the troublesome trio
These 3 spend time over at each other’s places - ok well maybe not at Iphigenia’s that often if ever, but like definitely at Clemmie’s or Felix’s homes
There’s the occasional times where they get to go the presidential mansion - it’s massive and there’s enough space to run around without them getting into too much trouble (hopefully)
Because to this day, the adults still wonder how on earth these 3 had gotten on the wrong train to end up at D11 instead of D1
President Magnus Ravinstill is also very doting of Felix (Felix resembles his deceased grandfather much in personality and the guy misses his younger brother)
When at the Presidential Mansion:
The trio are truly something else - one time, they played outside and when it was time to go home, nobody knew where they were. AGAIN.
The city was 2 minutes away from a full-lockdown when a gardener found them asleep in one of the rhododendron bushes - it was like their secret fort/hideout
Because of this, there’s now an unspoken rule that some adult needs to check in on them like every 10ish minutes just to make sure they are still here
You decide if that rhododendron bush still exists on the estate
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There’s the odd encounter with the president when they’re over. Usually very brief and just a hello/goodbye
Pres. Ravinstill thinks Clemmie is an oddly serious little girl that’s only ever childish when with Iphigenia and Felix
This man has lost much to the districts both pre/during/post war: his own siblings and good friends, perhaps even a lover?
Sometimes sees traces of his old friend in Clemmie (I like to imagine the old families/elites probably knew each other across generations)
Comes across Clemmie alone once while he’s heading to meet Gaul
It’s barely a conversation and more so an offhand remark she makes where Clemmie unknowingly echoes her grandfather’s words, or at least it sounds like something the man would have said
It just echoes in Pres. Ravinstill's mind and makes him a little bit distracted when meeting with Dr. Gaul
Does Dr. Gaul notice? Yeah.
There’s a window in his office that can see into the gardens, and she’s seen him glance a few times at the raven haired little girl
Gaul makes the connection pretty quickly and calls him overly sentimental for thinking of Hector (Clemmie’s grandfather). Again.
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Dr. Gaul: *rolls her eyes* What is it this time?
Pres. Ravinstill: Hector’s granddaughter reminds me much of him.
Dr. Gaul: *side-eyeing him*
Pres. Ravinstill: What?
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Dr. Gaul: Had Hector been a woman, you’d have married him the moment we graduated and have had a dozen Ravinstill children by now.
Pres. Ravinstill:
ASIDE
His old friend - Hector Dovecote
Had been much like the doves on his family crest, all for peace, unity etc. Really into improving welfare for the districts.
A dreamer. Pres. Ravinstill humoured him and sort of believed in his ideals until the man died
Ironically, Hector had died after visiting the districts where he had been there to improve conditions
Tuberculosis? Or from something that was a problem in the Districts and not-so much in the Capitol
Hector died young, like way before Clemmie was born
And when the lights hit the secretary of energy at certain angles, Pres. Ravinstill cannot look at the man, for Endymion Dovecote looks far too much like his deceased friend
His brother - Caesar, the one that Felix reminds him of
Greek myths have ravens represent bad luck, so going off this tangent :
His younger brother died from his allies betraying him (pre-war but like also related to the districts) and Pres. Ravinstill took over raising his brother’s many, many children
But also prior to his death Caesar brought much bad luck to his opponents
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Let this old man reminisce on things!
Reminiscing is at an all time high when he watches our trio play in his gardens, reminds him of more innocent times
In a way, he thinks that the games should continue as it puts the Districts in their place and allow the children (Capitol ones) to have the same sort of idle childhood that he and their parents’ generation had
Because by this point, it’s been tentatively brought up to him by a few people, or like he hears whispers that the games are too much
“Felix was young, he’d understand when he was older…”
Felix has had some anti-games sentiments lately and liked to tell him about his time in D11 - “Uncle, they’d whip a child just for…”
Really, it was the peacekeepers’ fault for not recognizing a Ravinstill.
"And who could blame the boy for his stance? He’d been unlucky to have seen the 1st games. They really should have set up some more warnings, because the games were a punishment not an entertainment..."
And secretly, maybe a part of Pres. Ravinstill sees it as a revenge of sorts for all that he’d lost because of the Districts
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Masterlist of more hcs and rambles
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Tcf/lcf Prompt | time cryptid Thames’
{Ps. I haven’t read part 2 yet and I skimmed some parts that I deemed boring and/or was spoiled cause reading 700+ worth of chapters is too tiring and mentally straining}
You know on how people/characters with time related abilities/experience are cryptic or quirky af?
Like I guess if you know the future or keep on regressing it would probably put a mental strain on u or smth. Maybe that’s why I don’t think anyone with a time related ability is sane and would be a little bit unhinge in some way. They would probably be morally dubious/grey at best especially if they experienced death too [regression via death].
So if the Thames Household studies time and the Annual Tree has been passed around[?] in the bloodline, would the Thames’ experience the effects of some type of distortion??
If I remember correctly [I kinda skimmed that part cuz I got lazy and impatient] transmigration is one they haven’t studied deeply. They know more about reincarnation, regression[?] and one lifers [I think they called tribulators? Idk] so it probably means they found a way to study them.
I think that either they found a person that experienced a time anomaly to help with their studies[which is unlikely], or the Thames’ managed to keep on experiencing those time anomalies and documented it themselves for their descendant's to study those said records/journals. I personally think it’s that latter tbh.
If their bloodline does keep on experiencing this sort of thing would they have some eventual adaptation to it? Considering the mind would fracture under pressure due to the maybe frequent time distortion what would it be like? Maybe like Dokja’s [ F O U T H W A L L ]??
Anyways back to the Thames’ being cryptids.
I really like this idea that the Thames are cryptid af. I mean look at the current family;
Cale’s uncle is who knows where. We just know he exist somewhat.
Jour Thames’ consciousness that was on the ap resembles of ‘that quirky girl in high school’ (tho she probly is).
krsCale (who’s technically a Thames via transmigration) is just obsessed with his ‘Slacker Life’ <which will never happen> and money.
ogCale literally pretended to be trash just so that his brother can inherit instead of just asking.
{I know it’s bc of the extended Henitsue’s but he’s a child cut him some slack. Why does the child have to adjust instead of the adults?!?}
Speaking of the cryptids topic. What if the Thames’ got mistaken for a fae or something? Those in the Thames bloodline are ethereally beautiful/pretty that there is a chance that they might get mistaken for a mythical creature. [or maybe there are jk ]
{lmao it reminded at the amount of times cale got mistaken for a dragon}
Personality wise
I kinda want the Thames’ to wear elegantly tailored clothes but with the occasional steampunk clockwork design or accessories here and there like a watermark. Like if Cale would wear a simple yet elegantly pleated tunic and simple pants he would obliged to wear either an hour glass earring or necklace. Or integrating it in the design of the outfit somewhat.
Anyways this is just my ADHD brain rot running wild and need an outlet thank u for listening for my Ted talk :)
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