[For Angelique] Parson's daughter's brain asplodes

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Catherine has had some nasty shocks at the Mansion. Just arriving nearly shattered her nerves, and she was starting to recover, but this... is almost enough to leave her shaken

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And it has to be 11-12's little sister, 13-14, or, to most, Angelique, who comes across Catherine and her dismay.

Thankfully (mercifully), the young Lady Stark is not accompanied by her husband's direwolf. She was just stepping out to take some air, after all.

And upon seeing the restless young woman, she pauses, sincere concern marring her features.

"-- Madame?" She sounds decidedly French, and is from a similar era, as is visible in her simple, but elegant and stately dress.

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She looks up suddenly, almost jolting. "Oh, I'm sorry, I hope that I did not disturb you, miss," she says. There aren't quite tears in her eyes, but she's pretty close to bursting into tears, and her body language is quite agitated.

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"-- It's quite alright," Angelique says quickly. She comes closer, she's a bit younger than Catherine, though not by much. "-- Madame, is there anything that I can do? You seem so very distraught..."

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"I... I am not sure, I've just met a young man whom seemed as though he had good prospects, and yet he told me that he is courting someone and another man, no less," she says. There's a note of concern and confusion in her tone, with a touch of something like horror, except that this would be too harsh a name for it.

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Angelique blinks, then she frowns. "-- I'm very sorry, I do not mean to be indiscreet, but -- what was his name?"

She looks very genuinely concerned.

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"He had a most unusual name, a number, no less," she says, managing to remember that much, but she's still on the verge of tears. "Oh, how can this be? Who mislead him to distrust the love of womankind and drew him away from the straight and narrow path to heaven?"

No homophobia intended: she just needs her some education.

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Angelique's jaw drops.

"... is that 11-12 you are speaking about, Madame?"

She's... horrified. And not by her brother. (To think, she used to think in such ways.)

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"Yes, yes, that is his name," she says, snapping back to the here and now, but still on the verge of tears. "Do you know who it is that lead him astray, who sought to destroy his prospects as a woman's husband?"

Yes, she's hung up on the idea of People Getting Married, but approaching it with a very binary, heteronormative view. Yay, Regency mores...

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... "My brother," Angelique retorts, "was not led astray. This is the way he is, and he is happy as it is. Do you think it would be fair, to force him into something he doesn't want? 11-12 would be miserable if he were wed, because he's not attracted to women."

Pause.

"And who are you to judge him?"

... yes, she got a bit pissed off. Hopefully, it will shake Catherine out of her whatever-it-is.

Finally found this one...

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"I did not intend to judge him, but what of his soul? Father says that it is a terrible sin that denies God and nature their due," she says, innocently, and wibbling, and frankly more than a bit intimidated now.

I think I kind of forgot this thread existed. XD

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Angelique reaches to place a stray lock of hair behind her ear, which is as close as she gets to facepalming.

"... I don't want to believe that God is so heartless, so as to condemn love," she says, finally, a bit more gently. Though since she's married to someone who, by her standard, is a saint (a martyr, really), she sometimes has doubts about her own faith - but Angelique isn't about to express those to a complete stranger.

She offers Cathy her handkerchief, sighs. "-- Please -- it's not as terrible as you make it."

I'd remembered it, but I'd lost track of whose turn it was >.< Sorry!

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"But what should happen to our kind if there should be so many who would shirk their duty to nature and follow this course of love? Would that not consign us to extinction?" she says. She frankly sounds horrified by the scenario, as if her fertile brain has concocted it already. And frankly, she had the terrifying mental image of dying as a childless spinster because the male half of the species had chosen their own kind over her.

The dangers of ignorance coupled with an overactive imagination...

It happens to the best of us! <3

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Angelique blinks at the girl, not sure if she should call her mad or -- "-- that's not going to happen," she says seriously. "I know many men here at the Mansion. Most of them are -- they like women, as it were."

She smiles a bit, reaches for Catherine's hand. "-- you fear solitude, don't you?"

Re: It happens to the best of us! <3

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She accepts the proffered handkerchief, blotting her eyes with it before taking Angelique's hand. "Yes..." she manages to choke out.

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Angelique sighs a little, tugs Catherine to a bench, then. "-- I assure you," she says softly, "that this will not happen."

Though you'll have to stop being so panicked about it, she doesn't add.

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"But why would God allow this? Why would He allow there to be young men who catch a woman's interest but who have no interest in...reciprocating that interest? Would it not be a cruel thing for a woman to endure, to have her love unrequited?"

She might have been crushing on 11-12, just a bit, and that has her so worked up, since she's not sure now what to feel.