emmeline
VANCE
twenty-five. unspeakable. slytherin alumna. she/her.
marauder era. fond of the piano, the first snowfall of the season, red velvet cake, firewhisky, sugarquills, classical music, tea, and quidditch. i burn,
i do not shine
“Do you reckon things would have been even worse in our time if this joke shop had existed back then, or that things would have actually become less bleak? It’s certainly… Colourful, isn’t it?”
❝Colourful... that’s certainly one word for it. Would it have helped? Y’know, I’m not entirely certain. I can see how it could have boosted morale, but it also would have made it far more likely I’d be more stressed than ever.❞
so! i wanted to create a lil ask meme for this roleplay, and i thought of doing it based on characters, but since more people are applying, i thought i’d wait a lil bit before doing that! however, i still wanted to do an ask meme, and therefore, i decided to create one based off shops and institutions in diagon alley (more for different areas will be coming soon! so, yes! here we go! ( they’re divided by where they’re situated. )
DIAGON ALLEY
2ND HAND BROOMS: What’s the one thing you’re passionate about, and worked as hard as possible to make it happen/be good at it/etc.?
AMANUENSIS QUILLS: What’s your niche interest? And if you have more than one, what’s the one you’re most passionate about?
APOTHECARY: Is there something most people find disgusting that you personally don’t mind?
BROOMSTIX: What’s your favourite expression/term/phrase to use?
EEYLOPS OWL EMPORIUM: What’s your favourite method of communication?
FLOREAN FORTESCUE’S ICE CREAM PARLOUR: What’s your favourite snack?
FLOURISH AND BLOTTS: What book you read has had the greatest impact on you?
GAMBOL AND JAPES WIZARDING JOKE SHOP: What is one thing you think you’ve learned, or could learn, from your elders?
GRINGOTTS WIZARDING BANK: What’s your relationship with money like? Do you believe it’s of the upmost importance, something you simply need to live, or something else altogether?
HEALER SHOP: If you weren’t doing what you’re doing now, what other career do you think you’d be good at?
JUNK SHOP: Is there a trinket, or trinkets, that holds no value whatsoever, but that you can’t seem to let go of?
THE LEAKY CAULDRON: Do you prefer having a few close friends, or a lot of friends, that are not necessarily as close?
MADAM MALKIN’S ROBES FOR ALL OCCASIONS: How would you describe your fashion style? Is it something that matters to you, simply something you have to deal with, or something else altogether?
MADAME PRIMPERNELLE’S BEAUTIFYING POTIONS: What part of your own appearance do you like most?
MAGICAL MENAGERIE: What’s your favourite animal/creature?
OBSCURUS BOOKS: If you were forced to write a book of nonfiction, what would you write it about?
OLLIVANDERS: If the wix chose their wand, instead of the other way around, what wand would you choose?
POTAGE’S CAULDRON SHOP: What’s the most useful thing you’ve ever bought for yourself?
QUALITY QUIDDITCH SUPPLIES: What’s your stance when it comes to Quidditch? Do you play it, or have you played it in the past? Are you an invested spectator/fan, or do you only go to games for the ambience? Or do you just avoid the sport altogether? Etc.
ROSA LEE TEABAG: What’s your favourite thing to drink in the morning?
SCRIBBULUS WRITING INSTRUMENTS: What kind of grades did you get in school? (You can be as vague or specific as you wish.)
SECOND-HAND BOOKSHOP: If you could only read one single book for the rest of your life, no series, which would you choose?
SECOND-HAND ROBES: In your opinion, what’s the most important thing your family has given you or impressed upon you?
SLUG & JIGGERS APOTHECARY: If you had to own a shop, what kind of shop would you like to own, and do you think you’d be good at running it?
SUGARPLUM’S SWEETS SHOP: Do you prefer sweet or savoury things?
TERRORTOURS: What place would you like to travel to the most? Doesn’t have to be out of the country; just somewhere you haven’t been to before!
THE DAILY PROPHET’S MAIN OFFICE: What’s the one section of the newspapers you always read first? And if you don’t read the newspapers, what’s your main field of interest?
THE MINISTRY PRESS: Do you trust the government? If so, why? If not, why?
TWILFITT AND TATTING’S: What’s the one thing you may indulge in a bit too much? (Examples: clothing, jewelry, books, etc.)
WEASLEYS’ WIZARD WHEEZES: What’s your relationship with your family like?
WHIZZ HARD BOOKS: What’s your weapon of choice, other than your wand? Or what would it be, if a situation ever required it?
WISEACRE’S WIZARDING EQUIPMENT: What’s your favourite colour?
narcissa, dobby & cedric! (for the harry potter ask meme)
Narcissa Malfoy: Do you have a good relationship with your family? Who are you closest to?
❝Which family - the one I was born in to, or the one I’ve chosen for myself? They’re very different… Though I’m going to assume you’re asking about blood here. My relationship with my parents was strained, to say the least. Gran is probably the one I was always closest to. She was always there, taught me more than either of them ever could have dreamed.❞
Dobby: Who are you most loyal to?
❝Those I consider family now, myself. It’s not a very long list, but the ones I trust completely are the ones I’m most loyal to.❞
Cedric Diggory: Have you ever had a near death experience?
❝I think the closest I’ve ever come is once in third year. We were paired off in Potions, learning something new. Let’s just say that it didn’t go well, and the entirety of class was left shaken for the next few months when cauldrons were brought out.❞
ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY? No, that’s actually EMMELINE VANCE from the MARAUDERS ERA. You know, the child of ROSALYN VANCE (NEÉ ROWLE) and OLIVER VANCE? Only 25 years old, this SLYTHERIN alumni works as a UNSPEAKABLE and is sided with THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. SHE identifies as a CIS WOMAN and is a PUREBLOOD who is known to be MELANCHOLIC, SELF-BLAMING, and SARCASTIC but also ASSIDUOUS, AMBITIOUS, and DEDICATED.
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HEADCANONS
has an absurd sweet tooth and can be bribed to do a number of things with red velvet cake
is probably 80% coffee at this point, and that’s being very forgiving
can’t properly deal with her emotions, pretends they don’t exist most of the time
has a tendency to drink more than she should
she’s an only child who grew up spending more time than necessary with her grandmother. as a result, emmeline learned to play piano and knit at an early age
spends the majority of her free time with her nose in a book
can’t keep plants alive to save her own life. when she was given the chance to drop herbology, she did it in a heartbeat
she’s technical as fuck when it comes to spells and believes things should be done by the book
QUESTION AND ANSWER
How does your character behave around people they like?
Emmeline is more relaxed around those she likes. Though she isn’t the most easy-going person in the world, she is more inclined to make jokes, laugh, and not stress as much as she normally does.
How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?
As a rule, Emmeline is very hesitant to trust others. However, once you have her trust, there are very few things you could do to lose it and have her suspect you of something terrible.
How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?
Words are typically Emmeline’s go-to in a confrontational situation. There have been many instances where she’s eventually just walked away from someone rather than allow things to progress. In extreme instances, hexes and jinxes have been thrown, but as far as she can remember, there has never been anything more than a slap.
What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?
It was a very strained relationship, if it could be called a relationship at all. She knew very little about the man he was in his later years, and what she knew of his formative years had only been the result of stories her Gran told her over the years.
Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?
Though it generally tends to vary from person to person, she would probably tell you that she admires ambition more often than not.
What does your character like in other people?
There are a host of things she likes in others, but the first few that come to mind are: the ability to learn from their mistakes, forgiveness, a desire to learn in general, whether or not they are capable of growing as a person, honesty. Compassion for other people.
Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?
A bit of both. Just because her first attempt didn’t work the way she wanted it to, doesn’t mean she’ll abandon it in its entirety. With each failed attempt, an adjustment is made. It’s only once she has exhausted every possible method that she can think of that she will move on to a different one.
How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?
Saying “I love you” is one of, if not the most, difficult things for Emmeline to do. She has a problem letting herself love other people; there is a constant fear of abandonment, of not being enough, of disappointing them. She struggles to let those she truly cares for know just how much they mean to her. If she can say it to you, then there’s no chance it’s meaningless. She doesn’t have it in her to force something of that magnitude and not mean it.
The only person Emmeline has never struggled with those words over is her Gran. The woman who spent so much of her life trying to instill certain values into her granddaughter. The person who raised Emmeline, who wanted nothing but the best for her. The one person Emmeline always thought would be her only constant, the only person she would be willing to die to protect. When she wasn’t in school or working, Emmeline tried to make it a priority to tell the older woman how much she loved her and appreciated all that she had done over the years.
BEFORE THE TIME CLASH
( parental death tw )
Emmeline Vance was born an only child to a family of long-standing ministry officials. Not only her parents, but her grandfathers on both sides, as well as their fathers before them and so on, had worked those same old offices. However, unlike Emmeline’s grandparents, Oliver and Rosalyn Vance née Rowle had never truly considered children. They had always been more concerned with work than family. When the Vance’s learned of the pregnancy, they were shocked. What would become of Rosalyn’s career? Surely she couldn’t be expected to give up all that she had worked so hard to achieve. Luckily Oliver’s mother and Emmeline’s paternal grandmother, Constance, was quick to offer her services. Thus, it was decided. Once Emmeline was of a certain age and her mother had been cleared to return to work, Emmeline would stay with her grandparents.
As a child, Emmeline could almost always be found in one of two places: her grandfather’s study or in front of the fireplace. Regardless of where she was, a stack of books could always be found nearby. That habit continued well into her years at Hogwarts. The Slytherin often spent her evenings tucked away in the library before rounds, books and parchment forming a barricade between herself and the rest of the student body. If you asked Emmeline’s classmates how best to describe the brunette, there could be a number of answers. Top among that list were likely to have been quiet, studious, bookworm; a stereotypical Ravenclaw in the eyes of most, hardly a student fit for the house of the cunning and sly. If you had asked her, however, she’d have told you the views she held on one’s ambition placed her precisely where she ought to have been.
After her fifth year, Emmeline had begun tailoring her studies to that of a ministry official. The older she got, the more she seemed to narrow down what it was she wanted to be, though that didn’t stop her changing her mind every few months. Over the next year she had gone from Auror to Magical Law Enforcement to International Magical Cooperation. More or less, her interests had remained the same, but making a final choice proved to be a difficult task for someone who normally was very decisive. It wasn’t until her sixth year that a decision had been made, after an event that shook her to her core had left her wishing she could forget it ever happened.
At the age of sixteen and only days before her birthday, Emmeline lost her parents. Frequently they had spoken out in favor of the Pureblood supremacy propaganda. She couldn’t protect her parents, couldn’t stop people taking their lives because they viewed so few as equals when a minority in their world did, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t prevent more dying needlessly. As the war loomed ever closer, there was no more time to be wasted. Emmeline needed to decide whether she wanted to follow in the footsteps of her parents, or forge her own path away from the family name and all they have stood for, speaking out against the injustices of their world.
It came as a surprise to very few, perhaps even none at all, when she followed in the footsteps of her parents - becoming a Ministry worker herself. She started her work there with the Obliviators, doing what she could to keep her community safe. However, the task soon lost her interest, as wasn’t so uncommon, and she began to look into other options within the Ministry. With her tendency to withdraw and keep things to herself, it was only fitting that she joined the ranks of the Unspeakables, a profession that forbade her speaking of what she did with others. That suited her just fine.
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