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you don't fight fair but that's okay, see if i care. knock me down, it's all in vain. i get right back on my feet again. hit me with your best shot. why don't you hit me with your best shot. hit me with your best shot. fire away!

basics.

name: daisy anne hookum. meaning: much like the beloved bloom, it's a name that embraces the sweetest elements of daylight, unfurling itself to the sun's rays; grace. nickname: days. birthday: june 26th. cancer. age: twenty. pronouns: she + her. sexuality: pansexual. siblings: abigail (sister, 18), natalie (sister, 16), leah (sister, 14). parents: jack hookum (father), charlotte hookum nee banks (mother). languages: english. current residence: flat in london. current job: author. secondhand bookstore. born: baton rouge, louisiana.

wizard fun.

former hogwarts house: hufflepuff. former affiliation: neutral. pet: grey short-haired cat; boo. blood status: half-blood. species: witch. patronus: elephant. boggart: the ghosts of her family. amortentia scent: wet grass, coffee, quill ink, gillywater. wand type: cedar. unicorn core. 11".

appearance.

height: 5'7" hair color: black. eye color: brown. hair style: long and wavy. fashion style: comfortable. fc: samantha logan.

personality.

+ playful, curious, protective, active - scatterbrained, worrywart, obsessive theme song: hit me with your best shot by pat benatar.

bio.

born in the states, baton rouge, louisiana, daisy was in a loving family and first of four girls. charlotte and jack hookum couldn’t have been happier with their clan. daisy was a gem from the first day and always had a mothering instinct. she would play with her dolls and stuffed animals with care until her first sister, abigail, was born. she finally had a human being to focus her love and attention on. she helped her parents and they loved seeing the connection the two had from the first day. then came along the next two siblings, natalie and leah. daisy was thrilled. she kept expecting more children would come but that would be the end of siblings. charlotte and jack certainly had their hands full but could always count on daisy. the house was a busy one but a loving busy house. none of the daughters ever felt like they were taken for granted. daisy herself made sure she gave as much care to each of them as she could and charlotte and jack would never find themselves ignoring any of their children who always came first.

while being such an integral part of the family, daisy showed signs of magic. she was able to make plants grow without trying. the house had a beautiful garden outside that she had created. it was the thing she had for herself. her bedroom was blooming. she didn’t know how she could do it but it brought her joy. when she was eight years old her parents sat her down and explained that charlotte was a witch and that meant that daisy had the chance to have those abilities and it appeared she did. daisy was taken aback but excited by the word magic. when she was told she would be going to a special school to hone her skills, daisy became uneasy about leaving her family. charlotte promised her that she had some of her best days at ilvermorny and not to worry because she had a few years to get used to the idea.

having grown up in louisiana, it came as a big surprise when her parents told the family that they were moving to england due to a job her mother got. they didn’t tell them that it was at the ministry of magic but that it was a huge opportunity that they couldn’t pass up. ten year old daisy’s mind was spinning. she was ten years old and expecting to go to ilvernorny, something she was preparing for. now she was going to be expected to go somewhere else that was brand new. her mother couldn’t promise hogwarts would be the best days of her life. shortly after the move, daisy received her letter. she was nervous but refused to let it get the best of her. she was tough and could handle it. she would be the first of her family to enter such an adventure. she could always write letters to her family and see them at breaks. she had photos that she planned on posting around her room.

when daisy got to hogwarts, she was blown away by the view of the castle from the boats. again, her head was spinning. she couldn’t believe how beautiful it was and hoped that her experience would be just as lovely as that experience. and when she walked into the great hall the experience was only enhanced. butterflies lived in her stomach when she saw that people had to put a hat on to say where you belonged in the school. it told her hufflepuff. a long table of students stood and clapped as she walked to them, not knowing what it meant but felt welcomed as she held her head up high. daisy was proud. she had to be and refused to be anything less.

daisy did well in her classes. she got good marks, nothing outstanding, but grades that got her through and that she was proud enough of. however, the classes she excelled in were history of magic and muggle studies. it was these classes that shaped who she would become as an adult. the war only cemented what she thought about doing later in life.

during the war, daisy spent a lot of time with her family. she stayed neutral but was scared for her family seeing as how she herself was a half-blood and had family that were muggles. she would try her best to fight for her family. if something happened to them, something would happen to her. she wouldn’t let them go down without her. luckily it never came to that. they were safe and daisy was relieved.

after the war, daisy returned to her flat and returned to her job at the secondhand bookstore where she felt at home. she began writing notes about ideas of what she wanted to do with her life. the idea she had before the war was finally going to happen. she was going to prepare herself to live a full year without any magic. she wanted to live as a muggle and write about her experience. she hoped that in doing so the magical world would see that being a muggle has its own magic and to not fear what muggles have to offer the world. daisy hasn’t started her year as of yet but is preparing.

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seadcgs-a · 10 months

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GENERAL INFORMATION

NAME: Charlotte Anne Brewster

NICKNAMES/TITLES: Charlie, Lottie ( VERY select people; namely the Washingtons ), Annie (by her papa, sometimes), Mascot of the Continental Army (by everyone in camp), Brat (by Bradford, Arnold, a few others in camp)

SPECIES: Human

AGE: 15, (mainly playing younger)

GENDER: Cis Female

DATE OF BIRTH: 8 July, 1778

NOTE-WORTHY ABILITIES: hatchet throwing, musket firing, embroidery, cooking, horseback riding

CURRENT RESIDENCE: The Continental Army camp, Setauket (Post War, briefly), Connecticut (Post War), Mt. Vernon, Virginia (during winter months)

OCCUPATION: Does being the middle child count? (Thinks shes the oldest, for a while)

AFFILIATIONS: The Continental Army, 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, the Patriots

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French, Latin, a few words in Iroquoian

PERSONALITY

ALIGNMENT: Chaotic good

ASSETS: switchblade, tin whistle

FLAWS: Naiveté, quick temper

LIKES: going barefoot, the wind in her hair, playing in the woods around camp, spending time in sackett's tent/shop, time on the water with her papa, her younger sister georgie, older sister kaia (eventually), playing hide & seek with uncle robert, playing soldiers with uncle nate, the smell of the salty sea air, campfires, worn leather

DISLIKES: the british, simcoe, arnold, sitting still in one spot for a long period of time, washing laundry, cleaning things, homophobia, transphobia

FEARS/PHOBIAS: fear of abandonment, letting her family down, getting kidnapped, getting hanged

CONNECTIONS

FAMILY: Caleb Brewster (Papa), Benjamin Tallmadge (Dad/Dada), Georgia "Georgie" Lynn (younger sister), Kaia Elizabeth (Older sister), Nate (uncle), Anna Strong (Aunt), Abraham Woodhull (Uncle), Mary Woodhull (Aunt), Thomas Woodhull, Jr, "Sprout" (calls him a cousin), General Washington (surrogate Grandfather, calls him Gampa ), Martha Washington (surrogate Grandmother, calls her Gamma ), Nathaniel Tallmadge ( biological Grandfather, calls him Grandfather), Nathaniel Sackett ( surrogate Grandfather, calls him Pops (learned it from Caleb, he hates it but he can't tell her no), Robert Rogers (Uncle), Robert Townsend (Uncle), Edmund Hewlett (Uncle), Akinbode (Uncle), Abigail (Auntie), Cicero ( sort-of cousin)

FRIENDS: Georgia, Kaia, Nate, Sprout, a few other children in Setauket, New York & Connecticut; her stuffed bear, Bubba

ROMANTIC INTEREST: none, yet, but she grows up to be bisexual, so she has a lot of options, and what with being a Congressman's daughter & the Presidents (sort-of) granddaughter, she has a lot of opportunities for suitors--male, female & non-binary alike.

ENEMIES: simcoe, the british navy, other queens rangers, traitors to the cause, richard woodhull

OTHERS: none atm

FACTS AND TRIVIA: she says she was born in setauket, if anyone asks, but she was actually born in a small barn on the outskirts of the continental army camp. she loves wearing hats, especially her papa's. usually has her hair in two braids or loose, trailing down her back. the only time she has her hair up and (semi) neat is if she's at an event with her grandfather(s), church, or at whitehall. (richard wouldn't allow her in otherwise)

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Also! What do you think of Cesare's relationship with Charlotte (and how it's fictionalized in the various TV shows/movies etc)? A lot of his biographers tend to think that Charlotte didn't like him/wasn't willing (I'm looking at Bradford especially), but I'm reading Miron's biography of Charlotte and it's interesting that they both do seem to admire and respect each other at least. Why do people default to thinking she was unwilling?

Anon, was this ask a cont. of the ask about Cesare’s mistresses? if not, let me know because it’s possible tumblr eat it. So, let’s talk about history first, because history affects fiction and/or fiction affects history, they do feed off each other a lot, I have noticed. When I first started reading about the Borgia family, and about Cesare in particular, I didn't had many thoughts about them tbh, it seemed to me their marriage was simply a political alliance, and that Charlotte was of no importance to Cesare, and her grief over him was bizarre. I think those are common thoughts to have, esp. if you start out by reading Bradford's bios, which was the case for me. But over the years, reading other sources and the historical documents regarding them, (and actually, there is a good amount of documentary evidence about them, I was surprised) my initial thoughts changed gradually because a different picture started to emerge. Once I found documents and new info, I begun to understand the faults and inconsistencies in what I had previously read and concluded about them, and with this mental update came a new assessment about their relationship, one which matched the evidence I encountered, and one that more accurately approximated the reality, as much as it is possible when it comes to the past and people’s private lives, anyways. My thoughts about them now, anon, it's that they actually had a loving relationship, if also bittersweet. It’s true their union was primarily a political alliance, as noble marriages tended to be, but it seems their case was also one of those cases where fortunately politics, duty and love matched. As in the case of King Louis and Anne of Brittany, or even Lucrezia Borgia and Alfonso d’Aragona. When looking at the historical material, it’s hard to miss Cesare and Charlotte shared feelings for each other, which seems to have never faded away, not even with time and the distance between them. Cesare plainly had a high opinion of his wife, and he shows himself to have been an affectionate, indulgent, responsible husband to her. Biographers tend to focus way too much on the distance aspect of their relationship, or make modern judgements of the fact Cesare seems to have a mistress by his side after he went back to Italy (as most noblemen did) to condemn him yet again, or to dismiss the importance of Charlotte in his life, and they miss or ignore the little details (and their significance) in the actions Cesare consistently made in regards to Charlotte and their child, Louise. He obviously cared about them, and he seems to have tried really hard to bring them to Italy, and to secure their well being. I find it harsh whenever I see biographers doubting the sincerity of his efforts to bring his wife and child to Italy. Claiming it was all an act from him, for reasons they never care to explain, or at least explain properly, it's speculation without any evidential basis to warrant it. There is a stubborn ill-will and cynicism with Cesare by biographers in general that I find quite interesting on a intellectual level, but also deeply unfair and dishonest. There is this trend of always assuming the worst from him, so even when they are confronted by evidence which shows his good actions and/or qualities, they are quick to suspect how genuine it is, and they have to add something negative, dark to it, or ulterior motives. In any case, Cesare failed at the first one, because ultimately it wasn't up to him to bring his wife and child to his side, it was up to King Louis, whom for political reasons seems to have found it valuable to kept Charlotte and Louise as political hostages in France, and that imo, only further suggests their importance to Cesare (you don't kept hostages of no value to the person you want something from), but it only takes one look at the long and impressive inventory of Charlotte d'Albret, how wealthy she became by marrying Cesare and remained so, even after his death, and the marriages Louise was able to make, to know he succeeded at the second. Their good situation is directly linked to Cesare's actions towards them when he was alive. To me, the bittersweet point of their relationship is that it seems the politics which brought them together was the same one who kept them apart, a common situation with noble marriages, too, and it looks it pained and frustrated both of them tbh. Charlotte never ceases to insist Cesare returns to her in France, and Cesare insists she joins him in Italy. Eventually, I think both realized their hands were tied, Charlotte couldn’t disobey or defy the King’s wishes, without his outspoken, written permission, she couldn’t leave France. And Cesare, even if he wanted to, couldn’t leave Italy, I don’t believe that’s something pope Alexander would have permitted (and he would have needed the permission from the both the Pope and the father, he was hardly free to do whatever he wanted as it is claimed by some authors), and his whole life, that of his family, were there. In the end, I think they understood they had to be patient and wait until the political scenario changed, until Cesare wasn’t so dependent on the French and King Louis. And it looked one of those times were when Cesare managed to scape his prison in Spain, and went to Navarre, Charlotte’s brother court. It’s possible both of them then might have thought they were close to finally reunite, and idk if you came across this, but around this time there is a letter from Cesare to King Louis where he tenderly refers to Charlotte as "sua carissima sposa/ his dearest wife", but unfortunately death entered the scene, and they never saw each other again. That’s something that makes me sad wherever I read about it, it’s sad how long they waited, how much they seemed to have desired to see each other and be together, how much they tried along the years, and it’s sad Cesare never met his daughter. And you know, about Charlotte herself, I really do think she was a more interesting, intelligent woman than Borgian biographers usually think or recognize her of being, she certainly impressed Cesare and I don’t think that was an easy thing to accomplish. It's a shame the little space she occupies in quite a few of Cesare's biographies, for example, but even so, the evidence on her side of things equally shows her as an affectionate, kind, and loyal wife to Cesare. She entered marriage with him happily, not only for what it brought her family, but also because she seemed quite smitten for him (as he was for her), they matched well, perhaps from the first moment they met, who knows, and one impressed the other, that's more certain. Charlotte is noted as a blissfully happy bride after the marriage, and we have her letter to Pope Alexander, where she says she’s very pleased with the Duke (Cesare). Moreover her actions during Cesare's downfall, and after his death, corroborates even more that she loved her husband. It is recorded she entered a profound state of grief, (and taking into account all the evidence which shows Cesare was a good husband to her, her grief does not look bizarre then, it makes perfect sense I would say) she never remarried although she was young, and she could have, and she pretty much retired from public/courtly life. She devoted herself to the upbringing of their child, Louise, and she died only a few years after Cesare, strangely in the same month of March, and only one day before he did. So, why biographers, especially Bradford, tend to think Charlotte didn't like Cesare, and/or they default to thinking she was an unwilling bride? *sighs in spanish* I think it has a lot to do with what I'm always talking about in this blog, with the fact Cesare's historical literature has quite a bit of faults and vices, and those are very particular. It's not the same faults and vices of Rodrigo or Lucrezia's historical literature, for example. And when discussing this theme, of his relationship with Charlotte d'Albret, some of these faults and vices do get in the way of a honest, fact-based assessment and presentation of things. Cesare usually receives a narrow, simplistic, oftentimes misleading presentation by many of his biographers. The main issue is that they tend to see him through the lens of Machiavelli's writings, or even worst, from other Florentine or Venetian writings, and that causes incorrect assumptions about him, as a person, as a man, but more to the subject at hand here, as a husband. The conventional picture of him is of a insensitive, unscrupulous, utterly selfish, cruel, and power-hungry man. He wasn't the devil they say, but he was a pretty bad individual, it’s their conclusion. it doesn't matter how hard it is to find evidence to support this view or all the contradictions to it, especially in connection to Charlotte, he is seen and presented this way, like a Machiavellian prince in other words. And when it comes to his personal life, his romantic life, this view is applied to it as well, and it is a fertile ground for unsupported claims and assumptions. It's super easy to make conclusions which are not necessarily, or at all, true. Adding to that, there is also the reccurent issue, perhaps obsession of scholars, of constantly overemphasizing Cesare's relations with his sister, Lucrezia, with exaggerate, romantic narratives of Lucrezia being his only exception, the only woman he ever had an emotional bond with, and/or respected, which it’s demonstrably false, as I later found out. That's where Bradford enters, interesting you singled her out among Cesare's biographers, because yes, she is particularly dismissive of Charlotte and Cesare's relationship with her. I think in her case, it's due to her feelings for the Cesare/Lucrezia relationship. She carries such a huge flag for them, (it's uncomfortable to read it if you want serious history, not fiction), so she ends up ignoring Charlotte, and any other woman in Cesare's life for that matter, to always give prominence to Lucrezia as the only woman in his life he loved and respected. It is a narrative other scholars have taken more or mess, but Bradford as I said before, does take it to a whole new level, and she kinda has a way of molding the informaton to favour certain pictures about the Borgia family and Cesare that she wants to convey to the reader, she is not alone in doing that, but she does do it a lot throughout her bios, so in this instance, Charlotte and other women, are all presented, according to her, as either politics or bodies to Cesare, which misrepresents Cesare himself and the facts known about his life, but also that of Charlotte and these other women. To be fair, I do think she really believes Charlotte was a non-entity to Cesare, similar in the way Sabatini believed Lucrezia and other women in Cesare's life were non-entities to him, but unlike Sabatini, the reason for Bradford, in my view, is because she is invested with the Cesare and Lucrezia relationship. It's all over the place in her writing, so maybe there you can find an explanation for her claims/thinking about Charlotte, Cesare’s and Charlotte’s relationship, as well as Cesare and women. Now, with other biographers, it's more complex, and it's difficult to understand their thought process in their presentations. I'm gonna say that overall, one possibility they default to thinking and saying Charlotte was an unwilling bride, or that she didn't liked Cesare, is caused by what I said before: they perceive Cesare as this Machiavellian prince, not a monster perhaps, but a bad individual, a “bad man”, and in turn Charlotte herself is described in history as a kind and pious young lady, a “good woman” (that alone is enough to put any woman in the category of victim by some, and it seems it's no different with Charlotte) and that's all she is perceived as of being to them. Given these are two drastically different ideas, it's the opposite of personalities, I think it's then very easy to conclude Charlotte must have not liked Cesare, did not liked him, and that she was forced by her father to marry him, etc, and proceed to ignore the evidence suggesting otherwise. Another possibility could be they don't go deep into the primary sources, and they just take what secondary sources, mainly modern schoalars have said in their works, or maybe, and this can be mixed with the first one, they can't divorce the image of the Legend of Cesare Borgia, the terrible reputation he acquired in history by his enemies from the young Cesare Borgia who went to France in 1499, and whom Charlotte met. But as Bonnaffé points out in his work about Charlotte, in that year of 1499, Cesare's reputation wasn't the one he acquired later by his enemies, therefore King Louis, the French court, Charlotte's family, and Charlotte herself would not have any motive to not like him or not want to associate with him:

"It has been claimed that Louis XII had abused his influence over the King of Navarre to throw his sister into the arms of a Borgia, and Charlotte was made the romantic victim of a selfish and shameless policy. [...]at the time of his marriage, [César] had just left the Roman purple to follow the career of arms; he was not yet the terrible captain, the relentless defender of the patrimony of St. Peter's, that the resentment of his enemies, and talent of Machiavelli have so prodigiously overdone it in the face of history. Would Louis XII have shown so much insistence to keep near him the infernal monster imagined by some authors? Would he have adopted him, by letters patent, in the name and arms of France? Would he have boasted to the d'Albret family and included in the marriage contract the great virtues of the Valentinois, that was so easy to be kept in silence? Anne de Bretagne, Charlotte's guardian, would she have been complicit in a shameful deal for her maid of honor? As well, the trial of the Borgias is very close to being judged; we know at last what the Diarium of Burchard is worth and its often questionable authenticity, the account of Tomaso Tomasi, who never knew César, and the stories of Paul Jove, whose testimony, wage earner or not, is still suspect.

- Inventaire de la duchesse de Valentinois, Charlotte d'Albert, Edmond Bonnaffé.

Maybe there’s an explanation there for them in their conclusions/their thinking about Charlotte, Cesare and their relationship. It is odd because sometimes you have biographers like Sacerdote, who offers such a rich, extensive documentation about this theme (as many others), but whose work is so incredibly bipolar lol. He goes on so many back and forths it can make you dizzy, I gave up trying to understand his thought process by the end of my reading of his book, it’s like two different people, with different views, wrote that book, or it was affected by his moods, idk, but when it comes to Charlotte and Cesare, you have him acknowledging the marriage alliance pleased Charlotte, and that she loved Cesare tenderly, with passion, his words, and she wanted him at her side to Poor Charlotte! who was forced by her father to marry such a dissolute man, a tyrant! and her sad state after Cesare leaves is somehow his fault, even though he argues against this view, and the guilt other scholars have imputed to him, of allegedly abandoning her in France, and not caring about her in one of his chapters in the same book, haha. To me, it always look like historians wanting to do proper historical work, but at the same time not being able to resist playing the gossiper with some things, or they can’t accept certain truths the material reveals about Cesare and his life when looked at seriously, they can’t let go of certain perceptions and assumptions they have about him, so they include all that alongside the material, and it’s often very confusing and incoherent. Miron is an interesting read, though, isn’t? I’m glad you brought him up because I find his work so valuable to learn more about Charlotte herself, and in terms of documentation about her marriage to Cesare. I appreciated his objectivity in regards to that, he was by no means sympathetic to Cesare, and he doesn’t have to be, but he didn't let that get in the way of his research and presentation. Despite how he felt about Cesare personally, (which he made it clear more than one time throughout his work, and some of his personal conclusions about Cesare and Charlotte) he was honest, at least, to accept and put forth that at least as far as Charlotte was concerned, all the evidence shows Cesare treated her with nothing but affection, kindness and respect. He aimed to please her as much as he could, he wasn’t indifferent to her, and although we can’t know the extent of their love for each other, there was love between them, and it wasn’t small. They had an impact with each other and in each other’s lives, that much is clear. It does seems they admired and respected each other, yes, certainly Cesare shows he trusted his wife with his personal affairs, which coming from him, it's always significant. He wasn't an utterly suspicious man as it is sometimes said, but like his father, he was a careful man, and there’s a small group of people, usually family members, with whom he trusted with his personal affairs, and Charlotte is in this group. He trusted her and her capacity it seems, and again that hints at Charlotte's intelligence and refutes the image she was an empty-headed, naive girl who knew nothing of politics and adminstration. It's pretty cool to see later on that Cesare was right in his assessment of her and that she was worthy of his trust, because not only did she do all she could in order to help Cesare and obtain his release from the Spaniard prisons, she administered the territories in his/their possession in a wise, just, and responsible manner until the end of her life. It might have confused Miron to learn all of this, I think, it's the impression I get anyways, but he exposes it all the same, so again, I appreciated that. His work alongside Bonnaffé, Alvisi and Sacerdote are the ones which have the best historical research and exposing of the documents available about Charlotte, Cesare and their relationship, no doubt. Now, let's talk fiction, I think it follows the vices and faults of Cesare's literature I mentioned above, in many adaptations Charlotte doesn't even show up, and when she does, she and her relationship with Cesare receives a quick and poor portrayal. It's portrayed as an expedient marriage, with a Charlotte that has no personality, although in all adaptations I've seen, she is or becomes fond of Cesare. But on Cesare's side, it's where you have all the myths I'd say, with the portrayals of him being cold or indifferent to her, there's at least more than one adaptation where you have a scene of him ridding off and leaving Charlotte behind, which alludes to the historical narrative that he left her in France and never thought of her again because she was nothing but politics to him. In recent adaptations, Showtime's The Borgias and Borgia: Faith and Fear, there's a slight advancement in terms of Charlotte, because at least it gives her a little bit more of personality, and in terms of the relationship, Showtime's the Borgias depicts the whole thing as a political alliance and she is still of no importance to Cesare, their relations to one another is quick and superficial, so no advancement there, but in Borgia: FF, there’s a good advancement, it is the most faithful depiction of their relationship I’ve seen in fiction so far. I'd say it is one of the very few aspects about Cesare and his life in that show which are generally historically correct. For some reason, Fontana seemed to have paid attention to the historical material there, and wanted to follow it to the letter, without distortions. However, both shows do that thing of bringing the future into the past, meaning: In Showtime's The Borgias you have Charlotte saying she couldn't imagine living in Rome, and Cesare saying she wouldn't have to, and in Borgia: FF you have Charlotte saying to herself, once Cesare departs, that she knows she will never see him again. More importantly, both creators feel the need to include Lucrezia there somehow, because both of them, in different ways, put the Cesare and Lucrezia relationship as the main romantic couple of their stories, and here is where I think we get to the root of the problem with the portrayals of Cesare and Charlotte in fiction: Cesare, romantically speaking, is never allow to exist outside of his relationship with Lucrezia, the incest myth is so strong and entwined in his historical figure and life, it always ends up having some influence, no matter what. And it’s also fundamental for the traditional, popular conception of the Borgia family as an immoral, corrupted, dysfunctional family.You can’t exactly have that without the incest myth and the fratricide myth. If Cesare’s romantic life and his relationship with Charlotte are shown honestly, it would undermine the incest myth and Cesare and Lucrezia as the main romantic couple, the star-crossed lovers, the sinners in these stories, which in turn would undermine the traditional portrayal of the Borgia family. Even when authors are not overall unsympathetic to the Borgias, and they do not see them as “evil people”, say for example as Mario Puzo in his The Family (which heavily influenced Neil Jordan’s The Borgias btw), nevertheless they are fond of this layout of the family and of exploring the incest myth and keeping it alive. So naturally, exploring and showing the loving, healthy relationship between Cesare and Charlotte, or even between Lucrezia and Alfonso, without falling into the cliches of portraying Cesare as the bad guy who has incestuous feelings for his sister and it’s jealous of her with Alfonso, and therefore he murders Alfonso, is not interesting to them. There's a preference for the abnormal relationships over normal ones because it sells, the more drama and scandal the better. And for artists, it gives them a free card to do all kinds “artistic choices” or include tales of morality, artificially making links between the Borgia’s times and our own, which makes it easier for the casual reader/watcher to resonate with the story told, or sometimes of using the Borgias to exemplify their personal views about the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican. As a result of all this, similar to history, Charlotte has to be downplayed, stay in the background, or be completely ignored, and the Cesare/Charlotte relationship has to be simplified, they can’t be the main romantic couple, because that would get in the way of the Borgia incest myth, as well as other narratives around the Borgia family, and more specifically about Cesare. But you know, for the most part, their portrayal in fiction is not too bad, and it could be worse for sure, it’s just sad there isn’t much honest content about them, I think they deserve it.

#anon ask #ask answered #cesare borgia #charlotte d'albret #house borgia in history #house borgia in fiction #tusertha

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conflicted-crowd · 3 years

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Muses and Faceclaims

Will give bios upon request

Harry Potter

Harry Potter - Daniel Radcliffe

Hermione Granger - Emma Watson

Molly Weasley - Julie Walters

Ginny Weasley - Bonnie Wright

Fred Weasley - James Phelps

Charlie Weasley - Sam Heughan

Draco Lucius Malfoy - Tom Felton

Newt Scamander - Eddie Redmayne

Severus Snape - Alan Rickman

Alexander Snape - Finn Wittrock

Victor Simon Napoleon Silverwick - Julian Morris

Donavon Andrews - Domhnall Gleeson

Nathan Christopher Wells - Luke Newberry

Scarlet Wells - Julianne Moore

Twilight

Oliver Cullen - Timothée Chalamet

Jasper Hale - Jackson Rathbone

Carlisle Cullen - Peter Facinelli

Edward Cullen - Robert Patterson

Alice Cullen - Ashley Greene

Emmett Cullen - Kellan Lutz

Rosalie Hale - Nikki Reed

Aro - Michael Sheen

Seth Clearwater - Booboo Stewart

Leah Clearwater - Julia Jones

Percy Jackson

Thomas Ryan Soleil - Calum Worthy

Theodore "Teddy" Castellan - Jake Abel

Charlotte Sienna Miles - Megan Fox

Ares - Dave Navarro

Hades - Richard Madden

Persephone - Isla Fisher

Hadestown

Orpheus - Reeve Carney

Star Wars

Zade Kalliday - Mattias Inwood

The Umbrella Academy

Allison Hargreeves - Emmy Raver-Lampman

Disney

Prince Eric - Diego Boneta

Flynn Rider - Jake Gyllenhaal

Pascal - Asa Butterfield

Pitch Black - Benedict Cumberbatch

Jack Frost (younger) - Lucky Blue Smith

Jack Frost (older) - Martin Short

Scott - John McCrea

Harry Hook - Timothy Doherty

Belle - Samantha Barks

Mirabel Madrigal - Morena Baccarin

Bruno Madrigal - Jesus Luz

Camilo Madrigal - Tre Samuels

In the Heights

Usnavi - Anthony Ramos

Dark Shadows

Barnabas Collins - Johnny Depp

Gotham

Oswald Cobblepot - Robin Lord Taylor

Jervis Tetch - Benedict Samuel

Peter "Puck" Davies - Peter Mark Kendall

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Wallace Wells - Kieran Culkin

Schitts Creek

David Rose - Dan Levy

Patrick Brewer - Noah Reid

Ted Mullens - Dustin Mulligan

Santa Clarita Diet

Joel Hammond - Timothy Olyphant

Something Rotten!

William Shakespeare - Christian Borle

Cabin Pressure

Martin Crieff - Benedict Cumberbatch

Arthur Shappey - John Finemore

Brooklyn 99

Raymond Holt - Andre Braugher

Dear Evan Hansen

Evan Hansen - Ben Platt

Be More Chill

Michael Mell - George Salazar

Shadow and Bone

Matthias Helvar - Calahan Skogman

Fedyor Kaminsky - Julian Kostov

Genya Safin - Daisy Head

iCarly

Spencer Shay - Jerry Trainor

Freddie Benson - Nathan Kress

Atypical

Zahid Raja - Nikki Dodani

Casey Gardner - Brigette Lundy-Paine

Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes - Benedict Cumberbatch

Marvel

Samantha Barnes - Katharine McPhee

Vision - Paul Bettany

Bridgerton

Anthony Bridgerton - Jonathon Bradley

Good Omens

Anthony Crowley - David Tennant

You

Joe Goldberg - Penn Badgely

Lord of the Rings

Legolas - Orlando Bloom

Pippin Took - Billy Boyd

Samwise Gamgee - Sean Astin

Faelyn Haemir - Andrew Garfield

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Lucifer Morningstar - Luke Cook

Hilda Spellman - Lucy Davis

Sabrina Spellman Morningstar- Kiernan Shipka

Prudence Blackwood - Tati Gabrielle

Jesse Scratch - Jay Hayden

Devin Ryder - Tyler Posey

Jordan Undergrove - Adam Brody

Stardust

Elysia - Zoey Deutch

Heathers

Jason Dean (JD) - Christian Slater Les Miserables

Marius Pontmercy - Eddie Redmayne

Friends

Monica Geller - Courtney Cox

Ross Geller - David Schwimmer

Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner - Thomas Gibson

Derek Morgan - Shemar Moore

Legend of the Seeker

Seraphina Renae - Amy Adams

Darken Rahl - Craig Parker

Fandomless

Rosetta Anastasia Glennwood - Dianna Agron

James Glennwood - James Spader

Sophia Ella McKenzie - Lily James

Isaiah Michael Smith - David Corenswet

Victoria Marie Julietta Harrington - Anne Hathaway

Greyson Richard Michaels - Nick Robinson

Damien Ryder Flare - Joel McHale

Travis Wright - Andrew Rannells

Daniel Storm - Cillian Murphy

Antonio Frances - Cheyenne Jackson

Jamie Taylor - Ross Lynch

Dean Taylor - Harry Connick Jr

Spencer Taylor - Evan Peters

Parker Eaton - Jonathan Groff

Tyler Eaton - Ben Platt

Warren Hall - Jordan Bridges

Xavier Collins - Tom Payne

Henry Sparks - Freddie Highmore

Axel Simmons - Chris McNally

Levi Haynes - Louis Partridge

Andrew Bentley - Aneurin Barnard

Prince Clifton Whitehall - Andrew Scott

Prince Carson Whitehall - Andrew Scott

Lane Dallaway - Ben Levi Ross

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Muse: Channe

[Bio and other information below the cut!]

Type of Character & Fandom/Source Material: Ulaeri/Elven OC from an unpublished series of books I wrote back around 2005, the main one of which was entitled The Mask of Truth. Channe appeared in the main book and in a number of associated short stories, annexes, archive letters and documents, and historical accounts of that fictional world. I used to write her over at @fxcelessqueen, if you want to peruse her blog, which is left on hiatus for now.

Full Name: Erisae Dheol, but goes by “Channe,” a human name she adopted centuries ago. It is a combination of “Charlotte” and “Anne,” two of her favorite human names.

FC (masked): Matilda Dixon (a.k.a. the Tooth Fairy) from the 2003 horror movie Darkness Falls. (pictured above... albeit with edits on most pics to make her eyes silver)

FC (unmaked/healed): 90s-era Madeleine Stowe (again, to make her eyes silver); this FC is only used in rare occasions that Channe allows her face to be healed, which... she 99% of the time doesn’t do.

VC: Tilda Swinton, not only because of her specific accent, but also her inflections when she talks. She’s very animated, lively, and quirky. She’s also just the right amount of posh and proper combined with an undertone of meaning business and having authority. Like she could kick your ass but also be entirely polite while doing it, haha. Channe definitely has the deep undertones in her voice just like her as well. The example I usually use is this video here. It’s just her talking about endorsing a car fashion line and how she got involved in designing it, so the video itself isn’t important, but it’s good for just hearing a long example of how she speaks to get a sense how Channe sounds.

Race: Ulaeri (from her father) and High Elven (from her mother).

About the Ulaeri: The Ulaeri race is a fictional one that I created. They are an isolated, small magical race that evolved from humans millennia ago. They all have white skin (not pale, white... like vampire skin heh), jet black hair, and silver/reflective eyes. The irises of their eyes look like mirrors or liquid silver and are very sensitive to light. Sunlight, firelight, or the light from magical spells can injure their eyes or blind them if it is too intense. With their eyes, they can see and discern the schools of magic from spell auras, and they can see in total darkness. Ulaeri are naturally nocturnal, with the original members of the race living inside a mountain called The Colony. Their bones emit raw magic (a clear, colorless substance that looks much like heat waves rising off a street), which is magic that has not been differentiated into a specific type or used in spellcasting. Because of this, they are hunted by humans for their bones, which are used to make wands and other magical items. They also all have natural sorcerer-like abilities because of this source of magic, however that source is also their life force. If you cast “dispel magic” on an Ulaeri individual, they will pass out, because the magic that keeps them alive will be dispelled. As long as it’s allowed to regenerate, they’ll be fine, but if you place them inside an anti-magic cage or ward, they will die within minutes. Basically... they are insanely powerful, but they have a few very exploitable weaknesses that kindof balance out how powerful they are, heh.

Gender: Female

Height: 5′ 6″

Age: 591 (Ulaeri live for 300-320 years approximately, but Channe has the lifespan of her mother, which can be up to 800 years)

Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Early on in life she was heterosexual, but now that she understand herself better, she’s asexual. She’s heteroromantic.

Occupation: Well back in the day, she was a queen. Her country no longer exists, and nowadays she prefers a much smaller and quieter life. She is happiest when running either an orphanage or a daycare, but she often has to do so remotely so as not to scare the children with her appearance.

Special Talents: Channe is a psionic warrior, meaning she has the mental abilities of a psion and can also use her powers to summon a magical weapon. She is also a natural born sorcerer, though her psionic abilities are by far the stronger.

Family: Fiuren (father, Ulaeri), Ilyssia (mother, High Elven), Saenna (twin sister), Ranewen a.k.a. Vincent (husband, Drow/High Elven), all deceased in modern AUs. Sri’hen (former lover, Ulaeri), estranged. Emily, Lylia, and Fern (adopted daughters), deceased in modern AUs.

Languages: Ulaeri, High Elven, Common (human)

Clothing: Very antiquated, and a little weird. She doesn’t like people seeing the shape of her body, something that stems from her own traumas when she was very young. So she wears a lot of robes, hoods, flowy things, and bulky things to obscure her figure. Also, she is almost never seen without her mask, certainly never in public. She only takes it off at night to sleep. Or during the day... if she’s able to maintain her natural nocturnal schedule.

Potentially Triggering Material in Threads: War, rape, disfigurement, torture, abandonment, violent murder, physical and mental abuse, suicide

Loves: Dancing (even though she hardly gets the opportunity to do it), tea, her sister, her husband, children of all races, innocence, kindness, honesty.

Hates: Her parents, her former lover (Sri’hen), deception, lies, people who take advantage of her, rapists, violence against women and children, violence against innocent people.

Negative Personality Traits: She’s reclusive and secretive; she can be arrogant and haughty; she can seem aloof or cold if she doesn’t know how to relate to you

Positive Personality Traits: Generous, kind, understanding, tolerant, empathetic, considerate, protective, assertive.

Background & General Info: I... don’t even know what to put here, haha. I have written... thousands of pages of story, history, and background on this character, so it’s kindof hard to sum her up in a nutshell. Also she is extremely private, so unless your character takes the time to really earn some serious trust or has empathic abilities that would allow them to glean more information that she would tell them, most of her past and life should remain private. Suffice it to say that she has suffered A LOT. Her life makes Wanda Maximoff’s look like a picnic. I will tell a little bit about how she got her mask, though, because that’s kindof in everyone’s face. TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR GORE, TORTURE, SUICIDE AHEAD.

When Channe was sixteen, she had a twin sister that she adored who fell in love with a human sorcerer. So... *sigh*. I’m already running into too much explanation here and I just started, heh, but in Channe’s world, her parents’ races are mortal enemies. Ulaeri and High Elves HATE each other. But then both of those races also hate humans. It’s a long story as to why all those feuds exist, but Channe’s sister falling in love with a human was a no-no for so many reasons. The human was the son of a noble as well, and Channe’s family was very poor, which only made things worse. The twins were gorgeous, so the noble had the idea to disfigure Channe’s sister to make his son not want her anymore. Except... because they were identical twins, the thugs he sent to do the deed found the wrong twin and disfigured Channe instead. Basically, they peeled the skin off her face. Everything, including ears eyelids, lips, everything. Her sister was so distraught and had such guilt that she hung herself in the family barn a few days later.

Not only did she have to deal with the death of her beloved twin, but then she had to learn to eat, speak, and just live without a face, which is incredibly difficult and painful. For the first few years, she had no mask, only covering the horrific remnants of her face with a hood. Later, she had a mask carved from wood, which chafed and was very uncomfortable. She now wears a mask that was given to her by her husband, made of magically-altered porcelain (see these posts here and here for more info). But... I’m getting ahead of myself here...

By way of extremely inadequate summary, Channe’s self-esteem tanked after she was disfigured and for the next several decades she was very unkind to herself, fell into a horribly abusive relationship, and was manipulated into becoming a tyrant. She went through a long process of gaining back the trust of the people she oppressed, entering into a much healthier relationship, becoming queen of a country she helped found, and turning it into a haven for people who had nowhere else to go... so orphans, victims of race wars and other wars, people running away from others hunting them, people in search of healing or shelter, you name it. She turned all of her trauma and hardships that she had gone through and used it to fuel her desire to help others. At its height, her country was seen as a haven for those without a voice, and she was seen as a sage ruler.

As history changed and her country declined, Channe let the maps change around her and fell into obscurity. She outlived her adopted children and husband and most other people she knew and became reclusive, but not in a bad way. She just... is living a much quieter life now after being larger than life for hundreds of years, and she’s content with that. In modern AUs, she lives in an old Victorian house and is quite happy there.

I skipped... SO MUCH... but that’s enough to get a basic idea of her. Feel free to ask me anything you like about her! Also if you go to her blog and can see the old-style pages we used to be able to make here on the desktop version of this site, I have many pages set up for her children, husband, lover, other important people, and even one about the Marionette Organization, which Marvel fans may find interesting? It’s basically the Red Room but medieval style, which is funny because I made it years before I ever knew what the Red Room even was. It was originally heavily inspired by the movie Naked Weapon (incidentally starring Maggie Q who also plays Esther, my other muse on this blog heh). It’s VERY similar to the Red Room, right down to a graduation ceremony, except theirs was two-parted and very different from Nat’s. Anyway, Channe HATES the Marionettes for a number of reasons. They’re an assassin organization that kidnaps children (both male and female) and trains them to become assassins and then hires them out to those who can afford to pay for their services. They are a major villainous organization in Channe’s world, and she spent many years of her life trying to bring them and their leader, the Puppetmaster, an extremely coldhearted woman, down. Besides that, in her haven for people who need help leaving their old lives, Channe sheltered several Marionette initiates and even graduates who wanted to redeem themselves and live better lives. One of them ended up being knighted by her and was integral in winning a pivotal war that affected her country.

Potential Starter Ideas:

Oh goodness... I don’t know, heh. She’s very difficult to just... start a thread with. You might catch her out on a walk? In a park? Something like that?

Your muse could go to her house for some reason. By accident, as a solicitor, in need of help, etc.

Your muse could have grown up in one of her orphanages or daycares, or be inquiring about one of them for some reason.

Your muse could have a magical problem they need to discuss with her.

Also both modern and medieval AUs are available, like if you wanted to set something in my fictional medieval fantasy world, I’m game. Otherwise I would just have her in modern times, likely living somewhere in England.

Fun facts:

Channe loves tea. And scones. Preferably raspberry. Secondarily, raisin. This is just fine with Jix, who loves to pick the little fruits out of her scones... which irritates Channe. But he’s so cute she lets him do it. She’s found him in her cupboard many times, picking out the fruit from her scones, leaving little craters in them. XD

Channe loves animals. She’s had several cats and birds as pets over the years, and she’s hosted a number of magical creatures in her home.

#muse: channe #tw: gore #tw: torture #tw: suicide #tw: child abuse

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