caradoc looked at the girl that started from the mere sound of his voice. her blue eyes distracting as she seemed to try to come up with something else to say. his head tipped the side slightly, he knew her. at least of her. it was hard to go to the same school for seven years and at least not know people’s names. emma vanity. slytherin. ❝ i think dumbledore knows what he’s doing. he seems to be a man of wisdom, so i’d have to agree with what he is doing, maybe just not the party aspect of it. ❞ caradoc lifted his chin slightly, watching her closely and ignoring the celebration around them. ❝ do you agree with your mother, emma? ❞
◤ ⋆*✶ emma blinked, confused by the other boy. she’d thought him to be against this festival, but apparently. not. still, she stuck to her guns. playing the role of the ditzy pureblood girl was nearly effortless by now. ❛ well, yes, of COURSE i agree with my mother. dumbledore’s gone and made everyone so UPSET with this festival, and all this muggle nonsense. this is a school for magic, not MUGGLES. ❜ there was some truth to emma’s worlds. her entire livelihood at hogwarts depended on her magic life and her muggle life staying completely separate, and this festival just put emma on edge.
caradoc thought the whole celebration was a bit SILLY. the integration of something as logical as muggle technology didn’t call for a carnival of this nature, but it kept them busy so he supposed the school liked events like this. walking through the great hall, his long fingers plucked a random dinner roll off one of the tables. the hall was packed with students so the ravenclaw just found a corner to occupy. ❝ bit barmy, innit? all for a welcome back celebration. seven years here and they’d never done anything like this before. ❞ caradoc was aware that someone was near him, but didn’t pay too much mind with his eyes watching the crowds.
◤ ⋆*✶ emma lingered by the corner in the great hall, fingertips lightly brushing the old oak wood of table, as if searching for something to ground her as she watched her two worlds, muggle and magic, collide with a sort of dizzy, detached feeling. when she heard someone speak to her, she visibly started. ❛ yes, yes, it’s -- it’s barmy, ❜ she said, almost tripping over herself to agree with caradoc. ❛ it’s very -- it’s very, um, it’s very POLITICAL. my mother says it’s t o o political. she thinks dumbledore should just leave well enough ALONE. ❜ her mother, being a muggle backup dance, had of course never said anything of the sort. she was merely parroting what she’d heard a second year slytherin say in the common room.
cis female, she/her.┊if you’re looking for EMMA VANITY, you’ll probably find them in the SLYTHERIN dorm with the rest of the SIXTH years. they’re the MUGGLEBORN who looks kind of like LILI REINHART. they seem ADAPTABLE & INSIGHTFUL to me, but apparently they’re also DECEITFUL & DEFERENTIAL. guess you never know.
so to start, a lil bit about myself ! i’m grey, i’m 19, i love horror movies, i’ve always wanted to write a novel but i never actually sit down and do it, and i have 4 cats but i want more. ya girl is highkey excited for this rp and i’m so glad yall joined because it’s gonna be AWESOME. you can find a lil bit more about emma underneath the cut ! ( i also play ted tonks, too, so expect an intro for him later on. )
and now about EMMA.
she was born into a muggle family – well, if you could call it a family. her mother works as a backup dancer for a lot of singers. she had emma fairly young ( like, 20/21 ) with her boyfriend at the time. their relationship was already having issues, so emma’s mother had hoped the child would help them reconcile their differences. but alas, it was the opposite, and emma’s father left his pregnant girlfriend. because of the relatively small age difference between emma and her mother, the two are very close.
emma always wanted to think she was special. her mother’s job meant they moved around a lot, and emma quickly developed a knack for adapting to new lives and fitting in with any group of people. she learned to be who she was expected to be. whenever she moved to a new school, emma would adopt a new persona. usually she said her mother was one of the singers in the band they would be touring with, but sometimes it would be that she was the bastard child of visiting royalty, or that her family was in the witness protection program and that someday she might not show up at school because she’d been murdered by the mafia. ( that one was especially fun because it always left them wondering when she inevitably did leave. ) it became a game to her – how easily could she convince them ?? she wouldn’t stay at one place long enough to make friends anyway, so if they caught her out in a lie it hardly mattered to her.
when she got her hogwarts letter, emma thought it was either her mum trying to make her birthday exciting, or some kids from her school playing a prank on her. it wasn’t until mcgonagall showed up at her door and actually explained to her that it was, in fact, very real, that emma believed it. emma was ecstatic. finally, a school she would stay at. it didn’t matter if her mother had to go all the way to romania for a tour, because emma would be at hogwarts.
even still, old habits die hard, and when emma found herself sitting in a compartment full of purebloods on the train ride to hogwarts, she lied and said her family had always been magic. she didn’t realize then what significance that would hold in the rest of her time at hogwarts. when the sorting hat was placed on her head, she was sorted into slytherin with the rest of those pureblood kids. she quickly learned what the other slytherins thought of the ‘ mudbloods ’ and soon, her lie became her life. she didn’t dare to reveal the truth about her family.
she does her best to stay out of the spotlight. she gets good grades but not as good as she could get, and she’s basically a lackey to other more popular, powerful slytherins. she doesn’t target muggleborns like her ‘friends ’ do, but she doesn’t do anything to stop them, either. better them than her, right ?
and honestly, it’s driving her a little bit mad. hiding for these many years will do that. because she isn’t naturally subservient like this, and every time she bows and scrapes to someone else she boils a little bit inside. she’s naturally more reserved, yes, but she’s also fiercely independent and competitive, with a tendency towards mischief. she’s very intuitive and perceptive, and is very good at telling how a person’s feeling. but she knows she can’t succeed as a muggleborn in her current environment, so she keeps her mouth shut and does what she has to.
quidditch is the only place she gets some relief. she’s a chaser on the slytherin team, and when she’s out there on the pitch, adrenaline pumping through her veins, she doesn’t have to hide who she truly is.
someone who doesn’t know her very well probably thinks of her as pretty quiet, a bit shallow and dim witted. maybe they aren’t totally sure why she was sorted into slytherin, but she’s a ruddy good chaser so who cares. but then again, people who don’t know her generally don’t think of her very much at all, and that’s just the way she wants it.
now that dumbledore’s started allowing muggle technology at hogwarts, emma’s terrified that the purebloods she sticks around with will somehow find out her secret. she knows it’s unlikely -- knows that anyone who might dislike muggleborns probably won’t be too keen on muggle technology. but just to be safe, she deleted all her social media accounts as soon as dumbledore made his announcement. it wasn’t a great loss -- she hadn’t used them for years anyway, seeing as she had no friends to add.
anyway that’s about it. some plots i’m craving are:
HBIC. the one emma follows around all the time. the one who she hides behind. basically the regina george to her gretchen wiener. like … probably female but that doesn’t really matter so if you have a male muse and this connection Calls to you, feel free to hmu ! must be pureblood. preferably slytherin.
VICTIM: emma has never targeted this person specifically, but she’s hung out with people who have and she’s watched it happen without saying anything so … yikes. probably muggleborn ?
SOMEONE WHO SUSPECTS: wow who’s bad at coming up with connection names ? me ! basically just someone who might have started piecing together that emma isn’t all she says to be ..
UNLIKELY FRIENDS: these two wouldn’t interact in the light of day, but maybe at parties or late nights in the library, they’ve shared a few moments together.
BAD NEWS: this is a romantic plot, whoa. basically some pureblood guy who emma is hooking up with who fully Wouldn’t Be if he knew she was muggleborn … but she’s attracted to him anyway ok even though he is bad ! news !
IN ANOTHER LIFE: u guessed it, another romantic plot. someone who is entirely unsuitable for emma’s pureblood persona to date ( muggleborn, blood traitor, etc ), but every time she talks to them she feels a little flutter in her heart remind her that if things were different ..
ENEMIES: like even if emma’s secretly a muggleborn she still does shitty things and participates in the discrimination against muggleborns lmao. i’d love someone who doesn’t put up with her bullshit and pretty much Hates her
ofc plotting possibilities are not limited to just these ideas ! these are just specific connections i would like. if none of them appeal to you, pls let’s plot anyway ! feel free to message me or just like this post & i’ll come to u !
