𝑺𝑨𝑮𝑬 : what is one thing they have learnt?
tilly has learned to be almost violently self efficient. she’s learned to be cruel , but this was before she ever met dutch and his gang. she learned how to be whatever she wanted to be, but also how to survive. she grew up learning, and that knowledge stuck. not the normal girlhood things, but how to survive. then, her brief moments of humanity, the things that weren’t defined by her struggle to LIVE, to SURVIVE abuse and hardship? she learned that with dutch’s gang, she learned how to smile without ulterior motive, she learned how to trust. she never forgot how to be on her own, how to kill, how to be strong. but now she’s learnt how to be soft, how to string together words that aren’t meant to hurt. how to love.
𝑻𝑯𝑹𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑳𝑬: what’s one time your character has been angry and harsh with someone?
before she met anyone that offered her a kind hand, tilly was always angry and cruel with others. but honestly, those of note include any moment where she has been forced to interact with micah, or in any tune where she has been forced to interact with others that may wish her harm. She’s wished death on Malcolm Foreman (and in the end, no star or god made that wish come true, instead she slit his throat with her own hands. she stabbed him 32 times, she was free of him). and she was EAGER to be harsh to thoses that have looked down their nose at her.
but these days, from the time before she was a mother and the time when she became a mother, she’s learnt that softness is also steel. she’s learning how to be gentle, easier to settle versus easier to anger. / @martyrdawn
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