#esme is the only one I've ever actually completed the game with

[danceworshipper]

Esme Taelceon - HPHL Character Profile

Esme exists in a universe with 3 other ocs: Alexis, Joshua, and Lukas

profile template is my own

Appearance Settings: Face 2, Skin tone 1, Hair/eyebrow color 24, Eye color 19, Complexion 3, Freckles 5, Scars 8, Hair style 7, Eyebrow shape 1, Voice 5

Personal

Backstory: The only known siren hybrid, Esme was raised in an underwater cave system as a vicious beast with little to no regard for her food mankind. Sure, she could play the part of a terrifying cute little girl helping her not-all-there father with his errands when needed, but she never imagined that one day she'd be invited to assimilate into human society - yet that was exactly what happened when a bold witch waltzed right up to the entrance of the caves and called out her name. One simple letter, received at 11 years old, changed the course of her entire future

Full Name: Esme Alcina Taelceon

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

Birthday: March 1st, 1875

Birthstone: Aquamarine

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Blood Status: Halfbreed - pureblood, siren

3 Positive Traits:

- Kind

- Determined

- Stealthy

3 Negative Traits:

- Socially anxious

- Manipulative

- Vicious

Appearance

Voice: High, can be shaky due to disuse but strong when singing

Eye Color: Green

Hair Color: Teal

Hair Style: Messy waves, shoulder length, middle parted

Skin Tone: Nearly white

Freckles/Spots: Beauty marks scattered across her face

Scars: Claw mark on right eye/cheek

Piercings/Tattoos: Single ear piercings

Height: 5'10"

Physique: Thin but toned, long legs, slight webbing between finger/toes

Clothing Style: Comfy and easy to move around in. Green/blue tones. A satchel for potions/plants storage. Likes to wear a Slytherin scarf unless it's too hot [crossed wands champion garb, house emblem scarf]

Magic

Wand: Alder, unyielding, 14.5", phoenix feather [ringed, buff, grey shell handle]

Broom: Sky Scythe

Boggart Form: Her father staring at her in terror, calling her a monster

Amortentia (to others): Lake water, vanilla, stone

Amortentia (to her): Iron, berries, incense

Patronus: Koi fish

Siren Capabilities:

- Siren Song: Esme speaking in a normal tone is strong enough to influence most people for a short while, but resistance can be built up. If she sings, however, there is no hope of resisting. The victim would have to be released voluntarily. This ability is forbidden at Hogwarts for any reason. Even one infraction will get Esme expelled, which of course means she's used it multiple times

- Siren Code: not binding, but the code states that if a human is under a siren's song, no other siren may touch them. Many other creatures also respect this. The code is incredibly useful in risky situations

- Becomes visually more siren-like when submerged, including pointier teeth, claws, fins, and teal tinted skin

Inherent Magic:

- Ancient Magic capabilities

Extra Talents:

- Extremely proficient swimmer

- Can breathe underwater

- Incredible singer

- Speaks an older dialect of mermish

- Creatures that are distrustful of humans usually open up better to her

Hogwarts

House: Slytherin

Quidditch: Chaser in fourth year. Furious Quidditch was banned fifth year

Grades: High average

Favorite Class: Transfiguration (very useful when your main source of income was previously theft, and now you have morals)

Least Favorite Class: Defense Against the Dark Arts (when you were the subject matter once, it's going to be a little awkward)

Favorite Professor: Dinah Hecat (the only professor brave enough to travel to Esme's cave to deliver her letter)

Least Favorite Professor: Aesop Sharp (absolutely doesn't trust her and makes it obvious)

Family

Mother: A siren whose name has no english translation. She is all that a siren entails, seductive and bloodthirsty - other than her human pet who she won't allow any of her sisters to eat. It can't be said if she truly loves him, but she's kept him under her song for close to two decades now and protected him the whole time, so she certainly favors him

Father: A pureblood wizard who has never been lucid enough to remember his own name, though typically goes by 'Bertie'. He seems perfectly happy, but it can't be known for sure. It is obvious, however, that he truly loves his daughter, seeming most sane when he is with her

Aunts: Various sirens that give terrible advice, unless you're looking for a revenge plan

Pets: An owl named Seafoam that Esme got before her first day of school. Seafoam stays at Nerida's house over summer break, just in case

Family Dynamic: Esme loves her parents dearly and can sometimes be purposefully naive about the whole situation. She knows it isn't right for her father to be trapped like he is, but she can't work up the courage to ask her mother for his freedom out of fear she'll never see him again, and she can't deny how safe she feels when she's nestled in her mother's deadly arms

Friendships

Introverted or Extroverted: Introverted

Best Friend: Nerida Roberts

- The friendship started off very weird and uncomfortable with poor Nerida's merfolk obsession, but Esme did appreciate someone thinking she was cool rather than terrifying. Once Nerida calmed down a little and Esme opened up more, the two became loser besties together. Esme still refuses to bring Nerida home to meet her mother no matter how much she begs, but she will answer any questions now that she trusts her and supports her dream of being a merfolk ambassador

Frenemy: Imelda Reyes

- Imelda claims she's not mad about Nerida, but she definitely is. They don't really get along, but will be the first to defend the other if someone else says anything. Sometimes they have late night 'bonding' sessions where they just bitch about everyone else. A formidable team during Quidditch, somehow able to sense each others' moves before they happen

Friend She Didn't Expect: Poppy Sweeting

- Poppy was never the type to talk to her fellow humans, and Esme always assumed that if Poppy did talk to her, it would be much in the same way as Nerida used to. The events of fifth year force them to converse, and thankfully, Poppy accepts that Esme refuses to speak about her siren heritage much. They become rather close through hunting poachers

List of Good Friends:

- Lukas Froll

- Alexis Hornstagle

- Richard Jackdaw

- Joshua Jimmensong

- Leander Prewett

- Anne Sallow

- Poppy Sweeting

- Amit Thakkar

- The portrait who plays the lute in the central hall

Romance

Current Status: Single and Not Ready to mingle

Future Partner: Adelaide Oakes (1896 and beyond)

Her Type: Fiercely loyal, soft features, ugly laugh. Definitely has a thing for blondes but won't admit it

Future

In June of 1891, Esme stumbles upon a Dark Arts arena while exploring and is roped into the fight. Here she gives in to her morbid curiosity and casts as many Unforgivables as she pleases. Surely, the use of them is justified - these people had all agreed to the risks, why shouldn't she cast them? Still, the addictive quality of the power frightens her and once she wins, she vows to never use the curses again... except in emergencies. Probably.

In April of 1893, Esme has the dreaded talk with her mother: asking to free her father. Her mother is unhappy and refuses. Esme asks again shortly before graduation, stating that she wants him to be able to come since neither her mother nor her aunts could attend. Her mother is still displeased, but reluctantly agrees. Esme activates her own song on her father once her mother's is released so that she can walk him to the nearby hamlet safely, and then frees him. He's too disoriented after spending nearly twenty years under song to take care of himself; she checks him into St. Mungos (difficult without knowing his real identity). He's well enough to attend graduation.

In August of 1895, Nerida is allowed to visit the sirens while under Esme's song. Throughout the visit, Esme makes sure to instruct Nerida to "remember" so that she can write all important information down later.

On December 31, 1899, Esme and Adelaide are married after dating for two and a half years. It is an outdoor, nighttime ceremony, and they are wed standing in the snow. The reception lasts long enough to ring in the new century. Before the honeymoon, Adelaide is brought home to meet Esme's mother: lucid, in a show of immense trust

As for careers, Adelaide follows in her uncle's footsteps as a metal trader, and Esme does bounty work to support her creature sanctuary with Poppy

[therealvinelle]

I've always wondered this, but what do you think the Cullen's political viewpoints would be, given their individual backgrounds? if vampires don't change after they turn, then surely they would all be extremely racist (especially Jasper). would this not come up at some point? they aren't like the Volturi because the Volturi are too old to care, but the Cullens are young enough that they have been brought up with opinions on stuff like sexism, racism, homophobia and the like.

Oh fuck.

You get an early answer because otherwise I'll just chicken out and delete this one, pretend I never saw it.

UMMM.

Since I'm guessing you meant American political viewpoints, we need a disclaimer. I am not American, and not too knowledgeable about your politics. Not just in the sense that I don't follow the day-to-day drama, but as I am not an American citizen there are several things I don't know, can't know because I've never lived in your country and therefore can't know what the effects of living in a country ruled by American policies is like. What I do know is based off of the news in the foreign section, social media (by which I mean tumblr posts), and Trevor Noah's Daily Show.

I am an outsider looking in.

Which is really rather appropriate, since the Cullens are too.

The Cullens go to high school and college, Carlisle works, they pay taxes, they own real estate, and submerge themselves in American culture. Esme, Edward, Rosalie, Emmett, and Bella are young enough that this is in many ways their world, and apart from timeouts they've more or less spent their entire lives, human and vampire, integrated into American society.

Not fully integrated, mind you, they do what they need to to fit in and get to school or, in Carlisle’s case, to work. They go no further. No extra-curriculars for the kids, no book clubs for Esme, no game nights for Carlisle. They walk parallel to humans, not among us.

In addition to this they're obscenely rich, which puts them another thousand miles from the experiences of your average American. They won't deal with the health system, which means healthcare is a non-issue, they're not going to need welfare or other social programs, unemployment is another non-issue. Name your issue, and the Cullens don't have personal stake in it. Even the climate crisis won't be a problem for them the way it will for us.

What I'm trying to say is, American political issues are a concept to them, not a lived reality. Just like they are for me. So hey, you made a great choice of blog to ask.

I'll also add here that you say the Volturi are too old to care, and I agree- from an ancient's point of view, racism is a matter of "which ethnicity are we hating today?", and it all looks rather arbitrary after a while. Same with every other issue - after a while it all just blends together into "what are the humans fighting over today? Which Christian denomination is the correct one? Huh. Good for them, I guess."

I can't put it any better than this post did, really. The Volturi are real people, humans are nerds and tumblr having Loki discourse. Aro thinks it's delightful and knows entirely too much about Watergate (and let's be real, Loki discourse as well), but the point I wanted to get at is that politics really don't matter to vampires.

And I don't think they matter to the Cullens either.

So, moving on to the next point while regretting I didn't put headlines in this post, I'll just state that I don't think vampires' minds are frozen. Their brains are unable to develop further, and they can never forget anything, but... well, this isn't the post for that, but in order for this to be true of vampires they would barely be sentient. They would not be able to process new impressions, to learn new things, nor to have an independent thought process. Yes, we see vampires in-universe (namely, Edward, who romanticizes himself and vampires) believe they're frozen and can never change, but there is no indication that this is a widespread belief, or even true. Quite the contrary - Carlisle went from a preacher's son who wanted to burn all the demons to living in Demon Capital for decades and then becoming a doctor and making a whole family of demons. Clearly, the guy has had a change in attitude over the years. Jasper, in his years as a newborn army general, slowly grew disenchanted with his life and developed depression. James initially meant to kill Victoria and hunted her across the earth, then became fascinated and changed his mind about it.

Had these people been incapable of change, Carlisle would still be hating demons, Jasper would be in Maria's army, and James would still be hunting Victoria.

It goes to follow, then, that they are able to adapt to new things.

The question is, would they?

Here I finally answer your question.

So, we have these people who don't really have any kind of stake in politics, who keep up to date all the same (or are forcibly kept up to date because high school) and are generally opinionated people.

Where do they then fall, politically?

(And this is where you might want to stop reading, anon, because I'm about to eviscerate these people.)

Alice votes for whoever's gonna win. She also makes a fortune off of betting each election. Trump's 1 to 10 victory in 2016 was a great day to be Alice. MAGA!

The actual policies involved are completely irrelevant, she does this because it's fun. Election means she gets to throw parties. Color coded parties for the Republican and Democratic primaries, and US-themed parties for Election Night! (Foreigner moment right here: I at first wrote "Election wake" before realizing that's not what y'all murricans call it.)

Alice loves politics. Doesn't know the issues, but she sure loves politics.

Bella votes Democrat. She actually knows about the issues, and cares about them. This girl is a Democrat through and through.

Carlisle doesn't vote. I can't imagine it feels right. Outside of faked papers he's not a US citizen, this is meddling in human affairs that he knows don't concern him.

More, this guy has never lived in a democracy.

In life, Carlisle lived under an absolute monarchy that, upon civil war, became an absolute theocracy. From there he learned that vampires live under a total dictatorship.

For the first 150 years of his life, democracy was that funky thing the Athenians did in history books thousands of years ago, no more relevant to him than the Ancient Egyptian monarchy is to me. Then the Americans, and later other European countries started doing this.

Good for them.

There's this mistake often made by those who view history from a... for lack of a better term, a solipsistic standpoint. A belief that the present day is the culmination of all of history. “My society is the best society, the most reasonable society; all the others had it backwards. Thank god we’re living in this enlightened age!”

The faith in our current system of government is one such belief. We (pardon me if this doesn’t apply to everybody reading this post) have grown up in democracies, being told this is the ultimate form of rule, and perhaps that is true - but remember the kings who have told their subjects they had were divine and the best possible ruler based on that. Remember also that most modern democracies haven’t actually been democracies for very long at all, America is the longest standing at some 230 years (not long at all in the grand scope of things) and they have a fracturing two-party system to show for it.

Every society, ever, has been told they’re the greatest, and their system of government the most just. Democracy is only the latest hit.

This is relevant to Carlisle because he’s immortal and decidedly not modern. Democracy has not been installed in him the way it was the rest of the Cullens, Jasper included. To him- well, it’s just not his world. He has no stakes in our human politics, and as he is older than every current democracy and has seen quite a few of them fall, he’s not going to internalize the democratic form of rule the way a modern human has.

I think the concept of voting is foreign to him.

It requires a level of participation in human society that he’s simply not at. He does the bare minimum to appear human so he do the work he loves, but nothing more, and I find that telling.

As it is I think he'd be iffy about his family doing it. He won’t stop them, but in voting they’re... well it’s kind of cheating. They’re not really citizens, none of this will affect them, and by voting they’re drowning out the votes of real human voters. He does not approve.

Edward votes Democrat. He's... well he’s the kind of guy who will oil a girl’s bedroom window so he can more easily watch her sleep without being discovered, justifying it to himself as being okay because if she were to tell him to get lost he’d stop immediately. Same guy is so sure that he’d leave and never return again if she wanted him to, except this is the man who returned to Forks to hang around his singer, knowing there was a significant chance he might kill her. To say nothing of his Madonna/Whore complex, or of the fact that he tried to pimp out his wife twice, and was willing to forcibly abort her child.

This guy is very much in love with chivalry, with being an enlightened and feminist man who supports and respects women, while not understanding the entire point of feminism, which is female liberation.

He votes Democrat because he’s such an enlightened feminist who cares about women’s rights.

Emmett doesn’t care to vote, but if he has to he votes Republican. The guy is from the 1930′s, and has major would-be-the-uncle-who-cracks-racist-jokes-if-he-was-older vibes.

Esme doesn’t vote, that would require getting out of the house.

More, I just... can’t see it. I can’t see her being one to read up on politics and The Issues, period, but if she has to then I doubt she’d be able to decide.

Jasper doesn’t vote. Alice can have her fun, he does not care.

There’s also the whole can of worms regarding the last time he went to bat for American politics.

I imagine he stays out of this.

Renesmée doesn't vote. She has no stock in the human affairs. Who would she vote for, on what grounds? When Bella tries to pull her to the urns, she points out that she's three years old.

Rosalie, guys, I’m sorry, but that girl is definitely gonna vote Republican. Perhaps not right now as it’s become the Trump party of insanity, but the Mitt Romney type of Republicans? Oh yes.

And for the record, yes I imagine she does vote. To step back from politics would be another way she was relinquishing her humanity, and that’s not allowed to happen. So, yes, she goes to the urns, less for the sake of the politics involved and more because like this, she’s still a part of society in some way.

Now, onto why I think she’s Republican, I think it’s both fiscal and social.

This girl was the daughter of a banker who somehow profited off of the Depression, and who then became part of a family with no material needs that would soon become billionaires thanks to Alice. Poverty to Rosalie is a non-issue, as it is I imagine she views it as a much lesser issue than what she’s had to deal with. The humans can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, Rosalie’s infertility is forever.

Rosalie’s empathy is strongest when she’s able to project onto others, and she won’t be able to project onto the less fortunate at all.

Then there’s the fact that the Republican party is all about traditional family values, and pro-life.

Rosalie, a woman from the 1930′s who idolizes her human life and who‘d love nothing more than to get to live out this fantasy, is down for that. And as of Breaking Dawn she’s vocally pro-life, so there’s that.

This all being said I don’t think Rosalie cares to sit down and fully understand these politics she’s voting for, the possible impact they’ll have- that’s not important. What’s important is what voting does for her.

TL;DR: I bet anon regrets asking.