Rebecca

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### Affiliation

* Duncton Wood
* Siabod (formerly)

## Relationships

### Mate(s)

* Bracken
* Cairn (formerly)

### Offspring

* 4 unnamed children
* Tryfan (son)
* Curlew (daughter)
* Rose (daughter)
* Beech (son)
* Glyder (son)
* Y Wyddfa (son)
* Dafydd (son)
* Fach (son)

### Other family

* Mandrake (father)
* Sarah (mother)
* 2 unnamed brothers
* Wharfe (grandson)
* Harebell (granddaughter)
* Lucerne (grandson)
* Gowre (grandson)

### Mentor

* Rose
* Mekkins

## Appearances

### Debut

*Duncton Wood*

**Rebecca**, was the mate of Bracken (and to Cairn) - mother to Tryfan, Rose, Beech and Curlew and daughter to the vicious mole, Mandrake.

## History

### Duncton Wood

#### Part One: Duncton Wood

Rebecca was born into a litter of four, from her mother Sarah, who had named her. Mandrake, who was only interested in her, ordered Sarah to name her after herself, but Sarah stated that her name would be Rebecca. Mandrake disapproved the name, appearing to have a panic attack over it. Thus, her name was given.

From the start, she had developed a fascination with her father, and he, to her, who stared at Rebecca in her infancy. It was easy to guess that Mandrake had loved her immensely. Though intrigued by her father, she also feared him.

Rebecca grew so quickly, that by late autumn she was almost full-grown, and as a whimsical mole, she often got in trouble, mainly by her father. By January and early February, a powerful incident happened; Mandrake, seemingly hated her innocence, and while Rebecca enjoyed the light snowflakes in the forest, Mandrake showed her to the pastures, cuffing her on the head as they went. Out in the open, a vicious cold blizzard blew, and Mandrake shouted above the wind, "Still think it's pretty, still think it's something to dance to?"

Then Rebecca began to care for him, as she saw the fear and hatred in his glance. An odd feeling of safety ebbed from him, and through it all, her fear and love for him grew.

Rebecca would look to her mother for comfort, who would tell her stories of her family. When Mandrake wasn't about (he preferred Rebecca to be separate from them), she'd play with her brothers and lead them in the games they played, for she had a good imagination. However, she became anxious and eager to please her father.

She became nervous when interacting with other moles; some were extra nice to ward off Mandrake, and some, especially females, were "bitchy", with comments such as: "She's got all the worst qualities of both of them: stuck up as her mother and as heavy-pawed as Mandrake."

Rebecca soon learned to overcome those remarks and nastiness towards her and would walk boldly past them. As the third week of February came, she spent more time on the surface and seeing the wood's beauty in spring. She developed a loving and an avid interest in the beauty of flowers, trees, birds and all nature surrounding her. Sarah would teach Rebecca the names of the flowers, and Rebecca would repeat them over and over in songs, sung with her brothers in play. It was around this time, that Rebecca became more disobedient and of her own mind. One act in particular, before the April elder meeting, she had eaten the worms meant for them—was one of her most daring. Another was somehow managing to lose all three of her brothers; one nearly killed by an owl, and the other two lost until a Marsh End female found them. "It was Rebecca's fault," they had said. She took to her brothers almost in a motherly way following that event; especially when they were hurt.

By April, as mating season started, Rebecca, though told to stay underground in the burrow, she crawled out and witnessed the beautiful spring flowers and nature all about her. In this joyous moment, proclaiming the wood as her own, a voice responded. Rune's; "It's my wood too. You shouldn't be here, you know." Through the energy of the mating season, Rune had chased Rebecca, wanting her for himself in some twisted way, simply because she was Mandrake's daughter. He nearly had her, but was stopped by Mandrake, who reminded Rune that Rebecca was not to take a mate that spring.

After spring ended and Sarah's litter by Mandrake arrived, Rebecca used it as an excuse to leave the home burrow and make it on her own. She didn't get too far, however, as Mandrake had comandeered a series of tunnels not too far from their home burrow for Rebecca to live in. She later found out they had been taken forcibly from Rue, a female mole a bit older than her, and that Mandrake, in his own way, was showing he cared by keeping her close to home.

Feeling restless one morning, Rebecca went looking for ramson, a type of wild garlic, and stumbled across the quiet singing of a mole. She followed the sound and came upon Rose the Healer among a clump of ramson. Finally meeting the mole she had heard so many stories about, Rebecca couldn't stop herself from asking as many questions as she could.

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## Appearance

She is a notably beautiful, big mole (slightly larger than the average female); with dark, thick, silvery-grey fur that has a glossy sheen.

## Personality

* Compassionate
* Good Imagination
* Graceful

Rebecca is kind and loving, but prone to fits of depression which she probably inherited from her father. She is also sometimes inclined to let her naturally passionate nature get the better of her, which leads her to make impulsive and unwise decisions.

## Quotes

> Rebecca is the wild flower that grows in the spring, whose leaves are the freshest green; she is as strong and graceful as the tallest grass that grows down the Marsh End. Rebecca's laughter and dance are like the sun dappling the wood's floor when the trees sway lightly in the summer wind. Hers is the love of life itself, and love with her is as big and strong as a great oak tree, with a thousand branches for its feelings and a million trembling leaves for its caresses. And because your heart was open to hers, the love you found was far, far greater than the love each of you gave. If Rebecca were here now, she would take away your agony and desolation because she would be all you need, and all you are. As you are, and have been, for her...
>
> — Bracken comforting a dying Cairn;, *Duncton Wood*

## Trivia

* The woman who Duncton Wood was dedicated to, was written in character as Rebecca.
* Unlike most of the moles, whose names are derived from plants and trees, Rebecca is unique in that she is one of very few moles that go by a typically human name. It comes from the feminine Hebrew name that means "to bind", "captivating" and "hearty". (The other moles with human names are her mother Sarah, Thripp's loyal follower Lloyd, and Blessed Arnold of Avebury).

## Gallery

Rebecca and Rune, drawn by Hallowed-TalonAn older piece by SilentXSpectre of RebeccaBracken and Rebecca found the seventh Stillstone by mollythemole
## References

1. ↑ -- Duncton Wood, ch. 49
2. ↑ -- Duncton Wood, Ch. 30
3. ↑ -- Duncton Wood, pg. 32