You once wrote that Laura had a meaningful emotional relationship with a woman. After turning, Laura seduced nuns. There was also art of Laura crying over a nun, whom she most likely killed. This nun was described as toxic, if I'm not mistaken, in one of the posts. Oh my god, I beg you, tell me what happened!
P.S. Will there be posts where Laura answers questions herself? Or something like that? Can we ask questions to her, not about her?
YES, IT IS ABOUT TIME I SPEAK OF HER. Also, the nun wasn't toxic, Laura was lol. This story will be a feast of Laura's intimacy issues.
And I absolutely can reply to asks as Laura; it could be helpful if anyone wishes to write about her, to pin down how she speaks and thinks. I'll create a new tag about it: #Laura speaks.
Anyhoo!
Meet Augustine.
Augustine was a baker's daughter Laura met in 1861 near Loire-Atlantique. She was a spunky young woman of 25 years of age that had met Laura when she was scoping out a city from the forest. She had a very determined, well-intentioned and slightly eccentric personality, and didn't really take shit from anyone which often led to her being reckless. She lived with her parents where she helped out around the bakery, and had an older brother named Eugène who had left to try and pursue an education. Despite being working class, they were rather well-off thanks to their work. She secretly wished she could pursue an education like her brother, but they didn't have enough money to send her away, and it would be difficult for her as a lower class woman to be accepted anywhere.
(Her design is also rather similar to Laura's mother; that is a coincidence, and she was designed before Anne. I just think that the blonde hair and brown eyes combo is neat.)
Please prepare for an absolute FANFIC of a post because I've thought of their relationship so much. ⬇️
(TWs for internalized lesbophobia, homophobia and religious abuse.)
Augustine spotted Laura in the tree line when she was out on a walk. Seeing that Laura was naked and had started to panic and tried to help her, thinking she had gotten robbed or assaulted. Laura was extremely surprised by Augustine giving her her outer shirt and skirts, to the point she couldn't find anything to say and was too surprised to react when she was rushed into Augustine's parents' bakery for help. Laura realized her predicament then, and smelled that the baker had a rifle somewhere in the building, so she was in a bit of a pickle. She knew by now that she had to lay low, and just killing those guys in the middle of town was a BAD idea. She tried to explain that she was fine and struggled to find excuses for her aforementioned nudity, but managed to assure Augustine and her parents that she was unharmed and there was no need to call in anyone else; she was just a traveler whose clothes got stolen when she was bathing in a river, and she was trying to get new ones in town. Despite it, Augustine insisted on giving Laura shelter for the night as well as access to food, a bath and proper clothes and shoes, and wouldn't take no for answer. Follows a very awkward Laura trying to come up with a fake life to explain her situation and presence to a normal family for a whole evening, and just settles on telling them it's none of their business.
In the night, Laura snuck out of the house, intending to leave for another town because that whole situation had rattled her. Augustine heard her leave however, and followed her into the forest. There, Laura almost attacked her but couldn't find it in her to kill Augustine outright. Augustine, however, saw that Laura clearly wasn't human — and instead of screaming and trying to run away, she was fascinated (scared, but fascinated), which threw Laura off even more. Augustine tried to uncover more about Laura because what the fuck, a werewolf. Laura was extremely perplexed by the whole situation, and it clearly wasn't her evening, so she followed the little voice inside her head and ran off into the forest. She was extremely emotionally disturbed by the affair, and didn't get any sleep that night.
The next morning however, Laura returned to where they had met, if only out of sheer curiosity (or at least that's the excuse she came up with), and was surprised to find Augustine there too. What followed was another awkward meeting, where Laura was hounded with questions by a very interested and enthusiastic Augustine. It was very, very strange for Laura to have anyone else make the first move and not show any fear even when Laura tried to intimidate her with her teeth and claws and told her she could eat her in an instant. Augustine tried to coax Laura out of the woods again, but she refused, and left again. In the following days Augustine tried to meet up with Laura again, but couldn't find her; eventually they found each other again, with Laura telling her she was an idiot for being so stubborn, and Augustine pointing out Laura came back on her own. They started to hang out from time to time after that, though their meetings were often short.
Their relationship started to grow in the following months, where their rendezvous grew longer, to the point Augustine would come and stay with Laura in the woods before going home. Laura was a cold person even then, but let Augustine stay around her, saying it was her own fault if she got hurt. She tried to push Augustine away, even threatening her or saying hurtful things in hopes that Augustine would lose interest and turn on her, which would give Laura a mental reason to just kill her (Laura also hadn't eaten anyone but the local cattle since she arrived in that town, and didn't really know why). However Augustine fought back, reprimanding Laura while refusing to give up on her, which made Laura even more frustrated about her feelings. She however never hurt Augustine physically, due to her refusal to infect anyone with lycanthropy, and her teeth and claws were basically poisonous; that's also why, alongside her trauma, she's rather touch-adverse. Augustine also didn't want to let Laura go because she recognized how hurt she was, and didn't want her to be alone again.
Laura eventually grew comfortable enough to allow Augustine to touch her, and while she didn't open up about her story, they started to share their feelings a little. They started to get closer, to the point where Laura tried to seduce Augustine, thinking surely this would be the breaking point for her and she'd be disgusted by her; she still saw her own sexuality as sinful, which is why she went for nuns and married women in the first place. Despite her own growing feelings for Augustine where she genuinely started to feel happy around her, she still was distrustful of her and waited for the other shoe to drop, and besides Augustine dying would surely rid her of these confusing emotions that make her so vulnerable. Augustine however was open to it, and wondered if Laura had some seduction powers; she didn't know how to deal with those feelings either, but was adamant on staying by Laura's side. Their relationship was secret anyway, and trying out a bit couldn't hurt.
They were both very inexperienced romantically, and basically behaved like teenagers kissing in the bathroom before running off. Their relationship was surprisingly genuine and innocent, and Laura eventually initiated their intimate relationship as well. They'd meet in secret, either in the woods or after dark in Augustine's family's property or other secretive spots. It had gotten to a point where Laura even transformed in front of Augustine to show her her wolf form; Augustine was both scared and amazed, which made Laura feel even more understood and accepted.
However, one day, Augustine's father caught them after a moment of intimacy in their barn, and had flipped the hell out. He chased Laura out, who escaped into the woods, and Augustine was forcefully outed to her family. Her mother and father agreed to send Augustine to a convent, less out of religious belief and more to pray the gay away/as conversion therapy within a conservative environment. Augustine was of course distraught, but had not much choice in the matter, and so she moved to a convent away from town, becoming a catholic nun.
After this, her and Laura didn't talk for several weeks — mostly because Laura didn't know where Augustine had gone. She had started to wonder if Augustine had gotten sick of her, or that her parents kept her away from her, and briefly pondered to brute-force her way through again, but resolved to spy on the family and see where her lover had gone. After noticing Augustine wasn't living with them (by breaking into the house at night), she started to look for her.
After those several werks, she had managed to find the convent Augustine was at. Sneaking into the nunnery, she managed to find Augustine alone after hours. Their reunion was a bit bittersweet. Augustine was clearly very mentally affected by the situation, and she didn't know if staying around Laura was a good idea because it had gotten her in this much trouble, and her relationship with her parents was never going to be the same; Laura was really relieved on her end, and refused to let her go. Augustine tried to set her foot down though and their relationship grew a bit strained with quite a handful of fights. However, they genuinely loved each other, and so fell back to each other's presence again — Laura because she wanted to keep Augustine, and Augustine because she wanted to get her mind off of this situation. They had started once again their clandestine affairs, hiding after hours and trying to sneak out again; but evidently that was much more difficult in a convent where Augustine had limited freedom.
Eventually, Augustine had a breakdown, distraught by the mess of the situation and everything that had happened, and just wished to disappear and never see the convent again. Laura, disturbed and upset by her lover's sorrow, made a very impulsive choice: suggest to bite Augustine to turn her into a werewolf as well, so they could run away together. Augustine didn't know how to react, too emotionally unstable to properly think it through, and Laura insisted upon it, promising her strength and safety and longevity, not wanting to lose her. Eventually Augustine relented, just wanting to go away.
However, as I've mentioned in my fanlore for werewolves — the survival rates of lycanthropy are... strict, to say the very least.
Laura and her lover escape from the convent one night, and Augustine was bitten on the wrist in the forest. The pain was so unimaginable that Laura had to keep her gagged to not wake anyone from Augustine's screams and cries. Laura herself had to try and prevent herself from having flashbacks to her own turning, carrying an agonized Augustine from forest to forest for days. Being in a rural area that was still rather populated, they had trouble finding a place to stop by and rest. A couple days later, Laura stopped in a wheat field near a village to gather any possible food or supplies. Augustine had stopped crying for a few hours, and they were both exhausted. When Laura laid Augustine down to rest, she realized that she wasn't responsive. She tried not to panic, remembering that she herself had almost died several times during her turning, and tried to tend to Augustine with very little experience. Coming back with the carcass of a farm animal she had stolen in the nearby village, Laura tried to tend to her lover, but found Augustine cold and still.
Laura went into shock, and in her denial tried everything she could to revive Augustine, safe for asking for anyone's help, to no avail. She spent an entire day in denial trying to get her to wake up, from trying to bite her again to making cross effigies with sticks to even trying to hurt her physically in an attempt to cause any kind of physical reaction, to once again no avail.
When night fell, Laura was still there, and with rigor mortis taking hold of Augustine's body, there wasn't much place left for denial. So, in her grief, she decided to make Augustine part of her for one last time, by eating her body, also ensuring that no one else could possibly tamper with her remains. It was the last time, precedented only by when she got shot by her father, that Laura had cried.
so i was giffing the clone troopers that affected order 66 in rots and it absolutely break my heart most of their jedi doesn't suspect anything (exception like yoda because he felt sth) because they trust their back with them and when they noticed something was wrong their first reaction was bewildered and then get shot by their troopers. It was just pure tragedy :(
in this story, both the victims and aggressor were both victims of a bigger player because if the clones had a choice to not shoot, they wouldn't but their mind was violated terribly that even people like Rex, Cody and Bly who we know close with their Jedi still fell for it immediately :(
