#Harry looks older than William

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This is what happens when the narc drains you and Ages you..the Spare looks like he is close to 50, like his wife.

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‘I wanted to be seen as the greatest actor of all time. Then I realised that was nonsense’: Michael Sheen on pride, parenting and paying it forward

He’s the feted star who cracked Hollywood, but it was only when he swapped LA for his home town in Wales that he was able to do his most meaningful work yet

By Simon Hattenstone

Michael Sheen has been fabulous in so many TV dramas and movies, it’s hard to know where to start. But perhaps his most memorable appearance came earlier this year in a TV show that didn’t require him to do any acting at all. The Assembly was a Q&A session in which he took questions from a group of young neurodiverse people. Sheen didn’t have a clue what would be asked, and no subject was off limits. It made for life-affirming telly. The 55-year-old Welsh actor was so natural, warm and encouraging as he answered a series of nosy, surprising and inspired questions. I watched it thinking what a brilliant community worker Sheen would be. And, in a way, that’s what he has become in recent years.

“The Assembly’s had more response than anything else I’ve ever done,” Sheen tells me. “Almost every day someone will come up to me and mention it, particularly people who have children with autism. They say it was just so lovely to see something where the interviewers were empowered. I had a fantastic time.” He replays some of his favourite moments: the young man Leo who took an age to start talking, and then delivered the most beautifully phrased question about the influence of Dylan Thomas on Sheen’s life; the woman who asked what it was like to be married to a woman only five years older than his daughter; and the question that came at the end: “What’s your name, again?” He smiles: “And Harry with the trilby on. Just the nicest man ever.” You came across as an incredibly nice man, too, I say. “Aw well, it’s hard not to be when you’re among all those amazing people, innit.”

Today we meet in London, ostensibly to talk about A Very Royal Scandal, a gripping mini-series about Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis – the disastrous attempt to defend his honour that sealed his fall from grace. But we don’t get to the show till it’s almost going home time. Sheen’s too busy discussing all the other stuff that matters to him, away from business.

Six years ago, he swapped life in Los Angeles for Port Talbot, the steel town where he grew up. These days he calls himself a not-for-profit actor – a term he happily admits he’s invented. “It means that I try to use as much of the money I earn as I can to go towards developing projects and supporting various things. Having had some experiences of not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, I realised that’s what I want to do with my business. And my business is me.” He grins. There was a suggestion that he might stop acting in order to do good works, but he says that never made sense; only by getting decent gigs can he earn money to put back into the community.

It has to be said he’s got the air of a not-for-profit actor today – scruffy black top, sloppy black pants, black trainers. With a bird’s-nest beard and a thicket of greying curls, he looks nicely crumpled. But give him a shave and a trim, allow him a flash of that electric smile, and he could still pass as a thirtysomething superstar.

Sheen is best known for transforming into household names – Brian Clough in The Damned United; Chris Tarrant in Quiz; David Frost in Frost/Nixon; a trio of films as Tony Blair (The Deal, The Queen, and The Special Relationship); Kenneth Williams in Fantabulosa. His Prince Andrew is compelling; by turns petulant, pathetic, monstrous and poignant. He has a gift for inhabiting famous people – voice, body, soul, the works. He’s equally adept as a regular character actor – the dapper angel Aziraphale in Good Omens, pale and pinched as spurned suitor William Boldwood in the 2015 film of Far From the Madding Crowd, the tortured father of a daughter with muscular dystrophy in last year’s BBC drama Best Interests. He even plays a winning version of himself alongside David Tennant (and their respective partners Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant) in the lockdown hit TV series Staged.

But the work that changed his life was his 2011 epic three-day reimagining of The Passion on the streets of Port Talbot, involving more than 1,000 people from the local community. It was years in the making, and during that time he decided he would leave Los Angeles to come home. Initially, home just meant Britain, probably London. But the longer he spent with his people, the more it became apparent to him that home could only mean one thing – returning to Port Talbot, and helping the disadvantaged town in whatever way he could.

He admits that for many years he didn’t have a clue about the reality of life in Port Talbot. He had always lived in one bubble or another. His parents were hardly flush, but they had decent jobs – his mother was a secretary, his father a personnel manager at British Steel, and both were active in amateur dramatics. Sheen was academically gifted (he considered studying English at Oxford University before winning a place at Rada), a talented footballer (he had trials with Cardiff and Swansea) and an exceptional young actor. Then came the bubble of Rada and London, followed by the bubble of LA.

It was only when he started to work on The Passion that he began to understand his home town. One day he was rehearsing with a group in a community hall when he was approached by a woman. “She told me she was the mother of this boy who’d been in my class at school called Nigel. When I was 11, he fell off a cliff in an accident and died. It was the first time I’d known someone to die. She said, ‘I’ve started up a grief counselling group here. I have a little bit of money from the council because there is no grief counselling in this area.’” She’d had no counselling when Nigel died, nor in the 31 years since. “And all these years later, she’d set up a little grief counselling thing with a bit of money, so that was extraordinary to hear.” Next time he returned he discovered that the group no longer existed because of council cuts.

Every time he went back he discovered something new. He met a group that supported young carers. Sheen doesn’t try to disguise how ignorant he was. “I said, ‘All right, what are young carers?’ And they said, ‘They’re children who are supporting a family member.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, this is a profession, they get paid, right?’ And I was told, ‘No, they don’t get paid and our little organisation gives them a bit of respite – once a week we take them bowling or to the cinema.’ I went bowling with them one night and there were eight-year-old kids looking after their mother and bringing up the younger kids. This one organisation was trying to take these kids bowling one night a week, and then that went. No funding for that, either. That kind of stuff was shocking.”

As a child, SHEEN says he was oblivious to struggle because he was so driven by his own dreams. First, it was football. By his mid-teens it was acting. West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, which he calls “one of the best youth theatres in the world”, was on his doorstep. “The miners’ strike was on when I was 15 in Port Talbot and I wasn’t really aware of it at the time. That’s how blinkered I was, because I was so obsessed by acting at that point.” Acting wasn’t regarded as a lofty fantasy in Port Talbot as it may have been in many working-class communities. After all, the town had produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins.

In his late teens, heading off for Rada, Sheen feared he would be surrounded by giant talents who would dwarf his. When he discovered that wasn’t the case, he suffered delusions of grandeur. “I wanted to be recognised as the greatest actor in the world,” he says bluntly. In the second year, the students did their first public production: Oedipus Rex. “I thought, well obviously I’ll be cast as Oedipus, then we’ll perform Oedipus to the public and when the world sees me for the first time I’ll be carried shoulder-high through the streets of London and hailed as the greatest actor of all time.” I look for an ironic wink or nod, but none is forthcoming.

Sure enough, he was cast in the lead role. “We did our first public production and I thought I was brilliant.” But nothing changed. It didn’t bring him instant acclaim. By the third night, he could barely get through the performance.

Were you a bit of a cock back then, I ask. He shakes his head. “No, I was having a breakdown. I was crying most of the time. I just fell apart. I spoke to the principal of Rada and I said, ‘I can’t continue at drama school, I have to leave.’ And he said just take some time off, which I did, and two or three weeks later I slowly came back and then completely changed the way I acted.”

Until then he believed acting was just about what he did. “I thought you just worked out how to say the lines as cleverly as you could; it had nothing to do with responding to other people or being in the moment. It was showing off, essentially. And there’s a ceiling to where you can get with that. That breakdown I had was because I’d reached the ceiling and didn’t know how to go any further. That’s why I fell apart.”

He gradually put himself and his technique back together. Was he left with the same ambition? “No. The idea of being considered the best actor of all time becomes nonsense.” In 1991, Sheen left Rada early, because he’d been offered a job he couldn’t turn down. He made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in a West End production of Martin Sherman’s When She Danced. Theatre was Sheen’s first love, and his rise was meteoric. From the off, he was cast as the lead in the classics (Romeo and Juliet, Peer Gynt, Henry V, The Seagull) and the 20th-century masterpieces (Norman in The Dresser, Salieri and Mozart in Amadeus, Jimmy Porter in Look Back In Anger).

Sheen was doing exceptionally well when he and his then partner Kate Beckinsale moved to LA for her work in the early 2000s. She was four years younger than him, and already a movie star. Their daughter Lily, now an actor, was a toddler. He assumed that his transition to stardom in LA would be as seamless as it had been in Britain. But it wasn’t. His theatrical acclaim counted for nothing. In 2003, he and Beckinsale split up, but he stayed in LA to be close to Lily.

The first few years, he says, were so lonely and dispiriting. “I found myself living in Los Angeles, there to be with my daughter but just seeing her once a week. I had no career there – it was essentially like starting again. I had no friends and spent a lot of time on my own. It was tough. Slowly I realised how it was affecting me.” In what way? “I remember coming out of an audition for Alien vs Predator, to play a tech geek computer guy with five lines and really caring about it, and then thinking: ‘I can be playing fucking Hamlet at home, what am I doing, what’s this all about?’” He says he’d been so lucky – always working, never having to audition, getting the prize jobs. And suddenly in LA he was an outsider; a nobody.

He and Beckinsale are often cited as role models for joint parenting by ex-couples. In 2016, Beckinsale, Lily and Sheen staged a hilarious photo for James Corden’s The Late, Late Show, recreating the moment of giving birth 17 years earlier. Beckinsale reclines on a kitchen table with Lily sitting between her legs, as an alarmed-looking Sheen stands to the side. Have they always got on well since splitting up? “We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’re very important in each other’s lives. It would be really sad if we weren’t – like cutting off a whole part of your life. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its challenges, and I’m sure it’s been harder for her than for me.” Why? “Because … ” He pauses and smiles. “Because I’m more of a twat!” In what way? Another smile. “I’m not going to tell you that, am I?”

Sheen’s break in America came when he was spotted by a casting director who told him he would be perfect for a new project. Ironically, it was to play former British prime minister Tony Blair in a British TV drama called The Deal, directed by British film-maker Stephen Frears and shot in Britain. The Deal led to Frears’s The Queen, about Elizabeth II’s frigid response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales leading to a crisis for the monarchy. Again he played Blair, this time riding to the rescue of the royals. The movie was nominated for six Oscars (Helen Mirren won best actress) and he never struggled in America again.

The longer he lived in LA, however, the more rooted he felt to Port Talbot. And the further he travelled, around the world or just in Britain, the better he understood how disadvantaged it was. “If you’re in Port Talbot one day and then the next you’re in a little town in Oxfordshire where David Cameron is the MP, it’s fairly obvious there are very different setups there. And that was connected to a political awakening.” He started to read up on Welsh history. In 2017, he returned his OBE because he thought it would be hypocritical to hold on to an honour celebrating empire when he was giving a Raymond Williams lecture on the “tortured history” of the relationship between Wales and the British state.

He began to reassess his past. “I became more aware of the opportunity I’d had in an area where there wasn’t much opportunity. At a certain point you go, Oh, people are having to volunteer to make that youth theatre happen that I’m a product of.” You’d taken it for granted? “Completely. I was happy to think everything I was doing was because of my own talent and I was making my own opportunities, and as I got older I thought maybe that’s not the whole story.”

In 2016, the long-running American TV series Masters of Sex, in which Sheen starred as the pioneering sex researcher William Masters, came to an end. Lily was now 17 and preparing for college. “I suddenly thought, Oh, I can go home now.” And six years ago he finally did – to Baglan, a village adjoining Port Talbot. Since then he has been involved in loads of community projects.

He mentions a few in passing, but he doesn’t tell me he sold his two homes (one in America, the other in Wales) to ensure the 2019 Homeless World Cup went ahead as planned in Cardiff. Nor does he mention that a couple of years ago he started Mab Gwalia (translating to “Son of Wales”), which proudly labels itself a “resistance movement”. On its website, it states: “Mab Gwalia believes that opportunity should not only be available to those who can afford it. The ambition is to build a movement that makes change.” Its projects have supported homeless people, veterans, preschool children on the autism spectrum, kids in care, victims of high-cost credit, and local journalism, which is a particular passion. “In the early 1970s in Port Talbot, there was something like 12 different newspapers. There are none now. None. Communities don’t feel represented, don’t feel their voice is heard and don’t know if the information they’re getting about what’s going on in the community is correct or not. Those are terrifying things, and without local journalism that’s what happens.”

Perhaps surprisingly, he’s even found time for the day job. Earlier this year, he played Nye Bevan in Tim Pryce’s new play about the founding father of the NHS. He also made his directing debut with The Way, a dystopian, and prophetic, three-part TV drama about the closure of the Port Talbot steelworks that results in local riots spreading across the country. How does he feel about the rioting that has scarred the country in recent weeks? “I feel the same way I think most people do. It was awful and terrifying. I worry about how much a hard-right agenda that has been growing for a long time has moved further and further into the mainstream and has clearly got more connected. It’s frightening.” Does he think the new Labour government can deliver the positive change it promises? “Pppfft.”He exhales heavily. “More optimistic than the Conservatives being in power.” Who did he vote for? “That’s my God-given right to remain a secret, isn’t it? It wasn’t the Tories!”

I ask if he’s in favour of Welsh independence. “I don’t know how I feel about it one way or the other, but I would like there to be an open discussion about everything that entails. The problem is when it gets shut down and you don’t get to talk about it.”

Would he ever go into politics? He looks appalled at the idea. “Oh God, no. No! I’d beawful.”Why?“Because I don’t want to say what other people are telling me to say if I don’t agree with it. Look at all those people who voted against the two-child benefit cap and had the whip taken away from them. That’s bollocks. People say I should go into politics because I’m passionate about things and I speak my mind. But then you get into politics and you’re not allowed to do that any more. I’ve got far more of a platform as myself. I can say what I want to say.”

Fair enough. I’ve got another idea. A couple of years ago he gave an inspired motivational speech for the Wales football team before the 2022 men’s World Cup, on the TV show A League of Their Own. Would he take the job as Wales manager if offered it? He looks just as horrified as the idea of a life in politics. “No!” Why not? “Because it’s a completely different profession. You need to know about football. I played football when I was younger, but I wouldn’t have a clue. Wouldn’t. Have. A. Clue. Just because you can make a speech doesn’t mean you’d be any good at that sort of stuff.” He says he was embarrassed about the speech initially, but now feels proud of it. “Schools get in touch and say, ‘We’ve been studying it with the class.’ I put hidden things in. There are rabbit holes you can go down.” He quotes the line, “You sons of Speed” and tells me that’s a reference to the idolised former manager and player Gary Speed who took his life in 2011. You can hear the emotion in his voice.

I’ve been waiting for Sheen to mention the new TV drama about Prince Andrew. Most actors direct you to the project they’re promoting as soon as you sit down with them. Let’s talk about the new show, I  eventually say.

This is already the second drama about the Andrew interview. Did he know that Scoop, which came out earlier this year, was already in the works? “Yes, I knew before I agreed to do this.” Was it a race to see which would get out first? “There was no race, no. We always knew ours would come out after.” What would he say to people who think it’s pointless watching another film on the same subject? “Ours is a three-part story, so it’s able to breathe a lot more. There’s a lot more to it. In our story, Andrew and Emily are the main characters whereas they were very much the supporting ones in the other one.”

Did it change his opinion of Andrew? “No. It showed the dangers of being in a bubble, having talked about being in a bubble myself! The dangers of privilege.” He talks with sensitivity about Andrew’s downfall. “The thing that really struck me was when Andrew came back from the Falklands there was no one more revered, in a way. I didn’t realise his job was to fly helicopters to draw enemy fire away from the ships. I couldn’t believe they would put a royal in that position, so he was genuinely courageous. He was good-looking, a prince, and had everything going for him. Since then everything has just gone down and down and down.” He’s had so little control over his life, Sheen says. Take his relationships. “He was told he couldn’t be with [American actor] Koo Stark any more because of the controversy. He was essentially told he had to divorce Sarah Ferguson because the royal family, particularly Philip allegedly, was concerned that she would bring the family into disrepute.”

Did he end up feeling more empathetic towards him? “No!” he says sharply. Then he softens slightly. “Well, empathy? I felt I understood a bit more – because that’s my job – about what was going on. But he’s incredibly privileged and has exploited that. It seems like he has a lot taken away from him but probably rightfully so.”

A Very Royal Scandal is like The Crown in that it’s great drama but you’re never sure what’s real. Are Andrew’s lines simply made up? “It’s a combination of research and stories out there, and little snippets and invention.” While Emily Maitlis is an executive producer, Andrew most certainly is not. “Well, that’s the real difficulty for our story,” Sheen says. “On the one hand, you’ve got Emily as an exec, so you know everything to do with her is coming from the horse’s mouth. But everything to do with Andrew, not only is it really difficult to get the actual stuff, also we don’t know what he did.” He pauses. “Or didn’t do.” He’s talking about Virginia Giuffre’s allegation that Andrew raped her, which he denied. In the end, Giuffre’s civil case was dropped after an out-of-court settlement was reached on no admission of liability by Prince Andrew, with Giuffre reportedly paid around £12m.

I had assumed Sheen would be a staunch republican, but he doesn’t feel strongly either way. “There are lots of positives about royals, and lots of negatives.” His bugbear is that the heir to the throne gets to be Prince of Wales. “Personally, I would want the title of Prince of Wales to be given back to Wales to decide what to do with it, and I definitely think there’s a lot of wealth that could be used better.”

The biggest change for Sheen since returning to Wales is his family life. In 2019, he revealed that he had a new partner, the Swedish actor Anna Lundberg, that she was 25 years younger than him, and that she was pregnant. They now have two daughters – Lyra who is coming up to five, and two-year-old Mabli. As well as Staged, the couple have also appeared together on Gogglebox. They look so happy, nestling into each other, laughing at the same funnies, tearing up over the same heartbreakers. She also seems naturally funny. Given that two of his former partners (Sarah Silverman and Aisling Bea) are comedians, have all his exes had a good sense of humour? He thinks about it. “Yes. Yeah, you’ve got to have a laugh, haven’t you?” And he’s always got on well with them after splitting up? “Yeah, pretty much.”

When asked about the age difference between Lundberg and him on The Assembly, he acknowledged that they were surprised when they got together. “We were both aware it would be difficult and challenging. Ultimately, we felt it was worth it because of how we felt about each other, and now we have two beautiful children together.” He also said that being an older father worried him at times. “It makes me sad, thinking about the time I won’t have with them.”

Does being a dad of such tiny kids make him feel young or old? “Both,” he says. “My body feels very old. But everything else feels much younger. I’m 55 and it’s knackering running around after little kids. Just physically, it’s very demanding. And I’m at a point in my life where I’m aware of my physical limitations now. But in other ways it’s completely liberating, and I’m able to appreciate it more now.”

Has he learned about fatherhood from the first time round? “Yeah, I think so. I’m around more now. That’s a big part of it. When Lily was young, I was in my early 30s and doing films for the first time, so Kate would stay in Los Angeles with Lily and I would go off and do whatever.” Did Beckinsale resent that? “I don’t know that she resented it. Kate was doing better than me in terms of profile at the time, so it was different. Given that we then split up and I saw Lily even less, I very much regretted being away as much. So this time I wanted to make sure that wasn’t the case. That’s partly why I’ve set up a Welsh production company. I don’t want to work away from them as much.”

Talking of which, he says, what’s the time? “I’ve got to get back to my kids.”

On his way out, I ask what advice he would give his younger self. He says he was asked that recently and gave a glib answer. “I said buy stock in Apple.” What should he have said? He thinks about it, and finally says he’d have no advice for his younger self. He’d rather reverse the question, and think what his younger self would say to him if he tried to advise him.

“I saw an amazing clip of Stephen Colbert saying your life is an accumulation of every bad choice you’ve made and every good choice you’ve made, and the great challenge of life is to say yes to it. To say, ‘I love living, I embrace living.’ And in order to do that you have to embrace all the pain, all the grief, all the sadness, all the fucking mistakes because without that you don’t have all the other stuff.” He’s on a roll now, louder and more passionate by the word. “And I’d hate it if someone came and went, ‘Don’t do this, no do that.’ Then you just sail through your life. It would be death, wouldn’t it? So I’d tell my older self to go fuck himself.”

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Is it possible the William and Charles' relationship is far too distant in reality? From outside looking in it's like their relationship is too transactional and no genuine fondness on both sides. It's more of like they only had to tolerate each other because they happen to share the same blood.

I'm sorry because no matter how Charles' pr put it, he doesn't really a have a sense of family to me.

I think the relationship isn't as close as Charles's PR claims to be. He's a known workaholic. I mean, the guy worked through cancer treatment (which is fine - maybe he needed the distraction) and refused to let others share his workload. Harry and William have spoken several times about finding Charles asleep in his office with work papers around him, plus several well-known stories of Charles prioritizing his work and others over the boys.

But I also don't think they tolerate each other just because they're family. Their relationship appears to be deeper than that, because they have several mutual interests (like skiing and conservation) and because the body language between WIlliam's children and Charles means that there is a relationship there. It may not be "hallmark" close (to borrow from yesterday's anon), but it's a relationship.

And honestly, I do think part of the distance we see between Charles and William is the fact that a) they're two men and b) they're from a family that doesn't really talk about feelings like this. We know that Kate has been pushing William to spend time with Charles while gardening so we know they've been spending time together. After all, you don't get a photo like this one without there being a closeness to begin with:

This isn't a 'cheese for the cameras' kind of photo. This is two men enjoying time together and close enough that they lean into each other.

The last thing I'll say on this is that children's perspectives of their parents change as they grow up. As we get older, the relationships we have with our parents change. Yes, they're still Mom and Dad, but we also start seeing them more for the people they are than the parental units we know them to be and sometimes we become kinder to them, more forgiving, more understanding. It feels like William has had that transition with Charles -- or perhaps it was the other way around, because to me, it sometimes it felt like Charles didn't fully understand what it was like for William to have lost a parent (or appreciate what William sacrificed for duty) at only age 15 until Charles lost his parents. (And that's still not the same because William had his whole life to live without his mother while Charles lived an entire lifetime with both of his parents.)

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Masterlist 3!

Here’s the third masterlist for all of my works! If you want to check out more of my work, here’s the links for masterlist one and masterlist two Imagines marked * are smutty imagines! Imagines marked ` are requests! Imagines marked ⭐ are personal favorites!

IMAGINES

STRANGER THINGS small ~ jim hopper` dance with me ~ eddie munson ⭐ starry night ~ steve harrington* (part five) ⭐ at the hip ~ steve harrington` ⭐ triple date ~ steve harrington (part six) ⭐ the freak ~ steve harrington (part seven) ⭐ oblivious ~ eddie munson ⭐ jason doesn’t know ~ eddie munson ⭐ this is music ~ eddie munson` ⭐

SUPERNATURAL strange human feelings ~ castiel` cleaning ~ dean winchester`

HANNIBAL into fiction` sob story ~ hannibal lecter

THE BOYS obsession ~ billy butcher* ⭐ herogasm ~ soldier boy* ⭐ alone on christmas ~ billy butcher can’t get too close ~ billy butcher ⭐ change in a heartbeat ~ billy butcher ⭐ the bad room ~ homelander ⭐

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY life father ~ diego hargreeves` rescue mission ~ klaus hargreeves’ ⭐

THE LAST OF US (HBO) friendly neighbors ~ joel miller ⭐ too sweet ~ joel miller

BARRY attraction ~ barry berkman` treat him better ~ barry berkman

AMERICAN HORROR STORY late night sins ~ xavier plympton (1984)*`

VICTORIOUS lost dog ~ tori vega` junker ~ beck oliver

HEMLOCK GROVE i don’t ever wanna see you with him ~ roman godfrey ⭐

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES roses are red ~ damon salvatore` ⭐

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH captive ~ blackbeard/ed teach ⭐

PEAKY BLINDERS moved on ~ thomas shelby

FUTURE MAN winner ~ josh futturman* ⭐

GAME OF THRONES littlest lion ~ oberyn martell (part one) ⭐ freedom ~ oberyn martell (part two) ⭐

THE WITCHER destiny ~ geralt of rivia

DOCTOR WHO looks of a princess ~ eleventh doctor ⭐

BRIDGERTON by the lake ~ benedict bridgerton

HEMLOCK GROVE important buisness ~ roman godfrey* ⭐

THE GENTLEMEN the assistant ~ raymond smith ⭐

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN spirit of nature ~ jack sparrow`

THE MAZE RUNNER i’ll keep you safe ~ newt`

MARVEL how things are now ~ marc spector and steven grant` ⭐ kneel ~ loki* the most wonderful time ~ bucky barnes fast ~ pietro maximoff ⭐ shared trauma ~ logan howlett making amends ~ bucky barnes

1917 early morning ~ will schofield*`

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT happy birthday ~ javi gutierrez ⭐

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S i need someone older ~ william afton ⭐ the ice cream girl ~ mike schmidt

SALTBURN new toy ~ felix catton ⭐ partners ~ oliver quick ⭐

THE SANTA CLAUSE santa’s sister-in-law ~ bernard the elf

8 MILE one of the guys ~ jimmy smith jr ⭐

THE FALL GUY the space cowboy and the pa ~ tom ryder

A QUIET PLACE i’d find you in any life ~ eric ⭐

GLADIATOR II betrothed ~ emperor geta ⭐

DON’T WORRY DARLING a perfect world ~ jack chambers ⭐

PETE DAVIDSON your gift` favoritism`

HARRY STYLES the perfect tree a star in the making` sleepy head`

MACHINE GUN KELLY baby mama` ⭐ my queen*` getting your attention*` all the mistakes` not what it looks like` can’t keep doing this*`

EMINEM may the best artist win*` too close for comfort` ⭐ when it’s wrong but it feels right` in the dressing room*` he’s acting different` we have to stop meeting like this` every inch*` let’s surprise the world` i’m sorry i let you down` public service announcement`

GOODGUYFITZ wake up call*`

CORPSE HUSBAND letting go` they forgot` ⭐

ASHTON IRWIN home life` cover me*`

CONAN GRAY pushing`

MATTHEW LILLARD accidental drunk confessions` an out there request (w/ skeet ulrich)*`

JOHNNY KNOXVILLE feeling good*`

ALEX TURNER more than a song*` ⭐

BO BURNHAM can’t handle this right now ⭐ look at me*`

KRISTEN STEWART special customer`

TARON EGERTON he already has my approval ⭐

ROBERT PATTINSON my favorite superhero

GERARD WAY good girl*`

GWILYM LEE history repeats itself`

RYAN GOSLING play date`

JOSEPH QUINN bad idea, right? ⭐ icdiwabh ⭐

RANBOO fluffy haired gamer boy`

JACOB ELORDI height advantage`

MOTLEY CRUE she is mine ~ mick mars`

CHRIS EVANS not used to normal` ⭐

SWAGGERSOULS our next step`

JSCHLATT too far ⭐ the hotel room* ⭐ a winter night at rockefeller

JOHNNY DEPP just for us`

TRAVIS BARKER the parent trap`

SKEET ULRICH an out there request (w/ matthew lillard)*`

DAMIEN HAAS our own after party

SHIPS

family reunion ~ hermione granger x draco malfoy` another man in a red suit ~ deadpool x spider-man ⭐

HEADCANONS

showing pedro pascal fan edits ⭐ sitting on jschlatt’s lap ⭐ surprising ted and tucker during chuckle sandwich (jschlatt) billy butcher’s secret pleasure ⭐

NSFW ALPHABET

rook (jp capellette)*` eddie munson* ⭐ billy butcher* ⭐

[memoria-99]

My impressions of the villain guys

*100% personal thoughts.

William

He reminds me a lot of Vlad, so I wanted to like him, but ended up not as much. I got this feeling that I got from Chevalier; he doesn't feel like human to me. Still like him as a side character though.

Harrison

I like him. Kinda resembles Arthur who himself likes, minus the playboy part. Loved his hidden kindness while himself pretending not to be. Best older brother. He looks like one of the less insane ones in Crown.

Liam

Adorable kitten. Basically he's the reincarnation of Charles with a bit of Yves added. And I already love both; seems like I have a soft spot for cats and death wishes. There were moments I really wanted to cry and hug him in his route. This kitty deserves more love.

Elbert

He's so beautiful yet so obsessed with beautiful stuff... why just look at the mirror. Beautiful but gloomy, far from jokes reminds a bit of Jean, but looks way more attractive than him. I'm looking forward to this beauty's route.

Alfons

Reminds me of Clavis but with more red flag. Looks very interesting.

Roger

So much Faust vibe. First glance he looked kinda normal but well...

Jude

Reminds me of Silvio, that's enough reason to like this guy but I'm not sold to him yet for some reason... I wonder why. He also looks like one of the less insane ones in Crown.

Ellis

Another Charles reincarnation besides Liam, in slightly different way I think. He looks quite cute.

Victor

Mommy figure of Crown, which reminds me of Comte but more eccentric. And I can't unsee his name is so similar to Victoria... hmmm.

Darius

He's screaming Gilbert 2.0 and I already have high hopes on him.

Nica and Ring

For some reason they kinda look like Nokto and Licht to me.

P.S. Are these guys walking perfume or something? I wonder why Kate always notices their presence by the scent... (Will is a walking rose, Harry is a walking peppermint and Liam is a walking vanilla at this rate)

[royal-confessions]

“With Justin Baldoni’s PR takedown strategy to frame Blake Lively as the bad guy revealed, I am more convinced than ever that Harry and Meghan probably used the same strategies on social media to smear William and Kate. I remember those accounts with big following on X/Twitter (Pop Base, Pop Crave, etc) that posted very specific, selected stories on Spare which were obviously meant to get a reaction out of people (William and Kate’s involvement in the n*zi costume issue, Harry calling William’s baldness alarming). Those accounts don’t always post about royal stories so when they do, it’s suspiscious. Also, those memes about William looking older than celebrities or the tired and clichéd “Diana snatched her genes back” joke. I remember it all. Now, one can say maybe Harry and Meghan just did it because of how Meghan was being treated by the tabloids/other media/royal fans, but I think Harry and Meghan’s team very obviously use strategies to smear William and Kate too and to try to get people to side with them.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[an-aroaces-harem]

After reading Ellis' current event route finally without a translator right before I went to sleep, my mind went to interesting places in the 'trying-to-fall-asleep-phase'. Especially because they kept a certain scene in and it wasn't in awkward japanese euphemisms. Let me tell you, japanese smut is very ... interesting?

Anyway, everything under the cut because sexual territory.

You know, I started to wonder if Kate's the most sexual and um, open MC we have so far. So my mind tried to puzzle together the info of the other MCs I have. If I missed anything (especially ikerev and ikegen) feel free to correct me.

Also, as a note, I mostly referring to how the MCs were like prior to becoming a couple because in basically every game, the moment they start to date, the horny levels rise high.

In IkeRev, we have Alice and while she is older than she looks, considering the time period she grew up, she pretty much was a virgin prior to falling into Cradle. I haven't played much ikerev, so my knowledge is really limited, but while she seemed quite innocent, she also didn't freak out before doing the deed. Also, Seth's route, just saying.

In IkeSen we have Mai who's undoubtly the horniest we had so far. I don't think it was ever mentioned anywhere but I don't think she was a virgin prior to travelling back into time. Also, there was a event (I don't recall which one) where Mai and Masamune are definitely 69ing. Oh, she definitely initiates which is surprising considering how the japanese archetype of a woman is like.

In IkeVamp, we have Mitsuki. I'm gonna be honest, I don't like her and please, please someone take that ugly, plain white bra away from her. Anyway, I'm pretty sure she mentioned she wasn't a virgin anymore; it was just a little comment after (probably) Arthur assumed she had to be one. Who can blame him tho, she does seem rather innocent. At least we've got canon big boy #1, Theo.

In IkeGen, we have Yoshino. My knowledge is super limited, but I do know there was an occurence of Yoritomo teaching her how to do a blowjob. Oh, and prior to ikevil, Ibuki held the title of earliest sex scene and highest amount of sex I believe as well. Could be wrong there.

In IkePri, we have Emma who definitely is a virgin, considering her 'romance has to be like THIS' schtick she had especially in the beginning. Also, her topping attempts never succeeded (tho it's less her and more the writers' fault) and I don't think I have seen her initiating? She is kinky tho, considering how much she's into biting in Chev's and Gilbert's routes.

And then, we have IkeVil. Kate touched herself in Ellis' premium end in the handcuff event and I really wonder, did we ever have a MC doing that? Also, the amount of suggestive content prior to a route release is insane (I'm sorry Victor stans, I know you have it hard with the few crumbs). I do think she was a virgin prior to all of this, she she's rather open from what I've seen. Seriously, lets list up what ikevil presented us so far: William and Kate having sex in chapter 10.5 prior to a relationship, Alfons overtaking Ibuki's record, Roger being canonically big boy #2, the handjob from Kate to Ellis from the every inch of you ecb story, Jude having an actual sex scene (outside from AU stories) way before his release, Harry complaining that he's totally pent up after not having sex for ONE day, Harry and Kate probably 69ing as well, the vore stuff from seams like love and the list goes on ...

Maybe I'm just biased because imo, ikevil is the best game Cybird made so far yet. The stories are intriguing, and the story events don't feel like I'm reading the same over and over, just in a different context. Hell, not even the Don't Look At Anyone But Me event turned me off, even though I hate the jealousy trope in basically every form.

Anyway, that's what my sleep-addled brain came up with. Mai may be the horniest one, but Kate has so far showing more kinky sides, so they're pretty much on par. Again, if I missed something, confused something or anything else, feel free to let me know.

[nightghoul381]

Ellis Twilight ~ Main Route Blind Love Chapter 25

Disclaimer for route warnings | Masterlist

Additional Content Warnings: None

This a fan translation so it is definitely not 100% accurate. I do not own anything related to Ikemen Villains. Support Cybird by buying their amazing stories!

Part 1

If life was a fairy tale, it would be easy to be happy.

You just need to love someone with all your heart.

Then, like most fairy tales, the story will end.

“And the two of them lived happily ever after.”

But the reality is… The story doesn’t end when you fall in love with someone.

Happiness is like the twilight sky that changes color the moment it’s burned into your eyes.

It holds your heart forever and never lets go, but you’ll never get that same moment again.

That’s why—

Jude: “You’ve got no complaints about this guy, do ya?”

Ellis: “Huh?”

William: “Yeah?”

Jude pointed at William, who was elegantly drinking tea, and asked Ellis.

Ellis: “What do you mean?”

Jude: “The guy practically used Kate as a decoy.”

Kate: “Oh, that’s it?”

Now that I thought about it, William knew that I was going to be kidnapped and left me alone.

(It’s typical of Jude to still remember something that both Ellis and I had completely forgotten.)

While thinking this, my eyes naturally met with Ellis.

Kate: “But, I was saved…”

Ellis: “I somehow felt like Will knew that was going to happen too…”

Jude: “You guys really…”

Jude’s face twisted in disbelief and he didn’t say anything after that.

Wiliam: “Ahahaha!”

William: “I was prepared to be condemned or at least have a knife pointed at me.”

William: “Your subordinates have big hearts, don’t they, Jude?”

Jude: “That commoner over there ain’t my subordinate.”

William: “She worked like your secretary, so I thought she had an employment contract.”

(An employment contract with Jude…)

(Maybe then I could make Ellis happy even while I’m at work…hehe.)

Jude: “Don’t make a face like it’s a great idea.”

Jude: “Come back when ya get more useful.”

Kate: “Huh? It’s okay if I come back if I’m of more use?”

Ellis: “Shall I teach you my job?”

Jude: “Haah…..”

William: “Their conversation sounds like the chirping of lovely birds, doesn’t it Jude?”

William smiled, coffee in hand.

Then Harrison and Liam showed up for breakfast.

Liam: “Good morning, Will? You seem a bit moody.”

Harrison: “You’re planning something bad, aren’t you.”

William: “No? Actually, I think I’ve just witnessed the end of the story.”

Liam: “Witnessed what…?”

William: “It’s so good to see Ellis being true to his desires.”

Looking at the two from a distance, Harrison’s eyes relaxed as if he understood.

William: “That’s surprising. I thought you would object.”

Harrison: “Haha. I’m not rude enough to get in the way of someone’s love life. I think I should keep an eye on them though.”

Liam: “Haha, you sound like you’re their big brother, Harry.”

William: “It must be hard for the youngest member of Crown to have so many caring older brothers.”

--William narrowed his eyes in amusement at the calm morning that was the same as always.

Part 2

In the evening, I visited the palace office.

After submitting my report as fairy tale keeper to Victor, Ellis was waiting for me outside the palace.

Ellis: “…Welcome back.”

Kate: “Ellis! I thought you’d be waiting for me back at the castle.”

Ellis: “I couldn’t wait, so I came to pick you up.”

My lover had become a little more greedy and mean than before, but he was still as devoted and sweet as ever and I couldn’t help but smile.

Ellis: “What about Victor?”

Kate: “He left the choice up to me.”

Kate: “…I think that was his intention from the beginning.”

--Flashback—

Kate: “I want to stay at Crown and continue my work as fairy tale keeper.”

Victor: “Choosing something also means giving up something else.”

Victor smiled at me happily, but with a hint of sadness…

Victor: “I’ll do my best to help you so that your choice doesn’t cloud your smile.”

In the end, he accepted with his usual smile.

Kate: “Thank you.”

Kate: “Oh, there was one more thing I was wondering about… Can I ask you?”

Victor: “What is it?”

Kate: “Victor, you never intended to kill me in the first place, did you…?”

Everyone at Crown knows the light and darkness of this country.

Especially Victor and William, who were involved in the organization’s founding.

(And on top of that, he gave me the choice after I learned about the dark side of things.)

It was better to know and choose than to remain ignorant.

It was up to me to choose which way to live.

Victor laughed and shook his head when I asked him.

Victor: “I’m not going to pretend to be a good person with excuses made later.”

Victor: “But right now, I want you to find your own happiness by your own will.”

Victor: “Just like how I feel about the other members of Crown.”

--End Flashback—

I white bird spread its wings and flew into the sky as dusk approached.

Watching it fly, Ellis murmured in a soft voice.

Ellis: “…I see.”

His soft, curly hair glistens in the golden light.

Kate: “Oh, I’ve just completed one more mission!”

The promise I made to Ellis—

Part 2

Kate: “Oh, I’ve just completed one more mission!”

The promise I made to Ellis—

Ellis: “Victor’s secret scone recipe?”

Kate: “Yep!”

When I held up my notebook, Ellis clapped his hands.

Kate: “I’ll bake some scones tonight and we can have a picnic in your room tomorrow morning!”

Ellis: “Yay!”

I’d been looking forward to it ever since we promised it a few days ago.

When I put my notebook away, I held hands with Ellis, our fingers naturally intertwining, and we made our way to the castle.

Kate: “Knowing I get to be with you from now on, Ellis… I’m so happy.”

Ellis: “Hmm…How much?”

When asked about how much ‘happiness’ I felt, I couldn’t help but smile even though I was also troubled.

Kate: “Hmmm… Like a morning where you wake up earlier than expected, feeling refreshed.”

Kate: “But… I’m sure I’ll be even happier tomorrow.”

Ellis: “…Mmm, I agree.”

--

I fell in love with someone who kills people.

This person wishes to kill the one they love at their happiest moment.

He was a man with a very deep and smothering love.

If someone were to see my love story, they might think it was a tragedy.

For me, it’s a once in a lifetime, precious love that I chose of my own volition.

Kate: “Mmm…nn…”

I woke up in bed, bathed in the bright morning light.

Last night, we baked scones, and while we were waiting for them to cool, we kissed each other a lot in the kitchen.

Then we packed a basket with some cooled scones and cranberry jam.

After we rushed into the room… we made love so much and fell asleep that we were more sluggish than jam.

(Ellis, you still haven’t woken up…)

I looked at Ellis’ sleeping face lying next to me and using his arm as a pillow.

Is it okay to stay in that position so long?

Does your arm go numb?

…Even thinking about something like that made me happy.

Ellis: “Nnggh…”

Kate: “Oh, Ellis… Are you awake?”

Ellis: “Mmm… Good morning, Kate.”

Part 3

Kate: “Oh, Ellis… Are you awake?”

Ellis: “Mmm… Good morning, Kate.”

He pulled my head toward him with his arms as he held me and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

I was so happy that I gave him a kiss on the lips in return.

Kate: “Good morning. It’s picnic day.”

As I smiled up at him from where I was lying on his chest, Ellis blinked as if he had finally woken up.

Ellis: “…You surprised me.”

Kate: “…What?”

Ellis: “I was so happy I thought I was still dreaming.”

***CHOICES***

It's not a dream +4 +2

2. How happy is that?

** 3. Are you going to be happier? +4 +4**

****

Kate: “I’ve never been so happy waking up in the morning like this before.”

Kate: “But, Ellis, you know you and I will be happier from now on, right?”

Ellis: “…Fufu, that’s right.”

I was spun around and pulled on top of Ellis, who hugged me tightly, making my heart beat sweetly.

Ellis: “Kate, you’re still naked.”

My skin trembled as his large hands explored my body.

I felt like I’d been drowning in the pleasure he gives me since last night.

Kate: “It’s always only me…”

I knew if I sulked and said it wasn’t fair, Ellis would take off his shirt.

Our bare skin touched—The room was filled with our laughter.

Part 4

Our bare skin touched—The room was filled with our laughter.

Laughing together like children,

We covered our bare skin with the same sheets and pulled out scones and jam from the basket—

The two of us tasted the cranberry jam we made together.

Ellis: “Mmm, delicious.”

Kate: “Really? Did we do a good job?”

As I asked, his palm cupped my cheek.

Ellis: “See…”

Kate: “Nnghh…”

When Ellis pressed the sweetly stewed fruit against my lips with the tip of his tongue,

Through our slightly parted lips, the sweet jam slid onto my tongue.

Ellis: “…So?”

Kate: “Mmmm… delicious.”

Until just now, we were playing around like kids rolling around in the grass during the day.

As we whispered with our lips touching, I remembered the love we made yesterday.

The memory evoked sweet sensations in my body.

My body melted in the dazzling morning light and was lured back into the moist, hot night…

Without ever separating or ever connecting deeply, we kissed repeatedly, drifting between the sensations of the day and night.

This moment was very happy.

When I looked at Ellis, he seemed to feel the same way.

Ellis: “…Maybe now.”

Kate: “The happiest moment?”

Ellis looked at me and nodded.

Ellis: “You look the most beautiful and happiest I’ve seen you right now.”

Kate: “…Hehe, maybe.”

This happiness may soon fade away.

If that was the case, I wanted to end it happily before everything faded away.

If you truly loved someone and wished them happiness, it may be a very natural emotion that welled up in your heart.

Kate: “This moment, right now, is the happiest time of my life… but.”

Ellis: “Hmm, …But?”

Still, I couldn’t give up on the next moment.

(Because I want to laugh together with the man I love for as long as possible.)

Ellis | Kate: “’Tomorrow might be happier’…?”

The moment after our voices overlapped and we looked at each other, a smile spread across our lips.

Ellis: “…Fufu.”

Kate: “Ahaha!”

Ellis: “I’ll kill you one day.”

Ellis: “So… for now, just let me kiss you.”

--What is happiness?

It’s like a twilight sky that changes color the moment it burns into your eyes…

It holds your heart forever, but you’ll never have it again.

So—Tomorrow, I’ll show you a more beautiful sunset.

Tomorrow and the day after, and the day after that…

And then, when we are sure of the greatest happiness, let’s stop time together and make the moment become eternal.

Until then… I hope to spend happy days with you, moments fading and being repainted more beautifully.

Blind Love Epilogue | His Side Story

[dave-millerr]

My Headcanons!

woof, I forgot to post these-!

also, these are all of the characters that could pop up in my replies. TW for mentioned alcoholism, stalking, child murder, war, PTSD, sex with objects, self-shipping, and headcanons. Lots and lots of ‘em.

DSAF

Jack

Jack is transmasc, gay, and polyamorous. He used he/them/it pronouns.

I interpret and portray Jack as neutral, leaning towards Legacy.

He does not reciprocate Dave’s affections. It’s more like stalking than a healthy, loving relationship.

He is a pussy haver if anyone wanted to know that. (Looking at my friend group-)

Jack is dramatically underweight and very skeletal in appearance. If the orange makeup is washed off, he has rotting green skin underneath.

He’s 5'10.

Dave

Dave identifies as a genderfawn pansexual. He uses he/them pronouns.

Dave is a very silly person most of the time, but he can be cunning and dangerous at times. Really harassing him is the only way to get this sort of behavior out of him. Personality-wise, I would compare him to a mix of canon Dave and book William.

He’s really only on good terms with Jack. The Phone Guys, Matt, Dee, and Henry are all tired of his antics.

Dave is physically a male, not quite a human, but humanoid enough to have sex with Jack.

Like Jack, Dave is underweight. The only reason he isn’t a human is because he’s a cryptid.

He has an unhealthy obsession with harassing the phone guys.

He’s 6'0.

Steven

Steven is a transmasculine gay polyamorous man. He uses the pronouns he/it.

He's going out with Matt.

Steven used to be a war medic, serving in Vietnam for a bit.

Like all the other phone guys, he has a wire tail that can plug into any standard U.S. wall outlet.

He survives after the events of the first DSAF game, now living in Jack’s basement.

Foxy is still his favorite animatronic.

Steven’s about 7 feet tall, the phone adds a foot in height to him.

Peter

Peter is a cisgender bi-curious man. He uses he/him pronouns.

He’s really just a tired older brother dealing with Jack and Dave’s bullshittery.

Peter was the second sibling to die.

He’s aware of Dee being the Puppet, and hates Dave for killing his sister.

He lives with Jack, technically owning the house but not being the one to pay the bills.

Peter owns a shotgun and is a shitty aim with it.

Peter’s also 7 feet tall.

Matt

Matt is an agender gay guy. They use they/he pronouns.

They are a banshee-human hybrid, being a Latino too.

They are physically incapable of not smiling.

Unlike the majority of the Fazbender employees, Matt is actually a living being. Well, half-living.

Matt lives in whatever Fazbender location he’s currently in.

He has had sex with some of the plushies. They bought the plushies afterwards though.

Matt is 5'7.

Dee

Dee is a cisgender aroace girl. She uses she/her pronouns.

Mentally, Dee hasn’t aged all that much, so Jack and Peter still need to parent her.

She’s about as powerful as FNAF’s puppet.

Because the Puppet itself is a male, she gets called a boy way too often. She’s very eager to correct you if you mess that up.

Dee’s box is in the corner of Jack’s bedroom. She can’t sleep without him nearby.

Dee has witnessed Matt yiffing plushies. She locks her music box at night because of it.

Dee is about 8 feet tall, but was 4'11 at death.

Henry

Henry is a cisgender bisexual man. He uses he/void/it pronouns.

Void doesn’t exactly have a soul anymore. If it did, his soul would be a lot like Mr. Shade’s - too impure to redeem.

The void that covers its body is like an infection. It has been sealed away in the Flipside to prevent the infection from spreading.

Void has an impressively large vocabulary, being very annoying about it, too. It’ll correct you on your grammar, suggest different words you could use, etc. Almost like Grammarly as a person.

Henry served in the Second World War, and this desensitized it to death and bloodshed.

Void is morbidly obese.

Henry is 5'9.

Harry

Harry is a cisgender gay man. He uses he/him pronouns.

Harry’s about the same age as Steven.

He has chased people with brooms and will do it again.

He definitely started the group chat between all of the phone guys. He’s the mom friend.

Harry served in Vietnam, so he bonded with Steven over that and being some of the first phones to be made.

He lives with Jake and Walt down the street from Jack and the others.

Harry’s 6'11.

Jake

Jake is a straight demiboy. He uses he/they pronouns.

He’s the butt of every joke about purple guys, without question.

Jake knows how to twerk and will sucker punch you if you call him 'Jack' on purpose.

He’s an alcoholic still, but he’s trying to quit for his son’s sake.

Every April Fools, Jake is the main reason everyone’s on edge. He’s a major prankster.

Jake lives with Harry and Walt down the street from Jack and the others.

Jake is 7 feet tall.

Roger

Roger is a cisgender gay man. He uses he/them/it pronouns.

He’s married to @owlthehybrid and a father.

Roger met Owl when he was crying under a party table.

He’s terrified of Jack, to the point where he’ll completely shut down and obey his boss blindly.

Roger has a generalized anxiety disorder.

He lives with Owl and their daughter Iris.

Roger is 6'8. The shortest of the phones.

Gravity Falls

I have two different AUs. One where Stan didn’t survive Weirdmageddon, falling out of the Fearamid during his argument with Ford, and one that’s more similar to Canon. For this post, I’ll talk about the latter.

Stanford

Ford is an aroace man. He uses he/him pronouns. Also, Bill is the absolute closest he ever got to having a sexual or romantic relationship.

His PhDs are in microbiology, chemistry, astrophysics, physics, and psychology. The others are honorary degrees.

Like Dipper, Ford chews on pens.

He has autism and PTSD, having a hard time with understanding jokes and being sensitive to touch and sound.

He’s legally married to Old Goldie, since Stan married it under his brother’s name.

Ford has both nearsightedness and farsightedness.

He’s about 6'2. Just slightly taller than Stan.

Stanley

Stan is bisexual and panromantic. He uses he/him pronouns.

He’s going out with Fiddleford, who I’ll talk about later. This technically makes him Tate’s stepfather even though they aren’t married. Stan ended up adopting Soos off screen.

He has autism, like his brother. His is a lot more like Mabel’s, where he’s outgoing and loud. He’s not naive because he has experience in life, though.

Stan was an alcoholic. The Pitt cola thing is his replacement for alcohol because the twins came to stay with him.

He has an inferiority complex, seeing himself as less than his brother. Stan has little to no concern for other people’s possessions or emotions, but this is more apathy than spite.

Like Ford, he has nearsightedness and farsightedness. He also has cataracts.

Stan’s 6'1.

Dipper

Dipper is transmasc, asexual, and demiromantic. He uses he/him.

After being possessed by Bill, he gained golden streaks in his hair. His father was, understandably, confused and angry at Stan for allowing his son to dye his hair. He only believed Dipper when he figured out he couldn’t wash the streaks out.

Dipper’s autism presents itself like Ford’s. He takes jokes seriously, and is sensitive to sound. He also struggles with hygiene. He also has PTSD.

He gets braces immediately after coming home from Oregon, to his annoyance.

The reason Stan and Dipper butted heads was because of how loud Stan was and how Dipper reminded Stan of Ford.

He would definitely be obsessed with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, probably making fangames for it.

He’s going to be about 5’11 when he grows up.

Mabel

Mabel is a pansexual cisgender girl. She uses she/her pronouns.

She has autism. Her autism shows itself in the same way Stan’s does, but she has more support than he did.

Mabel would date Pacifica if she could.

She would definitely be the babysitter of the family.

The reason she and Ford didn’t really interact is because she was intimidated by Ford to a degree and Ford was irritated by her.

Mabel would probably grow up to be a marriage counselor or therapist.

She’s going to be about 5’8 when she grows up.

Fiddleford

Fiddleford is a bisexual cisgender man. He uses he/him pronouns.

He actually stowed away on the Stan’O’War II and came with the Stan twins on their journey to the Antarctic.

Fidds occasionally walks on all-fours out of habit, so the palms of his hands and the bottoms of his feet have thick skin.

Tate didn’t actually abandon him. Fidds actively refused his help, so Tate gave up. You can’t help someone that doesn’t want help. He also may have tried to kill his wife, but he was in a state of insanity at that time.

He’s around the same level of intelligence as Ford, having a PhD in mechanical engineering.

Fidds is about the same age as the Stan twins.

He, standing up straight, would be 6’3.

[sassyfrassboss]

I’m going to hell for saying this, but I think the reason H&M don’t publicly shill their kids is because they’re really not photogenic. Just based off of the pictures we have seen of them. They’ve already monetised the kids before (Netflix bath pictures, Archie’s H&M outift), but I can see them not doing so more simply because they just aren’t conventionally beautiful. How a kid looks shouldn’t matter, but I can see H&M being shallow enough to care - especially given how photogenically cute Charlotte was at that age.

Also, those kids are 1/4 black - they’re not biracial. The older they get and more clear that is, the more people will quickly get sick of H&M weaponising very serious and very real racial issues over kids that will never face the same discrimination as a black person.

I'm going to be joining you in Hell because I agree with you.

When you look at everything we have seen of those kids we get photos from the side or out of focus. Heck, Lili's 1st birthday photo was heavily edited to make her look more Windsor and they gave her red hair.

It has to kill Meghan because when she sees the Wales kids.

George is starting to look like a Windsor more and more and he has those golden locks.

Charlotte is a carbon copy of William, aka Diana.

Louis is Catherine's mini-me.

I think there was a reason we never got infant photos of Lili. I believe, even though she is only 1/4 black, that when she was born her skin color was darker than Meghan would have preferred. Over time her skin lightened, as pigments tend to lighten or darken, but yeah...

Also, Archie's hair is brown. Not red.

I also think those kids look way more like Tom Markle, aka Meghan before the plastic surgery, than they do the Windsor's.

Meghan really wanted a Diana mini-me like Charlotte but she forgot to take into account that Harry looks way more like the Mountbatten side of his family and he has zero Spencer in him.

[richarlotte]

How to find a man.

Hinge is the best dating app; avoid Tinder, Bumble, Seeking, and any of the sugar sites. Spend minimal time looking for a date online (way too much Splenda). I’ve met a lot of great men on Hinge but I think that the algorithm is fucked and too many men delete the app due to privacy concerns. It’s easier to meet men IRL.

Look up conferences and make an effort to either be in the area or actually go to them if they’re in your field of interest. I met some of my best at medical conferences and CME events; Google conventions and get going. I went to a conference of orthopedic surgeons last year, met so many people and got so many numbers, and got my summer job here in New York by going to another conference. You will 100% meet people but it’s up to you to deepen the connection and make friends.

Dress the part but don’t overdo it. I found that I had less interest when I was wearing Chanel or super leveled up outfits and much more interest when I was dressed in the aesthetic that I created and suits me. I can go more into this topic and talk about what worked for me as a dark skinned woman/what I think works best. Having an aesthetic will help you meet people.

Know how to do your makeup and hair so that you can do touch ups on the go. Also, it’s in your best interests to get your nails done simply. If you look fresh and good, you’ll get more interest from women who want to befriend you and men who want to know you. You can’t meet people if you don’t look good and you don’t want to put yourself in a position where you look like a joke. Black women have to be the best to succeed at times but being the best doesn’t always mean looking like you have money, sometimes you need to be casual.

If you want a man to be willing to invest in you, you have to be willing to invest in yourself. This is even more important if you have no plans to do the whole online thing and only plan to freestyle and meet people in person. Your appearance has to be top tier if you want a man to pour thousands into leveling you up and you want to live the true spoiled girlfriend soft wife life.

Don’t discount freestyling or meeting men at a casual job. I’m in the process of becoming a yoga instructor and I’ve met so many wealthy men who want to enjoy my company and my classes. If you have an office job, don’t do it but if you’re working at a cafe or at a yoga/Pilates studio then I’d recommend meeting people.

If you’re in a major city, the young and wealthy tech guys, finance bros, and entrepreneurs are going to be at places like SoHo House. If you’re looking for new money rich, no older than 35-40, and single then this is the sort of place you’ll want to go to. Meghan met Harry at SoHo, Snapchat used to go to SoHo before he met Miranda Kerr on a yacht, and Alexis Ohanion was a member before he met Serena Williams. Go where it’s been proven the men are and you will meet someone.

Introduce yourself. I met my whale at a restaurant. He was sitting at a bar and paid for our whole meal, I went up and introduced myself, and the rest is history. Some of the most well known spoiled women have met their marks by making a move and introducing themselves. Even if he’s with friends (mine was), just go up and don’t be shy. It’s forward but the forward woman wins.

Richarlotte x

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For your last reblog, please do Mulcahy!!! I love your answers for him. You’re almost single handedly keeping Mulcahy girlies alive!

Thank you very much 😊

Alrighty, let's do the rest of these headcanon questions for Mulcahy!

3) Who depends on them? Everyone at 4077th, in someway shape or form, even if they don't really notice it. He would be prime for an "It's A Wonderful Life" kind of episode.

Back in Philadelphia...it's a very different story. Hell, one of the main reasons why he volunteered to go to Korea, was because he wanted to be useful and no one seemed to need him in Philadelphia.

4) What they would do if they had one month to live?

At first, I think Mulcahy would be very angry. He'd randomly lash out, he'd be hitting his punching bag. Then he'd get very solemn. He'd pray (a lot more than usual), and he'd drink heavily. Then Mulcahy would come out of that, and decide that his last days were better spent on others, instead of pitying himself.

He'd donate all his money, spend extra time with his friends and Kathy. He might even reach out to his brothers that he's long since stopped speaking to.

Mulcahy would give his all till the last moment of life, and still he'd ask quietly to himself, whether or not he'd really done enough.

5) A cherished personal belonging?

Well he has several things I can think of off the top of my head. The crucifix necklace he wears all the time, that was from Kathy. She gave it to him when he decided to join the church, and so it is very valuable to him.

He also has several photographs that he made a point to bring with him to Korea (one of his parents on their wedding day, as no one else seemed interested in having it, a picture of him and Kathy as toddlers, and then the one family portrait they had done when he was still a baby).

There is also his rather healthy library he took with him as well (Plato, War and Peace, The Completed Works of Shakespeare).

6) Something they lost, but would love to have back?

his hearing

His mother. She died just before his 18th birthday. I'm still deciding what actually killed her, but it definitely was caused in part to her having had so many children (7 total). It does things to your body.

If we're just talking about a general item, he has "lost" a couple of autographs from his favorite boxers (I say lost in quotations because what really happened was a nun found his autographed boxing magazines, including one signed by Artie Levine, and she threw them away because she didn't think it was appropriate for a priest to have so many images of shirtless men laying around. She claimed it was the boxing she took issue with, but we know what she was really thinking).

7) This character’s favorite character?

Hawkeye. It kinda goes without saying. Mulcahy is often in awe of him, and he finds him humorous (although a tad obnoxious at times), and he goes to him for help because he knows Hawkeye will be there when he needs him and won't judge him for reaching out.

Mulcahy is also great friends with Potter, though the man is much older than he is, they have a surprising amount in common (side note: is it just me or when William Christopher got old, he started looking more like Harry Morgan?)

Mulcahy also has very close friendships with both Klinger and Sidney.

8) What kind of car they would drive?

I don't think Mulcahy owns a car in his civilian life. Public transportation would have still been pretty common in 1950s Philadelphia and when he was in college at Loyola, that was in Chicago. No real big need to own a car when you're in a city center. That said, if he did have a vehicle, it would be old and second-hand. It would work but it wouldn't be fancy. Probably white or sand colored.

10) How they deal with pain?

Like physical pain? Dude can take a hit. When he was a featherweight boxer (his former life before Kathy got him to become a priest) he'd have concussions, couple broken ribs, black eyes, etc. Of course he gave as good as he got, and then some. But he has a pretty high pain tolerance.

(If you want to talk about that time that Margaret hit him and he acted like he was in pain, it's because she's a woman and he can't hit a woman, so he knew he'd have no way to physically defend himself if she really decided to let him have it. She's also REALLY strong.)

11) This character’s favorite piece or pieces of clothing?

Mulcahy isn't much into fashion. If it fits and doesn't have holes or stains on it, it's good enough for him. His priestly attire is more important to him than any civilian clothes he owns. That said, he is very fond of his Loyola hoodie (aren't we all?), that "G" baseball cap that Hawkeye bought him, and he does have one really nice lavender button down dress shirt (worn only on leave in Tokyo, which he seldom gets to do).

13) What kind of parent they would be?

The best kind. He would be soooooo loving and affectionate towards his children. He would spend so much time and energy engaging with them on their level. The kids at St. Teresa's Orphanage absolutely adore him, and he adores them right back. He's not great at discipline, though. That would be his partner's job, for sure. Not that he can't lay down the law, when needed, but he's afraid he's overdoing it and sounding like his father.

14) How they did in school?

Mulcahy was always very interested in learning and had no problem keeping up with the lessons. The trouble was that sometimes he just really wanted to read Plato or Aristotle or The Odyssey...and his teachers didn't appreciate him wanting to go off and do his own thing. He definitely got hit by at least one teacher at school fairly regularly for this.

Mulcahy always wanted to learn and discuss very broad topics, and his teachers didn't want to deal with that. Which was not great for him because they'd labeled him a troublemaker, and that got him the belt from his dad. Mulcahy always got on better with the girls in his class rather than the boys.

The boys were all like his brothers and his father; they wanted to rough house and when they got older, go skirt chasing. The girls liked him because he was sweet, and kind, and dorky. They felt safe with him. The boys also beat him mercilessly, until he was 12 and learned that it was OK to defend himself.

Many a time, he had his glasses broken, and once again, his dad would go right for the belt.

I think he was always on the outs in school, even in the seminary. I'm sure he had friends but he also had a lot of people looking at him as if he were just one giant question mark. No one really knowing what to make of him, and overlooking so many wonderful aspects of his being, because of that lack of understanding.

15) What cologne or perfume they would use?

I don't know if he really uses any. If Mulcahy does ever use cologne, it's going to be something cheap and earthy. He is a very cleanly person and he has really nice kinda fruity smelling soap and shampoo. Because he's around the church incense so often, it does stick to his robes. The incense has a nice cedar sort of smell to it.The point being in all this, is that he bathes regularly (probably the most often out of anyone in the main cast) and he does smell very nice.

17) What they’d sing at karaoke?

Something upbeat and fun. Maybe from a musical?

18) Special talents they have?

As previously stated, Mulcahy has a serious green thumb when it comes to his garden. He's also got one hell of a right hook for boxing. He plays piano (how well depends entirely on who you ask). Mulcahy has a pretty solid knack for gambling as a whole, but his odds do fair a lot better when making bets specifically on people...rather than cards. He can whistle pretty well too. Carries a nice tune when he sings (still better sounding with a partner).

Sometimes his most important talent is just getting people to agree to let things go with a small smile, and a tiny "please? 😇"

Mulcahy can also read Greek...though that's mostly just so he can read poetry in its original language.

Also did you see his sand castle in GFA? Dude has some mad skills to pull that one off without a mold.

Mulcahy is a mutitalented person. I didn't even name all his talents/skills.

20) Household chore they hate the most?

This is tough, because Mulcahy loves to clean. He loves dishes, and laundry, and finds dusting rather relaxing. Of course, this is all done as an act of service for someone else's benefit; the rest of the 4077th, those he shares the rectory with back home, his mother when he was a child, etc.

My best guess would be cooking. I think he can cook a fairly decent meal, but most of the time he's only ever cooked for himself and that immediately makes him disinterested in the task. He's just doing it because he has to eat. That's it.

21) Their fondest childhood memory?

Ok, not counting the Gentleman Joe memory because we already know all about that one. I'd say it's a memory of a time with his mother for sure. A time when the house was quiet, because his older brothers and Kathy were away at school, his father was working, and there with his head nestled in his mother's lap was baby Mulcahy, listening to her as she read to him, and stroked his head. It was a good place to be.

22) How they spend their money?

While in Korea most of his money goes to St. Teresa's Orphanage and a few creature comforts for himself.

Back at home he definitely still gives a lot to charity (he has his preferred organizations within the greater Philadelphia area). Of course he has to spend money on necessities such as food, toiletries, clothing items as they fall apart, etc. He gives gifts to his loved ones from time to time as well (birthdays and Christmas in particular, but sometimes just to cheer people up).

As for money he spends on himself just because; well he gambles and you gotta have money on hand for that, he sometimes splurges and treats himself to a good quality cigar or a higher quality beer. He's got some good leather dress shoes that he keeps well polished. Oh! And on theater tickets (both plays and the movies). He also occasionally hits the local art museums and will spend hours there looking at the paintings and statues.

(And as I write this, I know suddenly really want to take him to the MET, because he'd absolutely love it.)

23) What kind of alcohol they drink?

Beer and occasionally wine. His max alcohol percentage is 5%. Anything stronger than that and he will get plastered so quickly. Most of the time, when he drinks you'll notice him sort of nursing his beer, as opposed to chugging for the finish. He actually likes the taste of beer, and usually isn't trying to get drunk.

24) What they wish they could change about themselves?

Mulcahy wishes he was a better orator, the kind that really puts the butts in the pews and has them all feeling God's words deep in their hearts. For clarification on this, he isn't a terrible speaker, but his sermons are loaded with dad Father jokes and thinly valed stories of people he knows.

In general, Mulcahy just wants to be better. To do better. He's chasing the approval of others, because he doesn't really approve of himself. Self validation isn't his thing.

25) What other people wish they could change about them?

The people who know and love Mulcahy, wish he could see himself as they see him (goes for most of the fandom as well, I think). But at the same time, his humility is part of what makes him, him, so maybe they just wish he wouldn't beat himself up so much.

People who don't like him or at least don't particularly care about him (Frank, some higher ranking members of the military, couple church officials from his home parish, etc) they would want him to be a bit more "fire and brimstone", and to have a bit more military sense. They want him to be more traditional and fundamentalist in his views. And they'd also like him to stop with the Bible puns. But they don't matter, because they don't like him anyway.

I feel like I've missed some small but still very vital details, but that's the trouble with headcanons; I could go on and on.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

William had to parent Harry and also bear the burden of being the heir to the throne. I think that is another reason why William is so much more stable than Harry - William had to assume responsibility far greater than Harry. It’s often seen with siblings who lose a parent young that the older child is responsible while the younger is reckless.

Parents can play a big role in providing continued stability in a child’s life as an adult. We know William waited to get married because he wanted to be sure, but do you think he also wanted to be sure both partners are mature and steady enough before having children? I’m sure he saw the difference age played with all the different parental roles people had in their lives.

While it is not guaranteed, I do think from my own experiences that having older parents can contribute to a more stable childhood. I also think looking at my family were multigenerational members have lost parents young, that in-laws can provide support and stability in your life far past the cognitive development age around 24.

We know William waited to get married because he wanted to be sure, but do you think he also wanted to be sure both partners are mature and steady enough before having children?

Maybe. I personally don't think so. I think it was more important for William that Kate was fully aware of, fully understood, and fully prepared for monarchy. We only see the public aspect of monarchy, but there's a lot more to it than that behind the scenes - it's all the people, all the travel, all the diplomacy, all the engagements, all the speeches, all the preparation, and not just for William's current job as military pilot/part-time royal, but all of the future, escalating jobs - full-time royal, Duke, Prince of Wales / heir, and King.

Yes, raising children is part of that, but their discussions of raising children is/was much different than the way you or I would discuss raising children. William's conversation about raising children involves their roles in the monarchy, and their roles would escalate the same way William's did.

So no, I don't think there was any consideration to wait until they were steady for children. Because if that truly was an objective, they probably would have waited longer before having children - as in, when William's military/pilot career was over and he was a full-time royal since one job is steadier than two - or William would have been a pilot longer, because it's clear that his career gave them the stability and the privacy in George and Charlotte's early years (in which case he probably could've stayed a part-time royal up until Philip's passing when it was more clearer there was an unofficial regency in place for The Queen).

[lol-jackles]

I'm currently in the middle of watching The Vampire Diaries and I must say, as a self proclaimed Dean hater (well, not exactly "hater", but I AM critical of him), I have such a newfound appreciation for him after having to deal with Damon Salvatore for 6+ seasons lol. They're basically the same character, but Dean's dedication to his brother instead of a woman really sets him apart from your archetypical bad boys. I guess it makes sense that near the end of the show Ian and Paul had ditched the love triangle angle and insisted that the show was about "the brothers" (doubtful). They wanted some of that samdean juice lmao.

On that note, will you ever give the show a try? I saw some other anons asking you to liveblog, and I very much agree! I think it would be interesting to draw parallels between TVD and SPN (there are many, IMO).

Have a great day!

Trying to imagine Dean Winchester who doesn't revolves around his darling little Sammy doesn't appeal to me for The Story. It's why I generally don't get annoyed by Dean other than when writers sometimes used "character shrilling" and "informed attributes" tropes instead of showing us said attributes about Dean.

Fraught sibling relationships are more interesting stories to me. When Prince Harry recounted William’s attempts to control and recast Harry into his own extension in Spare, it reminded me a lot of Ted Kaczynski and Dean Winchesters, both domineering older brothers demanding capitulation and submission from their younger brothers into their extensions and reflections.  The big difference is Dean’s actions were out of “love” (good thing Dean is fictional).

What I've know of TVD is what comes across my dash. By all accounts it looks like a show I could watch. Maybe one day. I’ve seen Ian in Lost, and Paul in Smallville and a tv movie about nephilians where he played the original Jack Kline whose angel father is also Lucifer. ��I remember seeing Nina in the Van Diesel movie Return of Xander Cage and liked her character.

[suzukiblu]

Brother

"Do you want us to call you . . . well, what would you like us to call you, dear?" Martha asks. Superman isn't sure how to answer her. He can't really expect them to call him "Superman" when he's pretending to be a civilian or whatever, but "Superman" is the only name he's ever wanted. And anyway, "Experiment Thirteen" isn't exactly an improvement, so far as passing for civilian goes.

"Uh," he says. "I don't . . . know, I guess. I've never been called anything except, you know . . ."

He trails off, feeling weird and stupid. Jonathan and Martha glance at each other again. It's a little strange to watch, because they clearly understand each other in a way he can't imagine ever understanding another person. Just . . . never. No way.

"Well, we didn't know Clark's birth name when we met him, so we named him after my father," Martha says, which makes Superman immediately wonder exactly how old Clark had been when they met him. He'd just kind of automatically assumed that he'd been older too, but if he'd been young enough that the Kents'd had to name him . . . well, that doesn't make Superman feel any better about any of this. "Well, more specifically, we gave him my maiden name. No one else was left to carry it on, and I didn't want it to be lost."

It is lost, now, Superman thinks. Because of Doomsday.

Because of the reason he exists.

"My father's first name was William, though," Martha says. "Jonathan's father was Samuel. And Jonathan had an older brother named Harry. Died young, the poor man."

"Okay," Superman says uncomfortably, really hoping neither of them is about to suggest "Clark", and Martha and Jonathan both look at him for a moment before sharing another look between themselves.

"Then again, maybe we shouldn't be considering names other people in our lives have been using," Jonathan says. "Seems a bit rude to offer you a secondhand name, considering the clone thing. You're your own man, after all."

"Uh, yeah," Superman tries to agree, because he's not really his own man, but–but he wants to be. Legally, he's pretty sure he's Cadmus's intellectual property more than anything else, but . . .

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Harry Potter next gen: George x Angelina vers.

Frederick "Freddie/Ricky" Ronald Weasely ii

Faceclaim: Kedar Williams-Stirling

Freddie is the first child and only son of George Weasley and Angelina Johnson

Like most of his family, he is a Gryffindor and proud

He is the older brother of Roxanne

He calls Roxanne Roxy or Rox

He tries to live up to his namesake, but he always feels constant pressure, so he doesn't try and is more chill

Fred prefers to be called Freddie or Ricky by anyone and everyone

Freddie and Roxy have worked at their dad's joke shop since they took their first steps

He is jealous of his sister and how much better than he is at hexes and pranks

Secretly hates being called Fred, especially in front of his dad.

Freddie has a tense relationship with hisdad, freddie has tried to break through the barrier, but it still stands

Freddie looks more like his mom, but he does have George's eyes and some of his facial structure

Freddie became close with James when he started Hogwarts, and they both talked to each other about the pressure they both faced when it came to their names

Freddie also helps James when he hits an emotional low

Although Freddie doesn't prank a lot or as good as his sister, he does cast spells and becomes the family Jester and Joker that tries to act the most goofiest to make any of him family smile or laugh

He has a talent for juggling and is also working on being a comedian

Is known as the class clown

Will do anything to embaress his cousins or sister

His patronus is a monkey

Whenever his cousins are going on a date, he goes in super secret spy mode and observes from the distance and will not hesitate to hex the person they're with if they cross a boundary

Will cheer the loudest at a quidditch game or quidditch practice

He is the families clown, but he is also his cousin's therapist if they ever need to talk

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Roxanne Olivia Weasley

Faceclaim: Ashley Moore

Roxanne is the second child and only daughter of George Weasley and Angelina Johnson

A Gryffindor lioness

She has her dad's and mom's looks, but she has her dad's menace personality

She is a modern femininst

She is her father's daughter and can prank and hex like a pro

She loves working at her dad's joke shop

She is the master prankster both at home and at hogwarts

She calls Freddie 'Fred' just to p1$$ him off

She loves quidditch and is on the Gryffindor team as a Beater

She and James love broom surfing in the air along with Teddy, Rose, and Lily

She loves both her parents but her dad is her favorite

She loves her brother and how he makes the family smile and laugh (including herself, but she would never admit that)

Is jealous of how everyone in the family can open up to Freddie even herself

She created a temporary tattoo spell that she uses constantly

Her patronus is a hyena

People in Hogwarts buy pranks from her and literally pay her to hex or jinx someone for them (it makes her feel like a hitman... she loves it)

Will do anything to protect her family and will laugh at the sight of death

Roxy knows that Freddie and George's relationship is strained and she tries to help the best she can, including her mom

Roxy is freakishly good at prank engineering

Roxy is a hexing and prank master. Not even Peeves would dare cross her

Roxy colors her hair a lot with Teddy's help