#lenore tag

[icarusofathousanddays]

Which OC's are getting invited to the orgy/the ultimate polycule

Gets an invite to the orgy (and attends):

Agnes (grew up in a cult, she’s used to it)

Delilah (she’s hosting—and she’s also crashing out midway through and shoving a corkscrew in a guy's neck when she forgets what this event is for and he tries to touch her, then she has a meltdown because everyone wants to go home now, but she wants to keep the party going, so now it’s an active hostage situation)

Isolde (evil-scientist modern thinker who loves wearing trousers and doing crimes, trapped in the early 1900s—yeah, she’s getting an invite)

Marigold (the type of girl who has people at the orgy saying things like: “I hope Mari shows up!” “Do you know when Mari is getting here?” She practically invented the concept of doing toxic polycule situationships where you hate each other and it all culminates in a type of acute longing so powerful that spills down to the next generation. So, yeah, she’s getting an invite. She’s getting ten invites. She’s getting routine text messages from the organizer who wants to make sure she attends)

Simeon (he’s a good time! A great time, even! The best time ever, really! You should invite him—he’ll make sure you have a good time :) and if you don’t, he’ll act hurt, and then Judith will bite you a thousand times until you DIE)

Sophronia (an absolute delight at any sexy gathering)

Tamar (gets an invited so she makes sure to show up and participate—but her heart isn't genuinely in it. She’s just playing pretend)

Tyla (fem!Tyler) (Rebekah really wants her to attend so she isn’t alone :( and if it gives her an excuse to kiss her on the lips, well, that’s Bekah's business! Leave her alone! She’s working through something! Another contributing factor is that Klaus ordered Tyla to show up. He immediately gets Really Weird about her seeing other people and orders her to close her eyes, then he gets Really Weird about her not being able to see him, so he tells her to open her eyes then he gets Really Weird about the first thing again—)

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Gets an invite (but does not attend):

Judith (gets invited but sends someone to attend the orgy in her place. It’s called delegation)

Miriam (gets an invite but no one will let her attend)

Opal (they want to invite her, but they can't find her to deliver the invite)

Rosemary (gets an invite but chooses not to go on account of having murder hands)

Wilhelmina (Klaus tears up her invite before she can see it)

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Gets an invite for largely evil and nefarious purposes meant to inflict maximum harm to their psyche:

Danica (Finn’s emotional-support anxiety-ridden clairvoyant witch that I talked about that one time. Kol invites her but doesn’t tell her the truth about what the event is. Finn beats him up with his fists when he finds out)

Jemma (fem!Jeremy) (Kol brings her and has a grand time while she stands awkwardly in the corner. The moment she talks to another person, he crashes out and needs to be the center of attention as a treat :) he’s a big baby)

Natalie (wishes everyone could start having a funky fun time at someone else's expense instead. We asked a panel of experts (the Mikaelsons) if that was possible, and they all said no. Kol ate the person who asked)

Odette (my silly de Martel OC whose life SUCKS (the sad girl equivalent of a stuffed animal that got milk spilled on it) she gets tricked to attend under the pretense of it being a support group meeting, and then is too polite to leave. People keep offering her things to suck on and she’s like, “Oh. No thanks :(” someone please save her)

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Does not get an invite:

Brunhilda (everyone at the orgy agreed she’d probably get too attached)

Cassiopeia (this is that “seer” I talked about who thinks she’s an isekai protagonist but in reality she’s just genuinely delusional. The only person who would ever invite her to one is Klaus—and Kol (he only does it because it’s hilarious) but after the last time, Elijah puts his foot down. They make her wait outside the room like a dog. She keeps herself busy by telling everyone who goes in how they’re going to die.)

Cypress (she had a terrible time in the first loop when she got an invite, so she’s dedicated her life to making sure she never receives another one while she’s trapped in the timeloop)

Eleanor (she’s way too scary, man)

Lenore (weird bug-girl energy. They considered inviting her, but then a discussion broke out about whether it was a good idea, and someone awkwardly admitted they weren’t sure they wanted to talk about tree species and different kinds of soil—or be shown pictures of all the weird spiders she saw recently—while trying to have a sexy fun time. So they all agreed to never mention it around her)

Magdalena (classic gothic heroines are sexier when there’s a thin veil of chastity and untouchability around them. No one wants to ruin that for her, so they take the emotional damage of not inviting her)

Siberia Cave Guy (Tristan was jealous and got him blackballed from the industry)

[hamstertross-art]

lenore and blair (my friend’s character) aka the bestiesssss

[corpsesurfing]

These sad kids’ reunion was the most wonderful, terrible thing that could have happened and i have a lot of feelings about it. 

[icarusofathousanddays]

Shortest to Tallest (OC edition):

Siberia Cave Guy – 6’5” (freak of nature. Tallest guy the Mikaelsons had ever met by that point—like weirdly tall for the era. Honestly, it’s surprising that Kol managed to dump him in the woods without getting caught)

Marigold – 6’4” (everyone asks where she got it from, and the answer is me!!! I gave it to her because I thought it was funny for her to tower ominously over everyone)

Judith – 6’1” (the actress I picked for her is insanely tall and pretty, so I’m carrying that over. It definitely helps when it’s time to cut her hair and pretend to be a man for a few decades)

Isolde – 5’11” (evil scientist girlies deserve to be tall as a treat)

Simeon – 5’10” (the “pretending to be Tamar” ship sailed years ago, but he still pretends to be Judith sometimes—he just wears heels to do it)

Magdalena – 5’8” (a long, willowy figure is essential for hyper-cursed tragic gothic heroines—I suspect it’s so they look like sexy mannequins, allowing clothes to hang off them in a certain way)

Eleanor – 5’8” (muscle mommy)

Tamar – 5’8” (reasonably tall for a woman, but a little small compared to Simeon and Judith—impersonation games ended for her a while ago)

Delilah – 5’7” (not above wearing six-inch heels to tower over her brothers—get too close and she’ll kick out your knees so you have to look up at her)

Natalie – 5’7” (not much variation possible for a doppelganger)

Rosemary – 5’6” (it is important to me that she’s an inch shorter than Katherine and Rebekah, her two big wlw love interests)

Cypress, Sophronia, and Brunhilda – around 5’6” (but they all wear different shoes, so you’d never be able to tell in a room together)

Opal – 5’5” (not short, not tall—she’s remarkable in other ways)

Johanna – 5’5” (totally normal height, the impressive part is the muscle)

Lenore – 5’5” (also just a very normal height)

Danica – 5’4” (pocket-sized—she uses it to climb out of windows and escape trouble… which has been a persistent issue since freeing Finn, unfortunately)

Odette – 5’4” (just an inch taller than Aurora <3)

Miriam – 5’3” (small girl who looks at you like a kicked puppy. Great news for Miri haters: very easy to overpower for stabbing purposes because of it)

Lydia – 5’3” (too Miri-coded not to make them a matching set. Also makes it easier for Death to carry her off bride-kidnapping style. I’m doing a public service really—you should be thanking me)

Cassiopeia – 5’2” (I flip between making her super tall or super short—right now we’re in her short girl era, but it makes sense because she has super intense short guy energy. We love a chihuahua syndrome queen)

Agnes – 5’0” (tiny ball of hair and yapping <3 incapable of shutting the fuck up)

I am not cruel enough to give any of my girls my curse (being shorter than 5’0”)

[icarusofathousanddays]

Sooooo where would your ocs place on this chart?

Bonus [x]:

[icarusofathousanddays]

My TVDU OCs

Based on this post from @lewbrah.

I don't consider Fem!Tyler and Fem!Jeremy to be OCs—despite my plans of writing long fics for them—so they didn't make the list.

Brunhilda Voss - Never Have I Been a Blue Calm Sea

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Story Summary:

Time travel, as it turns out, requires blood. A lot of it, if you're planning on doing it properly. Or: Brunhilda has already lived through the apocalypse once.

General Concept:

Brunhilda is a seer who failed to save her original world, so she did the next best thing—she leapt into a new one. Unfortunately for her, this reality comes with soulmates, a concept she—nor the four superpowered, dead witches hitching a ride in her body—knows nothing about.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character Amara x Silas x Qetsiyah

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Sophronia Melrose - That This Might've Shook the Love From Me

[AO3] • [Wattpad] • [Story Tag] • [Character Tag]

Story Summary:

After centuries of isolation, Finn Mikaelson meets Sophronia Melrose. Or: Being reborn into the Vampire Diaries feels like a death sentence.

General Concept:

Sophronia wakes up in a world she remembers from TV reruns and wiki binges, stranded in a small-town funeral home twenty minutes outside Mystic Falls—and directly in the path of the Mikaelsons. Unfortunately for her, this reality comes with soulmates, and hers seem to be an entire family of immortal disasters. A sideways fix-it fic meets a secret comedy of errors and isekai soulmate AU featuring a secretly psycho FL.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character Various (Spoilers Available in the Story Tag)

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Miriam Mikaelson - What Resembles the Grave

[AO3] • [Wattpad] • [Story Tag] • [Character Tag]

Story Summary:

When Miriam Mikaelson was daggered 890 years ago, something in her broke apart. Now she's finally awake, but she's not exactly Miriam anymore. Or: You are a rotten no-good body snatcher.

General Concept:

It's hard to truly reveal a lot since so much of this fic's appeal is in the mystery. I suppose the easiest way to describe it is a love letter to the Mikaelsons with deep gorges carved into it—this is the only fic where I feel that reading it mostly free of any true spoilers is necessary.

Pairings:

There will be multiple endings—each with their own endgame pairing.

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Agnes di Lucia - I'm Eating All Your Kings and Queens

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

It starts with a meeting on the Other Side. It ends with a resurrection. Or: after haunting the living for centuries, it's finally time for Agnes and Henrik to rejoin them.

General Concept:

Agnes died in the 1400s and has been stuck on the Other Side with Henrik Mikaelson for the past half-millennia. The pair will do anything—lie, trick, steal, and worse—to break out of their prison.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Eleanor Gilbert - For the Ghost You Choose to Make of Me

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Eleanor Gilbert came into this world screaming and covered in someone else's blood—she plans to leave it that way too. Or: A member of the Five discovers her (im)mortal enemies (the Originals) are also her soulmates.

General Concept:

Eleanor Gilbert (Grayson and John's younger sister) is a member of The Five and has been hunting vampires since she triggered her curse as a teenager.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character Various

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Delilah Mikaelson - The First Poem in the World

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

A girl dies. A girl lives. In the end, did it ever truly matter? Or: Things could always be worse. Unfortunately, Deliah seems determined to prove it.

General Concept:

A borderline psychopath (oh, I’m sorry, “a completely normal person”) is reborn into the Mikaelson family. Equipped with a newly acquired chemical imbalance, and an overwhelming desire not to die at eighteen giving birth in the woods or at thirty shitting herself to death, Delilah is willing to do anything to become immortal.

Pairings:

Undecided

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Marigold Lockwood - Like Grain From the Straw

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Marigold Lockwood is determined to find a cure for lycanthropy—even if it kills her. Even if it kills them all. Or: Enter the Lockwood family disappointment.

General Concept:

Tyler’s aunt is a morally bankrupt witch and a member of the Council (RIP Damon), who is willing to do anything to reach her goals. Currently, those goals are pushing her into Klaus’s orbit.

Pairings:

Undecided but I'm leaning towards Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Opal Bennett - Housed by Your Warmth Thus Transformed

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

There is nothing Opal Bennett loves more than a mystery. Or: almost a century after Kol Mikaelson's failure, someone completes his golden dagger.

General Concept:

Abby’s kid sister sets out on a quest to deal with Klaus Mikaelson before he can discover Elena’s existence. Her quest sends her tumbling into the tangled politics of the Strix and a Marcel-run NOLA as she desperately tries to uncover the truth of what Kol Mikaelson was attempting to create in 1914.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Natalie Gilbert - If You Have the Stomach For It

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Natalie Gilbert can see the ghosts of anyone who died loving a Mikaelson.

General Concept:

My obligatory Gilbert Twin story! The twist is that she sees ghosts, but specifically those connected to the Mikaelsons—some of those include Henrik, Alexander, Celeste (who pops up for a few minutes while she’s in between bodies), Dulcina, etc.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Rosemary Salvatore - Your Idea of Me, Who Was She?

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Rosemary is her mother’s daughter in all the worst ways. Or: Forty years after turning the Salvatore brothers, Katherine arrives in New Orleans to petition for her freedom.

General Concept:

My obligatory Salvatore Sister and Siphon FL story. Katherine crafts her backup plan when she accidentally creates a vampire capable of breaking curses with a touch. In 1904, Katherine arrives in NOLA with Rosemary, a bound Mikael, and a promise that Rosemary can break Klaus’s curse in exchange for a full pardon.

Pairings:

Undecided but I'm leaning towards Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Magdalena Isabel - All Men Kill the Things They Love

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Tentative Story Summary:

November 1700. Europe is on the cusp of war. Charles II of Spain has died without an heir—putting almost two centuries of Habsburg rule over Spain in dire straits. Magdalena Isabel Pimentel is the daughter of Francisco Casimiro Pimentel, ninth Duke of Benavente and a close confidante to the former king. She knows better than most about the danger the Treaty of Ryswick has placed their kingdom in. Just as she knows what her duty to her family will require of her. When her husband dies suddenly, Magdalena is sent to Cádiz to stay with her widowed aunt until her mourning period has passed and she will inevitably be expected to remarry for the stability of Philip of Anjou’s claim to the throne. Magdalena never expected to resent that fact until she stumbled upon the Mikaelson siblings.

General Concept:

Soulmate AU with an eighteenth-century horror twist.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Lenore Belgrove - Untitled

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Lenore Belgrove can see dead people. Well, three dead people to be exact.

General Concept:

My take on the reverse isekai trope meets an obligatory OC who can see the daggered trio fic.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Cypress Roberts - Untitled

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

She isn't sure how, but it has become abundantly clear to her that she has fallen into some kind of time loop. Or: Cypress has decided that the Original family is going to live, whether they like it or not.

General Concept:

Exactly what it says on the tin! It's a time loop fic where the FL resets whenever a Mikaelson sibling dies.

Pairings:

Mikaelson Family x Original Female Character

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Isolde LaRue - Untitled

[Character Tag]

Tentative Story Summary:

Kol meets his brother's girlfriend's girlfriend. Or: Kol, Isolde, and Sage team up to make the golden dagger and save Finn from the endless dark.

General Concept:

You would think waking up as member of a coven who practices blood magic would put a dapper on your plans—but Isolde sees it as an opportunity to indulge her inner mad scientist. The eventual plan is to have it be a fun romp playing with a few concepts: one of those being an isekai FL who never watched either show.

Pairings:

Finn, Kol, Sage x Original Female Character

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If each of your Mikaelsons had to kiss one of your other OCS outside of the family (and not kill them), who would you pair them with?

Rúna – Liam. Esther is fucking him and Rúna secretly believes that everything that belongs to Esther should also belong to her because they're #soulmates

Elias – Cypress. Guy who keeps time traveling because he kills everyone he loves, paired with the girl whose timeloop keeps resetting anytime an Original and their sireline dies would slap I fear. He would eat up Opal and Laurel with a spoon to varying levels of success. The second he realizes Laurel wants nothing to do with him (he wants her too much and she can tell) he'll get super annoying about it. Opal finds his relationship with his family to be off-putting and he tries to gaslight her like "but babe you LOVE when I cheat on you with my siblings."

Hadassah – Big fan of Danica who a raw magical talent that keeps Hadassah engaged, but she can also kick and make Danica cry with zero (0) repercussions. She believes that kissing Danica is basically a bonding experience with Finn (it isn't) and it gets her brownie points with her loml Freya (it doesn't) because she's such good friends with her favorite brother now (she isn't)

Bartholomew – a professional Bennett kisser, so obviously Opal. He is very fond of Lydia whose kisses taste like Death, Everlasting. If he could get his hands on Jeong-Hui, he would kiss her crazy style.

Delilah – Any of the Melroses (Heathrow, Madeline, Sophronia, Mathias) could probably fix something fundamentally broken inside her. Odette awakens a surprising streak of protectiveness in her and she starts attacking any man who gets too close to her girlfriend like omfgggg leave her alone

Salome – Brunhilda. Roll those dice, send her on that wild duck chase to stop the end of the world, they can make out with the cure trio together sloppy style.

Dinah – she's a lesbian fuckboy with a snapback and her ex's name tattooed on her bicep, her u-haul is already packed and ready to go for any witch within a fifty-mile radius, she'll move way too fast, tell you that she's never felt this way about anyone else before, and then break your heart in an astronomically cruel cheating scandal that will fundamentally shake you in ways you will never recover from. So. Rosemary. Dinah will make Rosemary siphon from her while fingerbanging just to see how it feels.

Idalia – Eleanor. She is drawn to dangerous people who have kissed her brothers, so this is a jackpot situation for her. She would really like Isolde too.

Miriam – Lenore is one of my favorites when I'm in the rare mood where I only want good things to happen to Miri. Sophronia would be well suited to her, I have a few AUs where they stumble into each other for this reason. I sometimes like doubling up on the sad girl aesthetic and letting her kiss Lydia—it dooms them both harder.

Johanna – okay. So. look. Rias has ruined me. Jo is insanely married to their OCs Atlas and Bryn. None of my OCs hold a candle to that. However, most of them could make it work. Jo is very versatile, a real all-around-er. I think Christopher and Seth are the only ones I can think of that would not be able to pull her.

Simeon – patron saint of being paired with abused and often sexually exploited women who deserve partners who are evil but respectful of them, so I like to let him have Odette because he'd be VERY nice to her. He loves kissing Magdalena.

Judith – she is hard to pair with people because she is secretly a black flag yandere when her jealous rage is triggered. Not to fall into the "golden retriever and black cat" dynamic, but I think a slightly older Agnes would be perfect for her because Agnes would simply never think to run or turn her back on Judith because she's too busy never shutting up.

Tamar – My chameleon girl <3 she could make anything work, but she'd be drawn to Liam, who would unfortunately immediately discount her entirely on the basis of Tamar being turned as a teenager and he just. He can't. he has too many teenagers in his life to find Tamar attractive. Otherwise, she is incredibly fond of Aurelia.

[icarusofathousanddays]

What are your OCs favorite foods?

Agnes: She’s forgotten what all her favorites tasted like (and really what eating felt like at all), but she’s excited to relearn! When she gets resurrected, she realizes she doesn’t like any of her old favorites anymore and ends up becoming a huge fan of junk food. (She loves movie theater popcorn and milkshakes.)

Brunhilda: After more than a decade of eating apocalypse scraps, she isn’t picky. If you asked her to choose between something she loves and something she hates, she would eat both things.

Cassiopeia: She likes anything that is terribly overpriced. She was born to pay $50 in fees on DoorDash for her chicken nuggets using her dad’s credit card.

Cypress: Four Loko. She stabs the can using a pocket knife and drinks it that way. If she’s going to die brutally before getting thrown back to the beginning of the timeloop, she’s going to have three of these to take the edge off. Can you blame her?

Danica: The baby girl vegan of the group. She likes dried fruit.

Delilah: Blood—specifically, she’s fond of the blood of men who bother her. Food-wise, she likes decadent, impractical dishes. She loves those weird restaurants that feed you foam that tastes like shrimp or desserts made to look like photorealistic eyes. She lost her taste for sugar centuries ago, so she likes those “did you know you can make icecream using cottage cheese” recipes, she uses O-negative in the place of hot fudge.

Eleanor: No idea, actually—I’ve never thought that far for her. But she strikes me as a greasy diner fan, so probably smash burgers if I had to guess.

Isolde: The only good thing about being stuck in NOLA in the 1910s is the Creole food.

Johanna: Cheese. She enjoys cheese a lot. She has a cheese cave. (In AUs where Rias’s babies Atlas and Bryn end up on the farm, they have to help with the cheese cave.)

Lenore: Big food issue girlie, second only to Miriam. If her food is touching, she has to go outside to take a breather. She likes crunchy textures.

Lydia: Food always tastes a little like ash to her—but she likes apples.

Magdalena: Some weird 16th-century Spanish recipe—probably something like grilled cat. A product of her time, really. Maybe she lucks out and just likes simmered fruit with nuts though. Actually, I changed my mind—let’s give her something terribly on-the-nose, like a pomegranate.

Marigold: She isn’t picky and likes most things. She’s the type of person who, for the few people she genuinely likes and allows to cook for her, has a favorite dish they make—but she hates when anyone else makes it afterward. (In AUs where Zach dies, no one is ever allowed to feed her chicken parm again because her favorite was the one he made. And she’s evil, sure—but she is a creature of habit.)

Miriam: She has turbo bad issues around food, but it’s going to have to be honey cakes <3 She has a sweet tooth. (She’s the vampire equivalent of a vegan… but if she had the option, she’d be entirely vegan. In human AUs, I give her that option.)

Natalie: Her favorite meal is something Miranda used to cook. She’s pretty adrift after Miranda dies and develops a thing around food (a weird repeated pattern in my work, you may ask? Shut up and mind your business.) I need to ruminate on exactly what that dish was, but my knee-jerk reaction is something simple and a little weird. Maybe she liked banana, peanut butter, and bacon sandwiches—like Elvis did.

Odette: Big fan of figs, especially with cheese and jam and crusty bread. Charcuterie boards are her favorite thing in the world. (It would be great if someone would be nice enough to treat her to one <3 instead of just stabbing her with the “bad time” gun-knife.)

Opal: Fruit by the Foot. She also likes biting through Tootsie Pops to get to the center as fast as possible.

Rosemary: Roast duck feels like something she enjoys. No particular reason—she just gives off that vibe. Pears also seem like they’d be her favorite fruit.

Siberia Cave Guy: Foolish hikers who get lost in his cave.

Sophronia: She is weak for lemon poppy seed muffins.

Triplets: I’ve never really thought about it. Judith doesn’t have many thoughts on food—she’s one of those people who eats to live rather than lives to eat. Tamar is too busy pretending her favorite food is your favorite food to remember what she actually likes. Simeon is the only one with a clear favorite—probably something he had as a child that he’s been craving for the past thousand years.