#constantine westergaard

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Maddy, Clay, and the Gastons tried kidnapping Ivy once to get back at her for helping Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon.

No matter how poorly you think this went for them, it went infinitely worse. It was a horror movie in their base for three hours and now they refuse to go within one mile of Ivy's house.

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The Isle kids all get weird service dogs. Lydia gets a Caucasian shepherd. Ace gets a rottweiler. Riah has a Tibetan mastiff. Nikita gets an Irish wolfhound. Rose gets a doberman. Kira gets a chihuahua. Constantine gets a weimaraner. Mischa gets an Australian cattle dog.

Ben is ready to rip gis hair out. Would it kill the Isle kids to be normal for once in their lives?

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Mischa, Ace, Jay, Constantine, Lydia, and Diego just have an unspoken solidarity. They never even verbally agreed to it, it just happened the second they learned about the others' pasts. They're kind of like siblings and if you hurt one of them, they will be hell unleashed

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The fact that the word problem was used is an Oh No

So remember, like, a year ago when I told you about the hardest scene to write? Yeah, Lydia was forced out of her gag order and proceeded to spill so much tea she had a mental breakdown on international television.

Which also sent Constantine into a major panic attack, seeing as Lydia was the strongest of them and she was freaking out, and also sent Zevon spiralling and retreating into its mind. All three had to be hospitalized and Lydia was in the hospital for nearly a year.

Yeah, the severing of those soul deals... it did not go well

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hii!! i absolutely love the evie and riah snippet!!

but could i request some hcs or just like info dump on maddy and like the dynamic of her little group? because i know the gastons and clay were raised in the frollo cult, how are they ok with being associated with a magic user/ magic born? and does maddy regularly communicate with the cult or is she completely separate? and how do constantine, lydia, and zevon interact with any others in maddy’s circle?

sorry for the long ask!

Thank you! And never apologize for sending a long ask, I love giving long answers.

So, there are three "circles" around the epicentre, the leader, Maddy. The innermost circle is Clay and the Gastons, they're the ones Maddy knows won't actively sabotage her any chance they get. The second circle is Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon, whom Maddy knows she can control but also knows that they hate her and will take any chance they get to undermine her. Then there's the outermost circle, who you guys haven't heard about yet- Marionette (daughter of Stromboli, 19, Demons deserter) and Luna (son of McLeach, 18, Jungles deserter.) These two are out of Maddy's control, they're under Maleficent's control using some experimental magick. While there's no chance of them turning against Maleficent, as they can't even breathe against orders and they have absolutely no free will, they aren't under Maddy's control and she doesn't like that. Those two are so uninvolved with the gang that pretty much everyone thinks they died during the war. Marionette's sister, Doll (she goes by Andromeda and if you call her Doll or Dolly she will kill you in very gruesome ways) is about to be kind of important. Marionette, Luna, and Andromeda are all very powerful, and Maleficent doesn't like that one of the set has gone AWOL. There are also occasionally part-time members who just join because they want to go about inter-gang conflict in a way the heads of their gangs won't like, but they aren't very important.

The groups are definitely very separate from one another. The Gastons and Clay are pretty comfortable around Maddy (at least they are now, they very much weren't originally, but more on that in a second,) and love making Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon miserable. Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon actively despise Maddy, Clay, and the Gastons and try to avoid them. Both groups try to avoid Marionette and Luna because those two kind of freak the rest of them out. It's almost like there are gangs within the gang- one made of Maddy, the Gastons, and Clay, one made of Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon, and one made of Luna and Marionette- and those gangs only get along when they're forced to.

Originally, Clay and the Gastons never would have associated with a magick-user like Maddy. But she tricked them, as she wanted eyes in the cult per her grandmother's request. She asked for their names and, because they'd never been given that kind of anti-magick training, she got their souls (she doesn't need to give them a condition. Her grandmother does it to lull people into a false sense of security and Maverick does it of her own free will so that she can't override someone's free will, but Maddy doesn't do it.) They were originally very pissed about this but, after a while, they realized that Maddy was giving them a lot of freedom and immunity to just be The Worst. They were immortal, they couldn't be killed in self-defence or killed seeking Isle justice for someone else, and they liked that.

Maddy is not big with the cult. Clay and the Gastons are her eyes in the cult and she keeps her distance because she hates the cult and the cult hates her. She'll never tell Clay and the Gastons this, but she's secretly hoping her grandmother will give the order to bring the cult down. They think she just means to keep an eye on the cult to protect herself, but no. She wants to destroy the cult and Lydia absolutely despises that the two of them agree on something.

Lydia, Constantine, and Zevon don't like to interact with the rest of the gang. Because Constantine can barely talk and Zevon is... Zevon, Lydia is usually the only one who interacts with the rest, and they go out of their way to make her life suck. Remember The Window Incident? Well, that's far from the first time she'd considered doing it and it's far from the first or last time she's taken extreme measures to get away from the Gastons and Clay. All of her interaction with them are just them doing stuff to trigger her and her either barely restraining herself from murdering them, her trying to murder them, or her jumping out a window or through a wall to escape the situation. It never goes well. Lydia and Zevon hate the Gastons, Clay, and Maddy. Constantine is afraid of them but also hates them for what they do to Lydia (Zevon does not feel pain and is extremely hard to punish.)

So yeah, interactions between the inner and middle circle do not go well.

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Ok so according to the pronoun guide Maxine is the only one with tey/tem pronouns and in the chapter “Camilo” is referred to as tem so “Camilo” is Maxine and Maxine can free people who sold their souls. Could tey free Lydia and the others held in soul slavery or does it only work when its mim?

Also who is Maxine other then a decendent of mim?

Tey could, but it's dangerous. Lydia still has no idea if her deal is the only thing keeping her alive, so Maverick would need to be right there and would need to do an exchange fast. She's more than ready to do that the second Lydia wants that, but then there's the matter of her receiving the same knowledge Madam Mim gave her, and Maverick has no idea how to recreate that without reading an reenacting something from The Book, which would make The Book appear in The Book which, in layman's terms, is bad and could have beyond cosmic consequences. Maverick would have to guess on how to do it to keep The Book from appearing in The Book, and that could go wrong and lead to Lydia not being able to save lives that she would have been able to save otherwise. Maxine would also need to free Constantine and Zevon, but those two seconds between the severing of their deals and the creation of deals with Maverick- because their deals are something they need- could kill Yzla or allow Constantine's mother to kill someone extremely powerful. That requires a lot of planning and Maverick is capable of it, but Constantine and Zevon also don't know her like Lydia does and wouldn't trust her with that unless they had no other choice. And Lydia isn't going to abandon them.

Beyond that, Lydia is also one of the most important people in Maverick's network because of where she is. Maddy and Madam Mim will talk about their plans in front of her freely, thinking she won't rat them out. Why would they fear her? They've owned her soul since she was five and have ordered her to say nothing to Maverick. Lydia found a loophole, that's how she operates as Mirabel. It's not that Maverick doesn't want to give that up- she would rather her people be safe and off the Isle, damn the consequences it has for her- it's that Lydia doesn't want to stop. She knows that her losing her position in the gang would lead to people losing their lives due to the loss of the information she provides. She keeps Maverick from needing to get involved directly (and thus pissing off Destiny of the Endless.)

Lydia won't go for it, so Maxine won't do it. Everything would get worse.

As for Maxine, tey're actually one of the least traumatized Mim kids. Tey used their power to destroy their soul deal the second tey found out what it entailed and ran away- doing something that major at a mere four years old left tem in a coma that Cassandra and Maverick did manage to bring tem out of, but it did still leave tem in a coma for a month. Maverick was more careful than usual when training tem, but teir power grew fast. Two years ago, tey were confident enough in teir abilities to start freeing other Mim descendants regularly (there were also a few, like Malcolm, who they freed as practice due to unique circumstances that made the soul deal weaker.) Of course, as Mim still thinks tey're dead, tey have to be careful. Mim still thinks Maverick is the one doing it.

Tey're extremely quiet, to the point where most people who have seem tem have never heard tem make a sound. Tey love making bracelets, the kind made by braiding different colours of string together. Tey also have a puppy, an Irish Wolfhound named Aodh after a Celtic god of fire, who tey love very much. Tey have bring pink hair that's always in a short cloud because tey have Uncomfortable Hair syndrome, and candy apple red eyes. Tey love following Maverick around like a tiny shadow that enjoys sticking forks in electric sockets.

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List of people who do not get paid enough for this

Harriet Hook for keeping the kids on the Isle alive while King Beast is trying to exterminate them and the adults will wage a war against them for breathing.

Uma Facilier for doing the same.

Ginny Gothel for being a one-person ambulance in the middle of active warzones ever since she was four, and for saving people with rusty knives and reused bandages.

Sammy Smee for being the one person in the friend group with a braincell.

Mara Mim for containing The Sanatarium and fighting off all the idiots who want to let the monsters out.

Maverick Mim for protecting the magic users.

Lydia Snoops for selling her soul to be the only OB/GYN and midwife on the Isle when she was five.

Constantine for selling his soul to get Madam Mim to take away Nerissa's magic.

Belle and Anna for just existing.

Diego de Vil for trying to keep his sisters and cousins alive.

Every Rasputin child deserves financial compensation for being alive.

Justice Olympian for having to come help the Losties every three years because Maleficent got her knickers in a twist.

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Ben, to Maddy; You... you... you rude person! Lydia, rolling her eyes; Yeesh, go easy on her, Benny Boy. Constantine, also very sarcastically; That was brutal even for me.