#* dynamics: alleria windrunner & lirath windrunner / YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO BRING THE LIGHT.

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lireesa is the more stern parent. 

because she was the ranger-general, she was usually busy; she always did try to make time for her family, but I think this may have ended up with things like ‘come, we’re going on a mission’ ‘you know this doesn’t count as family time right’

lireesa taught alleria how to shoot

lireesa probably had a hand in teaching all of them to shoot tbh, but after alleria, siblings would always be involved too like – alleria helped sylvanas, the two of them helped vereesa, and lirath was learning more with his sisters than with his mom.

they were also probably considerably baby when learning to shoot so. tiny windrunners with bows. Someone probably says it’s a bad idea bc they’re still small, to which lireesa is probably like ‘I’m sorry are you trying to tell ME how to raise MY children who I gave birth to’

she was rather conservative and in favor of following tradition, and never expected it would be broken; so when alleria refuses the mantle of ranger-general when she offers to step down, it was, uh, not fun times in windrunner spire

I feel like lireesa would have gotten along better with sylvanas and vereesa; sylvanas because I see them as being more similar in temperament/personality, and vereesa because vereesa was the youngest, and the baby of the family for a long time until lirath was born. that’s not to say she had favorites (if she did, I think she’d never have shown it and each person would probably guess someone different, bc she was good at acting like she had no favorites).

in regard to looks, alleria is the one that looks more like her mom. they’re not incredibly alike, but there is enough resemblance someone who met lireesa would look at alleria and be able to tell she’s her daughter. lirath, considering he’s said to look like alleria, probably looks a lot like their mom too. 

their father’s name was helios, and he was a warrior rather than a ranger

he was also a noble, although from a family of minor importance (his last name was dawnstriker, and he set it aside in favor of windrunner when marrying lireesa; part of it was because the windrunners are one of the families of most prestige in quel’thalas, part was because he just wanted to take her last name instead of it being the other way around).

helios would step in to prevent bad fights when lireesa and alleria clashed. probably worked on trying to make both of them more willing to compromise, and tried to get them to make amends when they fought

they? probably? didn’t teach? their children? it’s okay to feel things and demonstrate feelings and talk about them. or how to deal with the bad feelings, specially grief and anger. considering how their children turned out aksdjnakdf

alleria, sylvanas and vereesa are close in age because lireesa and helios decided it was better like that; easier to take time to take care of their children one time than do it three very separate times. it probably also means they had to deal with teen alleria, preteen sylvanas and child vereesa all at once and I pity them.

lirath came much later because he was an opsie baby aksdjnfkj

lireesa always tried very hard to separate family from her job, so she wasn’t partial to any of her children when they became rangers. in fact, she was even more strict when it came to them than she’d be towards the other farstriders.

alleria most of all was subject to this, because of her status as next in line to become ranger-general, but sylvanas also dealt with more of that strictness than vereesa

alleria and lireesa probably clashed a lot due to that — because lireesa would be even more strict with her, but alleria does not submit to orders she doesn’t agree with, not even those of her mother and ranger-general, to which lireesa wouldn’t take well at all in turn.

they did love each other, but lireesa intended to raise her and prepare her to be a great ranger-general one day and alleria had no desire to be ranger-general at all. they had that good old conflict regarding tradition too, because lireesa was very much in favor of upholding it while alleria didn’t care to do things in a certain way just because it’s how it was done.

which is why alleria feels guilty for not having taken the mantle when her mother died — and why she wouldn’t have passed it on to anyone other than sylvanas, who is the one she feels would honor the mantle and make their mother proud in a way alleria herself never would

this on top of sylvanas already being next in line for it ofc

their conflicts aren’t always open fighting. alleria did try her best to carry the weight of her family’s name and her position but she struggled with the more diplomatic aspects of it and she certainly didn’t see herself as a good enough leader. so even though she tried (mostly, for a while), it would take a toll on her to even have to try because it is a burden she doesn’t want to carry and it makes her feel trapped

and that damages their relationship, even if it was otherwise mostly good. she ends up being much closer to her father as a result — because she wouldn’t trust to be vulnerable in front of her mother, and she’d constantly feel pressured to meet her standards, that when they wouldn’t outright clash.

with her father, there are no such concerns.

part of the reason I think she’d try to shoulder the burden of carrying on their family legacy would be to spare her siblings. she knows they will suffer it to some extent (comes with being a windrunner), but because it is so heavy on her, alleria would want to spare the other three as much as she could.

which means she takes on more than she can deal with, and tries to deal with everything alone all the time, and just buries things within herself ——- which also means when she breaks she’s a mess because she doesn’t know how to deal with anything and at the same time can’t ask for help because she has the mindset that she has to do things on her own

lirath is considerably younger than his sisters. alleria is very protective of him, and spoiled him the most she could. he’d be the one amidst his siblings capable of reading her the best in spite of being the youngest, but alleria wouldn’t trust even him with most things because if she wants to spare all of her siblings the most she can, that’s thrice true when it comes to lirath

sylvanas is the one she’d trust the most tbh. they’re closer in age and while alleria feels protective of all her siblings to some extent, this is less true when it comes to sylvanas. they are more the kind to have each other’s backs, I think — pretty much the kind of siblings that poke at each other all the time and end up turning provocation into actual fights, but also the kind that can share secrets and vulnerabilities and would fight together and die together if it came to it.

vereesa is the least close to her. they are still close (the four of them always were), but in comparison to lirath and sylvanas, vereesa isn’t as close to alleria. alleria is also very protective of her, and I’m not sure how vereesa would see that tbh

all of this ofc before lirath and lireesa die

because her siblings meant so much to her and how close they were, she’d definitely want her children to have siblings too, if she hadn’t had arator at the worst time and also with someone she didn’t want to be with lol with a partner she intends to be for life, and in a situation where it would be suitable to have a family, she’d definitely want more than one child. when she comes back to azeroth, if her relationship with turalyon wasn’t, uh, terrible, she’d probably have wanted to have more children with him 

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* tag drop: alleria windrunner

‣ muse { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ VOIDFORGED. ❞ ‣ character study { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ WILD AND WARM LIKE SUMMER. ❞ ‣ isms { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ A CERTAIN DARKNESS IS NEEDED TO SEE THE LIGHT. ❞ ‣ in character { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ A SUN NO LONGER. ❞ ‣ aesthetic { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ THE HEART IS AN ARROW. ❞ ‣ physique { alleria windrunner } —  ❝ LADY SUN. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & arator windrunner } —  ❝ SUNSHINE ON HER DARKEST DAYS. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & turalyon } —  ❝ DEEP BLUE BUT YOU PAINTED ME GOLDEN. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & sylvanas windrunner } —  ❝ A SISTER IS BOTH MIRROR AND OPPOSITE. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & vereesa windrunner } —  ❝ COME WHAT MAY SHE IS YOUR SISTER. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & sisters } —  ❝ A TALE OF THREE SISTERS. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & lirath windrunner } —  ❝ YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO BRING THE LIGHT. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & the locus walker } —  ❝ HER GUIDE INTO THE SHADOWS. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & willa lightwood – sunnrunners } —  ❝ I LOOK AT MY LOVER AND I SEE WILDERNESS. ❞ ‣ dynamics { alleria windrunner & halduron brightwing } —  ❝ OUR ROOTS WILL ALWAYS BE TANGLED. ❞

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“Lirath… the others… I wasn’t there with them. I might have been able to do something. But I wasn’t there. I stayed safe while they died.”

If you think returning to Azeroth and learning of what happened to Quel’Thalas and Sylvanas isn’t this all over again for Alleria, you’re very wrong

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TAG DROP: ALLERIA MISC.