#*ask meme

so I received an anon asking me to talk about some of my mc’s and it inspired me to create an ask game where people can share random headcanons regarding their mc’s that they wouldn’t otherwise talk about. so, send me a book and i’ll answer these questions for my mc!

Well. It’s not my place to put a label on it as the guy has his own problems to deal with, but I wouldn’t call myself completely single either. Complicated? I think that sounds closest to our situation. There’s mutual feelings, mutual understanding, so it isn’t complicated in that we don’t know where we stand with each other -- we definitely do on some level. It’s just a matter of time and patience since school, work, and social lives factor into this sort of thing.

Did I over-explain? I feel like I over-explained. Is it getting hot in here or is it because I’m wearing four layers of clothes?

I’m always a little leery about drunk kissing because of how it can be interpreted but I tried 💁

3. Drunk/sloppy kiss / 26. Jealous kiss / 51. Public kiss

He loves her. So much. So so much. It warms him, to think of her hair and her perfume and how she greeted Demon before him in the morning. Castiel sipped his beer and could list on both hands just how many little things he loved, but he knew there was more. So much more, just like how much he loved her.

She loved him, too, of course, but that was beside the point. And Castiel was pretty sure he loved her more, anyway, if it came down to it. If there was going to be a contest, Castiel knew he won.

As he trudges through the crowd, acutely aware of conversations around him that were deflecting off his little bubble, Castiel only had one thought in mind. To find her. But where was she? She said she’d be back (and Castiel did have the niggling thought to not wander too far). But it had been aaages by now surely? It wouldn’t hurt to have a look.

That’s how he finds himself at the bar. Next to a pretty girl who has bright eyes and similar hair, and even the same perfume. It takes Castiel a good few seconds of squinting down at the lady to realise that oh there she was all along! Smiling and laughing at something a person next to her said.

And Castiel couldn’t help the way he squares up almost immediately. In hindsight, he obviously had nothing to worry about, and that she was absolutely right in saying he was nothing but an (adorable) idiot when he wanted to be. But something has him puff up a fraction more, sidle in a little closer. She notices him immediately, her arm going around his middle with ease. 

Honestly, Castiel doesn’t remember kissing her. Really. When he woke up the next morning it’s mostly a blur except that she was happy to fill him in on his apparent declarations of love. And that he had ended up kissing everything but her lips, in an attempt for whatever it was he was going for. Castiel would deny all allegations of course.

But at that moment, yeah he might’ve missed her mouth a dozen times. She giggles, pushing his face away with a hand, until she had to take that away too, as he’d turned his attention to just kissing the palm of her hand. And Castiel might’ve turned into a puddle of goo, as he drapes himself over her. He doesn’t remember asking her to kiss him back, but she does press the lightest touch against his cheek, which he tries to turn into something deeper.

noooo thank you so much for making them up!!

2. How did you come up with your MC and Jacob’s backstory (family, where they’re from, their relationship with each other, etc.)?

Mostly when I realised that the borders are fake and nothing is real anymore since JKR has a twitter account. I was like BAM! their father could pass as a character on Mad Men, maybe has gang ties who knows we don’t talk about him much he’s just doing very well in America as a perfectly legal businessman. BAM! Jacob was born before the statute technically got overturned and his mother very nearly got into a lot of political drama because of it. BAM! Look at that, one conveniently burned off family tree member who now stole from his family and sunk the fortune into a grand amount of land. BAM! Second sight? Legilimency (which came later admittedly)?? We’re gonna connect some witches and wizards to each other to like nudge it in the direction. 

Literally just as HPHM started opening up more and more avenues, I took some artistic liberty with stuff and hunted through the wiki/pottermore for just. Stuff. I think it also helps that I don’t feel like I have to justify having some “OP” character/Mary Sue anymore because like??? So???? I don’t have anything to prove with Natasha. Bless her dumb ass. But the one thing I really relied on heavily as far as Natasha and Jacob goes is the age difference. For my Jacob, he’s born 1963, and Natasha isn’t born until 1972. So like they have the different wave interests, and like a lot of their relationship is kind of what they barely remember of each other. Natasha doesn’t know if she’s confusing the good and bad times with wishful thinking half the time, and Jacob (later) struggles to distinguish between the baby sister he left behind and the sure and confident girl he meets again.

I just dug my fingers into whatever I could find, said seeya later to anxiety over what I’ve created, and honestly enjoyed it far more than I potentially might’ve. 

8. Does your MC have any sentimental items?

Natasha is a very sentimental person, at the end of the day. Doesn’t like to admit it, but her room at the family manor in Scotland is chock full of random and mostly useless items that serve no purpose other than making the heart a little fonder. 

Highlights of the collection include a snitch that was given to Jacob by a fellow student after Slytherin’s biggest Cup win, one singular earring that was gifted by her uncle, Aquila, in the shape of a little star (she lost the other one; it caused much distress), and a very old and well loved record player that was given to Jacob by their father, that doesn’t work properly because of all the magic of course, but Natasha hauled it back over from America once they moved out to the manor full time. 

14. What is your MC’s fashion style?

Think Sharon Tate. Literally, Natasha’s honest style icon and pretty much the sole person I refer to most times. The open shirts and cut pants and plaid and silk and thin jewellery? Perfection. Literally I can’t even describe it just google her. 

15. What is your Jacob’s fashion style?

Look, men’s fashion is fantastic for the 70s and 80s in a sense it was great for that time but you look back and you’re like. Man. What the hell was going on? So whilst I do believe Jacob had some kind of passing phase of neon and tennis shoes, he probably ending up emulating his father a lot in terms of the neat suits and pull overs and cardigans and ties. Permanent business casual. Jacob is very prim and proper about his appearance and would like to forget just what he was wearing as a young teen, unaware of the ways of the world.

25. A song for your MC and Jacob?

Jacob grew up in America with the 70s as the song of his life. We’ve got him dancing with a tiny Natasha to Dancing Queen, belting out Grease in the middle of the hallway, a very dramatic rendition of Jolene to boot… Queen probably resonates very well with that era. Something like Somebody to Love or I Want To Break Free or even lmfao Bohemian Rhapsody just to really like encompass that late 70s kind of vibe yknow? Jacob’s Hogwarts run is from like 74-81. Track music from that timeline and it’ll probably be a gradual explanation of him.

Early 80s kind of vibe for when their relationship really just. Disappears in a way? Jacob goes missing, Natasha gets all his vinyls. They don’t know how to explain it to their muggle/no-maj family. A bit of Tiny Dancer, a bit of London Calling. Blondie really probably resonated (especially Call Me), maybe some Joan Jett lmfao. Whilst Natasha didn’t spend her teens in Manhattan, London was her best friend. 

And I have to give an absolute mention to Don’t You (Forget About Me) because what is childhood/teenage life without the crippling fear of being forgotten and left behind, set to a catchy track that featured in just about everything during that pinpoint of your life.

wow, you’re really coming for me. also, i really hope you weren’t hoping for me to do the deluxe version bc there’s 46 songs on that with all of the different versions...

landslide

rhiannon

crystal

warm ways

i’m so afraid

blue letter

sugar daddy

monday morning

over my head

say you love me

world turning