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Rose is too interested in this to not go see it. It’s a little bit of a stir when Belinda O’Connor goes to see it on broadway. She comes back with a new obsession, buys multiple copies of the soundtrack, gives them to the girls. Lav proceeds to drive Orchid crazy playing it, laughs when Orchid starts spitting verses. Jaz and Lil reenact ‘Farmer Refuted’ when they’re bored. Poppy and Denia’s code word changes to ‘Rochambeau’. Lav blows the girls away one slow night when she gets Lafayette’s lines at-speed without messing up in ‘Guns and Ships’. Daisy shouts ‘WORK!’ from the crow’s nest when the tag team kicks ass. And if you think Frees, Pop and Denia don’t share ‘Immigrants: we get the job done’ every chance they get...

Rose: leader. half Indian, half Irish. bisexual. in a relationship with Jennalynn.

Lily: second, external affairs. Black. grey-ace.

Jasmine: second, internal affairs. Black, albino. heteroflexible.

Freesia: muscle. Mexican, 1st gen. lesbian. in a relationship with Matt and Cherry.

Orchid: medic, intensive. Black. demi. trans.

Dahlia: drugs/tox. Israeli. whatever. married to Calla.

Calla: mechanic. Piscataway. queer. married to Dahlia.

Gardenia: grifter. Brazilian, immigrant. pansexual, aromantic, very sex-favorable. has a thing with Chey.

Cherry: tech. Black. ace, sex-squicked. in a relationship with Freesia and Matt.

Iris: legal. South Korean. aro ace.

Lavender: medic, field. Creole. lesbian. in a relationship with Lena.

Poppy: scout. Japanese, 1st gen. straight, sex-repulsed. in a relationship with Cian.

Meet The Youngest Swimmer in The Pool (x)

Published Article on SEA Games 2015 website

Most 10-year-olds dream up fantasies for their birthday wishes. But not Oo Shun Lei Maw, the determined and grounded swimmer from Myanmar, she spent her birthday racing in the SEA Games pool. “Nothing,” she says firmly. “I don’t have anything I want for my birthday.”

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That being said.

Holy crap, okay. Rose is so in love. Jennalynn makes her so happy. It terrifies her how much she needs J, how integral she is to her happiness. And not in a, if you leave me I’ll die way (though that’s certainly true, however unaware she is of it) but in a, I could never see myself anywhere near as satisfied with my life as I am with you. Jennalynn was very much a ‘don’t know what you’re missing until you have it’ case – if Rose and J had never met, she never would have known something was wrong, that there was something more to be had from her life. However, now that they’ve met and are together and have been together, she could never go back.

If something did happen, and they split for whatever reason, Rose wouldn’t last long. It wouldn’t be on purpose; she just wouldn’t be able to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get restful sleep, and thanks to that, she wouldn’t be able to eat much or well either. It would be two years, tops, before she did irreparable damage. Without immediate intervention and close watch, she’d waste away to nothing within six months of that. The timeline is considerably shorter if Jennalynn died – it still wouldn’t be entirely on purpose, but she certainly wouldn’t make any efforts to the contrary.

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She depends on platonic, sibling-like love. That’s whatfounded the Reapers, a familial dependence on each other. She talks of thegirls like her siblings, calls them her sisters, loves them just as much as shedoes Brook and Raye. Friends and the like mean the world to her, and she willdefend those she considers friends to the death.

As a general rule, she doesn’t believe in romantic love.After Llewelyn and the damage he did, she decided it wasn’t for her. Evenknowing Dahlia and Calla as long as she has, seeing them through everything (itwas thoroughly unsurprising that they got married as soon as it was legal; hergift was the money for their ring band tattoos) she doesn’t believe she’ll be happy likethat.

She vaguely remembers the beginning of the dissolution ofher parents’ marriage; she knew her father had been in love, but was working oncutting Sarika out of everything when he died. The safety nets Ardal set upbefore his death are essential to her freedom. She wouldn’t be able to supportthe gang and her own extracurricular activities without her mother knowing. Soan eventual dissolution seems inevitable to her, practically depends on ithappening.

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The house was built in the early 1500s to hold four or fivegenerations at a time. Even when it became the norm for kids to move out andstart their own lives, O’Connors were expected to stay and raise their familiesthere. Each couple was expected to have at least two children, main familydescendants expected to have three, and the size of the estate showed that,upwards of thirty bedrooms alone. Because the O’Connors were always upperclass, the ground floor has a large ballroom and attached dining hall with allits accoutrements, a sizeable foyer and salon, a music room, a billiards room,a drawing room, a solarium, an indoor pool, and a kitchen large enough to keepsuch a large family and all their assorted guests fed. The next floor up holdsseveral offices, a large library, and the rooms for the main family. Secondaryfamily rooms, as well as guest rooms, are on the next floor, and the top flooris used for the house staff; living and working rooms. The old horse stableshave since been converted into garages, and the groom’s rooms are now for thechauffeurs. Thanks to the age of the house, there are passages throughout thewalls so the servants could come and go unseen, hidden rooms used for storageso as to avoid cluttering the rest of the mansion.

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It’s “Mother” or “my mother” or even “Sarika”. Impersonal.Removed.

But it’s always“Daddy”. Ardal died when she was seven, so she still sees him in the gentleinnocence of childhood. Sarika didn’t become truly awful until after Ardaldied, so of course she believes if he hadn’t died, things wouldn’t have gone ashorribly as they did. (She’s not wrong.) Most of what she knows of Ardal comesfrom stories from Tierney, and since Tier blames herself for her brother’sdeath, she refuses to say anything negative about him. There isn’t much to say on that front, anyway; Ardalwas a good man.

Sarika is never physicallyabusive with the girls – she doesn’t need to be. Brooklyn has never given herreason to turn on her, and so she’s the safest from Sarika’s wrath. Brookdoesn’t remember Ardal, anyway, so she doesn’t have any dreams of ‘what mighthave been’. For the most part, Sarika keeps the girls in line with isolationand fear – fear of what she could do, especially after Raven’ssuicide. She has always been shrewd and manipulative, the darker side of whatRose (and her sisters, by extension) are capable of. She’s been disowned by herown family for her cruelty; if Rose ever manages to connect with her mother’sfamily, she’d learn they are nothing like her, and would welcome her andBrooklyn with open arms.