how his eyes glint like the schonenkamps’ sometimes; she refuses to acknowledge that, careless if it means she’s blind to the truth ).
“did you see him chatting with that blonde girl again?” she doesn’t care to know all of the dregs’ names, but she knows enough of their faces, and understands it is not a romantic dalliance her son seeks. “kick her out next time.” feride’s fingers are deft as they come to undo each button of her man’s shirt, pulling it out of the pants and pushing for it to come out from his arms as she speaks. “or him.”
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location : aksoy exports offices, the financial district time : around 4 in the afternoon with : rúndís teremoana ( @teremoanas )
her feet ache rather horribly within the curved confines of the stilettos; the shoes make a soft tud on the floor at removal, sound just as muted as the one that she half - bites, half - allows out of her mouth at the momentary relief. momentary. it is just that, she knows to coach herself as such, but they also relish on the instant in which the soles of their feet dragged against the fluffiness of the rug as they crossed the room, out of habit for pacing more than anything else; opening the door and ordering a cup of tea is consequential, more than a primary demand. one last meeting and they would be able to get home before the dinner rush was to begin on her other building nearby.
the tea is so hot the temperature along with the scent tickles the nose, and they hum as they make their way back to the desk; somewhat mindlessly, they glance over the schedule for the day, noted in their assistant’s hand. the name is a well - known one, but still she raises an eyebrow, a curiosity that remains even as she has to slip her feet back in the tight lifted cages, and an employee comes to take away the empty tulip - shaped glass. “rúndís,” the name is spoken as a greeting when the healer is formally announced and let in the office, the elder’s voice not as cooly as normally, though it is not with warmth, not exactly, not that she’d admit to it. at least this one bothered to make an appointment, they tell themselves. “what would you like? coffee? biscuits?” jurda? she would have offered, four or so years ago, but ever since the mayhem then, she had been weary of anything related to the plant, paranoia driving her to refuse even a kiss from her partner if she smelled it on his breath, and so there was no estimulant to offer within the premises.
“come, sit. we are both busy women — i was told the waiting time in your service has increased these days, at least — so we musn’t waste precious time. why have you come? not to charge me of anything?” there is mockery on the furrow between her brows as she says so, enough to say she is not accustomed to this, yet she could very well see this girl doing so.
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location : aksoy manor, the geldstraat time : around 3 in the morning with : jack maitland ( @jackmait )
the entire point of a curfew was to abide to it, but ercan was growing later every night, his daring shortening her patience; with her child not home by nine, feride dines by herself, unceremoniously putting down a pen with an ink - stained hand to reach for a knife to cut the meat. by eleven, settling now in the living room, annoyance gives way to exhaustion, and, eventually, even without permission, she slips out of consciousness, an unbecoming, unusual vision of feride aksoy as her legs hang from an armchair in one side, and her head in another, lips parted and releasing small puffs. ( when the kid arrives, at a quarter to one, he knows his mother well enough, and rids himself of his shoes before even crossing the threshold of the mansion, trained steps guiding him to the servants’ quarters, where he would sneak in the second floor by their own crooked staircase ).
by the time she wakes up — her eyes are too sticky for her to bother looking at the clock — her neck is aching, and she can feel the drool sticking to the side of her face; she stirs awake at another’s touch, a small sound of disagreement slipping from between her lips. “fuck’s this,” comes out groggy, even more dragged out and whiny than her usual voice, especially as recognition eases her into realizing the familiarity roughness of the hands that lift her up in one scoop. her own fingers feel sore as she moves them after hours balled into a fist, and she clenches them around the limp neckline of his shirt, nails purposefully digging past the cloth and into the skin. “i could have broken your clavicle, you piece of shit.” if the words would normally hold no affection in them, beneath the despise there is unusual softness, further pointed out by the manner in which she shifts on jack’s arms, nose brushing against the raspiness of the beard growing out on his jawline.
“maybe i still will,” empty threats, towards him, are a decade - long built love language; there is little of the rough sentiment she speaks of as she moves again, now bringing her left arm to loop around his neck, a yawn exhaled pressing her chest closer to his. “tomorrow.”
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location : azamet, the finantial district time : around 9 or 10 in the morning with : kaz brekker @demijn
there was a lot of work feride didn't exactly need to do herself — she has more employees she should be able to count, after all, but to say she trusts them, to any extent, would be far fetched and she often made measures to keep them on their toes, such as visits to the warehouses at the exchange whenever her schedule ( or mood of the day ) allowed her to. this morning's inspection had given positive results, minimal waste of product and time, with a good calculation of the shipment time and estimate of the prices; thankfully, the deal had been struck two weeks past, before all of the unpleasantness, and she could only hope it would hold. though there was a smile on her lips as she departed from the exchange, feride could not help but to feel a coolness in her belly, as if she was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
the shoe is the first thing she sees upon entrance of azamet. dirty hands was hard to miss, after all, standing apart from the couple of patrons not for his garb — for he did choose good cuts, at least that feride could not complain — but for the aura that emanated from his person, enough to make the woman on the table next to his drag her chair to the farthest distance she could just to get away from him. for a moment, feride wishes his seat could be pushed far too, preferably away from her restaurant but with a small flutter of the lips, she makes her way to her least esteemed patron.
“mr. brekker.” slowly removing her gloves, she glances at his own clothed hands, then at the single coffee he ordered. fucking brat. “have you come to disturb my waiting staff? they are not familiar with undemanding customers such as yourself.” in public, at least, she must maintain the appearance; it is to the other patrons that her voice leaks honey, and her smile tugs at full lips, but as her eyes stay on the bastard of the barrel, they are sharp, a question stabbing at his own face. what do you want? they mean to say, but her lips do not ( yet ).
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❝ ⸻ 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃 ���𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐆𝐎𝐃, feride banu aksoy. the streets of ketterdam have struck a deal with the mercher / affiliate within the dregs. rumors throughout the barrel claim that she / they bear resemblance to melike ipek yalova. the thirty - five year old demiwoman is reputed to be both diligent and haughty, which is why the komedie brute performs control by halsey when featuring them in an act. posters plastered throughout the city by the stadwatch depicting their likeness have given them a reputation of a perfectly shining coated fruit; rip it open and see maggots eating its rot / 'all daughters turn into blood-thirsty hounds after years of licking their own wounds and biting their tongue' / looking at your reflection on the mirror and superciliously tilting your chin up; you must know how to carry the weight of a dynasty of dead looking back at you. in the end, they may be just another reason that there are no good men in @ketterdamhqs.
statistics • timeline • background ( wip ) • wanted connections ( wip )
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MELIKE IPEK YALOVA | 1.03 ﹣ Mahkum
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marjorie merriweather post
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do u have a personality or just money and boobs??
All three! My personality is my fav thing about me
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Even clothed, it is unsafe to be anything but iron.
I will never unlearn how to hide.
— Cait Weiss Orcutt, from “RESEDA,” VALLEYSPEAK
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Euripides, from Medea; tr. by Oliver Taplin
﹙ Text ID: CHORUS LEADER: You would become the wretchedest of women. MEDEA: Then let it be. ﹚
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one thing you have to understand is sometimes a girl will express her need to kill and you just have to be understanding. this is natural just like shoplifting
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The Gilded Age (s1, 2022)
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sharp objects, gillian flynn.
#❝ 𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 ? — ⧼ analysis ⧽#feat. serdar aksoy.#feat. roebert schonenkamp.
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Considering killing him so that I don't have to love him anymore.
#❝ 𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 ? — ⧼ demeanor ⧽#feat. jack maitland.#feat. ercan schonenkamp.
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“This girl wore her attractiveness not as a girl should, simply, consciously, as a happy crown of pleasure, but rather as a murderous utensil with which she might wound indiscriminately right and left.”
— Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square, 1941.
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