#veiliza

girl in the woods | fallen wordbuilding 2

Rachael listened wistfully to the patter of the rain. Only rarely did the drops penetrate the dense canopy of leaves and hit her dark hair.

She had imagined the lonely life in the wilderness to be much more exciting and romantic. Like the books she had read as a little girl, she thought she could make friends with the elves or be taken in by a bear family, but it was not like that at all. The elves were annoying little critters who pulled her hair and screamed their shrill voices in her ear, and she hadn't seen any bears yet, but if she had, they would probably welcome her more as a night meal. Now she stumbled aimlessly among the tall trees, feeling her thin dress getting wetter and drippier by the second.

It was still summer, but she could already see the first colourful leaves on the trees and soon the days would become shorter and colder and with the cold the berries and leaves she fed on would disappear and then, yes then, she would probably die. Not that she minded.

She had always been used to Death and by now she even liked him. She had clearly seen him standing at her mother's bedside, a tall, pale, upright gentleman who, hands clasped behind his back, had watched melancholically as she grew paler and paler and finally closed her eyes.

Rachael had the impression that Death liked her and maybe it would even be quite nice to finally be away from here, where nobody liked her anyway.

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1. Which OCs names do you like the most?

malakai! you can call him mal or kai!

5. How comfortable are you with sharing your work online vs irl?

i’m. extremely shy. for both it’s really hard, but i feel like it’s harder for me online? i get v v anxious so it takes me forever to post stuff related to my projects; irl, most of the time when i show my work it’s for critique. it’s just a lot different posting work out there and hoping other ppl will like it than posting work for.... well, work. no one has to read anything i post here, so every interaction makes me so so happy :3

14. Describe the aesthetics of your current wip like a gothic post (or just list them if that’s too niche idk)

I CAN’T TELL IF THEY MEANT GOTHIC POET BUT REGARDLESS I AM AWFUL AT POETRY so please take me listing these aesthetics in as flowery a manner as i can, instead:

hi eliza!

right so... larry, aka your boy. i’ve already laid out a lot of his backstory but i do have some random facts so let’s go with that.

he has a surprisingly good memory. when he’s sober he can recite whole passages from books and recall entire conversations. margaret hates it bc he can always remember exactly what she said and when she said it, so he always wins arguments.

his family never calls him larry. as a child he was always called “junior,” because lawrence was his father’s name, and the nickname stuck, even after his father died. they only ever call him by his full name when they’re particularly angry with him, and only friends call him larry. margaret, who falls into the category of “friend” as well as “relative,” has been known to use both.

he jokingly calls margaret’s younger brother paul his arch-nemesis. paul takes this way too seriously and hates larry with a passion.

speaking of paul, the root of their rivalry is really that, before his father’s death, larry had been set to take over the family business, but since he was only a teenager when his parents died, the business was transferred to his uncle, and paul, as the said uncle’s son and heir, took on the role previously held by larry. larry, frankly didn’t really care, as he had never had much interest in business matters, but he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to tease the incredibly pompous paul, and so a somewhat one-sided rivalry was born. 

he and margaret have the kind of relationship where they act incredibly antagonistic toward each other but if anyone else says something remotely critical they go into full “that’s my cousin you’re talking about” mode.

he is pretty much tone deaf and Cannot Play Music but when he wants to be especially obnoxious he follows margaret around with a harmonica

thank you!!

For the family event: Eliza (url is veiliza but its also my main so), Cosmopolitan is the wip title and the quote is “the absence of bliss”

added, welcome to the writeblr fam!!