Oh, this girl has been drawing for as long as she's been able to hold writing utensils! She got in trouble a lot as kiddo for drawing on her school work. She started taking art classes as soon as she could. She didn't get into digital art until she was seventeen when Grayson purchased her her first iPad.

The prerequisite for Alice being a good mother is her having LOTS of therapy and a healthy partner. If she has both of those things she's capable of being a good mom.

Canonically her only biological child is a girl she only held one time and named Aster and only saw once more in her entire life. In AU's where Alice ends up having children at any point she spoils her girls. She's very supportive and encouraging and really loves doing all of the stereotypical girly-girl things. Shopping, manis and pedis, hair salons. I haven't really given Alice having a boy much thought. I think she'd struggle a little to connect with a boy but she'd work to cultivate his interests, probably put him in sports.

Alice is a very flawed woman but she has a lot of love in her heart. In a healthy environment she would be a supportive but slightly overbearing mom. The kind that wants to take "just one more picture" for dances, always showing up for every game, show, or any activity her children are in, and always gives slightly too long hugs that have her kids groaning and getting embarrassed.

No, this size is not on purpose. At its largest, The Menagerie has five women in it! They all adopt an animal identity for their kink/play persona. In chronological order they are; Alice Bolton - Kitten, Mia Russel - Puppy, Elsie Thompson - Piglet, Dove Fowler - Bird, Juliette Hammond - Bear Cub.

Grayson has been polyamorous the entire time he's had romantic and sexual relationships, but when he and Alice began their committed relationship he didn't have any plans to have a harem. When he met Mia he was intrigued by the way she spoke about her play persona and why she enjoyed puppy play as much as she did. Mia is the reason he started the play personas, she asked him to brand her, she's why he even considered trying to pursue other longterm serious relationships.

Every other addition to The Mengarie has been merely through happenstance. He didn't seek the other girls out with the intention of adding them to The Menagerie, it just sort of happened.

Grayson went to a university in England to get a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Counselling (Honours). He went on to get a PhD in Clinical Psychocolgy at a university in France. He did his residency in Chicago.

Yes, Juliette was depressed before her trauma (meaning the incident where her ex-boyfriend made her a victim of revenge porn at age 15 that resulted in her suicide attempt). Juliette had incredibly neglectful parents so never had anyone looking out for her mental health, or her anything really. The lack of care from her parents and the unstable, toxic environment they were raising her in led to her being depressed at a very young age.

Her suicidal ideation started in middle school as more passive suicidal thoughts. Things like, ‘I just want to sleep forever,’ or ‘it’d be easier if I weren’t here.’ As middle school progressed passive turned to active and at the end of eight grade Juliette was struggling with regular thoughts of, ‘I want to be dead.’

The summer before she started freshman year she was fifteen and she met the guy who would become her boyfriend, Mason who was nineteen at the time. This was a reprieve from her depression and suicidal thoughts. For the first time Juliette felt like she had something to live for, at least until they broke up. The break up hit her very hard and then when Mason posted sexually explicit photos and videos of her Juliette began experiencing bullying to a severe degree. This lead to constant, loud thoughts of, ‘I want to kill myself.’ So, on her sixteenth birthday she walked to a bridge to attempt.

Alice met Grayson when he was twenty-eight. He had quite a few misdeeds by this point. In the present day I write most of my fics in Alice is thirty-eight and Grayson is forty-eight. By that point, I would say Alice only knows about ten percent of his past misdeeds. She knows he was involved in a fight in high school that nearly got him expelled but very little else about the incident. She knows that his fiancée died after a car crash where he was the driver and that he feels responsible for her death but very little else.

Grayson is an intensely private individual. From my fic Pantomime Matrimony, "This man who took nearly five years of knowing her to tell her what town in France he spent every summer in until he turned twenty-five." Grayson doesn't share very deeply of himself and works even harder to hide previous wrongdoing, so Alice really is not in the know.

Not many! I want more! One day I will share a playlist of songs that are the vibe of Ridley's band, Spider's Delight. But I think my only voice claim so fair is for Grayson. Woodkid (Yoann Lemoine), is a French music producer. He has a thicker accent than Grayson would but the vocal tone is similar I think. Listen to Pale Yelllow by him or L'aérogramme de Los Angeles if you want to hear some French!

From most to least heartbreaking for Grayson is: Alice, Juliette, Elsie, Dove, (Mia). The two most likely candidates for dying of unnatural causes are Alice or Juliette.

If Alice died of unnatural causes the most likely thing would be Grayson murdering her. If he did it's likely he'd either beat her to death, strangle her, or break her neck. It would fuck him up severely. He finds Alice's regulation of his behavior annoying but he is unaware how grounded she keeps him. Without her, he would become more violent & unstable.

If Juliette died it would be by suicide and it would destroy Grayson. He would feel as though he failed again. Juliette soothes two of his past aches (his dead fiancée, Simone, and a patient of his who died from suicide named Darcy) and he subconsciously feels as though taking care of her and providing for her amends those mistakes.

Yes! His fiancée in his mid-twenties died after a car crash where he was driving the car. Even into his forties, he's still having nightmares about that crash and her death. Over the years the nightmares have become less literal and more abstract but as June (the month she died in) approaches they become more literal. He goes to visit her grave every year and during that time he has intense nightmares that usually result in him not sleeping.

As far as dreams go I wouldn't say he has any reoccurring dreams but there is always a sort of mechanical aspect to his dreams. Not steampunk but some sort of gears and machinery present in most of his dreams.

When Elsie was in high school! Learning to cook & bake was part of her treatment plan with Grayson when he was her psychiatrist. It was a sort of exposure therapy for her. It helped her learn to love food and she found a passion for baking and sharing sweet treats. She'd bring treats for her high school friends during lunch a lot.

I want to say he'd thrive for a while. He's pretty violent and I think he'd adapt well to the more chaotic elements of post-apocalyptic world. I think eventually his rich boy ass would die though. He'd last longer than me that's for sure.

Oh, what a good question!! It's hard to say because there's no universe where she would want to fuck him. But, let's say she's drunk enough to have sex with him. If that did happen she would regret it very deeply in the morning and she'd blame Grayson for 'taking advantage of her' even she had consented the previous night. It would result in pretty much the same ending where he runs off to the USA and changes his name.

But, the sex would be incredibly, crushingly disappointing for him. Discovering his mother is just another woman and not the god he'd built her up in his head would probably make him spiral faster. I think this would push him to committing a violent crime against a woman and he'd get caught.

Yes! After Dove leaves her hometown she never returns and she never speaks to her mother again. Laurie eventually gets sober and as the years go on and she continues to not hear from Dove she gets sadder and sadder. She will always have a rosier view of her actions than anything close to the truth, but eventually she comes to accept a little bit of fault in how she treated Dove. Certainly too little too late.

Alice is very athletic! She and Grayson are part of a country club and you can find her there often participating in some class. Pilates, yoga, you name it she probably does it. She also plays tennis. Alice has played tennis since middle school and she LOVES it. She’s pretty good!

She also a wine connoisseur! She loves trying new wines and pairing them with different food. It’s one of the things she and Grayson bond over. They’ve been to many wineries over the years together.

Alice also has an entire room in her apartment dedicated to Mommy Domming. Alice is a Mommy Domme and has been domming regularly since she was 20. She loves doing it.

She also reads pretty frequently. Mostly nonfiction, she likes biographies and in depth dives of fashion and architectural history. Grayson tried to recommend books to her but she usually finds the things he reads very dry and very boring.

There are only a few low points in his life. He’s generally pretty content but there are four moments I would consider the lowest/saddest in his life! (He would only say three, he refuses to acknowledge this last one.)

First, when Grayson was 13 his father passed away very suddenly and it destroyed him.

Second, in university when his roommate and first real friend vanished. This info isn’t set in stone in his canon yet so I won’t go too in depth, but this was the second big loss that really affected him. (You may recognize his university roommate as Alec Underwood who belongs to @macthedke)

Third, when his fiancée, Simone died. They were on a roadtrip and were planning to elope at the end. To make things more tragic Grayson found out Simone was pregnant only after she died.

Lastly, (and I am not going to provide context just because I think it’s funnier that way) is when he kissed his mother and attempted to seduce her only to be rejected. This caused him to flee the country and change his name to the Grayson Winters we know him as!

She doesn't have a whole lot of those because of her living situation growing up, but there are a few I can share.

• Dove spent a lot of time at the quarry swimming & playing by herself. That was always something she loved doing.
• She had a neighbor, an older lady named Constance who would babysit Dove occasionally & anytime Constance made cookies was a good day for Dove.
• And all of the running she did as a kid. Running is and always will be Dove's happy place.

There was no wedding party. Grayson is a lame ass and has no friends and Alice was already planning an unconventional wedding as they were marrying at 44 and 34. It was quite expensive. Alice was planning this wedding with a metaphorical gun to Grayson's head. <3 So, she was going to have the exact perfect beautiful wedding she wanted. Their honeymoon was a month long.

No! She and grayson had a very long conversation (that will probably be a fic one day) in which he expressed his disappointment which was worse than a punishment would've been for her. She was really upset because Grayson had been explicit about keeping the fact that she used to be his patient a secret from Alice and Mia and it was a complete accident that she told Alice.