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❝ of course i worry too much. [...] but i’m usually right. the people who worry are always right. that’s how that works. ❞

( melissa barrera, cis woman, she/her ) · you know, the gossip in new york city is insidious and gossip about a half-blood like marisol aguilar seems to constantly be afloat. what i know for a fact, though, is that they’re an twenty-nine year old astronomer who graduated as a ravenclaw from hogwarts. apparently that inclines them to be a bit creative and proficient when she rolls out of bed in the morning. as a member of the resistance ( vetted member ), i feel bad that they’ve resorted to taking up the moniker lyra. ( a steaming cup of coffee, the tapping of long nails against a wooden desk, intricately designed porcelain plates, the scent of an orange getting peeled & expensive natural perfume / sam )

— ♡ CHARACTER PARALLELS ( MOST LIKE ) :: Meredith Grey ( Grey’s Anatomy ) + Elsa ( Frozen ) + Minerva McGonagall ( Harry Potter ) + Nina Sayer ( Black Swan ) + Rory Gilmore ( Gilmore Girls ) + Burton Guster ( Psych ) + Megara ( Hercules ) + Maleficent ( Maleficent ) + Spencer Hastings ( Pretty Little Liars ) + Luna Lovegood ( Harry Potter ) !!

— ♡ CHARACTER PARALLELS ( LEAST LIKE ) :: Ash Ketchum ( Pokémon ) - Naruto Uzumaki ( Naruto ) - Phoebe Buffay ( F.R.I.E.N.D.S. ) - Pippin Took ( The Lord of the Rings ) - Olaf ( Frozen ) - Joey Tribbiani ( F.R.I.E.N.D.S. ) - Homer Simpson ( The Simpsons ) - Donna Noble ( Doctor Who ) - Donkey ( Shrek ) - Mario ( Super Mario Bros )

TRIGGER WARNINGS THAT CAN BE FOUND BELOW THE CUT: None I can think of.

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a lil summary can be found at the end of the intro !

backstory.

Marisol’s parents were both born in the United-States to Mexican parents, and they had pretty good childhoods. Neither of them were “family people”, though, and when they moved to the UK, they decided to start over, and basically just cut ties with all of their family from back home. At least, that’s what they told Marisol. She guesses there might be more to it than just that, like a big argument or something, but she’s never pushed them to tell her the whole truth.

Both of Marisol’s parents were very intense about their work. Her mother worked for the British Ministry of Magic, and her father owned a chair of apothecary stores. They were both really into “good work ethic” and that to be happy in life, you needed to succeed when it came to work. Which, um, Marisol wasn’t exactly about.

She was always a creative type, lost in her own thoughts and not so into tangible and important things like money, which exasperated her parents. She never cared much about grades or her future, much more concerned with her art and the stars. Her parents adored her, but they simply did not understand her, just like she couldn’t understand them. That led to a bit of distance between Marisol and her parents, and though they all loved each other, they weren’t the closest of families.

What she did have in common with her parents though was how proficient she was. When she did something, she did it well, and cared about what she was doing. She’s obviously not proficient at everything, and easily gives up when she’s not instantly good at something, but the things she’s proficient at (art and her job as an astronomer), she’s really proficient at.

At Hogwarts, she was sorted into Ravenclaw, only a few years after the Battle of Hogwarts happened. There were still scars that ran deep within the school, and as someone quite tuned in to emotions and feelings, it was a bit tough for her. It did fuel her art (painting), though, so there’s that?

She had a couple of friends in school, mostly at the end of her seven years, but being a bit odd back then, people generally didn’t want to associate with her. Therefore, she spent a lot of her time at school painting and reading fiction books. Sure, she could have used that free time to study more, but she was who she was, so...

She decided to move to the States about two years after graduating Hogwarts, tired of the pressure her parents put on her when it came to finding a serious job at one of their places of work. Her dad wanted her to work for his apothecary chain, whereas her mother wanted to help her get a job at the Ministry. They had nothing against astronomers or painters, and even had a couple of friends with those types of jobs, but when it came to their daughter, they were quite strict and wanted her to “succeed”.

When she got to the States, she decided to get back in touch with her extended family, who she’d never even gotten the chance to meet. They all welcomed her with open arms, except maybe for one or two, and as they were all spread across the United-States, she traveled a lot around the country in her first year there. There was one cousin who lived in NYC, though, who Marisol became fast friends with, and who she adores. That cousin is actually a wanted connection right now, so maybe check that out if you’re interested!

Has always been a worrier, which is quite a contrast to everything else about her, but she can’t help it. Her parents were always worriers, and she inherited that from them; a few things she has in common with them. She’s constantly making up worst case scenarios in her head and what not, and therefore always has a lot of plans in her head in case things go wrong. Problem is, she has difficulty putting those plans into actions when/if the worst happens.

At the age of twenty-four, she moved into a tiny apartment with two of her friends (also creative types), and the three of them have been living together since, though they’re now in their third apartment together. None of them have a lot of money, but they’re all artistic tm and so, no matter how tiny the place, it’s always aesthetically pleasing. The roommates are currently wanted connections, by the way!

Already had a job as an astronomer in the UK, and decided to get one again in the US, though she also decided to take less hours, so that she could spend more time on her paintings, which is her number one passion, to be honest. She likes her job, sure, having always been a big fan(tm) of the stars, but she much prefers art to analyzing things. Still, she needs money to live, and she did inherit some of her parents’ worries when it came to having money, so there’s that.

present day.

She’s not a fighter. Far from it, in fact, but she couldn’t find it in herself to stand there and do nothing as The Social Movement rose up. Especially after what they did. It would have been easier to consider herself neutral and not do anything, but Marisol just couldn’t find it in herself to do it. She needed to feel like she was doing something, no matter how little, and by making that known, she ended up being recruited into the Resistance, in which she’s now a vetted member.

She’s currently practicing duelling a couple times a week, and intends on making pamphlets and what not for the Resistance if they need it. After all, she’s an artist, first and foremost. She knows she may not be the most helpful of members, but at least she’s doing something, and thanks to that, she’s able to go to sleep at night without feeling too guilty.

Her parents want her to move back home, but she refuses. She can’t just leave now that things got ugly, and though she knows they’re extremely worried about her, she just cannot go back to them right now.

personality.

She can seem a bit distant at first glance, as she’s not the most outgoing person out there, but she’s generally quite friendly. You just need to crack her shell a little bit first.

Has like, a really distinct kind of laughter that, if you’ve heard once, you’ll immediately recognize once you hear it again.

I honestly already described her personality a bit in the earlier sections so I don’t know what else to say, but if you have questions, I can 100% answer them!

TLDR: Her parents moved to the UK from the States and cut complete contact with there family from back in the US. They were very intense about work, and Marisol was more of a creative type who mostly cared about her art (and the stars, too), so she moved to the States to kind of distance herself from their disapproval at her career trajectory. In the States, she got back in touch with her extended family, and tried to meet as many of them as possible. She now lives in NYC with two roommates, and all three of them are artists tm. Joined the Resistance because she just couldn’t picture herself doing nothing.

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Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61

The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose madcap memoir about the dark corners of New York’s restaurants made him into a celebrity chef and touched off a nearly two-decade career as a globe-trotting television host, was found dead on Friday at 61.

Mr. Bourdain was found in his hotel room at the Le Chambard luxury hotel in Kaysersberg, a village in the Alsace region of eastern France, according to a prosecutor in the nearby city of Colmar. The prosecutor, Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, said the cause of death was hanging. “At this stage, we have no reason to suspect foul play,” he said.

Mr. Bourdain had traveled to Strasbourg in France, near the country’s border with Germany, with a television production crew to record an episode of his show “Parts Unknown” on CNN, the network said. “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague,” CNN said in a statement.

The United States Embassy in Paris also confirmed his death.

“Anthony was a dear friend,” Eric Ripert, a celebrity chef and restaurateur who appeared with Mr. Bourdain on several of his shows, told The New York Times. “He was an exceptional human being, so inspiring and generous. One of the great storytellers of our time who connected with so many. I wish him peace. My love and prayers are with his family, friends and loved ones.”

In everything he did, Mr. Bourdain cultivated a renegade style and bad-boy persona.

For decades, he worked 13-hour days as a line cook in restaurants in New York and the Northeast before he became executive chef in the 1990s at Brasserie Les Halles, serving steak frites and onion soup in Lower Manhattan. He had been an executive chef for eight years when he sent an unsolicited article to The New Yorker about the underbelly of the restaurant world and its deceptions.

To his surprise, the magazine accepted it and ran it — catching the attention of book editors. It resulted in “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” a memoir that elevated Mr. Bourdain to a celebrity chef and a new career on TV.

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds?” Mr. Bourdain wrote in the memoir. “Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

He first became conscious of food in fourth grade, he wrote. Aboard the Queen Mary on a family vacation to France, he sat in the cabin-class dining room and ate a bowl of vichyssoise, a creamy mix of leek and potato. What surprised him was that the soup was cold. “It was the first food I enjoyed and, more important, remembered enjoying,” he wrote. He did not remember much else about the trip.

Mr. Bourdain became an instant hero to a certain breed of professional cooks and restaurant-goers when “Kitchen Confidential” hit the best-seller lists in 2000. He is largely credited for defining an era of line cooks as warriors, exposing a kitchen culture in which drugs, drinking and long, brutal hours on the line in professional kitchens were both a badge of honor and a curse. Mr. Bourdain was open in his writing about his past addictions to heroin and cocaine.

Before he joined CNN in 2012, he spent eight seasons as the globe-trotting host of “No Reservations” on the Travel Channel, highlighting obscure cuisine and unknown restaurants. “No Reservations” largely focused on food and Mr. Bourdain himself. But on “Parts Unknown,” he turned the lens around, delving into different countries around the world and the people who lived in them. He explored politics and history with locals, often over plates of food and drinks.

Mr. Bourdain famously appeared with President Barack Obama on an episode of “Parts Unknown” in Vietnam in 2016. Over cold beers, grilled pork and noodles at a restaurant in Hanoi, they discussed Vietnamese-American relations, Mr. Obama’s final months in office and fatherhood.

Celebrities in the food and entertainment worlds expressed deep shock and disbelief Friday morning. Nigella Lawson, the British cookbook author and television personality, tweeted, “Heartbroken to hear about Tony Bourdain’s death. Unbearable for his family and girlfriend. Am going off twitter for a while.”

Andrew Zimmern, the television personality and chef, had much in common with Mr. Bourdain. The two met 13 years ago and were friends who often spoke of the pressures that come with fame and who both worked to overcome addiction.

“We shared a very, very deep feeling of wanting to get off this crazy roller coaster, but at the same time knowing that this was our work,” he said. “The world has lost a brilliant human being and I’ve lost one of the few people I could talk to about some of this stuff. When I did see him he and I would walk off into a corner or have dinner together and share our deepest darkest stuff.”

He last spoke with Mr. Bourdain about a month ago. “He told me he’d never been happier. He felt that he had finally found his true soul mate in Asia,” he said, referring to Mr. Bourdain’s girlfriend, the actor Asia Argento.

But Mr. Zimmern had some indication that perhaps there was more going on.

“Things on the surface never seemed to add up or make sense,” he said.

“We have lost someone who was in my opinion the sharpest and keenest observer of culture that I have ever known,” he said. “When we were alone his hopes and dreams extended into amazing areas.”

Anthony Michael Bourdain was born June 25, 1956, the oldest son of Pierre Bourdain, who was an executive in the classical-music recording industry, and Gladys Bourdain, who was a longtime copy editor at The New York Times. He grew up outside New York City, in Leonia, N.J., and his parents exposed him to fine cuisine, taking him often to France.

Mr. Bourdain graduated from high school in 1973 and attended Vassar College, dropping out after two years, where he spent long nights drinking and smoking pot. “I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructing and thoughtless young lout,” he wrote in “Kitchen Confidential.”

But at Vassar, he met Nancy Putkoski before he left school for a chance at a culinary career. Mr. Bourdain spent a summer in Provincetown on Cape Cod with some friends. There, he started working as a dishwasher at a seafood restaurant and closely watched the cooks, men who dressed like pirates, with gold earrings and turquoise chokers. “In the kitchen, they were like gods,” he wrote.

The experience solidified his determination to make cooking his life’s work.

“I saw how the cooks and chefs behaved,” Mr. Bourdain told The Times in 1997. “They had sort of a swagger, got all the girls and drank everything in sight.”

He then enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in 1975 and graduated in 1978, stepping away at times to work at restaurants in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He started at the bottom in the kitchen hierarchy, with stops at the Rainbow Room, the W.P.A. restaurant on Spring Street and Gianni’s at the South Street Seaport. He reached the top in the 1990s, becoming an executive chef at Sullivan’s, the restaurant next to the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway, and at Les Halles.

Mr. Bourdain’s first marriage ended in divorce in 2005. In 2007, he married Ottavia Busia, who appeared in several episodes of “No Reservations,” and they had a daughter, Ariane, who is 11. The couple divorced in 2016. He had been dating Ms. Argento for about two years.

Mr. Bourdain had emerged as a leading male voice in support of the #MeToo movement in the wake of rape and abuse allegations against the film producer Harvey Weinstein and others.

Ms. Argento, 42, said in a lengthy story in The New Yorker that she endured multiple attacks and manipulation by Mr. Weinstein, and that he sexually assaulted her in a hotel room years ago, when she was 21.

She said she had left her native Italy and moved to Berlin to escape the tension and victim-shaming culture she said she experienced at home.

Last month, she gave a speech at Cannes that stunned the room. “In 1997, I was raped by Harvey Weinstein here at Cannes,” Ms. Argento said. “This festival was his hunting ground.”

In an interview with IndieWire magazine this month, Mr. Bourdain called her speech a nuclear bomb.

“I was so proud of her. It was absolutely fearless to walk right into the lion’s den and say what she said, the way she said it. It was an incredibly powerful moment, I thought. I am honored to know someone who has the strength and fearlessness to do something like that.”

Mr. Bourdain continued speaking out boldly on the subject of sexual abuse and harassment, taking on everyone from Alec Baldwin to the chef Mario Batali, who is under investigation for sexual assault charges. Several women have come forward and described repeated incidents of Mr. Batali groping them and of unwanted kisses and sexual propositions.

When news of Mr. Batali’s plans to attempt a comeback were exposed, Mr. Bourdain kicked down the idea.

“Retire and count yourself lucky,” Mr. Bourdain, a longtime friend of Mr. Batali’s who had not spoken with him recently, said. “I say that without malice, or without much malice. I am not forgiving. I can’t get past it. I just cannot and that’s me, someone who really admired him and thought the world of him.”

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