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How about ✈️🌴💛🤩👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 for Lucy and Mae, and Saoirse and Zoe

Thank you soooo much for asking about my girls! It's been so nice to get a chance to work on them a bit more, these questions really helped! Sorry it got so long, cut to save your dash!

✈️ AIRPLANE — does your oc like traveling, or do they consider themselves a more homey person?

All four of them enjoy traveling, but to different extents and in different ways.

Zoe is probably the most passionate and in love with traveling out of all of my girls, She grew up in a very restrictive, very controlling religious family (think a religion that is commonly considered a cult) with a mother who ruled over everyone with an iron fist. For most of her life, her life consisted of: school, bible study, youth group, church, prayer and that was it. No friends, no parties, if she ever got to go on a trip it was a mission trip. Being able to travel represents all of the freedom she was denied and she would do it constantly if it were up to her. She's grown to love being home with her girlfriend and their friends, and she does get to travel a ton when she's on tour with fables so she's happy to compromise and not run off to backpack around the world for a year at a time but that would probably be her dream.

Saoirse likes traveling a lot, but she needs some time to unwind at home and center herself after a trip. She's definitely not ready to immediately get up and go right after they've gotten back like Zoe is (and backpacking around the world without getting to come home, see family and friends and relax for a bit sounds like hell to her). She loves getting to travel when fables tours, and loves her trips with her girlfriend but home is such a safe, comfortable, happy place for her and she treasures that as well.

Mae really enjoys traveling but she tends to prefer closer destinations, especially ones they can drive to or take the train to. She loves a good road trip, and isn't as big of a fan of planes generally. She's more willing to do longer, farther away trips when it's just her and Lucy - once they have their baby, they put a moratorium on long plane trips for a while because the idea of dragging a baby/toddler onto a plane with them sounds like hell to Mae.

Lucy loves traveling, especially to exotic locations where she can explore new cities and immerse herself in the local culture although she's really grown to love a good road trip with her wife as well. She just really loves new experiences, she never wants to go to the same place twice - that's boring. She'd be perfectly happy to travel with their baby, but she's happy to acquiesce to her wife and not put the family through that until they're past the baby and toddler stage. She does like being home as well, she couldn't travel all the time... she'd miss her little brother too much.

🌴 PALM TREE — does your oc have a green thumb? do they enjoy gardening?

Saoirse used to have a black thumb and would kill every plant she ever touched, but then Julian gave her a cutting of one of his favorite plants and she couldn't let her best friend since middle school (if not earlier) down so she had to learn how to care for it and make sure it thrived. He helps her learn how to propagate and eventually repot it (she covered the pot in googly eyes), and is always up to help her troubleshoot if her plant isn't looking its best or growing well.

Zoe is very much not a plant person. She's not great at caring for them (she's accidentally killed multiple pots of basil) and just isn't especially interested in learning how to beyond being able to keep Saoirse's plant alive if she can't for whatever reason or is out of town, because she knows how important it is to Saoirse and would never want to let her girlfriend down.

Lucy loves gardening and has such a green thumb. She dreams of retiring someplace in the countryside where she can have a big plot to grow flower and vegetables and herbs on, but until then she makes do with the space she has and mostly sticks to houseplants and herbs, with a couple of raised beds for flowers in the very small backyard of their brownstone. Her favorite thing to do on mornings where she's not scheduled to work is to wake up late, then spend a few hours tending to her plants with a cup of coffee while Mae reads on the patio.

Mae can keep plants alive (and will help Lucy out if she needs it), but she's really not interested in gardening or keeping house plants. She's happy to listen to her wife geek out about it and talk about her babies, but she doesn't want to do it herself. It's just not a hobby she enjoys very much - she doesn't like getting dirty, doesn't like weeding, doesn't like having to do manual labor outside when it's hot. It's just not her thing.

💛 YELLOW HEART — how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any?

Lucy's native language is English, but she also speaks Spanish. If we're going based on the CEFR scale, she's at the very high B2, low C1 level. She's not going to be mistaken for a native speaker, but if she had a patient at work who only spoke Spanish, she would not need a translator. She's working on improving her Spanish with a private tutor and a group of native speakers she practices immersion with, but is also working on learning some ASL so she can communicate more easily with Mae's sister when they all spend time together.

Mae's native language is English, and she's fluent in ASL. Her sister is Deaf and the whole family learned so they could communicate with her. Mae often ended up being with her sister's interpreter with people outside of the family, so she got really good at it. She's also learning some Spanish with her wife. She's likely never going to be fluent, but she's getting close to conversational in it and would like to be able to use it at a low level professionally in the future.

Zoe only speaks English, but she's really interested in languages and is trying to learn a few at the same time: German, French, Italian and Japanese. Is it the best idea to try to learn four languages at once? Probably not. Does she care? Absolutely not. She's really not shooting for fluency at this point, she's just having fun exploring a new passion.

Saoirse grew up bilingual, speaking English and Italian (one of her father's side of the family is Italian and when she was younger her grandparents who only spoke Italian lived with her family). She lost quite a bit of her Italian when they moved away and she wasn't using it on a daily basis, but decided to pick it up again as an adult. At this point she's probably in between B1 and B2, but intends to get back to full proficiency with it. She's also picked up a little bit of French because Julian's fluent in it, and is learning more bit by bit. She's not super serious about it, but would like to become fully conversational.

🤩 FACE WITH STARRY EYES — is your oc a planner, or are they more spontaneous in their actions?

Zoe is 100% spontaneous and chaotic; She does not have a planning bone in her entire body. She can force herself to sit down and make actual plans if absolutely necessary, but she's gong to hate every single second of it.

Saoirse's the planner in their relationship. She doesn't insist on everything being planned, and is pretty easily able to be spontaneous when it makes sense without being anxious about it but someone has to keep both of them alive and functioning and it's not going to be Zoe.

Mae and Lucy are both more on the planner side of things but Mae's able to be spontaneous and doesn't mind not knowing what's going to happen sometimes, and Lucy's not. She gets a bit anxious when she doesn't know what the plan is or when they're trying to play something by ear. She's so much more comfortable not leaving things up to chance.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY WITH MOTHER, FATHER, SON AND DAUGHTER — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

Zoe's immediate biofamily consists of her, an older brother, an older and a younger sister, her mother and her father. She has an aunt and an uncle on her mother's side, and two aunts on her father's side, as well as about 10 cousins. Three of her grandparents have passed, but one is still alive. She's really... not in contact with any of her biofamily except for her older brother because they're all still part of the cult. She and her older brother are the only ones who've gotten out, and she's so close to him. The rest of them don't even know where she lives and haven't since she escaped after she graduated from high school. Her family is pretty much all found family - she has Saoirse's parents, Clare and Ana (Julian's aunts), the entire band and their partners, and a few of the other stylists she works with but especially Jasper and Marley.

Saoirse has a tiny biofamily but they're all incredibly close, emotionally if not geographically. It's her and her dads, her grandparents, an aunt on one side and an uncle on the other side and a single cousin who's the daughter of her aunt. They didn't live in the same place growing up, but Saoirse's always been really close to her cousin. They'd see each other at occasional family events and were always on messenger and texting each other growing up. Saoirse considers Julian's aunts, Clare and Ana, like her bonus moms. She's known them since she was a young teenager and is so close to them, especially Clare. She considers the rest of the band her found family as well, but she's especially tight with Lachlan and Avery.

Mae's immediate family consists of her, her parents, her younger sister, and an older and younger brother. She's got a big extended family, with multiple aunts and uncles on both sides, and what feels like countless cousins. They're all pretty close (except for a couple of them who are just... weird but doesn't that happen in every family) and throw big family events and reunions every year. Besides her wife and her brother-in-law, she doesn't really consider herself as having a found family. Lots of very close, wonderful friends she'd do nearly anything for? Absolutely. But not quite family. Her biofamily is her family.

Lucy's immediate family is her, her mom and dad and her little brother, Elijah. She's so close to Elijah and always has been - she was 12 when he was born and immediately decided he was her baby which was good because their parents were really hands off and uninvolved with him. Sometimes she feels more like his mom than his sister, but they do have a really close, respectful adult relationship. She's not close with her parents at all, because they've always treated her as the golden child compared to her brother and she hates it so much. They're barely involved in her life and she's always tempted to cut them out entirely. She's got two aunts and an uncle (as well as their spouses), and five cousins but she's really not close to any of them. They've haven't really stayed in touch for over a decade but they all think it's appropriate to text her to demand medical advice and she's just SO not here for it. As far as she's concerned, they're strangers and this is unethical. She is absolutely a found family and hers is: Elijah, Alexei, Mae's family (especially Mae's mom and sister), and some of her hospital colleagues (Rian and Brennan by extension, Viola and Sophie especially).

#oc ask meme #asked and answered #my ocs #oc: saoirse #oc: zoe #oc: lucy #oc: mae #thank you!!!! so much!!! for loving my girls #i know i've had a bad tendency to neglect them and i'm really trying to change that bc i love them SO much #i appreciate all of your lovely asks so much 🥰🥰

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