Searching The Vaults by Moonlight

Main HPHM MC: Talia Moonlace Year: 2 House: Hufflepuff, Main HPMA Era OC: Calliope Waters House: Ravenclaw, Main HPHL Era OC: Holly-Rose Thorne House: Gryffindor || You can call me Kit! She/Her They/Them, 25+ (Main: @kitsunenoshoujo)

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This is a standing invitation to ask me anything about my characters any time.

EDIT: I feel I should point out that at this point I only use the games and such to denote roughly when in the timeline my characters fall. I'm not saying they necessarily follow the plot of the game they're noted with.

My Main MCs/OCs, in vaguely chronological order:

Holly Rosalinde Thorne (Holly-Rose) - HPHL

Talia Moonlace - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Leona Stargazer - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Jacob Prometheus Moonlace (Prom) - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Jacob Orion Stargazer (Orion/Ori) - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Belladonna Thorne (Bells) - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Acacia Malfoy - Main Series/HPMA

Calliope Waters - HPMA

Alsephina Potter (Phi/Sephi) - Main Series (Epilogue)/HPMA

Cassia Potter (Cass/Cassie) - Main Series (Epilogue)/HPMA

Side/Minor OCs, also in vaguely chronological order:

Hemlock Thorne - HPHL

Heather Thorne - HPHL

Damon Moonlace - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Stella Moonlace - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Ivy Livingston - Main Series/HPMA

Mr. Stargazer (name pending) - HPHM

Mrs. Stargazer (name pending) - HPHM

Mica Thorne - HPHM/Main Series/HPMA

Alexander Waters - HPMA

Melissa Waters - HPMA

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The future was a dizzying kaleidoscope in her head, visions pulsing behind her eyelids. Her gift was exhausting and tragic, and no one ever believed her until it was too late. She didn't want to know anymore.

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Guess who's back, bitches!? Sort of anyway, lol. I just wanted to dump a batch of picrew pictures I did of some of my OCs.

In order of appearance here: Holly-Rose Thorne, Prometheus Moonlace, Orion Stargazer, Talia Moonlace, Leona Stargazer, and Acacia Malfoy

Picrew Link

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This song has such Heavy Acacia vibes, I'm not even kidding. It takes my breath away everytime how fitting it is.

Youtube link in case it doesn't want to play: Link

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Just gonna rebloob this because damn it hits hard

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Bedeea/Chiara and 🌙?

🌙: draw a character with a celestial theme

i kinda popped off with this one tbh

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Juniper’s room

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The "i might be wearing a different house's main color but how dare you suggest im from that house" club

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I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but I actually ended up getting glitched out of Meet The Malfoys because of a resetting timer and when I contacted Jam City they essentially just marked the TLSQ as complete for me, so I didn't get to see most of the plot. I really need to sit down and watch a play through of it at some point... So I'll have to get back to you about Acacia and whether or not she'd be there.

As for Dudley, she was very cool towards him at first when he ended up seeking Harry's advice about his daughter being a witch, because I love that hc too. (To which Harry essentially said "I dunno, I'm still figuring out this whole raising magical kids thing myself. As long as you don't treat her like your parents treated me I think you're doing pretty alright. Other than that, I guess you can come round with questions whenever, and you're welcome to come with us to buy school supplies?") Acacia wasn't actively hostile to Dudley because Harry said they were on okay terms, but it still took time for him to sort of win her over. And it wasn't even the things he did to actively try to get her to like him, it was seeing him with the kids. Watching him actively try to understand this new world, and kindly listen to the children's excited chatter as the tried to explain things. It was sweet and she slowly warmed up to him.

And on the subject of Harry and Acacia exchanging letters, it most likely wouldn't have happened if it was left up to Harry to initiate, lol. He was too busy stewing away at the lack of response from his other friends to remember to write Acacia at first. Then one evening he heard a tap at his window and discovered Acacia's handsome barn owl, Alistair, waiting impatiently to be let in.

Oh yeah! I remember when that quest came out, and that glitch was widespread. You definitely weren't the only one who got it. People were having it drop a few days earlier than it was supposed to, but they couldn't actually access or start the quest until the point it was actually supposed to have started in the first place. Meaning people wouldn't have nearly enough time to finish the quest and would fail. Also like...Jam City, come on. I know I give you a lot of grief on this blog but like...why would that be your idea of a solution? It's happened before, like some of the removed quests just get automatically placed into your file like they've been completed, but guys, that is so not the point. It isn't about completionism, it's about the experience. We want to actually play through the quests. And for the love of Merlin, you don't need to write Rowan out of quests if the player has passed Y6CH18, we can just assume that it takes place earlier, or you can even have a disclaimer expressing as much! Why is your solution one that provides the least amount of content possible?

Okay, okay, rant over. Point is, I adore Acacia more and more as I learn more about her and see her in different situations. Her loyalty inspiring mistrust, ultimately melted and won over by seeing that Dudley is good with kids? I love that so much. I also agree with you about Harry. I feel like he'd never be the first to initiate writing with someone, because he wouldn't want to feel like a burden. He even hesitated to tell his friends about his scar in GOF. Plus as a general rule, people aren't really "real" to Harry outside of his immediate and closest circle. But I live for Acacia going for broke and making the first move. That is also a kickass name for an owl.

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Re: HPMA, I actually had the muggleborn aspect covered! My whole plan for my Magic Awakened MC was that (originally) she was born in the later years of my HPHM MC Talia Moonlace's school years and therefore is significantly younger and was still just a small child when the second Wizarding War kicked up. As all the adult members of Moonlace family and their friends were very involved in the fight against Voldemort and she was so very young they didn't want to risk having her get hurt or be left alone in the world if something happened to them and made a very difficult decision. They memory charmed her and arranged for her to be adopted by a young muggle couple, meanwhile putting out a public story that she had died of illness at home. Then, years later after the war, when she started to show signs of accidental magic a squib neighbor reported it to the ministry and she was registered as a muggleborn.

However, the memory charm wasn't complete, it only suppressed her memories, and so for years she's had half obscured dreams about her birth family, leaving her with many questions, and the hopes that some way, somehow, this new world she was being thrust into would hold the answers.

I can't begin to tell you how much I live for that trope and love it. It crops up in some of my favorite plot twists and storylines, and even in my own work. Just overall playing with memory, and temporary forgetting, bonus points if something like trauma or outside interference caused a child to repress a terrible truth. Anyone who watches Sherlock or Doctor Who knows what I'm talking about. "You were upset, so you told yourself a better story...but we never had a dog." Seriously, I'm digging that whole story. That said, I do not approve. I'm sure the adults in question did what they thought was best, but this is no more okay than what Hermione did to her parents. Obliviating someone without consent is already a woolly area but the more of their life you rewrite, the worse it gets, especially if you do it to a child. That's part of the reason I don't like Chiara's parents. Children can't know what they're agreeing to even if they do agree, which they probably wouldn't, and their brains are so very fragile at that stage that just...nope. No. Do not approve. Do not condone. But I love the story development.

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Just so we’re clear: this blog does not support JKR or her transphobic and disrespectful tweets/thoughts. The wizarding world and the Potter fandom are for all people, as is the real world. Trans folks and everyone under the queer umbrella are valid, you exist, and I see you and respect you. JKR is not the be-all-end-all of the wizarding universe. You belong in this fandom more than she does. 

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Oh, boy, it has been a minute, huh? Tumblr's been being a butt to me for awhile so I haven't been on as much as I used to be, but I'm back because I wanted to share something that I realized that amused me tonight:

Acacia has very little knowledge of Harry's adventures in his first three years at Hogwarts. It wasn't until his fourth year, her third, that they actually started interacting directly, and Harry isn't really the type to recount his stories without prompting very often. So if it wasn't publicly announced she probably didn't know about it until years later, when he or one of the others suddenly makes a remark about that time Ron sacrificed himself in Death Chess, or that time they ended up in the Acromantula nest, or something and Acacia will stop what she's doing, and, with this incredulous look, be like "I beg your pardon, but you did WHAT!?" prompting Harry to have to explain the full story. This almost always ends with her shaking her head in disbelief and remarking that she doesn't understand how they've survived this long.

Not to worry my good friend, I haven't been online as much as I was before, but ideally things should be business as usual pretty soon. I need to finally get caught up on my beloved asks, and then I'll have more time to make progress in my fic. Basically, we've all got stuff going on and there's no shame in gaps. I am saying this more for my benefit than yours, don't worry.

That's a very good point. Harry rarely does talk about his adventures to other people. I've talked about this before but prior to OOTP, most people apart from Ron and Hermione weren't entirely "real" to Harry. They were just part of the background. Ron and Hermione were his world, his entire social life. And it's not like he talked about previous adventures with them unless the plot demanded a reminder, because they experienced them with him, they already know. It became such a curious point when this changed in OOTP. Like, we all give Harry crap for his outbursts in that book, and how he actually starts to swing his weight around for his accomplishments, but he's going through PTSD and is at his most reckless in that book. He's gotten a bit of an ego just like his father, and it's going to be shattered.

Also can I just say that the scene you've described is making me crack up in giggles and I love it so much? You'll make a Harry/Acacia OTP shipper out of me yet, if you keep this up. Seriously, I love the whole image of her transitioning from "what the fuck?!" to "Oh here we go again..." it almost reminds me of those posts people make about Harry casually mentioning how terrible it is at the Dursleys without realizing it will horrify his friends. That brilliant one about Ron saying "You slept where now?" and people having to hold him back from charging at Vernon. I feel like Acacia would do the same thing, and Harry would have to stop her from turning Vernon into some kind of insect. Hey, I'm just saying, Petunia is the only one needed to keep the "blood wards" active...

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Come to think of it... Am I the only one who finds it odd that canonically the ancestral home of the Black family, who are known to be one of the largest, most influential families, a member of the Sacred 28, with heavy pureblood supremacist leanings in the main family, was located in the midst of Muggle London??

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★ ·.·´¯`·.·★ [ Valery Kovtun ] ★·.·´¯`·.·★

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…Okay, ngl, I think I might have found a faceclaim for Prom

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Go for It, Merula!

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How would you draw Ismelda’s and Andre’s sister? :0 Or like how would you portray them at least

I actually put a lotta thought into this lol so to start! here's some doodles:

But okay so we already know quite a bit about Ismelda's sister cuz of what Ismelda's said about her. But I imagine she's somewhere between Emily Tyler and Penny in terms of personality. She never wanted a younger sibling and was especially harsh towards Ismelda when they were younger so there isn't much hopes of salvaging the relationship currently. But if you weren't Ismelda she was a very friendly and welcoming person, with a bit of an ego sure, but she is a genuinely talented and beautiful witch. So it makes sense lol.

For Andre's sister I couldn't remember if hes ever mentioned how old she might be in comparison to himself. So i just made two designs for her cuz why not. She takes after their grandmother a lot and is generally a very cool and collected person. The type who doesnt seem very competitive tbh, but shes an insanely good flier and loves quidditch. She doesn't really get the whole fashion thing as much, but loves her bro and often asks for advice cuz he's always 110% ready to pick clothes out. (I also kind of like the idea of those designs being seperate characters and he just has two sisters lol)

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Fleur Delacour had the most impressive performance in the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament, imo, and it is a Crime that she came in last place. Like, sure, maybe what she did took awhile and it wasn’t flashy, but imo she did by far the most impressive, difficult, and most humane piece of magic. 

Like, there’s this pissed off dragon mother, right? It’s been boxed up, taken to this strange place, then stuck in a noisy arena where its eggs are being threatened. This dragon is probably Unbelievably scared and angry. 

It can take 4-8 adult wizards working in tandem to Stun a dragon, especially a pissed off one, but Fleur “fairy princess” Delacour walks into that arena, stares down an angry apex predator, and somehow manages to single-handedly enchant it to sleep. This Common Welsh Green is surrounded by hundreds of people, needs to protect its eggs, but Fleur Delacour’s magic manages to override all of its fear and anger? That is an incredible feat of powerful and probably very complex magic. 

Like, no wonder Fleur Delacour can come off as condescending, that is mind-blowingly impressive. That is the work of 4-8 adult wizards. You cannot tell me that the watching dragon-handlers were not LOSING THEIR MINDS. 

Between sexism and Fleur being part-Veela, it is unfortunately very realistic that she faces a lot of prejudice, but come on, Professors Sprout and Hagrid and etc. must have been going wild. It’s only some very bad luck that her skirt was accidentally set on fire. She got the golden egg. There was zero damage to the dragon or to the real eggs. Even if Madame Maxime and Fleur worked together to prepare it, Fleur still had to do it, and Madame Maxime would have been so rightly furious that Fleur’s bravery and magical skill wasn’t recognized. 

Anyway, part of where I’m going with this, is that this injustice also creates some choice eldest Weasley brother reactions. Like Bill Weasley is writing his regular letters to Charlie, right? And he happens to mention, “Hey, I met this woman at work, on that guardian beast problem with that tomb I was telling you about. Do you remember the Beauxbatons Champion, Fleur Delacour?” 

And Charlie Weasley writes back like, “DO I REMEMBER FLEUR DELACOUR? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! WE HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON OUR WALL! I HAVE HER GRADUATING CHARMS THESIS ON CALMING MAGICAL CREATURES AND I WANT IT SIGNED. SHE REVOLUTIONIZED OUR DEALINGS WITH DRAGONS HERE. INJURIES ON THE RESERVE FOR DRAGONS AND HANDLERS ARE DOWN BY LIKE 75% SINCE WE BEGAN IMPLEMENTING HER REINVENTED SPELLWORK.” 

“Uh, alright then. Well, you can send that to me and I will ask her to sign it for you,” Bill Weasley, an extremely successful Curse-Breaker, writes back. (It isn’t that he doesn’t find Fleur Delacour’s accomplishments very impressive, it is just that the poster on the wall thing is a Bit Weird.) “That’s not going to be weird when I ask her out or anything. Wish me luck.” 

And Charlie writes back, “LUCK? LUCK?! WILLIAM WEASLEY, IF YOU DON’T MARRY THAT WOMAN, I’LL DISOWN YOU. TELL HER THAT IF GRINGOTTS DOESN’T APPRECIATE HER, SHE CAN COME TO ROMANIA. WE’RE BROKE, BUT I HAVE A DOZEN MUSCLED WIZARDS, WITCHES, AND OTHERS READY TO PROPOSE TO HER ON THE SPOT.” 

“I was thinking dinner first,” Bill writes back. “But I’ll let her know?” 

So, Fleur initially has to deal with a lot of crap from the Weasley Family, but at least she’s always got Charlie “Number One Fleur Delacour Fan” Weasley in her corner. You’ll catch Uncle Charlie excitedly telling the story of Fleur Delacour in the First Task to Bill’s children forever. 

(Charlie: “IF YOU DON’T MARRY HER THEN I WILL!” 

Bill: “Charlie, you’re not even into women.” 

Charlie: “WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE MOST IMPRESSIVE DRAGON-HANDLING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE?!!”)

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*points* what the fuck is this allowed what the fuck is that allowed