#bailey whitlock

she does! she’s not always sure exactly what that future looks like, but she does see one. she knows it’s not going to be easy, and she tries to be realistic but still somewhat optimistic. she likes to envision a future where they get out of town and make a life somewhere else, away from all the fighting and the violence. she doesn’t expect to ever have all the things she grew up with, but she likes to picture them doing better than getting by. a modest, if a little small, home, maybe one or two little ones running around, rian working in a shop or a garage or something, and she can wait tables or if they end up in a big city maybe she can model clothes or something. she likes to picture rian being able to come home from work to dinner being ready in the kitchen and her with a baby or a toddler on her hip waiting to welcome him home with a kiss.

oh man this is haaaaard

i think gabby would be a toss-up between hufflepuff and gryffindor, because she definitely values justice and fairness quite highly, but, like, also she would consider herself quite brave, although maybe not quite brave enough to really fight the obvious and outward battle for fairness that the town needs, which is a point against both houses, so i’m not quite sure??? i think she’d like to think that hufflepuff would win out, but she might actually end up in gryffindor.

bailey would... possibly be a ravenclaw? with hufflepuff undertones, but i think she’d ultimately be a ravenclaw. she is quite smart and studious, and she definitely has that wistful, dreamer, head in the clouds quality that a good chunk of the ravenclaws have.

jez would be a slytherdor, i think, but probably ultimately a slytherin. he’s not above playing dirty to get what he wants, and that’s really not a gryffindor trait, in the end, because for all their daring and boisterousness, they still value a certain level of personal integrity.

and johnny... i think he’d be one of those surprise hufflepuffs. he’s loyal perhaps to a fault, and, like i said in that other ask, in a world where he hadn’t grown bitter from mistreatment and misfortune, he’d be on the side fighting for equality and fairness. he does have very much of an us-vs-them mentality due to the way his life has played out, but i think a lot of that really started when his parents were killed. prior to that, of course he wanted things to be better for himself and his people, but he had no -real- ill will towards the westies, and what he did was mostly from jealousy instead of the hatred it’s from now.

i think they probably must, because iirc they’re the same age, or only a year apart? idr for sure. plus, bailey’s family is somewhat well known with her dad working in law, and, well, everyone knows the holloways. i don’t think she’s a particularly big fan of him, or anyone in the family, really, but she would be polite enough unless he was bothering her? she’s never been especially comfortable with being hit on and jez is a flirter and all that, so she’s definitely gotten a little cross with him a few times but tried to be careful about telling him to back off because she doesn’t want to make trouble for herself.