Normally, my own mother had never celebrated this day. But this one hit me differently. With a child almost a year old and knowing that his own mother knew best… I was moved, almost to tears!
Happy Mother's Day! Lavender is so moved by this year's Mother's Day, because she knows that even if it doesn't seem like much, Sage loves her and appreciates her motherly ways!
Lavender, the Junk Heap's Inventor(or Inventress) Extraordinaire is already one of my more well-established characters in this story, so why not drop a bit of info about her here? More infodumps to come in the (very)near future!
Precautionary note: One of her infodumps is a bit on the PG side!
1: Regardless of not mentioning her family much during conversation, Lavender is NOT an only child. In fact, she and her brother(named Smokey-Gray)are TWINS, one of a fair number of opposite-gender twins. However, differentiating them is very simple, because Smokey-Gray does not have light skin or freckles like his sister. They have the same colored eyes, are the same height/weight and are both the same size(which for Smokey, is on the smaller side for males, Lavender would be average-sized for females). Instead of working in a scientific environment, Smokey-Gray is the director of an on-site recording crew(mostly freelance work, since he's a director-for-hire).
2: Like she puts all her heart into her inventions, she puts all her heart into something else that makes her happy; art. She is from a planet called Theta Sapphira IV, a Melnorme homeworld that happens to be where a lot of the artistic minded ones come from. When she's not working or inventing something, Lavender may be drawing something. A blueprint for an invention, a sketch of something she's thinking about, or even a detailed painting she pours her very soul into, she's quite talented.
3: As much as she enjoys her line of work, she didn't apply for the Junk Heap herself. She was actually sent out by the Melnorme Trading Complex(specifically by Trade Master Greenish), because they felt that in order for it to achieve its success even quicker, it needed one of their finest machinists to operate within the company's main ship, and Lavender was just the one. Of course, she was told about it, and since she did not wish to become a Trade Master, working within the Junk Heap was just perfect. She quickly adapted to her workline, since it's something she's familiar with.
4: Lavender already has highly alluring characteristics to her, but what makes that chart go up even higher are her enlarged teats. She always wondered why something that's usually small and easily concealed got so big that none of her suits can hide them, but to her surprise, Rusty knew why and told her. What caused that characteristic was an over-excitement of hormones when she became an adult. This hormonal over-excitement progressed until it finally reached a stopping point when she was aged 28. And this made her extra-alluring, especially for other males, who she always turns away.
5: And speaking of being highly alluring, it's no surprise that other males have approached her to try and win her over. At one point during her late-teen years, she did get together with one male(she forgets his name), who was genuine, kind and just as skilled as she was! But just as quickly as they got together, he left without a trace. Other males don't interest her nearly as much, and some are too pushy for her liking. There is a rule in Melnorme dating that if a male gets too pushy with wanting to win a female's affections, the female is free to slap or kick him. And sadly, a fair number of overly-pushy would-be mates have been kicked in the 'nads for pushing her limits. Besides, there's someone else on her mind that she does like, but she won't say it.
6: As much as she has said she has no desire to have children, motherhood is a part of Lavender's fate. A Pkunk fortune-teller predicted this when she paid a small fee for their reading, and a young Arilou spiritual speaker also predicted this when she asked. If multiple sources told her she was going to bear a child, then she believed it to be a part of her fate. And in that not-too-distant future, Lavender ended up having that baby, a son. In this blog's story arc, her son is still a baby, and he will be mentioned sometimes if you ask the right questions to Lavender! But who is the baby's father, that Lavender has sworn not to tell anyone, not even her closest friends.
