the scorpion and the frog

this blog is strictly 21+ only and intentionally small-scale and almost solely thread-based. i heavily prefer plotted dynamics and pre-established relationships, and only write with mutuals. i am also very slow/sporadic activity.

ROSTER:

tony soprano (he/him)

william butcher (he/him)

carmy berzatto (he/him)

eve polastri (she/her)

isaak sirko (he/him)

love quinn (she/her)

benjamin poindexter (he/him)

allyson nelson (she/they)

clarice starling (she/her)

mystique (she/they)

abby anderson (she/her)

john marston (he/him)

dutch van der linde (he/him)

michael de santa (he/him)

alana’s smaller than michael, than corey, than cameron. frail, almost. the doctor who’d operated on her knee had told her she had bird bones—she remembers that, at least, through the haze of morphine and whatever else that’d been pumped into her system after her blood-soaked clothing had been cut off of her. what he hadn’t told her was that her mother lay dead just a floor above, so maimed she’d needed a close-casket funeral like vicky, like cameron, like oscar, like corey, like doug, like her father—everyone.

too many funerals. the last one she’d been to had been to lay the boogeyman to rest for good, and she’d thought there’d be finality in it—which there was. but it’d been fleeting. too often she forgets he’s not out there, too often she looks over her shoulder, and too often she wonders if alana will somehow be next in his endless pursuit to destroy her, even hundreds of miles away.

she’s asked alana about dr. lecter, because of course she has, and she knows that despite his incarceration, he remains a boogeyman in his own right.

“if i were to do that—i don’t even know what flowers you like. if you even like them so—do you even like them?” allyson asks with a sheepish little smile, momentarily drops her gaze when alana stares back up at her with such an intensity in her blue eyes that it almost makes allyson feel shy, which she’s never been a day in her life. she lifts her gaze back up to alana, cups her face with long, elegant fingers.

her thumb traces over alana’s cheekbone fondly.

“i don’t think anyone’s ever said anything like that to me before,” she murmurs. corey had offered to burn it all to the ground for her, and she’d wanted to for a long time. the thought doesn’t sound as appealing when she’s with alana.

her therapist tells her she has a tendency to foster codependency, but this feels warm, good, unlike the intense oil fire—the amor fou—that her and corey had been.

allyson is a capricorn, her birthday is january 6th! 

as a result of breaking her knee and femur during her confrontation with michael in 2018, she had to get a knee replacement. her left knee and leg as a whole aches in the cold, and limits her physical activity, which was a struggle to deal with especially in the first 1-2 years after michael disappeared. 

there was once a time when she was the star of the haddonfield high school track and field team, and aspired to run marathons. after helping kill michael and leaving haddonfield, she’s finding her passion for it again. she also very much wanted to start training for triathalons, but that aspiration is in the past. right now, she’s very into low impact exercises such as yoga, walking, and swimming. 

she loves beer and IPAs, specifically in combination with hikes. she can’t hike as much as she used to because of chronic pain.

i just know karen was the type of parent who wanted allyson to be involved in different activities, and as a result allyson knows how to play the trombone. 

she cut her hair into a bob shortly after halloween 2018 because she couldn't stop thinking of the way michael pulled her hair. she cuts her hair herself and has gotten better at it throughout the years. it's been important to divorce herself from michael in any possible way esp considering her and judith myers’ resemblance too... (see below)

allyson also identifies as non-binary and goes by she/they. she does have a slight preference for masc people but also has such an unhealthy attachment style that she tends to be into anyone who shows her attention, especially as a trauma response. she’s very into flirting, and has historically been a serial monogamist. but - i do definitely think her and vicky were, at the very least, not platonic; and imo, cameron elam was an egg (aka a trans woman who had not come out of the Egg just yet. lots to unpack abt that but that’s how i feel and headcanon them!).

post-ends, she’s finishing up her bachelors in the hope of becoming a psychiatric nurse, likely somewhere in chicago. she has no family left besides laurie, who she is currently no-contact with not entirely out of animosity, but to maintain a healthy boundary from her past to her future.