He likes hot tea, early mornings, quidditch, smart fits, fresh ink & the cliffs of Bray. He’s not hard to please, but he has a pretense about him that even he can’t shake. He’s strong-willed & hard to deter once his mind is set. He loves someone else’s wife & has never shied away from a fight that deserves an outcome & he’s yet to pen a list of regrets. If nothing else, the experience will have been useful.
Shrike - Hozier “Remember me, love, when everyone is a shrike to your sharp & glorious thorn”
Rabbit Hole - Jake Mirador “Barren is the boy who longs to be elsewhere”
Voyeur - Baths “I'm a bit of a mope. I'm always in the wake of the hope that
you might just sit & talk a bit”
Minimum - Charlie Cunningham “Keep on walking that line, the fine line
between a wrong & a right”
Swallow - Postcards from Mars “I swallow words when I need them the most. I swallow words & it burns down my throat”
Sines - Greg Wanders “The sound of my home calling me from my solitude”
Hurricane - Reuben & the Dark “Are you fearless as you wonder where her eyes go when they wander?”
Chaplin Suite No. 6 - Cottonwood Firing Squad “When the devil comes knocking, with a price on my head I’m gonna sit him down & tell him son, I’m already dead”
Lucerne - Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners “Oh I fervently want some time alone. No wine, no elixir, no spirits can make me whole”
June - Briston Maroney “So dress up in your finer things with the smile can't hide anything & pin the flower to my chest & count the days that I've got left”
Payback - Bad Child “Keep the high horses in the stable. Give me one more god damn minute. Could you last a day in my position?”
Half an hour, and then I can go to lunch. Half an hour and the world’s longest list of stupid questions.
Jemma meditated on that fact, schooling her fidgeting hands into her lap and sitting as straight as she possibly could without aggravating muscles she’d beaten into submission that morning. This was just an interview. Just a bunch of canned sound bites, and charming smiles, and PR work for the team, all of which she could do in her sleep. She’d even put on foundation in the middle of the day for it, wouldn’t Lorelai be proud?
o1. Are you happy with the way the quidditch season is going so far?
A softball right out of the gate was always her favorite, and Jemma grinned, even as she tempered her response down from gloating, “I’ll call it cautiously optimistic, we’re doing well so far but I don’t plan on slacking off anytime soon.”
o2. What words would you use to describe yourself?
“Pugnacious? There’s a five galleon word for you, that’s got to be worth at least 3 regular words.” Spiteful, determined, and desperate to prove herself probably wouldn’t play quite how she wanted in the papers, however true.
o3. If you could change one aspect of your personality, what would it be?
“I’m sure there are people who’d like me to be calmer, but that sounds boring, doesn’t it?” Did they teach journalists to hope for the best like that, expecting an honest answer to personal questions? Like she was going to tell the whole damn readership of Quidditch Daily that she couldn’t breathe for the insecurity sometimes and she couldn’t figure out how to do more than pantomime confidence? “I really can’t think of anything I’d change.”
o4. Briefly talk about a defining moment in your life. What made it so important?
“Easy one, second game of my first year on the Hufflepuff team. It’s not the same winning games when it’s just you and a bunch of neighborhood kids and cousins and stuff, winning in a real game with real stakes for the first time was- I don’t even know. There aren’t words to describe that rush.”
o5. If you weren’t involved in the quidditch scene, what kind of job do you would have?
Jemma tilted her head, faux confusion on her face, “Other... jobs? That aren’t quidditch? I don’t think I’ve heard of such a thing. I certainly can’t speak to it.” It would be boring to say she’d probably have just wound up in the family business, and worse, it would remind her that she could still wind up in the family business. Not that they weren’t great, just.. not what she was interested in or good at.
o6. What are some similarities/differences between yourself and your teammates/coworkers?
“Well we all wear the same colors. That’s a similarity. And we have the same goal, winning the cup again. And we mostly play different positions, which is a difference. Some of them are taller than I am? I don’t think I ever bothered to quantify specifics, because they don’t matter until something starts going wrong, and nothing has with the dynamic yet. Maybe we’ll sign someone who’s horrible in the locker room, and that’ll be an issue and I’ll think about it, but otherwise it just seems like asking for trouble.”
o7. What kind of things do you think about when you’re alone?
“Athlete stuff, I suppose. Mile times and broom maintenance and what to eat for dinner. Christmas is coming up, that’s taken up a good bit of brain space lately.”
o8. What are three good habits and three bad habits that you have?
Ticking them off on her fingers, Jemma listed, “I wake up early most days, I floo my mum at least once a week, and I always buy a round when the team goes out. As for bad, I cheat on my diet with chips more than I should, I listen to terrible music, and sometimes I wait long enough before feeding my cat that he can actually see the bottom of his bowl in some spots, which he would probably call the height of cruelty.” It was a testament to the unoriginality of sports reporters (Mags excepted, of course) that she had rehearsed answers to that question down to a pithy and charming sound bite.
o9. What is your personal philosophy?
“Win? Learn from your mistakes? That’s a broad question, but I guess those two sum it up.”
1o. Would you rather be liked or respected? Feared or loved?
“Respected and feared, at least on the pitch, and that’s the important thing here, isn’t it?”
11. What are your thoughts on Puddlemere United?
Okay so it wasn’t the height of maturity, but it was fun to just make an extended raspberry noise and leave the question at that.
12. What about The Chudley Cannons?
“It would be awkward if my thoughts on the Cannons were anything other than glowing delight.”
13. If given a more lucrative position with another team, would you take it?
Sucking her breath through her teeth, Jemma shrugged, “I don’t think anyone could afford to pay me what it would take to get me away from the Cannons. And they’d have to make a series of really stupid decisions first, like, I dunno, hiring Hagrid as head coach and changing the uniforms to include frilly skirts. I think the owner’s too smart to do something like that, though, so I don’t see me moving teams anytime soon.”
14. Would you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist?
“Optimist. I tried pessimism but I don’t think it’s for me.”
15. What’s one thing you would change about your team, if given the opportunity?
“Less groaning during drills. I’m including myself in that, so it’s fair.”
Please like this post if you wish to be part of a random pairing for the next event.
Today’s task is to let us know if you’d like your character to be randomly paired with another for a thread at the upcoming Halloween Party. Please only like this if you know you’ll be able to commit time to threads and gif-chats. You have until 5:00 PM EST on October 27th to let us know if you’d like to be involved in this pairing. If you have a character on a side-blog, please comment if you want them involved as well.
Unlike our last pairing event, we’ll be sending you some spooky prompts to go along with your threads this event! We won’t be godmoding your characters, but will give you a setting and a hook for your characters to play around with.
This task is also optional, but highly encouraged.
1. krewella - team.
“i ain’t givin’ up. i ain’t givin’ in. i don’t need a crown to know i’m king.”
2. trapt - headstrong.
“back off. i’ll take you on . headstrong to take on anyone. “
3. imagine dragons - warriors.
“but you always knew that you'd be the one that work while they all play.”
4. sam tinnez - legends are made.
“i got that lightning inside me. this is how legends are made.”
5. imagine dragons - thunder.
“just a young gun with a quick fuse. i was uptight. wanna let loose.”
6. sleeping with sirens - legends.
“if we win or lose keep your heart on your sleeve.”
7. fall out boy - centuries.
“and i can’t stop ‘til the whole world knows my name ‘cause i was only born inside my dreams.”
8. welshly arms -legendary.
“Been dreaming of the payoff through the struggles and the trade-offs.”
9. onerepublic - counting stars.
“every thing that kills me makes me feel alive.”
10. panic! at the disco - high hopes.
“mama said ‘burn your biographies. rewrite your histories. light up your
wildest dreams.’”
11. gavin degraw - fire.
“doesn't matter how long it's been. i know you'll always jump in ‘cause we don't know how to quit.”
12. panic! at the disco - victorious.
“tonight we are victorious. champagne pouring over us. a.ll my friends we’re glorious tonight we are victorious.”
13. andrew c.k. - party hard.
“cause we will never listen to your rules. we will never do what others do.”
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another installment of our character development tasks! These tasks are always are optional, but they are encouraged and participating in them will count toward your activity for the week. I’ll still be posting a challenge the day of our next game, but this is a task to complete before then.
Please tag these with #qd:task so they’ll be easier for us to find. There are no deadlines for these tasks. As always, I’m looking forward to what you guys come up with.
Task Nine.
Make a playlist! This is a pretty standard task, but I’d like you to get creative with it. Make your playlist about a specific relationship with another character, or maybe make one about a defining moment in your character’s life. You could make a playlist of songs that your character listens to, or you could make a playlist full of songs that just remind you of your character. There’s a lot you can do with this, and I’m excited to see what you guys come up with. I’m looking forward to hearing what inspires everyone to write.
