some thoughts abt miss lauren page :~)
the loss of her mother still impacts her greatly. while her focus is often on the disappearance / loss of zeus, some of her anxieties stems from her mother’s murder. her mom, gwen, was her favorite person on the planet. she was kind, funny, outgoing - but she had her secrets. had lauren & zeus had a girl, she would have been named gwen.
lauren doesn’t have many friends, and honestly? it’s intentional. she distances herself, and it’s not often others are granted the opportunity to know her beyond surface level. she’s best friends with sophie, but beyond that the other “friends” she has are the two older ladies she works closely with at the library & old friends from the college. the latter she doesn’t really see much.
branching off of this though - she is a natural caretaker, so she might invite acquaintances over for dinner or bring coworkers baked goods. she’s still inherently very sweet, just very introverted & a bit more cautious considering all the ways in which her reality has gone awry. furthermore, there’s only so many people she can divulge her son & lover’s true identity to, & she doesn’t like keeping secrets from those she cares for deeply. as such, she keeps her circle small so as to feel less guilty.
aidan is the light of lauren’s life. he looks so similar to zeus, and when he’s older he even seems to sound like him sometimes, too. although the loss of her mother was horrible & deeply traumatic for lauren, it brought her a beloved life partner & son. in some weird round-a-bout way, she considers this to be her mother’s gift to her after her passing.
although torn up about zeus ... lauren still gets involved with others romantically. yes, it’s a lil messy & maybe even a mild form of escape. but she’s naturally a giver. a lover. she loves to love. the only thing is, she is still upfront about holding out for zeus’ return ... which sometimes ends connections, in other it only strains them slightly.
lauren doesn’t necessarily feel bad about her being human, but rather the fact that she cannot entirely understand aidan’s lived reality. he isn’t hard on her for this in his earlier years, but as time passes, their relationship does become a bit strained as a result.
her dream is to one day move to the country side. she only remains in new york in hopes zeus will return to her. she’d been in NY for college, as her parents had moved to to upstate new york just years prior. she went to ithaca college, though her mother was murdered in her junior year of college. due to having to enter witness protection, she switches to online courses. she has a bachelors in art history and a minor in studio arts.
though she has her bachelors & was intending on getting her masters, given the most traumatic events to which lauren was subject, the latter does not occur until she’s about 5 years removed from undergrad. she gets her masters in library science via online courses whilst she continues to work as a librarians assistant & teach art courses. she hopes to one day be able to rent out her own studio to continue making her own pieces.
finally, lauren never talks about her fraternal twin sister, olivia. their relationship was never all that great, but to know she aided in the murder of her mother was undoubtedly enough for lauren to excommunicate her completely. as far as lauren is concerned, she’s an only child.
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