Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26423188-20160210043429/@comment-26423188-20160217232521

"Yup. Divorced parents." Leda leaned back and sighed. "Wow, that is complicated. But you are lucky to have people who love you."

She brushed off the last of the tears. "My mom, she kinda married my dad for his reputation and wealth. I was born and although everything was a bit awkward, life was good. A few fights but not a lot." She grimaced. "When I turned 5, there suddenly was a lot more fights and each time they got worse. They were mostly about me, what my future was going to be.

"You see, my mom wasn't really a nice person. She was elegant, polite, and beautiful. Marrying my dad made her respected and wealthy. But not at all motherly. She really didn't know what was good for me." Leda took out her smart phone to show a tall elegant woman of Chilean descent, with perfectly coiffed pure white hair. "A year later, I turned into a swan for the first time. My mom... wasn't too happy about that."

She swiped to show two swans, the cygnet was white with black feathers starting from the neck up. The larger one was pure white, like her mom's hair. "You see, she was born a white swan and she... just wasn't happy I wasn't as "perfect as her"," Leda made air quotes with her fingers. "Since I'm a black-necked swan and all."

"So that was the year there was a lot more fights and then there was a divorce. It was a lot of messy paperwork but it ws done. I was free to travel with my dad now, he's a diplomat." She pointed to a short broad man swinging a young Leda up into the air. "We moved to England, and life was amazing there. I had a nanny," She swiped to show a plump woman with gray hair tied up in a neat little bun. "and then, my mom came to visit.

"She told me she had realized that she was still a mother, no matter how bad "the mistake" was," Leda's hands tightened. "I told her she was my biological mother, but not my real one. Real mothers don't call their kids mistakes." She swiped again to show a wedding, with her dad and a blond haired woman. Both looked extremely happy. "When I was 12, my dad remarried to my stepmom. She's a Valkyrie. I never heard from my mom after that though."

And Leda smiled just a bit. It felt... nice to be able to finally spill out what was making her bitter. "You can call me Leda." She said, gently for the first time ever.