#HC: minerva.

[sgrspiced-a]

thinking about minnie’s arena and how it was so memorable because of how batshit insane it was.

generally she was expected to win b/c of brutus (they wouldn’t rig it for that, but the gamemakers weren’t going to make it harder on her than anyone else), which would make for a really predictable and boring game. they were also coming off the tail end of augustus’s year, which was very exciting for the capitol, so — they had to keep momentum. so all of the tributes from her games got tossed into the prehistoric arena.

taking the setting of a prehistoric desert, temperatures would be ridiculously hot during the day and bitingly cold at night. there were supplies in the cornucopia to help with that, but — most tributes didn’t make it there (duh). food was few and far between but the tributes that could find it were able to stave off starvation for a while. once night came, the main concern was finding warmth — usually this was from a fire, or from orbs scattered around the arena that emitted heat. tributes congregated around these orbs and the careers killed at least four tributes while claiming their territory. after their deaths, which happened early on in the games (shout-out minnie and her fucking hammer), they became a “first come first serve” kind of thing.

these orbs later turned out to be eggs, from which dinosaur mutts emerged. any tributes that were around the eggs were killed and the mutts spent the rest of the time roaming the arena. the capitol viewers loved this and the gamemakers took note to bring back more “monster-looking” mutts.

on the other side of the chaos, minnie became a capitol favorite because of how earnestly she killed ; really, she was just fucking pissed. the rest of the career pack took her spear in an effort to change what they viewed as a rigged win. the two boy (who i’ve decided is named ares) didn’t like her so he didn’t really think twice about it; it only felt fair. she found a hammer and hunted down their location (the eggs, predictable) on the second night. only the one tributes and the district two male was there. she killed the district one boy first, which woke up the girl; she killed her second and made sure to bash her good, a show of brutality to anyone else but cashmere knew why when she watched. that unspoken spoken question for the girl to die ugly, so nobody could objectify her in death (to minnie’s credit, it worked). she let ares go, because she wanted him to be paranoid his entire games. it worked.

most of the games went by at a snails pace after that because of the lack of careers (four garnering the most kills), so the mutts were released earlier than planned. minnie killed both four careers when they were injured from the mutts, and she tried to make the rest of her kills quick (which is very hard when all you’ve got is a hammer). for ares she waited until it was just them two, then met him by the cornucopia. his death was brutal and, while most of district two doesn’t blame minnie because he was viewed as a traitor, it was still hard to watch. when ares stops fighting and the cannon blows minnie laughs until the hovercraft comes, heaving and covered in a mixture of dried and fresh blood. unfortunately this is the clip the capitol is obsessed with replaying every year, and minnie simply decides to not look at the screens.

[floertoer]

[marauderstars]

The reason we all love Sirius Black, Regulus Black, Mary Macdonald and Minerva McGonagall so much in the same way is because they all serve cunt.

[yellowarchivee]

Cassidy is boiling with anger

[wilderflowergirlie]

Lily Evans is endorsed by McGonagall to be the Quidditch commentator because they "need someone unbiased but who is still a gryffindor" and who "has the capability to actually learn more about the game." So Lily starts the microphone up, ready to do her best and impress her teacher, yet somehow turns bright red whenever James Potter in his uniform and sweating passes by and winks at her (something he does more and more when he notices she likes it).

Eventually, McGonagall has to choose a new gryffindor, because too many audience members complained that the commentator A. repeatedly got distracted and would trail off and B. could be heard flirting with the star player during the game multiple times.

McGonagall, of course, knew this would happen all along.

[accio-sriracha]

Dear Mr. Lupin,

I'm not sure if it is with desperate hope or we'll-earned faith that I write you now. Perhaps, it is a bit of both.

Nonetheless, I find myself with a quill in hand, and a memory of a young boy I used to know. A boy I remember being an excellent student, and an even greater friend. I was sure even then that he would grow to be a brilliant mind, a quiet soul, and a welcoming heart.

I am not usually one to brag, but I am very pleased to see how right I was, and how very mature you've become.

I know these have been troubling times, and I wish to impress upon you once again that my door is always open whenever you need me, and not just to discuss our missions from the Order.

Onto the topic of my letter, assuming this finds you well, I have recently been gifted (and I use gifted purposefully) an opening in the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching position. I beg of you, Remus, to at least consider applying.

I think it would do you good to be near friends again, and... well, to have a stable roof over your head. I say this out of love, of course.

I know this next bit of information may be the making or breaking of this arrangement, but I feel it dire to inform you regardless.

James and Lily's son will be returning for his third year.

Sometimes it is hard, I will admit, Harry truly does look so much like James. But I think this will do you some good as well, if you'd like to get to know him. You should try to bond with him, you were his parents' best friend after all.

I hope you will consider my offer, you're so very talented, and I would hate to see that talent go to waste.

I'm here if you need anything.

Write me soon,

Minerva McGonagall.

[sweetnnaivete]

— minerva mcgonagall moodboard + headcanons

— summary bc minerva ROCKS i love her (also outing myself as a mcgonagall x pomfrey shipper LMFAOOO) — a/n i said i was jus gonna do hcs 🫣 but i couldn't help but do a moodboard — taglist @picklerab23 @lovelorngirl @that-random-poseidon-child @nuncscioquidsitamor-13 (sorry if any of you didn't want to be tagged, i just tagged ppl who seemed interested 😓)

HEADCANONS UNDER CUT

ᥫ᭡. her father fought in ww2, and both she and her mother took care of him when he was back, as he struggled with ptsd

ᥫ᭡. she loved growing up in a muggle village, partly bc she felt special and smart, but also bc it made her have a closer relationship with her father

ᥫ᭡. when she got to hogwarts, the sorting hat took a long time to put her in a house, before she swore at it in her head and it screeched “GRYFFINDOR”

ᥫ᭡. sidenote: minnie def uses muggle swear words ik my girl is not saying "merlin's saggy ballsack" at every inconvenience

ᥫ᭡. she became popular pretty quickly, but she only had one real friend — poppy pomfrey

ᥫ᭡. they went EVERYWHERE together

ᥫ᭡. they were the big sisters of gryffindor house, even of hogwarts in general

ᥫ᭡. minnie got top grades in all her classes, so the only thing that offered a challenge to her was quidditch

ᥫ᭡. she'd read about in some books, but she had never played it before, so she tried out her second year, but failed to get in

ᥫ᭡. but over the summer she practiced, and got in her third year

ᥫ᭡. a lot of people were cruel to her, since she was a girl, which kept getting in her head and worsened her performance

ᥫ᭡. on one match, the bullying got so bad she didn't show her face the whole rest of weekend — even though they ended up winning

ᥫ᭡. poppy found out why and she hexed the bullies, giving them really bad nosebleeds

ᥫ᭡. minnie got back to playing quidditch, and was better than ever

ᥫ᭡. sidenote: everytime minnie got hurt in a match, she'd get taken care of by poppy (who volunteered at the hospital wing) and asjsksja so hurt comfort 😭 i love them

ᥫ᭡. in her fourth year, she dated a fellow chaser for a few months, but she was never really invested

ᥫ᭡. meanwhile, she couldn't help but feel a little jealous when poppy got in a relationship herself

ᥫ᭡. she broke up with her boyfriend on a hogsmeade weekend and he got mad and tried to hit her but she hexed him and left him rolling around in the snow in pain

ᥫ᭡. (because of this, she got called to the headmaster's office, and was put in detention, tho she negotiated it to only be once rather than a whole week)

ᥫ᭡. because of her experience taking care of her father, she was one of the most compassionate students, and eventually teachers, towards the younger ones who struggled with mental health

ᥫ᭡. she and poppy, already popular for their beauty and personalities, became known for their genuine kindness

ᥫ᭡. she and poppy became prefects at the same time, furthering their reputation as the gryffindor mothers

ᥫ᭡. she passed her o.w.l.s with flying colors, etc. etc.

ᥫ᭡. she spent the whole summer before her sixth year with poppy, eating ice cream, taking the train to edinburgh to go to the museums and “experience some culture”

ᥫ᭡. they def “practiced kissing” on each other, even though they'd both already had their first kisses

ᥫ᭡. the next year, minnie worked on becoming an animagus, under the supervision of dumbledore

ᥫ᭡. she became an animagus in a little over seven months, due to a few failed attempts, but!!! she got their in the end bc of course she did she's mcgonagall

ᥫ᭡. from that point forward she was constantly turning into her cat form, bc she loved yowling at her fellow students when they pissed her off

ᥫ᭡. of course she had to keep the fact that she was an animagus a secret, even tho she did it legally

ᥫ᭡. sixth and seventh year she got a lot of awards for transfiguration, but now she was starting to worry about where she would go in her career

ᥫ᭡. most of her teachers insisted she take up a teaching position at hogwarts but she was like “no😭😭 i hate kids”

ᥫ᭡. after graduation, she got a job at a magazine in london, where she had a column about transfiguration. she interviewed famous people, talked about how transfiguration and other forms of magic can be mixed, etc.

ᥫ᭡. but she wasn't happy

ᥫ᭡. at this point, she was penpals w poppy, who was working back at hogwarts

ᥫ᭡. poppy filled her in on the drama, and when minnie found out dumbledore was leaving his position as transfiguration professor to be headmaster, she rushed to apply

ᥫ᭡. obviously, she was given the job

— now for some headcanons from when she was a professor !

ᥫ᭡. one time minnie got in a fight with another animal in her animagus form and she showed up to class the next day with nicks in her ear and a limp

ᥫ᭡. causing a school-wide rumor that she was secretly in a gang (she doesn't deny it)

ᥫ᭡. minnie in animagus form always accompanied remus on the full moon, to make sure he never hurt himself too badly

ᥫ᭡. mcgonagall def picked favorites, but they had to earn it. some of her notable favorites: molly weasley, bill weasley, regulus black, remus lupin, andromeda black, mary macdonald, hermione granger, luna lovegood, neville longbottom, harry potter, fred & george weasley, and lee jordan (the quidditch commentator)

that's all i can think of right now, feel free to add on! <3

[icantdousernamesman]

THE MARAUDERS ERA SIBLINGS

As someone with 5 younger siblings, I refuse to believe that the marauders era characters were almost all only children.

So may i present, MY SIBLING HCS FOR THEM!!!

James- Defo an only child, spoilt rotten and couldnt do anything wrong in his parants eyes. Monty and Effie had him relitively old too, like probably early-mid 40s. Defo a planned baby, they were probs trying for a while but it didnt work so they started to think that they waited too late, so james was like a miricle to them.

Sirius/Regulus- Obviously theyre brothers, feel like they were planned but unwanted. Like, walburga was betrothed to orion, who was lot older than her btw, and they had to consumate their marrage right away, so i feel like sirius was consieved on their wedding night. Walburga wouldve been 13-16 at the time, and orion wouldve been 25-32. Feel like they had another pregnancy right before regulus but it miscarried early on, so when regulus was consived they just pretended that it was the same one. Regulus wouldve been consieved very shortly after sirius bc theyd like as many heirs as possible, like the rest of their family. They wouldve been all disapointed when he was born a girl and i think he wouldve been a difficult pregnency too. After that they wouldve tried again, and had multiple miscarriges before they finally stopped trying.

Remus- Hope and Lyall wanted more kids after remus, but instead they decided that after remus was bitten it woud just be too difficut and not fair on the other kid or remus to be in that situation.

OR

if we're going with the theory that remus was put up for adoption or somthing bc his parants either died or couldnt take him, then i reckon hed have a younger half sister, about 7 years younger than him, and two younger half-brothers, roughly 5 and 9 years younger than him. But either way i feel like hope and lyall had remus young, at like 18 or 20. Defo wasnt planned.

Peter- Peter would've had an older brother by about 10yrs i think. He doesnt see him anymore and hes THAT family member that the rest refuse to talk about for some reason. feel like he also has a 3 years older sister who he was close with, but died in the 1st war a while b4 he betrayed everyone. his brother wouldve been unplanned and his parants wouldve had him at about 21-24. Peter and his sister were both planed tho.

Mary- Girl has a LOT of siblings. Feel like shes a middle child, but the only witch in the family. Has about 6-8 siblings maybe, her being directly in the middle of them all, and also being a bit overlooked bc shes not always home and lives at a bording school, unlike the others who get public school. think she wouldve been rlly close w the youngest sibling before she started hogwarts, but then she started missing them growing up, so they ended up getting distanced. The oldest of her siblings wouldve been unplanned, but after that her parants just decided to go for it and keep having more. They all wouldve been in a relitively cramped flat in south london, probably with their parants in one room, the two oldest kids in another room, three middle kids in another room, and two youngest in a seperate one.

Lily- Honestly i can see it very well how it is, cannon compliant with her and petunia. Feel like they were both planned, and had a pretty mainstream and nuclear family.

Marlene- BROTHERS. Shes the youngest and only girl out of all of her siblings. She has one older brother by about 3-4 years, and then she also has about 3 or 4 older step-brothers from 6-10 years older than her. She was planned, and her parants originally wanted to have more kids after her, but they ended up splitting.

Dorcas- Feel like shes an only child tbh. Possibly has a younger sister, but she would be about 12 years younger than her or something. Would probs still be in hogwarts when dorcas died. Both would've been unplanned, but kept anyway.

Barty- Every ounce of bartys being just screams only child. He was planned, (and regretted) and his mum wanted one more kid after him and close in age, but his dad didnt want any more, so his mum just decided to use the "perfect on 1st try" phrase all the time. Think his parants wouldve been about 27-29 when they had him.

Evan/Pandora- ROSIER TWINS, OBVIOUSLY. They were planned babies, but i hc that their mum died in childbirth, so their dad raised them alone for about 3yrs, before he started dating and eventually married another woman, their step-mum. And about a 7-10 year age gap later, they had their little half-brother Felix. Evan liked him, but pandora LOVED him, and a few parts of him reminded her of regulus too. Felix was defo planned as well.

Brief bonuses

Alice- Has a younger brother and sister. Her brothers about 2 years younger than her, her sisters about 5 years younger. Her and her brother were planned, her sister was not.

Frank- Has a brother one year younger than him, both were planned.

Xeno- Has a brother 12 years older than him. His brother was planned, but he was not.

Molly/Gideon/Fabian- Gideon and Fabian were older than molly and both unplanned, and would always tease her. The twins were about 2 years older, and molly was also unplanned.

UNEXPECTED BONUS

Minnie- Idk why, but i feel like she had a twin sister that died unexpectedly young. Take that how u will.

(R.I.P Maggie smith)

[lilithofpenandbook]

The door to Minerva McGonagall's study opened. She knew without lifting her eyes who it was, so she kept them firmly on her paperwork.

Severus Snape, on the other hand, shut the door, proceeded to almost skip to the desk, and promptly hopped on and perched on the end.

She still ignored him.

He lowered his head all the way down until he was practically touching her forehead. Her eyes rolled up to meet his. He had a little grin on his face, one that didn't disappear at the steel in her eyes. Instead it seemed to increase. "Alright, mum?"

"What do you want?" she sighed.

"What, a man can't pay a visit to his old friend?" Severus tutted, shaking his head. "And here I thought you loved me."

"I loath you, if that's what you mean," she retorted wryly. Severus's eyes widened and he put a hand on his chest.

"Oh, I'm simply wounded, mother! See, my heart, it is completely and utterly torn in pieces!"

"Yer heart's on the left side, you overgrown sausage."

Severus quickly moved his hand. "Well, I could feel the pain over there due to the heavy impact of the pain," he improvised.

"Oh, aye?"

"Aye, that's the truth."

"Didn't know yer sneaky, sly little silver tongue could speak the truth!"

"Here, just 'cause I convinced the Headmaster that you were the one who ate his cake, it d'nt mean you have to still be mad at me!"

Minerva sipped her tea, and looked at the overgrown gangly child grown man of 32 years who was still sat on her desk. "Are you going tae leave me in peace, laddie? Or d'ye need me tae give ye a sweetie like yer a wee firstie wanting his mummy?"

Severus's eyes went wide once again. "Bloody hell, mum's on the warpath."

"Did ye have a purpose fer interrupting me work or not?" she demanded.

"I did!" Severus looked insulted.

"Then what?! Out with it, boy!"

Severus's dark eyes met her. They remained fixed on her eyes. His hand reached out, and batted her tea cup, toppling it onto its side. Still maintaining the eye contact, he slipped off her desk, and walked backwards to the door.

"What...?" she gaped at him.

Severus saluted, eyes still fixed on her. And then he proceeded to sprint off down the corridor, probably going to bother Albus for attention.

Minerva stared at the cup on its side.

"...what is wrong with you? Are ye some sorta overgrown kitty cat- oh. Oh my... SEVERUS!"

[fullscoreshenanigans]

*Yes, but only because they're young and they don't want to go through with the potentially painful process of having them removed until they're older. **This is very much a case-by-case matter, but I don't have strong opinions or headcanons for specific characters about it. ***This is very much a case-by-case matter, and I do have strong opinions or headcanons for one or a few specific characters regarding this subject.

Further discussed in this post.

(S1 Episode 1 | S2 Episode 8 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 69)

(There is Nothing You Can Do About it, Now by @bblueraven-and-fandoms14)

And spoilers for khgnh's Fragments focusing on the topic under the cut:

[yamishika]

have any other ethnicity headcanons for fairy tail characters?

Fairy Tail Characters Ethnicity HCs

I don’t have as much extensive proof as I do for my Erik headcanons post but I will explain my thoughts for why I think certain ethnicities.

Natsu Dragneel : Japanese + Greek? (Because of the clothing style in his past flashback with his biological family)

Erza Scarlet : British + ? - I say British because she reminds me of Lara Croft who in her older days had reddish hair, also English history is big on knights, which Erza is. The other half I can’t tell as I don’t actually know what to think of her father Rung as. He seems like a POC though. (Maybe Mexican?)

Lucy Heartfilia : British / American - Because Lucy’s heritage as a noble it reminds me more of English nobility, but then her characteristics remind me more of american for some reason (it doesn’t help that Lucy looks a lot like Ashley Graham from the original RE4 and she’s American so I am kind of biased there)

Gray Fullbuster : Canada or Serbia (I think that’s mainly because I am making the link of cold countries though). Also if with Serbian I can see Ultear and him coming from similar places)

Gajeel Redfox : Native American (His hair and features remind me of Native Americans and I don’t know he kind of reminds me and looks like of Ratohnhake:ton / Connor from AC3) Juvia Lockser : Spanish + Russian (Spanish as the name Juvia is Spanish origin and Russian since the ushanka she wears and her clothing style in general)

Jellal Fernandes : Mixed ethnic - Mixed Arab (mainly Levantine Arab) + Brazilian, but then in my HCs he’s also part Desi too since the name Jellal is most prominent in India (And I want Erik to have a desi bro in CS). And the Arab/South asian idea came from him wearing Kohl/Surma in S1 in the anime. 

Ultear Milkovich : Serbian with mixed Central Asian or Kazakh (Again cold countries but since Ultear looks Eurasian but with dark features these countries came to mind. Serbia because apparently the name Milkovich is Serbian origin)

Macbeth/Midnight :  English w/Scottish + Irish + Japanese - English/Scottish/Irish is a given since his name ‘Macbeth’ but since his aesthetic is alike to Visual Kei, I see Japanese influence. But I don’t know, I just can see Macbeth with a british accent, maybe that’s just me.

Sorano Aguria : French and Korean/Japanese (I don’t know why I have the French, it just fits me when discussing with my friend @acutemushroom. Korean/Japanese because despite having a Japanese name (her and Yukino) due to her features she gave me kind of Korean vibes for some reason)

Sawyer : English (I can’t explain other than the name. But I thought of Romanian too for some reason, so English + Romanian?)

Richard Buchanan : South African + Scottish? (My only thought for this was because Buchanan I knew it as a last name big in South Africa, and Scottish is probably because of the red hair and ruddy complexion that I know scottish people can have)

Meredy : Irish (I don’t know why, it was hard to think of anything for her)

Kinana : Desi (Since the name Kinana is an urdu name apparently - So Pakistani) 

Cana Alberona : Irish + Italian (Guildarts gave me tanned Irish vibes for some reason and Alberona is I believe an Italian name)

Minerva Orland : Chinese + Latina (She wears a Cheongsam and her hair reminds me of Chinese culture but then I see Latina too) BUT, maybe she has Egyptian too and Italian since Minerva (Italian/Latin) but the blue eyeliner/eyeshadow she always has is alike to Malachite powder that was used by ancient egyptians 

Laxus Dreyar : Ukrainian + Russian (He gives me eastern europe vibes and also his features) but also since he's Makarov’s grandson he’d have Russian in him 

Makarov Dreyar : Russian - (I think his full name is of Russian origin but I can't be sure.) These are the HCs I have off the top of my head, hope this answers your question!

[sgrspiced-a]

after minnie exits her games, her preferred weapon becomes her mace and her flail. they weren’t her first choice, but she’s not allowed hammers anymore ):

[st3ddie-starchas3r]

Of course James Potter was Minerva’s favorite. Fleamont is her best friend and she is James Godmother after all.

[limelightofpolaris]

If Tom riddle went to McGonagall instead of slughorn

Tom: you see professor I was in the restricted section-

McGonagall: and why were you in the restricted section ,riddle?

Tom: I was doing a research.

McGonagall: and the whole library wasn't enough for you?

Tom:....

McGonagall: who signed you a form to enter it?

Tom: professor slughorn...

McGonagall: show it to me

Tom: wellll I will go and get it

McGonagall: detention.

[yellowarchivee]

Vanessa used to have dreams about a girl her age. it used to wake her up at night, Something always made her feel want to protect that girl. She doesn’t understand from what, or the reason why.

FNAF AU ▪︎ Minerva and Vanessa. ▪︎

[deadchaoticcosmos]

Okay so I saw this hc where Minnie was James's godmother and I'm in love with it so I was think about it as you would and then I started thinking about harry and how she probably thought of herself as his like kinda grandmother in a way and idk I find this whole hc really cute

Ohhh oh oh so in a universe where James lives (it is starchaser in my head not jily) and effie and monty still died when James was young but after Harry was born and so when James and regulus always had to go to hogwarts because Harry got in trouble it would be really sweet because at this point James had always thought Minnie was like a 2 mum and was Harry s 2 grandma and while Harry's there at hogwarts it is so cute because she would treat him like other students but at the end of the lessons she would go full granny mode and look like a drug dealer trying to give him chocolate and shit

Goddddd I could go on and on about this sorry I lice ,love to rant

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