#may gamgee

So.... Hey!

I'm just going to leave some of my headcanons and drawings that I have about the siblings

Sisters:

May (0.85cm):

° The prettiest of the sisters (according to hobbit standards)

° The most feminine.

° Her craft is to be a healer and midwife (she later taught Rosie)

° Her Pa' and Sam taught her to recognize medicinal plants and how to use them.

° She likes to sew and mend.

° The most romantic among all her siblings (after Sam)

° She hates mud but adapts well to field work.

° She, along with Daisy, are the ones who take care of their Pa' the most and are attentive to him.

° She has a strong hand but she doesn't like to fight.

° She is very good at cooking

Daisy (1.00 m):

° She has a motherly and serious nature.

° She is in charge of directing the management and tasks of the home.

° Mother complex.

° The strongest of her sisters.

° The most similar to Bell (except for her brown hair)

° Works as a laundress.

° Of all the siblings, she's the one who understands best with Hamson.

° She has a special affection for Frodo.

° She's not very good at cooking but she makes up for it.

° She is very good at accounting.

Marigold (0.90 cm):

° The most outgoing along with Hal.

° The most "bocona" (that is, she can't stop talking even when she shouldn't)

° She is a little spoiled.

° She is in charge of running errands for their home.

° She always wants to follow Sam wherever he goes.

° Has an affinity with animals.

° Work at the Cotton's Farm (mainly for jobs that don't require a lot of physical strength)

° The most open-minded of the siblings.

° Especially attached to Hamfast (although she doesn't know how to show it)

° She has no problem doing heavy work.

° She is quite insightful.

° Her hair is extremely unruly and uncontrolled.

° She is the most likely to fight or argue (Véase, ella es peleona)

Brothers:

Halfred (1.12 cm):

° The tallest of the siblings.

° The most extrovert.

° His craft is being a baker

° He is the least interested in gardening.

° He likes joking.

° When he is around his Pa' he tries to keep a serious attitude.

° He gets along specifically well with Marigold.

° His best friend is Hamson.

° From time to time he helps MG with her work on the Farm.

° He is much more observant than he seems.

° Sam and MG are his spoiled little siblings.

° He doesn't know how to express his emotions.

° He loves to dance.

Hamson (1.00m):

° Along with Daisy they have the same eyes as Bell.

° Big brother complex.

° He has the most serious character of all the siblings.

° The most similar to the Gaffer in personality.

° He and Daisy always seek comfort in each other.

° His craft is to be a carpenter.

° He is in charge of repairing the furniture in their home or in Bag end.

° He finds it difficult to express his emotions.

° (Although he may not seem like it) he is very judgmental(? with his neighbors (Or Es bien juzgoncito)

° He goes out of his way for his siblings.

° He cares too much about his dad.

° Daisy is his confidant.

° He tried for a while to be the support of his home to relieve his father (although his Gaffer obviously did not allow it)

° Sometimes he helped his dad with the gardens.

° He is the one who has spent the most time with Frodo among the siblings and that is why he worries about him (although he chooses to keep his distance)

Samwise (1.10m):

° He is the most physically similar to his dad.

° The shyest of the siblings.

° Lass are easily attracted to him.

° Before Frodo's arrival in Bag End he thought that Bilbo was the most elvish hobbit in the entire Shire.

° May taught him everything he knows about cooking.

° He adores the dirt and plants almost as much as the Gaffer.

° He is quite clumsy but when he concentrates on doing things he is passionate about or protecting his loved ones, he stops being that way.

° He composes songs and poems in his free time.

° He knows how to draw structurally correct flowers.

° Gets angry easily.

° Explosive temperament.

° He spends most of his time lost in his head.

° He tends to talk more when it comes to people he feels comfortable with.

° It is difficult for him to express his emotions in front of his dad.

May Gamgee: *sings and dances around the kitchen* Marigold bagged a Baggins, Marigold bagged a Baggins, Marigold bagged a Baggins!

Since chapter 16 of Flowers of Mordor will feature a few minor characters from the Gamgee and Cotton families, I'm writing it a bit out of order and warming up with character studies that may or may not make it into the final piece. Here's one of May, who is Sam and Marigold's older sister, and the second of the Gamgee sisters. Content warning: brief mention of pregnancy termination. @konartiste

...You should talk, Marigold wanted to mutter, but held her tongue and instead chopped the onions with a little more vigor.

For May herself had gotten a move on several years ago, though not in any way that Marigold wanted to emulate. When their mother had passed away, May had taken to rebelling, and at the time the Gaffer had been too grief-stricken to do much about it, so among the three Gamgee sisters, May had been the first to do everything – the first to go on a Walk, the first to kiss, the first to bed, the first to wed. 

But even so, before she had wed, May had gone through a flurry of suitors, with each of whom she had picked nonsensical fights and then parted in a violent fashion, all the while visiting Mrs. Bracegirdle with some regularity for herbs that would prevent conception – so much so, in fact, that Marigold had begun to worry that people would stop taking her sister seriously, and indeed it was partly May’s behavior that had made Marigold so reticent with the opposite sex. 

In the end, May had finally caught the seed of one of her suitors, and Mrs. Bracegirdle had refused to provide her with a remedy to “restore the menses,” instead marching her back to the Gaffer holding her by the ear, and after that there was no stopping the wedding. Luckily, though, where May had been shrill and high-strung, Boffo Banks had proven pliant and reliable, and despite May’s initial chagrin that she was forced to marry a hobbit she did not intend to be with for long, the two made a good pair. May had grown quite fond of saying, with a wink, that Boffo was excellent with his hands, and thus was not a tailor for nothing, and the two of them now had three children, Bingo, Holly, and Jolly. And although Boffo had come into their home a mere tailor’s apprentice and an orphan – a circumstance that May had lamented even as Marigold and Daisy bit their tongues, hard, as they prepared her glory box – he now had a share in his master’s business and was rapidly saving up for a hobbit hole of their own. As a result, May had grown less querulous over the years, and whenever Marigold caught sight of her and her husband by the fire in the evenings, she even thought that May looked happy – happy and calm, two emotions that had not crossed her face in many years.