cw: parental death / boundary overstepping
[name_f]Lenore[/name_f] [name_f]Cvita[/name_f] Kovac (30) is the eldest of the trio and generally the person who attempts to ease the fears of their mother when her anxiety rears once more. A very private person, [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] prefers leading a solitary life, with the primary exception being the necessary outings to benefit her daughter, who’s just turned two, and her mom attends toddler gymnastics classes with her, to help promote her making friendships and discovering new interests. She’s considered less cool than her sister [name_f]Rowena[/name_f], however aloofness is quite unanimous with [name_f]Lenore[/name_f], and she admits motherhood softens people’s views of her reserved manner, as prior to giving birth she was seen as a workaholic who wasn’t very approachable.
The biggest issue in Lenore’s life is usually the father of her only child. Now in a new relationship, he lives with his pregnant fiancé and her son from a prior marriage, which doesn’t bother Lenore; what aggravates her is how her ex acts as if she doesn’t exist when their daughter is with him, going as far as to not correct a colleague who assumed his fiancé was the birth mother of [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] and he’s child. For how he’s never someone she wants to be with romantically, [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] has never denied him access or pretended he isn’t an involved dad, so this infuriated her greatly, and she made her feelings clear by informing his co-worker of the truth about the family dynamic.
It was lack of understanding that led to [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] and her ex going their separate ways in the first place. He always seemed to presume he could pressure her into becoming an extrovert like himself, and became aggravated when [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] refused to go out with him constantly, even after she explained her discomfort. The fact she’s a creative director for a fashion magazine - having modelled for a while in her youth - was his ‘proof’ [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] was ‘just being melodramatic’, and when he continued with this, she chose to end things between them. [name_m]Even[/name_m] being with someone who’s likewise gregarious doesn’t seem to have healed the chip on his shoulder. It feels now that his antics are a petty means of punishing [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] for breaking things off while pregnant, however she’s held firm through this passive aggression.