#brandybuck

Amaranth Brandybuck and Mirabella (Took) Brandybuck 💚

Yeah I couldn’t be bothered to go over with the ink pen so here’s the sketch before I colour it ☺️

Anyway Amaranth is the older sister of Primula Brandybuck (Frodos mum) and Mirabella is their mother and the youngest sister of Belladonna Took (Bilbos mum)

37 and 81 years old respectively (at the time of The Hobbit.

(More on their designs under the cut)

Today I will talk about all of the Buck-situation in the shire.

We have:

Buckland, a region, kinda

Brandywine River, a river near Buckland

Bucktown, a town in Buckland

Brandybuck family, a family that mostly lives in Buckland.

Now, all of this places and things are called similarly to each other and we can see the connection, but our dear Ottavio Fatica said no! He and to mess up again.

Buckland became Landaino, a fusion of the words “land” and “daino” (“fawn”, like Bambi), and it sound unbearably awful. I don’t even know where to put the accent.

Brandywine became Brandivino, that kind of makes sense because “vino” means wine, but the words are so similar that Fatica could have left the original name.

Bucktown is almost as bad as Landaino, cause it became “Borgodaino”. I mean. Borgodaino. Really? It literally means “Town Fawn”.

And, cherry on the cake, we have our dear Brandybuck family, that became fucking “Brandaino”. Brandaino. Again, we have the “daino”, the little Bambi that decided to join the quest and throw himself in Mount Doom, but then we also have the “Bran” part, that doesn’t mean shit in Italian nor English. This one IS as bad as LANDAINO. while I was reading I could NOT understand if we were talking about the region, the city, the rivers or the fucking family because of this mess.

So ewoyn and faramir get married right they're adorable we love them

Can we all agree they like adopted mary and Pippin because like

Ewoyn and mary are like so like big sis and little brother

So are faramir and pip (obvi big bro/ little bro) but like same thing they're really close and adorable

has a pickleing cabinet. sam knows of this. merry and pippin do not. frodo is very paranoid and worries about them finding out.

reads multiple books at the same time and sometimes combines elements or characters when referencing them and creates a new, better story

enjoys embroidery. likes to do little plants and animals over small holes, makes patches for friends.

tries to coerce nearby cats to come to him for pets. he is mostly successful.

feeds the strays of the shire (they’re not strays, mr. frodo, and the proudfoots kindly ask that you refrain from fattening up their cat)

has a old quilt that he’s very fond of and guards with his life. it’s made by some great aunt or another, and is terribly comfy.

horrible sleep schedule. almost non existent. will wander around the shire in the dead of night for “a breath of fresh air”

has scared many families while doing this and has been threatened several times

used to call gandalf grandpa. actually did on the fellowships journey. was mocked relentlessly for it.

falls asleep to the rain rather quickly. any bodies of water make him sleepy. he enjoys ocean waves, rushing rivers, babbling brooks and the quiet patter on his windowsill.

loves the beach. collects sea shells.

can not keep plants alive. does not bother, as sam steps in anyways.

has nicknames for people, mostly in his head. sometimes will let them slip. sam is sammy-boy, pippin is pipper or pippy, gandalf is gander. always refers to merry as Meridoc in his head as it’s somehow funnier.

he gets this from bilbo, who also gave his friends/relatives nicknames behind their back. they’d giggle and gossip together using said names.

used to call bilbo “bibbo”. uncle bibbo was all the shire referred to him for a while before the threat of no more bag-end parties was made.

he likes oranges and nuts, but in the summer he likes a good plum.

favorite seasons are winter and the beginings of spring when it’s still rainy. hates the heat.

might be allergic to pollen and/or lavender. still keeps flowers by his bedside and eats lavender tarts.

all couches, chairs and daybeds are piled high with throw pillows and blankets. it’s hard to sit down without being swamped by them.

used to pretend to be an elf as a kid. was horrified to learn bilbo spread this information to the rivendell elves.

sings songs frequently and in public. no one minds this.

likes the idea of hats, looks horrible in them and they mess up his hair anyhow.