#--quite a lot of undergoing traumas and perceptions of events that although weren't causations but contributing factors--

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*first 4 notes of megalovania* not but what is this im thrown back to 2016

✍️✍️✍️✍️ Julia thoughts:

I seriously need to compose a large post about her misadventures because it is a crime to keep it all in the drafts at this point.

These thoughts are descriptive of trauma, careful.

An encounter like this would shake the life in her.

Battle's aftermath and followed poacher clearings took its toll on her mental health. She began to think that miniature world needed her efforts and although it was true around locals and that particular region of Highlands in general, as it is rather remote and from what I read about it, also its very own thing, the greater diorama had her in its corner and not even on its brightest spot.

While she was busy rescuing beasts with Poppy and trashing remaining camps with Natty, the main spotlight was taken by the Rookwood trial. The whole net of communication was busted, press ran amok, many families suddenly realised they made oopsie-fuckupsies, some of them were purebloods. Fun bit: not the Blacks, the House of Black didn't want to mingle with eh-eh the Continent; they had some too much beef with their French relatives at the time.

Julia's efforts weren't futile, mind, but her perception of them was the cause of her dour mood, nightmares, stay-ups, and it soon became a major concern to Aesop.

At this point of their story, their relationship wasn't yet mentor & mentee but a trust between someone who is lost and someone who knows how to escape. Aesop had a dangerous amount of influence over her, and that he was in her shoes once after Thea, his partner, died, did help to navigate her trauma, although he could only do so much at the sight of the wound that needed time to heal and him to look after it.

No one else knew anything about Julia's family -- something she desperately sought some days -- and her secrets weren't known to many people able to assess the gravity of her situation and give her pointers in life. I.e., what to do with that ancient magic, what's here it for her after the school is over for the summer, what the Ministry expects of her. So basically, at that time, he was a confidante to her.

If Aesop hadn't left to office, he would've been working with trainees and recruits. Moreover, he knows all too well how tempting a thought of casting a spell to resolve a trouble in an augenblick can be. But he would've been able to give feedback and pointers, to explain the scary bits, and to teach how to ignore the wand's urge to cast. Julia, however, was nor a trainee, neither a recruit; she was his charge in some sense and each of his advice she wouldn't be quick to assess or to reflect on it. She would disregard or adopt it with little to no thoughts. He also didn't have many ideas on how to look after a troubled, dependent kid with a responsibility that couldn't be easily detached from her.

Fig had far more experience and patience in such matters. After all, he was a teacher and Aesop was a coach.

It was weirdly common for Julia to end up with so much on her plate, she honestly needed a divine intervention or a thaumaturgy to be removed from so much troubles, many of which weren't even the direct consequences for her own actions. She was usually thrown into something and expected to survive and resolve the issue of someone else's nefarious design existence.

In a sense, she was performing the auror duty, which was admirable, but she wasn't ever compensated for it and was instead taken for granted after certain points in the story.

Aesop feared that would happen and he tried to redirect her attention and it didn't go in vain but, uh. Let's just say, he completely forgot about the certain granian and after its rescue Julia was badly injured by the beast, later placing Aesop on the receiving end of her anger. She thought he was helping her, instead, he deceived her to believe he was a friend, as many people did those days. Yes, she was on the verge of I Did So Much For These People and it halted her well-being.

But Aesop wasn't to give up on her, he has PhD in grief and guilt, no no no, if he dug up that pit, he'd climb it down and retrieve her back to somewhere safe -- which he ended up doing; he became very adamant about You Would Let One Down, You Let Down Every One.

But that's the story for another day and tbh the second part of Julia's 5th year is a certified traumacore, idk why I made it so harsh.

So.

While Julia was cringing backwards and Aesop was an idiot sandwich and everyone in support of Julia trying to butterbeer her to sanity, uh.

Aesop was appalled and enraged after he heard vile rumors people began to spread about Julia. I'm not going into details but due to the press coverage Rookwood case had, some students and then their families soon began to gossip that that muggleborn stole all the praise from Thee True Wizards and Witches that were also involved in the Rookwood's downfall, what a show-off that girl was, where does the Headmaster Black look, what her poor friend Onai makes of such a 'friend', etc etc etc, even Julia's personal life was roasted.

How it ended, briefly: Imelda threw punches, Poppy's gran promised to threw punches in dugbogskin gloves, Garreth said Ron's line from OotP, NATTY DESTROYED EVERY SINGLE RUMOR BITCH, Ominis rumored the gossipers, and Poppy reminded hippogriffs are fierce. 🫵

but as u can imagine, among everything else in the midst of it all, the girl needed a ground check and something to escape to -- and Mara perhaps would've needed to see and settle things for herself (and then probably to set off imelda only to throw spells for punches instead bc how could these people the sheer audacity)

@thriftstorebabayaga it's been months im still trying to find the right words to explain how it all went to hell and back

here's a fun question: if Amara was an NPC in the game, what kind of side quest would she have for the MC??

I’ve put much thought into this actually, so this ask was perfect timing!

Basically, as Amara wouldn’t be a werewolf during the events of the game yet, her plotline doesn’t focus on that one bit. I’ve brought it up vaguely in passing before, but I’d actually like for her to be a hidden boss post Ranrok. Because in my canon, she’s the previous Champion, seemingly MIA during your stint in the tournament. Though various NPCS would make comments about her in passing.

There are several things that irk me about this game, one being the lack of consequences and two, the difficulty. The combat is fun but by a certain point it’s mindless. So, in this hypothetical I want Amara to be an actual test of skill, no ancient magic, no curses, no items, no potions. A straight up duel, with her being at the max level cap (40) and only available to duel at normal or hard difficulty.

You’d find her post-Ranrok, in the clock tower where Lucan stands in the daytime. I’ve actually thought about her dialogue up until this point, but nothings finalized. All I know is she says “Let’s dance.” before the duel begins, all smug about it but surprisingly serious.

If you’ve played Undertale, then the best way I can put it, is that it’s a sans-esq fight, meaning it’s supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to catch the player off guard and make them go “??? wtf was that” right from the beginning. I imagine it employs the rhythm technique from the training dummy, with perfect precision.

If you win, through many valiant attempts, you a really cool outfit, which I of course, haven’t decided on yet. Maybe a dope cloak with all sorts of insignia on it, i’ll sort that out later. She also can be spoken to after that, and summoned as a companion via mods. You’d have her respect after that, though she’d still be adament to keep coming back for more, with slight variations upon repeat attempts, to increase replay value (another thing the base game sorely lacks).

In a hypothetical DLC, where I’d guess every character gets some new questlines, she could teach you a new spell. Something questionable probably. Reducto, is my personal go-to.