All the Spam/ton and Ten/na angst i've been seeing on my dash and in my recommended recently is making me feel so sad n soft...
and while hugging their plushies close does help a lot... it'd be nice if i had someone here to help distract my thoughts more. Maybe hiding my face in one of the plushies while someone scribbles at any spots they can reach would fix my melancholy mood... /)///(\
**A Note about this, this is all kinda like?? Under the radar, like it's not exactly relevant to any main story things its just like
**Me mindlessly justifying all of my decisions
**It felt weird having Aggie's Dad be cruel for no reason, and I felt the need to dig deeper and this is where I landed.
**Most of it isn't even common knowledge to Aggie!
**It is still fully allowed to hate Aggie's dad for what he did. She certainly does!
A TLDR: David was extremely damaged by magical influences at the hands of Aggie's mom and future coven. The magic altered/damaged his mind and personality. He was forced to keep Aggie with him, despite the fact he was literally kind of afraid of her. By the time he died, he was on his way to being "back to normal" but he died without ever really clearing anything up with his child.
**Aggie has never referred to her Father as Dad or any other title besides his first name, which is David. She’d only ever call him her father when talking about him to someone else, ie “my father.” She also called him “Sir” a lot, especially when she was very little.
**He always referred to her as Agatha, or simply as “child” or “girl”
**David was actually born in Wales and lived there until he was a teenager, when he moved to the US. He still had an accent as an adult but it wasn’t super thick and he spoke so infrequently to other people that one might miss it. Even Aggie didn’t even realize in her childhood, she found out about him being Welsh after he died in the 1980s.
**When he came to America as a teenager he lived on Staten Island in NYC, which is where he lived when Aggie was born.
**David was a physician, more of a General Practitioner but he did the occasional psych evaluation.
**In his youth he enjoyed riding horses, reading (Especially mysteries and crime novels), and playing the violin. All things that Aggie didn’t know about until after his death.
**He was raised Catholic and remained so into adulthood. He brought Aggie to church with him nearly every Sunday. It was literally the only thing they would "do" together
**Aggie was born from a short affair between David and a patient of his, a woman named Lucinda Cross. She was classified is “Very Mentally Unwell” (Trying to keep it very not clinical to fit the tone of the source material) and David was charged with evaluating her for treatment, and much more than that happened. When it was discovered she was pregnant he was quietly moved to another hospital. She was discharged just before the baby was born. She tracked down David and she stayed with him until the baby was born. Once Aggie was born, he had her recommitted to another hospital. Eventually she was transferred to a different facility due to a decline in her condition, a place in New Jersey. David moved himself and his daughter whom he named Agatha (For Agatha Christie, actually! Aggie didn't know this until later in life.) to a small town in New Jersey about thirty minutes from the hospital. When Agatha was five, Lucinda passed away.
** NOTE, THE FOLLOWING IS NOT KNOWN TO AGGIE!!! All info from here is between you and me. Aggie has the story above, about her father sleeping with a patient and knocking her up. In her eyes he was the bad guy. BUT. He wasn’t, actually. Not really. He was a guy who ended up doing bad things.
**From the age of about 30 until Aggie was about 13/14, David was subjected to a startling number of spells, curses, and hexes. He was strung along through his entire adult life based on magic put on him starting that first day he met Lucinda for her evaluation. She was immediately taken with him, and formed a pretty intense attachment/obsession. He was a very serious man even before the spells, and he never would have done anything to endanger his patients or his career. He refused Lucinda’s advances and was going to arrange for her to see someone else but that’s when it started. The first "attacks" were spells for infatuation, obsession, devotion, etc. THIS is what brought the two together, not David taking advantage of a poor sick woman. It was actually quite the opposite.
**Lucinda's spells weren’t very strong at the time, she was weakened by her own failing health and she had been away from her coven for quite some time, so her spells didn’t last very long. One minute David would be entirely enthralled by her, the next he would be full of regret and confusion about the matter. It made him ill, gave him headaches, and resulted in him having big gaps in his memory. He gladly was reassigned, hoping to get away from her. He didn’t know she was MAGIC per se (he had some anxiety about her perhaps being a demon?), but there was something deeply deeply wrong with her and he didn’t want to be a part of it. But she was always on his mind, almost literally. She was in every dream he had, most of which were not very pleasant!!! Even from far away she had a hold on him through his dreams and eventually she showed up at his place, pregnant and much stronger with her magic after a quick visit with her coven. He opens the door to her and he is IMMEDIATELY put back under spell, stronger than ever. They were “together” through the rest of her pregnancy. She wanted to go back to the covens house to have the baby but in a rare moment of him not being fully under her spell (probably bc she was unable to concentrate on him bc of the uhhh active labor) he refused, and the child was born in their apartment.
**After the birth of her daughter, Lucinda’s magic became weaker and less stable. David was able to fight though a lot of her influence. Her mental health seemed to take a downturn too, postpartum depression for sure. For the child’s safety as well as his own, he had her recommitted. She would still haunt and invade his dreams but at least she wasn’t around him when he was awake. She would remain committed for the remainder of her life.
**David Yearling had decided in his 20s that he never wanted to be a father. He was uncomfortable around kids, preferring the company of adults even as a young boy. So when he found himself with a baby he not only didn't want, but he hardly remembers why he even has her, he decided it would be best to get her in the hands of a proper family to look after her. And he TRIED, he tried to put her up for adoption/bringing her to an orphanage, but some of the coven women intervened and whacked him with even MORE magic, forcing him to regard Agatha as something he couldn’t relinquish no matter how badly he wanted to. This spell combined with all Lucinda’s spells further deteriorated the man he’d once been, making him colder and colder, and unable to place his daughter in the care of a better parent.
**So basically, the spells he was under during Aggie's early childhood kept him tethered to Lucinda, as well as tethered him to his daughter. But by this point, it was extremely difficult for him to form attachments, so he couldn't even bond with the daughter he couldn't give up. He ended up hiring nannies to look after her.
**Lucinda's health deteriorated, and she was sent to a different hospital a ways out of the city. The hospital was located just outside the town of Glass shard Beach, New Jersey. Lucinda's magic made him follow her, which led him to buying a Cape May Victorian home, and establishing himself in town as a physician. Aggie was about three or four at the time.
**When Lucinda died (of TB), all of her spells died with her, but for David, the damage was done. After being hit with so many curses and spells which forced affection and love, the feelings simply didn’t exist anymore for him. He was a shell of the man he’d been, emotionally. He already hadn’t been the friendliest/nicest guy (He was far from evil or even being a bad guy he just wasn’t a people person outside of his medical practice. Had his life been normal he likely would have been a childless bachelor who probably has horses and a close circle of friends.)
**He wasn’t free of all the magic though, the coven ladies were still influencing him from a distance to keep Agatha around. (Within the coven there was a lot of debate about if they should just take Aggie or not, but the witch on top thought Agatha having a 'difficult' father would help her magic develop (since it often will be triggered by stress or danger) and in addition, it may foster a hatred for non-magic beings.)
**David maintained a distant relationship with his daughter. They were not affectionate or even nice to each other. The kindest he could be was simply leaving her alone. He did keep her fed and clothed, but he knew nothing about her, couldn't bring himself to even talk to her, really. Her eyes are exactly like Lucinda's were, and admittedly, she made him nervous.
**Additionally, David maintained distant relationships with most people. He couldn’t connect with people even if he tried. He did however, still have some physical needs. This led to him meeting and courting a woman named Ruth Anne. They never properly married, but she took up the role of stepmother anyway. This began one of the worst years of Aggie’s life, as Ruth’s Anne was legitimately pretty damn evil.
**From Aggies perspective David either didn’t care about the abuse Ruth Anne inflicted, or he didn’t notice. It was sort a mixture of both. The coven witches found Ruth Anne to be a great motivator, so they willed him to turn a blind eye to her cruelty. He also just… Couldn’t care, not the way he should. There was exactly one circumstance where he put his foot down with her and spared Aggie a particularly harsh punishment. Fighting back against the magic he was under made him very sick, so it was something he really couldn't do often.
**Aggie eventually drove Ruth Anne off when she was 10, approaching 11. The short version is Aggie retaliated against the abuse in a way that scared the shit out of Ruth Anne and she fled the house and never came back. Bizarrely, David didn’t seem to notice. In reality, he had but he just didn’t care. He was becoming aware of his lack of empathy and it was…Concerning. He stopped doing psychiatric care in practice but sought it out for himself. For the remainder of his time in GSB, he was seeing a therapist weekly to address the issues with his emotions, memory, and sleep. Meanwhile, the coven witches were seeing Aggie getting so close to unlocking her magic fully. So they pushed harder, and made David worse.
**In the last six months or so in GSB, David went from cool, indifferent, humorless and dry to agitated, volatile and unfortunately violent. The headaches, memory lapses and bad dreams drove him to drink, which made him even worse, though this nasty habit was a well guarded secret that Aggie didn't even really grasp.
**His abuse was never as cruel as Ruth Anne's had been, but he'd slap her or grab her by the arm and wrench her around. Things that went unpunished before now were punished severely. Breaking curfew, getting her clothes dirty and poor grades suddenly were at the top list of Aggie's worries. She’s never been fond of him and had been a little afraid of him but now she dreaded being near him.
**In the end, David's therapist (who he'd been seeing for years now, in secret) suggests that David move out of Jersey. Leave that part of the country behind and go somewhere entirely new. A sort of reset. He decided that would be best, so he started making plans to move somewhere across the country. The place he landed on was a little town in Oregon that was down a doctor. He made some arrangements for housing and a job, and early in Aggies teens he moved to Oregon, dragging Aggie behind him.
**Moving to Oregon finally freed him of the Coven's magic. Not only were they too far away, but thanks to Gravity Fall's natural weirdness, they magic got blocked out. The only magica linfluence around him was his daughter, and her magic was so weak and undeveloped that it didn't really do much for him at all. Though, he slept better. He chalked that up to the fresh Pacific NE air. Alas, even with all these changes it didn't really fix anything about his personality, but It did change one thing, which reared its head about a year into their time in GF.
**Aggie got into a fight with the child of a rich/well connected person and won. The kids parents were going to press charges but as a sort of settlement, David agreed to send her to a boarding school. He chose a Catholic Institution for "troubled girls" which was located up by the Canadian boarder. He sent her away and for the first time in over a decade, he had virtually no magic around him. It was at this point that finally, his mind began to start healing.
**It was a long process. First the negative side effects left him. The headaches, the memory lapses, the nightmares- they all left. He found himself able to enjoy things again. He played violin for the first time since before his daughter was born, he was reading for pleasure, he even bought a television. He never was quite right, but he was better that he'd been in a very long time.
**When Aggie came home she expected him to be cruel, but he just seemed tired and apathetic. He'd kept her room and possessions as they'd been, her box of letters and momentos from New Jersey sitting right where she'd left it on her bed. He was noticeably uncomfortable around her. She looked more like Lucinda now that she was nearing adulthood. He couldn't look at her, he tried not to talk about her. He honestly was afraid to ask her to leave, for fear that all the bad things would come back. Thankfully, she took care of it for him, though. A day after she came home, she'd fled. She stole some money and took a few of her own things. He chalked it up to a worthy price to pay.
**They never saw each other again. David continued to live and work in the area until his health began to fail. Sometime in the 1980s, he died. Aggie returned to the Oregon house to get all the affairs in order. It shouldn't have been that surprising considering she was his only surviving family, but she was left the house and his entire estate. She went from being on the brink of homelessness with her child to suddenly being set for the rest of her life. As she and Bobby explored the house, she found that once again, he'd left everything of hers as it was.
**She didn't move into the house until Bobby was finished with grade school in the early 90s. She went through a lot of his things and made all these discoveries about him, but she never really grasped just how tortured and unwell he was. To this day she still holds his memory with bitterness in her heart. Maybe someday she'll figure out the full truth. But WE know it so that's cool
you ever in the mood to draw something fake-symbolic with your OCs
I couldn’t decide which was better, I like the second composition of her having wings more but I spent too long drawing the Honchkrow in my initial idea to not post it.
@nerdsbianhokie and anyone else who expressed interest in that Power Rangers au I messaged them about a little bit ago, here are some details under the cut:
Lucy: With her mother dead and her older sister away at college it's just Lucy and her father, a strict former soldier confined to a desk job due to injuries gained in the line of fire. She was all set to join the army herself after graduation, until a prank gone wrong had her wrecking her car and her knee. Ending her future before it begins. Now her activities are restricted by the GPS band on her ankle and her Saturday mornings now taken up by extra detentions at school she has to deal with having no idea what to do with herself. (Red)
Alex: Raised as an only child by two doting parents Alex gained an adoptive sister and lost her father the same year. With her mother throwing herself into her work rather than dealing with her grief she was left to look after the younger teen on her own at only fifteen. Now she's seventeen and spends what little time she gets to herself on Midvale’s seaside cliffs or in the water proper. (Black)
Maggie: Bounced around between family members ever since being forced out of the closet at fourteen, Maggie Sawyer’s been to four different high schools in three years and is now staying with a hippie aunt she'd never met before in Midvale. She's become an expert at staying detached, never bothering to make friends and just trying to keep her head down until graduation. (Yellow)
Kara: Her parents were part of a group of scientists who believed that by pooling the brightest minds they could gather into one community they could solve all the world’s problems. They isolated themselves for the most part, making their group almost entirely self-reliant, and Kara was the first child born in the community. But in pushing the boundaries of science, someone pushed too far, and the small commune was destroyed with Kara as the only survivor. With her having only vague memories of an aunt outside of the commune and no way to contact her she was put in the foster system and, after almost a year, adopted by the Danvers at the age of fourteen. (Blue)
Lena: The Luthors were once the pride of Midvale; brilliant, rich, and attractive they ran the upper echelons of town. Until Lex had a psychotic break and shot up his university. Now Lena is a pariah at school and, if she’s lucky, completely ignored at home. (Pink)
Ok I think I'm finally up to like everything I know loosely about one piece which is chopper and all the ppl that joined b4 him so my character rating for chopper will be #2 with Nami
6'6" bi man. Very thin, but with some subtle muscle. 3rd generation Irish-American, with Cherokee Native heritage. Ice blue eyes, long wild brown hair. Broadly considered frightening and cruel, which is how he likes it. Known for holding grudges and being suspicious of all others. Prickly and abrasive. Highly intelligent and eloquent, albeit quiet and aloof. Secretly very awkward in social situations, and even more so when faced with a compliment. Very interested in Chemistry and Psychology, as well as English and History. In need of a friend (or more) that will not stab him in the back, use him, and/or sell him out like so many others- though he'll be slow in reciprocating. (Hope you don't mind if I send twooo-)
Describe your muse on anon and my muse will say if they would date them or not.
Is it sad or funny that I had to refrain from giving this over to at least one muse that was interested but DEFINITELY would have sold him out? COUGH. FAUST.
"I think I've been gutted. This is dangerously close to being about me as much as it is this person."
And how did that register to him? With aversion and a shudder down his back. He may be sickened to look someone like that in the eye--and yet, there remained the undeniable intrigue of knowing someone whose life story seemed to so closely resemble his own.
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"I will be your friend. I am so sorry to hear you could not trust others, but I would not give up on you. "
