Half-baked personalities left sitting in the oven
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 116634
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It was all so very sudden that even Jane herself hadnt seen it coming. One day she wasn't feeling well, a few days later she was absolutely burning up with fever, and by that night she was gone. The house technically passed to her husband, but he left it to the five women who still had nowhere else to go and moved into another building, a small hut, saying he couldn't stay in the house anymore but he wanted to remain near it and Jane's family. The women were shocked by Jane's passing and spent many weeks working through the initial stages of their grief. The burial was a solemn thing--Jane had been only 25 years old. Speaking of, by this time, Hannah was 19, Isabella was 26, Ermentrude was 31, Katrina was 34, and Marigold was 38. They had been aging normally, growing more beautiful with each passing year. In two years, their personalities had been drastically altered, definitely more balanced--though all were still very rough around the edges in their own ways. Jane's potions, of course, had stopped, so they would remain this way. Hannah, at this point, was simply too sweet. She was completely kind and selfless, truly to a fault, unable to factor her own wellbeing into her decision making, and barely able to refuse anything ever requested of her. Isabella's knowledge--though not her nerdiness--had been suppressed, and she was fairly well-balanced in social interactions, but sometimes became rather flighty, often forgetting things she used to know but no longer did because of Jane. Ermentrude suffered from violent mood swings, which had been an ongoing problem since the beginning of the potions. Katrina had had her interest and skills in fighting stripped from her early on and now was very weak-willed. Marigold was perhaps the most well-conditioned out of all of them, but still sometimes had problems taking charge when a situation called for leadership--a tendency Jane had removed, deeming it unladylike. The women still had the fractured, faded memories of Sir Fred, but they were like a dream by this point. The constant potions had shaped them into different people (or quasipeople, one might say), and were they to be put back together now, the person they would become would not bear too much resemblance to Sir Fred. They still were deeply in love with Jane's brothers, and the brothers had been noticing their personalities shifting, or, more likely they thought, they simply had made a poor first impression. Now, with their poor sister gone, they took to visiting the women more often, knowing they had no one but each other now. One day, about three weeks after Jane's untimely passing...
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