#because they're all adults - if he had to parent them I think he'd be irritated by it.

[bumblingbabooshka]

St Voyager Memes: New Year Same Guys

[mathlann]

Thought Dump about YM and being heir, and some other stuff.

The circumstances in which YM got declared heir is a whole nother long-ass post in itself, but I do think the starting trouble of his heir-dom is both that he represents a Lot��� as far as the von Valancius dynasty goes and the choice to foist that on him was mostly a rash decision Casimira made before he was born and now they're both stuck with it because by the time she started to reconsider it was far too late.

Like, being a regular Rogue Trader's heir is a lot of pressure, but he is also the first von Valancius born in the Expanse for at least the last 3-400 years (Theodora being from Scarus and Casimira being Calixian), the first heir born after his dynasty became the most powerful one in the region, and (quietly) a living result of his mom's particular policies regarding Aeldari.

Which is a lot even without even without factoring in parental issues! And no doubt the above became a factor that contributed to Cas deciding not only to publicly make him heir presumptive but also go out of her way to have the "Royal Baby Legitimacy Experience" (with plenty of bribes and negotiations under the table) on Dargonus. Which, barring some quarrels about not having him be born in the capitol world, worked very well in signifying the continuation of the dynasty etc etc.

But at the same time being an only child and heir presumptive kinda did mess him up in a way that definitely isn't helpful to making him want to be heir. Because Cas is very disdainful of hereditary nobility without merit, and inasmuch as Cas' protective shield of exceptionalism extends to her son, YM does on some level recognize he is the very type of person his mom would usually be bitching about after a long day at court. And so, like both his parents, he tends to draw on his origins as a form of self-justification but unlike his parents he doesn't yet have any big deeds to back up that self-belief and therefore deepens his own anxiety around failure because if he's not careful he rationalizes himself into being the thing he's scared of being.

Another "not helping" thing is that Cas learned how to be Rogue Trader by trial and error but doesn't really want YM to have to do that yet. So she gets big on him having a formal Noble Education so that he'll have a good base to work with, despite that fact that he is her and Marazhai in all the ways most calibrated to frustrate her and so doesn't take to hardly any of them. Not because he's not smart enough to grasp the material, but because neither of his parents had to sit in school like this and they turned out fine, so why should he care about Administratum procedures when he could be out in the Heathen Stars adventuring or something? The underside of this is also avoidance, in that failing these things are also a reflection on him so to get out of being "the Heir who tried and failed Administratum Procedures 101" its best to blow it off entirely. Which irritates his mom, because while she understands his wanting to go out and learn the hard way, the tedious shit is important too and its not boding well that it doesn't seem that he sees that. And thus the eternal war of "Im too good for this" and "I'm failing" continues eternal.

Having parents with very different timescales also doesn't help, nor does the fact that his mom and direct comparison point is kind of a fluke. Like on the one hand his young adult years mean nothing to Aeldari in total lifespan so he has time, on the other hand his mother was ruling a large chunk of the Independent Expanse by her early-to-mid thirties, Realspace Time. So being in his twenties and still not even having command of his own ship stings.

Making Marazhai more explicitly a Corsair Prince in my canon does offer a lot more when it comes to "what could've been" for YM. Because by the mere fact of his existence he was never going to be a bastard with nothing. There is a potential future (and one he'd probably like more) where he was just Cas' bastard and was Marazhai's heir presumptive. He wouldn't have the same cushy future job security for sure but the role might have fit his temperament better. Or he would just inherit a different flavor of parental issues and long to be a Rogue Trader's heir. Who knows.

Heir blues aside, YM also does have a perfectly calibrated "fucking with my parents" gene and makes it his business to cultivate a circle of "not necessarily harmful but personally irritating" set of friends and acquaintances to be on hand for social occasions where annoying either parent is the goal.

One of his "learning how the Administratum works" lessons was absolutely getting Jae the renewal of her Mercatum Tabular Rasa. It was a success....ignoring suspicious blood stains and the disappearance of a particularly annoying clerk.

During his eventual Gap Decade with Marazhai he probably gets some training from a Void Dreamer, a type of Aeldari Corsair Psyker that helps ships navigate both Warp and Webway. This solves one of the bigger problems in his life, being that he can't totally atrophy his abilities to the same extent as a Drukhari but following a Path like an Asuryani would send Marazhai into a fit. Void Dreamers, being adept at Warp travel, would be able to help him manage his senses during longer Warp Jumps without necessarily having to resort to violence.

[senka-mesecine]

What do you think all the boys in Platoon did before the war professionally speaking, job-wise? What were they?

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― Chris Taylor was a student and he pretty much says so himself. After that, he was a college dropout by choice --- another bit of information he's open with; but once upon a time there was probably the firm assumption that he'd graduate and take up, say, an established family business of sorts or something hereditary everyone in his family was involved with one way or another with where a prestigious trade is concerned --- something that could've been generationally attached to his surname and passed down from father to son, his path in life well-paved out for him in advance with not too much wiggle room for anything else and certainly not for self discovery. For lack of a better descriptor, his parents probably excepted him to become something as fancy and typically upper to middle class as a lawyer or a doctor --- one of those 'safe' jobs where you'll be settled for life --- and he undeniably went and earned their disappointment and even anger when he went on to leave everything behind, voluntarily enlist and become anything but.

― O'Neill seems like someone who genuinely had the most commonplace life of all pre-Nam; managed to graduate high school on time. Might've done a sport or two. Red on the small time local wrestling team with his O'Neill death grip. Wasn't poor but he wasn't some fat cat either --- being perfectly middle ground common in every regard. Got briefly employed at some, say, mom-and-pop type business and he developed all the manners of a slightly nervy civilian with slightly nervy civilian problems. Then came the war and his slightly nervy civilian problems turned into properly agitated and anxious O'Neill problems. Man's undoubtedly the poster child of being perfectly average in every regard; not too hardened by his civilian life to be able to be some kind of fierce leader but certainly neurotic enough to tactically brownnose whoever is top wolf in order to have a tiny vestige of power through them and survive. Wouldn't surprise me if he was an irritated grocery clerk before the war.

― Bunny was unemployed for the simple reason that he was far too young to even properly get educated and actually find a career of any genuine and lasting variety by the time he was drafted and shipped off overseas; meaning that he never had enough time to actually ponder a future, a trade, a profession, how to make a living or anything of the sort --- almost like being in the army and in Vietnam literally freed him of the burden of thinking of that whole nonsense in general, which is, among other less savory reasons, precisely why he likes being there in the first place. It's a big rock off of his back, really. All he has to worry about there is not dying (and even if he does, he won't know it's happening) and he says so himself. He does what he wants which is exactly the way he enjoys it best, like a kid let out of a cage without proper parental supervision. If a profession would need to be assigned to him he'd probably just label himself a soldier because he isn't like to relate to anything else.

― Much like Bunny, Junior was probably too young to actually have a job; they're extremely similar in that regard, except the sole difference is that I can envision is Junior thinking that he was an amateur political activist fighting against 'the man' back home --- which isn't an unusual phase for a teenager turned young adult to have, this proclivity to being overly imaginative and for the lack of a better word, overblow their own importance. He might've been at a rally once or twice, got arrested for the simple reason he got caught being at the wrong place at the wrong time and for a commonplace act of boyish stupidity, he probably ended up enlisting to avoid getting the slammer, which is both hilarious and slightly tragic. Not that he admits to it when asked. He thinks of himself as a bit of a dissident back home; this is something he swears by. The white man's holding him down and that's why he's here. But, when he gets back? He'll be a politician and then they'll all see who Junior is.

― Rhah Vermucci was a small time street dealer since forever. Heroin. Crack. Opioids. Weed. Pills. You name it. Whatever was going big in the early 60's in lieu of the wider spread addiction and narcotics epidemic, he was peddling. Not so much for the profit of it but because he genuinely believed drugs are the answer to everything or at least most of anything --- that they open the mind and the senses to new, unexplored horizons and that he's basically preaching a message of general enlightenment by selling to people, just as likely to give out samples for free, not unlike a preacher converting individuals to a whole new religion. He might've at one point very seriously considered something unhinged like travelling the overland Hippie trail through Afghanistan, Pakistan India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and all the way to Thailand for the simple reason of wanting to find out what other elixirs he can sample Far East but it never quite panned out for him like that because he either ended up jailed or he got drafted. Or both.

― King was probably too impoverished for even the basics of education, too impoverished to hold down a job, too impoverished to self improve, too impoverished to do much of anything or have any chances of betterment and upward mobility in any sense that mattered in the long term and so really, him being a prime candidate for the draft was really a given and he's probably aware of it too. With no opportunities behind him in the past and no opportunities in front of him in the future, it's really a shocker how he maintained such a positive, friendly and genuinely kindly outlook on the world as a whole, being someone Not in Education, Employment, or Training. By extension of not getting any major privileges or having been dealt good cards his plans post-war would more or less involve simply...living, regardless what he does. Maybe working in some factor a couple of months and then hitchhiking to a Bob Marley concert only to do some moonlight in case he's strapped for cash. Wherever the road takes him so long as he's home and free --- everything's gravy compared to what he left behind.

― Wolfe was an Ivy League graduate of sorts or undoubtedly someone from a well respected military academy like West Point and a family background just as affluent; he's the type of guy you'd nonironically see at a golf course wearing a white polo shirt with a cashmere pullover tied around his shoulders in the middle of a work week or decked out in a white uniform, socializing at an officer's joint, shooting the breeze with a pinkie ring on his finger, like someone who's part of an exclusive club. And he was. His profession is as such simply that he's on the downlow wealthy and well educated enough to not need to have a clear cut job, but rather being something of an army office jockey; someone perhaps unfairly and continuously earning his stripes and rank unearned promotions through the mere fact that he might've known the right people and that he kept getting recommended for a position he was underqualified and under experienced for in the practical sense. Suffice to say, if we had to put an actual label on it, Mark Wolfe is what we'd call a Nepo Baby today.

― Elias struck oil in Oklahoma somewhere and he was, as unlikely as that sounds now with how carefree, enlightened and liberated from the material he seems, a millionaire and a businessman in his own right for a while. So much so that he moved to LA, upgraded on his social class practically overnight, splurged on everything ranging from a mansion, expensive cars, luxurious things, an overly spending prone celebrity woman who bankrupted him and got him hooked to some of the worst habit imaginable, costly drugs and other experimental opioids and he went through said newfound wealth as quickly as he acquired it, somehow burning himself out in no time at all, landing himself embroidered in a police raid, arrested for possession of vast quantities of narcotics, ending up in jail and cutting a deal to be drafted instead of rotting behind bars for years. Somehow, Grodin's life story is so incredible it almost sounds made up. Thing is, I don't figure there's much of anything he'd go back home to in the first place because he lost everything, which is why he kept re-enlisting for three years in a row even though he doesn't believe in the cause he's enlisting for anymore.

― Barnes seems like he would've been something in the vein of being a road construction worker, a sharecropper, someone putting down railway tracks, a miner, day laborer, a welder, a tool pusher, an oil driller or anything and everything that demanded hard, grueling physical labor on a daily basis or him being a roughneck through and through from a young age, which means that by the time he ended up in the war tour after tour he was already as tough as nails by default. Being a soldier almost came naturally as a result seeing as how he was already used to difficult conditions and adversity way before he was ever given an uniform, meaning that his temperament could've been that of a hard-ass from the get go as well. That's just about how he more or less always was like to some extent, give or take. He, outside of someone like, say, King, probably comes from the most impoverished background of all the men in his platoon and by extension, he's the keenest survival skills of them all as well. Suffice to say, life wasn't easy and tremendously nice for Barnes and as a result, he isn't an easy or a nice man either. Not that he's looking for any sympathy or handouts.

[jelzorz]

holiday prompts!!

#8 or #11? Or maybe some combination??

8. Christmas shopping AND 11. “I’m a grown adult. I don’t want to take a picture with Santa Claus.”

Two weeks out from Christmas, Callum drags Rayla to the local mall to do some last minute shopping, and Rayla hates him for it.

All right, not really. She's grown pretty fond of him over the time she's gotten to know him, but the crowds are awful this time of year, and she's not a Grinch by any definition but the Christmas rush is, literally, the worst. The expectation to buy stuff for people is stupid, especially considering a lot of it is for people she doesn't even like.

But Callum had insisted because he's nice like that, and he'll go out of his way to find something for even the stuffiest people at work, and, Rayla supposes, that's why she likes him. No one's that thoughtful anymore, and he's a breath of fresh air amidst the corporate, capitalist bullshit that rears its ugly head during the Christmas season.

In all honesty, it's going pretty well—mostly he'd wanted to stock up on supplies so be could draw personalised Christmas cards for everyone at work (bless him), but then they pass by the Santa photography stand in the middle of the mall, and a grin splits his face.

"Let's stop here for a bit," he says cheerfully.

Rayla grimaces because she doesn't like that look. There's something cheeky about it, even as he cranes his neck over the line of parents and their excited children. "Why?" she deadpans, shoulders tensing a little.

"Ez is working today," he says, jabbing a finger at the photographers behind the counter. "Thought it'd be nice to say hi."

"Okay," says Rayla, "but why are we in line?"

Callum's grin widens more. "Ez gets three free photos while he's working here and he very kindly donated one each to me and Dad."

The implication is obvious. The line shuffles forward. Rayla scowls. "I'm not taking a picture with Santa."

"Aw, Rayla, come on—"

"No," she snaps. "I'm a grown adult. I don't want—"

"Oh, hey guys!"

"Hey Ez!" Callum waves over the crowd, his smile warm and annoyingly infectious. Ezran grins back and ushers the next family along.

"Come to get your photo?"

"If Rayla's into it," says Callum. "If not, that's okay, I guess. You and I can just get one."

"I'm always keen," chuckles Ezran.

Rayla furrows her brow at them both. "Aren't you both human adults?"

"We're not all that jaded," snorts Callum, nudging her elbow. "Santa photos are cute and this one costs us nothing."

"Except our dignity," grumbles Rayla, and Callum laughs. "You know this just plays into the gross corporate Christmas gimmick, right? Santa photos are overpriced for what they are, and people will pay it without thinking twice."

"Spoken like someone who used to have to do this herself," says Callum drily.

Well, it's true. Rayla shudders at the memory—the pushy parents, the screaming kids, the shitty pop renditions of Christmas carols over the mall speakers. That was years ago now, but Rayla remembers it like some sort of traumatic flashback. Even then, it was twenty-two whole dollars for a single 6x8 print. She doesn't even want to know what it is now.

"This one's not so bad," Callum is saying. He points at a sign by the counter which is just too far away for Rayla to make out clearly. "On my honour. Half of the funds they make here go to the homeless shelter down the road. The Santas are volunteers."

Rayla blinks at him. "Seriously?"

"Seriously," says Callum, nodding. "Ez had a hand in organising it. His good deed for Christmas, he says."

God, they're so nice. Ez and Callum both. Rayla bristles, but she swallows her irritation because... Well...

How can she be grumpy about it knowing that?

"One photo," she concedes. "One. And I'm only doing this because you're both such goody-two-shoes."

"I'll take it," laughs Callum, and maybe it's because she likes him so much, or because his laugh is so catching, or because he and Ez shouldn't be allowed to be so Good, but Rayla sighs and lets her shoulders drop.

Maybe it's not all corporate bullshit. Maybe Callum and Ezran are the Christmas miracles she'd forgotten could exist.

[innerchorus]

I couldn't stop thinking about my ArSen AUs and OCs and such and I currently have nobody to talk to about them so I've come to bother you about it! I apologize! You can ignore this ask if you wish to!

Kazai actually likes Narsus's art! Daryun disapproves. In the first AU they meet when Kazai and his clan are trying to run away from Pars with an eleven-year-old Arslan in tow— Arslan is Kazai's nephew and Kashi, Kazai's elder sister, was Arslan's birth mother— but in the second AU where Arslan doesn't become a Prince because Andragoras found another unfortunate infant, Kazai and Narsus only meet several months after the whole Ecbatana debacle.

Shapur's fate in the first AU is a bit up in the air since I don't know how to convince him to ditch Pars and accompany Kazai's clan to their long lost homeland and he'd die if he stayed. But in the second AU he lives, thanks to the tools and tricks he picked up from Kazai. (Let's just say… as a mage and a “mercenary” and the general sort who dwells in the shadows Kazai does not fight fair.)

The Marda clan does not believe blood is the end all be all for forming a family. If you want blood offspring, great, you do you, but inspired by their god-who-they-say-is-not-a-god Araya they honor, they have adopted a sort of “finders-keepers” mentality in regards of acquiring a child. They also firmly believe that children are precious and must be treasured, and parents and nurturers are respected in their clan. Which is why they will often “kidnap” a neglected or abused or abandoned child. It is not only Kazai who does it, but also many of the adults of the clan. Kashi took in a young Gieve whose own family died from a disaster— Ayunnen (Kashi's husband and Arslan's father) would have taken Isfan in if Shapur hadn't arrived and passed Ayunnen's “test”.

The Marda pride themselves on being able to create and/or nurture things, and a wedding tradition of theirs is that the marrying couple display what their creations they're proud of, whether it be embroidery or woodwork or crops or art or anything at all. They also plant a tree together as part of the ceremony.

Daryun and Narsus, who became part of the clan in the first timeline, marry some time after arriving at the ancient homeland of the Marda, after their rebuilding has made good progress. Narsus of course displays his ✨Artworks™✨. Daryun is not amused but Kazai is very pleased. After all, Kazai is— in Daryun's very exasperated words— “an enabling piece of turd”. (I still have not decided what Daryun could display though ahahaha…)

In the second timeline, Kazai and Shapur would marry— though only under the Arayan faith and not the Parsian since I'm pretty sure same-gender marriages didn't happen in Pars? Kazai is good at embroidery and painting and calligraphy and spell-array drawing (which could be considered a combination of art and calligraphy and magecraft I suppose), and I headcanon that Shapur might pick up some craft so that he can honor the Mardal tradition but again I have no idea what he'd actually learn, or if he had a crafting hobby from the start. Whoops!

For all that he is a force of chaos who don't give no shits about rules, for all that he can be seen as dishonorable or even cowardly due to his admittedly underhanded methods, Kazai is defined by the people he protects and loves. He is willing to compromise his morals and principles if it means the remnants of his clan can survive and be safe. Honor is for the strong. The weak simply survive.

Shapur and Kazai in the second timeline had a rough start, what with Kazai having zero trust in Shapur and Shapur feeling baffled and irritated in general bc Kazai is Like That™, but they come to make things work out between them (smol Arslan helped with that, but that's a topic for another time). Shapur has thought, on more than one occasion, that courting Shapur is like trying to tame a starving and injured feral cat who doesn't trust humans.

That's all for now! I apologize for dumping this in your askbox, but I really didn't have anyone I could dump this all on and I'm too shy to just directly make posts about it since I don't have actual fic and artwork to display for it (except an unfinished fic I had deemed unsatisfactory and is in the process of being rewritten)… I hope you have a fantastic day!

Ahh I'm really late to respond to his message but I have to share it here because this is some go౦ԁ sHit👌 and you should be proud of your worldbuilding! ...also I'm just sat here happily daydreaming about Shapur being married.

[danceworshipper]

Giulio Moretti - HPMA Character Profile

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NOTE: I am a cisgender female. As such, I have been hesitant to make a trans oc and will not be going into much detail about Giulio's experiences specifically related to his gender. If anything in here feels iffy to anyone not cisgender, please let me know and I'll correct it

Personal

Full Name: Giulio Antonio Moretti

Gender: Male (trans)

Sexuality: Demisexual, polyamorous

Birthday: June 1st

Age: 11

Birthstone: Alexandrite

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Blood Status: Full Veela

- I'm mostly using these headcanons written by @carmilla-the-bird, though over time I might end up changing a couple details

- I'm not certain if full Veelas would even use wands/go to magic school but these ones do because I say so

- What I'm specifically adding is that since HPMA takes place later than the full HP series, there has been a new method developed to allow full veelas to better coexist with wizards. This comes in the form of a clear gemstone that can be inserted into any piece of jewelry, usually necklaces. While the stone is worn, the charm [or allure, as I call it] that all veelas have while glamored is dampened by up to 80%. Another effect is that when angered, the veela won't be able to lash out with their fire magic, unless they've trained their magic well enough that's it's less of an instinct and more of a conscious choice. Minors are legally required to wear it at all times, except in their own home with only their family around. Once an adult the veela can choose whether they want to wear it or not. The stone has a similar trace to underaged magic, so when a Veela who's a minor takes it off, the Ministry is alerted and their location will be tracked

3 Positive Traits:

- Empathetic

- Resourceful

- Playful

3 Negative Traits:

- Irritable

- Addictive

- Pessimistic

Usual First Impression: When meeting Giulio, most people see him as a spoiled and stuck up little boy. This isn't true. He's just very wary of strangers, so he doesn't tend to leave a good first impression. Once he's more comfortable around someone, his positive traits outshine the more negative ones

Location

Birthplace: A Veela-specific clinic in southern Italy. His mother travelled there for all of her children's births, and the midwife there is the woman who delivered her

Current Home: His family home in England, a medium sized house under a strict Fidelius charm, which his aunt is the Secret Keeper for. His bedroom is on the second floor, looking out over the fish pond in the backyard

Future Home(s): Fresh out of Hogwarts he'll share an apartment with Lori with heavily warded Floo access. Later homes TBD once his love interests are planned out

Favorite Place: The little house the family rents for a month every summer in southern Italy. The town is full of good culture, and better yet, good food. It feels peaceful, even when there's a loud festival going on

Disliked Place: The woods a mile down the road from his home. The woods are the last place Giulio saw his grandmother before she went missing, and now they feel like they're haunted. He refuses to go on walks there anymore

Appearance

Face Shape: Round, slightly pointy chin

Eye Color: Deep teal

Hair Color: Whitish blond

Hair Style: Self cut (horrifies his mother), slightly uneven, medium length. Not brushed every day, fluffy

Skin Tone: Pale

Freckles/Spots: A few beauty marks on his face, two near his right eye and one on the left side of his chin

Scars: None yet

Piercings/Tattoos: None

Height: 5'7" [fully grown]

Weight: ~ 135 lbs [fully grown]

Physique: Thin. Luckily for him, Giulio's family has always had rather "boyish" bodies - wide shoulders, not very curvy - but he's still got too much woman in him to be fully happy with his form

Clothing Style: Baggy tops, loose pants, nothing fancy. Giulio tries to attract as little attention as possible, because while he's glamored people stare at him a lot anyway, even with the dampener. He does like colored pants, but his tops are usually grey and black. His dampening necklace is the most eye catching thing he wears (as it was a gift from his missing grandmother) and he wishes he could take it off, but he legally can't

Carried Items:

- The last picture of him, his sisters, and his grandmother ever taken

- A lighter. He likes having the fire near him since he can't access his own fire magic

- His hair scissors, for whenever he feels like it needs to be trimmed

- A container of Silly Putty he got from a Muggle convenience store

- His water bottle

Magic

Wand: 10" Veela hair wand in Fir wood. A very pale colored wand that's a bit rough around the edges. The hair is from his younger sister Martina, who yanked the strand right out and handed it to the wandmaker after no wands appeared to choose a very defeated looking Giulio. The wand was made while Giulio watched, and he checked it many times throughout the process to make sure it felt like it would have him, which it did.

Animagus: As a veela, Giulio can transform into pretty much any bird shape. He has no need to go through the animagus process

Boggart Form: Him, fully matured, very womanly, and in a wedding gown just like the ones his older sister Alessia fawns over

Riddikulus Form: Him in a ridiculously exaggerated Bloody Baron costume

Amortentia (to others): Someone smelling Giulio would smell new pillows, the faint burning metal scent that clings to him, and the dry shampoo he uses

Amortentia (to them): He doesn't smell any sort of romantic interest yet. What he smells now are safe, comforting smells, like the cigars his mother and aunt smoke, the perfume all his sisters use, and the smell of his favorite restaurant in southern Italy

Patronus: Bird of Paradise

Happiest Memory: Receiving his wand once it was completed, and finally feeling the connection and power he'd heard so much about but thought he'd never have

Mirror of Erised: Some might consider it sad, but all he sees is him, happy, the way he wishes he was - including not looking at all like a Veela. Someday this will change

Family Spells: It's not really a spell, but the Morettis have a particular bird call that, when paired with the right charm, will alert every living family member to the caller's location, should one desperately need help. It's only to be used in emergencies. Giulio isn't sure he wants to know why his grandmother never used it

Inherent Magic: Veela stuff - storm sense, fire, bird transformations, allure, slight levitation abilities

Family

Grandmother: Francesca is not an ideal parental figure. She grew up in a time when full Veelas were treated with nearly the same suspicion and prejudice as werewolves, so she's very anti-human. However, she was still one of Giulio's best defenders and most treasured family members. She places a huge importance on family and is the one who came up with the idea of the special danger call. Francesca went missing when Giulio was seven, and there have been no clues as to what happened.

Mother: Valentina is a kind, gentle woman who cares for her family before anyone else. She and her sister were taught all their lives to be nothing more than a pretty face, and while Bianca rejected this, Valentina embraced it. Even now, with her own mother nowhere to be found, she has trouble remembering to be herself. She wears her necklace at all times, terrified to be without it

Father: Giulio never knew him. He's not sure he even has one

Aunt: Bianca is, in many ways, the exact opposite of her sister. Bianca embraces all of her less than proper instincts, and even walks around in public completely unglamored, acting as a good deterrent to anyone who might want to come say hi, innocent intentions or not. Gets angry very easily, and has caused public property damage more often than Valentina would appreciate

Sisters: Two older sisters, one younger. All Slytherins while in school

- Alessia, six years older, prefect. A headstrong young woman who takes advantage of her allure to get what she wants, and is skilled enough to fight off anyone who gets too "friendly". She likes to have a collection of boy toys she never lets get too close, but secretly only has eyes for the Hufflepuff prefect, Lina.

- Emilia, four years older, Quidditch captain. Hates her allure with a passion and refuses to even think about romance until she's out of school. Could kick anyone's ass, and will do so if she feels the need to. Very protective of Giulio, has gotten into at least eight shouting matches with those who misgender him

- Martina, one year younger. The baby of the family. A bit of a spoiled brat, and too young to fully understand exactly why her older siblings are all so wary of strangers, or letting her out of their sight. She dreams of being the Minister of Magic, and of being able to take her "stupid, ugly, and stupid" necklace off for good

Pets: The two family screech owls which trade off being at school/home, and an Abraxan Giulio found on Hogwarts grounds that likes him a lot

Family Values: The Morettis hold nothing higher than each other. The family's main priority is sticking together, and always doing whatever they can to help each other achieve whatever they wish. The family is also, as a whole, rather reclusive

Opinion of Family: Giulio loves his family. For all their faults, they hold true to their values and he couldn't imagine one of them ever betraying another. Even if they won't ever truly understand him, they've all tried and they do what they can, and it means more than he can say

Friendships

Introverted or Extroverted: Introverted

Best Friend: Oleander Loris. Her anger issues, her weird pink eyes, and her tendency to drag him along to social outings are all things that Giulio comes to appreciate over time. He originally became curious about her on the train ride to school, when she stumbled looking at his older sisters but didn't notice him at all, and they spoke for the first time in Flying class. Lori is definitely a force to be reckoned with, and the fact that she's not affected by his allure in the slightest makes him feel really happy

Worst Friend: TBD

Friend He Didn't Expect: Cassandra. They aren't the best of friends, and maybe they can't be considered friends at all, but she doesn't hold the contempt she seems to hold for most others for him

Who He Wishes Was His Friend: Kestra Fernera. She's got fire powers, and she doesn't have to be chained down by the Ministry. He thinks she's super cool, and is very jealous of her and how popular she is, but he's far too nervous to try and talk to her

List of Casual Friends:

- Brian Haywood-Reese @catohphm

- others TBD, but likely the main cast of the game. Mc friends welcome, if any are interested!

Romance

Current Crush: None

Current Partner: None

Past Partners: None

Future Partners: TBD

His Type: Pretty much anyone who's able to look past the allure that Giulio hates so much and also isn't afraid of him in his natural form, though most people haven't even seen it

Hogwarts

House: Slytherin

Prefect Status: No

Quidditch: Not on the team, but plays casually

Clubs: TBD

Organizations: None

Favorite Class: Flying. Duh

Least Favorite Class: Potions. It gives him a headache surrounded by all the fumes

Favorite Professor: TBD

Least Favorite Professor: TBD

Timeline

Young Childhood:

- Giulio realizes young that he hates the idea of being a girl, and insists that his mother change his name. His family thought it was a phase, but once they realized it wasn't, they became more serious and started to see what they could do to help him

- He's a sheltered child, learning early the importance of staying close to a trusted adult. He sees the horrors of what can happen to a Veela caught unaware at a young age when he almost loses his mother to someone who wanted to sell her, and never looks at strangers the same way again

- At five years old Giulio is given his dampener necklace. He refuses to wear it until his grandmother forcibly puts it on him. He decides it's not that bad, though it feels like it's choking him and he doesn't like the muted feeling in his hands that comes from the loss of his instinctual magic

- At seven years old, Giulio is on a walk with his grandmother in the woods when he hears a loud screech. She sends him back toward the house, saying she'll be right behind him. Hours pass, and she never follows. There's no evidence as to what that screech was, or what happened to his grandmother

- At eleven years old, Giulio spends a week traveling to different wandmakers around Europe trying to find a wand so he can go to school in the fall. For some reason, his magic is picky and not a single wand even comes close to working for him. When he's given up all hope, his little sister Martina asks if the wandmaker takes custom orders, and rips out her own hair to be used for Giulio's wand. It's the first time Giulio cries happy tears, hovering his hand over the uncompleted wand and feeling it call to him already

School Years: TBD once I'm able to play the game

Post Graduation: Giulio moves into an apartment with Lori soon after graduating. While she immediately starts work, Giulio takes time to find some higher education, and work on training his Veela magic now that he can take his necklace off whenever he wants

Career(s): TBD

Marriage and Children: TBD

Death: Giulio will be murdered by [redacted] in order to save [redacted]'s life, but he'll be very old (around 200) and will have outlived his lovers, so he doesn't see it as too much of a shame. He'll be buried in the family garden and have some lovely flower bushes planted over him

Notable Facts Not Previously Mentioned

- The Veela magic in Giulio recognizes him as a boy as soon as he does. When his allure kicks in, anyone attracted to men finds themself affected, while those strictly into women do not, even though male Veelas are practically unheard of

- His aunt Bianca paid a personal visit to Hogwarts before he was enrolled, ready to throw flames if he was going to be put into the female dorms. Luckily, she didn't need to worry, as once the situation was explained it was settled with a simple change in his paperwork

- Giulio hates being cooped up indoors for too long. Even in the coldest days of winter, he'll spend as much time as possible outside

- Starting in third year, Lori will figure out how to get the necklace off of him without alerting anyone [putting it on herself within a few seconds], and Giulio will occasionally spend a few hours free and in his natural form in the Forbidden Forest. Unbeknownst to him, wearing the necklace saps at Lori's magical core, and it takes her a day or so to regain her strength if she wears it for more than thirty minutes

- Giulio will likely have three partners in the future. He could never even imagine having one, so if his younger self was told he would have three he would probably have a difficult time believing it

- Cutting his hair so frequently doesn't affect his magic like his mother feared it would, though he does feel nauseous when he does it

- The dark teal eyes are something only he and his sisters have, which is how he knows they all have the same "father" or whatever they had. His mother, aunt, and grandmother all have the traditional black eyes. Not even Alessia ever saw any type of man around when her younger siblings were born, so there are no clues as to how the four of them exist

- As much as he hates the dampener, it does him a lot of good when he's younger. He gets angry easily and often feels very defensive, so without it he could have gotten into a lot of trouble

- Though he doesn't like his allure, Giulio will sometimes take advantage of it like Alessia does if he wants to get out of something. He won't fight it, he'll play nice, and let whoever he needs to back off get a little dazed

- He wanted to hide the fact that he was a Veela when he first came to Hogwarts, but with two older sisters and his allure he couldn't

[idreamiwrite]

ORV X SOLO LEVELING PART 2

Idk... I really don't know... o-(-(

Go Gunhee's first impression of Korea's newest S-rank was that he looks...normal. High ranking hunters usually have an aura around them, one that even unawakened people could pick up on. KDJ doesn't have that.

Instead of a powerful aura, there seemed to be a sort of detachment to him. He looked as if the world was just a story he was going through. This was an impression based on sight alone before Go Gunhee had even spoken to him.

Speaking to KDJ was even...weirder. He's so awkward. He thought. KDJ fidgets with the phone in his hand and never makes eye contact unless absolutely necessary. He listens to what Go Gunhee has to say and mulls over his offer.

In the end, the offer was declined. KDJ isn't interested in political influence. Before Go Gunhee could even feel disappointed about that, KDJ clarifies that he's joining HA even without any incentive that GGH could offer.

It was the oddest but most successful recruitment he'd ever experienced.

(Random thought #1: if i write this fully I'm gonna have to figure out how the public is going to react to one of the few s ranks joining HA instead of any of the guilds. Especially aince this would happen very early in the timeline, maybe even just a short while after GGH establish HA...sooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Lee Gilyoung found him first or rather they found each other first. At this point LGY is a child at 7 yrs old. His parents brought him to Seoul (and HA) because they suspect he's awakened and doesn't know what to do about it. They love their son but ever since the world changed so did he.

(Random thought #2: LGY backstory, basically his parents brings him to HA to get tested and hopefully learn how to function in normal human society from HA because they're afraid he could be a danger to himself and other people bc they see all those news about adult hunters doing heinous crimes and in their heads they're thinking if adults could do bad things with their power what more a child who they think doesn't have a solid grasp of what's right and wrong. Ofc LGY knows right from wrong but his parents sorta underestimated his morality bc he's a kid. Their intentions are good but the execution is meh.)

(Random thought #3: I wanna speedrun the rest of the pre-canon timeline so that I can finally get to the interesting bits of my agenda which has always been that KDJ gets a taste of his own medicine because this kid, he's pseudo-adopted to LGY irritation, SJW either keeps almost dying in dungeons (pre carthenon temple) or disappears off the face of the earth for weeks at a time.)

(Random thought #4: my 2nd agenda was that the 4th wall is the real mvp. 4th wall-nim believing that the best pov to tell a story is always the protagonist's pov so it glitches the architect's system and changes the system so it could give KDJ (just one of many KDJ out there in the infinite worlds, it has time it could give all KDJ a story they could read in whatever world they incarnate in) a front row seat to the story of SL.)

DOES THIS MAKE SENSE OR DO I SOUND LIKE A MADMAN? DO I EVEN REMEMBER SL AND ORV PROPERLY OR WERE THEY ALL JUST FEVERED DREAMS?!?

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