#but she’d never admit that

[eye-of-the-hawk]

Poster Girl

[korkorali]

I have Feelings™️ about Beakley

She’s a grandmother she’s a spy she’s an agent she’s a director she loves Webby she’s the worst guardian in the manor she judges everyone she’s extremely good at taking care of kids she’s terrible with children she lies like its second nature she’s barely remorseful for her actions she feels terrible about everything she’s done she’s traumatized she’s the most well-adjusted person in the room she’s one wrong move away from blowing up she’s calm and collected but most importantly she’s a hypocrite.

She’s the biggest hypocrite in the mansion and I absolutely love her for it.

She judges everyone. If you exist in her line of sight, chances are she’s going to look at you and think ‘I could probably do X better than you’ to herself. Especially when it comes to parenting.

And here’s the kicker- she’s wrong. She’s so wrong about that. Without a doubt, she wins the ‘worst of the mansion’s parental figures’ trophy by a landslide. She did terribly by Webby.

She kept her in the manor, alone, and trained her to defend herself from much too early an age. She told her not to bother Scrooge, the only other person in their home, which means that the only person Webby every really had was her.

I mean this woman was ready to straight up kick her ass on the roof of the manor for saying ‘hey maybe traumatizing Huey and Dewey isn’t the best form of training’

This woman, on multiple occasions, looked Webby right in the eyes and lied to her without even thinking- twice! And that’s after knowing that Webby hates being lied to!

She’s had quite her fair share of fuckups when it comes to parenting, and yet she still freely judges Scrooge, Donald, and Della whenever they try to parent.

She’s one of the biggest hypocrites in the show.

And the thing is, it makes sense.

All of her actions so much sense, even the judgement.

She’s a thoroughly traumatized secret agent who’s probably never opened up about herself to anyone (well, maybe Scrooge, but that’s another post for another day), found a child kept in one of their secret bases, and made the impossible choice to abandon her mission (her entire life) to go into hiding and keep the child safe.

She used to be a secret agent, so of course her modus operandi is to lie. Of course she keeps her cards close to her chest (even when nobody else is playing), of course she waits to reveal anything until she’s deemed it absolutely necessary to do so.

She essentially kidnapped Webby, the top-secret project of an evil organization. Of course she never let her leave the mansion (or at least, go anywhere besides the mansion and the Money Bin, because she’s been there before), she had every reason to believe that their agents may one day show up to find and take her away.

Of course she trained Webby relentlessly, of course she reacted so harshly to the idea of not training the boys in the same way. In order to survive, she was treated as a soldier instead of a person, after all. So in order for them to survive, she’s got to treat them like soldiers too.

Of course she judges everyone around her and refuses to admit when she’s wrong, she’s been through hellish experience after hellish experience, took over as director for SHUSH after the previous director was kidnapped by FOWL. She’s learned to hide her weaknesses, bury them so deep that even she wouldn’t be able to find them if she tried. She’s had to lead others, monitor agents, make absolutely sure that no information leaked which meant running the tightest shop possible. After doing that for so long, seeing others not do that is grating (what do you mean, other people got to be safe? What do you mean, nobody else has dealt with the things she has? What do you mean, she doesn’t have to treat everything like a secret war is brewing just under the surface? Preposterous).

She’s been through more than anyone else will ever know, more than she’ll ever say, and she refuses to admit that it’s caused her harm. She refuses to believe that what happened to her may have been wrong. That it shouldn’t have happened at all (It ended up giving her Webby. How could anything that gave her Webby be wrong?)

She’s a bitch and an asshole and a jerk and a hypocrite and a badass super spy and a housekeeper and a grandmother and anything she needs to be to survive and is maybe just starting to allow herself to live.

But there is one thing she most certainly is not:

A secretary

[archersartcorner]

Someone holds me, safe and warm

Horses prance through a silver storm

Figures dancing gracefully

Across my memory…

Hi I finished a resisting Durge user with Bela and I have. Thoughts.

[faraskyetruther]

not enough people tap into the fact that franziska von karma is definitely massive football fan. like she’d be the most passionate football fan you’d ever meet

[merge-conflict]

fighting the urge to send you the entire list of these ngl: fear, ghost, secret & torture for Val? :3

xD tyyy :3

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

If you asked Valentine she'd immediately say fear of heights, which is a relatively new one she got after Konpeki (you ever notice how often V falls through ceilings and floors btw?).

Honestly though, she's terrified of being alone. She would never ever admit that to anyone, and if on some level she's aware of it she doesn't really admit it openly to herself either.

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Her mother, definitely. She feels irrationally responsible for not being "enough" to stick around for. Honestly though, I think she's most haunted by herself. All the things she's done that seemed so clear and obvious at the time but now seem to be clearly and obviously Bad. All the pieces of herself or her personality that she's cut off or hidden or denied, but are always right there with her.

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

For someone who lies so often, Valentine is actually kind of an honest person? I guess before the major events of her story her biggest secret would have been her whole ~Gender~ thing, but if she still doesn't enjoy discussing it with anyone it's not really much of a secret. She only does things she could endure confessing to later. It's a coping strategy for seeing the way big secrets warp and distort people, not to mention how they can be used to break someone when they're revealed.

Which is not to say she doesn't lie or conceal things– she's very careful about contextual self-representation– but if you backed her into a corner where she had to make yes or no statements about herself she would not lie. Not unless it was to protect someone else.

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

This is an interesting question I hadn't thought of before, but I'd say no, she has not been tortured before. But her position in CounterIntel does mean she understands the length and breadth of Arasaka "interrogation" methods, and has witnessed a few of the bloodless ones.

She could, under certain pressures, be inclined to torture someone. If it was personal.

>questions here<

[imthegirlwiththegall]

In love with Sena’s weird social skills. Cause I didn’t notice it at first, but she really doesn’t speak that often. Or she never really speaks first, most of the time when she says anything she’s usually just agreeing with someone else, or making what would be the most expected observation in that moment. And I feel like the game actively highlights in cutscenes and stuff how much she just sort of stares at people, wanting to say stuff but then just gets too nervous or doesn’t know how to say it so she just doesn’t.

A highlight of this being the fact that when she met Segiri she got so overwhelmed by her behavior that she literally rushed out of the room crying cause she didn’t know how to handle it. Like she got so upset when Segiri told her she didn’t have a name, she was actively emotionally devastated by that. That’s another thing, half of her lines is her just going ‘Aw…’ when someone says something that’s in anyway kind of sad or depressing. And I know she means it and feels it fully too, she’s just like a bundle of anxiety I worry for her

[brittlebutch]

need anyone attempting to have a verbal conversation with me to go ahead and brace themselves for a full five minute wait after their opener for me to figure out Anything to say in response <3

[prettyboysmlm]

god why do people have to be so fucking intolerable

[aloverslonging]

she’s got a boyfriend she’s had since 2019 and she may not even like other genders other than males, so i don’t expect the feelings to be returned nor expect anything from her nor do i plan to say anything, but i sigh thinking about her bc she’s very cute lol

[herawell]

Still lowkey mad my mom told me when I was 18 and going to my first physical checkup as a solo adult that I should shave my legs up to the bikini line, and when I expressed distaste, she strongly implied that having hairy legs would affect the quality of care I received from the doctor.

[kawaiiboothjonathan]

sometimes i start to believe that “nobody understands me.” but then i think about it… and marnie would

[puthyflapps]

She’s so damn angry. I love her so much 🥹🫶🏻

[oqal]

bro that pregnancy always touching belly thing is surreal as hell, you do it all the time without even realizing it. You have a free hand? Subconscious belly touching. I think its like some pseudo way to bond or whatever but, its cute. I have so many random photos of me touching my belly while pregnant its ridiculous lmao. But that makes it so sad like, Reagan just chilling around and just thinking to check on baby, just for them to be gone like PPD in me now

and whats funny to me is like

to me, reagan has no idea what to do in the first couple months. there’s barely anything there to touch and she’s still trying to realize that there’s a fuckin demon inside her

but brett is so excited and protective and touchy with her belly that she eventually does too the more she grows in those few months

when she’s bored she talks to it, even has a hand on it when she’s doing work with one hand, but of course she does this in front of no one but brett bc she doesn’t wanna look cringe or be made fun of lol

[lovelyisadora]

Oh yeah there's this other fic also that I wrote the other day thats like 400 words of. Marcia and silas. It's unfinished sadly but it's there <3

I know this is from like a week or so ago but I couldn’t read it bc i didn’t have internet and I just read it and 🥺

[stupid-dyke]

It’s seriously been over 2 months and I’m going back to college in 2 weeks and she’s really not going to call me ever again, is she?