Language, Again

Adra is proficient in using many more tongues.

Alastair's is one of them

Language

Adra is language proficient in many tongues.

She knows, in order of plate she learned from:
Ancient Languages: Akkadian, Sanskrit, Sumerian, Latin, Aramaic, Egyptian Coptic West Eurasian Plate: Estonian, German, Finnish, Swedish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelige, English, Italian, and Greek. East Eurasian Plate: Russian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin Arabian Plate: Hebrew, Arabic (FusHa, Shaami, Saudi, Kuwaiti, Iraqi) Central Asia: Akkadian, Sumerian, Sanskrit, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu Indian Plate: Tamil, Bengali, Lahnda African Plate: Afrikaans, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Bedouin Arabic, Berber, Fulani Somali Plate: Swahili, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy N. American Plate: English, Awawak, Cree, Tuscarora, Kalaallisut, Dakota, Ojibwe, Navajo, Cherokee, Inuktitut S. American Plate: Nahuatl, Quechua, Aymara, Q'eqchi' Mayan, Portuguese, Spanish Australian plate: Dhuwal, Roper River Creole, Palawa kani

Victoria Hayek

Born a few years before Adra, Victoria has always been conflicted. She loves her in a sisterly way, but has always carried regret about her younger sister.

Victoria was in her teens when her parents died, and, since Adra was still young, she was forced to give up her future: she was engaged to a man whom she loved deeply, but had to break off the engagement in order to care for her little sister.

It didn't help that the two frequently fought. Victoria blamed Adra for ruining her future, and harbors a deep resentment. But their bickering turned into full-out blame-fest, where they often tried to spite one another.

Adra often felt betrayed by her older sister, and their resentment has lasted for most of their lives.

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Adra's Gestation 2

Something that Adra never told Alastair?

She has had three miscarriages from him, actually.

She worked hard to keep the others a secret.

Richart de Craon

was the blacksmith who took Alastair in as his apprentice. When Alastair ran away, his parents never knew, and honestly his community was mostly glad to be rid of him, but Richart was actually fond of the boy and saw it as his personal failure that he lost his apprentice. He set out to look for him, but never found him.

Adra's Gestation

Adra has given birth to three children: Aleksander, Cara, and Adrian.

However, she has been pregnant seven times (including the aforementioned three). The first three of the remaining four were Cain's children. The first instance, he had pushed her down a flight of stairs, causing her to lose he child. In the second instance, she drank a weak acid that caused her to miscarry. Finally, the third instance with Cain's kin was when Cain brought her to a clinic.

*as a note, the three of those four all happened before Adrian's pregancy; Adrian was the first child that Adra managed to carry to full term, and that is partially why Cain left her.

The fourth instance, the child was Alastair's, but she was unable to carry them to term.

When Adrian was born, she was under the impression that he was a stillborn. She carried this guilt up until recently, when she discovered that Cain had managed to revive the boy, and raised him without her. It was when Adrian came after Adra seeking revenge from feeling abandoned did she realize that her first son was stil alive.

1585

Adrasdos Dark-Cruciatus was born as Marlene Hayek in the middle of the snowy woods of Estonia. She was born on the 6th of January, the youngest of three children. Her older sister, Vikta/ Victoria, and her older brother Antony/ Antoine/ Antonio, cared for her after her parents died in the war.

Etienne Poisson

When he was very young- only about 4- his older brother was burned at the stake because someone had caught him doing magic. Each member of the family handled it differently, but he was taken in by the idea that he had to hide or perish, so he married a woman who knew about magic but thought it was evil, and let her take the reigns raising their child. Later he came to deeply regret the way he isolated Alastair in an attempt to keep him safe, but by then he was dying and could do nothing about it.

Canon Alastair

Alastair has considered, multiple times, shifting back into his original body and just living like that. He thinks it would be a lot better for Niccolò (which is true- it would be), and likes the scars he used to have. But he's afraid of what it would do to his control of the names, and very afraid that Adra wouldn't find him attractive anymore- or at least not as much as she does now.


Alastair's first language was French, and his second was Latin, which he learned from a very young age as it was considered the scholarly language of the time. Once he became an apprentice, he taught himself English as his third language, because it was considered to be dirty and almost barbaric at the time.

Highschool!Alastair

High school AU Alastair is secretly really mad that Leo did better than him on the Chem titration lab by 2 points.