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(OK this is long and rambly and I'm not sure if it answers your question? Happy to give/invent more specifics if you want)

Well, divergence-wise Rokia has to re-learn the concept of "free time" and "hobbies" (painting playdates with Devon, hijinks of various kinds eventually).

When I wrote that thing with Devon I randomly decided that Wednesday afternoons were enforced free time, and she usually goes to visit Marc and Heidi and her sisters on weekends, and other than that, she works a lot. That's sort of the pattern the first couple years she's in Two while she gets her head a little more sorted. She lives in Lyme's spare room so it's pretty generic although it does collect bits of scrap metal and screws that migrate in from the shop, drawings eventually start going up on the walls, etc.

Then she gets a place of her own and she has to figure out what to put in it and probably has people tell her "yes you do need actual furniture" and mostly she agrees because she wants her sisters to come visit and feel comfortable. They have a room with bunk beds that Nero probably builds, and Brutus comes and looks after them sometimes (BECAUSE GIANT MEN AND TINY GIRLS ALWAYS ADORABLE). Eventually Sara comes over a lot when she has breaks (the railroads run on something like a 3 weeks on 1 week off schedule) and she is shockingly good at enforcing free time and enabling hijinks. Eibhlin is also a very good hijinks enabler, see Operation Arctic Foxes and Operation Panem Rocketry Program.

Bonus silly fic snippet I wrote at some point--when Rokia gets her own house she's sort of at a loss for a while. She literally has not lived on her own ever except for some very dysfunctional months in the Capitol so she doesn't quite know what to do with herself--and so she sheepishly comes back to say hi to Lyme:

Lyme’s siting on the couch with a pile of papers trying to pretend she’s not half-listening for noises coming out of her now-empty garage. For all the moments she’d wished for an evening to herself it’s ridiculous that now she has one and she’s, well, moping. She goes to the kitchen to get a drink and she’s just coming back when she hears the door open.

“Hello?” Rokia sounds a little hesitant.

Lyme walks around the corner and says, “Hi, Rokia, what’s up?”

Rokia glances down. “Um, I think I forgot something?” she says, hesitant, and Lyme smiles.

“Sure thing,” she says, and Rokia ducks up the stairs. Lyme hears footsteps in what is finally, again, the spare bedroom, and goes to the kitchen to see what she could make for dinner.

When Rokia comes in a few minutes later Lyme’s chopping vegetables and heating water for pasta, and she motions to the counter. “Come sit, if you want.” Rokia looks a little sheepish but she comes in.

“Can I help?” she asks, and Lyme passes over a knife and some carrots. They work in silence for a while until Rokia says, “I don’t know how to cook for just me,” and she laughs a little. “I don’t think I’ve ever done it before.” Lyme smiles and glances over and there it is, just a little tension in Rokia’s shoulders.

“You’ll figure it out,” Lyme says, and Rokia sighs.

“Yup, guess so.”

They eat together and when Rokia doesn’t seem eager to leave Lyme puts on a movie. Rokia curls up next to her on the couch and when Lyme puts an arm around her she sighs, content. Before long she’s asleep, and Lyme runs her fingers through her hair and smiles.

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HEE HEE HEE

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painting playdates with Devon

Awwww, I really like this :)

collect bits of scrap metal and screws that migrate in from the shop, drawings eventually start going up on the walls, etc.

Ohhh, like the picture this gives me. See lots of blueprints, etc, on the walls.

BECAUSE GIANT MEN AND TINY GIRLS ALWAYS ADORABLE

ACCURATE

see Operation Arctic Foxes and Operation Panem Rocketry Program

:DDD

They eat together and when Rokia doesn’t seem eager to leave Lyme puts on a movie. Rokia curls up next to her on the couch and when Lyme puts an arm around her she sighs, content.

Awwwwwm bb!

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I really had fun writing Rokia and Devon painting together, it's just....nice.

See lots of blueprints, etc, on the walls.
Yup, I think it starts off blank and moves through functional before more decorative things start showing up.

And yes bb girl is stealth comfort-seeking and Lyme is totally fine with enabling that kind of thing :D

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Yup, I think it starts off blank and moves through functional before more decorative things start showing up.

Yeaaah maybe bb is a bit afraid to personalize because she's thinking that this is just temporary and she would be being 'presumptuous' in having anything in there, and it's easier to let the work stuff creep in before finally making it about Rokia the human.

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Yes, I think that's it, plus identifying Rokia the human apart from work stuff takes some time. Which is why the enforced free time is so important.

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awwww Rokia

(I've been thinking I need to have you describe Rokia a bit for me so I can doodle her)

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It gets better! she's got her people to help her figure it out.

(I've been thinking I need to have you describe Rokia a bit for me so I can doodle her)

eeeeek that'd be awesome, I occasionally go "man I wish I could draw so I could draw this" but well, never enough to prioritize actually learning to draw.

Rokia and her sisters are all mixed (I found some super-cute pics of Quvenzhané Wallis and decided she's my model for Kadi when she comes to Two, it's about the right age) and since they all have different biological fathers they don't necessarily look _that_ much alike. Rokia's little (especially compared to the Twos, which occasionally annoys her), maybe 5'3" and skinny, curly hair and big brown eyes. If nobody's making her do something else she keeps her hair really short so she doesn't have to do anything with it and wears jeans and t-shirts which tend to get covered in shop grease in short order.

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hee! And of course now I want a drawing of Eibhlin and Rokia working on some project together, because I think they'd be a cute contrast (being relatively the same size and build, but having very different hair/skin/eyes).

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I've gotta agree with you there about the idea of a cute contrast!

(I feel like Annie, who was only taller than Mags among the victors in Four, would be slightly pleased at being enough taller than Eibhlin and Rokia for people to be able to tell, ha ha)

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I like this! She gets to feel all tall, eh? I have a lady friend who is 6'2, who I like to stand next to because she makes me feel all petite :D

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Exactly! Ha ha, that sounds great!

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