#i have soul / I am a soldier [ neon j ]

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That's strange - he doesn't receive fan mail. Those mostly go to the boys, not him. He stays in the wings for a reason. It.. isn't awful to receive, however. Although if he zooms in the current camera he's using to see it, that last line.. well, it clearly isn't erased as much as the sender might've hoped. Maybe he'll just pretend he didn't see it.

[fabledmarie-blog]

Once upon a time, Maid Marian from Maid Marian became a reality.

SHE bares a resemblance to ALICE BRAGA. The Fable, who identifies as CIS FEMALE, goes by the name of MARIE and appears to be THIRTY-TWO years old. The BUSINESS OWNER lives in FABLETOWN.

THE BASICS

THE FAIRYTALE & THE CHARACTER: Maid Marian, who is often times attributed to the Robin Hood folklore, but she was originally her own folk tale.

CHARACTER NAME: She prefers to go by Marie, not appreciating how time and human history has warped her story.

AGE: 32.

GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis-fem, she/her.

FACECLAIM: Alice Braga

OCCUPATION: Owner of I Am The Eggman Diner

AREA OF RESIDENCE: Fabletown

ARE THEY GLAMOURED? No

THE FAIRYTALE/LEGEND’S BASICS & HOW THE PEOPLE OF FABLETOWN PERCEIVE THEM:

Note: I actually went with a super specific argument about the Maid Marian folk tale from Francis J. Child, wherein he thinks that the earliest versions of her story were actually from ballads portraying her as a sex worker, which I think is a super interesting history given that she gets kind of heralded as this image of the Virgin Mary in a lot of later texts. So she’s definitely someone that strays pretty far from the recorded fable, but nonetheless here she is. 

The first recorded history of Maid Marian begins with a single question: now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? She was said to be born of the blood of a saint, with glossy black hair the color of a raven’s wings, that with time it would hang down in ringlets meant to mimic the halo that belonged atop her head. Even among streets painted with fallen tears and other hardship, she was a streak of gold across blood red cruelty. Maybe it happened because she once had a famous lover named Robin, this conflation of her story with another’s that turned her into something gilded, into something golden. The truth of her story is something harder to swallow, a life lived not in peace and not in war, but perhaps with a hand in either. The truth is that she comes from neither, from something in between, something soldiers on either side of the aisle loved to take advantage of. A body for a pouch of gold, a ballad named for the Virgin Mary even though she was told to be anything but. Legends painted her as saint, a mother, a gilded girl with with love in her eyes, but there was never anything but the lust forced upon her by a man that was supposed to be her blood and protector. She has been heralded through the ages for her loyalty to her family, to a man that she has never met, and every time someone in Fabletown finds out that this is the story she’s been given, it makes her want to scream. Perhaps this Robin Hood had a wife once, and perhaps her name was Marian as well, but that has never been her. This Maid Marian was sold by her blood for the cost of his sins, and for every part of her that never wants Fabletown to know her true story, she can’t accept this false one either.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTERS THOUGHTS ON FABLETOWN?

There’s a very small part of her that longs for the past, for what she was forced to leave behind. If there was a single thing that she would have stolen with her to bring into this new world, it would be nature. She misses sitting on a rooftop and feeling the sun on her face, leaning against a casement ledge and being able to see trees in the distance, the sounds of birds waking her in the morning. She is used to darkness well enough, spent years living in a brothel built of dark wood and darker souls, but in a countryside tavern there’s access to horses, to running rivers of water with flowers growing along the bed. Here in Fabletown, there is nothing but grime. Beer and grime. Yet still, here in this new world she is a free woman walking, and even if this world is not the one that she would have chosen, not the one that she would have built, she has made a home of it all the same.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT THE FRESH START THEY WERE GIVEN?

For all that Marie sometimes wishes that she could go back into her Homeworld and change her story there, wishes that she could find the power that she now has back there, she also loves the life that she has created for herself here in Fabletown. There are days, the bad ones where she walks down a street and wants to do nothing more than scrub the skin straight from her bones for fear the filth and destitution will somehow have found their way into her blood, that there’s something in this town that’s corrupting her and she’s helpless to stop it, but this is the way of their world and she’s learning how to live with it. She loathed the discontent, the weight of it heavy on her chest when she was still living in Homeland, but here she’s free of that burden, and for all the seediness that surrounds her, she wouldn’t give up her new power for anything. The rest of Fabletown tends to regard her highly, both her fable and her new life as Marie, but very few people actually know that they are one and the same. Most people don’t mind that she doesn’t share her fable with them. So long as they get good food in their bellies and don’t end up with a server that spills maple syrup in their laps, her reputation is tied closely to that of the diner’s. People come, they eat greasy hash browns and a stack of pancakes and swallow it all down with a mugful of coffee that she’s still working on every day to make taste a little less like gasoline, and so long as her businesses continues to thrive well enough to pay her food and rent, she’s content. She only wishes that the rest of the fables could find any measure of success, could be happy in this new world like she is.  

EXPAND ON YOUR CHARACTER’S OCCUPATION & THEIR LIVING SITUATION:

Marie doesn’t exactly love her job, but she doesn’t hate it either, and she loves what it allows her to do. Running the diner takes up most of her time, managing shipments and orders for product, organizing her servers and cooks schedules as well as helping them out on most occassions by bringing out orders or whipping up some appetizer or meal or other when they’re busy an the cooks get overwhelmed. It’s not a big place, but it’s hers, all hers, and that’s something that makes her chest swell.

Marie lives in a sort of loft space in a studio apartment in Fabletown. The neon lights plastered along the buildings across from her big windows tend to cast the space in bright blues and purples at nighttime, but most of the time she doesn’t mind too much. As much as she misses being able to open her windows and gaze out over the vast forest she used to live so close to, there is nothing that she would give up for her independence. Her space tends to be a bit cluttered, haphazardly decorated with Mundie magazines proliferating unrealistic images of woman and promoting a lfe that she wishes would disappear. She steals them all the time, slipping them from shelves into her purse to try and stop their profliferation, but it’s not exactly like shes making a big dent on the industry. Still, she likes doing the little things. There are also collections of Mundie stories; she collects all the one’s that she can find abut herself. The one’s about a girl that she’s never met who bears her name and face, the one’s where she’s a side character in some man’s world. She hates him for that, even if she doesn’t know him. She can’t help it.

EXTRA

PINTEREST

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@underworldslibrary asked ; ❛  i’ll take my chances.  ❜ from zuke , to neon j !

There's a few pings from his radar as he stares at Zuke, emanating judgement. And here he was, thinking he was the more responsible one of the duo. Apparently not. He eventually just sighs, shrugging - his hands were full enough with 1010 on a daily basis, he wasn't taking responsibility for this.

"If the odds turn against you, remember it was your choice."

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@underworldslibrary asked ; ❛  rough day today , i assume ?  ❜ from nova to neon j !

"Yes, today has proved to be difficult - the fans are more relentless then ever, given that concerts need to be put on hold. I planned an outing for me and the boys since they've been confined to the mansion lately, but we had no choice but to go home early today after our location was compromised.. nothing I can't handle of course, but not ideal either."

He knows how much his boys adore their fans, but sometimes they could become rather concerning without proper security. And by sometimes, he means most all the time. Such as last week, where he had to almost entirely overhaul the mansions security system after one nearly broke in. It was due for one anyways after the divisions takeover, but it wasn't a reassuring incident either way. The whole prospect of how to keep his boys safe in such turbulent times weighs on his mind, and it's ultimately what prompted this particular stroll. Perhaps a few moments away from work would grant him a fresh perspective.

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@underworldslibrary “What’s up, party people!?” from sayu to neon j !

Ah! And there's Sayu, a.. few minutes late for her appointment, yes, but it's nothing he can't work with. 1010's currently off practicing their newest dance routine, which leaves him free to attend to Sayu's newest predicament - the limb she damaged on her civilian build. He greets her with a salute, striding to meet her at the entrance.

"Sayu - welcome to the Metro Division's headquarters! You're here to have your malfunction repaired, correct?"

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@dfect asked ; ‘ i’m 25 years old! i’m not a child! ’ to neon j !

If he still had eyes capable of rolling, they absolutely would be right now. Instead the closest thing he can mime is just titling his head to the one side, looking directly at the other for a moment. It's easy to tell why Rin and the others had gravitated towards him so quickly. He supposes he can't be too harsh however .. it's clear just how out of his depth he appears to be. Vinyl city can certainly be overwhelming to the unversed, and his.. everything made that obvious.

"Really? I almost couldn't tell. You are aware that I did witness you almost get run over by the roller coaster, right?"

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tag dump 2 : character tags edition

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 for all of your adult muses

🔥  - … who they think is hot.

".. I obviously cannot name names, as that would be unprofessional. However.. his immense kindness is not the only thing attractive about him. I do not wish to make things awkward between myself and Toriel, and.. I am not even sure if he is fully healed from that.. but it is still something. That is there."

"His personality isn't as good as it could be, but. He isn't the worst to look at, I suppose.. saying so would boost his ego to larger levels then it already is however, so there's no reason to let him know that."

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his sons who are capable of so much destruction but you Will tolerate it.

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you know? hope this helps.

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.... when did he collab with Kesha why is die young playing over his kids troops boss theme ,