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indigobackfire · 2 years

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Lee Family - pt. 2 - The Grandmas

Lorna Louise Mary Lee

Her eyes and words are so icy

Oh but she burns

Like rum on the fire

Hot and fast and angry as she can be

I walk my days on a wire (.)

“ Indigo makes an effort to keep her chest puffed and her head held high, but it was hard keeping the facade — the woman could suck up one's confidence as easy a Dementor, with cold eyes that with just a glance could wear her down. She is nothing like her own grandma, warm, welcoming, fun; Lorna Lee instead is cold, snobbish, vain. She smiles condescendingly down at Indigo who offers an explicitly forced one in return. Barnaby then takes and holds Indigo's hand, looking serious and unaffected, making her wonder how bright his soul had to be to survive the darkness of hers. ”

Lorna is the grandmother Barnaby often mentions and lives with. (Grace Kelly as a faceclaim cause, I'm sorry, I will not be accepting ugly mean grandma.)

Indigo expected his grandma to look like a hag, as horrible and repulsive as those described in DADA books, it would be the only way her looks would match her attitude. But upon seeing her, she notices how foolish the thought was — in Barnaby's genes there was part of her, however significant or not. Before her was a woman that didn't seem much older than her own grandma, dressed like old money usually does, discreetly but classy. But one thing was there as she expected, that look of superiority as if Indigo and everyone else wasn't worthy of existing in the same universe as her.

Lorna had always been this condescending bitch, the definition of girlboss gaslight gatekeep, but she gets worse after the consecutive happenings of her daughter turning her head against her and leaving, her husband's death that happened when Barnaby was about 7, then her favorite child, Earnest, being inprisoned after the 1st wizarding war. Barnaby really experiences her in most bitter and lonely years, because instead of offering him her best so that he'd become a better version of his dad, she only knows to take her resentfulness out on him and be her coldest self.

If I could point out a good she passed down to him out of all the bad, was the fact she made him extremely assiduous through her military-like tutelage — he takes good care of his room and things, nails cut, hair brushed, face clean, calligraphy respectful, table manners, good posture, etc. Some of these go out the window when he's far from her eyes — because he's a wild slightly unhinged child, that'll never change —, but many stay ingrained in his brain for years to come.

Innes Fraser Swanhild

I'm headed straight for the castle

They wanna make me their queen

And there's an old man sitting on the throne

That's saying that I probably shouldn't be so mean (.)

“ Indigo had only heard of the woman once or twice in all the years she had known Barnaby, and yet she knew it was her approaching them. Not only because of her age or appearance, but also the luxurious outfit and thick diamond necklace she displayed. It matched Barnaby's description of her — opulent, discreetly cocky, and with an expression that said 'isn't my presence so wonderful?' She was tastefully surprised the woman had come to their wedding considering how unpresent she had been in his life. Yet Indigo smiles, of course he was delighted to see her. ”

Innes is Barnaby's maternal grandmother who he's distant from, considering his mother wasn't Innes' favorite between her siblings and wished another daughter of hers had married Earnest. Then Ferelith goes and gets herself entangled with DE business then lands in Azkaban. She doesn't even consider going to Barnaby's aid after his parents are arrested — though I don't think Lorna would even let him go with her either way, cause he reminds her too much of Earnest, same reason why Innes might feel appalled by him at that point.

I don't have much to say about her, just a way of explaining why Barnaby ended up with one and not the other. Though wouldn't be much better with Innes and her family, as they'd probably be way more neglectful than Lorna is.

To keep in the line of old Hollywood faceclaims, Katharine Hepburn was used.

#lorna lee #innes swanhild #aesthetics #the lee family #barnaby lee #these were surprisingly fun to do #grandma lee #hphm

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caraidean · 5 years

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🎰 go ham since we haven't managed to interact yet!!!

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#wakefulknights

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