* 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃 : asking for a friend (the friend is me, irrationally afraid to dm cherry myself) but i'd love to hear how cherry sees astoria & daphne's relationship?
me, fawning over you ???? yes. yes i am. please know that you can always come and vibe in my dms either on the hellsite itself or on discord, & i will share so many godforsaken thoughts that you’ll wish you never asked.
anyways, i’ve thought a lot about astoria & daphne over the years, & they’re a very unique brand of fraught. daphne has big middle child energy to me ― the elder yeşilçimen took his pride of place as the prodigal son early, & astoria has always been a sickly child in need of more attention ; daphne, sitting in the middle of all that, has to have some kind of pent-up, swallowed-down resentment towards both her siblings about that. on astoria’s end ( which i’m much more confident to speak on, because i never want to godmod the way you might be building daphne’s feelings & all that ), they’ve got a real jealousy there. astoria looks at daphne, their brilliant, beautiful older sister, & sees all the time she has ― of all the things astoria is brutally, irrationally jealous of, it’s that daphne has a long, leisurely life ahead of her, through which she can take the time to consider her decisions, weigh them up, find out which is the best one for her in the long run. astoria’s well aware that they’re doomed to make wretchedly young bones, that all their snap decisions & rushed loyalties are all they’re entitled to, because they don’t have time. astoria’s oriented with dumbledore’s army, & makes no secret of it ; daphne, to me, remains conflicted & doesn’t entirely agree with how fast astoria made their loyalties clear. ( edit: should mention that i’ve said the yeşilçimen family, broadly, were very sympathetic to the death eaters / blood purity / all that unconscionable funky shit. erol was a mid-tier de who lent a lot to the cause, & expected his family to follow blindly. that astoria made such an open defiance of that has gone down like a shit in a swimming pool. ) their relationship is probably best summarised by that two lines from fleabag: ‘we’re not friends, we’re sisters.’ / ‘the only person i’d run through an airport for is you.’ they’re messy, & complicated, & astoria likes to think of themselves on some moral high ground some days, but there’s still a fierce love & protection there. in astoria’s eyes, daphne will always be their daft, misguided, attention-seeking, ridiculous older sister, who they’d still take a curse for any day. they’ll be snide, & awful, & completely reject her at times, but there’s a lot of love there that can’t & simply won’t be shaken. does astoria prefer their older brother ? yes. is daphne the only person they ever want to call when they wake up feeling awful in the middle of the night, because her presence is still one of the biggest comforts they know ? yes.
this is all to say, pls bring my angel darling daphne & let me go in six different diatribes about the complexities of the yeşilçimen household & the relationship these siblings share. this is also a shameless ploy to say please bring any of my wcs because i had a lot of fun writing this & would like to shamelessly send u chunks of musing shit like this !
