#swing jemima

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The girls are chatting!!!

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Swing Jemima hanging out with Hathor and Jellylorum and all their kiddos 💕

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Jemima Headcanons

Since Sillabub is my preferred name for her, and the name Jemima is sometimes used for swing characters, I thought I'd go ahead add her to my personal microcanon!

So, based on her Shiki design (with a darker color pallet and some of my own artistic liberties), here's Jemima, a member of the Oldie Squad and the mother of Coricopat and Tantomile!

She's confident and quite clever, and usually always has some sarcastic quip ready to go. She has a great sense of humor, and even though she's gotten more mellow over the years, she used to be a real hothead. She still tends to be a bit of an agitator among her friends, just for funsies.

Even when she became a parent, she never lost her fun-loving nature.

The twins' father was just a fling. He was a passing stranger; nothing more than some handsome weirdo that Jemima spent one magical night with. Not long after, she was happy to show off her new kids to the tribe.

Raising kits is already difficult, but raising kits who can read your mind and foresee the future is something else entirely. Jemima was never sure about when exactly their powers manifested; they didn't cry very much as kids, so it was always Jemima's best guess as to what they needed at any time. (Granted, she did get splitting headaches around the same time that she would suddenly feel a strong urge feed them.)

It was when they started talking that she really figured that something was up. They'd talk about events that wouldn't happen until hours or days later. And it was HARD to keep secrets from them; every time she hid treats in a new spot, it wasn't long until she'd walk in on them eating them all, claiming that she had told them where they were.

Even Old Deuteronomy's own abilities weren't as strong as theirs; the only other person who might be comparable was Macavity, and they weren't about to go ask him to babysit. So Jemima and her kids were all essentially running through a maze in the dark in trying to understand their powers.

Thankfully, Jellicles can always find their way blind.

Somehow, she made it work. Those kids became her whole life. She didn't pretend to have all the answers, but she had nothing but love in her heart and the patience of a saint. She lost countless nights of sleep staying up with Tantomile and talking her through her visions when it becomes difficult to tell apart the present and future, and holding Coricopat when he couldn't shut out all of the thoughts and feelings swarming around him. None of them really knew what they were doing, and sometimes they still don't. But they're finding out and learning together.