#Edith and Enid Grant

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Best Character Named X Poll

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day. New polls scheduled for 1:30PM BST everyday.

If your favourite character is not included in the poll very sorry i have either never heard of them or actively chose not to include them as theres only 6 characters per poll. Characters will only count of that is their first name, surnames do not count. Official characters in canon only, please do not submit OCs.

Round 320: Camille

Round 321: Olaf

Round 322: Dana

Round 323: Tim

Round 324: Daisy

Round 325: Quentin

Round 326: Flora

Past Polls

Poll Ideas under the cut

Names that I have a complete list for*

Rebecca, Steve, Victoria, Katherine, George, Diana, Andy, Nora, Angel, Judy, Jo, Miranda, Pearl, Malcolm, Jamie, Tam, Klaus, Luna, Delilah, Claudia, Juliet, Jonas, Celia, Katya, Cynthia, Corey, Minerva, Ebony, Miriam, Percy, Bianca, Amara, Cleo, Cecil, Mabel, May, August, Francis, Matilda, Deborah, Jared, Kendra, Ophelia, Liesel, Fitz, Aurora, Ramona, Orion, Kala, Madeline, Anastasia, Kit, Marian, Lena, Polly, Cora, Leah, Jules, Irene, Laurie, Laurel, Hilda, Valentine, Joe, Monty, Skye, Walter, Marissa, Hope, Oberon, Lorna, Ace, Calvin, Bridget, Ulrich, Roger, Stella, Lenore, Wanda, Winona, Hannibal, Newt, Aiden, Oscar, Dorian, Dorothy, Una, Marnie, Mirabel, Dora, Olympia, Toby, Chip, Fearne, Axel, Gil, Bo, Rue, Leslie, Isabelle, Agnes, Luther, Sally, Delia, Richter, Scarlet, Bernard, Ray, Nigel, Selina, Harley, Blue, Missy, Perry, Paige, Duke, Tao, Gemma, Cornelius, Wendy, Apollo, Celeste, Clyde, Summer, Esther, Cole, Kieran, Melody, Vivian, Haley, Prudence, Ralph, Azrael, Lauren, Molly, Pauline, Athena, Darcy, Stan, Dana, Lee, Red, Stuart, Cliff, Gabriel, Octavia, Tsukasa, Anita, Esme, Ella, Heather, Riley, Pyrrha, Rupert, Ada, Orlando, Blair, Parker, Ike, Yukari, Tanya, Briar, Amber, Akira, Irma, Marlene, Trixie, Harriet, Letitia, Koichi, Katrina, Echo, Annette, Nami, Dale, Rod, Nina, Carina, Wade, Alucard, Rosemary, Lance, Yuki, Elena, Donatello, Puck, Callie, Moe, Hunter, Poppy, Titania, Fox, Melinda, Terry, Jackson, Melanie, Sunny, Dee, Clive, Freya, Randall, Caeser, Marina, Sasha, Dawn, Zain, Ron, Edith, Candy, Carlos, Raiden, Tara

Names I have an incomplete list for (welcome to send character suggestions)

Richter, Yasmin, Chase, Tina, Rudolf, Melvin, Melissa, Adele, Adeline, Jem, Dolores, Jude, Ginger, Bellamy, Jacob, Reese, Nemo, Addison, Adelaide, Candace, Abraham, Ragnar, Destiny, Hero, Drew, Raphael, Wallace, Jean (feminine), Cheryl, Shane, Tegan, Matthias, Liam, Ellis, Dennis, Josie, Mike, Bailey, Eden, Giselle, Suki, Keith, Wilfred, Blaine, Pam, Brianna, Sabine, Roman, Kalina, Mindy, Monet, Zara, Marcus, Elias, Mira, Glen, Farah, Faith, Enid, Ross, Antoinette, Elodie, Mallory, Kay, Renee, Willow, Albert, Howard, Oswald, Clem, Jace, Howell, Rowan, José, Christian, Ravi, Dev, Valerie, Norma, Tristan, Jolene, Yumi, Sakura, Carol, Carrie, Casper, Septimus, Rosalind, Rosamund, Rosie, Rosa, Gerald, Geraldine, Gerard, Ariel, Ariadne, Anya, Ida, Rocky, Mal, Solomon, Sol, Vera, Vincent, Nolan, Sage, Jojo, Calliope, Roxy, Roxanne, Silver, Noel, Noelle, Stacy, Lloyd, Alba, Virginia, Eva, Amos, Petra, Marla, Dante, Gretchen, Rhydian, Russ, Tate, Tatum, Morris, Ambrose, Doug, Grant, Graham, Aaron, Ivan, Paris, Doris, Rain, Sora, Wayne, Helga, Garth, Constantine, Sonny, Courtney, Jamal, Niall

Feel free to send more suggestions

*subject to change, you can still submit a character if there is no strikethrough if you think theres a character that its an absolute crime i dont add. Please don't suggest anything for the names with a strikethrough as they are polls that are already in my queue waiting to be published.

[selena-snape]

Sexta Generación:

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle y Julian Cameron Gray

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters y Sky Aurelius Peters

¤ Hazel Opal Peters y Magnus Roman Watson

¤ Theodore August Peters y Meredith Mavis Monroe

¤ Aaron Christopher Weasley y Verena Michelle Dyer

¤ Joshua Stephen Weasley y Esther Amalia Holt

¤ Charles Samuel Weasley y Ruby Stephanie Saffron

¤ Iris Aurelia Weasley y Marshall Everett Conrad

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardson y Henry Oliver Brooks

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson y Flynn Milo Wolf

¤ Willow Cosima Levin y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford

¤ Fern Violet Levin y Marie Honoria Ollivander

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin y John Florean Palmer

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin y Elladora Eloise Gibson

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin y Holly Avalon Barnes

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin y Savannah Genevieve Shaw

¤ Gracie Isadora Novak y Marvin Declan Sullivan

¤ Alec Aurelian Novak y Claire Piper Johan

¤ Mason Ezekiel Novak y Clementine Octavia Albion

¤ Lotor Comet Snape y Giovanni Benjamin Lestrange

¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape y "Dark Angel " Arianne Alysson Snape

¤ "Killer Shadow" Lazarus Ignatius Snape y "Ice Demon" Urania Calliope Snape

¤ Morterius Viktor Snape y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan

¤ Regris Niven Snape y Acxa Valda Snape

¤ Kevin Ethan Snape y Gwendolyn Stephanie Tennyson

¤ Regulus Orion Snape y Abel Austin Khemse

¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape y Frederic Alistair Weasley

¤ Elle Rigel Snape y Matsuda Touta

¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape y Mikami Teru

¤ Alexander Valens Snape y Magnus Sebastian King

¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape y Vladimir Micah Masters

¤ Gwendolyn Hiroko Snape y Tanaka Misaki

¤ Ezra Yamato Snape y Luveva Rosemay Sutherlamd

¤ Ryan Yoshio Snape y Avery Daxon Sinclair

¤ Keith Akira Snape y James Oliver Griffin

¤ Yuudai Riley Snape y Danielle Edna Young

¤ Yuriko Harley Snape y Debra Kathleen McIntosh

¤ Clarice Suki Snape y Alphard Delphinus Black

¤ Mako Ethan Snape y Giovanna Naomi Hamilton

¤ Morgana Kendra Voorhees y Karin Delilah Summers

¤ Carrie Margaret Voorhees y "Sue" Susan Danica Snell

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¤ Jessica Lorna Kimble y Steven Malcom Freeman

¤ Audrey Andromeda Malfoy y Andre Perseus Bourgeois

¤ Gabriel Bastian Malfoy y Emilie Calliope Graham de Vanily

¤ Roynard Hydra Malfoy y Violet Rowena Deekers

¤ Raymond Lynx Malfoy y Cedric Atticus Diggory

¤ Draco Lucius Malfoy y Astoria Coraline Greengrass

¤ Merle Ariel Malfoy y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

¤ Hope Leah Malfoy y

¤ Carl Thomas Malfoy y

¤ Levi Armand Malcoy y

¤ Daryl Hunter Malfoy y Rick Jonah Grimes

¤ Vitale Astaroth Sparda y Luka Nicholas Sparda

¤ Neron Asura Sparda y Kyrie Serena Kiernan

¤ Merak Emory Sparda y Portia Manon Hendrix

¤ Armand Vincent Sparda y

¤ Nicholas William Sparda y

¤ Septimus Canyon Sparda y

¤ Loretta Margot Grace y Calvin Raphael Foxglove

¤ Julius Grant Grace y Ivy Roxanne Baxley

¤ Benjamin Vidar Grace y Edgar Zachary Maddox

¤ Ophelia Nozomi Jensen y Cordelia Avery Bkwie

¤ Eileen Victoria Jensen y Silvius Dael Sinclair

¤ Thomas Lysander Jensen y Othello Natalie Reeve

¤ Nova Genesis Jackson y Allison Leah Reid

¤ Losa Iris Brooks y Briar Anais Tedford

¤ Nina Rosie Brooks y Asa August Harding

¤ Connor Cyrus Brooks y Sandra Sabine Simmons

¤ Esme Aurora Donovan y Maxine Riley Crosby

¤ Arabella Cassidy Donovan y Robert Dashiell. Davenport

¤ Arianne Odette Donovan y Terrence Gideon Graves

¤ Kendra Alessandra Donovan y Alexis Scarlett Bishop

¤ Cassandra Abigail Donovan y James Anthony West

¤ Pansy Genevieve Parkinson y Theodore Phineas Nott

¤ Avalon Forrest Parkinson

¤ Damien Emory Parkinson

¤ Ursa Alexa Corvinus Y Narcissa Hazel Ripley

¤ Nora Alyssa Corvinus y Lydia Skylar Abernathy

¤ Annabelle Danica Corvinus y Rowan Vladimir Norwood

¤ Luna Pandora Lovewood y Rolf Elijah Matthew Scamander

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¤ Ronan Artemis Marcelly y Adam Timothy Reed

¤ Giovanni Octavius Marcelly y Robin Mikhaila Mckinley

¤ Ivan Alistair Marcelly y James Christopher Peters

¤ Mika Valentina Donnelly y Arthur Ethan Bowers

¤ Damien September Delaney y Melione Rowena Robinson

¤ Kira Dominika Delaney y Marlon Oliver Williams

¤ Kanna Amelia Delaney y Gael Ethan Byron

¤ Nicholas Hadrien Delaney y Madison Edith Emerson

¤ Armand Demetrius Corwin y Persephone Aspen Cormac

¤ Tatiana Aubrey Corwin y Marcella Carolinne Cervenka

¤ Pandora Evageline Corwin y Cecilia Honoria Van Frietag

¤ Natasha Piper Dresden y Donna Mary Berkshire

¤ Emily Alisha Ansel y Nana Eliza Martin

¤ Isabelle Veronica Ansel y Carmen Emilia Reyes

¤ Kenneth Paul Dollins y Ella Isabella Evans

¤ Joseph Herman Dollins y Juliet Corina Rogers

¤ Hailey Amelia Flint y Lucia Naomi Barnes

¤ Ashley Jasmine Flint y Maxwell Benjamin Norton

¤ Piper Savannah Flint y Louis Howart Daxton

¤ Chase Akira Braken y Felix Lucius Quinn

¤ Florian Narcissus Braken y Colin Leonard Frone

¤ Callum Daniel Fox y Marjorie Katie Vance

¤ Dante Ezra Fox y Leila Juniper Thomson

¤ Nathan Soren Fox y Matthias Isaac Parker

¤ Magnus Gideon Fox y Desmond Ethan McReynolds

¤ Lucian Harrison Fox y Apollo Anthony Greene

¤ Jude Eli Hudson y Theodore Declan Vesper

¤ Olive Genesis Ivanovich y David Cameron Canyon

¤ Tate Roman Ivanovich y Molly Aurora Wiley

¤ Ivory Leah Ivanovich y Diane Barbara Jennings

¤ Devon Julian Kane y Ophelia Pauline Colins

¤ Claudine Barbara Kane y Matthew Benjamin Rothchild

¤ Castiel Dominc Kane y Charlie Isaac Lauder

¤ Natasha Bella Kane y Mackenzie Riley Hills

¤ Caroline Samantha Kane y Sarah Emma Fuller

¤ Harper Eva Kane y Daniel Michael Baker

¤ Henry Jasper Kane y Duncan Joshua Evas

¤ Nathan Pietro Kane y Elijah Maxwell Crimson

¤ June Opal Kane y Felix Octavius Rhodes

¤ Jane Ophelia Kane y Angelo Dominic Lowell

¤ Aldora Corinne Prince Amora Lyra Stout

¤ Odolette Lila Prince y Thalia Cora Fulton

¤ Amon Rowan Prince y Elira Bianca Thorton

¤ Amelia Robin Prince y Nicolo Dorian Guthrie

¤ Alastor Robert Prince y Dinah Pandora Pearson

¤ Gavin Marshall Prince y Megara Eloise Lang

¤ Sean Colin Prince y Rebecca Odette Douglas

¤ Renee Tara Prince y Miles Edgar Lambert

¤ Eric Lance Snapey y Millicent Corinne Curtis

¤ Marlon Levi Snape y Lily Alyssa Yancer

¤ Luther Garth Snape y Judith Naomi Tailyour

¤ Hannah Ebony Snape y Lincoln Nathan Penfold

¤ Marie Clarice Snape y Leslie Regan Eastwood

¤ Jade Tiffany Snape y Leah Eliana Rees

¤ Grant Devin Snape y Geraldine Annalie Harfield

¤ Dean Leighton Snape y Fiona Charity Wheeler

¤ Mason Riley Oakley y Cartie April Willis

¤ Morgan Harley Oakley y Ian Paul Wenman

¤ Robert Damian Lake y Marion Corinne Turner

¤ Roy Ethan Morrinson y Griffin Rhett Essex

¤ Joy Ebony Morrinson y Kilian Lee Rowell

¤ Holden Ethan Snape y Eleanor Nadia Heron

¤ Corey Silas Snape y Jane Lydia Orchard

¤ Astrid Juliette Snape y Rhonda Hope Pataki

¤ Tate Julian Snape y James Ronan Poole

¤ Soren Jaspn Snape y Carmen Marianna Rojas

¤ Edgar Samuel Snape y Ingrid Ianthe Lauder

¤ Castiel Gabriel Dream y Cecilia Ember Bonavich

¤ Callum Paul Dream y Avalon Ginevra Carmichael

¤ Cedric Ernest Dream y Bathilda Sibyll Irvine

¤ Garett Elia Dream y Padma Orla Astor

¤ Austin Jordan Dream y Magenta Pomona Hearst

¤ Daryl Silvanus Dream y Nuru Sura Van Doren

¤ Calliope Scarlett Dream y Gemma Pomona Windsor

¤ Cordelia Maribelle Carter y Ivar Rainn Kline

¤ Howart Steven Carter y Sylvia Peyton Bechtel

¤ Lysander Casimir Carter y Enid Jivanta Galumba

¤ Pierre Milford Afton y Kylie Olivia McKeehan

¤ Rupert Stanley Afton y Andrea Jocelyn Varner

¤ Warren Philip Jefferson y Michelle Sabine Castle

¤ Ellie Audrey Jefferson y Shireen Monroe Marks

¤ Giselle Corina Leighton y Mia Velvet Bushnell

¤ Odette Marina Leighton y Nicoletta Verona Goldstein

¤ Larissa Dirina Leighton y Winry Carmina Montgomery

¤ Magnus Cassidy Edevane y Harry Leroy Baker

¤ Stella Andromeda Orville y Harold Russell Mcquiston

¤ Lucille Arabella Orville y Jace Colton Rutledge

¤ Lee Amos Evans y Zoey Makayla Camfield

¤ Cadmus Orion Evans y Trudy Nayala Lovell

¤ Florean Newton Evans y Xenia Sybil Herron

¤ Ivory Ooal Evans y Edmund Wilfred Frankham

¤ Luisa Veronica O'Kelly y Connor Evan Carson.

¤ Finn Andrew Harley y Portia Marilyn Curtis

¤ Abel Nolan Harley y Bonnie Thea Proudley

¤ Louis Xander Harley y Petunia Jamie Deakins

¤ Claire Norah Harley y Lance Chandler Western

¤ Camille Loena Harley y Myrtle Denise Golby

¤ Cora Adelaide Harley y Selma Kelsey Hicks

¤ Juliette Theodora Harley y Daisy China Kempster

¤ Cyrus Maximua Harley y Meredith Shannon Crocker

¤ Horatio Gideon Harley y Heidi Antoinette Deacon

¤ Dorothea Euphemia Harley y Terence Xavier Croucher

¤ Violetta Leopoldine Murphy y Franklin Leonidas Burton

¤ Nova Orion Murphy y Faustina Spencer Odam

¤ Comet Sky Murphy y Yvonne Wilhemina Hibberd

¤ Phoenix Bianca Murphy y Rosalie Simone Stratton

¤ Celestine Xiomara Glenwood y Rylan Waylon Mills

¤ Isla Cosima Glenwood y Neil Rowan Lee

¤ Jacqueline Glenna McCoy y Jarome Staley Orline

¤ Ann Marie McCoy y Ridley Everett Anderson

¤ Apoline Elian McCoy y Simom Edward Thompson

¤ Aubrey Lynn Orson y Braxton Hunter Young

¤ Amelia Faith Orson y Ryland Linden Allen

¤ Lucy Ella Volkov Jacob Jhon Wright

¤ Freya Leah Volkov y Rome Canyon Adams

¤ Martin Lane Volkov y Brianna Mirella Collins

¤ Monet Valentina Volkov y Callahan Anselm Morris

¤ Robinia Venus Carrington y Aragon Glorianne Watson

¤ Damon Micah Carrington y Selie Nia Rise

¤ Calla Seraphina Balckwood y Ariel Calyx Reid

¤ Adriana Norah Blackwood y Windsor Athen Foster

¤ Trevor Narcissus Blackwood y Larry Eugene Fraser

¤ Heather Kalina Moore y Lucilius Nicholas McIntosh

¤ Bernadette Alexa Moore y Ares Gabriel McLean

¤ Althea Ruby Lexington y Trinity Elizabeth Bland

¤ Camellia Iris Lexington y Damian Anthony Boswell

¤ Taylor Sidney Lexington y Fabian Dominic Bartlett

¤ Elena Vittoria Lexington y Athena Aubree Birch

¤ Oris Edward Goodwin y Ryleigh Nadia Chapman

¤ Archer Emrys Goodwin y Paisley Autumm Pannell

¤ Raphaela Esperalda Goodwin y Ryder Quentin Hamilton

¤ Ike Neron Goodwin y Bailey Stephanie Adams

¤ Lilianna Persephone Blackwood y Jared Fabian Crawford

¤ Albert Christopher Blackwood y Gemma Alyna Gibson

¤ Alfred Stella Blackwood y Nicholas Julian Munro

¤ Rose Mary Blackwood y Sebastian robert Walker

¤ Bernard Alden Blackwood y Katherine Calliope McGregor

¤ Benjen Isaiah Blackwood y Seraphina Harper Docherty

¤ Lewis Beckett Blackwood y Samirah Luna Ross

¤ Vlaire Harley Blackwood y Aurora Isabelle Gordon

[everyonesomething]

Session 21

Edith Runekill stands up.

Malkas stuffs a few more fries into his mouth, then follows Edith.

Pepper finishes off her milkshake and roots around what Mal left of his fries.

Capridi waits until she finishes her last burger before she gets up to help. She follows the rest outside.

Grim is with Cap on this one, she finishes her food before she goes anywhere

Edith Runekill is still holding her pop when she arrives outside.

Sydney Gaydos is already Gone With the Wind you guys and HELPING. She quickly makes her way to the people in need with the car. "Hello! Never fear! The Great Detective Gayods is here to help!"

Pepper follows out, eventually.

In this session, we take care of a one-eyed monster and end up with a baby.

The set-up: Later in the day after Big Hex and Mal's magic lessons.

The Game: We've escaped the no man's land of county fairs and truck stops and are on the way to the next populated town.  The first sign of civilization is poorly painted, in the middle of the highway, reads “RODE CLOZED”, and directs us to a detour path off the main road. Being the adventuring group we are, we decide to ignore the sign completely and keep on the main road.  We're rewarded with a small town, a diner, and a pile of burgers for lunch.

While the group eats, Mal makes friendly chat with Cap and asks if she's ever been to Thay—our ultimate destination.  She dodges his question and the conversation is cut short when everyone notices a beat-up car being pushed into the parking lot by a bloodied and haggard looking couple.  Syd rushes out to help, followed shortly by Mal and Edith with Cap, Pepper, and Grim eventually making their way out.

The couple tells us they followed a sign on the road to a detour where a pair of giants were waiting and asked for a toll.  They tried to pay money, but the giants smashed their car and took their baby.  Good thing we're here!

Grim nods and looks at Sydney

Helia (GM): "They didn't want money, we... we tried to pay them."

"They smashed the car and took our daughter."

Sydney Gaydos returns a look at Grim, then the couple and then looks Serious. "We'll get your baby back."

Edith Runekill leans in close. "That's awful, and we're not gonna let 'em get away with it."

Edith Runekill: "We'll do whatever we can to bring your little girl back, safe and sound."

Helia (GM): "Wh-what? Why?"

Sydney Gaydos: "Because that's what we do of course! We're heroes!"

Capridi just goes along with it for once.

Grim: "Cause nobody gives a kid a choice."

Capridi nods

Helia (GM): "We... uh, okay... Thank you." The woman bursts into tears again.

With a bit more questioning, we figure out that the giants are a pair of cyclops and the less said about why they want a baby, the better.  We waste no time driving out to the detour and come up with a plan: lure the cyclops out and try to get the drop on them.

Malkas looks around, "I'm... gonna hide, see if I can get the drop on them?"

Capridi: "Are you suggesting we bait them?"

Capridi looks around "Who's the shortest?"

Pepper eyes between Grim and Edith. "With or without the hat?"

Edith Runekill eyes the rest of the party, warily.

Grim looks at Capridi

Grim: "One've us looks like livestock."

Capridi glares back at Grim, though she has a point

Malkas makes a gesture with his hand and he vanishes from sight.

Malkas: The leaves rustle as he apparently jumps into the bushes.

Sydney Gaydos: "One-eye beings do have trouble seeing... most things. Capridi could be mistaken for livestock under the right sort of circumstances."

Grim and Mal go hide while Pepper, Syd, Edith, and Cap try to sell the illusion of a giant sheep to a pair of giant sheep-eaters.  They buy the ruse, except they want a sheep and a half as payment to pass and won't be haggled down.  One kindly agrees to take the sheep we do have and they'll wait for the other to be delivered, but we decide to just cut to the chase.

Helia (GM): One of the cyclops puts his club down and bends down to pick up Capridi.

Capridi takes her sickle out of her bag but keeps it behind her back. She is trusting this plan less than before it had even started.

Helia (GM): "Lets see sheepy."

Grim: "Look with your eye, not your hands."

And Grim shoots it in the eye.  Mal gets the drop on one of them, but Grim accidentally shoots him, too.  He was still invisible, oops. Then double oops when the cyclops he's riding pastes him with its club kinda-sorta killing him a bit.  Syd hookshots onto the cyclops that can still see and gets in a few whacks while Cap heals Mal. After getting roughed up by a cyclops's club, Edith spies a bag tied to one of their waistbands with the baby inside. Mal runs off to recover her while the others take shots at the pair of cyclops to keep them distracted.

Mal's successful and passes the baby off to Cap while one of the cyclops passes Syd off to Grim. By throwing her.  Grim, enraged, moves to rush the cyclops but is stopped short by Edith hitting it with a massive fireball.

And that's one down!  The group gangs up on the remaining cyclops and with a few coordinated attacks—including another giant fireball from Edith—it dies.  We win!

Edith helps Cap console the baby while Syd helps Pepper console Grim.

Sydney Gaydos nudges Pepper on the back a bit. "Perhaps a certain elven friend named Pepper? Gaydos would offer but she is unsure of what the problem is, but you seem to know."

Malkas: "How's uh... it doing?"

Edith Runekill: "She's calmed down. Poor little thing..."

Malkas cocks his head at the baby. Most of the babies he's met have had tails and horns. This one seems somehow ... incomplete.

Pepper to Syd. "Yeah. Maybe." She scoots a little closer to Grim.

Pepper: "Hhhhhhhhhhhhey." It sounds like she's sprung a leak.

Grim: "Leave me be, Pepper." Her voice is a little lower than usual. Warning.

Pepper claps her hands together. "Roger-dodger."

Pepper spins on her heel back to Syd.

Well.  The baby's doing fine.  We deliver her back to her grateful parents and decide the best thing to do is put as much distance between this place and us as possible.

Malkas reaches into his bag and pulls out a flask. He hands it over his back to Grim.

Grim glances at the flask and then accepts it without a word

Grim takes a swig and hands it back

Edith Runekill wanders over to Capridi

Malkas takes it.

Edith Runekill: "Hey, Capridi..."

"Nice work back there."

Edith Runekill: "You saved the baby, you saved Mal..."

"So. Well."

"Thanks."

Capridi shakes he head and shrugs "I'm earning my keep. But yeah... Stealing babies is some bullshit I can't tolerate."

Edith Runekill nods, emphatically.

Malkas pulls out of the parking lot and on to the road. "We got maybe sixteen hours to Proskur."

Edith apologizes to Grim for all the fire during the fight, Grim tells her not to worry about it.  Grim also apologizes to Mal for the friendly fire, but he waves her off.  They all wax philosophical—night driving and close brushes with death have that effect on people.

Grim: "....you were right, Runekill."

"We did good today."

Edith Runekill: "Thanks."

Edith Runekill exhales her cigarette smoke slowly. She did good today. They all did.

Grim removes her hat and sets it in her lap, opening her eyes again to stare at the sky

Grim: "Ilmater says we suffer to keep others from suffering. Once in a while, it's a call you get to make."

Edith Runekill nods.

Grim: "There's patterns that repeat, like frost spreading out over glass. But when you seen it once, you know how it's gonna go further on down the road."

"Once in a while you're in a time and a place to intervene."

"And that ain't ever somethin' I'll take for granted."

Edith Runekill: "Yeah..."

"If we'd eaten lunch a little earlier, or stopped somewhere, we never would've even known those folks were in trouble..."

"The fact that circumstances all aligned to bring us together at that moment, at just the right time to save a kid... it feels like a gift? Or..."

Pepper: "Luck?" she offers, digging into an orange she pulled out of some pocket.

Edith Runekill: "I don't know. It just feels... Important."

Grim: "I'll say it is important, to the kid that gets to grow up."

Edith Runekill: "Enid."

"Gonna be thinking about her for a long time after this, I think."

Grim: "There's worse things than being remembered."

Grim lights a fresh cigarette and closes her eyes again

Pepper: "And her folks," she says, idly trying to pass Grim half the orange.

Grim either doesn't notice or straight up ignores it

Pepper: "Having to think the worst about their kid like that. It'll stick with them, too," she says, taking the orange for herself.

Malkas: "Almost was the worst."

Pepper: "Mm," she agrees, settling into her seat with a serious look.

Edith Runekill: "But... but it wasn't."

"And at least we can say that much."

Edith, Mal, and Pepper talk about their parents and compare upbringings.

Malkas: "My mom told me, before I left for Neverwinter, is that chances to help would fall into my lap and to just take them when I found them."

Pepper: "Yeah? That's nice. Maybe she could give my mom a few pointers for encouraging words," she grins, tossing the orange peel.

Edith Runekill: "Before I moved to Neverwinter, my ma said I was definitely going to get mugged and murdered because cities aren't safe."

Edith Runekill shrugs.

Malkas: "I'd pay good money to get your ma, mine and Pepper's into a room."

"Together."

Edith Runekill: "Oh, Auril."

Pepper: "Bah, you don't even know my mom."

Edith Runekill: "Ocila and Ma would probably get in a fistfight."

Malkas: "You know my mom would knock yours the hell out."

"Pep, I'm just making an educated guess."

Pepper: "Oo, go on," she says, sitting up and grinning right at Mal.

Edith Runekill hides under her hat.

Malkas: "I feel like she's a bit distant. Loved you but also wanted you to play outside and not get dirt on the rug."

"Or only play inside."

"And not get dirt anywhere."

"That about right?"

Pepper snorts loud.

Malkas: "I'm just guessing. I'm no great judge of character."

"I think your mom is probably pretty fancy at the very least."

Pepper: "No, no, you got it exactly right. If you wanted to describe most of her relationship with my dad. Except the distant part."

"But fancy, yes," she says, eating a candy.

Malkas: "My mom's idea of fancy is buying a suit for Lemuel only when we were kids because then it would only be a little too big for me and a little too small for Ferg."

"We could never wear it at the same time, if we all had a special occasion, we'd need to do quick changes in the bathroom as we needed to appear."

Pepper: "That's rough."

Malkas: "Eh."

Pepper: "But, nah, my mom," she thinks. "She was just always around. Dad had work to do a lot so it was just us. It's not like I have any siblings, unsurprisingly."

Edith Runekill has been notably silent here.

Pepper: "So we did a lot together. She even did my tutoring for awhile."

Pepper: "She'd like you guys, I think," she says, examining her fingernails.

Malkas: "Everyone likes me."

Edith Runekill: "It's true."

Bless these nerds.

[withalowercasew]

A (Very) Brief History of the Indigenous Australian vote.

White men over 21yo, for the most part gained the right to vote in the colonies that were to become Australia, in 1850.

In Queensland (as of 1885) and Western Australia (as of 1893) Indigenous people were specifically banned from voting. Some women gained the vote in 1899 (WA) and 1905 (QLD) respectively, but because of this ban, suffrage at both state and federal levels from within these states, was for non-Indigenous women only.

The first time women were allowed to vote was in South Australia (and the Northern Territory; ironically part of SA at the time) in 1895. Indigenous people, both men and women, were included in the South Australian franchise. They were allowed to vote at state and federal levels.

At Federation, it was agreed that anyone who could vote in their state should be allowed to vote at a federal level. Theoretically this was to preserve state’s rights and the rights and rules of people living in each state, but for Indigenous peoples it was a tool used to block them from franchise. It was not only a matter of whether or not they as a social group were allowed to vote in their state, but whether they, personally, were on the electoral role before Federation (Jan 1st, 1901). Because of the ambiguity, as well as various legal situations across the states that dehumanised or continued to blanket-ban Indigenous people from voting, the voted could be granted to certain Indigenous people - typically those that lived sufficiently “like white people” - at the discretion of electoral officers.

Despite Australia’s “White Australia” policy, non-white Indians, as fellow British subjects, gained the right to vote in 1925 after a court case regarding the rights of one Mitta Bullosh, who was on the electoral role in Victoria. It was after this that the voting rights of Indigenous Australians picked up some momentum as sympathisers figured it was somewhat hypocritical otherwise. Some states passed laws that said Indigenous peoples could vote, but didn’t follow up or apply them well.

The movement was further supported when Indigenous people served and died in WWII and came back to a country that largely still would not let them vote. In 1949, Indigenous military servicemen (and those who had the right to vote in their own states) were granted the right to vote at a federal level.

Indigenous people in Queensland and Western Australia were still denied the vote, except for servicemen voting at a federal level.

In 1957 Indigenous people in the Northern Territory were declared “wards of the state” like orphaned children, and were denied the right to vote and other rights based on their alleged inability to take care of themselves, etc. As they had previously been covered by South Australia’s franchise laws, this meant Indigenous people in the NT lost the vote unless they could “prove” or “earn” their non-ward status.

Fortunately, community standards were moving ahead faster than this and in 1962 Indigenous people across the country were allowed to enrol to vote. The right to vote at the state/territory level was also extended in NT and WA, for both women and men by this stage. Unlike during previous attempts, efforts were made to educate Indigenous people about their right to vote and teach them how to do it, etc.

It was not until 1965 that Indigenous people gained full legal voting equality with non-Indigenous, and specifically white, Australians, when Queensland finally allowed Indigenous people to vote. It was only really after this point that Indigenous people began being “taken seriously” by politicians, including their inclusion in the Census in 1967 and the first Parliamentary position - held by Neville Bonner in, ironically, Queensland in 1971.

(For contrast, the first Australian woman elected to any parliament was Edith Cowan in Western Australia in 1921, and Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney elected to federal parliament in 1943. The first Indigenous Australian woman was not elected to any parliament until 2001 - Carol Martin, WA. The first Indigenous woman to be elected to federal parliament was Nova Peris in 2013)

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