About the Muse + the Blog
Writer: Alex/Lex (she/her); 29; EST
Muse: Faye Lynn Carmody (she/her); 32; third grade teacher
FC: Phoebe Tonkin
Associated Personal Blog: moonstonewrites.tumblr.com
Rules:
Will not write: smut (I will only do fade to black), rape/dubcon, incest/stepcest, extreme violence/gore, self-harm, daddy/mommy kinks, major age gaps.
Will not interact with krps, celebrity rps/celebrity muses.
Will not write with muns or muses under 25. Do not lie. I will block you.
Multi-shipping is accepted.
Will utilize trigger warnings and content warnings as follows: âtrigger twâ and will tag for violence, blood, gore, abuse.
Inspiration for Faye
Camille Preaker (from Sharp Objects), Jennifer Stirling (from The Last Letter from Your Lover), Lexie Grey (from Grey's Anatomy)
General Summary
The baby of the family. Third and last child of a dairy farmer and a waitress. What her family lacked in money they did not make up for in reputation either. Her childhood was tumultuous, but she managed to keep himself out of trouble by keeping close to her older brother, Knox. Of all her siblings, Faye is the only one to go to college and she's managed to make quite the life for herself. However, she aches for the tangled roots that she left behind.
Full Biography
TW: alcoholism, domestic violence, childhood abuse, murder
The family layout is oldest brother (Butch; deceased), older brother (Knox), and Faye. As a child, she feared Butch and often kept close to Knox.
Dairy farming is hard, dirty work, and like so many family-owned farms across the United States, the Carmody family struggled to stay afloat. The constant financial struggles took its toll on Faye's father and her parentsâ relationship. Faye's father fell deep into the bottle well before she came along and he never seemed to find his way out.
Some people are happy drunks, funny drunks, or sad drunks. Her father was none of those. He was a mean drunk and all of his meanness came out at the sight of the wife and kids he could not provide for.
By the time Faye began elementary school, the family started to sell off portions of the land to make ends meet. With every financial loss, the deeper her father fell and the meaner he became. Faye and her followed their motherâs example. They never asked for any more than the little scraps her father gave, and they made do with skills outside of him.
For Faye's mother, this was waitressing. Unfortunately, her fatherâs demons stole most of the money her mother earned. Faye and her siblings learned how to fend for themselves. They stole food from classmatesâ lunchboxes, went âshoppingâ through the lost-and-found, and occasionally swiped things off front porches to eat or sell.Â
Their mother, too worried about staying afloat and keeping her father occupied, never noticed whenever the children came home with belongings that were not bought by her. She just accepted their weak excuses because there was always a bigger fish to worry about in the pond.
Things came to a head when Faye was 10 years old. The family farm slowly bled out until it dried up. It was only by a stroke of luck that Faye's mother managed to hide away enough money to afford the first month of rent and security deposit for a three bedroom double wide in the local trailer park.
Living in a small space was a hard adjustment, but the proximity to other homes meant there were more places to escape her father. Faye and her siblings, used to being teased and bullied at school, found it easier to fit in after the move. Faye and her brothers were hardly âpopularâ by any definition, but they made more friends and that was the beginning of their divide.
Butch, always following in their fatherâs footsteps, found kindred spirits among the troubled children of their hometown. Knox, always more quiet and observant, kept to the outskirts of social circles and Faye followed his example.
Alongside Knox, Faye focused on helping their mother keep afloat. Their fatherâs drinking, now at its worst, meant more and more of their motherâs paychecks disappeared.
Faye's father passed away unexpectedly from a stroke during her last year of middle school. Butch quickly filled the black hole their father left in the family. He was always in trouble, always being dragged off by cops, and always treating all of them like dirt.Â
Knox spent the rest of his teenage years working odd jobs and dragging himself through school. Faye buried herself in her studies because their mother rarely asked for anything, but she wanted all of them to graduate high school. So, that was what Faye did.
The summer before her freshmen year in college, Butch found himself in a box in the ground and Faye's ashamed to admit that she felt nothing but relief. She accepted her first college offer along with its scholarship and left everything behind.
She still called home, still loved Knox and her mama, but her life fractured quickly. She wasn't embarrassed by the dirt and the grime, but she didn't feel like sharing her deepest, darkest memories.
Some would say this unwillingness to open up, and her penchant for minimizing the truth, made her relationship start on a lie. She met her fiancé during her senior year of college and worked for Teach for America for a few years after graduation, but if Faye's being honest it was her way of keeping the line between "before" and "after" clear.
Yet, she's grown tired of the comfort and the creamy elegance of her fiancé's world. She's grown tired of feeling like an imposter who will never fully belong.
So, she's decided to test the strength of her relationship; she took a job in her hometown and she's going to see if the diving line can fade and if her two worlds can blend at the seam.