Pinoy Queen of Cordonia

Ongoing

Summary: Evangeline Lakandula was just a waitress in The Trinket Bar in the Philippine province, trying to survive and get by when a group of foreigners on a bachelor party came crashing in. Unable to deny her younger colleague, Evangeline agrees to serve the bachelor party while hoping she could find a way to make her evening a bit better. (TRR, Liam/MC)

Prologue - The Night Shift

Chapter I - The Trinket Bar

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MC MASTERLIST

And if my first post for the new year is a redo of my original lineup to fit the MCs per category? What then dfougsufgsf

Again this is inspired by @cassiopeiacorvus' lineup which just seems to grow more mad respect to you omgg

I'll also do my best to explain the character design and body language I used since this is how they appear at the start of their stories!

Her name is Galinda Gapuz and it's cause her parents loved the 1995 book. Rip for them Galinda is not as big a fan and calls herself Lina. She likes classic novels especially the serious political social commentaries like Les Mis, El Filibusterismo, Noli Me Tangere, etc and in terms of children's books she liked the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Hans Christian Anderson and Christian Perrault works

Anyway History Teacher!Liam Rhys meeting and falling for Heir Apparent Dayang!Evangeline who would actually get a different name in that AU

James what the fuck

Emma thinking of how messy and all over the place the play was plus the switching speech patterns.

Smiles through grit teeth

Since I have nothing better to do and I love talking about the people who contributed to moulding Emma into who she is in the Freshman lemme show yall the face claims I have for her fam!

Her parents: Iza Calzado and Albert Martinez (hush let me have my fun)

Everyone's in filipiniana

Just what if

Her grandmother was always the first to raise hell when she found out about teachers abusing their power and humiliating students for failing marks or social status. Hence, Emma knew that teachers should never take advantage of students the way Vasquez was. (Of course, her mom and dad made it clear too that people don't fucken act like how Vasquez does and her grandfather made it clear that to know a person you must know the person.)

Her grandfather is a literary genius of his generation from UP who teaches literature but in a way that engages and motivates his students - even having an hour-long plotting session with them on occasion when he's writing his novels - means Emma saw what a good writer and professor is like. He encouraged her fondness for literature and writing (though he writes novels in deep Tagalog and often focuses on historical fiction centred on themes of colonisation and the resilience of Filipinos while Emma mostly wrote in English and informal modern Tagalog) and even read through some of her stories that she wrote as a child. (Looking back on those moments, Emma is very much embarrassed cause she knew they were very messy and silly but he never said anything beyond asking about plot points and guiding her to finding her own endings)

I get using inspiration but tell me again how does copy-pasting names, personalities, etc of the person you're using as inspiration still count?

Anyway my hot take today is just the fact that Vasquez is a shit writer who can't plot a story worth the themes he wants to tell and decided to make assumptions that he could understand and know all the facets of a student who he decided to despise and call entitled from day 1 just so he could have his little story

also there's just something that grossed me out when he decided to call Emma+her friends his favourite "characters"

y'all this man does not see them as people just his little characters to manipulate as he pleases

Got bored so here's a doodle of my Freshman MC wkfjghsjdheh

She was offered a UP scholarship plus some other universities along with an acceptance letter from Hartfeld when she applied so she went to Hartfeld cause dream school but boi she did not see the drama coming a mile away.

She's called Emma by her university friends but when she's home with family she's called Dolores or Doring. Her friends go with Dory since younger Emma told them she liked her second name better cause it was taken from her grandmother who she was close to.

She was part of the book lover's club, worked with her high school librarian as an informal student librarian, entered spelling bees and PSAP-ALAM essay contests, did book reports for fun, and was really good with the English subject. (her grandmother had to tutor her in math and she had to take Science remedial classes) She only had three local friends in the Philippines and the four of them have a group chat whose name changes with the members' whims. The four went to different unis so they each jokingly trash-talked each other during sports events when their schools were competing against each other.

The whole issue of her parents not affording her tuition became a thing due to her grandmother falling ill, so she told them to just focus their finances on her while she figured out a workaround.

She likes Chris as a friend and she thought James was very handsome. She's pretty reserved so Abbie is closer to her than Kaitlyn, she hates Becca's guts but hates Vasquez even more since he's always abusing his power to toy with her life. (She refuses to tell her parents about this though since she doesn't want them to worry especially since her grandfather had warned her not to join any sororities or be with anyone from fraternities due to him seeing them as unsafe for her)