#about ed

[Marauder/Golden Era] Regulus Black/Ed Rosier Playlist

fancasting Timothee Chalamet as Regulus and Sebastian Stan as Ed

“There had been many moons before I met ya, And I don't know when I last put paper to pen... And now you give me back my raison d'être, And I'm inspired again! And I know in some ways we're kinda evil -- Got my roots and you've got ties -- But my heart's no stranger to upheaval... Put your little hand in mine and Look into my eyes, baby eyes! Oh, you make me wanna listen to music again!”

“Music Again” ~ Adam Lambert

“Has it ever crossed your mind, When we're hangin', spendin' time, Girl, are we just friends? Is there more? Is there more? See, it's a chance we've gotta take, 'Cause I believe that we can make this into Something that will last, last forever... Forever...!”

“Crush” ~ David Archuleta

“When we live such fragile lives, It's the best way we survive. I go around a time or two, Just to waste my time with you... Tell me all that you've thrown away -- Find out games you don't wanna play -- You are the only one that needs to know...”

“My Dirty Little Secret” ~ All-American Rejects

“You seemed so far away Though you were standing near -- You made me feel alive, But something died, I fear... I really tried to make it up -- I wish I understood... What happened to our love? It used to be so good...”

“S.O.S. (cover)” ~ At Vance

“I've tried to hide it so that no one knows, But I guess it shows, When you look into my eyes... What you did and where you're comin' from -- I don't care, as long as you love me, baby.”

“As Long as You Love Me” ~ Backstreet Boys

“Someday, somewhere, We'll find a new way of living -- We’ll find a way of forgiving... Somewhere...”

“Somewhere (cover)” ~ Lucy Thomas

“I've found a reason for me To change who I used to be -- A reason to start over new... And the reason is you.”

“The Reason (cover)” ~ Chase Holfelder

“You're here -- there's nothing I fear! And I know that my heart will go on... We'll stay forever this way! You are safe in my heart and My heart will go on and on...”

“My Heart Will Go On (cover)” ~ Halocene

I've been meaning to post this here for a long time given the Ed Harris love the two friends share, but time got away from me. This will be a longer post, but for those of you with Ed Harris affection, hopefully it'll be worth it.

My dad is a location manager for lots of movies shot in GA, SC, NC and VA, and he has been my whole life. This allowed for me to grow up on and around movie sets, and it also allowed for me to work as a PA, and eventually a camera operator, on several films.

The first movie my dad worked on was The Abyss, which shot in huge water tanks partly near the SC/NC border, and that was where my dad first met Ed Harris. They are the same age, and they became friends when my dad helped Ed find a house in the area (the movie went way over schedule, and Ed hates hotel rooms).

Over the course of the shooting of that film, my dad and Ed became drinking buddies, and Ed came to our house a lot. He and Amy Madigan lived about forty-five minutes away, and we would go to each other's houses on the weekends. None of the other cast members hung out with Ed because he was in a terrible place emotionally with the shooting of the film. He likened it to torture, and he spent a LOT of time talking crap about "Jim".

After The Abyss wrapped, Ed and my dad stayed in touch. They talked regularly on the phone, exchanged cards for birthdays/holidays, etc.

Flash forward a few years, and my father had a stroke which affected his memory and mobility. We had a really hard couple of years during this time, and because Ed lived out west, he didn't really realize how much my family had been affected. Eventually, Ed called my dad to ask where he'd been, and my mom told him what had happened.

Ed then told my mom that he was about to shoot the film Radio, and he wanted my dad to work as an assistant location manager on the film. The film shot about an hour from our town, so Ed offered my dad a room in the house he was renting, and that job helped my dad get his insurance back, and it let to our family getting stability again.

Ed has a reputation for being really intense and ornery, and those two qualities are certainly there in him (he scared the hell out of me when I was little), but he's also very loyal and kind and sensitive. He based the character he played in Radio on my dad, down to the voice and cadence of his language. Ed and Amy are both gentle souls and very considerate of others.

Ed is also (no surprise), very dramatic, and he loves to tell stories. He likes to tell the story of why he became an actor, which is that he went to go see a play reluctantly while he was in his late teens to impress a girl, only to be totally struck by the applause of the audience.

I also once saw him coax a butterfly onto his finger and carry it around for half an hour to show everybody on set.

I have a lot of Ed stories. I also have a lot of Cuba Gooding, Jr stories from that time...but those are very different in tone...

Anyway, I know this post is long, but I thought I would give Ed some love on here as the boys seem to dig his work.

Whoo! This'll take a minute -- let's do this!

🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them?

Carewyn, as better explained here, is a fusion of my mum and myself as kids!

Jacob, as better explained here, was inspired by the stories my mum used to tell me about her late brother!

Erik was inspired largely by a friend of mine from high school who had this very cherubic face and also the largest, sassiest potty mouth of all of my friends. His name was also inspired by two of my favorite Broadway characters -- Erik from The Phantom of the Opera and Enjolras from Les Miserables (affectionately called “Apollo” in the book).

Ana came about because I thought an INFP Gryffindor could be a really fun contrast, but personality-wise, she really took influence from both myself and my dad as kids, since my dad’s a Gryffindor and I’m an INFP.

Farid, as better explained here, was inspired by both Newt and Jacob from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Yugi Mutou from Yu-Gi-Oh.

Jackson, as better explained here, was inspired by historical stage magician Harry Houdini!

Bat, as better explained here, was inspired by Garrett Denali from Twilight and Sirius Black, as well as other “Lancer” type figures like Ron Weasley and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-Gi-Oh.

Ru was an evolution of an idea I’d developed much earlier on of a serial killer kelpie that transforms into various forms to eat people, but over time, they developed a love of photography and film that’s largely like my own for film and television, and in doing so developed a much more sympathetic motivation and personality. Their particular feeling of isolation and wanting to be part of this world they could only watch from afar is a feeling I’ve felt off-and-on for years and evoked both Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Ariel from The Little Mermaid, to me.

Ed’s brain spark largely came down to me thinking it’d be fun to have a 90′s style boy band (i.e. Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC, 98 Degrees) in the Potterverse around the time when Harry and crew were at school. Backstory-wise, I took inspiration from Severus Snape, Andromeda Black-Tonks, and both Sirius and Regulus Black, and obviously Ed’s a Slytherin like Snape, Andromeda, and Regulus...but personality-wise Ed actually ended up taking some inspiration from Anna from Frozen! In fact, one of the character themes I chose for him as a child is a deleted song from Frozen that was originally going to be sung by Anna called More Than Just a Spare.

Desiree came about largely because of the creation of Jules Aquila @kathrynalicemc. His spontaneous, fantasy-loving personality was just so likable (largely because of how in-tune I was with it myself!), so when I was working on a character that I thought could be a fun contrast for someone like Jules, I settled on using my late stepmum as inspiration. I’m a very right-brained, sensitive, imaginative person like Jules, while my stepmum as a girl was a very left-brained, soft-spoken, modest, scientific, nerdy overachiever the way Desiree is. Like Desi as well, my stepmum had to find freedom and happiness by breaking away from her family and home and starting a new life apart from them. Desiree also ended up gaining flickers of my mum (who has always been very sensible and organized and shares a personality type -- ISTJ -- with Desi), as well as Elsa from Frozen, Luisa from Encanto, and Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. Both Kath and I have also found amusement at how much Juliree resembles Aladdin/Jasmine from Aladdin, ship-wise, as well.

Eli was largely inspired by comic film actors Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, as well as Robin Williams and Fiyero from the musical Wicked. Like Robin did, Eli struggles with severe depression, but works hard to keep a smile on so as to make others happy, and like Fiyero, he was the sort to “tune in and drop out” at school from an academic perspective, but he’s actually a lot deeper emotionally than he seems from the outside. 

Bairn’s initial spark just came from me finding Brock O’Hurn and wanting to design a character that resembled him, honestly! 😂 I gotta thank @magical-retales for brainstorming a Renaissance-set storyline featuring Merlin, though...it was so much fun to take inspiration from different King Arthur storylines for Bairn’s character, like the Once and Future King series and Disney’s The Sword in the Stone. Bairn also took some cues from both Harry Potter and Charlie Weasley, being a Gryffindor orphan raised by uncaring Muggles with a longing for family and a love of nature and magical creatures!

[Marauder/Golden Era] Edmund “Ed” Rosier

fancasting Sebastian Stan as Ed

“I'm not a perfect person -- There's many things I wish I didn't do, But I continue learning... I never meant to do those things to you... And so I have to say before I go That I just want you to know -- I've found a reason for me To change who I used to be: A reason to start over new... And the reason is you.”

~“The Reason (cover)” by Chase Holfelder 

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As one of the key vocalists and the main songwriter for the trendy magical “boy band” Spellb🔮und, Ed Rosier (often just called by his middle and stage name “Zorro” by agents and fans) puts out a very laidback, sexy persona, but he’s nothing if not ambitious. Even though he’s more than willing to play any role he has to and he’ll put in 150% of himself into his work if it’ll help him get ahead, he’s often the member of the band who stands most toe-to-toe with their managers, fighting for their fair share of the profits and for the respect due them. However chill he acts, Ed’s actually a calculating sort who has a hand in just about every detail of the band’s upcoming events or concerts and puts a lot of focus on what will please the public and the band’s fans in particular. Even his people-pleasing, amiable nature and good looks have made him a media darling, which Ed takes full advantage of in order to better promote Spellb🔮und. He truly is a fox in human skin -- mischievous, clever, and very hard to pin down. But if one looks closer, those who know Ed better might be surprised by the shadow underneath all the smirks and taunts, one hinted to in the lyrics he writes -- songs about a broken friendship, familial abuse and disownment, and a doomed young love that ended in tragedy. 

[Marauders Era/Golden Era] Ed Rosier Playlist

"More Than Just The Spare (deleted song)” ~ Frozen

“Shine” ~ Matt Beilis

“How Bad Can I Be?” ~ The Lorax

“Don’t Say You Love Me” ~ Fifth Harmony

“Role of a Lifetime” ~ Bare

“One Song Glory” ~ RENT

“Part of Me” ~ Katy Perry

“Man in the Mirror” ~ Michael Jackson

“A Change in Me” ~ Beauty and the Beast

“When I Grow Up” ~ the Pussycat Dolls

“If I Had You” ~ Adam Lambert

“I’ll Stand by You” ~ The Pretenders

“Top of the World” ~ Greek Fire