#vivaciousdoe

[fidemcanem]

@vivaciousdoe

“Evans,” Sirius says pleasantly, dropping down next to her without asking, and without moving the cloak on the chair that’s presumably hers. After taking a moment to make himself comfortable ---- chair tipped back on two legs, hair swept artfully back from his face ---- he finally focuses his gaze on her.

"How would you like to do me ---- and by extension James ---- a favour?”

[storiesmade]

@vivaciousdoe​​ gets a group verse starter.

         ❛ to this day, i still can’t comprehend how anyone accepted your style as one of our own. ❜    she speaks with a bit of disdain, slowly looking up and down at the witch who is coming to the booth to help.    ❛ if any patron comes, i’ll take the lead. ❜

[kindheartted]

@vivaciousdoe // moved from here

          « no, it’s fine. » his smile was warm, though he still looked a bit baffled. this had been a lot, he could not deny that, and especially with the amount of sleep he’d missed mending people’s wounds all night long he felt like he would take a while to respond to all of this. but, the thing was, he got it— he got her. so much it almost hurt.

          he brought his cup to his lip and took a sip of the tea he’d made for the both of them. only then he spoke again. « i get it— i mean, this is the only break i’ll get for hours. » not that he could complain— it was mostly his fault he was this restless, and he was fairlysure lily must feel somewhat similar. « iand t’s tiring trying to find people who listen to these things when everyone’s busy trying to prevent your woes from happening in the first place— right?unfortunately there isn’t a cure against it, just— enjoying the moments of calm, i suppose. and drinking your relaxing tea. »

[carelessgraces]

@vivaciousdoe​​ said:   For the portrayal meme - What drew you to Astoria? What is the ~thing~ about your portrayal and your understanding of her that makes her stick with you? And what is your favourite quirk about her character?   ( ask me about my portrayal | accepting )

way back in july 2012, i was scrolling through the crystal reed tag — teen wolf was on, and allison argent was the love of my life. and i found a bio posted for an RPG that had crystal reed as astoria’s face claim, and i figured, why not? i was in a rough spot at that moment; my grandfather was very very sick, and i was coming up on a year anniversary of a major trauma. i needed a creative outlet to latch onto, and i’m glad i found that when i did. so, under those circumstances, when things started to go from rough to unbearable, i’d found a way to channel my creative energy into something that not only distracted me from how awful things were, but let me process what, exactly, was happening, and that kept me in close contact with multiple people, so i wasn’t alone. 

     i left the group for about six months when things got worse, because i was barely functional, and i panicked and threw myself into something else, but coming back to the group, and to astoria, was like... this moment of immense healing. i’m still really, really good friends with a lot of the people from that group. ( one, my first actual ship partner, spent christmas with me & my family one year, since they couldn’t afford to go home to england during a year abroad. another recently reconnected with me after a few years of us falling out of touch, and he and i have discussed writing together again. moni was one of the original members; that’s how rachel and i connected, how amethyst and i connected, and how marta and i connected. it was a good group. it was a really good group. ) 

     part of why she appealed to me beyond the circumstances that created her: i got to do detective work. then, we only knew her name & year, her sister’s name & year & house, and that narcissa and lucius didn’t like her. so i had to reverse engineer this character based just on that. we knew astoria had gone through a frightening & violent conversion that jerked her out of blood supremacist ideology, so astoria became the carrow protege. we knew draco loved her enough to remain with her despite his parents disliking her, so astoria became someone he could share that trauma and shame with, who would be a partner rather than a babysitter, or an emotional rehab.

     a really fun piece of work i got to do was around scorpius’ name. i have the post on an old blog, but can’t find it, but basically — malfoy naming practice involves naming the son after the father, through the middle name. ( draco lucius, lucius abraxas... ) black naming practice involves using heavenly bodies. ( sirius, cygnus, bellatrix, andromeda, nymphadora, draco ) and apparently, the greengrasses name their children after figures in greek mythology. ( astoria, daphne ) scorpius hyperion utilizes both the black and the greengrass naming traditions, and deliberately usurps malfoy naming traditions in favor of greengrass naming traditions. the son is named not after the father in his middle name, but after the mother: hyperion, like astoria, was a titan. that tells me that draco values astoria’s influence in their son’s life more than he values lucius’. that tells me that astoria is someone draco genuinely respects in addition to loving her. that tells me that astoria presents a safe place for draco to turn away from a father who is, arguably, pretty abusive. 

     so i got to build an OC around a canon name and a few canon clues. and, considering how, uh, wildly sexist CC was with astoria especially, i felt very comfortable ignoring the canon we did get: astoria dying for the sake of having a son, astoria whose only role is to make everyone feel better, astoria who was just kind and gentle and who didn’t have any complications of her own history, any shared trauma. and, because astoria was so wholly my own creation, i was able to move her from one canon to another with ease, so when i decided to make her crossover-based in dragon age, i got to take a character that canon spat on and instead make her, quite literally, the center of the universe in an inquisition timeline. 

     my favorite thing that i’ve done with her is, i think, that she’s awful. she really is. she’s a sympathetic character when she wants to be, but at her core she’s just not a good person, she’s not a nice person, and she and draco don’t make each other morally better. she’s her own, deeply fucked up, entirely terrible person, and so i get the joy of playing her as a villain, i get the joy of playing her as a reluctant hero, i get the joy of playing her as the worst kind of hero. she’s very flexible and adaptable.

[storiesmade]

❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?

due some shit that i am not going to name and i had my fair share of guilt too, i have struggled to continue writing sara lance. she was one of my dearest and longest running muses but it’s hard getting back into her, which is a shame because she means the world to me and helped me rediscover myself.

as for fcs, it wasn’t rp related (or i blocked those out lmao) but i have a serious issue with emily bett rickards and kat mcnamara due to their canon characters.

[conjurore]

❛     i  can  appreciate    the  appeal  of  a  good  glamour,     but  from  one  ten  to  another     .   .   .     ❜     he  trails  off,     tempering  his  voice  to  a  clandestine  whisper.     it’s  not  his  intent  to  discourage  the  miragerie’s  masses     (     he’d  much  rather  direct  his  friendly  saboteur  towards  a  certain  apothecary  that  appeared  to  be  siphoning  off  patrons  in  his  absence     )     just  like  it’s  not  his  intent  to  come  across  so  outrageously  pompous,     but  intent  had  a  tendency  to  muddle  on  the  way  to  reality.     ❛     some  things  just  don’t  need  improving.     ❜

@vivaciousdoe​​     /     group verse starter.

[killedbyvoldemort]

@vivaciousdoe​​  said  :  Hey! I just wanted to pop in and say how it was an absolute pleasure to see you were still active, coming back after such a long hiatus. Not sure if you remember me/my blog from years back but when I managed to log back in here I was like, oh my god Cat is still here! Missing the old days with you and Liz when the marauders rp community was thriving. But anyway, just wanted to share my excitement that you and Dorkass were still doing your thing.

RANDOM LOVE

first  off,  it’s  been  fucking  forever  since  someone  referred  to  dorcas  as  dorkass.  my  face  is  clear  &  my  crops  are  growing.  i  would  sell  my  soul  to  have  the  whole  band  back  together,  those  were  the  days  in  the  marauders  rp  community.  but,  of  course  !!  i  remember  you  !!  &  you  lily  !!  fun  fact,  lily  was  once  ruined  for  me  due  to  fanon  mainly.  it  was  your  lily  that  sparked  my  love  for  her,  more  like reignited.  because  finally  there  is  a  lily  that  i  can  see  have  her  girl  group  &  being  remarkably  memorable.  when  i  saw  you  come  back  with  a  vengeance,  i  made  a  delightful  noise  that  was  keen  to  a  squeak  that  only  a  dog  could  here.  anyways  !!  throw  lily  at  me  any  day,  all  day.  we  all  know  that  lily  &  dorcas  are  the  antithesis  of  another....  &  i  for  one,  am  here  for  it. 

[dominusmortis]

@vivaciousdoe based on the meme bc reasons

       it wasn't that he didn't love his mother's stories. of course he did. it gave him a sense of connection to her past, to HIS past. nevertheless, hearing the same one over and over again tended to prove TEDIOUS.

    " ya know, i'm SURE yeh've got more than just that one. you were in school for seven years with a buncha - interesting people. " although referring to sirius and his father as 'interesting' was more for his mother's sake than his own beliefs. interesting was indeed an understatement. still, he wouldn't mention the fact that the two men had shared far MORE stories with him than she'd wished to. " ya know what? i'm completely okay with you makin' em up. i don't mind at all. "