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meatriarch · 4 months

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maria and her little day / weekend / days-long roadtrips that she takes, going around texas, sometimes even popping over into neighboring states depending on time she has to do so.

how normal it was for to just. pack up her car, say quick see you laters to her mom and ana, to her friends, and then just take off on her own for days at a time. the innocence and gullibility to think that every time you go out there isn't going to be an issue - you're never going to run into some kind of trouble, because you're not that kind of person to get into any. you don't go looking for it, you're kind to those around you even when you don't know them, so what sort of trouble could possibly be thrown at you?

during those trips she more often than not lived and slept out of her car - so she'd find a nice little spot tucked away someplace, park and just camp out for the night wherever she was. be one with nature and everything yknow.

really only dipped into motels and the like if she needed to wash up or she got hurt and needed to rest for a night or something.

( me with my lowkey fear of getting my shit broken into in the middle of the woods while camping is grabbing her by the shoulders and fucking begging her to just stay in motels when she travels for the love of- )

it takes alot of blind trust in the world, in other people, in yourself, to not get mixed up in some bad situation. its always the thought of well it could never happen to me, who would ever think to hurt me? and its why would anyone even dream of hurting someone like her?

how many times, how many trips, how many consecutive days has maria gone out - more than often completely alone, and rather stupidly with nothing packed in terms of defense because she simply does not believe she'd ever need it - into forests alone, into deserts, into the mountains, into hunting territories, any place that holds not just human threats but also simply just, the threats of wild animals or unknown terrain?

and yet she did it constantly, alone, with no means of defense, and with blind faith that anyone she came across would simply never pose a threat to her - because she isn't one to them.

like. these trips were always a means to de-stress for her, to get some air, to have a bit of freedom from the stresses and responsibilities back home, with classes, from family. to be able to go out and take some pretty photos to share with everyone waiting for her to get back home, so they can see all the beautiful scenery she got to experience, see all the wildlife she got to encounter. so she could show them specific photos of things that reminded her of them - because she's always thinking of them, even on these trips that are meant to be her little get-aways.

and then that last roadtrip happens, where she gets taken. and she's forced to realize exactly why people worry when she goes out alone, why people carry guns or hunters' knives with them when they travel. why people like danny are suspicious of new faces in spite not knowing the person - why sometimes its a good thing to have guard up.

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * queue.#i can see her constantly being told not to go off alone - esp by danny & ana. but shes gotten so used to it? and not having problems?#shes been traveling alone like that since she learned to drive at about what 15? 16 maybe? give or take. and was just.#lucky to have NOT run into trouble. and it made her oblivious. and too trusting. of herself and of others. blind faith in the goodness of #strangers and it royally came to bite her in the ass. and post-house escape? sticks with her for the rest of her life. lesson learned.

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extrameat · 4 months

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TAGS LIST:

[ rel. ] ── * johnny s. / 𝘫𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳.

[ rel. ] ── * leland m. / 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘷𝘦𝘳.

[ rel. ] ── * connie t. / 𝘧𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥.

[ rel. ] ── * donnie w. / 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘣𝘪𝘵.

[ ♡ ] ── * maria f.

[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * ana f.

[ ♡ ] ── * ana f. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * ana f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * danny a. o.

[ ♡ ] ── * danny a. o. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * danny a. o. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * birdie.

[ ♡ ] ── * birdie. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * birdie. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * pepper h.

[ ♡ ] ── * pepper h. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * pepper h. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * luda m. h.

[ ♡ ] ── * luda m. h. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * luda m. h. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * thomas b. h.

[ ♡ ] ── * thomas b. h. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * thomas b. h. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ ♡ ] ── * nancy s.

[ ♡ ] ── * nancy s. / 𝘪𝘤.

[ ♡ ] ── * nancy s. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * pinned.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * queue.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * shoutout.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * sp.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * do not reblog / repost.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * answered.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * the yappening.

[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * dni.

[ 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮. ] ── * saved.

[ ♡ ] ── * study.

[ ♡ ] ── * aes.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * cold case.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * no one saved you.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * choke chained.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * wilted.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * shine.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * sunlight.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * oath binded.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * prequel.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * retribution. / ch. 2.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * in bloom.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * dbd.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * sinyala.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * friday the thirteenth.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * college au.

[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * gilded eternity.

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meatriarch · 2 months

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"why does maria insist on going on her trips - even if shes alone, even if its dangerous to do, even if shes not sharing those moments with someone?"

for this. and this. and this. and-

its for stepping away from the troubles of day-to-day life. for the openness she feels standing out in the middle of fields or flower meadows or tall grasses, surrounded by the scents of petals or morning dew and wet grass. its for the sounds of city life being silenced, and replaced instead with birdsong and gentle wind all around her. the sight of butterflies fluttering around, the hum and buzz of bees bouncing between flowerheads collecting pollen. of setting up camp beside a riverbed or small waterfall and falling asleep to running water, or beside a lake and stripping down for the chill of an early morning swim, where the dawns reflecting off the surface as the sun creeps higher along horizon line. its lying on hood of her car, in the middle of the night, watching the stars overhead twinkle in and out among the sea of black and cloud.

its for the quiet. the freedom. the peace. the gentle reassurance that things are okay. they will be okay. that for all the ugliness, the harsh realities of the world, theres still the beauty there too, theres still so much out there to admire and appreciate. that even if things go so terribly wrong, theres always something that she can do, someplace she can go even just briefly, where she can take in a deep breath - where her lungs can fill with the crisp early morning air - and she'll know as she exhales out slowly that shes going to be okay.

it may be naive to some. it may be reckless. it may have no value in the day-to-day of peoples' lives. it may not make anything better, may not improve a situation, may not make the evils and the horrors of the world magically vanish. but to maria, its just taking the time to lay out in the wildflowers and just exist in peace for a while. take in the beauty that nature has to offer. be both a part of everything and yet nothing at all - all at the same time.

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f.#[ ♡ ] ── * study.

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meatriarch · 60 minutes

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good mornings im setting this down too while its still fresh on the mind but,

maria is the kind of person who will girlypop dance along to literally any of her friends' music, no matter if she necessarily enjoys the genre or not. if they like it and theyre having fun its almost infectious that she'll eventually learn the lyrics and start singing and dancing along to it - even if its like, danny's angry rock for example.

catch maria in modern aus being spotted in the background of his videos / vidcalls dancing cutely while she's like baking or fixing together flowers and so on-

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#let your muse share their tunes with her & she'll Find A Way to dance no matter what it is- ( within reason )

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meatriarch · 6 days

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the thing about maria is - which, was touching on it earlier with lamb abt the dire aus and now touching on it again,

its so easy to overwhelm her - be it by excessive kindness, attention, love, etc, or by horrific, brutal, violent acts that stunlock her and make her far more susceptible to being manipulated coerced pushed into doing things she normally wouldnt ever FATHOM doing in the slightest. its why shes so easy to turn in most of her dire aus / routes with johnny, why she's so quick to grow attached to him and everything too.

coax her with praise and gentleness and love and care in between all the horrors you could throw her way and make her witness and eventually? she'll happily take the knife and get to work, herself (:

#something something 'id fall for ANYONE if they showed me love in return' type beat but sprinkle it with some #murder-violent bond & dynamic and she'd happily be ones partner in crime / surrogate child / what have you.#girl is easy to manipulate if the right cards fall into place bc its utterly so goddamn tragic to write abt someone who is so #unapologetically kind & warm & loving someone so sunshine-incarnate and have that all ripped away into something cold #& cruel & violent in her own right.#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

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meatriarch · 14 days

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i really do need to hunker down and really write out and detail My Take of maria's ability and how if fluctuates across verses etc because while yes i do dub it as being "the maria flores effect / sweet talk" with her apparent friendliness enough to ease grandpa sawyer for a time, sweet-talk isnt the only ability so to speak that i feel she has either and that expands depending on verse

but in shine / wilted / sunlight, sweet-talk is at more of its "baseline". she's able to almost lull the family - and by extension, others as well - using certain phrasing. it differs from person to person, so it can be tricky for her to figure out ( once she really knows about it and that its not just her being friendly thats making people close to her ). but its almost trance-like. those affected are somewhat aware still of whats going on, but they're inclined to listen to her if she tells them to do something, go somewhere, etc - some people are able to resist listening : johnny's one of them, though he still feels the effects of it, to a degree. but with all hes dealt with re: nancy and her own abilities? hes used to similar, so its effect isnt as strong - especially not as maria's still trying to navigate how to properly use it. in some routes, she's tried to use it on him order to stop him from going after any of the friends, or captives in dire aus to try and give them an opening to get away - it doesnt work as intended with him, she learns.

in cc / nosy / mirror / other dires? sweet-talk's accompanied and expanded on thanks to when nancy accepts her ( & lee, etc ) into the family. like how my nancy is able to possess? sweet-talk, depending on how long shes been honing it, arguably can also allow maria to possess ( control ) someone to a degree.

like how my nancy uses her runes to track and sense when people trespass? maria adopts her own method along similar lines. whereas nancy can "see" through ones eyes so long as theyre on the property and within the boundaries of the runes, marias form of tracking manifests in ones proximity to flora. she can track someone if theyre brushing against leaves, by their footfalls atop blades of grass, crawling among bushes and shrubs to stay out of sight. this ability, in part, ties back to her fantasy / oath aus and her abilities as a nymph, where her soul has retained that deep-rooted connection to nature thanks to nyuuris - in spite of how many times since those aus she has been reincarnated.

theres alot of fine-tuning i need to do like i did with nancys but, throwing some thoughts down to refer back to at a later time c:

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#im somewhat brainfoggy from post-headache but hopefully this? makes any sense. lmao #like maria using it in regular aus? okay nice good innocent enough; using it in any of the dires though.... no wonder its sometimes easy #for her to coax targets / keep them preoccupied for scary dogs to creep in closer for the kill- you know?

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meatriarch · 24 days

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thinking about just like. early on cc / nosy, where the additional victim is brought into the basement. before realization really settled in, became ingrained.

how maria, since her restraints were almost always purposely left loose just enough for her to be able to wriggle out of them, how she'd get out of her cell and try to run, but would always feel so bad for possibly leaving another soul alone down there and so, she'd always try to figure out where the door keys were to their cell, how to get their restraints off, tried to escape together.

and it was always a failed attempt. everything set up, left out in the open, by johnny. all so very calculated. and how those handful of times, maria thought she was doing good - by not leaving them behind, for giving them some kind of a shot with her, for them to get out.

and yet every single time, they get caught. and the other gets killed in front of her. and its the realization that doing so is getting them killed - that she is getting them killed. every single time. harsh lesson to be learned - that sitting still, shutting up, not engaging with them is infinitely better than directly playing a hand into them getting killed.

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#like what brand of guilt do u want: being directly involved w/ getting someone killed - or that of looking away & ignoring it all #[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * cold case.#[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * no one saved you.

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meatriarch · 1 month

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i cant find my old archive post re: the photo albums that maria puts together for her friends & for ana but, here is a run-down of it:

most, if not nearly every single photo that maria takes while with the friends almost always JUST has them in it because really… maria knows how to use her camera likely better than all of them, and she likes being behind it and capturing those moments etc so. maria has a HUGE collection of polaroids of the friends - not alot with HER in them…. BUT maria compiles the polaroids into a bunch of photo albums. every single one of the friends, and ana, have dedicated albums. ana has one, julie has one, danny, lee, connie, sonny, etc etc. that she separates and adds photos centered around them & duplicates of group photos into said albums so they all have catered-to memories for themselves and in maria's au's where she doesnt come home ( dires / sunlight ) or she leaves ( wilted ), either the albums are left in her room at her apartment of course, or for wilted she drops them off on her way to the pnw back home in uvalde. either way, she entrusts ana essentially with giving those albums out to each of the friends. as a last gift from her, basically, of their friendship

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#staring the friends in the eyes like #when you get ur album specially handcrafted by your friend whose missing/dead and you realize how very little she was in those photos-

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meatriarch · 2 months

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resident tank sisters maria aurora flores & ana flores beating the shit out of the family honestly gives me life idc what anyone else says,

but also how strength in them both manifests differently & similarly in the flores girls. how they've endured a fair amount and although ana is generally portrayed being more serious, stronger of mind etc, my marias strong of heart and softer but i will always die on the hill of how much strength, how much resilience and perseverance, it requires sometimes to continue to be soft, continue to be kind, continue to love and have hope in spite of all of the shit life can throw at you. maria draws her strength differently overall than i feel ana does.

my maria, at least, i look at the aus i have currently for her and its just.

girl is gentle throughout each one -- the only one she isnt is wilted, and her anger and her hurt in that au is directed at herself and at nancy in particular for what she went through with her. she isnt even angry at johnny in wilted, nor shine honestly. her grievance is with nancy the most. even in cold case, in nosy? which are her dire aus, her molded into a killer aus? she still retains that gentleness to her. in spite of it all, she is no different really to how she was pre-johnny.

like. my maria is soft, yes. but theres so many moments in wilted, in early shine, throughout cc & nosy where my girl gets to go sicko mode and although wilted / shine its purely out of self-preservation & panic & adrenaline in the moment? cc & nosy her rage, her strength, her unhingement is more structured, there's backing to it, especially once its to the point where johnny / lee are teaching her how to better fight someone off, protect herself. its where her magdalena, rosa, & paloma's aliases really come in.

wilted / shine? maria becomes a tank to survive.

cc / nosy? shes helped & trained to be one.

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#yeah idc what gun may say maria's a tank. because i say so. and im just Correct frankly- FNSJKD #if she can survive being beat & t.ortured for weeks by (presumably w/ gun lore) johnny with how violent he can be?#my girl can survive anything sorry not sorry-

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meatriarch · 2 months

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since i made my changes to the timeline that maria went missing ( from late march to earlier ), and i personally hc danny as being a taurus / aries / capricorn, i gave him march 22nd. which is ( roughly ) the week maria originally goes missing, gg

but part of marias trip during spring break was to find & snap photos of marigolds -- which, we do see in Petals happens to be found someplace on the family property. and with mine & lamb's canon lore of maria & johnny meeting? in verses where they dont find maria / shes confirmed dead? then the polaroids of the marigolds and a letter she wrote for him for his birthday are both the first AND last birthday gifts he ever received from maria (':

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#sorry to lee & kels but well you kn #[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

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meatriarch · 2 months

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you know i never really thought of maria being artsy in the sense of like, paints or sketching things like that.

but ive been getting a ton of tts this weekend about oil pastels and this one user who makes little floral pieces like this and honestly i think particularly in her dire aus? maria probably picks it up as a lil hobby to keep busy c:

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#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.

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meatriarch · 3 months

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𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀. / brief verse summaries.

❤. 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋.

aka, prequel. a pre-game canon verse, following the adventures and first-meetings of maria and her friends up until the last time they saw her - when they parted ways for spring break, and she went missing.

❤. 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐃.

a girl once doomed to die by the narrative, maria in this verse survives the horrors done unto her by the sawyer - hewitt family -- thanks to the bravery and love of her by her sister and friends. she is, however, haunted by the memories of the traumatic weeks she spent there -- [ depending on interaction as well : held captive by johnny ( lamb's ) at first, and later his mother figure, nancy. ] in this verse, upon the friends surviving the ordeal and returning home to recover, maria is overwhelmed by the attempt to return to a sense of normalcy - between locals and schoolmates bombarding invasive questions of "what actually happened" and the toll on her mental and emotional state, maria makes a hasty, heart-breaking decision to quietly move away without a word to her friends. she now resides in the pacific north west, in the gloomy forests just on the outskirts of a small mountain town, where she lives with two large dogs for protection and deterrence and revolver and shotgun in arms reach. just in case.

❤. 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄.

an alternate route of WILTED, maria is discovered packing her apartment up. in the ensuing confusion and upset at her seemingly leaving without warning, maria reverts her decision to move away and instead stays in texas, with her friends and family close by, to support one anothers' healing from what they experienced. maria still deals with the emotional and mental struggles as in Wilted -- ranging from hallucinations to depressive episodes to anxiety attacks, sleep paralysis / night terrors and more. this route, however, slowly shows a brighter future ahead of them, as they continue with their lives -- together.

❤. 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓.

they did it! voice in head whispers. she could see them up ahead, frames silhouetted by the rising sun awaiting to bask them in its radiance. the back of one of them, so warm and comforting as they carried her towards the light, brought a wave of relief into her tired, aching body, and she could feel herself relaxing far more than she's felt since she was first brought to this hell. peering past closing eyelids, at the rest of them ahead, haloed by the sun, her angels whom she loved so dearly, for coming to find her, for loving her so deeply in return. for everything, voice softly whispers close to the ear of the one carrying her, i love you all. thank you. smile spreads across her face. and as they pass through and into the open air, as the suns warm rays of light shine down on them all - relief and happiness on their faces at everyone getting out safely - maria sighs quietly, and welcomes the light of the sun one last time. an alternate end to the young woman with a smile and heart as bright and warm as the light shining down on them when they have escaped the familys' clutches. maria, upon seeing that her friends have all made it out alive, succumbs to her injuries in the height of their celebration. bitter yet sweet, it may be comforting to know that they - at the very least - can lay her rest someplace far better suited for their sister & friend than to leave her to be picked at and rot in the depths of the basement.

❤. 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

aka, chapter 2. basement brawl begins once again. almost two entire decades later, with everyone having seemingly moved on, comes the proposition to return to the house - finish what was started, ensure an end is put on the family that so greatly altered their lives all those years ago. essentially ch.2 overall, but also serves as a catch-all for other verses ( ie cc/nosy or wilted/shine's versions of the friendgroup returning to the house to finish what was started twenty years ago ).

❤. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒.

aka, college au and beyond. all the silly, lovely adventures of a group of friends simply living their lives - no murder house, no hell basement, no losing a friend. simply good vibes and good times ahead.

❤. 𝐌𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆.

a modern verse plopping maria down in todays setting. she has a very successful side career of roadtripping and uploading vlogs & photography about her travels.

❤. 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐄.

aka, cc or dire au. ( with johnnysslaughter ) what happens after a person goes missing? when trail runs cold, evidence and leads are suppressed, and search is called off in spite of family and friends' pleads to continue? when the man who murmured sweet praises to you and flashed handsome smiles as your gaze met his across the room -- now towers over you, cowering in fear, with teeth bared into wild grin? kept in the shack outside of nancy's home, maria is held captive by johnny serving as a cute little plaything to torment, to mold into something lethal like him. this timeline explores several routes of the years maria has spent with the murderous family, a lamb amongst wolves. ( multiple routes. )

❤. 𝐍𝐎 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔.

aka, nosy or dire au & we saved us or wsu. ( with johnnysslaughter & lifesver ) intertwining two ill-fated ends of two remarkably kind-hearted, sunshine-coded friends, maria & leland are caught by johnny in this timeline -- held captive together. the leverage johnny gains on them amps the harsh treatment of the two, being pushed to limits and violence in desperate attempt to keep one another as safe as possible in spite of the circumstances they have found themselves in. ( multiple routes. )

❤. 𝐎𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃.

aka, medieval / fantasy au or pre-prequel of maria & johnny. ( with johnnysslaughter ) [ maria ] is the only child -- a princess -- of a king struggling to retain peace and strength of his kingdom. brought up to eventually step in to rule and protect their people and be eventually married off, her safety is entrusted to one of the kingdoms' most loyal and strongest knights -- sir james [ johnny ]. however, time passes and something brews between the princess and her devoted knight -- an oath is promised and broken, an oath is promised and kept -- and the consequences of those sacred vows unraveling spiral the forbidden lovers into a vicious cycle of reincarnation spanning centuries, spanning universes and timelines. a tale of the beginning of maria & johnny's red string of fate. a pair of souls doomed to live and die and cross paths -- some ending peaceful and loving; others . . . violently.

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listen - pre-house / shine / college au / modern / etc any good-end au, valentines day is galentines day for maria okay? that day is for her GIRLS and her GIRLS ALONE. so long as neither of them have plans with a partner that day? maria decks her apartment out in all kinds of cutesy hearts and bakes a whole bunch with connie and julie, if they feel up to it they cook a nice little dinner for themselves and just enjoy each others company before piling a whole mess of blankets and pillows and cushions all over her living room and camping out there while probably watching cheesy romance movies and getting wine-drunk.

if they wanna go out? they're doing each others hair and make-up and making sure they each look cute and pretty ( they always are! ) and they go out and have a fuckin' blast with each other all night ( sometimes accompanied, at a distance, by danny. watchdog who lets them have their space for girls night but will step in if they're getting bugged to no fuckin' end. )

otherwise? maria's valentines typically consist of her scouting all over austin, popping in and out of florists shops as well as the one she works at part-time, gathering up bunches of flowers and accents from each. if she can't find a specific flower she's looking for, she goes out to pick them where she knows they grow wild.

and she arranges bouquets for each of her friends.

connie's always has daisies and sweet peas. julie's always has a sunflower or two, zinnias, pansies. sonny gets sweet williams and purple alstroemerias. danny's has sprays of gladiolus with dahlia's. leland's always has yellow roses with soft-blue hyacinths and larkspur. donnie also gets sunflowers ( along with james & julie ) with roses, hyacinths or mums. james with his sunflowers and pink tulips and cosmos. johnny gets red roses, red dahlias, and red mums.

her friends / partners each get their lil bouquet from her, each wrapped together in matching paper, with a whole mess of baked goodies and chocolates etc in cute valentines containers ( maybe even some cheesy silly valentines one-liners in handwritten cards, you know- ).

ana's always has white tulips, violets, and crocus flowers. mama flores always gets her favorite flower - lisianthus. (:

#maria shoving the boys out of the way: move it ( affectionate ) where are my girlies at where are my besties-#no but all of her friends get the biggest hugs and kisses from her always she loves them all so very much <3 #just also thinking for cc/nosy how she has to try and sneakily put together the bouquets for johnny & lee and then sets them on the #sidetables in their room to find in the morning when she wakes up earlier than them to make a big breakfast ( dep on where in the timeline #BUT ALSO thinking in cc/nosy with the kiddos waddling up to her waving bunches of flowers to give to her- [ on the fucking floor- ]#or her having to likely fight sleep to get up before donnie to waking up even earlier than he does for ranch-related morning work to make #breakfast fsdkj sets up his in a vase on the dining table c:#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f.#[ ♡ ] ── * study.#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦. ] ── * the yappening.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀[ ˑ ˑ ˑ ] 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑺𝑬 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑷𝑬𝑪𝑰𝑭𝑰𝑪 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑫𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑵𝑺

WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE SMELL LIKE?

when she isn't wearing a perfume, maria smells either fresh and crisp, like she just walked right out of a bakery, sweet like cookies and vanilla, or will have a lingering fruity or floral scent on her from her lotions, etc. she works at a florist ship part time pre-house, and often the varying flowers will sink their fragrances into skin, coupled with the non-floral plants she helps move into larger pots as they grow, so she'll also smell of dirt / soil at times. otherwise, she wears different types of perfumes that typically have both floral & citrus-y notes. her typical go-to would be wind song, which is 'delicate & subtle' with notes of citrus, cinnamon, jasmine, lavender, rose and warm sweet spices.

OTHER PERFUMES: DOLORES : tabu, which has a rich amber floral scent that blends the soft femininity of notes like jasmine and rose with fresh zingy notes of lemon and orange. AURELIA : chant d'aromes, with floral top notes of mirabelle, gardenia, aldehydes and fruits; heart notes of rose, jasmine, honeysuckle and ylang-ylang; and base notes of benzoin, musk, vetiver, heliotrope, moss and olibanum. ROSA : rochas femme, with notes of bergamot, peach, prune, rose, immortelle, jasmine, ylang-ylang, ambergris, musk, oakmoss, sandalwood.

WHAT DO YOUR MUSE’S HANDS FEEL LIKE?

maria's hands are very soft and seemingly perfect, if not for the common little knicks she gets at times digging through flowerbeds and occasionally scraping against thorns or needle-point leaves. she keeps her nails slightly longer but maintained, often colored by red, orange, sometimes yellow polish. they become a little rougher and well-worked, namely in cc, nosy, wilted, and shine's ranch-wife route. otherwise, her hands are delicate and gentle, soft to the touch, and its definitely encouraged to hold or kiss her hands all the time. nodnod.

WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE USUALLY EAT IN A DAY?

really does depend and varies so much, because i imagine that she and her friends often go off or show up to her apartment all the time to have dinners together, esp. pre-house, and so alot of the time things may be spur-of-the-moment choices. running to the grocery right after classes to gather a bunch of ingredients, or taking off to diners etc when they want to go out instead. otherwise, she usually eats small, sweet breakfasts - things like lemon-blueberry or cinnamon bread loaves, muffins, conchas - and simple lunches usually, as she's between classes. so tortas / sandwiches and the like from whatever the university may have that day. dinners are usually her bigger meal of the day, where depending on if she's alone or has any number of her friends stopping by, she ore than happily readies to make alot of food for everyone, together. in between she typically already has a stockpile or bakes cookies, little cakes, brownies, all sorts of sweets both to satisfy her own sweet tooth but also for whenever someone swings by, too.

DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE A GOOD SINGING VOICE?

maria would probably tell you no, that she probably sounds like alley cats wailing in the middle of the night. but she does have a very soft and sweet voice! and despite her not being too convinced about her singing, she'll more than happily sing along to the radio on long drives, when a song comes on that she knows or loves. or sing along with someone else, or at parties, all of that. she'll quietly sing or hum to someone if she's comforting them, too. voiceclaim - carla morrison : tierra ajena / no vuelvo jamás / hasta la piel / todo fue por amor ( or eng ver ) everything was for love

DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE ANY BAD HABITS OR NERVOUS TICKS?

she'll often touch and mess around with her hair quite a bit, whether idly twirling it between her fingers, braiding and unbraiding a small section. she plays with her fingers, whether thats rubbing the backs of them or 'twisting' the tips of her index & thumb. maria often 'hugs' herself around her arms and rubs them and her shoulders to self-soothe. bring her hand to her mouth and faintly squeezes her bottom lip, or bites down on it and the insides of her cheeks. worst ones, to her, when her nerves get pretty bad is digging her nails against her skin, or when it hits at night and she has a bout of night terrors or sleep paralysis.

WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE USUALLY LOOK LIKE / WEAR?

i very much gesture towards both maria's personally named cosmetics & style boards for the best ideas of how i picture her dressing, but - maria wears alot of brightly colored, feminine, or practical clothing, typically. usually in reds, oranges, yellows, and floral prints; handmade embroidery usually adorns alot of her pants, shirts, buttons, collars, you name it! she LOVES adding flowers to otherwise basic clothes. she loves both looking and feeling like sunshine and wildflowers and will almost always turn to brighter, soft palettes as opposed to darker, subdued ones. she loves flowy sleeves, soft comfortable fabrics. lace and small bows or little floral pieces here and there. loves her andalusite ring she receives from johnny. loves flower jewelry, little sunflower earrings, and her sunflower choker she got as a gift from donnie. her pink stone bracelet she got from connie, that they all received as little sweet matching gifts from her.

IS YOUR MUSE AFFECTIONATE? HOW SO?

[ stares at the camera like im in the office ] do ya'll not know my girl? she is SO affectionate! she LOVES being so, doting on people, letting them know she loves them in all sorts of ways - to their degree of comfort with her doing so, of course! maria loves to give and receive hugs - whether its simple one-armed ones or ones, like danny, where she's lifted in the air and squeezed ( gently though! ) or holding someones hand ( bonus if walking and she gets to swing her hand a lil as they walk! ), gentle head bonks and kittyisms with connie, lee resting his chin on the top of her head and her doing the same in return to him when hes sitting down. loosely hugging around neck from behind when people are sitting too, resting her cheek against the side of their head. hugging from behind or the side. gently cupping cheeks / chin, wiping away tears as they fall. letting people rest their heads in her lap to rest or nap, playing with and running her fingers through their hair to help them relax or sleep.

WHAT POSITION DOES YOUR MUSE SLEEP IN?

maria typically sleeps partly curled up on her sides, cat-like almost. she feels far more comfortable sleeping huddled into herself than lying on her back or stomach, at least not for too long. if she's sleeping beside someone, theres a high chance that by morning she'll likely have her head or cheek resting against their arm / shoulder / back. again, its another form of comfort to her, that she warns them ahead of time may happen in case they'd rather sleep elsewhere / have her sleep elsewhere. she can at times get restless in the night and shift around, especially when it comes to her night terrors / sleep paralysis, so, she does give them a heads up and an apology before she sleeps that she might end up against or holding them and if she does then to wake her so she can move away.

COULD YOU HEAR YOUR MUSE IN THE HALLWAY FROM ANOTHER ROOM?

most definitely, girl isn't loud exactly but, if shes talking to someone then shes bubbly and excitable. she's laughing and beaming and depending on the conversation, who she's speaking with, who knows what silly little antics may happen. she still, to this day, hops a lil when she gets really excited about something, so could very well hear the sound of her shoes bouncing along hardwood. otherwise, if she isn't speaking, maria moves around fairly quietly, soft footfalls even with shoes on. she's pretty light on her feet, so she could sneak up on people, sometimes, without meaning to. makes for a good way of sneaking up on targets in cc / nosy. (:

#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ ♡ ] ── * study.

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thinking about the differences in how maria reacts in ch2 era cc & nosy, respectively, to the friends returning twenty years after the house.

cc maria, she's more hesitantly receptive to them to a point. depends on what they do, if they still try going after the family like they originally planned or not, if they try getting her to run off back home. because by that point she's so tethered to johnny who has been her literal only real pillar in the last two decades, and the familiar-but-grown faces of her old friends and sister are at that point basically strangers to her. twenty years is such a long time for people to change and for all she knows, they arent the same people who was close to back then and she knows she isnt the same girl they knew all that time ago, either. but i say she's hesitantly receptive because truly, think she keeps away from them as much as she can until she gets some sort of cue from johnny whether or not he feels its safe to engage really.

nosy maria would have had the same outlook had it not been for that reuniting with donnie about midway into those two decades & the friends never seemingly bothering to look for lee. that entire scenario shuts her off almost completely to nearly any sort of hesitance by the time ch2 rolls in. the hardest ones still are with ana and danny, thats her little sister - of course its going to be difficult and complicated even then. and danny was her longest friend of the group, its equally as difficult facing him, too. but them all coming back around makes her think that donnie likely said something, at some point, and the fact that he does show up again... but, she's angry. at all of them. because them coming back twenty years down the line means that they - to her - just simply never bothered to try coming back at any time in those two decades when they easily could have. they want to show up now instead, midlife-crisis? guilt eating away at them for leaving her and lee to rot back there without even trying to come back? without trying to get officials to come out to look for him at least?

maria just doesnt understand why. why bother coming back at all, now?

in twenty years, her & lee made a new life for themselves among the family, with johnny, moved past their old lives for the most part. why bother coming back all this time later for no other reason but personal revenge, considering they all believed they were just dead to have buried empty caskets for them both? to maria, its just: you all had your "closure", as fake and selfish as it was, it was understandable to a degree, i get it. but then why pretend like you give a shit now when you didnt back then. when you havent all this time. when i doubt we were at the forefront of your minds all these years - because you werent for mine / ours. we moved on. why couldnt you?

and i think like with maria's reunion with donnie -- altho probably not with ana & danny -- but similar to that reply, i think maria develops that hazy-face when looking at them all. makes it easier to disconnect further from their familiarity, makes it easier view them as any other target, any other potential victim.and i think, if shes alone when any of them stumble onto her, she slips into toying with them - plays role of captive all over again, disarms them. lets them get comfortable with her, lets them spill who all tagged along with them, what they planned to do coming back, where they left their cars, etc. depends how it all goes down truly.

#cc maria? hesitant. but if johnny allowed it? would be more willing to approach them on neutral terms.#nosy maria? why the fuck are any of you back here- you all deserve whats coming to you at this point .#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * no one saved you.#[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * cold case.

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brief descriptions on maria's aliases in cc / nosy ♡

dolores.

maria's more subdued, soft, docile persona. one of her primary lures. dolores acts as a way to entice targets who are looking for someone they think is easy to control or influence. submissive and eager to go along with whatever they want really, dolores as a persona is maria's way of gauging and pulling very strong, very cocky, very frankly stupid victims into going someplace secluded with her - and into the hunting grounds of her two scary guard dogs to have fun with. she's the persona, alongside aurelia, that brings victims into back alleys, back to a designated place on the sawyer-hewitt property, to decoy houses / buildings, or to specific fields or stops where its been established earlier in the night with johnny ( & lee ) that she will get them to, for them to meet there. dolores is that sweet, softer, doe-eyed side of maria really being coaxed out in order to quite literally throw someone to the wolves. dolores is symbolized by lambs / sheep, also to come across in a softer light to those who interact with her and fall victim, for other unassuming creature to take you by the hand, frolicking out into open field, unknowingly being circled by predators hidden in the grass around them. nickname : dolly.

aurelia.

more of a push into maria's more bubbly self, aurelia's more of that out-there, perky, sunshine-incarnate type persona that draws people attention. she's all smiles, all touchy, PDA at max. she's also that more kinda ditzy personality, too, if she feels her target likes it. she'll play heavily into the 'oh please keep talking i am SO interested in what youre saying!! omg no really you do all that??? wow you're so strong / so smart / etc' type of person, showering with compliments. definitely more of the persona for those kinds of people who LOVE talking about themselves and making themselves seem more important / tougher / etc than they really are. aurelia works as another lure because she's the type that'll convince targets to drink and drink and drink, or pull them off to dance with her, let them get handsy, let them think they have a shot. aurelia is symbolized by rabbits / bunnies, cute and sweet little prey animal, unassuming. one that lets you give chase, until you find yourself inches from wolves' widened jaws. nickname : lia.

rosa.

not as much of a lure than more utilized when maria's working alone, but rosa works to get targets alone and vulnerable. she's flirty, handsy, siren eyed rather than doe. truly come fuck me eyes. its the persona to let her explore things on a more sexual note, but its also the one where after things are said and done and theres a body on the floor, she wants to reaffirm her devotion to the scary dog(s) more - like a very, get this fuckers' scent off of me right now and put yours all over me instead kinda thing, if you will. but its also very much, i get to toy around with them a little more, be teasing, be mean. very hey heres your body let me snap a picture with you gh.ostface style ♡ its more of her violent side that comes out, because its really one of the personas where she gets to really disarm people - from being flirtatious to im stabbing you to im sinking my teeth in your neck and ripping at you rather than it being a simple love bite. still uses rosa, though regardless if working alone or with the scary dog(s). rosa's symbolized by both butterflies & moths, metamorphosis from maria into territory she was never all that comfortable in before. its exploration of a different side - both sexual and violent. its the specific kinds, of mourning cloak butterfly, of death's-head hawkmoths, of black witch moths, with meanings of change, of rebirths, and of death or misfortune. nickname : typical pet names one gives a one-night-stand.

magdalena.

in a sense, magdalena's come to be a persona by several factors, and its more of her long game, lone wolf type. its more of maria taking influence from not only johnny by also nancy, in routes where she ( & lee ) are accepted by her into the family. its getting a lil more personal with her targets, earning their trust over a longer timeframe. befriending them even. its more of her wolf coming out - where one one side, magdalena comes across as a typical neighbor, someone who bakes you things and brings it over unprompted ( sometimes we get silly and slow-poison them! c: ) esp during rough times - similar to how nancy works. its the slowburn of growing closer to them, earning trust, being let into their lives, just to one day down the line rip that security out from under them, turn their homes into a bloodbath really. magdalena's more of that, mercy doesnt exist in this body, morality doesnt exist, theres an anger and a hatred and a coldness to the world thats been dormant in these bones like the old gods who sleep for millennia hidden among us like mountain ranges. while physically maria isn't nearly on the same levels as johnny or leland, i'd argue magdalena's by far her more brutal and unhinged persona in that she'll not only make an absolute mess out of her target, but will also prolong things at times - make it last hours, if she can manage, if they stay alive long enough. magdalena is also moreso in swing post-acceptance by nancy, meaning the likelihood that she's been taught how to use the same types of ability, the possession, the hallucinations, is very high. magdalena's symbolized by wolf peering out from under sheepskin. nicknames : lena.

#the dires aliases always got me chinhandsing frankly. get to be silly & cute & sexy with the corruption arcs uwu ♡#[ ♡ ] ── * maria f. / 𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦.#[ ♡ ] ── * study.#[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * cold case.#[ 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. ] ── * no one saved you.#[ ♡ ] ── * dolores. / 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴.#[ ♡ ] ── * aurelia. / 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴.#[ ♡ ] ── * rosa. / 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴.#[ ♡ ] ── * magdalena. / 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴.

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