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Felicity Worthington

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Child walks down to the river’s edge
And looks out as far as she can see
And draws each breath as if it were the last
And wipes away the tears across her sleeve
She can see where the river crawls to the sea
Like a baby into mother’s care
Somehow the longing is so far away
The innocence so wasted and aware

Character Name: Felicity Mildrade Worthington
Alias: Maleficent Oddity Ralingworth
Age: 18
Character Fandom: A Great and Terrible Beauty
PB: Amber Heard

History : Felicity Mildrade "Fee" Worthington (born c. 1879) is one of the main characters in Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. Felicity, though not as beautiful as Pippa, is considered sensuous and physically attractive. She has small, grey eyes, set "in a face so pale it's almost the color of an opal," white-blonde hair (which is also, at times, described as golden), full lips, and a fully developed, voluptuous figure.

Felicity's first name means "happy". Her surname, Worthington, is Anglo-Saxon; it means "from the river's side". This makes sense, as Felicity claims that her middle name, Mildrade, is "an old family name" that "can be traced all the way back to the Saxons". Mildrade is probably a form of the Old English name Mildred, which means "gentle and strong." In Rebel Angels, Felicity, Ann, and Gemma make anagrams of their names. Felicity's is Maleficent Oddity Ralingworth. This name is declared "perfect" for Felicity-- for, as Gemma says, it is "evil and odd". Before trying to make an anagram with Felicity's middle name included, the best that Ann could find was City Worth Gin If Leno and Wont Left in City Groh, neither of which would work as names.

One of Felicity's defining characteristics is her strength, both physical and emotional. However, any reminder of "weakness" she has shown in the past (for example, her father's molestation of her as a child) causes her to become enraged or depressed, or both. She is constantly trying to strengthen herself, and gives her greatest desire as "to be too powerful to ignore.

Felicity also suffers from feelings of guilt and self-loathing because of her feelings for other girls. In the strict Victorian society, she has been told that homosexuality is wicked, and that she is "degenerate." She also feels guilt because of her father's molestation of her, as a small child-- he told her that she "[brought] it out in him," and so Felicity grew up blaming herself and trying to believe that her father really did care about her as his child, and not just as something to abuse.

Felicity's personality bears a strong resemblance to Gemma's mother's friend Sarah. Unfortunately, Sarah went mad when she felt that she was losing the power of the realms and became Circe. Sarah showed signs of paranoia and jealousy of Gemma's mother Mary, both of which Felicity has occasionally shown of Gemma, though she was quick to hide it (Gemma can enter the Realms on her own, but Felicity can only go if Gemma takes her, a fact she resents as she hates being dependent on anyone). Finally, Felicty's act of ruthlessly hunting and sacrificing a deer to gain access to the realms parallels Sarah's sacrifice of a Gypsy child; the parallel is heightened by the respective narrators' (Gemma and Mary) feelings of anxiety and foreboding.

Unlike Sarah, however, Felicity does not betray Gemma. Felicity has a strong sense of loyalty; when forced to permanently choose sides in The Sweet Far Thing, Felicity stays with Gemma and Ann-- though Pippa, with whom she is in love, is on the opposing side. Felicity's loyalty comes out in many other ways-- she is always quick to defend her friends, both verbally and physically, when they are threatened in the Realms.

Felicity, though very rich, had a miserable childhood. Her father molested her, and Lady Worthington, Felicity's mother, largely ignored both this and everything else relating to her daughter. Admiral Worthington convinced his daughter, then a very small girl, that the molestation was her fault, not his, saying that she "brings it out in him." In Rebel Angels, Felicity defends her father's actions, telling her friend Gemma that "he didn't mean it." When Felicity was about fourteen, just after a family holiday to Scotland, Lady Worthington left her husband and daughter and eloped to France with an artist, where she was a "paid consort" and ran an artist's salon. Felicity is forced to hide her mother's infidelity and abandonment; it cannot be known that Lady Worthington is a "courtesan" or a "whore."

Felicity is hurt by her mother's abandonment-- first in not doing anything when Felicity told her of Admiral Worthington's abuse, and later for "[running] away and leaving [Felicity] behind." Fee does not see her mother, after Lady Worthington moves to Paris, for three years-- until Christmastime in 1895. Despite this, she holds out hope, while her mother is away, that "she will send for [Felicity]" (though, as Pippa points out, Lady Worthington "couldn't even be bothered to send anything for [Felicity's] birthday").

Felicity has attended Spence Academy ever since her mother ran off to Paris, three years before A Great and Terrible Beauty began, meaning that she first came there at about the age of fourteen. At Spence, girls learn few subjects that will be useful to them, as fine ladies who needn't work for a living. Amongst other things, students study singing and ballroom dancing. Felicity is not especially good at either subject. She has proved proficient in French, however; Felicity's French is "absolutely flawless".She also is a fairly talented painter, once painting a castle from the Realms into the "pastoral scenes befitting a paradise" that are to be used as decoration at a ball.

In the Realms, Felicity studies archery under a lone, Artemis-like huntress. While not initially perfect, Felicity, determined to be powerful, soon improves. In Rebel Angels, a new teacher, Miss McCleethy, introduces archery to the students; Felicity, of course, is the best of the girls and claims that this is "because she expects to win." Felicity is revealed to be bisexual in the last book when she shares a passionate kiss with Pippa, before leaving the corrupt Pippa behind forever. Fee expects Ann and Gemma to "despise" her and agree that "[her] affections are unnatural." Instead, Ann and Gemma stick by her.

Having lost her first love, Felicity doesn't think that she can love ever again, at least "not [as much as she loved Pippa]." At the end of The Sweet Far Thing, however, Felicity plans on going to Paris with her mother and Polly, where she hopes to meet "others like her" and suspects that she will, in time, be able to fall in love again. In A Great and Terrible Beauty, Felicity is the only girl to know what a "Sapphist" is, explaining to the others that "Sapphists prefer the love of women to men." Felicity appears to be bisexual, as she has had several potentially romantic encounters with men throughout the course of the books. She also jokes with her friends that she intends "to have many men."

Felicity has many opinions that are, for her day and age, quite radical. She vows to have a "new suit of trousers... fashioned in Paris" and doesn't see why a woman "has to give up her name." She also speaks of perhaps becoming a painter or an artist's model, once she lives in Paris. (WIKIPEDIA)

((This is all for fun. Felicity does not belong to me nor does Amber Heard.))

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