A Hellboy story for @microcest!

Prompt: hallucination (from October 22nd 2025)

T; 500 words Nuada/Nuala

Nuala 🌺

Headcanons:

Loves to cook and bake, especially when she can experiment in the kitchen

Taught herself the language of flowers and spends her downtime creating lavish floral arrangements

Hates spending time in the forest, due to her distaste for bugs

She is the more chaotic twin and always has some kind of scheme brewing

Enjoys going to Rita’s and has a healthy string of lovers

Nuala is a shortened form of the name Fionnuala

In Irish mythology Fionnuala was the daughter of the sea god Lir. She and her brothers were turned into swans for 900 years by their step-mother. Throughout the 900 years Fionnuala guided her brothers, keeping the family together and maintaining their hope that their curse would eventually be lifted.

The tale shows Fionnuala's love and loyalty for her family, as well as her ability to endure and remain hopeful through hardships.

I believe these qualities match well with what we have seen of Nuala so far. We know she managed to endure being Under the Mountain with her sister and Rhys, and she has shown great loyalty as a spy for both Rhys and Azriel.

I look forward to seeing more of her in the next book

Day 4: Handmaiden Day-