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{{Infobox Character
| full_name         = Margot Delacroix
| affiliation       = [[Delacroix Family]]; [[Visit Verdant|Verdant, Connecticut]]
| status            = Deceased (d. after 1710)
| occupation        = Founding matriarch of the Delacroix matrilineal line
| first_appearance  = [[Eleanor Ashburne]] diaries (referenced throughout SSU)
| canon_status      = Confirmed
}}

== About ==
'''Margot Delacroix''' (b. October 31, 1691) is the first generation of the [[Delacroix Family|Delacroix line]] and the woman through whom the entire matrilineal dynasty descends. She was the biological daughter of [[William Ashburne]] and [[Marguerite Delacroix (Gen 0)|Marguerite Delacroix of Quebec]], and was raised primarily by [[Eleanor Ashburne]] after her mother vanished the morning after her birth. Her name was given not by Marguerite but by Eleanor and William in January 1692, as an act of grief and tribute. Every generation of the Delacroix line since her birth traces back through her.

== Description ==
No physical description has been established in canon beyond [[Eleanor Ashburne]]'s final diary entry, which describes her at 18 as embodying "the spirit of acceptance and freedom our settlement has fostered."

== Background ==
Margot was born on October 31, 1691, the night of Samhain, the most potent night in the pagan calendar. Her mother [[Marguerite Delacroix (Gen 0)|Marguerite]] had insisted the baby would arrive on that date, against the doctor's expectations. Before dawn the following morning, Marguerite collected the placenta and birth blood and vanished from Verdant without explanation, taking no clothes or provisions.

[[Eleanor Ashburne]] and [[William Ashburne]] named the baby Margot in January 1692, after a mourning bonfire had been held and hope of Marguerite's return had waned. Eleanor records it as an act of tribute. The founding Delacroix naming pattern, the line restoring the name Margot, Marguerite, or Margaret across every generation, therefore originated not with Marguerite's intention but with Eleanor's grief.

Eleanor inexplicably began producing milk shortly after naming the child, and nursed Margot herself.

== Childhood and upbringing ==
Margot was raised primarily by Eleanor, Verdant's founding matriarch, while [[Marguerite Delacroix (Gen 0)|Marguerite]] remained a recurring absence who left and returned without reliable explanation. Her father [[William Ashburne]] died of illness in the winter of 1693-94, when Margot was approximately two years old.

She grew up as the first generation raised entirely inside Verdant's culture, born into [[The Hemlock Veil]] and growing up under its effects. She was formed by both the community's founding values and the specific tensions of her two mothers' relationship, including the unresolved questions about Marguerite's true intentions that shadowed Eleanor's final years.

== By Eleanor's final entry ==
The last mention of Margot in [[Eleanor Ashburne]]'s diaries comes in Eleanor's final entry in June 1710.