"You're a lot like her. Fierce. Stubborn. Beautiful. You have a way with words. You rolled some damned good stats kid and I'm proud of what you've done with them," I said. I didn't want her to feel like she wasn't her own person, that she was just some carbon copy of a woman she didn't really get to know at all. Because that wasn't fair to Maggie and the way she's had to fight tooth and claw for a lot of things, for how hard she's worked to be who she is. But I don't want her to feel like she has no connection to her mother because she does. I just want her to be comforted by it instead of haunted.
"I ever tell you about the time I saw my dad after he died?" I asked, almost floundering for a shift in topic. Unfortunately the life preserver I threw myself wasn't all that far off topic. Maybe if I talk about my dead parents it will help her feel less alone about all this, I don't know. And how knows, maybe some day she'll get a weird vision from her mother like I did my dad.
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Date: 2018-02-21 02:12 pm (UTC)"You're a lot like her. Fierce. Stubborn. Beautiful. You have a way with words. You rolled some damned good stats kid and I'm proud of what you've done with them," I said. I didn't want her to feel like she wasn't her own person, that she was just some carbon copy of a woman she didn't really get to know at all. Because that wasn't fair to Maggie and the way she's had to fight tooth and claw for a lot of things, for how hard she's worked to be who she is. But I don't want her to feel like she has no connection to her mother because she does. I just want her to be comforted by it instead of haunted.
"I ever tell you about the time I saw my dad after he died?" I asked, almost floundering for a shift in topic. Unfortunately the life preserver I threw myself wasn't all that far off topic. Maybe if I talk about my dead parents it will help her feel less alone about all this, I don't know. And how knows, maybe some day she'll get a weird vision from her mother like I did my dad.