character-inspired pieces ♥

A blog, run by Jane, for any type of graphic or edit about the wonderful characters of Libertas Famulatus. Requests can be made.

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( hey hey! can i request a character graphic for james please? )

Oh, gosh, sorry love, I thought I’d posted this! It’s on my list—I’ve had so many assignments recently, very sorry, but Wednesday night, I don’t have any wifi because I’m borrowing a friend’s room, so I’ll probably collate resources tomorrow and finish it then for posting Thursday morning? Sorry for the wait, doll; I’ll add it to the official list!

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IN WHICH                          one Marlene McKinnon is a well-known internet celebrity. She films everything from personal confessions to social justice PSAs to prank videos to makeup tutorials. Marlene is even in talks for a radio programme on BBC 4- until she witnesses the brutal murders of her close friend Lily and Lily’s husband, James. It turns out that Lily and James were actually deep-cover agents monitoring a drug cartel in the teeny little suburb named Godric’s Hollow, where they decided to move. When Marlene desperately attempts to track down their son, Harry, she discovers that his godfather (who she’s never met) has him. Of course, he turns out to work for MI5 too.. Needless to say, Sirius, yet another deep cover agent, is not happy about having a wheedling brunette trying to take his baby. Marlene accidentally finds some papers detailing his work, and therefore he has to become her so-called ‘guardian’ in order to not blow his cover. They absolutely despise each other at first. Cohabitating was never either of their strong suits- hell, Sirius ran away from his parents when he was 16. Meanwhile, Marlene doesn’t nearly have enough room for her two shampoo bottles in the already hazardous bathtub. It’s when they begin making out visciously on the filtiest couch known to man when they figure out that they’ve accidentally fallen in love. Then, of course, the baby begins crying. Needless to say, all comes to a happy end. MI5 eventually takes care of the drug cartel within a clean 6 weeks (without Sirius’ help, much to his chagrin), and Marlene and Sirius gain custody of Harry. Eventually, they get married at the youthful age of 67.

GRAPHIC BY MARI

LIBERTAS FAMULATUS

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ye who have not kissed the stars // dorcas meadowes and marlene mckinnon, in which dorcas thinks marlene is the #1 kisser

it all happens one night when they're drunk. dorcas meadowes, girl of wisdom and honesty and loyalty, has consumed a couple too many drinks—it can probably be blamed on marlene or sirius, if anyone at the party is honest—and ends up grabbing marlene, at first to laugh and to keep herself up, and somehow ends up kissing her. marlene goes along with it, kissing her back and laughing as they break apart, shooting teasing winks at the people around them. the next few days consist of a lot of teasing and laughter—by marlene and dorcas, of the boys around them. "sirius," marlene says casually one day, "i've heard the rumours of your snogging skills, but... sorry, mate, i reckon doe's got you beat!" and the following lunch time, she could be heard saying, "yeah, it was great; very supple lips—remus lupin, i do believe you're blushing right now!" the day after that, dorcas comes up to marlene in charms and hands her a trophy saying #1 kisser. marlene accepts her award with gratitude and makes an enormous production of the whole thing, spending the rest of the day 'casually' slinging it around, often dropping by james and sirius and obnoxiously displaying it, teasing them and grinning, saying things like, "so, how does it feel to be in the presence of a certified and true master?" at the end of the week, lily evans, james potter and benjy fenwick would swear up and down that they distinctly heard dorcas say to marlene, "you know, marls, i don't think we need remus or sirius. we can just marry each other since you're my favourite person to kiss anyway."

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how do you define a hero, kid? // a ted tonks aesthetic, requested by edwxrdtonks​

if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied illuminate the “no”s on their vacancy signs if there’s no-one beside you when your soul embarks i will follow you into the dark

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Top girls already graduated and in the world edit please!

hey, lovely!

i’m taking this to mean the fierce four (lily, marlene, dorcas, mary) because i can’t think of any other major actual friend groups of girls on here, but if i’m wrong, please feel free to send me another ask and correct me! xx

but added to the list, bub!

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Marlene+Dorcas where Marlene is definitely No. 1 kisser in Doe's eyes. (sorry not sorry)

AHAHA; you got it, Trista! I’ll add it to the list x

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blackinnon au, please? c:

of course, lovely! i’ll add it to the list x

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we found stars // there are more ways to lose someone than death

emmeline vance stares, open-mouthed, at the daily prophet. her eyes are skittering over the words again and again but still can't make any sense of them—SIRIUS BLACK, CAPTURED; HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED'S MOST LOYAL SERVANT; BETRAYED JAMES AND LILY POTTER; SPY, SPY, SPY—and she's finding it very hard to breathe. emmeline recalls the handsome, energetic man, with his bravery and his loyalty and the love in his eyes when he looked at james, and she feels sick, she feels so sick. she remembers sirius black on the eve of battle, joking with james, teasing lily, bickering with marlene, just being himself, and lifting their spirits, and she remembers the bolt in her gut at the thought that he, that brave man that was so alive, could possibly die that night—emmeline remembers her nights in the order hq, waiting with her friends, trying to see who's coming back, hoping against hope that they'd all make it, that she wouldn't try to trace their shapes in the stars like the gods of old, honouring their loves in constellations instead of salvation, and she had always been so relieved when they all came back, when sirius shot her that exhausted but affectionate smirk that confirmed he was back, he was alive, he wasn't dead—yet somehow, emmeline had always assumed she would lose him to death; it had never hit her until that moment, reading the prophet and seeing his eyes staring back at her, that there were other ways to lose someone such as sirius black.

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Emmeline Vance (Astrid BF) & Sirius Black (Ben Barnes) request please :)

Added it to the list, lovely! It should be coming out in a wee bit—I wasn’t sure what kind of relationship you were envisioning, so I went with a romantic kind of thing, but kept it a little ambiguous in case you didn’t want that? Anyway, you’ll see it soon, and then you can feel free to request again if you didn’t like what I came up with! I’ve never thought about these two, really (well, not these characterisations, anyway) so I hope I didn’t do too badly, but like I said, feel free to request if I did! xx

P.S. You can totally request themes or emotions or quotes or any sort of prompt when you do requests, just a heads up, and I’ll do my best to incorporate it. x

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you who have caused my heart to fail / rabastan + alecto, regarding choices and loss

“Fine, Alecto. I’ll leave. I’ll leave you alone, and I won’t speak of you or acknowledge your presence first. I’ll forget you completely but just remember there will come a day you’ll need me, maybe my help or something else but you will need me. And when you need me, I’ll be here. I won’t force you to choose something that was never your choice. Because you know I don’t have one.” (x)

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summer days, drifting away / a high school!au for caradoc dearborn and emmeline vance

caradoc dearborn, sixteen: your average happy go-lucky boy with a predilection for swimming, caradoc tends to let life pass him by with a laugh and a charming—albeit occasionally bashful—grin. enter emmeline vance: stunning, shy, and the kind of girl who doesn't let things like stereotypes and societal expectations stand in her way. he makes her laugh like nobody else ever has, and she startles him every day with how maddeningly brilliant she can be, always ready to try something new. the summer passes in a wave of smiles and memories, and culminates in a pool party at amos diggory's place, where caradoc pulls emmeline into the water with the promise: "i'll catch you, em—come on, have i ever let you fall?" she finds herself thinking yes, but he catches her regardless, and they dance in the water, laughing as she thinks she could burst with happiness. next thing, though, they're wandering around the edge of the pool and caradoc disappears to obtain them some drinks, and when he comes back, emmeline's flailing in the water—it turns out that some of the nastier, drunken boys, like cadmus travers and nicodemus yaxley, thought it would be funny to push emmeline in, despite her protests that she actually can't swim. caradoc dives in and saves her, pulling her out and holding her tightly as an angry benjy fenwick and marlene mckinnon round on the boys who shoved her in there, forcibly removing them from the premises—"fucking death eaters," marlene mutters under her breath, exchanging significant looks with benjy and dorcas meadowes, who had fetched emmeline a towel as her friends had removed the idiots. caradoc finds emmeline a few hours later, sitting in the diner attached to the train station, and slides into the booth beside her. "how come you never mentioned it?" he asks, and she freezes, staring rigidly out the window, and even though she's not looking at him, and she looks like she'd rather be anywhere but there, he can't help but think she's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. "i didn't want you to think i was some weak little girl," she finally says, and he's already shaking his head before she finishes her sentence. "em," he says sternly, "you are the most wonderful, maddening creature i have ever met in my entire life, and there isn't a bone in my body that thinks you're weak." his lips curve into a smile as he sits back, appraising her as her jaw falls open. "in fact...emmeline vance—why, i do believe i may be the slightest bit in love with you."