Hi! I read your post on divorced tedromeda and I wanted to ask more. In this AU, would they have had Nymphadora? If so, how do you think it would've affected Dora?
yes !! they have dora like irl and because andromeda is pregnant, she stops drinking and it's super hard but she tries yk !! things are really good between them in pregnancy because yeah meda's difficult but now she has this whole plan ahead of her and there isn't a fear of uncertainty/ted leaving her (insecurity -> loneliness/sadness -> drinking -> anger -> throwing hexes turns into insecurity -> loneliness/sadness -> forced to talk about it because her feelings are Too Big -> ted reassuring her -> happy ending!!) so they can be semi-normal, and now andromeda isn't lonely anymore and she's never alone and she has to be better and get help for her daughter and it's just great <33 and dora's born and andromeda adores her daughter and she wants to give her the childhood she herself never had and picks out her name with so much love and she loves these little changes she has . once she has those better in control she puts dora in a muggle school and all the extra classes look so fun and she puts her in all of them !! ted keeps saying it's too much which is bullshit, these things are fun and anyway, she had a way busier schedule even when she was six !!
andromeda's drinking also comes back, she thinks she'll be okay drinking occasionally but when dora's around one meda's so tired and ted can't calm her down and she needs a drink !! and it just becomes more and more frequent...
the first time she wants to throw a plate at dora instead of ted is when dora's four, and she's so so scared she files a divorce and begs ted to take dora where she'll be far away from her mother, but ted loves meda and he can't ever let her go, he can't dream of being away from her. they get a divorce but they're only fifteen minutes away from andromeda, and dora barely knows what's going on because, well, she's four !
i hc dora grew up neglected, actually. not horribly, but her mother was ill and her father needed to take care of his wife before his kid - they loved their daughter but they wanted her to do different things, so instead she had the expectations of both and ended up fulfilling none.
i do think she hated her parents - namely her mother - for a lot of her childhood, but i think as she grew up, when she was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, she started to understand her more yk ? she never fully forgave her for tainting her childhood that much, or for ruining her father, but she understood why she did what she did and how she didn't have a choice, or how it wasn't her fault
when ted died i think was when dora saw andromeda as andromeda and not just her mother, it was when she saw andromeda broke down and be sad not just angry when she saw oh. that's not just my dad that died but the man she loves. loved. she can see why she was always second to his father because she can see how much it hurts seeing andromeda upset, she thinks i'd be second to myself too, to take my mother's pain away. idk. i love andromeda.
