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@Whim !
Arca.
Ugh! If there was one thing she hated more than the itchy dress she was wearing and this inconvenient engagement to a certain Lord Hickenbottom (cause like geeze, what sort of name was that!? She so did NOT want to become
Lady Hickenbottom!) But the bad name aside, she most certainly did
not want to get married! Especially not now! And not to someone she never met!
Sure, she could
say she wanted to marry for love, but realistically she had never much dwelled on marriage, nor love. In fact, growing up with all brothers and being treated to more of the freedom they were allowed over most young ladies in her position, had her frowning at the actual position her mother had wed into, and now what that meant for her.
It was called her 'duty' to honor her parents decision, and that's what is expected of all ladies. Marriage by choice was a luxury for the lower class, because they did not marry for money, but other things. But those who were more prestigious deserved control of their legacy, and the idea of that stung at Angel's pride.
After living so long under her own rules and stubborn, near wild behavior, she wasn't used to this collar she was about to wear, and itching at her frilly, lacy wedding dress, her mother gave a light slap to her arm.
"Stop itching, Angel, you'll snag your dress."
"Oh no, we wouldn't want
that!" Angel went on with a sarcastic roll of her eyes.
"No, we don't," her mother clucked. "Besides.." and here, she sighed and smiled at her daughter's reflection in the mirror. "You look beautiful. Just as I did on my wedding day.." she went on, delicately fixing a flower that was askew in her hair. Then, smoothing down her long veil, that went from her head, cascading down her shoulders and laying in a wake of lace past her dress's bustle, she then rested her hands on Angel's shoulder before giving her cheek a quick kiss.
And at that, Angel made a face, rubbing off the lipstick she imprinted. It only made her smile all the more.
"Sorry," she went on, blinking past tears in her eyes. And as Angel continued to rub at the lipstick smudge, she looked at her mother in the mirror before turning to her with an exasperated expression.
"Are you crying?" And she removed her mother's hand from her face where she was brushing back a few tears. "For real?"
Yanking back her hand, her mother sighed and smiled while shaking her head.
"Can't a mother be happy for her only daughter? This is a big day and I.."
And soon she was having trouble taking, apologizing as she tried to brush more tears away.
Angel, sighing, moved to pull the kerchief she had stashed between her chest and handed it to her mother.
"Here."
And her mother took it graciously, and blew her nose loudly into it after dabbing away her tears. Holding the kerchief to her chest, she continued to admire her daughter, which made Angel shift uncomfortably.
"Mom, please.." she said, brushing away her mother's oncoming hand as she had tried to fuss over her daughter's attire yet again. "Look... you got me here already, haven't you? Can I at least have a few minutes to myself? I feel like i'm going to scream, as if I'm being suffocated or something."
"Oh, that's just your nerves dear!" Her mother assured her, finding more tears streaming from her eyes. Angel wasn't sure there were enough kerchiefs in the world to help clean up her mother's messy tears, but held back any comments. She already gave her mother a hard enough time, and thoughs he felt guilty for having her cry over her aversion to this, she felt even more awkward now that her mother was crying
out of joy.But eventually her mother conceded, and Angel found herself left alone in the room. Flopping down onto the nearby sette, her gown poofed around her like an ivory cloud, and as she noticed her reflection in the mirror, she scowled at it, and began to make goofy faces. That was, until the bells began to ring, and ring to the tune of marriage.
OOC: I'm going to stop right there, but I intend to have Angel try to make an escape, but to make this post more digestible, I figured to stop here and I'll pick up to her 'escape' in the next post so feel free to introduce your character to the city now in whatever means you'd like :D
I'm still leaning towards Angel scaling downt he wall or sliding down some rope or something and doing an epic sort of get away, poofy dress and all!