In preparation for her first shift back at work, Jaden takes Shez up on her offer for a 1:1 self-defence refresher.
Along with a boost in confidence, and finally being able to put the events of that one awful night to rest, Jaden learns that she and Shez are much more alike than she once thought.
It's finally time, ladies >:3c Thank you for your patience, and buckle up!!!
The first iterations of this chapter have been in the works since late 2019, I am literally off the walls excited I may explode!!!!!!!!!!!
40 thoughts on “Chapter 12: The Daughter of Meriam”
HorseBlaire
AWOOGA
anonymoo
omg?? 🥵
Blais
SHE !!! !! 😍😍😍
Mare Arbustorum
yes
Sunny
Heart rate just increased
Charly
Aaaaa we finally get to see Shez’s backstory and also hnnnnng 😳
Kory
EVERYBODY STAY CALM AND LOSE YOUR SHIT IT’S HAPPENING !!!!!
Blaire's ex-wife
LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
rustyhearts
Blaire’s ex wife…soon to be Shez’s wife??? 👀👀
kev
“i read leasebound for the plot!”
the plot:
SBD
AAAAA IT’S HEREEEEE IT’S HEREEEEE 😭💓 THE TIME HAS COME
asjjasqajdqywyfiaosrwdf…. Electrifying, divine. Gosh i got goosebumps and everything.
Your honor I love her!!!! 😭😭😭 It’s terminal
a snail
effervescent
Sunny
Shez is being all sad in the rain and here we are, lusting after her lol 😂
I absolutely CAN NOT wait for her Backstory 😍😍 Stab us in the Heart, Rusty!!
rustyhearts
big
buff
Ms. Clicker
Shez: *Showing ass, hips, arms, back, tattoo, wet shirt tournament*
Shez: Everyone’s is so mean to me 😔💔
Didi
Yeees. YEEES. YEEEESS!! [slaps a sticker on Shez’s back that reads 100% PREMIUM GRADE A AUSTRALIAN BEEF]
Mrin
Binging really made it easy to fall in love with the characters, but i think there is also something nice about waiting for new updates with other readers. Can’t wait.
rustyhearts
Hello again! I’m glad to hear you’ve been able to enjoy both 🥰 I think any new readers that come on board now get to enjoy the best of both worlds.
The dynamic of our main trio is well established, so it gives more to read out of the weekly page updates (imo!)
Thank you so much for the kind comment 🥰
Your local tortoiseshell cat
I remembered Shez’s last name is Meriam, as well as the title “The Daughter of Meriam” here – is that just in reference to her mother having the same last name, or did she change her last name to her mother’s first name as a way of moving away patriarchal naming conventions? If the latter, that makes her all the more iconic (but that’s just a guess on my part) 😍
rustyhearts
A very good guess!
Shez’s name Shanzey binti Meriam follows the naming convention of Muslim Malay people.
Instead of a surname/family name you inherent your father’s first name. The binti here is a prefix meaning “daughter of” (bin, aka “son of” is the male equivalent).
So all together: First-Name daughter/son of Father’s Name.
For reasons you will soon learn in this chapter, Shez was instead given her mother’s first name, Meriam.
Translated: Shanzey daughter of Meriam, hence the name of the chapter 😎
Crypty
Omg this makes me even more hype for the chapter!
Scully
Ah so I’m on mobile so I can’t reply to comments, but @ Rusty’s reply to the comment above, I never knew Muslim Malay people follow such a similar naming convention as Iceland! The Icelandic naming convention is your father’s name + dóttir or son, so if an Icelandic person has a father named Jón then their last name would be Jónsdóttir or Jónsson.
Although matronymic names have been gaining popularity over the past few decades or just naming kids after both parents, so for example if a couple named Helga and Jón had a daughter and wanted to be a little more progressive they might have their daughter the last name Helgudóttir Jónsdóttir.
However unfortunately all too often if women dare give their children a matronymic last name while the father is still in the picture they get heckled for “destroying Icelandic tradition and culture.”
Like my friend gave her children matronymic last names even though she’s still happily married to the father of her children, so now both her family and her husband’s family are always giving her shit for “trampling on Icelandic culture and tradition” for not giving them just a patronymic last name 🙄
rustyhearts
Wow that’s very interesting to know, thank you for sharing!
How very telling that the misogyny also carries over tho :/ Cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen men claim it’s no big deal to take his name in one breath, while claiming to feel degraded and disrespected at the idea of taking a woman’s name in the next.
Tradition is one of my least favourite excuses for misogyny ://
Wren
Shez!!!!!!!!!
Parniya’s biggest fan
I see why she chose Shez over me 😭💔
SBD
Don’t despair *pat pat* You tried your best… But her Ki was over 9000.
The game was rigged from the start. Give it time and you’ll find your own climbable lady full of love when you least expect it 💆🙌 Keep that head up
Parniyas biggest fan
Thank you so much!! I sure hope so 🥺 I think I talked about this on this website before but my relationship status as of right now is:
Me: I have a such a crush on this girl.. and she’s bisexual I think she likes me back!!… too bad she’s a TRA 😔
My friend: Makayla no!! Think with your head not your vagina!!
Me: IT’S TOO LATE I ALREADY SENT HER GOOD MORNING TEXTS
My friend: NOOOOO!!!
Sooooo yeah 😅😅😅😅
SBD
You’re welcome!!! 🤗🤗 I’m a big Shez fan, so I can understand why Parn chose her too, it’s… I mean look at her, it’s too much power.
Like, I think actually Shez killed Yamcha with mere eye contact that one time, but it was offscreen and Toriyama got insecure about how to handle her presence so the producers edited her out not just from the EP but the whole show in retaliation (misogyny never sleeps)…
I find solace in the fact I dont think I could be even Shez’s neighbour, i’d be far too annoying of a fan, i think i just couldn’t be normal about her short or longterm 💀 So yeah, good to know someone like Parn can handle that much Ki and magnificence just right and weave things in a healthy manner.
OK extreme silliness aside, ohhh somebody’s got a cruuuushhhhh, cuteeeeee… um wait, TRA is something like Trans Rights Activist no? In which case, that sounds rough 🤕 You sound kinda like you’re the Clancy to her MJ situation. Or the Riley to her Blaire.
I’m not sure what to tell you cause i feel i’m in some wobbly gray area when it comes to gender related discourse or the trans rights stuff. Not full on insulated unaware normie like Jaden but close to that. I havent been in the situation you describe either.
Hmmmm 🤔I think if you still want to take the risk and proceed, consider if she is actually single first cuz, she could be bi and into you but not looking, OR bi and not into you and also not looking for partners rn, so regardless of views it wouldnt work 😅.
The other thing to consider is how much potential disagreement actually IS there between you two, cause you guess and say she’s a “TRA” but seems it’s not wholy100% confirmed, right? so its unknown where you two actually agree or have commonality in views and where you don’t and stray toward opposite poles.
Is the Activist part even true or does she just hold certain views with little to not Action involved?? Does she truly hold said views to heart and can understand why she does or is she preemptively parroting and scared of backlash?? What does “Supporting trans rights” mean to you vs her, as in what does “Trans Rights” mean or involve in detail, where’s the cutoff? There is variation in the field you’re stepping.
I’m not a big risktaker so its not likely i’d make a move if i were in similar shoes, but then again i’m not You and this is about You! so… If you want to find out, a tip i’ve gotten from people who have dealt with spiritual incompatibility in partners is to actively avoid using inflamatory or loaded labels whenever discussing things.
With religion its certain words like heathen and schizo. So in your case i suppose it would translate into preparing for discussing stuff without using the words TERF, TWERF, TRA, tranny, troons, gendie, deluded, handmaiden and similar.
Some open compromise in language can be helpful as well, like if you can’t bear to use “AFAB” or “DFAB”, use natal female or natal female people (even if you believe that its
unnecessary or that just ‘female’ should be enough, or that it sounds stupid and redundant if you believe one can’t change sex), if you can’t bear to use transgender men nor enby, avoid TIF or “nonbinary girls” and use something else.
If you are discussing individual trans people, find ways to talk without pronoun emphasis rather than jumping to call somebody of MTF spectrum He, and somebody of FTM spectrum She, if for whatever reason(s) you refuse to stick to the “preferred pronoun always no buts no ifs” mindset.
And if you feel the conversation is getting heated, its okay to ask for a pause timeout so you both calm down and can think better your arguments. Supposedly that way you can reduce chances of the other person going into defensive mode, and you can discuss the nuances of your (dis/)agreements with more tact and nuance and less mutual reactive condescencion.
It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be compatible and end up together, but i hope that’s better than nothing. Maybe somebody else here can chime in with better insight if they have been through experiences like yours.
All in all, Wish you best of luck Parnifan!! 🤗🤗🤗
Vitamin C
Can’t wait for this chapter
TiFHater
OHHHH DAAAAAMN
rustyhearts
Your reward for suffering thru Brick pages. 😚😚😚
Mary
That cartoon scene where the wolf’s eyes and heart bulge out. But respectfully.
Normal person
It’s quite the whiplash to jump from the peak of gendie bullying and insanity to what will (hopefully) be wholesome bonding between Jaden and Shez…
But I’m relieved, I don’t know how much more I could take of Brick, Tiffany, Babygirl and co lmao. They’re hilarious but I can only cringe so much in one chapter! (I’m terrified of seeing where the board game thing with Blaire goes ofc lmao.)
Huge fan of how this page looks, and eager to see where the story goes!
rustyhearts
I totally understand 🤣🤣 come the print version I imagine ch11 and ch12 will occupy separate volumes to give them more tonal breathing room from eachother.
With that said you can indeed rest easy re: the gendie gang. None of them will be appearing in this chapter 🥰🥰
idontlikemen
i wanna fight shez’s biological dad and chris at the same time
rustyhearts
Put her in the ring!!!
LO
This has to be my favorite page of lb, because of how the name foreshadows what’s to come, and just how powerful it is when a daughter takes her mother’s name to me:)
!!!
recently i started boxing again and i’d be lying if I said that this chapter didn’t come to mind on my first day back 😭 i actually even have the same skin tone and height and eye color etc as shez so that probably helps,, ok what im trying to say is that shez lowkey was part of the reason i decided to get fit again and she’s a v important character to me. obv i dont expect to get shez-levels of buff but its still awesome seeing all the different body types in Lease Bound 🙌
rustyhearts
This makes me so incredibly happy, omg! Thank you for sharing, and holy crap good luck with the boxing!
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