✗✗ BOTANICAL HEADCANONS: ACCEPTING @renegadeware asked ❛ chrysanthemum , edelweiss , lavender ❜
CHRYSANTHEMUM: How does your muse express romantic love? How do they feel about love as a concept?
Irene shows her love in a lot of little ways! Mainly through spending quality time with someone she loves. She’s introverted by nature and prefers to be alone, but if she likes someone she’ll go out of her way to spend time with them. The other main way she shows affections is through sharing her art/making things for people. Her art brings her so much joy and sharing it with other people makes her happy, but especially people that she loves. If she likes someone they’re gonna get some kind of art from her and if they like it then they better be prepared to get it constantly.
However, that’s somewhat complicated by her feelings on love on it’s own. In most of her verses she’s never had a relationship. She doesn’t trust people because of the bullying she endured when she was younger to be genuinely interested in her. It was easier to protect herself to assume anyone interested was doing it as a joke and disregard it. Now that she’s older that’s caused her to just not think she’s someone people are interested in, being honestly kind of oblivious towards people who are attracted to or showing interest in her. Even if she did pick up on it, she feels like she’s gone too long without being in a relationship. It’s weird to be in her 20s and not have any experience so its scary to think about suddenly being in one.
Not to mention her many, many hang ups on the idea of long-lasting love due to her father’s infidelity and her parent’s divorce. Even if she were to get into a relationship, it can just fall apart anyway so what’s the point? Love doesn’t last and marriage is a shame, so she’s better off alone.
EDELWEISS: What was the bravest moment in your muse’s life? Are they known to be courageous from then on?
I’d say probably her confrontation with the Death Mask killer in her main verse! I won’t go too much into detail on that here because I know we both like to keep the killer’s identity a surprise, but that was definitely the most brave thing she’s ever done, especially considering she’s always considered herself fairly timid and unable to stand up for herself. I don’t know if she would be considered brave from then on out, she definitely wouldn’t think she is, but it’s a moment that jump starts her confidence in herself and her ability to take charge in situations and not be the kind of person who lets people walk all over them.
LAVENDER: How easy is it to gain your muse’s trust? Once their trust is broken, how might one go about mending it?
Irene being the way she is and her past experiences she’s hesitant to trust people. She needs time to warm up to people, especially ones who are more popular or outgoing. They just remind her of bad experiences she’s had with being bullied.
If the years after her parent’s divorce has shown anything, it’s next to impossible to get her trust after breaking it. She holds onto a grudge like her life depends on it, so if someone hurts her or breaks her trust in some way she will never forget it. To try and maybe repair the relationship that person would have to seriously show that they know what they did and that they want to fix it. If the person who broke her trust is in anyway seems disingenuous or like they’re not going to put the effort fix the relationship, then she’s done.
