#etienne montmercy

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Re-reading Lack Of Lamb Sauce just now, just wanted to ask - what Hogwarts Houses were Jengu and Enrouge in? If you have any headcanons for that :D

It's a wonderful story!

I saw both as misguided Ravenclaws -- idealistic to a fault and seeing the world as they think it should be according to their own personal "logic," rather than how it truly is. I actually actively decided to develop original villains in Lack of Lamb Sauce for the other houses besides Slytherin, just to show how evil can come from more than just ambition: Enrouge and Jengu for Ravenclaw, Uric Cuffe for Gryffindor, and Etienne Montmercy for Hufflepuff. 💙

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M E T and K for the OC ask >.>

Oooh, that’s a lot! x.x Okay! For M, I’m going to cheat a bit and use a surname, since a lot of the “M” first name characters I added onto in LOLS are expansions of canon characters (i.e. Millicent Bulstrode) -- the others I’ll use first names! :)

Full Name: Lydia Julien Montmercy

Nicknames, If Any: Caeneus Jove (pen-name)

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Gender: Transgender Male

Sexuality: Gay

A Song I Associate With Them: Ascendance by Lindsey Stirling

3 Important Relationships

Eddie Carmichael ~ One of Julien’s best friends. They first met at school, and even though they were in different houses (Ravenclaw and Slytherin, respectively), Eddie and Julien bonded over their shared aspiration to join the Auror Department. Once they were both accepted into the ranks of that Department, they grew even closer, to the point that when Eddie was looking for people to help him with circulating a rebel newspaper during the Second Wizarding War, he knew he could depend on Julien, even if Julien’s father was one of the most high-ranking Death Eaters at the Ministry.

Antoinette Montmercy ~ Antoinette raised her child Julien almost entirely on her own, and so the two are incredibly close. There is nothing Antoinette wouldn’t do if it meant protecting her child -- even obeying the will of her cold-hearted Death Eater husband.

Etienne Montmercy ~ Julien’s father was in Azkaban most of Julien’s life for being a Voldemort supporter, and when he was released, it signaled a hellish new chapter in Julien’s life. Not only would Etienne never accept Julien’s gender identity, which forced Julien to stay in the closet longer than he’d intended for his own self-preservation, but Julien did not share Etienne’s blood purist beliefs in the slightest. To top it all off, Etienne forced Julien into an arranged marriage with the blood purist tabloid writer Uric Cuffe without even consulting Julien or caring if he objected. Etienne and Julien may look very alike, but they couldn’t be more diametrically opposed as people.

2 Fears

Losing his free will

His friends dying

1 Element of their backstory

Julien’s dead name is “Lydia,” which was a name Etienne had picked. “Julien” is derived from a line in an old poem that Antoinette used to read for her son about July gillyflowers.

Full Name: Erik Landon Apollo

Nicknames, If Any: Rick (by Eos Amari), Jarvey (by Orion), Apollo (by most of his students), Sour Patch (by Wendy Copper @drinkyoursoupbitch)

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Gender: Cisgender Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

A Song I Associate With Them: “Remember the Name,” by Fort Minor

3 Important Relationships

Carewyn Cromwell ~ Erik’s legal guardian, after he lost his parents and was hauled before the Muggle-Born Registration Commission during the Second Wizarding War. Although Erik never calls Carewyn his mother due to the trauma of losing his actual mother Sadie, Erik admires and cherishes Carewyn like nobody else in the world. Although Erik by and large isn’t the sort to lose his temper, he’s never been able to let any insult toward Carewyn slide.

Roxanni “Roxi” Kim @mira-shard ~ Erik’s one true love and (in his mind) better half. Erik was immediately impressed by Roxi’s kindness, humor, and honesty, but was soon enough enthralled by her astounding emotional intelligence, to the extent that she could read people like a book and perfectly pinpoint the best way to help them solve their problems. Given that Erik himself has never been as attuned to his emotions and thinks with his head so much more than his heart, Roxi’s deep understanding of both herself and others is a marvel to Erik. And if you’ve so thoroughly awed Erik Apollo, especially while being drop-dead gorgeous like Roxi is, you’ve got yourself a rather awkward turtle for a suitor. :3

Alistair Schaefer @cursebreakerfarrier ~ Erik’s superior in name only and the mediating Obi-Wan to Erik’s reckless Anakin. Even if Erik is technically Alistair’s assistant, the two rarely see each other as anything other than equals, not just because of their equal levels of talent in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Wizard Dueling, but because of their immense respect for each other. Erik might swear and play favorites with their students way too much for Alistair’s liking, but their friendship is still resilient enough that it wouldn’t be unlikely that Erik could end up asking for Alistair’s help with an Auror assignment in the future, after leaving Hogwarts.

2 Fears

Dementors

Being helpless

1 Element of their backstory

Erik’s love for Star Wars comes from his father Phillip -- it was one of the main things they shared together before Phillip’s abrupt death. Erik’s middle name “Landon” is even a reference to one of Phillip and Sadie Apollo’s favorite Star Wars characters, Lando Calrissian.

Full Name: Tokala Kyon Mulligan

Nicknames, If Any: N/A

Hogwarts House: N/A (American: homeschooled)

Gender: Cisgender Male

Sexuality: Pansexual

A Song I Associate With Them: Dance Magic Dance by David Bowie

3 Important Relationships

Travis Fitzgerald ~ The Vice President of the MACUSA saw a lot of potential in Tokala from the get-go. Despite Tokala only being in his late 20′s, Fitzgerald (the real power behind the rather superficial and pompous President Aaron Crowe) was able to pull enough strings to move Tokala all the way up the ranks to become the Head of Major Investigations. Like Fitzgerald, Tokala is incredibly ambitious and determined to protect his country and all of the people in it, magical or otherwise, and so it’s unsurprising that both men are very glad to have such an valuable ally in their fight against the blood purity movement taking root in America.

Cho Chang ~ When the Chang family emigrated to the U.S. to escape Voldemort during the Second Wizarding War, there’s no way Cho would’ve expected to get wrapped up in the MACUSA’s Major Investigations Department. But when Cho and some of her Muggle friends were targeted by some American blood purists walking in the footsteps of the Death Eaters in Britain, Cho collided with Tokala, and soon they became unlikely allies and, later on, partners in espionage.

Mia Romero ~ Like Cho, Mia is a MACUSA employee who was secretly recruited as an agent for the Major Investigations Department for her strong dueling skills and expertise in human psychology. Mia would go on to become President of the MACUSA in the late 2010s, with her old cohort Tokala remaining as Head of Major Investigations -- it’s likely only thanks to friends like Tokala that Mia is able to deal with the chaotic whims of her Muggle counterpart, the so-called “Other President,” without going insane.

2 Fears

Losing his Metamorphagus abilities

A fascist government

1 Element of their backstory

Tokala, being half-Cherokee, was taught at home by the magical members of his family, rather than attending an American magic school like Ilvermorny. (Because seriously, there is no way in HELL either Tokala’s family or I as his writer would send him away to a British-style American boarding school. *glares at JK*)

Full Name: Kevin Elijah Whitby

Nicknames, If Any: N/A

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Gender: Cisgender Male

Sexuality: Gay

A Song I Associate With Them: Merry-Go-Round of Life from Howl’s Moving Castle

3 Important Relationships

Astoria Greengrass ~ Despite being in the same year, Astoria and Kevin didn’t really spend much time together until they both ended up as contestants in Potions Professor Gordon Ramsay’s MagicChef contest (yes, really, that’s a thing, in Kevin’s fic). During the contest, the two really connected thanks to their similar personalities and shared interest in cooking, and they became even closer friends through the Cooking Club Kevin helped found. By the time they’re adults, they would both consider each other their best friend.

Colin Creevey ~ Like with Astoria, Kevin hadn’t interacted at all with Colin until the MagicChef contest and the founding of a Hogwarts Cooking Club right afterwards. After a traumatizing escape from an extremist group during the Second Wizarding War, Kevin ended up in a playground close to where the Creevey family was in hiding, and Colin and his brother Dennis brought Kevin home with them. It was thanks to the Creeveys that Kevin was able to heal both his physical and emotional wounds from that particular trauma. While living with the Creeveys, Kevin came to see Colin like the older brother he’d never had.

Dennis Creevey ~ Kevin bonded with Dennis while living with the Creevey family and came to see him like the younger brother he’d never had. After the end of the Second Wizarding War, Kevin and Dennis became even closer, with Kevin supporting Dennis not unlike how Colin had supported him.

2 Fears

Losing his family and friends

Being alone and unloved

1 Element of their backstory

Kevin is the son of an female Auror named Hattie Ollerton, who fell in love with a Muggle bobby, Elijah Whitby, during the First Wizarding War. It’s because of his parents that Kevin pursues becoming an Auror as an adult.

OC Asks! or Meet Julien, Tokala, and Kevin in Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce!

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Hey guys! I was in the mood to record something, so I decided to do the introduction of Etienne Montmercy, an original character of mine who readers of Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce have described like this --

+”[a] monster of a parent”

+”Julien’s asshole transphobic father”

+”dickhead father of the year”

+”[a] transphobic fascist piece of shit”

+”[an] absolute piece of garbage”

+”disgusting”

+”deserves worse than the deepest, darkest, hottest pit in all of Hell”

+”more horrible than Umbridge”

-- and who I consider the most despicable muse I’ve ever written for. If you’d like to read along with the chapter or even give the entire fic a chance yourself, you can find it here, and if you want to enjoy @lilolilyr‘s fabulous Podfic version of the story, you can find that here!

Hope you, er...enjoy!

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*exhales very heavily* The time...is now...the day...is here...

Prepare for the Battle of Hogwarts.

Featuring in this chapter are, among others, the Golden Trio, Draco Malfoy, Professor Gordon Ramsay, Cho Chang, Colin and Dennis Creevey, Millicent Bulstrode, Kevin Whitby, Astoria and Daphne Greengrass, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin, Terry Boot...and yeah, basically all the Death Eaters and Voldemort.

Hope you enjoy.

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UPDATE TIME! In this chapter, we follow Jacques Jengu and our Bulgarian friends (including Viktor Krum) as they hurry to break out the prisoners in Azkaban and the Saeva Ward! Will they be able to get everyone out? Will they get caught? Will they survive? There’s only one way to know...

Getting focus in this chapter is Jacques Jengu, Elijah Whitby, Rose’s stepfather George Ketteridge, Adrian Enrouge, the mysterious “Lavrov”, Viktor Krum, Antonin Dolohov, Etienne Montmercy, and two other characters I won’t spoil yet!

Hope you all enjoy!

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[Lack of Lamb Sauce] Etienne Montmercy Moodboard

Once his child was out of sight, Etienne’s smile slid off his face so cleanly it was as if he’d wiped it off with a handkerchief. The lack of warmth completely transformed his face – it suddenly appeared so unapproachable and cold that even the light in his eyes seemed as hard as stone.

He raised his arm, lifting up the right sleeve to reveal the pitch black Dark Mark emblazoned on the pale skin. Then, withdrawing his wand from the inside of his robes, he traced the Mark with the tip.

“Thorfinn,” he murmured softly to the Dark Mark, as it glowed a sickly yellowish green, “kindly follow my darling Lydia, will you? Make sure she goes straight home…and alert me if she doesn’t.”

~Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce Chapter 82

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Next chapter is up! In this chapter, we put focus on the Abraxans (Eddie Carmichael, Roger Davies, Julien Montmercy, and Arjuna Belaji), as well as the despicable Senior Undersecretary and Death Eater Etienne Montmercy.

I apologize in advance for any heart damage -- with all the drama and suspense going on, this chapter really is a doozy. My heart is hurting so much after writing this...

Hope you enjoy.

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Next chapter is up! In this chapter, we finally get the answer to a question we’ve been wondering forever -- what happened to Bridget Jaheem?

Next chapter we’ll get the answer to another question: can Arjuna circumvent the terrible fate she’s predicted for her friends?

Characters getting focus in this chapter are Arjuna Belaji and Julien Montmercy. We’ll also be officially meeting Julien’s Death Eater scum father, the Ministry’s new Senior Undersecretary, Etienne Montmercy.

Hope you enjoy!

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“I know you, Lydia,” said Etienne sharply, his ice blue eyes flaring with a twisted kind of righteous fury. “You’re my flesh – my blood. You don’t think I wouldn’t know if you were keeping secrets?”

“You were in Azkaban almost my entire life!” said Julien incredulously.

“And you are my daughter!” Etienne shot back vehemently.

Whaaaat, Tory actually tried drawing something?? Yeah, looks like it! Totally not an artist, but I felt like trying to visualize some of my girls from Lack of Lamb Sauce: Bridget Jaheem, Astoria Greengrass, and Hannah Abbott! The proportions are all off, but doodling these were fun all the same…maybe I can try Julien Montmercy or Rose Zeller a little later, if I’m feeling adventurous. *shrug*

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J.K.’s most recent flurry of Tweets rather disappointed me, so I decided to doodle something.

Meet my Harry Potter OC, Julien Montmercy. Some of you may know him from my ridiculously long fanfiction Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce.

He is also not happy about J.K.’s comments. They remind me a tad too much of his “darling” daddy Etienne. Who, for those of you don’t know, is a card-carrying Death Eater. So yeah.

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I also wanted to congratulate you on Julien's father. It isn't often I read a possessive abusive parent who sends chills down my spine the way he does.

OOOOOHHHH, ETIENNE MONTMERCY, I have never loathed a muse quite like him in all my life. I’m so friggin’ happy that many of my readers have grown to loathe him as much as I do, because ROAR THIS MAN. To be fair, I hated him pretty much as soon as he started forming in my brain since he’s a Death Eater that doesn’t accept his transgender son, but…yeah, as his character grew more and more of a voice in my head, he started acquiring more traits from people I’ve known (such as passive-aggressiveness, willful delusion, devaluing opinions that differ from yours, the inability to see their perspective as fallible, putting on a smiley face to obscure or ignore real problems, and controlling and domineering behavior that is labeled as “love”) that make me angry beyond reason, and now I want him to die in a fire. I don’t think I ever could’ve imagined disliking a Hufflepuff before now, but…yeah. This muse would sure do it. XD

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[Lack of Lamb Sauce] Montmercy Family Moodboard

‘Smile,’ the voice commanded again.

But Julien was too distracted to obey. The thought of his mother knowing – of her accepting him, regardless of how his father reacted – it was overwhelming in the best possible way. It filled Julien up with so much strength and love that he felt close to tears.

~Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce, Chapter 84