“i guess because it’s twenty twenty and you can’t get away with shit!” the girl exclaimed before realising she had cussed in front of the older woman. although she had found her family, bonnie still felt off living in heron hil, a place that seemed far too good for her. people around her urged her she was worth it but it didn’t make her feelings any less valid. “i think you’ve done a great job, like making one for everyone. that’s a lot of work, you know? they probably should have told you about the kids’ dietry requirements before you made them but that would be too sensible of them.” bonnie make sure to smile at harmony. “sure, i’d love to. don’t grass on me to my parents though. they’ll probably quiz me tonight about how i can’t eat their stew that was in the slow cooker all day.” bonnie laughed.
Harmony doesn’t even bat an eyelid at the swear word that falls out the young girl’s mouth; they’re a very curse-y ( technical term ) household, and as long as she doesn’t catch anything of the sort coming out of little Ava’s mouth, she’s unbothered, and as Ava’s not around, Harmony couldn’t ( in her own words ) give less of a fuck. “Y’know, I think you’re onto something there,” she says, only half joking as she gives her a nod. Her lips curl into a smile as Bonnie praises the effort put in, eyebrows raised just a tad. She hadn’t thought about it like that. “Well, thank you ! But exactly, it’s the fact this teacher thinks I can read minds ? Or can remember what all 30 of the kids in Ava’s class can eat ? We’re lucky I can remember my own kids’ names,” she jokes, offering the open tin to the girl. She’d only realised she didn’t have anything to put the brownies in to get them to the school after she’d made them, but managed to find an empty Quality Street tin leftover from Christmas. “I won’t say a word,” she promises with a mischievous smile, bringing her free hand up to let a finger tap at the side of her own nose. “You could always tell ‘em that stew is boring, but I’m thinking that won’t go down well, huh ?”
“To be fair, you probably wouldn’t have been able to bring them if they were store-bought either. Gluten and all that.” Maisie said as she looked over with an eyebrow raised. “Besides, it’s not like the kid asked to be allergic to gluten. It’s not like that makes life easier. Imagine being that kid that can’t have any of the good stuff and has to special order it.” She shrugged her shoulders. “Plus it could probably lead to all kinds of health stuff. But if you are offering me a free brownie, I’ll take it. We can’t let all your hard work go to waste now can we? Happy late birthday to Ava!” She said as she took a brownie. “And condolences to the poor kid who can’t have gluten.”
“Oh, God, no, it’s not the kid’s fault,” Harmony clarifies with a wave of her hand. “But this damn teacher could’ve said something, innit ? And then I could’ve bought something they can all eat -- or find some... gluten free flour ? If that’s even a thing,” she says, not really knowing how she’d have tackled it if she’d still decided to bake something herself with this knowledge, but she’d have figured it out, she’s sure. “Mm, I get that. My eldest has a horrible milk allergy. But at least I always made sure people knew when he was at school. Not that he pays attention to it now, he’ll finish half of these when he’s home later, I bloody know it,” she says with a fond roll of her eyes; at twenty-four, he’s rather past the age where Harmony can stop him, but she’ll always sneak in an ‘I told you so’ when he pays the price for it later. “Take a couple, if you want ‘em ! We’re celebrating ! And, of course, commiserating whatever part of the body it is that makes you intolerant to gluten. The stomach ? I’m going with stomach. How’s that lovely basset of yours ?”
“Since when am I supposed to assume there’s always a celiac around ? Ava’s teacher said I gotta bring something in for the kids since it was her birthday over the Easter holidays, and it worked out cheaper to make brownies than buy ‘em -- taste nicer, too -- and I thought that’d suit ‘em nicely, but I got given ‘em back at the gate because one of the kids in her class can’t have gluten. So now nobody gets ‘em,” Harmony sighs, before allowing her lips to curl into a sly smile. “Except us. So, darling... do you want a brownie ?”
—- ☼ (keri russell, forty-one, cis female, she/her.) have you met HARMONY ANDREWS? they’ve been living in PEARL HEIGHTS for ELEVEN YEARS now, but are originally from ESSEX. you can catch them working as a RECEPTIONIST, which makes sense as they’re GOOD-NATURED and OPTIMISTIC, as well as OVER-PROTECTIVE, and HOT-HEADED. keep an eye out for them! (ooc: pace, 21+, gmt, she/her)
hi, friends ! y’all can call me pace, and you may remember me from such roles as ‘admin that calls everybody her pals and uses too many exclamation marks’ ! i’m super excited to get bayhaven up and running ( and hopefully thriving ! ) and writing with your glorious muses ! i’m also playing FREYA and SOFIA, and their intros should be up just after this one ! so, in the words of shania twain, let’s go girls ! p.s i’m famously bad at intros at the best of times, but i’ve been wrestling a migraine for the last few days and i’m actually writing these up early and scheduling them; i’m hoping to be around, but want to be prepared for if i can’t be. so i gotta be honest, these are all a lil rushed, but hopefully they give a vague idea and enough of a gist !
ABOUT:
so, harmony’s actually a lot of fun for me -- she actually started as an npc from a different character’s background, and i just grew really attached to her ! i loved harmony as a concept and as a character, so thought it was about time i played her properly ! so, i revived her ( did i mention she was always dead before ? my gal was always dead before oopsie ) and here she is !
she’s a receptionist up at bayhaven’s hospital, so sometimes works funky hours, and has four smashing lil’ children ! i say children,,, two of them are grown adults, but... her kids !!! she’s dedicated her life to those little demons !
harmony is a chocolate loving, pasta making, scrapbooking, junk journal doing, laundry folding, zero-luck-with-love-having, legend, and she just has a lot of love to give.
i miiiiight be open to putting up wc’s for the two oldest kids at some point ( with like lots of wiggle room and ofc as Different characters than the ones i’ve developed before ) but i’ll have to see ! i keep flip-flopping between wanting to and not so i feel like that’s a ‘i should think on it and see how things go’ kinda sign !
i tried to whip up a a condensed rundown of her backstory, her kids and how they came to be, etc. but it got so long and rambly. however, i’ve copy and pasted the bullet points and whacked them HERE instead if you’re curious, especially while her full biography is a wip !
so she’s a mother of four to nevaeh ‘nev’, faith, harvey, and avalon ‘ava’ and they range from aged six to age twenty-four. she had her eldest at seventeen, and has been cut off from the rest of her family ever since.
however, her aunt didn’t plan on dying when she did, so hadn’t gone over her will recently ---- if she had, she may have realised that she never took harmony out of it, and harms inherited her house in bayhaven when her youngest child ( at the time ) was four, and she and her family have lived together in pearl heights ever since.
she loves the community in pearl heights. she loves that everyone seems to have eachother’s backs, and actually like she fits in somewhere. they have a nice lil four bedroom house ( or three bedrooms and a box, as she calls it ) and since the arrival of harm’s fourth and final kid six years ago, and w/ nev being older, they converted the loft into an extra bedroom, so nev sleeps in the attic like a rat !
she’s a busy bee, tbh ! she works full time, has a herd of youngens to keep track of, loves cooking so makes nice hearty, homey meals almost every night, has a Very precise laundry routine, and she’s a creative lil fuck ?? really into bullet journaling but also making junk journals and loooooooves a scrapbook.
she’s a very sort of No Nonsense lady. she just doesn’t have time or tolerance for bullshit anymore, life’s too short and she’s had enough shit thrown at her.
however, her heart is Big. her life is dedicated to her kidsies, but she’s always known for taking in strays. a mate of her kids’ need to stay ? okay cool lemme grab you a blanket and the guest pj’s. her house is very Busy, like all the time. everyone is welcome at all times. friends over for dinner !!!! extra kids running around because harm is absolutely nuts and probably thought ava having three friends over would be fiiiine !
she has stats !
as well as a pinterest board !
CONNECTION IDEAS:
friends friends friends !!!
neighbours !!
friends thru their kids ?? her kids are 24, 21, 15, and 6, so if other folks have kids near those ages ! yeehaw !
youngens she’s basically adopted because she’s such a ‘your parents suck ? i’m your mum now’ person tbh.
harmony has such potential for angst and i’m always for it my guys.
EXTRAS:
i know bayhaven exists in a wonderful world where the dreaded c-word ( no, not that one -- not that one either... ) doesn’t exist, but we’re sadly not so lucky, so i hope everybody is keeping well and looking after themselves, and that bayhaven can function as a nice distraction, as well as a creative outlet and something to fill the time !
i usually am a ‘i love rp icons, i love gif icons, i love gifs, use whatever and i’ll match’ kinda person, but two out of the three fc’s i’m using are ones i didn’t have a folder for before the rp, and keri has zero gif icons until i make some ! i’m workin’ on it ! but she’s beeeeautiful and has lots of gifs and some rp icons, and i’d be happy to make more in the future too, so we’re goin’ with it for now !
i’m a small text gal, but if you wanna make it bigger when reblogging our threads, you’ll get no complaints from me ! the only thing i ask is that bold/italic text is left alone and not reformatted, as they’re almost always used as ( in the wise words of josh peck ) emphasis, when it comes to me !
a bit too personal, but i’m actually currently coming off my adhd meds, and one of the things i’ve noticed, is that i find spotting typos harder and that kind of thing, so if we could just Bear With, i’d really appreciate it ! it also makes me forgetful as sin in the short-term, so again, please just !!! bear with !!! and patience is reaaaallly appreciated !
female awesome meme → [3/10] women in movies → jenna hunterson
↳ Dear Baby: If I was writing you a letter, it would probably sounds something like an apology. I know everyone deserves a mama who’d want a nice baby such as yourself, who was also a good wife, a fine member of a society. And I can’t rightly say that I’m any of that. And I’m not sure the world is such a fine place to bringing you. Many of the people I’ve met are not worth meeting. Many of the things that happened are not worth living through. And you shouldn’t take it personal, Baby, if I don’t seem like all the other mamas-to-be, jumping all over themselves with joy. I frankly don’t know what I got to give you, Baby.
