#laezulis

      Perhaps somewhere deep down in her bones, she remembers. No one person could say for sure––– Aurora hides her sadnesses beneath a smile so bright and radiant one would never think to peek beneath… and anyway, she had only been five when it happened. 

        ( no one who knows would think that she even understood what was happening, that the sight of her mother wasting away in that bed might be lost in the ocean of her eyes, that the neglect of her father might have told her it was a trivial matter. )

                When she first glimpses the dark woman, those kind eyes grow wide in recognition. She remembers her, she remembers–––– a warmth, a presence, a shadow that would follow and watch over her. Part of her fancies the thought of a faerie godmother. 

          The image in her mind grows dimmer by the day. It’s one that she would reflect upon from her girlhood, but even dreamy Aurora knows it’s probably not as magical as it had seemed when first she experienced it. Even now, the woman she pictures is nothing more than ethereal light, an angel, someone who vaguely resembles her yet whose features are never fixed, always blurred just enough to make her a stranger, always changing the moment she makes sense of them.

♥ ┊ ⋞ strange ℬeauty  ⋟

send hc + something and i’ll write a headcanon.

                  Home is an odd concept for Aurora.

      In her canon verses, it’s a little bit simpler –– pre!meeting Maleficent, she lives with her aunties in the forests, and that’s all she’s ever known. She’s more or less comfortable there despite feeling a bit out of place & unwanted, and she loves her aunties –––– but she’s also very curious about the outside world beyond the little road that runs through the woods or the large briar-wall that guards the mysterious Moors. 

       Post movie, it’s a tiny bit more complex. Aurora is enthralled completely by the Moors and adores everything about them, before she knew about the curse she was ready to leave the only sort of family she’d ever known before meeting Maleficent and everything else she knew to live there with her godmother; she’d still be ready to do so if it weren’t for her newfound duty as a queen. I’d imagine a good part of the first year or maybe a bit longer of her reign would be spent pining after the Moors if only because she still feels out of place in the castle’s heavy stone walls when she’s just used to the woods and outdoors and all that ––– 

       but I imagine eventually she’d be able to reconcile the half of her that belongs in the Moors with the half of her that belongs in the human realm, because she is undeniably royalty and she is absolutely the queen of both. It would take her some time, but she could probably view both the Moors and the human realm as her home –––– or even view both as her singular home. 

      In her non-movie-related verses, it’s a little bit more complex. A distinct difference would be the lack of Maleficent which means no finding any family other than her father and no actual mother figure in her life. Essentially, without Maleficent, Aurora kind of doesn’t have a family. In most of these, Aurora grows up feeling more alienated than her movie verse because of her crappy upbringing ––– usually either by her aunties who don’t exactly have the excuse of being fair folk and not knowing how to properly bring up a human in most of these verses or her father who’s just kind of incapable of actually caring for anyone. 

       Aurora doesn’t really consider anywhere her home except for the place she grew up in, which ?? doesn’t really hold the same emotional value considering that she doesn’t really feel like she has a family. 

/ whispers u r f