How do you feel about Alex and Farah getting married in traditional clothing etc? For vibes search for the tag Weddings on this Tumblr.
oh 1000 percent. farah would suggest it and alex would be on board immediately. i think he probably wouldn’t know a ton about the clothes/culture and he would be ECSTATIC to learn.
also, while this is more of a european/usamerican thing, i like to imagine that alex asked price for his approval before he proposed to farah, since price is the closest she has to a father anymore. price ugly cried.
but yeah i definitely think they would have a traditional urzikstanian wedding (whatever that may entail since we dont really know much about urzikstan’s culture lol)
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It's about time that I did a character intro/backstory dump for my FL OC! Here we gooo
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Name: Silvia Salcedo (she/they)
Also known as: The Radical Sonneteer
Titles: Citizen, Ms, Comrade
Ambition: Heart's Desire
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Timeline!
1879
Silvia is born in British Honduras (modern-day Belize, the Yucatec Peninsula) to Roberto Salcedo, a cis British Honduran, and Silas Owens, a trans Welshman.
1880
Moves with Silas and Roberto to western England.
While Silvia is her dads' biological child, the 'official' story is Roberto's daughter by a wife who died.
Silas and Roberto set up a law practice in their country village.
1881-1893ish
Silvia is educated at home. She speaks Spanish and English at home, and learns Welsh and Latin as well.
Somewhere in her childhood, Silvia learns that her dads are a couple and the truth about who she is.
She's taught vaguely that ‘British Empire bad,’ but her dads try as hard as possible to shield her from their colonial trauma.
1893ish-1897
Silvia goes to a girl’s boarding school--one of those progressive, Arts-and-Crafts movement types, probably
Figures out she's a lesbian! Classic girls' school antics!
1897-1900
Silvia attends Oxford (probably as a non-degree-seeking student) and does well.
The ‘Scramble for Africa’ is in the news, which sort of re-radicalizes Silvia and her parents.
Now that they’ve given Silvia a good life and an education, Silas and Roberto decide to get more active in protesting and take more risks with political action.
Silvia also gets politically involved with other students.
She starts hearing rumors about Fallen London, people coming back to life, free love…
1901
In a protest-gone-wrong in Cardiff, a constable kills Silas. The autopsy discovers that Silas is biologically female
Desperate to preserve Silas’s dignity in death, Roberto and Silvia spend all their money and then some to hush it up and give him a funeral.
Burdened by debt, a criminal record, and even more of a desire for independence, Roberto flees back to British Honduras. He begs Silvia to go with him.
Silvia instead moves to London because she’s heard of miraculous things happening there, perhaps even the dead coming back to life!
1899 (the second one)
Silvia arrives in London
Arrested for…yelling at cops probably
Starts Ambition: Heart’s Desire in hopes that she can bring back her dad (although she won't admit it to herself)
Publishes poems. Falls in with Revolutionaries. Tries to call herself “The Revolution’s Sappho” but one publication calls her “The Radical Sonneteer” and that’s what sticks.
Meets Ginny (urchin) and Mothball (urchin's cat), which further ties her to the Neath. Keeps putting off the decision of whether or not she’ll go back to British Honduras instead.
The Starved Invasion happens. Silvia dies. It's a rude awakening, a reminder that she's not on vacation--she is in a dangerous place with dangerous goals.
Now that she’s died, the decision of whether to return was sort of made for her. But she hears about Cider—resolves that she’ll just do that AND the Marvellous, no problem!
Starts to swing wildly between “I can’t have any fun I must WORK” and “We have fun here!” Takes fighting and pickpocketing seriously, then fucks off to Mahogany Hall to do cross-dressing with her cousin Winslow, who's just arrived!
Starts a liaison with Lady [redacted], a socialite. She's terrified that it makes her a class traitor and tries to keep it secret. Their romance is brief but electric, full of many fights and trying to get the other to betray their cause.
Goes on her first serious scientific voyage, which keeps her out of London for a couple of months. When she returns, she's sent to the Tomb-Colonies.
Learns more of the Third City, discovers it was Yucatec Maya--the same Indigenous population that her father is descended from. Realizes that there are still Yucatec Maya people in the Neath, and perhaps instead of seeking home rule on the Surface like Roberto, it would be more valuable to seek the remnants of the Third City in the Neath.
Devotes herself to her studies, learning the language and numerical system of the Yucatec Maya, spending more and more time in her laboratory, and gaining entrance to Parabola.
In this process, Silvia drifts further from her old Revolutionary contacts, and begins to question whether the Liberation of the Night is her priority.
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