#keith bower

[moonmeg]

Can we see Yvaine with her babies? OnO

"I regret many things in ma life. But not them. Never them. They are ma everything. Every hardship I faced, every fight wi' my former husband... I'd endure it all over again, if I knew that after it all, I'd have the bairns in ma life."

It was Mother's Day in Germany yesterday (on the 11th) and I am super late because I was baking a cake for my mom with my brother that took us way too long but better late than never amiright? 😔✊️

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Now I can imagine how hilarious all the siblings' reaction must have been when Blair started her relationship with Lianna, even when it wasn't romantic yet. Like "girl, how did you go from cursing her to hell and not being able to stop talking shit about her with us to starting calling her babygirl?"

As someone with siblings, I've had it happen more than once that I started to dislike someone one of my siblings didn't like. And I could totally imagine that Edan, at least, was the one who went through something like that with all the Blair and Lianna situation 😂😂

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week 🧡🤍🩷

[moonmeg]

I can't be the only one who thinks of the song gay or European from legally blonde when Micah is in a comic

PEOPLES

I HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE

THIS MAN IS GAY AND EUROPEAN (WOAH!) 🏳️‍🌈‼️🇪🇺‼️

AND NEITHER IS DISGRACE ☝️

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Which Bower child takes the LONGEST in the shower? And whose the one banging on the door for them to hurry the FECK up.?

Keith "just because I live on a farm I don't have to smell like one" Bower

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We know Neil proposed to Breena. But what about the other Bower siblings? Like did Blair propose to Lianna or Lianna to Bair, Ian to Val or Val to Ian and so on? And how did it go for all of them?

Blianna

Blair and Lianna secretly meet behind Lianna's house. They're talking, holding hands and kissing quietly and are broken up when the voice of Lianna's mother Cyrilla draws closer.

Cyrilla: Lianna? Lianna, darli- Good gracious Titan! What are you doing with that Bower brood!

Blair: I have a name.

Cyrilla: I don't care for your name! Get your filthy hands off my daughter! Lianna, what is this? I thought we agreed you wouldn't see her again!

Lianna: No, that's what you agreed on over my head! I love Blair and I wish to be with her.

Cyrilla: Love? What do you know of love!? You cannot love her! Look at you, Lianna, you are a delicate, beautiful flower and this filth - this farm rat! - she-she is not good for you!

Blair: Excuse y-

Lianna: Don't you dare speak of Blair like that! I forbid it!

Cyrilla: You do not get to forbid or permit anything.

Lianna: Yes I do! I will not stand by and let you abuse my fiancée.

Cyrilla: Fiancée?!

Blair: Fiancée??

Cyrilla: You mean to tell me you're engaged to her? Don't be ridiculous.

Lianna: Then watch me be ridiculous. Blair, my love, my life, I know this is not the proposal you deserve and it is very out of the blue but I wanted to ask you this today anyways. Will you marry me?

Blair: A-are ye serious??

Lianna: Dead serious. I may not know everything, and perhaps I also don't know what love really is, but I know that I want to spend my life with you. I will marry you, if you'll have me.

Blair: Of course! Yes! Yes! Yes, I will!

Cyrilla: ENOUGH! I do not approve of my only daughter to marry someone so undeserving of her! I will not let you choose a Bower over your own family!

Lianna: I wouldn't have to choose if you weren't so stubborn and narrow-minded! Blair may not be the ideal match you imagined for me but she brings me something of much more value than riches: Happiness and carefreeness. I don't care what you think of Blair, I care even less about what you think of me and I demand you to stop your abuse towards Blair. Dislike her all you want but you will respect her. Blair and the Bowers are my family. Whether or not you are, is up to you.

Cyrilla: You will not marry her!

Lianna: I do not need your permission. You have the opportunity to be part of our wedding and our life or not. I will marry Blair with or without you. And if we have to elope, then we'll do just that.

Cyrilla: This isn't settled yet, young lady. (Leaves angrily)

Blair: Ye alright?

Lianna: Are you? I'm so sorry for her tone.

Blair: Lia, I just got engaged. I'm the happiest lass alive.

Lianna: Sorry it wasn't very romantic.

Blair: Screw romance, we're engaged!!

(Deep kiss)

Keilo/Mith

Milo: Keke, can you give me feedback on this tune?

Keith: I told ye to not call me "Keke". Only ma siblings call me that. Sounds weird comin' from ye.

Milo: "Keith" is too formal.

Keith: Ye've used pet names on me before. Stick to those.

Milo: Alright, you grump.

(Keith eyes Milo. He hums the tune written on the paper)

Keith: Mo oran (= my song), I dinna mean to sound rude but that doesna sound... pleasing to the ear. It's all over the place. Is this some jest?

Milo: Hm? No, no.

Keith: Am I readin' it upside down or something? (turns paper)

Milo: You're reading it correctly (turns paper back). How about you actually look at more than just the first line.

(Keith stares the paper down only noting that the melody is not very pretty. Until he starts seeing a letter in the notes. He rereads everything, this time only looking at the letters the notes form)

Keith: Milo, what did ye do here??

Milo (smirking): Read.

Keith: W I L L Y O V ... N? A-K?

Milo: Maybe try tracing it with a pen.

Keith: Will... you... marry- Marry???

Milo: You didn't finish the question.

Keith: Will you marry me? Milo!

Milo (taking Keith's hand): Will you?

Keith: Ye're so... dumb! And so adorable! I love ye so much.

Milo: Is that a "yes"?

Keith: Is that even a question?

Milo: You're not being very direct with me, I just-

Keith: It's an "obviously I will"!

Lewisie

Lewis: Maisie, you're the love of my life. I can't-

Maisie: Aw, Lew, ye're mine too.

Lewis: (clears throat) I can't imagine a future without you and I-

Maisie: I canna imagine one wi'out ye either!

Lewis: Maisie, darling, could you... could you let me finish?

Maisie: Oh, sorry. Go on.

Lewis: As I said, you're the love of my life and I can't imagine a future without you. I wish to share my life with you, I hope to grow old with you and to love you forever. You're the most important person in my life. You've taught me so much and I'm grateful for every day I get to spend close to you. I truly feel like the luckiest man alive. And I'd definitely be the happiest if you'd give me the honor and-

Maisie: Will ye marry me?

Lewis: ... You stole my question.

Maisie: Sorry. I got too excited and wasna sure how much longer yer speech would go.

Lewis: I was almost done.

Maisie: I'm so sorry! Ye wanna ask the question? Go on! I'll be quiet.

Lewis: It's not the same now...

Maisie: No! No, no, it's alright. I ken nothing! Ask the question just the way ye planned!

Lewis: Maisie...

Maisie: ASK, YE DUNCE!

Lewis: A-as I was saying before, I feel like the luckiest man alive and... Maisie Bower, will you give me the honor and become my wife?

Maisie: Aye! Yes! I will!

IanVal

Val: Wanna hear a secret?

Ian: What secret?

Val: I did not meet a single goal I ever set for my life.

Ian: Really?

Val: Yep. As a kid I had all these plans, every single year of my adulthood mapped out. When I'd fo what, when I'd be in a relationship with whom and where I will live, what my house will look like, what I myself will look like. I had this idea of a perfect love story. I'd meet "the one" in my early twenties, be in a relationship for 5 years and then I'd be asked to marry them. There'd be this beautiful wedding and we'd live happily ever after. (Scoff) You must think that's so stupid.

Ian: Stupid? For wanting to be loved? For wanting to be chosen? If that makes someone stupid, I'm the greatest fool of them all.

Val: Two fools make one genius, I heard. (nudges Ian)

Ian: (chuckles) Are ye upset about not having lived up to yer own expectations?

Val: I used to. But I learned that life is something you can't and shouldn't plan. Not every aspect at least. And that every door that closes and upsets you at first, opens a new one that is perhaps meant for you more than the previous one. I was so stressed trying to catch a goal that was never fit for me. I was disappointed when I gave my goals up at first, but now... I feel free. I realize I'm happier this way. I'm glad I had those goals but I'm not sad for not having met them. If I had, I probably wouldn't have met you.

Ian: (scoff) And I'm worth it all?

Val: Of course.

Ian: Val, I'm glad we met too and I love ye too but please dinna act like being wi' me now was worth all the disappointments ye lived through.

Val: Act? I haven't acted since my performance days. I'm the most genuine right now. I know you struggle believing you're that important to someone, but my life is so much brighter with you in it, Ian, and if I had to go through everything again, knowing at the end the road will lead to you, I'll choose to go through everything once again in an instant. Without any regrets and any doubts.

Ian: W-why?!

Val: Because you're my "the one".

Ian: Ye canna know that. There's so many people on the Isles and-

Val: I've met many of them. But for no one did my heart ever beat as loudly as for you. For no one did I ever get up way before I usually would, just to see you for more hours of the day. For no one did I ever crave to spend my life with. For no one did I ever feel as strongly as for you. You don't need to know every person in the world to know when someone's special to you. To know there's an undeniable connection between you and them. To know you love them.

Ian: I-

Val: I want to marry you.

Ian: What?!

Val: (panicking) What?! Uh-erm-n-nothing! Nothing! I said- uhm- I said I want to-

Ian: Marry me...

Val: You misheard! I said be merry with you!

Ian: Val.

Val: Sorry. I'm sorry, I-I know that's not- ... I know you said you gave up on weddings and happily ever afters. It slipped my tongue, I-

Ian: Ye mean it?

Val: Do I mean it? Ian, Titan's sake, I've been dreaming of marrying you some day for years! Do you have any idea how lovesick you make me? How much I've shaped my future to have you in it no matter what happens? Do you have the slightest imagination of how much space you take up in my mind and heart? Do you know how obsessed I am with your everything? Did I not make it obvious enough? Yes. Yes, I mean it.

(Ian kisses Val tenderly)

Ian: I do too.

Val: I thought you gave up on that sorta stuff?

Ian: That was before I met ye. Marry me, Val.

Val: I will. With greatest joy, I always will.

[moonmeg]

*sigh* Meggy, why did you have to make the Bower family so addictive for us? One mention of any of them and I can't stop thinking about them and making headcanons.

Now that Keith's been mentioned again, could I ask what his dynamic with Ian was like when they went to school together? (Since they're only three years apart)

I love thinking about that because those two are like polar opposites. Ian being popular, outgoing, a sociable, and a troublemaker were all things that practically made it difficult for Keith to be with his brother.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he didn't like being with Ian, but I can totally imagine that every time they walked down a school hallway, they wouldn't even take three steps and Ian would already be saying hi to a friend or random person, and Keith in those moments (being shy and having trouble interacting with others) just wanted to sink into the ground.

Ian: Keith! Come here and say hi! 😄

Keith: Umm... better not...

Keith internally: NOOOO!! WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME ALL THE TIME??? I WANT TO GO HOMEEEE 😫😫

Yes. 100%

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I'm sorry, but I'm too much into the Ian lore right now (probably like everyone else). How long did Ian exactly carry this pain alone before his siblings found out? How did they find out anyway? Was Ian in a bad relationship (once again) that was so suspicious to them that they just approached him? Or did he start to open up? If yes, who did he first open up to?

He refrained from addressing his issues to his siblings for 10 years (counting from his late teens, not his first time). He was scared they'd shut him out in disgust and shame. Moreover, his siblings had other worries than his love life. Blair and Neil had wives and children, Edan had his kid, Keith and Maisie their dating life - he couldn't burden them with his personal shit in good conscience. He was an adult and he should work his issues out on his own. When the suffering was too much to bear, he decided to change things but knew he couldn't do it on his own. He knew he needed help and if that help was just finally venting to someone about it and crying his heart out on someone's shoulder. So he gathered all his remaining courage and told them about his plight, gradually breaking into tears the more he talked.

"Sorry for bothering ye guys wi' this, I-I just... I dinna exactly have anyone else to talk to about this, and I'd simply ask the favor of ye to listen. Ye dinna have to reply to anything, ye dinna have to comment, I only want ye to listen. I think when I say my love life is a burning pile of shite it's to no one's surprise, but reality is... it's much worse. I laugh and joke about it, but if I'm honest, I am broken because of it. I am a shattered heart and soul and I don't, for the life of me, ken whit to do to piece it together again. I keep getting attached to people. That's probably just how I am... always the naive dumbass of the family. I meet them, I notice they're interested in me and then the first flirty sentences happen and just when I think there's nothing more to it and this person may genuinely like me... suddenly, their hands are in places they shouldna be, touching me, squeezing me, they are breathing down my neck and telling me things I've heard a hundred times before. And instead of fighting it, I give in. I keep giving in. I keep bringing those people to my house, I keep allowing them into my bed, I keep thinking maybe this time it'll be different and I keep waking up alone after every damn time it happens. I keep telling myself it's fine, I'll be alright but I am not! I am not fine! I am always just used. I am never anyone worth more than some one-mibay-two-night's pleasure. Mibay I dinna deserve love the way ye guys found it and in frustration I drown my pain in another person's bed. I'll spare the details but I am so tired of it. I want out of this cycle... I just dinna ken how. Ye guys can hate me or be repulsed or disgusted or whatever, I canna blame ye. I hate, am repulsed and disgusted by myself too and really, no matter whit ye think or say will hurt me much. I'm used to painful words."

He was met with silence and looks ranging from concern to pity and shock.

"Or ye can say nothing at all. Fine too."

Blair carefully uttered his name.

"How long for?"

Ian hesitated.

"Too long."

Neil leaned forward.

"Why didye never tell us?"

"Ye have other worries. Wives and bairns and other stuff."

"Ye're our brother! Ye're just as important!"

He didn't know what to say. He stared at the ground. He shouldn't have told them.

"Sorry." he whispered.

"No, we're sorry." Blair took her brother's hand. "We shoulda been more attentive and less teasing and taunting."

"It isna yer fault." he forced a smile.

"Ian." Edan glared. "Mibay not knowing just whit exactly was going on in yer life and protecting ye from it isna our fault but we made ye feel lonely and uncomfortable enough for ye to not approach us earlier. We're sorry."

Before he could say anything Keith chimed in.

"Ye say ye may not be deserving of love the way all of us do - I mean- majority of us do. Sorry, Ed."

"All good."

"But that's not true! Ye're just as much deserving of finding someone who loves ye for ye and puts in the effort to get to know the Ian behind the cocky, flirty act. Someone who just holds ye wi'out further intentions and not an ounce of selfishness to it. Ye're one of the kindest, caring people I ken and I am so happy to have ye as my brother. Even if just half-brother."

"Me too!" Maisie agreed, smiling. "Ye're deserving of a partner who loves ye wi' all their heart."

Blair wiped his tear.

"We're sorry we made ye feel unloved and that we let ye down. Keith and Maisie are right. Aye, sibling love is not the same but if ye look around the room, there's five people here who love ye and appreciate ye being part of their life. And outside there's... two, three, three, one... nine more people who do so!" she said.

"Eleven. Yer in-laws adore ye too." Neil corrected.

"Eleven!"

"Sixteen in total." Edan smiled.

"And more to come, probably." Maisie commented.

"We'll do better. We'll help ye, Ian. Promised."

He looked around his siblings smiling at him and nodding at Edan's promise. He sobbed as his feelings overwhelmed him.

****

"Hugs aren't a thing in the Boiling Isles!"

My honest reaction:

Bower siblings 1.0 group hug 🧡💛💙❤️🩵🩷 (important for my mental health)

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Now I must ask..What does Keith's Partner (Milo) look like? and whats their relationship Dynamic? OwO

The greens 🫶

Their big connection is music and bard magic. It's their shared passion and a big part of how they got together in the first place.