AU idea: what if the Sinistres practiced Curse Gestation, the debt they owe the Furans relates to Francesca's second daughter's failure, and the Contessa had another daughter, older than Lucy's mom?
Elaboration below the cut (as well as tw pregnancy talk, Bloodline spoilers, and spoilers for the anime Kaya-Chan Isn't Scary)
First to describe Curse Gestation- the firstborn daughter of a generation becomes a shrine maiden, as a partial reincarnation of their incredibly spiritually powerful ancestor. The second daughter is destined to be a vessel for a cursed object that will eliminate the family's enemies (or be sold for great wealth and power).
So the mom-to-be (the current head of the tamily) completes the ritual, eats an umbilical cord, keeps the baby in as long as possible, and boom! The baby becomes a girl, a powerful psychic vessel. Do it again with her second born and this girl will grow up to become pregnant with essentially a pure curse that kills her upon its 'birth.’ They can use this curse to their advantage or basically sell it out.
Now for the Sinistres.
The ritual guarantees her firstborn will have The Voice, and is meant to carry on the Sinistre legacy as the head of the family. Her second child? Well this girl is meant to be a tool to strike down the family's enemies! Or to sell her curse to the highest bidder. To serve her older sister to ensure the survival and success of the family.
Francesca has Maria, a powerful Voice user. Francesca has another girl who eventually is meant to bear a curse they 'sold' to the Furans for profit in order to strengthen the declining family name - however, she dies early and causes the Sinistres' great debt to the Furans.
Maria has a daughter. Then she has the future Mrs. Dexter (I call her Olivia). Now Olivia hates how differently she is treated for not having The Voice, and resents that her sole purpose for living is to die to keep the Sinistres, and this twisted cycle, alive and growing. So she runs away and snipes the 'firstborn of the generation Curse Gestation' ritual- now Lucy is the Voice user and Maria's eldest daughter is basically 'useless' to the family.
But still her hatred for the family lives on. Mrs. Dexter does it again. This pregnancy is a cursed object. Her curse is upon the Sinistres. She 'gives birth' and dies, and this curse brings great misfortune upon Olivia's mother and grandmother, as she wanted. They can avoid their fate for a while, but terrible deaths catch up to them, and the bloodline dies out. Unfortunately this curse on the family does affect Lucy as well.
But did Mrs. Dexter care? Was she really the loving mother Lucy remembered, or just a woman hellbent on ending the cycle she herself was born into?
i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person
Maria: Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who called the cops on me when she didn’t find me in my room sleeping in the middle of the night and thought I snuck out of the castle. I was downstairs in the kitchen eating cereal and also 65.
So this was from Fantober, day 22 Demon and Angel. Lucy, Maria, and Olivia. I actually did all this in September, then when I opened it back up in October I hated how it looked. Idk what to do with it.. maybe I’ll just scrap this one and start it over
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