Muse - About Gloria

[mistkitt]

Originally posted 2/18/2015

 My brain is preparing to turn all of her focus back to original stories and the few fics I have left, so let’s get a few stray fic things out of the way.

Ulquiorra’s birth mother, Gloria, was a young Peruvian woman, still in her teens when she met an American missionary by the name of Schiffer. The two had a brief affair before he packed up and went back to the US with his church (A+ morals).

Shortly after she found out she was pregnant, and became scared to death that the drug guys would take her baby for ransom money if they knew the father was a “rich American.” So she left, heading always north, the only clue she had to Schiffer’s whereabouts that he came from a place called Washington.

But the journey took its toll on her; she was very sick when she went into labor. Her first and only son was born in Arizona, and named Ulquiorra because he cried constantly. When they reached Washington state, she was taken to a hospital in grave condition, and lived only long enough to fill out her baby’s birth certificate. She gave him the last name Schiffer in the hopes that it would lead him to his father.

And so Ulquiorra came to Seattle, growing up and eventually bringing his family back to Washington with no idea that his birth father - with wife and kids of his own - lived in the vicinity. Likewise, his birth father, though aware of the classical pianist Ulquiorra Schiffer, hasn’t even a remote suspicion that they’re related, let alone father and son.

They may have passed each other on the street and been none the wiser.