#avalon rue

[kiramessa]

far cry 5 - junior deputy avalon rue x the siren, faith seed

OPHELIA: “There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it                                “herb of grace” o' Sundays.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

[kiramessa]

@deandomino and @cryptcombat tagged me in this OC thing and fjksld lmfao i can’t make banners to save my life, so blease forgive...

oc + associations

RULES: Repost and fill in the answers you most associate your character with to each question.

i tag @aubade, @tormentedbythirst, @myrcella, @radiojamming, and idk anyone who has OCs that I haven’t tagged!! sry if you get double tagged, too.

JOHANNA ENGEL — Far Cry 5 (lawful good; wife of Joseph Seed)

ANIMALS: Doe.

COLOR(S): Yellow, brown.

MONTH: October

SONG(S): Mumford and Sons “For Those Below”; Lady Gaga “Sinner’s Prayer.”

NUMBER: 5

DAY OR NIGHT: Noon.

PLANT: Daffodils, asiatic lilies, yellow gerbera daisies.

SMELL(S): Coffee and mint.

GEMSTONE: Garnet.

SEASON: Early autumn.

PLACE(S):  Back porches, apple orchards, riversides at night.

FOOD: Pumpkin pie

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Cancer

ELEMENT(S): Air

DRINK: Black coffee.

AVALON RUE — Far Cry 5 (chaotic neutral; Faith’s monster girlfriend)

ANIMALS: Swallowtail butterfly.

COLOR(S): Green, rose pink.

MONTH: May.

SONG(S): Hole “Violet.”

NUMBER: 8

DAY OR NIGHT: Twilight.

PLANT: Baby’s breath, amaryllis.

SMELL(S): Vanilla and soap.

GEMSTONE: Amber.

SEASON: Spring.

PLACE(S): Overgrown gardens, dive bars, dirt roads.

FOOD: Blackberries.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Gemini.

ELEMENT(S): Earth.

DRINK: Whiskey.

ANEMONE FITCH — Red Dead Redemption 2 (true neutral; prairie necrowitch, Arthur’s wife)

ANIMALS: Firebird.

COLOR(S): Silver.

MONTH: December.

SONG(S): radost moya “unyvay dusha moya”; Florence + the Machine “Big God.”

NUMBER: 2

DAY OR NIGHT: Midnight.

PLANT: Hellebore, oleander.

SMELL(S): Freesia, woodsmoke, wet earth.

GEMSTONE: Opal.

SEASON: Winter.

PLACE(S): Meadows, river valleys, forests.

FOOD: Death. Apples, pumpernickel bread.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio.

ELEMENT(S): Fire.

DRINK: Blood. Spring water, Arthur’s kisses.

[kiramessa]

Refresh a dumb bitch about Avalon Roe would you?(me I'm the dumb bitch)

I say she’s a Junior Deputy, but tbh she’s just a Project member elevated to the status of a herald’s beloved.

Avalon was born and raised in Missoula (like Johanna!), was taken out of her abusive home when she was really young, and was put into the care of her aunt/godmother. Avalon was raised in a strict Catholic household, so the idea that a godmother wouldn’t love her or care for her made her obsessively guilty over the idea that God himself couldn’t love her, too. She frequently attended mass and confessions, often inventing ‘sins’ so she could be forgiven. Her Confirmation name is Valentine, after St. Valentine, making her full name Avalon Rachel Valentine Rue. :)

Since her aunt refused to let her go to therapy, she developed a pretty bad drinking habit in her early teens, and after a few years of bad* behavior and run ins withe the law was shipped off to boarding school for a few years. She ran away when she was 18, hitched a ride back to Missoula, and sort of bummed around until she was 21. On her way to work one day (at a florist) she meets someone handing out fliers for Eden’s Gate, and she becomes instantly fixed on its promises and potential. She heads back to Hope County with them (effectively losing her job in the process), and is really hopeful that they might give her the absolution and love she deserves, that they’ll make her pure and whole again.

Faith saw her first, saw how lost and needy she was, and once she learns Avalon’s name, it was obsessive!love at first sight. Faith was looking for her own pet, looking to do to someone what she knew Joseph was doing to her–but joke’s on Faith, once she learns all about Avalon’s past, she kinda has a sort of… moral event horizon, I guess? Or a reversal of that, and instead projects all the healing and nurturing and smothering protectiveness that she craved onto Avalon.

Once she’s fully integrated into Eden’s Gate, Faith keeps Avalon safely in or pretty close to her bunker. She eventually gets rechristened by the Father as “Joy,” and is somewhat disparagingly referred to in the county as the Siren’s Song, because of how often Faith boasts about how she saved her, all the good she did for Avalon, how grateful and happy Avalon is now, etc. Faith never really shuts up about her or the Father. You know how protective and possessive Faith was over the Marshal and the Sheriff? That’s how she is about Avalon, only dialed up to eleven, because she’s trying to save her own self through her.

Also Faith tops lmao and Avalon is very much a pillow princess.

[kiramessa]

my dep you tees’ zodiac signs//birthdays//best and worst traits associated with em:

johanna engel ♋ cancer, june 24th.

compassionate

intuitive

moody

dramatic

maria astrální ♎ libra, october 16th.

patient

focused

detached

inflexible

rosmarin rook ♍ virgo, september 23rd.

hard working

practical

overly critical

stoic

avalon rue ♊ gemini, may 30th.

charming

adventurous

manipulative

restless

[kiramessa]

far cry 5 ✞ junior deputies

[kiramessa]

Some rambles about my Deputy, Avalon Rue, and her relationship with Faith.

Unlike my other Deputies and their respective Seed partners (Johanna and Joseph, Maria and John, Rosmarin and Jacob), Avalon and Faith connect to each other from a darker, slightly malicious place. They’ve both been through similar abuse and situations--they’ve both struggled with addiction (Faith with drugs, Avalon with drinking), they’ve both been suicidal, and where Faith was pulled out of it by the cult, Avalon was pulled out of it by what she calls her “vision.”

One day when she was sixteen and blackout, run around, crazy drunk, wreaking havoc in Helena, she ended up outside the St. Helena Cathedral and saw a vision of a woman in white, holding out her arms for Avalon. The woman was smiling but weeping thick, green tears, like sap or honey, and she said, “Our family loves you. Don’t let us down.”

The vision terrified and inspired Avalon (whose real family never gave much of a damn about her, and who lived with a very rich, very distant aunt) so much that she never drank again. She managed to pull her act together to not only graduate high school (something no one ever expected her to do), but she also pulled through college while pursuing a criminal justice degree. She decided to stick close to home and work in Montana, not wanting to stray too far from both the cathedral and the hope that she would find whatever “family” this woman was talking about.

She’s the first of the Deputies to defect to the cult after they all get separated and divided up between the Heralds, even if she doesn’t go over right away. Avalon took one look at Faith in the church, knew that she was the woman she saw in the vision--the vision that got her to stop drinking, to stop destroying herself--and she made a promise to do what she could to keep that woman in her life. It takes Faith a little while to genuinely believe that Avalon wants to convert, because she didn’t expect her to be so receptive and willing to listen and embrace what Faith told her. (Only Joseph isn’t surprised by this, and he’s quietly, privately relieved that it was this easy. His Faith should be happy, though he can’t easily think of who might be worthy of her.)

Avalon is an aggregate of the worst of me, but diluted and watered down. She’s self-destructive, but working against it. She likes to play games with people, but she knows that she shouldn’t do this with people she loves and cares about (though that doesn’t often stop her). She freezes people out or warms up to them within the same second, because she’s both eager for affection and terrified of vulnerability. And through it all her guilt motivates her to fight against this--but if she didn’t feel guilty, then she wouldn’t try to be a better person, and she only feels guilty when she fails to be a better person.

Faith finally believes that Avalon is committed to the cause when she returns the Marshal to Faith and the peggies. They’re both taken to Faith’s bunker (which I’m pretty sure is where all of the Deputy’s Bliss hallucinations take place, and they’re simply led away and left in a field of flowers once it’s done), and Avalon is kept in “observed isolation” to (1) see how she reacts when the Bliss wears off, and (2) how genuine she is. Once she sees that Avalon is resistant, and that she’s loyal and patient--faithful--Faith lets her out and embraces her as a sister, though she lingers a little in the hug, touching Avalon’s hair, stroking her face.

Once Avalon makes it through the Cleansing, the Atonement (her sin is GLUTTONY, and John is very careful in how he cuts it out of her), she’s sent back to Faith, who nurses her back to health in such a way that makes it abundantly clear that Avalon is now fully in Faith’s power. This is when Avalon tells Faith about the vision she saw, and for the first time in a long, long while, Faith wonders if there really is beauty in the world that exists without her demanding it to be there.

Together they’re a little destructive. Faith knows that Avalon needs her on some level, and Avalon knows that Faith needs to be in control, so it’s a cat-and-mouse game that they play. Avalon lets Faith pull the strings and Faith is well aware that Avalon can detach herself and disappear within a moment’s notice. Faith gets a little less manipulative when Avalon proves immune to OD’ing and withdrawal effects of the Bliss, and she wonders if she can start seeing Avalon as an equal, or perhaps someone she can trust to run things alongside her (her position of power in the cult was hard won and she knows it, even as she knows that she’s earned that place and is loved for it).

They take care of the Marshal as a sort of pet (he becomes a sort of child figure for them, even if he’s old enough to be their dad), and they live quite happily in Faith’s bunker with their Angels and their guards, living in a combination of childish innocence and clever, careful calculation as they figure out how best whittle away at the Resistance, where to strike and how. They try convince John to let them take in the Ryes, because Avalon doesn’t trust the people in John’s bunker to properly care for a newborn (nor does she trust John to restrain himself around Nick). She and Faith make up a whole room for baby Rye and Kim to live comfortably, but the plan falls through and eventually they just let the Marshal live in that room. He’s basically their child, anyway.

Avalon often radios the other Deputies to let them know how she is, and she doesn’t ask for their forgiveness. She’s also all too happy to try to coax them into calling a truce with their respective heralds, and when she finds out about Maria and John (that Maria converted and that she and John are basically married), she’s ecstatic. She’s happy to take responsibility for that in some weirdly distant way, and she sends little words of encouragement and reassurance to Jacob and Joseph that their own Deputies will eventually understand and give in.

Jacob doesn’t really say anything--it’s easier to let Avalon talk than it is to get her to stop (and, in fact, one of the first things he and Rosmarin bond over is just how much Avalon talks [and how annoying it is])--but Joseph uses this as an opportunity to learn as much as he can about Avalon and her comrades. His interest in Johanna is obvious in the way he doesn’t ask to know about her, and Avalon is all too happy to tell him what she knows anyway--like how to pronounce her name.

When the Collapse comes, and she learns that not only did her comrades survive but that they’re all safe with other members of the family, Avalon bursts into tears for the first time in years. The vision finally came true--she has a family, and they love her.

[kiramessa]

just some headcanon rambles for me and my deputy daughters (and their respective seed lovers), in the AU where they all survive and are living in bunkers.

before the collapse, when things are getting too heavy, johanna will find a quiet spot in the woods to sit and listen to the cult’s music, if it’s a clear night, she’ll stare up at the sky. if rosmarin is with her, she’ll bum a cigarette and they’ll just talk now and then, pointing out constellations, telling little stories about their lives before hope county. these are the rare times when johanna really laughs and smiles. she cherishes these moments, and later, in the bunker, she’ll shut her eyes and try to relive every second of it before she recounts all these stolen, softer moments to joseph, who listens intently, and promises to give her equally tender memories.

ros doesn’t think much of the cult’s music--she prefers silence--but she knows johanna finds solace in it and it’s not her business to tell jo how to be. ros never had any siblings, but she figures if she did, she’d want a sister like johanna: smart, strong, kind. she doesn’t know how to express it though, so the best she can do is offer johanna her time, a few cigs, and a hug now and then. all that stops when ros gets too wrapped up with jacob. sometimes ros misses those late night talks, but she knows that if she wants to, she can just radio jo in her bunker and check in. jacob encourages her to do this, because he sees how cooped up in her head she can get. and he likes seeing ros smile.

maria not only prefers silence, she prefers being alone. she’ll radio in to check on johanna, ros, and avalon, but other than that she keeps her distance. she mostly moves at twilight and in the nighttime. during the day, she finds a tower or a highly elevated place and tries her best to sleep. she leaves little bunches of flowers in safe spots, so if johanna, ros, or avalon come across it,they’ll know she was there. when it comes time to square off with john, however, the walls around her heart breaks. she calls the others, tells them what happened, tells them about her choice to confess and convert, and asks them to forgive her. they promise to a woman to do that--maria doesn’t even have to ask for such a thing--and they wish her well. john doesn’t make it a secret that he prefers to have maria’s attention on him--and he gives back just as much as he gets. they exchanged pocket knives instead of vows or rings, but they know they’re as good as married.

avalon can’t stand to be alone. she can’t take the quiet either, so she’s always traveling with a gun for hire, always has the music playing, always making a bit of a fuss. she’s always singing to herself, or humming. it makes her utterly abysmal when it comes to stealth--which she doesn’t know the first thing about, anyway. she likes noise, loud things--shotguns, rocket launchers. she keeps tabs on the other deputies daily, checking in to see how they are. they humor her--she’s the baby of the team, the youngest, the real rookie--and they know she means well. but the deeper involved avalon gets with faith, the more grounded, considerate, and quiet she becomes. she really listens to what faith says, and starts to wonder if there’s a lesson she can take from that, too. she learns to make peace with silence and with isolation. towards the end, avalon shuts herself up in faith’s bunker and doesn’t come out, and she’s happier for it.

[kiramessa]

stella-roth replied to your post “avalon 4 and 7 please?”

ohhh i didn't know some of your fc5 ocs knew each other and that's a really interesting detail in general like goddamn. i'm wondering why ros hasn't told her tho? and i love the dynamic between her and faith, it just seems so believable. i was always curious how much avalon contributed or didn't contribute to the cult when you first told me about her. (i might've missed some posts where you had explained it)

Ros and Avalon are the only two who are initially familiar with each other. They learn about Maria after they move to Hope County (separately), and of course they all eventually learn about Johanna once they’re all in the bunkers at the end.

Ros didn’t tell Avalon about it because it’s terrifyingly clear that Avalon admires and idolizes Ros to a disturbing degree. The last thing Ros wants is for Avalon to go down a dark path (though of course she has no idea that Avalon struggles with addiction and is already in her own darkness).

I picture Ros as the detective who cracked the case against Avalon’s father for what he was doing to his daughter (I’m considering making her Avalon’s case worker instead--I think that might fit better?). Avalon sees Ros as her savior and an angel, a pedestal that Ros really doesn’t want to be on. After Ros kills Avalon’s father, she feels even more uncomfortable and guilty with the heroine-worship and kind of panics and cuts off all contact, thinking that it’ll be better for Avvy in the long run.

It isn’t.

Naturally, John finds out about what Ros did because of course he does. It’s part of why he falls head over heels for her: she freed Avalon the same way he got free of the Duncans. They’re killers, keepers of a dark, bloody secret.

And no worries! I never really talked about anyone besides Johanna before, and Avalon didn’t really get more clear/vivid to me until recently. I like to imagine that Faith just kinda tells her to go around adding flowers to the Path, or assisting the priestesses however they need. She probably is in charge of getting supplies for the cult’s barbecues, too. Av’s happy to serve because she wants to be useful, and Faith likes having someone eat out of the palm of her hand (so to speak), the way Joseph thinks he’s doing to her.