#also me: always draws barb with Broom

[stix-n-bread]

It's red head ship time with Barbgana and this time, to the winner goes Strickler.

finally i art again, and i art this

strickler the spectator suddenly becomes strickler the sweepstake

believe me when i say that it took me many tries to figure out how to do this, here being the end result that i am VERY proud of sksksksksks

[changeling-fae]

HPHM Character Profile

Thanks @batgirl-87 for tagging me!

General Information.

Name : Melody Kairi Prince

Age : 16 (currently)

Gender : Female

Nickname(s) :

Mel (by Jae)

Pip (by Jacob apparently)

Little troll (by her eldest brother William)

Cuttlefish (by her grandfather)

Date of Birth : March 1st, 1973 at 6:30pm

Astrological/ Zodiac Sign : Here’s her chart,

Ethnicity : Irish, Siren

Nationality : Irish

Species : Witch, Siren

Blood Type : A

Blood Status : Half-breed (quarter?)

Family :

Father - Halwyn Orpheus Prince

Halwyn and Eileen Prince were cousins, sharing grandparents making Melody and Snape second cousins.

The Prince family are very much like the Gaunts in once being wealthy pure bloods but are now reduced to a shadow of once they were.

They weren’t as poor as the Gaunts but we’re nothing like the Malfoys or Blacks in terms of wealth.

They clung to pure blood ideals however and can also tie their lineage to Cadmus Peverell.

Before his sons were born, Halwyn was the youngest and last male Prince.

He had two older sisters and Eileen his only first cousin.

He was disowned when he married Odella Gale, since she’s half siren.

He was placed in Slytherin just like all the Prince’s and proud of it.

He had a talent for potions, herbology, and DADA.

He was a very stoic and reserved man who could pick people apart psychologically if he was feeling malicious. He was soft with his family however.

He is eventually murdered by R/Cabal when Melody is 10.

Mother - Odella Aislinn Gale

Odella is half siren with a siren mother.

She was raised by her father on land but her mother would come visit from time to time.

She was placed into Slytherin which is where she met Halwyn.

She was aware of her blood status during the rise of pure blood supremacy and so worked extra hard out of spite.

She ended up as both Prefect and Head Girl of Slytherin.

She was a member of the Frog Choir.

She had a talent for charms, transfiguration, CoMC, and divination.

She was deeply in love with Halwyn and his sudden death hit her hard.

Jacob’s fall from grace and sudden disappearance right only a few months after Halwyn’s death pushed her more into grief.

At first she was paranoid of Melody running away (hence not letting her have a broom) but then swung the opposite, hardly ever home and throwing herself into work.

Melody looking for the vaults angered her further and their relationship hasn’t recovered.

Eldest Brother - William Halwyn Prince

Melody’s eldest brother who is 11 years older than her.

He can give Snape a run for his money as a cranky, sarcastic, jerk.

He is a loner who on the whole doesn’t like people.

Thanks to being part siren he’s ridiculously attractive and draws people to him despite his prickly personality.

He does have a soft spot for his family and would protect them, even he is mean about it.

The only person he actively likes is his best friend/boyfriend, Faran, a Ravenclaw werewolf.

He has a talent for DADA and potions and makes his boyfriend’s wolfsbane potion.

He becomes a curse breaker for Gringotts along with his boyfriend.

Second Brother - Jacob Corentin Prince

He’s 6 years older than Melody and 5 younger than William.

He’s more hotheaded than William and Melody but he’s good at hiding it.

Only originally looked for the vaults for fun but then got sucked into the more serious side once R got involved.

Once Duncan dies he becomes obsessed with breaking the curse to give meaning to what they did.

Once his dad was murdered he felt it was his fault and left to protect his family and get revenge.

He and William fought a lot growing up but he’s protective of Melody.

Has the attitude that only he’s allowed to tease her.

He didn’t get along with Snape because he reminded him too much of his brother William.

His best subjects were flying, DADA, and transfiguration.

Grandfather - Corentin Cian Gale

Odella’s father and his home is where the family lives.

He’s one of the top experts in Merfolk studies and a renowned magizoologist.

He helped Newt Scamander’s section on water based magical creatures and is longtime friends with him.

He’s also good friends with Professor Kettleburn.

He was sorted into Ravenclaw in his youth.

He’s a very patient and caring man.

Due to his work he has to be away from home a lot but makes an effort to come home to Melody during summer when he can.

He writes to her often when she’s at Hogwarts, trying to compensate for Melody’s sense of abandonment.

His best subjects were CoMC, herbology, and charms.

Grandmother - Kairi

She’s a cold water siren whose colony lives between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

She could only spend 7 years on land with Corentin before having to return to the sea.

The last 3 she was able to spend with Odella.

She’s much older than even Corentin since sirens age slowly and has children from previous matings.

So Odella has a few full siren half siblings.

Kairi visits her grandchildren during the summer sometimes and taught all of them how to hunt underwater.

She still very much loves Corentin even if she can’t be with him anymore.

Second Cousin - Severus Tobias Snape

Melody and Snape are aware of their relation to each other.

He’s technically welcome to their family but obviously he keeps his distance.

Because of this Melody and her brothers knew not to reveal their blood ties since Snape clearly doesn’t want it to be known.

Because of some of the similarities Snape holds with her father who had just died, she subconsciously latched on to him when they first met.

Snape is aware of this but is mercifully against mocking her for it.

He does get frustrated that none of his prickly barbs bother her.

Most of his animosity comes from not liking Jacob but some of it is from the fact that their backgrounds are similar (disowned parents) but her family clearly loves her, even with its problems.

Despite his acidic nature to her at times, he doesn’t actually want anything bad to happen to her.

Plus she does make the Slytherin house look really good and is the reason they win the House Cup every year.

Affiliation(s)/ Organization(s) :

Slytherin

The Frog Choir

The Potions Club

Charms Tutor

Assistant Curse-breaker

Magical Creatures Reserve Volunteer

Occupation(s) :

Future Healer for St Mungo’s

Future Healer for Hogwarts

Curse-breaker for Gringotts (William’s job)

Ministry of Magic (her parents)

Merfolk Diplomat (her grandfather)

Magical Characteristcs.

Form of Boggart : Emptiness, just silence.

Form of Patronus : Cuttlefish (though might become a sea serpent).

Form of Riddikulus : A surprise party.

What do they see in the Mirror of Erised? : Her family happy and whole.

Wand(s) :

-Length : 12 inches

-Flexibility : Surprisingly swishy

-Wood : Silver Lime

-Core : A scale from her grandmother’s tail

Description :

Animagus : Diving Petrel

Amortentia :

What she smells like to others; The very first hints of the sea, a summer storm, and honeysuckle.

What she smells; Parchment and ink, birdseed, and pine (Talbott).

Appearance.

Height : 5’3

Weight : 122 lbs

Complexion(skin tone/ conditions) :

Fair/pale skin that looks almost translucent in water.

Shimmering fish scales wherever water touches her.

If she hasn’t been in sea or lake water for over 3 days, her skin becomes red and patchy like a severe skin condition and she’ll start stinking like rotting fish.

Hair Color/ Style :

Silver white

Tight waves/loose curls

She almost always keep it long except during her 5th year where she cut it short as a way to cope with the trauma of watching Rakepick torture a random man.

She only needs sea or lake water to wash her hair and keep it healthy.

Eye Color :

A deep sea foam color in most cases.

When she’s pissed off it changes to almost a cold flat sea foam color and her pupils constrict to pins.

Hogwarts Information.

Worst Class(es) : She’s too much of a perfectionist to not do well but she does have least favorites.

History of Magic; Professor Binns has made it so boring for her that it makes it hard to pay attention.

Flying; ironic being that her animagus is a bird but she prefers using her own body as opposed to a broom.

DADA; she associates it with the death of her father since he worked in the hex removal department of the Ministry.

Best Class(es) :

Potions; she loves potions and has a natural talent for it. It also reminds her of her father.

Herbology; like potions it reminds her of her father and he taught her a lot in their family greenhouse before his death.

Charms; she really likes Professor Flitwick’s teaching method and has a natural talent for it.

CoMC; She’s good with creatures thanks to her grandfather and takes care of water based creatures back home during the summer since her home is a reserve.

Least Favorite Teacher(s) :

Professor Binns; he bores her to death and took the fun out of learning for her.

Professor Rakepick; her instinct always put her on edge around the woman and she never truly trusted her.

Favorite Teacher(s) :

Professor Snape; again, she subconsciously relates him to her father plus she just really loves potions.

Professor Flitwick; she loves his class and since she’s both a tutor and on the Frog Choir spends a lot of time with him. Plus she relates to him in that they’re both not fully human.

Quidditch :

She’s not all that interested in Quidditch if she were perfectly honest but Jacob was a huge a fan.

If she had to be a Quidditch player, she’d most likely be a seeker due to her strong hunting instinct.

Favourite Spell(s) :

Aguamenti

Lumos

Aqua Eructo Charm

Ebublio Jinx

Trivia.

(random facts about them, future job, face claim, theme song, etc.)

Her home is on the coast of Ireland and the area is a water creature reserve to protect wounded, sick, or endangered creatures.

There’s a female sea serpent that lives on it that she and her grandfather takes care of.

They also have 6 murtlaps and Melody is so used to taking care of them at a young age, that at Hogwarts she dives for the food for the ones under Kettleburn’s care.

Professor Kettleburn has known her since she was born thanks to his friendship with her grandfather.

Due to her siren heritage, she and her brothers and mother don’t use flirting or seduction if they actually are infatuated and instead will just come out and say it and are very blunt.

They only use seduction if they want something (like food).

Melody feels cold to the touch but her inner temperature is higher than a human’s, allowing her to remain in cold or freezing waters.

Melody, her brothers, and her mother are all exceptionally beautiful but don’t draw people in like part Veelas do, however once they’re in water they become almost supernaturally alluring and their voices become naturally seductive.

They can choose to hypnotize people with their song if they wish but it’s basically a death sentence for the affected person since they’ll become so obsessed they either drown themselves or try and kill the one who sang to them.

There is technically a cure and a way to become immune to siren songs but only the sirens know it.

Love potions don’t affect her and her brothers and mother the same way it does full humans. It basically makes them really drunk and frisky.

She witnessed her father die in front of her since he was poisoned so she can see thestrals.

She’s a Pisces, Jacob is a Cancer, and William is a Scorpio.

She really hates Rita Skeeter and Emily Tyler.

She has a huge crush on Talbott.

She was a hatstall between Slytherin and Ravenclaw but now if she wore the hat again, it would say Slytherin without a doubt.

You can find how I picture her home here.

You can find more siren headcanons here.

Ella Purnell is her face claim:

I can’t remember who all has done this yet so I’m tagging @persephone-chen @alsogolden-ana @skyline-timeturner and whoever else wants to do it!

[distracteddaddonaldduck]

Secret Santa 2018

I decided to participate in the protest on the 17th, so I am going to post my gift on the 16th. As a slight variation my gift has nothing to do with the Three Caballeros, because there was a slight mix-up with the secret santa pairs. And it is written, because I can’t draw. So this is my one and only Fenro one-shot.

So with that out of the way: Happy Holidays @darkwingownsthenight! I hope you like it!

Gyro paced around his lab, muttering to himself. The computers were dark for the most part, only lighting up periodically to wail at him to go sleep. He ignored them and that only made their noise more insistent. Normally he would have given up and gone to bed, but it was not a normal day.

Night.

Whatever, arbitrary timekeeping measures have never stopped a genius of his caliber, and they would not stop him now. Because tomorrow would be the one year anniversary of Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera becoming his intern.

At the time it didn't seem like such a big thing, just one more intern to leave after a few days, not prepared for the pressure of science. None of them ever stuck around until Fenton. None of them slowly wormed their way beyond the wall of acerbic barbs, so gradually that Gyro didn't even notice until too late. When he finally realized what was happening, the warm squirmy feelings were already there.

He tried ignoring them, hoping they would stop, then he tried chasing Fenton away. Being cruel to him, not knowing what else to do. Nothing worked.

Which is why he was here in the middle of the night, brainstorming. Because he lived his life by logic and science. And if he couldn't stop his feelings, then he would embrace them.

So he was going to confess and ask Fenton out.

Now he just needed the perfect plan.

And what would be a better time to try than an anniversary. After all anniversaries were important in relationships. Pre-relationships. Whatever, if his plan worked they would be dating before the day was done.

Now he just needed that plan.

While he was pacing Lil’ Bulb and Manny watched him silently.

“WHAT IF YOU JUST TOLD HIM?” Manny clopped. Gyro ignored them. What could a man-horse with Scrooge Mcduck's head know about romance?

The two onlookers exchanged a glance.

Gyro ignored that too. He had better things to do than than educate idiots.

He told them this.

“Isn't Fenton also an idiot according to you?” Lil' bulb blinked.

“No he isn't!” he exclaimed, then realized what he said. “I mean he is,” he corrected himself, “but he is a different kind of idiot. He is slightly smarter than everyone else.”

Manny and Lil’ Bulb exchanged a meaningful glance.

“I don't need to explain myself to you,” Gyro snapped. “Besides, who said being an idiot was a bad thing?”

The two of them just stared at him in disbelief.

“I don't need this sass right now.” Gyro straightened his shoulders, turned around and strode out of the door. He ignored the silent ‘Really?’ radiating from behind him.

Six hours later he still didn't have a plan and the time when Fenton would arrive at the lab was fast approaching.

The new day found him in a room barely better than a supply closet, used to house the less volatile materials and equipment for the laboratory. It was also out of the way and no one had any reason to come here. It gave him some much needed quiet.

Not that it helped.

Who would have thought finding something nice, but undeniably romantic would be so hard. A genius of his caliber should be able to do it in a flash and yet it stumped him.

He had a crumpled list in his hand, most of the items crossed out. The two that were still readable were clothes with three question marks after it and flowers. He didn't like either of them, but he had to keep at least some of them, no matter how generic. So they stayed, almost mocking his inability to be romantic.

He never needed romance before now! He never felt things like this before.

He was interrupted from his contemplation of his feelings when the door banged open.

“Sorry!” exclaimed the voice he wanted to hear the least right now, before Fenton stuck his head in the room. His eyes grew when he noticed Gyro, standing in the middle of a dusty storage room.

“Oh my god, Mr. Gearloose, I'm sorry,” he babbled. ”I didn't know you were here! Not that I normally act so violent with the lab equipment, I just-” he stopped talking when Gyro raised his hand. Gyro grit his teeth. This conversation started sooner than than he expected, but he was a genius. He could handle being nice.

“I hope you didn't break anything,” he snapped.

So perhaps he couldn't handle being nice.

“I'm really sorry Mr. Gearloose.” Fenton started again, but a glare was enough to get him to stop.

“I'm also... sorry,” Gyro gritted out. “I didn't mean to sound so-”

“It's not a brother, Mr. Gearloose! You don't-”

“Stop interrupting me!” Gyro snapped. Fenton closed his mouth with a click.

“Yes, it is,” Gyro continued, calmer now that Fenton let him get his thoughts into order. “In fact,” he took a deep breath to prepare himself. He has tried to think of a plan for weeks now and it didn't work. So he could as well take a page out of Mr. Mcduck’s book and just take the plunge. “I have been wanting to say this you for a while now. I…” Another deep breath. “appreciate you. In fact you are the intern I hate the least.”

There, he said it.

Fenton blinked, and looked stunned for a moment. The expression disappeared as fast as it came and then he started smiling. The smile was big, happy and blatantly false.

“Thank you! I appreciate you too! You are the best employer I ever had. Not that I had a lot.” The last sentence he muttered to himself.

What? No, that's not what Gyro meant. He tried to get Fenton’s attention, but the duck wasn't looking at him. He also evaded Gyro’s hand, raised to put on his shoulder and didn’t stop talking.

“Especially if we don't count Walmart. And I don’t count it.” He perked up, but still didn’t look at Gyro. “Now I have to go check up on something! See you later.”

He almost ran out of the room, leaving Gyro to stand there.

That definitely didn't go like Gyro hoped it would.

Gyro found Fenton again in the main lab, the strange behavior already gone behind a genuine smile. He was in the middle of setting up the equipment for the next in a line of experiments they started almost two months ago.

If there was something that went against Gyro’s plan then it was something routine.

“We are not continuing this today,” he said. Fenton jumped at his voice and twirled around, barely missing sweeping a beaker off the table.

“What? What do you mean?” he squeaked, waving his arms around. “We have been working on this for months!” He started wringing his hands.

Gyro took a step forward and raised his hand to do something. Stop him. Take his hands. Perhaps even saying something that could make his intentions clear. He was stopped from doing anything by Fenton speaking up.

“We are close to a breakthrough,” he exclaimed and that stopped Gyro short.

“That's not true.” His eyes narrowed and he crossed his arms. “And you are not as much of an idiot to believe that.”

Gyro expected him to back down, acknowledge his superior intellect. That’s what Fenton always did when they disagreed on something. So he was surprised when he didn't. In fact, he squared his shoulders and glared. Granted, it was a weak glare and didn’t even phase Gyro, but it's surprisingly aggressive from Fenton.

“You are wrong,” he stated with a wobble in his voice and that ruined any intimidation factor he had. He seemed to realize this, because he poked Gyro in the chest.

“In fact,” He turned and grabbed the crate full of supplies. “I'm going to prove it.”

He lifted it, wobbled under the weight and stormed out of the room.

In the lab Gyro was left looking at his interns back for the second time today.

Fenton's office was empty, just as it was the last two times Gyro looked. He knew it was, but he still checked. He was rapidly running out of options for where Fenton could be. He checked every lab they had, every storage room, broom closet and toilet in the whole building. He even crawled through the entire vent system.

Being covered in dust definitely didn't help his mood, but he persisted.

But speaking of something ruining his mood.

“What are you doing?” He turned to Manny who was silently walking behind him. Well, as silently as someone with hooves could walk. “Don't you have a job to do?”

“SOMEONE HAS TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR IDIOCY,” they clopped.

“I am a genius.” Gyro replied indignantly.

“SIGH,” Manny clopped, actually spelling out the word. Gyro had the feeling that if Manny had functioning eyes they would be rolling them.

Gyro turned his back to them.

“If you are only here to mock me I am leaving.”

“I AM TRYING TO HELP.” Manny's clopping was more agitated now, a sharp staccato burst.

“You are bad at it.” Gyro told them, but begrudgingly turned back around.

Manny let out a frustrated clop, but didn't say anything about it.

“I WILL SHOW YOU WERE HE IS.” He said instead, turning and marching down the hall.

Gyto followed him, struggling to keep up. Not that he was going to admit it.

Manny led him to the entrance to the freezer for living samples. Gyro couldn't help but be impressed by Fenton's resourcefulness. Gyro hadn't even thought to look there, the cold enough to dissuade him from trying. But with a layer of the new skintight heat retaining jumpsuits they were working on it would be a cakewalk to hide there. And the experiment wasn't affected by heat, so he could even work on it.

Not that he was working when Gyro opened the door, too busy solemnly watching Lil’ Bulb blink, nodding at the appropriate times.

He was attractive like this, seriousness so at odds with his normal happy-go-lucky nature.

He was so absorbed in cataloging the panes of Fenton's face that he completely missed what Lil’ Bulb was saying. He only tuned back in when Fenton nodded, turned and then jumped when he noticed Gyro. For a moment he looked ready to bolt, but then he noticeably forced himself to calm down.

“You got this,” he muttered to himself, but in the silence everybody heard him. He curled his hands into fists and looked straight at Gyro.

“Please don’t fire me.” In contrast to his determined body language, his voice was high pitched with the beginnings of panic.

“What?” Gyro asked with what he felt was appropriate bafflement. Fenton misunderstood the meaning, thought, because he started babbling.

“Please, am I not a good intern? I make you the best coffee and take notes and I can do anything. I can cook!”

“Crackshell.” Gyro tried to interject, but Fenton didn’t notice it.

“Or do you need someone to wash your clothes. I can do that!”

“Cabrera.”

“Or a leg rest? I can do anything!”

“Fenton!” Gyro shouted.

That finally shut him up, but he shrank back.

“I am not going to fire you.” Gyro pinched his nose. “What gave you that idea?”

“You were acting unnatural, I thought…” Fenton trailed off. “So you aren’t going to fire me?” His eyes were shining.

“Of course not,” Gyro said, but he couldn’t keep hold of his annoyance with those large eyes on him. “Do you really think that I am nice to people I am about to fire?

“Now that you say it like that it does sound stupid,” Fenton let out a relieved giggle. “But then why were you nice to me?”

“Well,” Gyro started, suddenly feeling embarrassed at his grand romantic plans. “Today is the one year anniversary of you starting to work here so, I thought it appropriate.”

“Really?”

“Yes,” he took a deep breath, “because I appreciate you-” Fenton’s eyes shone and his heart skipped a beat. ”your work. Yes.”

Lil’ Bulb sizzled in disappointment. Gyro ignored him.

“LOVE,” Manny clopped and Gyro wanted to step on their foot. Except they didn't have one.

“How is the experiment going?” He squawked, trying to cover Manny’s words.

“What?” Fenton asked distractedly.

“The experiment?” Gyro said this time in a voice just a little higher than normal.

“Not you.” Fenton put his hand on Gyro’s arm, leaning towards Manny. Gyro shut up at the unexpected, but welcome contact and so didn’t have enough composure to stop Manny.

“GYRO LOVES YOU.” Manny clopped and if they had a face that could emote they would have a shiteating grin.

“What?” Fenton asked again, this time more forcefully. He didn't wait for Manny’s answer and instead turned towards Gyro, who was still looking at the hand on his arm with a faintly flushed face.

“You... like me?” Fenton asked hesitantly.

“I don't dislike you.” He tried for his normal dismissive tone and failed.

“You like me.” Fenton said again, slower.

“You are not as much of an idiot as everyone else I have to deal with.”

“You like me.” Fenton exclaimed with a grin. Then he grabbed Gyro and pulled him into a kiss.

It was warm. He didn’t even have time to noticed anything else, because Fenton pulled away and the kiss was over as fast as it began.

“Sorry, I shouldn't just have done that.” Fenton’s voice was nervous as he let Gyro go. “Oh god, you are going to fire me now.”

That broke Gyro out of the stupor the kiss put him in.

“Shut up.” He grabbed Fenton by his shoulders and kissed him back.

Fenton melted into the kiss, tension seeping out of his shoulders and how had Gyro never noticed that before? He was supposed to be a genius. He was distracted by Fenton opening his mouth and then he didn’t think any more.

They didn't even notice when Manny and Lil’ Bulb left the room.