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❝ 'M not supposed to talk about it, ma'am, ❞ Caitie mumbles, fidgeting anxiously with her clothes to hide the scars that the agent had glimpsed and enquired about --- On her collarbones and shoulders, and more that are hidden under her clothing still. ❝ I ... FBI are kind of cops, right ? They told me not to tell any cops what happened. ❞

✧ ∴ ❝ @beyondthescully

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Caitie can afford Hannibal's therapy, in her "Hannibal" verse, despite her family being lower-middle class/poor, because after she and her girlfriend were attacked by local boys, including the mayor's son, the mayor gave her parents a lot of money in exchange for not pressing charges.

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Caitie tends to wear jackets and sweaters that are too big for her. She likes the weight and the pressure of them, and often hides her hands in the sleeves. She sees the dense fabric as a sort of barrier or shield between the world and herself.

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CAITLYN  ❝ CAITIE ❞  REYNOLDS EDITS  :  (  026  /  ?  )

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❝ Why is it that social situations never really go the way I act them out in the shower ? ❞ 

✧ ∴ ❝  𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍  !

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❝ Aw... ❞ She glances around quickly, as though making sure the coast is clear.

❝ Fuck. ❞

✧ ∴ ❝ OPEN STARTER

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Some of Caitie’s stimmy behaviors include:

Hand-flapping when excited

Hand-wringing when nervous/scared/upset

Chewing on whatever she has in reach, including her own fingers if there’s nothing else available

Playing with the elastic tie of her cane

Picking at the label on her cane

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THE CORRUPTION BEGINS WITH THE MOUTH, THE TONGUE, THE WANTING - THE FIRST POEM IN THE WORLD IS: I WANT TO EAT. independent, selective, and mutually exclusive, & mixed canon. primarily series & silence of the lambs based, with headcanon influence, & very little taken from the books by thomas harris. THEMES OF: blood, gore, cannibalism, murder / mass murder, & more are present. follow at your OWN RISK.

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•   name   : caitlyn maxine reynolds   •   alias   :   caitie, caitiecat •   gender   :   she / her •   orientation   :   demisexual biromantic •   species   :   human •   occupation   :   student

•   face claim(s)   :   liana liberato, natalia dyer ( alt ) •   voice claim(s)   :  liana liberato

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nbc’s  hannibal ( 2013 - 2015 )  pt  2 ↪  req’d  by  anon.  s01e07 - s01e013.  alter  as  you  see  fit.  trigger  warnings  for  death,  gore,  violence,  sexual  themes

“there is a distinctive brutality.”

“come over and i will cook for you.”

“he used to throw such exquisite dinner parties.”

“it’s fairly evident the man’s dead just by looking at him.”

“[name left his last victim in a church pew using his tongue as a page marker in the bible he was holding.”

“he looks normal. and nobody can tell what he is.”

“i kind of kinda thought you’d be there which … isn’t why i was there.”

“i think that we would make good friends.”

“i have conversations with a version of you and hope that the actual you gets what he needs.”

“red or white?”

“i discovered that we are cheese folk.”

“i transferred my passion for anatomy into the culinary arts.”

“did you think it was a date?”

“you avoided being in a room alone with me essentially since i met you.”

“well, i wanted to kiss her since i met her.”

“murder houses don’t fetch big money in today’s real estate market.”

“i promise i won’t try to kiss you again.”

“i have feelings for you, [name]. but i can’t just have an affair with you.”

“this is possibly the finest salad i’ve ever eaten in my life.”

“i know what monsters are. you’re a victim.”

“i can feel my nerves clicking like, uh, roller coaster cogs, pulling up to the inevitable long plunge.”

“there’s a grandiosity to the violence that i imagined that feels more real than what i know is true.”

“i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and i looked right through me, past me, as if i was a was just a stranger.”

“i know what kind of crazy i am, and this isn’t that kind of crazy.”

“well brain scans can’t diagnose, uh, mental disorders.”

“just do me a favour and publish it posthumously.”

“i tried to be a good mom.”

“why are you still here when the both of us know that this is bad for you?”

“you made me think i was somebody else, and now who knows what i’m thinking?”

“so maybe i’m not supposed to be in a relationship.”

“would have been fun to cozy up with your dogs in front of a space heater.”

“now, this relationship between you and me, this can do us both some good.”

“it’s like remembering something from your childhood, and you’re not sure if it’s your memory or a friend’s memory, and then you realise sadly it’s just some photo in an old book.”

“he hasn’t answered his phone since yesterday, didn’t show up to work today.”

“you know, it’s hard to shake off something that’s already under your skin.”

“[name], you’re having an episode.“

“although you may not feel like it, i need you to smile.”

“you’re in no state to go anywhere but the hospital.”

“it’s hard to be with another person when you can’t get out of your own head.”

“you look pretty.”

“people who have what you have can recover with shock treatment.”

“it feels more like a horrible dream where i killed my friend.”

“[name] was just a dumb kid who was really messed up because his sister was murdered.”

“you’re looking for an explanation, an explanation that makes all of this okay.”

“i’d hate to damage anyone’s reputation unnecessarily.”

“thank god for small favours.”

“[name] has been victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts.”

“you have any idea where they might be going?”

“maybe you shouldn’t have checked yourself out of the hospital.”

“i think you’re still sick.”

“i’m afraid you’re gonna have to leave.”

“i can’t pretend i don’t know you and i can’t pretend we both don’t know what I’m finding under your nails.”

“i guess you dodged a bullet with me.”

“grieving is an individual process with a universal goal: the truest examination of the meaning of life and the meaning of its end.”

“young people are supposed to be the lenses through which we see ourselves living beyond this life.”

“it’s hard to accept that i could fail them both so profoundly.”

“i’m willing to change my mind should the evidence change.”

“all sense of who you are has been distorted by your illness.”

“you are alone because you are unique.”

“i smoked the veal on a pyre of dry hay. it imparts a unique smouldering flavour to the meat and to the room.”

“thank you for indulging me.”

“you seemed like you needed to talk.”

“you develop relationships with people who are prone to violence.”

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Verses:

MARVEL/SUPERPOWERS: Caitie has the ability to make herself unnoticed. Not invisible, she doesn’t disappear or anything, but unnoticeable. When she wants to, with enough focus, she can compel others to overlook/ignore her as though she isn’t there at all. Anyone who attempts to speak of or even think of her while she’s doing this will become distracted and forget what it was they were about to speak of.

HDM/DÆMON AU: Caitie's dæmon is named Alcaeus. He's a little bit of an anomaly, as he hasn't settled yet, despite Caitie being a teenager.

HANNIBAL: After Caitie and her girlfriend are attacked by a group of homophobic boys in their small town, her parents move her to Baltimore, Maryland to try to separate Caitie from the town and the trauma (It also separates her from her girlfriend, which makes Caitie even more miserable). They put her in therapy, but Caitie is reluctant to participate.

More TBA

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Caitie grew up in the tiny rural town of Norcross, Ohio. It's small enough to be officially classified as a village. She was pulled out of public school in fourth grade, due to harassment by her peers over her disability and her autism. She was homeschooled from that point on, and rarely left her house. During the summer she was sixteen, she decided to be adventurous and left home alone to go into town. She wandered into the local family-owned bakery and literally bumped into Mariana Esparza, the owner's granddaughter. The two of them bonded over their "outsider" status (Caitie being disabled and Mariana being the daughter and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants), and eventually fell in love.

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An important thing to remember: Caitie has glasses. Because of the intensity of her disability and strength of her prescription, her glasses are thick. I don’t have icons of my faceclaims in glasses, due to a lack of resources but they are always there. She will also, in addition, always be seen with a mobility cane, even if I don’t mention it in threads. If she is anywhere other than her own home, the cane will always be either in her hand or folded in her lap or bag if she’s sitting.

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Liana as Young Joanne in Jake Squared, part 1.

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Caitie was born extremely premature, and developed a condition called retinopathy of prematurity, which caused her to lose vision entirely in her left eye and her depth-perception and peripheral vision in her right eye. All she can see is whatever is directly in front of her.

As a result of her prematurity, she was extremely sheltered by her parents, in a way that was not entirely healthy for Caitie.

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❝ I just sweep it side to side like this, see ? ❞  She demonstrates with a small arc in the empty space before her, the roller tip of her white cane making a soft, barely-audible clicking as it moves against the ground.  

❝ The vibrations help me sense what’s on the ground, so that if there’s something in front of me or blocking the way, I feel my cane touch it so I know it’s there and don’t walk into it and hurt myself. ❞

✧ ∴ ❝  OPEN STARTER !