Character Name: Rudbeckia de Borgia / AU: Rudbeckia Amato (info, including content warnings) Canon:How to Win My Husband Over (webnovel) + Nightfell CRAU AU Occupation: part-time English Literature/History tutor, part-time violin tutor, full-time university student AU Background:
Her AU background mirrors her previous two lives because she is trapped in an endless nightmare!! So a blanket CW for abuse applies to this history.
The Amato family are wealthy philanthropists with a reputation for being charitable, and well-regarded among upper class social circles. Behind closed doors, they are corrupt, buying political and market influence, as well as dysfunctional.
Rudbeckia is the youngest child of three, with two older brothers. An adopted charity case, she has suffered stigma from her peers and upper class society, as well as severe abuse from her adoptive family.
Because of her circumstances, Ruby behaves as a "perfect" daughter – hard-working, cheerful, clever, and people-pleasing. This made her an easy target for bullying throughout her school years, as she never stood up for herself.
She's been in a few arranged marriages organised by her family in order to secure political favours, business deals, or reputation; most of these were called off in the engagement stage, resulting in nasty rumours that follow Ruby.
Her family are vocally devout Catholics.
In terms of how Rudbeckia herself takes all this — as an isekai, she's accustomed to adhering to someone else's life and identity, so she won't act out against her OFF world identity in any way. But she doesn't want to abandon the hard work she put into her relationships from Nightfell either. So there's a divide between her ON and OFF world identities. Characters will know her as enthusiastically friendly in the ON world, and then find themselves unable to pin her down in the OFF world as she seems to avoid them. Ruby herself believes that if she allows the two to cross over too much, everything will inevitably fall apart and she'll lose what connections she's managed to scrape together.
Looking For:
The main preface is that Ruby doesn't have any friends. :') Only friendly acquaintances who realise they don't actually know anything personal about her. I'm 100% open for young childhood friends who have since drifted apart, though! She's just... incapable of maintaining positive relationships due to her Issues...
Fellow rich kids and socialites are easy CR! People who went to the same private school as her, people to hang out with at stuffy social events, things like that.
On the private school note – former bullies, anyone who witnessed her being a doormat and either ignored her or tried to help out, etc. She was a victim in a lot of ways because that's her lot in life. She would have played lackey to mean girls, suffered from a lot of gossip and rumours, been harassed and generally ostracised...
She's got a couple of arranged marriages under her belt now but I'm always open for more lmao.
She's a Business Major at university, a violin tutor, and does various activities in her spare time like ballet, dressage, and tennis. Any of those are potential avenues for CR!
I FORGET WHAT ELSE I HAD ON HERE BEFORE... If you can't think of a connection, hit me up and we'll work something out!!
rudbeckia de borgia • how to win my husband over
Canon: How to Win My Husband Over (webnovel) + Nightfell CRAU
AU Occupation: part-time English Literature/History tutor, part-time violin tutor, full-time university student
AU Background:
- Her AU background mirrors her previous two lives because she is trapped in an endless nightmare!! So a blanket CW for abuse applies to this history.
- The Amato family are wealthy philanthropists with a reputation for being charitable, and well-regarded among upper class social circles. Behind closed doors, they are corrupt, buying political and market influence, as well as dysfunctional.
- Rudbeckia is the youngest child of three, with two older brothers. An adopted charity case, she has suffered stigma from her peers and upper class society, as well as severe abuse from her adoptive family.
- Because of her circumstances, Ruby behaves as a "perfect" daughter – hard-working, cheerful, clever, and people-pleasing. This made her an easy target for bullying throughout her school years, as she never stood up for herself.
- She's been in a few arranged marriages organised by her family in order to secure political favours, business deals, or reputation; most of these were called off in the engagement stage, resulting in nasty rumours that follow Ruby.
- Her family are vocally devout Catholics.
- In terms of how Rudbeckia herself takes all this — as an isekai, she's accustomed to adhering to someone else's life and identity, so she won't act out against her OFF world identity in any way. But she doesn't want to abandon the hard work she put into her relationships from Nightfell either. So there's a divide between her ON and OFF world identities. Characters will know her as enthusiastically friendly in the ON world, and then find themselves unable to pin her down in the OFF world as she seems to avoid them. Ruby herself believes that if she allows the two to cross over too much, everything will inevitably fall apart and she'll lose what connections she's managed to scrape together.
Looking For: