Stareţă Cioară

Stareţă Cioară is a 2019-introduced and all-around character. She is the mother of Fiică Cioară, the next Mother Crow. Stareţă wishes for her children to never experience the same pain she did, and supports her eldest daughter's decision to rebel.

Personality
Stareţă has extreme anxiety with a heaping dose of depression. The loss of her children haunts her every night, which causes her to lose sleep to watch them and make sure they are all right.

Appearance
Stareţă has long, wavy, blue and purple hair with an abundance of gray streaks. She has deep lines on her forehead and around her mouth, and heavy dark circles under her eyes.

How the Story Goes
D.L. Ashlimann's Rendition

The synopsis of the story goes as such:

Mother Crow, desperate to keep her chicks safe, confides in her sister, the Hawk, asking her to be the babies Godmother. Godmother Hawk agrees, but asks for a description of the chicks so she recognizes not to eat them. Mother Crow describes her babies as she sees them: the most beautiful hatch lings in the world. Godmother Hawk nods and flies off, looking for food. She then comes upon these small, wrinkled, pink monstrosities and decides that these couldn't possibly be the beautiful creatures her sister had described them as. She then eats (unknown to her) Mother Crow's first roost. When Mother Crow returns to her empty nest, she immediately knows what has happened. She then flies to Godmother Hawk and berates her for murdering her children. GM Hawk, instead of apologizing, insults Mother Crow, saying that the chicks were the most foul beings GM Hawk had set eyes on. Mother Crow, now twice as enraged, declares a hatred between their species that would last forever.

What happened next?
After the debilitating loss of Stareţă's first brood, she vows never to make the same mistake again. Sadly, Fiică is the only surviving member of the second roost, the others never making it to hatching time. This only made Stareţă more scared, and became extremely overprotective of Fiică. Fii, now cursed by her mother to only ever see true inner beauty, grows up as a surprisingly happy child, despite her mother's mental situation and her lack of siblings. Things changed when Stareţă finally had her third clutch: the twins, Pui and Sugar, and the one boy, Fiu. She loosened her claws slightly, though Fiică still supervises her siblings most of the time.

Trivia

 * "Stareţă Cioară" literally translated means "Mother Crow".