“Together we can take it to the end of the line. Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time.” - Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler (1983)
To celebrate the month of love we would like you to create a graphic/mood board for your characters Amortentia. It can be a collection of images they associate with the smell or aesthetics of them brewing it.
Let everyone know what they smell by doing a small piece of writing alongside your board or graphic to describe the scents and where each have come from through the years. Please feel free to include a story or ways in which the smells have changed throughout the years and if your character has figured out why the scents appear when they brew the potion.
Presenting the first ever Task Tuesday! Each month we will be posting a task for our members to help promote character development! We’d like to post these tasks on the first Tuesday of every month.
As this is a task it is completely optional, so it’s your choice whether you want to take part or not. If you do choose to complete the task please post a link to your post in the ‘task’ channel on discord before the next task is announced to be awarded a chaos point. Chaos points will be awarded in accordance with the alligence of the character who has completed the task.
TASK: Muse A is shopping for Yule sweaters at Madame Malkins, Muse B sees them trying on the sweater and can’t keep their opinion to themselves.
@oh-evans and @thxleoprincess
It was one of those days- Lily had planned to wake up early and beat the crowds in Diagon Alley, but of course the cat had knocked over her relic of an alarm clock and she’d found herself fighting swarms of people just to run her errands. Subsequently, she’d ended up positively slogging through racks at Madame Malkin's, feeling Christmas spirit-less, searching for the perfect set of ugly sweaters for her and Marlene (it had seemed like a sweet idea at the time). Unfortunately, she couldn’t tell if the one she’d just walked out of the fitting room in was ugly-as-in-cute or ugly-as-in-ugly. “Ew,” she groaned under her breath.
Closed Starter: @blondsblack
Where: A Baking Class
The bakery in Diagon Alley has allowed costumers to join a gingerbread cookie baking class. Muse A and Muse B are paired together and so the disaster begins.
The bakery in Diagon Alley has allowed costumers to join a gingerbread cookie baking class. Muse A and Muse B are paired together and so the disaster begins.
James stared at the ingredients in front of him, he had absolutely no idea why he was here of all places. It wasn’t like he was planning on doing any cooking for the holidays at any point, but he figured if he was stuck here he would try to at least make the best of it -- and the best cookies he could. James had started to accept that he would be in this for the long haul up until the cheery, red cheeked witch brought up cooking partners. He took a look around him only to soon realize everyone else had their own partner except for him and -- Narcissa Black?
Almost instantly his guard shot up and he watched as the witch set eyes on her and then on him. “Why don’t you two pair up? A beautiful woman, and a handsome man,” she winked and ushered him over to Narcissa’s side. Gulping he turned to look over to Narcissa and gave her a small smile.
“Well -- looks like we’re stuck together? Hope you can bake.”
Being the daughter of a woman who was overjoyed to show off her home to the world, Bellatrix was used to the constant crowds coming and going from Brideswater Manor. During the holidays is when events really kicked up with the biggest event being Druella’s annual Christmas Eve parties. Hoping for a trouble-free party, she would often send her three daughters off with the other children to stay out of her way and entertain themselves. It was her fondness of spending time with her sisters that Bella can easily identify the aroma of fire burning that appears in her Amortentia. It’s a smell that has been present since she first learned how to brew the potion and it hasn’t changed since.
The second scent she can identify has been present since the last year of schooling at Hogwarts, when Bella first began her journey as a servant to the Dark Lord. During this time, when she couldn’t escape to her home to meet with Tom, they’d arrange meetings on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. The smell of damp moss and trees is heavily present now when she has brewed the potion, simply because in those early moments together the girl was determined to prove herself and how deep her loyalty was to him. Despite having proved herself deserving of the position as his second in command, it is a memory she holds close to her heart as it was when her eyes were truly opened to the power she could achieve by being with Tom Riddle.
It’s the third and final scent that continues to perplex her. Bella knows it’s not a scent she’s grown up with like the burning fire nor can she remember any particular memory that matches the scent from her time at Hogwarts either. It is far more recent scent, a quick whiff of salt water, like that of an ocean but she can’t recall having any fond memories around the ocean. She doesn’t brew Amortentia enough to pose any questions to anyone close to her about it though it is always on the back of her mind as to why it keeps appearing. For now though, she’s more focused on the artifacts the Dark Lord has asked her to retrieve from Erik Borgin and Caius Burke than trying to identify some silly little scent that’s probably nothing of importance.
@frank-orion
Childish memories; happiness quickly destroyed as one is brought back to reality. Fenrir tries to push his thoughts down, the heart ache only ever twisting into bottled up rage that would undoubtedly spring out upon someone once it over flowed. It hurt to recall, and he had never come to learn how to deal with all the emotions that came with that hurt.
Instead, he found himself with his hands in snow. No gloves, fingers quick to begin burning from the chill they began to feel. His mind was eager to occupy itself with anything that would distract him as the holidays crept closer and the memories became more persistent. Maybe it would only be a fleeting moment in time that he would find distraction in it, but if that was all he could achieve by it he would still count it as a moment of success. This time, that distraction came in the form of a snowman; one he could build up however he wishes, and tear down as he saw fit.
Below you will find the matched pairs for the task! We hope you all enjoy them! The number represents the prompt and you get to decide who will be Muse A and Muse B. Don’t forget to message a mod when you’ve finished your thread so that we may award you the points you worked hard for! Let the chaos begin!
Below are suggested pairings we think would work well together! Please do not feel the need to complete these as they’re additional but we’d love to see them on the dash!
Hello everyone and welcome to our first task! Below, you will find a list of Yule themed prompts! If you’d like to participate, please either send us an ask with which prompt you’d like to do mentioning your character or react to the same message that will be posted on discord! You can react/send in as many as you like but we’ll give you one prompt per character. Please do this as soon as possible in order to give the mod team time to pair everyone up! We will then let you all know who will be doing what prompts tomorrow at 6pm GMT || 12pm EST.
The challenge is that if you finish your thread by our next event, the 18th of Dec, we will reward you and your writing partner with one Chaos Point each! This is a task so it’s completely optional! If you feel like you’d like to do a prompt, but know you won’t be able to finish the thread, you’re still more than welcome to partake, but please do mention that so we may sort you appropriately! Again, the task is completely optional and please do not feel like you need to partake at all! We know that this is a busy time for most of us!
We can’t wait to see what chaos you all get up to! Happy Yuletide everyone!
Muse A has just bought a cup of mulled wine from the Hopping Pot’s pop-up market stall but trips on a snow drift and spills the wine on Muse B.
Muse A is shopping for Yule sweaters at Madame Malkins, Muse B sees them trying on the sweater and can’t keep their opinion to themselves.
A frog choir is signing Yuletide carols in Carkitt Market. One of the frogs slips away causing a ruckus. Muse A chases after it and so does Muse B, causing them to bump into each other as they reach for the frog.
Muse A is ice skating for the first time on the frozen pond found behind Gringotts. They slip and fall and Muse B sweeps in to help them.
Muse A and Muse B get caught under hexed mistletoe. Now neither of them can lift their feet until they’ve kissed.
Muse A is building a snowman when they are hit by a snowball thrown by Muse B. A snowball fight breaks out.
The bakery in Diagon Alley has allowed costumers to join a gingerbread cookie baking class. Muse A and Muse B are paired together and so the disaster begins.
Muse A is really fond of Muse B and is trying to find them that perfect Yule present. Muse B walks in as Muse A is purchasing the gift and Muse A scrambles to try and keep it a secret.
Muse A is taking too long to decide what they’d like to drink at a hot beverage stall, Muse B has run out of patience and rudely urges them on.
Muse A loves Yuletide shopping and drags Muse B, who hates it, to the Yuletide market. Muse A tries to show them the magic of it all.
Muse A decides to take a chance and approaches their crush, Muse B, and attempts the pickup line “I must be a snowflake, because I’ve fallen for you.”
Muse A (Pure-Blood) and Muse B (unspecified) are friends and are attending a Pure-Blood private Yuletide dinner. Muse B complains to as why Muse A dragged them there.
Muse B hates the holiday season but they know Muse A loves it so they surprise Muse A with a gift.
Muse A and Muse B meet up at Rosa Lee Teabag for an end of year function. They exchange gifts and Muse A urges Muse B to open theirs now.
Snow from an overhead window sill drops onto Muse A. Muse B rushes over and offers to help them get warm.
