Flashes of Red

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Victoria usually didn't do All Hallows Eve when she was still alive back in the Enchanted Forest, but that run-in with the pirate at the docks had been her final straw with picking the wrong kind of men. Maybe it had been her sign that she needed to focus on spending time with Penelope and their new puppy, and not be searching for a new man to satisfy her time with. Yet something inside of Victoria made her question everything before with Zachariah that she was no longer within his clutches, and she could be free to be with whomever she wanted.<p><p>Approaching the Horned King's castle in her fall-themed double bell sleeve tunic top with red floral design and solid bright red leggings, Victoria is unaware that her so called companion slash date – though she'd told herself many times it wasn't really a date, and she'd reassured Penelope of the same – was approaching her from a different direction.<p><p>Distraction was Victoria's downfall when one shoulder is gently tapped on, making her whirl around in her fright from seeing the massive castle towering way above her. “Don't sneak up on me like that! I thought you were going to meet me in town anyway. What happened to that plan?”<p><p>shirt

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Embracing the Warrior in You

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<div class="character-sinn2-h">"I've got unfinished business with thieves, but I am thicker than them."</div>
<div class="character-sinn2-text">With careful fingers wrapped around the thin wiry material of the bow, Victoria stretches it as far back as she could then waits for the redhead to place the arrow in where it was supposed to go. “I hope I'm doing this right.” Back in the Enchanted Forest, Victoria's main jobs had been to keep her home with Zacchaeus warm and him happy. But there was no happiness in the Scarlet home before Victoria died unexpectedly. Not between Victoria and Zacchaeus that is. She was happy to be a mother to her two children but she wasn't happy with her life as a wife to him. He was never around and, when he was, Victoria did nothing to soothe his anger with her.<p><p>Once Victoria gets a nod from the redhead, she lets the arrow go and watches as it whizzes toward the line of trees in front of the trio standing in a row.
</div><div class="character-sinn2-notes">154 Words // Clothes appropriate for an outing with a bow & arrow // Merida | Fa Mulan</div></div>
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Babes in Storybrooke

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<div class="character-sinn2-h">"I've got unfinished business with thieves, but I am thicker than them."</div>
<div class="character-sinn2-text">Gentle hands, soft smile, musical laughter. This was the interaction between Victoria and the baby she held in her arms as the nurse gently bounces him in the air but doesn't take him too high. His smile was contagious though, and it made Victoria smile in return. But her attention turns to the man whom she had asked permission to hold his baby, the soft smile still formed on her lips. “I hope it's alright if I hold him for a bit. I have a son of my own – he is grown now – but I have always loved babies,” Victoria says in her thick accented voice.<p><p>She would never ask for permission to take someone's child if they didn't want her to hold the baby or child. “He is a precious little one,” Victoria says then, still smiling as she continues to gently bounce him up and down in her arms. “Yes, you are. And your Papa is a lucky one.”<p><p>The baby coos in response to her before Victoria suddenly gasps as her fair skin suddenly becomes sprayed with food.<p><p>Well then. So much for starting her day off good.
</div><div class="character-sinn2-notes">190 Words // here // Alak Tarr</div></div>
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This Rotten, Ruined Fun [PAST]

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<div class="character-sinn2-h">"I've got unfinished business with thieves, but I am thicker than them."</div>
<div class="character-sinn2-text">Victoria's fun had been ruined. Gone for a ride, and the horse decides to toss her off for no apparent reason. Her scowl is deep as she sits among the rocks in the bed of the only stream of water in the Enchanted Forest, and Victoria did her best to hold her anger in. Hoof beats sound from behind her, and she knew it wasn't her horse Olympus, so she turns her body at an angle to see who approached her. It was a horse-drawn carriage! My goodness, Victoria had never seen one of those before! And, scurrying to her feet, the young woman hurried to clean herself off the best she could though, despite her best efforts, her dress was ruined. A dress she had made with her own two hands out of expensive material donated to the parish by someone rich, obviously doing it out of seeing the condition Victoria had been in before.<p><p>Her tired, weary hands had worked hard to put that beautiful dress she wore now together in order to have something she could ride in to keep from being bored as she worked day in & day out within the parish's walls.
</div><div class="character-sinn2-notes">197 Words // here (though not identical, just something similar) // OPEN</div></div>
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From a Thief's Wife to the Pirate's Life

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<div class="character-sinn2-h">"I've got unfinished business with thieves, but I am thicker than them."</div>
<div class="character-sinn2-text">Holding a pirate at knife-point probably wasn't her best tactic, but Victoria had finally grown tired of her husband wandering in and out of her life. And she was not about to put her unborn baby's life in even further danger if he were to come back with some of his thief friends, so the young woman and sister & wife of well-known thieves had chosen to make her way to the water instead of remaining in the forest. Here she stood now with the sword pressed to the manly pirate's jugular vein, hand trembling as if it were preparing to falter at any one moment. “Which of the pirates are you?” If she were going to put her life, her children's lives, into the safety of this man, Victoria would need to know which one of the pirates it was she was meeting for the first time. Her son was completely oblivious to what his mother was really up to and Victoria wanted him to have that innocence she knew was a part of him.<p><p>A deep laugh interrupts Victoria's thoughts and she looks at the man. He was amused by her actions! How dare he be amused! For a pregnant woman, this didn't make her very happy, and she reaches out to wrap slender fingers around his thick & dark hair. Pulling his head back until she could gaze into his eyes. “I am the estranged wife of a thief, and my brother is one as well. I will not be pleased if you do not help me. Which one of the ships belongs to you? Show me so I may let my son climb aboard.”<p><p>Once she had her answer in the wave of his hand toward a specific ship along the port's docks, Victoria was soon letting his hair go & dropping the sword from pressing it against his neck in favor of leading her son toward the ship.
</div><div class="character-sinn2-notes">321 Words // here // Charles Vane</div></div>
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