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ALLEGIANCE IS PROVEN BY THE BLOOD SACRIFICE AND SHE FOLLOWS ITS RED TRAIL UNTIL IT ENDS IN A POOL AGAINST THIS UNHOLY GROUND, SPREADING TOWARDS HER FEET AND LEAKING INTO THE CRACKS. violence has shown itself to her in its many forms and this one is no less ugly than the last, but these dark eyes have become accostomed to its most gruesome. she has been both its cause and its effect, both the inflicter of its punishment and the one who bears its consequence. 
          
          THE MIDNIGHT AIR IS EERILY STAGNANT AND IN ITS STILLNESS SHE SEEMS TO SOAK UP ALL THE LIGHT AND SHADOW AT ONCE. awareness heightens after a brief examination and she is able to come to a conclusion: if he was driven by anything other than a purpose, other than a duty, the desire to drive that blade into his enemy would have easily extended to her. she tests this by purposefully awaiting slaughter, seeing what his next move will be (anticipating all the ways in which she could punish the deed before it’s committed). THE MOVE IS NEVER MADE. 
           
          ❝ DON’T MATTER NOW…❞ she responds unexpectedly with her voice low and on the border of irritation. there is no telling whether it is directed at his question or at the concern that comes after. she moves in closer to the scene and into the light, her strength in build growing noticeable and the markings of her flesh coming into view ❝ ALREADY TOOK A STEP IN YOUR SHIT AN’ NOW AH’M KNEE DEEP IN IT. Y’AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ T’ HIDE, AN’ IF YOU DO IT SURE AS HELL WON’T BE FROM ME. ❞ despite her tone, she shows no signs of ill intent as her jaw shifts to the side. she looks to down at the fresh kill, the bodies, then back to him. ❝ SEEN WORSE [stated flatly]… HOW MANY MORE? ❞ @traitorson 

/ reagan loves her husband thanks that’s the post 

/ reagan has a tendency to say mhm a lot not repetitively but yk what i mean. depending on the tone the mhm can either mean yeah right whatever / bullshit / rolling my fucking eyes, yes (real), or yes… (but actually no). also the more i write abt it the more i realize reagan is unintentionally funny. like she’ll say shit and be serious but the way she says shit sometimes makes you laugh or go oh okay.. hc that one time during a serious imperium meeting, cortez said some bs and she laughed at him in front of everyone and made him look like a fool. she just has a way of being intimidatingly humorous, enough to piss people off because they’ll be like “i’m gonna kill you!!” and she’ll just go “oh okay” :/ yall need some lipgloss?? https://youtu.be/Tx4iAUuiu0k

DO  YOU  BELIEVE  IN  THE  MESSAGE  THEY’RE  TRYIN’  TO  PUT  OUT[,]    MA’AM?     (…)    YOU  GOT  FAITH  IN  IT?

/ replying fr but i’m on a roll with the new info in her book so let’s appreciate this rare moment of semi productivity (step two: post the book, impossible challenge)  

/ thinking about how i see the song “when the levee breaks” (both versions) included in before the eradication. the original version would maybe play in the background during a scene since it fits into the revelation vibe centered around country blues and the other one comes after or later on. idk if this makes sense hear me out. also this song is about the great mississippi flood of 1927 which was incredibly devasting and the experiences of it are mentioned in the song. but in the context it this, since a levee prevents an overflow of a river, when it breaks, devastation will take its toll — which is literally what the eradication did. if it keeps on raining the levees going to break, in this context, if this keeps going on something’s bound to happen. this would be foreboding or foreshadowing what’s to come. 
          
          original by memphis minnie and kansas joe https://youtu.be/WSlt8-fmvas 
          rework by led zeppelin https://youtu.be/uwiTs60VoTM

/ face references: lesley ann brandt is her main that’s usually in themes but honestly all three of them give reagan tendencies and mannerisms. she’s the main one i go by but incorporate different layers of all of them and styles into how she looks face wise. 
          
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★    ↓↓  okay but is there a spoiler hc detailing that someone just Gently holds reagan at some point bc omg,,,,,

/ (i cant stfu) another hc. ive been thinking heavy on this but reagan is very sensitive towards children and even teens who may be in similar situations as her and most of that comes from a place of not getting a childhood at all. reagan never really got the chance to be a child and she was always seen as a threat even from a young age. it’s the innocence of that time that she didn’t get to enjoy and she still has this pent up sadness about it because she thinks about what could have been. she comes from a place of never wanting a child to experience the same things she did, having to survive having to wonder whether or not you’re gonna get food today, having to be ready in case someone tries to kill you, having zero rest and zero time to just be a fucking child. and there’s nothing that sets her off more than people who are willing to use a child to mold them in a negative way or speed up their maturity like grow up faster / forcing it. it’s unfair. what also keeps reagan motivated during this is the fact that she wants to live a life, a true one, with a family of her own. that’s the goal. and spoiler alert! lmao! post imperium she does actually have not one but two children so yes it works out but she’ll always have a tender spot for that bc for it hits her harder. a lot of times she gets angry that she didn’t get a chance to experience what she should have but to her she interprets it in a way that’s like i understand it, i’ve experienced it, and so i can try to prevent it from happening to someone else. i can use my expeience of pain in means of taking away or soothing someone else’s. at times it’s hard to think this way but that’s how she copes with what happened to her. 

/ i know i’ve said this before but although reagan was technically born in new orleans louisiana she was uprisen in mississippi, specifically clarksdale. clarksdale is where the main underground revelation base sits deep under. when i say main i mean where most of the members are. like the MAIN base as opposed to other minor ones. anyways let me get to the fucking point! need to expand more on this but revelation (as well as other chains) have above ground fronts aka places where they operate and secretly recruit people or carry on imperium tasks (like brba los pollos hermanos lmao but make it cult edition) example of this is the churches around the area, abraham used churches to expand the cult which could be accessible to other people. of course, when someone walks in there they would think oh this is a real church, but every person in there would be secretly part of revelation trying to get that person to keep coming and attending so they could get them to the underground. even better if the person brings their friends or family. the more the better. 
          
          another hc i have is that abraham used to make reagan travel above ground around the area as a child (not a little kid but maybe like 12-14) to be easier to recieve by people so she could scout out new recruits or places where they could turn into a front for their operations. this was a mistake on his end because when reagan was exposed to the old world for the first time she was also exposed to other people and a different perspective of a life she never got.