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chacswins​:

“Ah, damn -” Molly swears under her breath. She finally convinced Arthur to allow her to go out alone, now she’s hunching over a bench in Diagon Alley. Her body got pushed too far, she overdid it. Everything in her despises to ask for help, so she stays hunched over until she feels someone by her. ��I’m alright! I’m alright!”

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daisy wasn’t exactly convinced that molly was alright as she claimed. the derby and the attack had long since left daisy’s mind, daisy herself isolated from the worst of the attack. “you sure? do you want me to get someone? or carry anything for you?”

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( 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ) — hogsmeade ( 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ) — closed ( 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 ) — diana dyer ( @dramaqveens​ )

“diana. please stand still for a few seconds.” daisy had wrangled a stranger into taking a picture of them. bringing her own camera and hoping that it wouldn’t explode while using it seemed like a much easier thing to do than wait in the line for christmas photos that stretched far past the booth. “mom is going to be pissed if we don’t send her a holiday picture this year.” and they couldn’t get that picture if diana couldn’t stand still for five second. 

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( 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ) — hogsmeade ( 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ) — closed ( 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 ) — antigone xu ( @antigonai​ )

“wait close your eyes!” daisy yelled out as she walked up to antigone. antigone’s christmas gift was in a small plastic bag that she had grabbed at the market, and daisy shoved the bag into the tote bag she was carrying around. “all good now.” she said and pulled them into a hug. “find anything good since i left?”

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( 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ) —   diagon alley ( 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ) —   open

daisy held a foam to go cup in her hands, leeching away as much heat from the thin to-go cup. “i don’t think hot chocolate is supposed to taste like this.” technically speaking, it was a peppermint hot chocolate with a shot of espresso. not that it tasted like that. it was watery and had just a hint of chocolate with an overwhelming peppermint flavor. it was enough to make her mouth burn just a bit. “i really wouldn’t recommend it. twelve dollars isn’t worth it.”

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2, 12, 20 & 🎧 !

2. Where do they prefer to read? On the sofa, in bed, at a table, on the porch, in a cafe?

already answered !

12. How do they organize their books? Alphabetical by author, by title? By size, color, date published? Is there any rhyme or reason?

by color and an absurd amount of the books she owned are those aesthetic book piles you can find on etsy to decorate an apartment to seem smart

20. Have they ever had an imaginary friend?

no but she used to tell people that diana was her imaginary friend. their parents were not please with that. 

🎧 — to see my muses most played songs

truly? daisy exclusively listens to taylor swift music. it’s an issue. her favorite album is midnights with red as a close second.

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1, 2, 3 & 4

different headcanon questions → not accepting

1. What are three Netflix shows that they’ve rated five stars?

stranger things, hence the halloween costume debacle of 2022. elite, i haven’t seen it but i imagine she likes messy teen dramas. the umbrella academy, don’t read into it and the messy family dynamics please. it doesn’t signal anything at all. 

2. Where do they prefer to read? On the sofa, in bed, at a table, on the porch, in a cafe?

daisy is a cafe reader 100% ! she really doesn’t actually like reading so if she’s gonna do it at all, it’ll be somewhere where other people can see it doing it and imagine she’s That Girl.

3. Do they like to play games? What kind of games: video, card, board? What are some of their favorites?

daisy hates gin. it’s a horrible card game and she always has a horrible time playing it. she will ask total strangers to play it with her. 

4. What’s their food weakness? What food can they never turn down?

rich kid stuff. daisy’s used to stupidly expensive food and it’s what she tends to be eat but she has a soft spot for the greasiest most likely to give her food poisoning takeout food from time to time. 

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♉:  is my muse prone to jealousy?

very much so ! daisy’s the fun combo of older sister and middle child so that alone is going to make her more prone to jealousy, with her early childhood to early teens with most of the attention going to her other siblings. so she was always fighting for some attention until she became the heir and suddenly she was the kid that mattered. and she knows how tenuous her position as the favorite is and she really used to covet that and it led a much more general jealousy in regards to the attention people she cares about give her and other people.

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judvs​:

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽  :  hogsmeade village  !

her friend had made her promise to be nice. she’d opened her mouth to argue and been silenced by the look on their face ; they weren’t taking the snowman building competition nearly as seriously as she was, and were worried she was going to embarrass them. begrudgingly, marietta had actually held out her hand to loop gloved pinky fingers, solemnly swearing ( on pain of death - well, not really, but the incompletion of their snowy entry, which was just as bad ) not to cause a scene before stomping off towards the offending sculpture, snow boots crunching pleasantly all the way. she’d been waiting an hour for this entrant to return, and now that she had her chance, fists clenched inside her jacket pockets, her friends chastising voice ringing in her ears, marietta knew that there was only one thing for it - “that’s OUR scarf,” she explodes, immediately, her expression sour as she waits for the other to emerge from behind their creation, ”you took it off our snowman when we went for lunch. i want it back.” 

“what?” the annoyance in daisy’s voice wasn’t characteristic, the sort of tone she saved only for diana nowaways. but her day was already teetering on the edge of bad. it was supposed to be a cute date idea, a nice wintery date with antigone and the snowman building competition had just been the perfect thing to incorporate into it. but now daisy was just cold and her clothes soaked through from the snow. apparently instagram chic winter clothes didn’t translate well to playing in the snow.  “i mean i did steal this scarf.” antigone had gone to grab her a hot chocolate, one glance at her red noses and near pout enough to send them into action but not before daisy stole their scarf, first to wear and then to wrap around the snowman she was standing guard over when she decided it would look cute. “but from my girlfriend. because that’s cute.”

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dramaqveens​:

“you know exactly what i’m talking about!” diana’s response was insistent - her hands on her hips as she stepped up to her sister. “and don’t try to convince me otherwise-” she was quick to add. she was no longer a child - she wouldn’t fall for any of daisy’s tricks this time. “you had clearly been kissing each other! your lipstick was the same color and everything-” she finished with a confident smile. “and don’t try to distract me with ellie. you wanted to dump her.”

“i really don’t! you are talking nonsense, diana.” the eye roll was probably lost to diana in the dim lighting but daisy thought it was a nice touch. she didn’t want diana to know about the relationship yet, didn’t want the information getting back to their parents when it was still a very fragile thing. “are you really insinuating that having the same lipsitck shade as someone means that i’m dating somoene? what sort of leap in logic is that?” she took a few steps back, feigned offense, “and now you are doubting my relationship with ellie, really? mom wanted us to get engaged. i was in love.”

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indemnae​:

OPEN STARTER : @startertms. LOCATION : anywhere in wix london.

“ mon dieu… ” fleur mumbled to herself, burying her phone in the back pocket of her jeans quite harshly. it was near useless to her since it she was convinced it was taking her to anywhere but where she needed to be. it could almost be seen a humorous to anyone that knew just how many years fleur had been residing in england — only to be found like a mind boggled foreigner struck with culture shock. clearing her throat a little too loud, also an attempt to grab the attention of the person closest to her. “ pardon ? i’m so sorry to disturb you, but would you know know the quickest way to get to hogsmeade from here ? ”

her shift ended late, her relief a few minutes later than daisy cared for, and as a consequence, daisy herself was late. she’d convince a stall at the market to hold one of their pottery pieces for her today, their stock yesterday cleared out before she even had the chance to get there. but that hold was time dependent, and she’d already been cutting it close if she left work on time. she considered ignoring fleur, pushing past her and running towards her destination. but she stopped, looked back at the woman. “that’s where i’m heading if you want to tag along.”

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antigonai​:

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽  :  shrieking shack, hogsmeade  ! 𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶  :  @praefcrtis​  !

“for what it’s worth, you’re the prettiest person here.” and finally, there’s a break in the non stop apologies that antigone has been giving since they turned up and discovered their costume mishap. one could say that they were both EQUALLY at fault for it, but they were willing to take the brunt of the blame - it was bad enough their prior commitment to the leaky cauldron had cut into their night in the first place, and it was on them alone that there was no time to fix this case of crossed wires & misunderstandings. antigone has definitely worn out i’m sorry, but has yet to take the time to say what they should have from minute one and now that they’ve finally remembered, they take daisy’s hand and make sure to look her deep in the eyes before continuing, meaningfully, “your costume is amazing and i…- i have never been as into sailor hats as i am right now.” 

“the prettiest person here with the hottest person here. at least we are matching there.” she hadn’t offered her own apology, wouldn’t until she work up the next day with a headache behind her eyes. in the morning daisy would admit her own fault in the costume debacle but her pride was just hurt enough right then for her not to be ready to accept that. i’m going as robin seemed to her a clear enough statement, and her relationship with antigone just new enough so she wasn’t aware antigone had no idea what stranger things was. “babe, are you developing a thing for sailors? because i can keep this costume around for a while.”

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answered here !!

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☯:  is my muse more idealistic or cynical?

idealistic about the world as a whole. she likes to think that the world is fundamentally a good place and that people are fundamentally good. when it comes to her own life, she’s just starting to see her life in a more idealistic way, content she’s going to be able to live her life the way she wants to for the first time in awhile. 

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☃ ♌ ▲ !!!!

headcanon meme → not accepting

☃:  does my muse like the holidays?

daisy will put a smile on her face and pose for a million christmas pictures every year but she really doesn’t care much for it or the other fall and winter holidays. it’s just been a series of meals with her extended family and parties where she’s expected to always put her best foot forward. she hasn’t been back to the united states for any of the assorted holidays, always sending an excuse about establishing herself among the british wixen community. her parents haven’t called her on it yet. here’s to making better memories this year. 

♌:  three things my muse is enthusiastic about

believe it or not, daisy actually has a lot of passion for potion-making. it’s something she’s good at and something that makes her parents proud enough even if they would prefer that she focused on something more directly related to running a business. 

when it comes to the interests that her parents encouraged, art and art history are the ones that stuck. it might be a little boring but daisy’s always had the most fun at an art museum. 

and maybe i’m stretching the prompt a little bit with this one but daisy’s always been a hopeless romantic. the arranged marriages of the british pureblood society are less common in its united states counterpart but there’s still an expectation that daisy marry well, raise the family’s standing in one way or another even if her parents stop short of picking out a partner for her. 

▲:  my muse’s happiest memory

not necessarily her happiest memory but her happiest memory before nox: christmas when she was nine. i know i just said she doesn’t care much for the holidays but daisy was young enough then that she didn’t really notice the tensions between her family and it was years before she was expected to be the dyer family heir. the memories are hazy but it was warm and she got expensive toys and good food. 

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What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell? / What is the smallest morally questionable choice they’ve made?

What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell? 

daisy’s not the sort of person to have big secrets. there’s a lot of little secrets she keeps, enough that most of how she presents to the world is practiced to one extent or another, but big secrets, scandalous secrets, aren’t something she has. but the biggest thing she’s kept secret from a serious romantic partner, and this applies specifically to antigone only, is her estrangement from her older sibling. honestly, antigone might not even know about him. 

What is the smallest morally questionable choice they’ve made?

trying to gaslight diana into thinking that she wasn’t dating antigone. typical older sister shit which is always morally questionable but like just a tiny bit, you know?

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what do you miss most about america?

there wasn’t much that daisy missed about the united states. the distance from her parents had been a godsend and nearly everything else paled in comparison to that benefit. “the month-day date format. it just makes more sense, you know? like the month is the folder and the date is the file. that’s what makes sense. the day being first is just wrong.” 

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🧊 🏙🌧💍     

thought provoking questions 

🧊          »        what    does    your    character    first    notice    about    another    individual    ?

their outfit. daisy’s not the most fashion obsessed person out there but she’d be lying if she said she didn’t notice people’s clothes first. there’s a canned answer she will give out about it being the best way to know someone’s personality at a glance but it’s really a hold over from SWI, when she would look at people’s non-uniform clothes to see how expensive they were. 

🏙          »        what    does    your    character    value    more    ––    creativity    or    practicality    ?

practicality. it’s not an innate thing for daisy but instead a learned habit for her. i would say that her initial instinct is for creativity but that’s not really something that’s been useful for her trying to fit in the mold her parents want her to fit into. so she falls make on practicality over creativity.

🌧          »        describe    a    time    your    character    did    something    even    though    they    were    scared    

daisy’s move to london, honestly. her life hasn’t been as filled with war as the majority of noxtms characters. really, it didn’t touch over in the united states given she was a sea away and any increase in prejudice wouldn’t have been aimed at her. doing this one big thing got her, without thought for what her parents want her to do, well, that was terrifying for her. 

💍          »        what    is    your    character’s    favourite    gift    that    they’ve    received    ?

she doesn’t have one. i’m sure it’s going to end up being whatever antigone gets her for christmas this year but yeah, she doesn’t have one yet. her family and friends back in the united don’t have an idea of who daisy is, what she really likes, what would be meaningful to her.