#mellison

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i don't care if the game doesn't have polycules i'm making one anyway. fellow melody/allison/claire throuple shippers rejoice

[ceruleanmusings]

💞 for Mel!

Just to be clear, these are in no particular order. And I purposely kept these to those near her age because I have a different set of five when it comes to her dynamics with some of the adults on the show. And I would’ve included OCs but we would be here forever so I’ll make another post for the OC crossovers because those mean a lot to her too.

1. Allison: I’ve mentioned their dynamic a few times before but I can’t help gushing about it because I love it so much (even though I haven’t fully dived into it yet. Just wait for season 2!) Mel and Allison are two sides of the same coin, each sweet, loyal, caring, and strong-willed. Their differences is where their dynamic shines in that they both embody the weakness that the other tries to avoid: Allison finds being “powerless” and needing help weak whereas Mel sees knowing her limits and asking for help as being powerful. On the flipside, Mel sees Allison’s rejection of her emotions and being seen as “girly” being weak whereas Allison views acting on intellect rather than emotions keeping her in power. Because of this, they butt heads from time to time and get frustrated with one another but, Allison trusted Mel without a second thought when it came to sharing her thoughts and discoveries about the supernatural so, deep down, they have a level of respect for one another.

2. Erica: Of course I have to mention these two! Shipping aside, I love their dynamic because girls supporting girls is my jam! No matter how dumb of an idea Mel has, Erica will be right there behind her offering unwavering support. And any time Erica feels down about herself, Mel will jump in and tell her all the reasons why Erica is amazing and fantastic and worth more than her inner voice says. The thing is, they are also polar opposites and hated each other when they first met; sometimes their opposite personalities shine through and cause them to bicker and get frustrated with one another but, no matter what, they always come back together stronger than ever. Even though sometimes Mel infantilizes Erica and heaps on positivity to the point she becomes dismissive and toxic and sometimes Erica rebels and pushes back a little too much, their need to protect one another will always override any argument they having.

3. Stiles: Hoooo boy these two together are like a tornado and a hurricane colliding on a rollercoaster. Together they’re the definition of chaos, especially when they’re focused on the same goal (no matter how dumb). When they’re not? They pick at each other, call one another names, tease each other mercilessly. But they support each other and when it comes to the supernatural shenanigans surrounding Beacon Hills, these two are a force to be reckoned with. Underneath it all (no pun intended) Stiles is easily the brother that Mel never had (not that she’d ever say that to his face, can’t let him know she actually likes him.)

4. Isaac: Again, shipping aside, I love their dynamic. Small, loud, energetic, sunshine personified chick and tall, quiet, snarky, impulsive, and moody guy is one of my all-time favorite dynamics to write. Isaac lets Mel unapologetically be herself, he likes how crazy she is, he likes how outlandish she he, he likes how silly she is, he likes how she can flip all of that in a second and be compassionate, sensitive, empathetic, and understanding when the situation arises. She likes that he can help her slow down and look at the big picture, she likes that while he teases her he doesn’t judge her, she likes that he brings a realistic view to her otherwise rose-colored world,  she likes that, despite the abuse he’s been through, he’s still trying to be a good person. They lean on one another as a sort of bubble of peace and fresh air within Beacon Hills, allowing themselves to be kids when everyone else wants them to be targets. But the problem is that he puts her on a pedestal and she treats him like a problem to fix; they both have good intentions but it tends to rear it’s ugly head and set off some ugly arguments. In the end, they care for each other deeply.

5. Scott: this one I worried would be hard when I first wrote them; two kind, caring, empathetic, positive characters sounds boring on paper but I love these two together. If either needs a nonjudgemental ear, they go to each other because they’re two of the few people they know who would actually sit down and listen. Not try and come up with a solution to a problem or brush them away but actually listen. Scott wholeheartedly supports and encourages her decisions to join and be the first female on the Beacon Hills lacrosse team, proud to have someone like her on the field with him. She goes to the end of the Earth to find out everything she can about the supernatural to help him and keep him safe right after he’s been bitten. If one begins to lose hope, the other is ready to give it back where they found it. They validate and recognize one anothers’ feelings and rarely argue, usually seeing eye to eye. After Allison and Kira, Melanie steps up and fills in the role as Scott’s pseudo alpha female in the pack. I just love these two balls of sunshine!

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send me 💞 + an oc and ill tell you my top five favorite dynamics of theirs!

[ceruleanmusings]

💗 + Mel!

💗 for a moodboard about another significant relationship in my muse’s life

I’m excluding the obvious romantic implication that can be taken out of this and am going for a bit of a curveball to choose the relationship between Mel and Allison. They’re opposite sides of the same coin: descendants from hunter families but while Allison was indoctrinated into one by her parents, Mel was vehemently taken down a different path by hers due to Mel’s mom shunning her hunter past. The two view strength and weakness in opposite ways and have a push and pull sort of relationship overtime, where they make each other better and work harder but butt heads on occasion. Outside of her relationship with Erica, despite it starting off rocky, Allison ends up Mel’s closest girl friend.

Moodboard meme | askbox

[ceruleanmusings]

              Allison Argent + Melanie Crowe | Underneath it All

                      Acquaintances  → Friends → It’s Complicated

*PSD by @goblinrph

I’m starting off Melanie’s bday celebration of Melanie’s season one relationships with one of the more interesting relationships for me to write.

From the get go I wrote Allison and Melanie to be a parallel of each other. They’re both sweet girls who everyone ends up liking for one reason or another. But they both have what the other lacks: Allison struggles with embracing feminine traits, especially when it comes to the expression of emotion. She hates the idea of feeling “weak” and wants power. Melanie, on the other hand, has no problem embracing and recognizing her emotions but struggles with gaining the power and confidence that comes with not second-guessing herself.

For all intents and purposes, they should be friends. They should fill in the gaps that the other lacks (emotional awareness for Allison, strength in oneself for Melanie), but they have a rocky start. From the get-go Melanie is wary of Allison and how fast she integrates herself into Beacon Hills for reasons even she doesn’t understand. She finds things about everyone to like (safe for Jackson Whittemore and Theo Raeken) so she should like Allison too. She’s pretty, she’s smart, she’s fun, she’s nice. But there’s something about Allison that rubs Melanie the wrong way she can’t shake.

They start off only interacting through Scott, being their common link. Allison quickly becomes Scott’s girlfriend and Melanie is one of Scott’s oldest friends. They’re polite but, admittedly, Melanie is standoffish. One would suspect that it’s due to jealousy; Melanie used to have a large crush on Scott and sometimes, she’s hesitant to admit, it bothers her that he seems to hypnotized by her and, yeah, sometimes she wonders why he chose Allison over her. But once her feelings (misplaced as it were) are taken out the way, she realizes that it’s envy towards people accepting Allison so fast when Melanie had to work years for people to start taking her seriously and not write her off as a dork or dumb. Allison, none the wiser, continues to be friendly, going to Melanie for companionship when she needs a break from Lydia.

Things shift when they become trapped in Beacon Hills High because of the Alpha attacking them. Melanie’s deep-rooted envy comes out in an outburst fueled by frustration and fear but it’s enough to hurt Allison and weaken their tentative friendship. Even with Melanie attempting to work on Scott’s behalf to save hers and Scott’s relationship, they walk on eggshells with one another, going back to their own social groups as the year went on.

Unbeknownst to Allison, Melanie has had a few brushes with her aunt Kate and the hunters that had taken up residence in Beacon Hills. Being a self proclaimed supernatural expert, it didn’t take long for her to figure out Scott’s secret and integrate herself into plans to help the two boys navigate the hidden world in Beacon Hills. Knowing that her aunt is trying to kill her boyfriend, Melanie struggles with keeping Scott’s secret and keeping him safe when Allison approaches her one day to talk about the existence of werewolves. Melanie is surprised to find that Allison went to her specifically because she trusted that Melanie would take her discovery of werewolves and the supernatural silly and not brush it off like others would. It’s then that Kate threatens Melanie and her family if Melanie doesn’t help Kate and the hunters find and get rid of the Alpha and its beta. Kate’s discovery of Melanie’s true supernatural nature holds weight to her threats and leaves Melanie stuck between helping Scott and helping Allison.

It all comes to a head, and Melanie’s initial feelings about Allison are founded, when Melanie discovers through a last-ditch effort to stop the hunters, that her mother is an ex-hunter with ties to the Argent group. Arabella and Kate knew each other from their hunter circles years prior before Arabella defected in favor to start a new group that shifted from hunting to care, rehabilitation, and growth.

By the time the formal and it’s aftermath comes around, Allison and Melanie are faced with difficult choices: does Allison stand by and continue to feel powerless after an attack on her friend? No, she decides to take matters into her own hand and join her aunt to get revenge on those who hurt Lydia. As for Melanie, her choice is more difficult: does she align with the Alpha to take down a hunter who went away from the code and killed innocent people or does she side with Kate to take down a psychotic Alpha bent for revenge? Her choice may just surprise everyone.

Melanie and Allison are what I view as opposite sides to the same coin: what would the child in a prestigious hunter family be like if they were in a family of supportive and kind parents (the Crowes) verses ones so clinical and detached (the Argents). They could easily have walked down the same path but they ended up going in different directions; Melanie ending up with a family that encourages and nurtures her feelings and those of others while Allison grew up in a family that stamped away the idea of crying, being afraid, and needing to rely on others as feminine and and therefore weak.

Allison needed to be strong mentally and emotionally so she could be poised to take over the head of the Argent hunter group. Melanie, by comparison, was allowed to be sad, scared, frivolous, and reckless.

Writing these two together allows me to explore the hunters and their ideals more in depth due to bouncing off one another and I can’t wait to delve more into it in season two with Allison’s shift into falling under Gerard’s manipulations.

[tvasylvie]

Shit I'm a mellison shipper now