#rosmaring gray

[kiramessa]

my dep you tees’ zodiac signs//birthdays//best and worst traits associated with em:

johanna engel ♋ cancer, june 24th.

compassionate

intuitive

moody

dramatic

maria astrální ♎ libra, october 16th.

patient

focused

detached

inflexible

rosmarin rook ♍ virgo, september 23rd.

hard working

practical

overly critical

stoic

avalon rue ♊ gemini, may 30th.

charming

adventurous

manipulative

restless

[kiramessa]

far cry 5 ✞ junior deputies

[kiramessa]

just some headcanon rambles for me and my deputy daughters (and their respective seed lovers), in the AU where they all survive and are living in bunkers.

before the collapse, when things are getting too heavy, johanna will find a quiet spot in the woods to sit and listen to the cult’s music, if it’s a clear night, she’ll stare up at the sky. if rosmarin is with her, she’ll bum a cigarette and they’ll just talk now and then, pointing out constellations, telling little stories about their lives before hope county. these are the rare times when johanna really laughs and smiles. she cherishes these moments, and later, in the bunker, she’ll shut her eyes and try to relive every second of it before she recounts all these stolen, softer moments to joseph, who listens intently, and promises to give her equally tender memories.

ros doesn’t think much of the cult’s music--she prefers silence--but she knows johanna finds solace in it and it’s not her business to tell jo how to be. ros never had any siblings, but she figures if she did, she’d want a sister like johanna: smart, strong, kind. she doesn’t know how to express it though, so the best she can do is offer johanna her time, a few cigs, and a hug now and then. all that stops when ros gets too wrapped up with jacob. sometimes ros misses those late night talks, but she knows that if she wants to, she can just radio jo in her bunker and check in. jacob encourages her to do this, because he sees how cooped up in her head she can get. and he likes seeing ros smile.

maria not only prefers silence, she prefers being alone. she’ll radio in to check on johanna, ros, and avalon, but other than that she keeps her distance. she mostly moves at twilight and in the nighttime. during the day, she finds a tower or a highly elevated place and tries her best to sleep. she leaves little bunches of flowers in safe spots, so if johanna, ros, or avalon come across it,they’ll know she was there. when it comes time to square off with john, however, the walls around her heart breaks. she calls the others, tells them what happened, tells them about her choice to confess and convert, and asks them to forgive her. they promise to a woman to do that--maria doesn’t even have to ask for such a thing--and they wish her well. john doesn’t make it a secret that he prefers to have maria’s attention on him--and he gives back just as much as he gets. they exchanged pocket knives instead of vows or rings, but they know they’re as good as married.

avalon can’t stand to be alone. she can’t take the quiet either, so she’s always traveling with a gun for hire, always has the music playing, always making a bit of a fuss. she’s always singing to herself, or humming. it makes her utterly abysmal when it comes to stealth--which she doesn’t know the first thing about, anyway. she likes noise, loud things--shotguns, rocket launchers. she keeps tabs on the other deputies daily, checking in to see how they are. they humor her--she’s the baby of the team, the youngest, the real rookie--and they know she means well. but the deeper involved avalon gets with faith, the more grounded, considerate, and quiet she becomes. she really listens to what faith says, and starts to wonder if there’s a lesson she can take from that, too. she learns to make peace with silence and with isolation. towards the end, avalon shuts herself up in faith’s bunker and doesn’t come out, and she’s happier for it.

[kiramessa]

stella-roth replied to your post “avalon 4 and 7 please?”

ohhh i didn't know some of your fc5 ocs knew each other and that's a really interesting detail in general like goddamn. i'm wondering why ros hasn't told her tho? and i love the dynamic between her and faith, it just seems so believable. i was always curious how much avalon contributed or didn't contribute to the cult when you first told me about her. (i might've missed some posts where you had explained it)

Ros and Avalon are the only two who are initially familiar with each other. They learn about Maria after they move to Hope County (separately), and of course they all eventually learn about Johanna once they’re all in the bunkers at the end.

Ros didn’t tell Avalon about it because it’s terrifyingly clear that Avalon admires and idolizes Ros to a disturbing degree. The last thing Ros wants is for Avalon to go down a dark path (though of course she has no idea that Avalon struggles with addiction and is already in her own darkness).

I picture Ros as the detective who cracked the case against Avalon’s father for what he was doing to his daughter (I’m considering making her Avalon’s case worker instead--I think that might fit better?). Avalon sees Ros as her savior and an angel, a pedestal that Ros really doesn’t want to be on. After Ros kills Avalon’s father, she feels even more uncomfortable and guilty with the heroine-worship and kind of panics and cuts off all contact, thinking that it’ll be better for Avvy in the long run.

It isn’t.

Naturally, John finds out about what Ros did because of course he does. It’s part of why he falls head over heels for her: she freed Avalon the same way he got free of the Duncans. They’re killers, keepers of a dark, bloody secret.

And no worries! I never really talked about anyone besides Johanna before, and Avalon didn’t really get more clear/vivid to me until recently. I like to imagine that Faith just kinda tells her to go around adding flowers to the Path, or assisting the priestesses however they need. She probably is in charge of getting supplies for the cult’s barbecues, too. Av’s happy to serve because she wants to be useful, and Faith likes having someone eat out of the palm of her hand (so to speak), the way Joseph thinks he’s doing to her.

[kiramessa]

junior deputy x rosmarin rook