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4. Siblings - Revaire - any/all

Calanthia adores every single one of her siblings, although she doesn’t exactly UNDERSTAND most of them. In order from next-oldest to youngest, her younger sibs are Portia, Abigail, Emmaline and Gregory (twins), Briony, and Ianthe.

Portia is officially The Pretty One, but she’s also painfully shy, kind of a shut-in, and abjectly terrified of the idea of marriage (Calanthia’s own marriage was partly because they were literally not able to afford food, but also partly because her parents were making increasingly-serious noises about taking Portia to court to make a ‘good match’). Abigail frowns a lot, has disapproved of mud and dirt since she was about three, and loves music with a bone-deep joy (she cannot carry a tune in a bucket, but she’s very good at playing the piano when it’s actually in tune).Emmaline is Calanthia’s favorite because she is a ball of sunshine and sweetness and she takes after Big Sis Anthy in having entirely too much determination; she was always going to grow up to cause other people headaches and Calanthia adores her. Gregory is the heir, the only boy, and the only one their parents listen to with any frequency; Calanthia started getting him to present petitions from the child-collective when he was six. Briony tries very hard to garden and is emotionally invested in the sheep (Calanthia, who has never had any pretensions to being outdoorsy, is bewildered but encouraging). Ianthe was an oops and is MUCH younger than the others, so they all co-parent (this is probably a good thing, because their parents are disasters).

In my first draft for her family, Calanthia also had an older sister, Gweneth, who is now Schrodinger’s Sibling; I’m not sure what’s going on with her or if she’s still alive (but Calanthia definitely learned at least half of the ‘point at a different target’ trick she pulls on Jarrod the first day of the Summit by trying to keep parental aggro off her most emotionally delicate sister).

7. Parents - Corval - mother

Nisha’s mother taught her how to dance, how to dress well, and how to smile at someone you would really like to half-drown in custard (while plotting to ENTIRELY drown them in shame). Nisha thinks her mother hung the moon and she will not fight you if you disagree (that would be TACKY), but you will probably find inexplicable frogs in your belongings for the next month and people will giggle behind their hands as you pass for much longer than that. Not that Blain experienced exactly that. Nope. Wasn’t her, no one can prove it.

19. Rivalry - past

Calanthia had a ‘rivalry’ in much the same sense as she does with Avalie in-game - kind of a ‘worthy opponent’ situation - with the Dowager Marchioness who lived nearish to her father’s estate. They didn’t get to the ‘friendly sniping and conversational traps’ stage until Calanthia was fifteen and stepped up her game, though - before that, it was definitely weighted more towards ‘mentor’ than ‘rival’. Aleni bores easily and wanted someone to engage in witty repartee with who wouldn’t just stare blankly when she made a historical allusion, and most of the neighborhood was... well, let’s just say having a good memory for history has not been a popular pastime in Revaire for the last few years.

Demetria had like. All of Wellin. Also, at home, there were a lot of boys who tried to push her around when she was still a sprog. They got smacked in the shins with sticks for their trouble. (The cleverer ones caught on pretty fast that she was the Count’s daughter and that dropping them in the dirt was much kinder than, say, telling her father and getting THEIR fathers turned off.)

Nisha had Blain. (Poor Nisha.)

For Thenali and Eder, I’m pretty sure I’d write this as recuperation while she’s getting over, y’know, having her soul ripped out and bits of it stuffed back in and also having been unconscious for a few weeks after having most of her castle dropped on top of her. That definitely left a mark or seventeen. I’ve written a bit of that already, because she definitely doesn’t just hop right out of bed and fight pirates. So basically, a lot of Eder kind of taking care of her the first little while and then having to occasionally bodily haul her places while Xoti goes ‘I can heal her!’ and everyone else is like 'er, you can try.’ Canonically, soul maladies are hard to address even with magic, and I really doubt there’s been significant study into magically rehabbing people who were mostly dead and in a coma since most things in this universe seem to either kill you outright or let you get back up again.

Also I am Weak for people being carried. I have a problem.

For Aulikahi and Tekehu, I think I’d go with Auli being surprisingly gentle when Tekehu’s being squeamish - which isn’t the meaning of ‘sick’ that’s intended, I know, but that scene where he’s abjectly horrified by the state of the Gullet and you can hold his hand punched me right in the feelings (mostly because she’s among the least gentle characters I’ve ever had and her being Soft is therefore very important to me). I may also have already written some of this. Oops.