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URSULA MERCIER, LENORE’S LOVER IN PARIS
lmAO did y’all think Lenny met her Prince Eric when she ran away to Paris a year ago?? SIKE!! She’s already got her Prince and it’s Mal. She met Ursula, a charming woman who knew how to pull people around like they were puppets on strings.
okay but lenny the Pan Icon™ saw Ursula and was HIGHKEY like “WOW!!!” but anyways back to the Serious Stuff
It’s no coincidence that her surname, Mercier, means “trader”. And it’s no coincidence that Ursula found Lenny so quickly when she ran away to explore Paris. It’s also no coincidence that her apartment overlooked the same route Malachi and Elias would take on their way to Elias’s school.Â
Is she a human? Is she a Cryptid who chose to bring others of her kind to the Menagerie in exchange for her own freedom? mmmmohmygod I don’t know!!Â
Point is, she had been working with Metzger for some time, scouting for Cryptids in France to send to the Menagerie.Â
She was in Paris scoping out Elias Leclair, which is why her apartment had a balcony that overlooked his and Malachi’s route to school.Â
When Lenny ran off to Paris, Ursula, being one of Metz’s connections in the area, found her pretty quickly.Â
and she was probably like?? Awww Baby and basically kinda toyed with Lenny’s heart and got Lenny to tell her she was a Selkie and like, just kinda had her fun with her alfhdkdbkdÂ
stole Lenny’s Selkie’s coat and sent it back to the Menagerie, that way Lenny wouldn’t be able to run off that easily if she found out what game Ursula was playingÂ
Her plan was basically to nab Elias and send him back to the Menagerie with Lenny?? Two birds with one stone tbhÂ
BUT LMAO Elias!! Ended up Knowing something was Up and went on a killing spree, Ursula being the first to go. uhhh rip??? That was the night Malachi wound up at the Menagerie.Â
uhhh and as for Lenny?? She came back to an empty apartment and was pretty much stranded in Paris for a couple of days without her Selkie’s coat, which led to her having to find her own way back to the Menagerie, aaaand the rest can be read in Lenore’s app!!Â
Essentially Ursula was the first person Lenore had some sort of semblance of a relationship with, she lost her virginity to Ursula aldhdkbdjd
uhhh and to this day Lenny has no idea that she worked for Metzger this whole time and just thinks she was a human who ran away when she found out Lenny was a Cryptid?? And honestly I can’t tell which is worse ahahahdjdhjdÂ
Ursula was the kind of person who could charm the spots off of a fucking leopard. Talented, highly educated, classy as fUCKÂ
Was she evil? I’d argue no, but she was a person who was out only for her own self-interest.