She's a quiet, observant, and studious Hufflepuff that loves nature and animals. Don't underestimate her soft kindness for weakness as underneath the surface is a fierce stubbornness. And she's very proud of being Welsh. As a Muggle-born, the Wizarding world is strange and different, but she's loving it! When she's not roaming the countryside or practicing Transfiguration, she's off on adventures with her friends.
Ceccere Manor is a pompous baronial building in the region of the southern Scottish Ayr. The manor itself is found in the more northern surroundings of the county and built out of tailored marble bricks which are ivory-white in colour. Characteristic for this beautiful building is the romanesque style which was used to design the manor's outer walls. Reaching almost three stories tall, the manor is covered in beautiful long and round arches as well as steadfast yet fine pillars made from clean stone. Over the time being, the house may have changed its owner a lot of times, but never its state of condition, not a single crack can be found in this magically altered works of masonry ever since it was first declared finished in the 19th century.
The walls of the magnificent building are covered in curtained windows, set deeply into the stone and therefore making them look almost sunken into the hard surface. They are additionally shown off with exquisite frames, providing proof for the wealth that this family is said to own. Astoundingly each of the upper chambers seem to be built with a broad glass facade, most of which are looking right into the courtyard of the house. This especially applies for the room of Flavio himself which is the one facing the entrance of the estate on the most left hand side of the building. The clear glass front though, is often darkened by the curtains that hang over it.
Adding onto that, the manor stretches wide across the hill it was built on and is gabled a few times, creating elegant niches in the walls which can easily be used to provide space for activities that have to be done outside. The Cecceres might not be a folk of adventurers or sportsmen, but they sure made the best they could out of this extra space. So looking around the house you can find a broad patio, covering the ground in fine stone plates, on which multiple tables were placed. They can be used for the most varying of activities. May it be a celebration with barbecue in the evening, where you dine outside and watch the stars reveal themselves slowly, while soft lights fill the garden and slow music embraces the attendants, inviting them to dance, hand in hand - face to face. Or maybe you could invite the neighbours for a game evening, layering out cards and enjoying the coziness as the still wind breezes over the estate.
One of these long tables that reside on the stones in front of the curtained panorama wall with a broad sliding door even has a chess board integrated into its plate and is flanked by two rather big armchairs. It's seemingly the most used of all tables, mostly because the entire family Ceccere uses to play chess competition games together on internal game nights, one of the highlights of the weeks for family reunions or holidays at which Flavio and Lexanna are home. Especially then, these games provide a challenge for parents and children alike. Sadly their former champion, Logan isn't there to defend his title anymore but this will hopefully turn for the better soon.
Going further around the brick walls, you will find a small and yet somehow charming gravel-path, which is accompanied by small lanterns on fence-posts every couple feet ahead of you. The thin path is meant to guide you through a rather magical compartment of the enormous garden and leads you forward to see a few of the best pieces of masonry that the Cecceres have to offer. While these small statues shaped like different creatures or people, aren't as magnificent as the two monstrous sculptures of Owls that can be found at the entrance to the courtyard, they do have a bit of a magical flair themselves. The knowledgeable history-lover will quickly notice that the statues seem to be inspired by the Romans and are almost exact replicates of the works that countless slaves put their life into, in the roman era.
Guiding one to the back of the estate reveals a rather large area plated in clean stone. While keeping its romanesque aesthetic, this part of the property appears a little more modern, than what is shown to the passersby. Next to a big sliding door made of enchanted glass in the back wall is a small shelf for shoes and slippers, things deemed rather unnecessary when entering the exquisite pool, adorned with pillars made from high skilled masonries, that is spread across a majority of the plot. The only things flanking it are a couple of extravagant sun loungers and parasols which have the Cecere Crest embedded on their shield.
Leading away from the walled manor of the Cecceres and deeper into the dark and dense forest, is a small paved way , the only light provided comes from small enchanted lanterns which are placed loosely along the way, creating a very mysterious and magical atmosphere. Before one realizes, the path widens and turns into a garden-like area, with all sorts of plants growing on the floor, climbing their way up the trees, spreading colour across the place. Between trees and flowers are countless stone statues of people that have passed within the last 100 years. It's the Cecere’s memorial grove, a place where members of the Ceccere family honour their fallen friends and loved ones. Because once you have achieved friendship with a Ceccere, they are loyal till the end and beyond. After the second wizarding war, one could find statues of people like Tonks and Lupin there, commissioned and placed there by Flavio himself.
While romanesque building style wasn't that common in the 19th century, it was asked by the commissioners to set the flame of this very poetic and smooth style ablaze once more. It is said that the two lovers that gave the order to build it, were a young couple from Ireland. A noble man, who was more a boy than a man and a house maid of his estate, fleeing together from the former's father, a man who went furious about the betrayal of his own flesh and blood. They were hiding in the very house the Cecceres inhabit, living to the end of their heavenly days, hidden from the wrathful Irish noble.
I’ve always seen slytherin as the house where those of personal ambition and loyalty. so values like ambition and cunning could also be describes as driven and resourceful. slytherin are goal-oriented and will use whatever tools they have at their disposal to achieve their means (yes including breaking the rules if needed, morals can be thrown out if need be). there’s a primary importance of the self to slytherins & personal achievement. so yeah, the drive / ambition of a slytherin can be selfish, but it’s not a bad thing. (ambition =/= bad and I’m tired of jkr pretending it is)
but also the personal loyalty I mentioned could be described as “me and mine” so to speak. ya know how the sorting hat says in slytherin you’ll make your real friends (or however it goes)? it’s that kinda idea, of having a close knit circle of trust. this kinda mirrors hufflepuffs, but it’s a much smaller circle and more focused on the personal loyalty. there’s the priority of helping themselves / their circle, without caring how it impacts strangers.
so like in canon, think merula snyde and narcissa malfoy. merula is incredibly driven to prove herself as the strongest witch at hogwarts and has no qualms about how she goes about proving it. narcissa on the flip side straight up lies to the dark lord in deathly hallows to protect her family. this is the protecting me and mine I mentioned.
lolol this got long and hope this makes sense, but i just like rambling about slytherin every now and then.
Slytherin house values ambition, determination, cunning, and tradition.
To me this means knowing what you want in life and having the drive to strive for it. Ambition isn't necessarily a bad thing, just like knowledge isn't a bad thing. It's just if you let it consume you and put aside what matters for it.
I absolutely love tradition. It connects me to my culture and heritage. Of course, not every tradition is great, but I hold onto the ones that work and are meaningful. It's been working for so long, why break it just for the sake that it's "old"?
The epitome of a Slytherin is someone who can identify their dreams, won't let the world stop them from achieving it no matter the struggle, has the brilliance to see things others don't (especially in figuring out ways to reach that goal), and honor the traditions of those who have gone before them. 💚
Could you please draw the original trio (Jacob, Duncan, and Olivia) just having fun and not worrying about the vaults? Props if a baby Frejya is around to annoy them. They've been through so much and JC loves to forget them all. Hell Olivia's been gone since her introduction, and Duncan's not even shown up in year seven yet. Idk but shouldn't MC at least go say "hey we beat the final vault". Now im rambling, but the gist is that JC created cool characters then threw them away :( also luv ur art
tbh I forgot all about Olivia. 😅 it’s always been about Duncan and Jacob. Even then, Jacob never seemed to have mentioned Duncan to MC even though they were supposedly friends.
So here are some little 3rd years on their way back from a sneaky trip to Honeydukes on a school night.
It's been a while since I've felt satisfied with an art piece but I do with this one. It was fun to do. I find Dream interesting, both the player and the character. The mask means many things and plays many roles. It hides, it protects, it keeps secrets. Masks are just fascinating with the implications they bring.
Also I've been loving his latest song, "Mask," and I feel it's pretty relatable. I hope he's rocking 2021 even if his character has been locked in jail for months. 😂
It's Deaf Awareness Week in UK, I'm celebrating with this small sketch of Johnny and Vivi.
Johnny is signing the word "Hearing " in BSL - one finger from the ear to the chin
Vivi is signing the word "Deaf" - two finger tap to your ear
I did it because last time i've painted a picture of them some people got confused, thinking it's Johnny who is deaf.
I always try to make signs they do as closely as possible ( but hands and lips positions are hard to draw sorry it's not perfect! 😅) and relevant to what ever I imagine them talking about at the moment.
[ID: a drawing of busts of a tall, white men with brown curly hair signing "Hearing" in British Sign Language and a short white girl with long grey hair, wearing blue lolita style dress, signing the word "Deaf" in BSL, both characters are captioned with the word they sign ]
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What cracks me up though is the sign for "deaf" in ASL is the sign for "hearing" in BSL 🤣 like guys they're very different languages and ASL is actually derived from French Sign Language and shares about 60% similarity to it
Vivienne really love gold, emeralds and art deco motives. She also loves her devoted assistant.
Vivi was growing up in a beautiful neoclassical palace turned into a wedding venue and hotel, where a lot of pureblooded or just rich wizarding families would spend their summer vacations. But when many of her schoolmates would roam around the beautiful coutryard, play in the gardens or entertrain themselves in many ways the castle provided - she would clean their bedrooms or help to set the tables in the restaurant area and the glamorous apartment for the guests looked nothing like her modest room in her family private quaters in what used to be a servant wing.
The palace was abandoned after Wizarding War, but eventually Vivi started to restore it to use it for a different purpose and took the most prestigeus apartment for herself, filling it with even more ridiculous decor and chachkis.
I work on making this Emerald Estate model in the sims to help me drawing more elaborated illustrations from her home.
@dailyhpgifs | celebration event • day two: favorite character → hermione granger.
but from that moment on, hermione granger became their friend. there are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
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