matilde rollins couldn't walk through an empty field without tripping over her own two feet, but by the saints could she talk her way out of just about anything!
in which a runaway kingpin's daughter puts her etiquette classes to good use, and go...
₊˚ˑ༄ؘ"and I'm a goddamn fool, but then again so are you"˖*°࿐
MATILDE ROLLINS WASN'T SURE ABOUT THE EXACT POINT in her life that she'd become a social pariah. Perhaps it had been when she'd tried to push her baby brother through the harbor in a shoebox on a very icy day (he'd had had a great old time until he'd come down with a terrible fever the next morning). Perhaps it had been when she'd tripped down the steps of her own debutante ball. Perhaps it had been when she'd been caught sneaking out to dance in the filthiest Kerch bars she could find.
Thinking back on it, the final straw had probably been her great escape away from their country estate to the slums of Ketterdam following her father's announcement of her upcoming betrothal.
And now her nails might have been constantly caked with dirt, she could hardly afford new boots, and a constant hunger teased at her gut - but Mattie could sing and dance and run as she pleased, not having to worry about knocking over some horrendous vase or tripping over one of her step mother's strangely vicious tiny dogs. She was tired of wasting away in the countryside where everyone believed her treacherous gang leader of a father to be some hard working, well to do man. She'd quickly taken to the thrilling nature of the smoke filled streets, learning the tricks of the trade and the language of cutthroats and whores that her kingpin father had tried so desperately hard to keep her away from. In a city where she didn't exist, Mattie could finally throw caution to the win (that was as long as she kept out of sight of the very most loyal Dime Lions).
The broken down warehouse she'd been squatting in with a teetering drug addict had become her new home, but that wasn't to say Mattie had obtained everything she'd ever wanted - no. So when a handsome boy in a hideous hat came knocking, Mattie was practically singing at the prospect of a new adventure - especially when the reward would leave her rich enough to leave Ketterdam for good.
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MATILDE "MATTIE" ROLLINS the runaway bride
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"I so did not mean to knock your hat into the canal! I swear it!"
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CALEB ROLLINS the kaelish prince
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"is it really that hard to shut your trap and deal with it?"
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HERALD "HAL" GROOT the drunken heartrender
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"you can't leave! who's going to feed me whilst you're gone?"
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ELYAS DE VRIES the -not so devastated- groom
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"do you think weeping into a handkerchief at the next ball might be a tad too dramatic?"
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+ the shadow and bone cast
notes
* ellooo, I'm gonna do my best to make this as different to the World Ender as I can (just wanted to keep with the show as well as the book)
* yesssss, Mattie has dyspraxia - dyspraxia can overlap with adhd too (think Tonks from Harry Potter)
* one of the reasons I chose Danielle as a fc was because of all the hate she's been getting recently for potentially being given the role of Feyre. personally I think she'd be perfect for the part! (lowkey, she would have been a cool nina too)
* expect much angst (especially when Kaz finds out she's a Rollins!) - sorry ;)
