Dark hair is always dominant. Genotype and phenotype are two different things.
What I was trying to say was that Maxon should have had dark hair unless Amberly’s genotype for hair color was Bb which I doubt from the little we know about her family. So correct, with Maxon and America both having recessive hair colors, Eadlyn should not be a brunette/have black hair, but here we are.
Does that make more sense? I only got a C in college level genetics and changed my major from biology right after that lol
Conversation During Choir Practice Today, Turns Into A Selection Conversation. Soprano Side-
*Everyone (40 or so people) talking about the fastest time they've read a book*
Me: “I’ve read one book in 3 hours!!” (Hint: The One)
*Everyone still talking*
Maddie, the girl who sits next to me: “I read The Selection… in three days.”
*Whips my head over to look at her*
Me: “Maddie, you’ve read The Selection Series?”
She’s doesn’t hear me because she’s trying to explain to Carmen how The Selection works.
Me: “Maddie, what did you think of the ending for The One?”
Maddie: “Uh… What was the ending? I’ve forgotten.”
I think: HOW CAN ANYBODY FORGET THAT ENDING??????????
Me: “Southern rebels… Clarkson and Amberly died….”
Maddie: “Oh yeah! I was happy that Clarkson died. He was such a jerk. He was the one character I hated the most in the series.”
Me: “Heh….. *Remembering The Queen-Queen Abby* Have you read The Queen?”
Maddie: “What’s The Queen?”
*Gasp*
Me: “You haven’t heard of The Queen?”
Maddie: “No, what is it?”
Me: “It’s Amberly’s Selection. It was so weird seeing Clarkson as a 19 year old! But anyway, during this book, you find a character that I hate so much more than Clarkson, and by the way the end of Chapter 6… *Cringes*”
Maddie: “I wish Amberly didn’t die.”
Me: “Do you want to know the original ending?”
She nods.
Me: “Okay. Maxon died-”
Maddie: “NOOO!” *babblers on about how wonderful Maxon is*
Me: “Let me finish. Maxon and Clarkson died, Amberly lived, and then she adopted America because she always wanted a daughter, America chose Aspen, got married, and became king and queen.”
*Slaps my music folder at her reaction and laughs my head off almost silently because we’re in the middle of practice*
I think: Man, this is hilarious!
Maddie: “I would have hated that. Maxon and America were my two people for a relationship goal.”
Me: “Are you excited for The Heir?”
Maddie: “What’s The Heir?”
Me: *Dies* “Oh, Maddie, you have so much to catch up on…”
Maddie: “Are you serious? I thought the series had ended.”
Me: *pulls up iPod to show the cover* “See? It’s coming out in May. Basically, twenty years into the future is when this takes place. Maxon and America have four kids: *count them off on my fingers* Eadlyn and Ahren, who are twins, Kaden, and Osten. Now Eadlyn-”
Maddie: “How do you know all of this???”
Me: “I read.”
Basically, Maddie, who to be honest, I don’t know very well, read the series in the car over Winter Break last year. She said she is so obsessed with the series, but didn’t even know about The Heir, which confused me. I had to explain/prove to her how it wasn’t the end by showing her the Book 4 of The Selection Series part on The Heir’s cover. During practice later when we had a free moment, I got her phone and pulled up Kiera’s website with the announcement and then went to the iBooks store so she could get The Queen and the first two chapters of The Heir later. I honestly didn’t think people in my choir had even heard of The Selection Series, so when Maddie started talking about it, I was shocked. I gave her some slack for not knowing any of this since she read it over the last weeks of December. I don’t remember the exact details of the conversation, but, long story short, Maddie has A LOT of Kiera Cass to catch up!
okay if Kiera Cass saying "I will talk about LGBT characters later" makes half the fandom go crazy then that probably shows how much we need LGBT characters
Hello this is your secret santa! So I have a question for you: If you had to imagine christmas with the schreaves, what would it be like?
Hmmm… Well I think it would change over the years, especially with how old the twins are, but basically:
-Maxon and America inviting all their friends and family and the girls from America’s selection to the castle for huge festivities and lots and lots of presents
-The family all going carolling on Christmas eve and when the twins were younger they’d fall asleep in their parents’ arms before it was all over and when they were older they’d put on a whole “I don’t wanna go carolling!!!!” act but secretly love it
-Maxon refusing to hire a santa and instead doing the whole getup himself, inclusive of eating every single carrot the twins left out for the reindeer, putting a pillow in his santa suit to look fat and stuffing himself with the gingerbread the twins made that day (Eadlyn’s perfect and Ahren’s drowned in icing, and America already ate hers within an hour of making them!)
-“but what if I import reindeer” “MAXON NO” (and them eventually agreeing on dressing up the horses instead)
-America being the first to wake up and getting super excited at 3am about Christmas and Maxon was up late last night distributing presents under trees and gifts in stockings so he’s really tired and eventually convinces her to go to sleep
-Everyone goes to Maxon’s room in the morning and when there’s 3 of them there they go to the 4th person’s room and wake them up (probably by jumping on their bed)
-America and Maxon having a first round of small gifts in the morning in the 4th person’s room and then more presents after lunch
-Every year, three (or something like that) of the poorer families in the country are randomly selected to dine with the Schreaves for Christmas lunch and dinner and receive presents from them too
-Leftovers from Christmas lunch and dinner are also distributed among the poor along with blankets, non-perishable food, Christmas cards (etc)
-Maxon insisting on taking photos of everyone opening their christmas presents and forgets to open his own
-ugh just dumb christmas schreave cuties
I’m sorry for answering late, you don’t have to include everything (include a few headcanons of your own by all means!) but I hope this helps :)