#oddtier

1. What house will you be in?

Ravenclaw! I've taken a few quizzes before (though not Pottermore) and they seem to point towards that house, with Slytherin coming a close second. 

I lack the desire for power that makes one a Slytherin, I'm not daring enough to be a Gryffindor, and I'm not hard-working enough to be a Hufflepuff. Ravenclaw fits best because I do love the act of gaining knowledge almost as much as I love the knowledge gained. 

3. What kind of animal would you bring to school?

An owl would be the most practical one so I can contact people whenever I need it. 

10. Do you think you'll have friends from other houses?

Sitting back with a sigh, he crossed one leg over the other as he regarded the reports before him. So much cargo stolen in a mere six months... The two miscreants responsible for all this were the most trouble their shores have seen in a while, but they haven’t been able to make any headway with the situation. They didn’t even know the names of the two pirates; their men simply called them Captain and it was rumoured that all who stumbled upon the answer would inevitably meet their end at the blade of a cutlass.

One of them was nicknamed the Angel of Death. He was unfailingly polite, charming, and some would even say endearing. He did his best to ensure that no women were ever hurt whenever he plundered a ship, and his mouth was perpetually turned up in a bright smile, even in the midst of battle or when he ordered that a male passenger be executed as a warning to the others.

The second pirate was nicknamed the Devil, because the strange headdress he was wont to wear made it seem as though he had two horns atop his head. His skin looked almost-grey, even at the height of noon, and his bloodshot eyes were terrifying to behold. He prefered to use non-violent intimidation to get his captives’ cooperation, but if that failed, he did not discriminate by gender when he killed.

‘Doctor! They’re here! They’re both here!’

Winchester came skidding down the hallway, a look of excitement on his usually sullen face.

He sat up with a start. ‘Both of them? The Angel and the Devil?’

The two pirates were known rivals and whenever they met, blood was sure to flow. If they were both here, now, then there was going to be an unpleasant amount of cleaning up that would have to be done later.

‘Yes! My boys saw them in a pub down by the docks. They didn’t have a pistol to each other throats for once, but who knows how long that will last! Come on, let’s go!’

‘Right, yes, of course!’ He bolted out of his seat and grabbed his coat. ‘Where is Holmes?’

‘Already on his way there,’ Winchester replied as they dashed out of their office. ‘Seems like he figured out last week that they would return to our shores again soon, and he's had his little network on the lookout ever since.’

‘Of course he would have figured it out.’

‘He could have told us about his deductions,’ Winchester snapped, his annoyance at their errant colleague apparent.

‘You know how he is.’

Winchester snorted, ‘This isn’t one of his goddamn mysteries. Those two are ruthless, crazy bastards. He can’t just ‘outsmart’ them, he needs to beat them.’

‘We’ll stop them,’ he replied neutrally, but, loathe as he was to resort to violence, it seemed that Winchester was correct. Negotiations, threat and bribery had failed to make the pirates take their unsavoury business elsewhere, and it was their duty to protect the ships that came to trade in their port city.

With a soaring leap down a flight of steps, the doctor vowed that he would do what he had to to keep the peace.

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Hetalia caught sight of Homestuck’s concerned face, silver-edged in the moonlight, and managed a wan smile.

'Oh, hi, Homestuck.'

'You okay? What happened? Did you have a bad dream?'

Homestuck fussed over him, brushing his fringe aside, a hand on his thigh. His hand was warm and firm and real, not cold and grey and dead. Hetalia shut his eyes, tried to push away the images that were flashing in his mind as he began to recall his other’s fate. No, no, no, stop, please.

'Hetalia? Hey, it's okay, you don't have to tell me about it. Here, just…' And then Homestuck was hugging Hetalia close, tucking his head under his chin and running his hands up and down Hetalia's trembling back. Hetalia could hear Homestuck's heart beating by his ear and he listened to it, focused on it, willed his own heart to match Homestuck's as his fingers clung onto the back of Homestuck's shirt.

Homestuck rocked them back and forth slowly, making gentle shoosh-ing noises and kissing Hetalia lightly on the top of his head, saying things like, ‘I’m here, it’s okay, everything will be okay.’

Everything would not be okay. Nothing would ever be okay. But the way Homestuck said it made Hetalia want to believe it could be, so he listened and he believed. When he finally calmed, breathing normal, heartbeat normal, cheeks mostly dry, he pulled back and whispered, ‘I’m better now.’

Homestuck looked at him, night vision making up for the dark room, and asked, ‘You wanna talk about it?’

Hetalia shook his head.

'Tomorrow morning?' Homestuck insisted.

Hetalia nodded.

'Okay.' Homestuck breathed, a sigh of relief, and they both laid down again. Homestuck pulled the blankets up around them and they tangled their limbs together.

'You'll be okay,' Homestuck said, kissing Hetalia's forehead. Hetalia reached up to kiss him on the lips.

He would not be okay. He would never be okay. But Homestuck was here with him right now, solid, warm and alive, so Hetalia listened.

Hetalia believed.

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I think you were hoping for cute but it ended up creepy-angsty. Ah well.

Oh well done! You got them right! Marsha was indeed supposed to be SnK. :D

nevillina replied to your post “[[MOR] Go on then, have a guess at who these people are supposed to...”

Mizushima Hikaru = Free!, Minerva Baker = Sherlock, Beatrice Hartnell = Doctor Who, Jordan D. Winchester = Supernatural, Marsha Gao = snk, Lilith Hildebrand = Hannibal, Alexis Leblanc = Black Butler, Mutuo Aoi = KnB ??? Now I really need to know :')

I just about purred in delight at your guesses. You got almost everyone right, even the ones I didn't expect you to! The only one that was off was Lilith. So impressed with you dearie! 

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But after more thought, I made a few changes to SnK, Kuroshitsuji and KnB's names. Alexis fit SnK better so she gets that name now, while Kuroshitsuji will be called Lucille Crawford, a much more fitting and less ridiculously ironic name. Still not too sure about the Japanese names I picked, so I'll run them by my friends who speak more Japanese than me to make sure they are plausible names. 

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Celeste Orlando

Celeste: ‘divine’ or ’heavenly,’ used to be a male name but eventually became a female name after the 18th century

Orlando: an Italian version of the name “Roland,” which stems from the Old High German “Hruodland” meaning “renowned land,” “famous land” or “fame of the land.”

Eden Hussie

Eden: unisex name meaning ‘delight’ or ‘place of pleasure’

Hussie: variant of Hussey, https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Hussey

Alexis Gao

Alexis: From the Greek name Αλεξις (Alexis), which meant "helper" or "defender", derived from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, to help"

Gao: 高, tall

Mizushima Hikaru (水島 光)

Hikaru: Japanese unisex name meaning "radiance."

Mizushima: From mizu meaning "water" and shima meaning "island".

Aoyama Yuzuki (青山 優月)

Yuzuki: meaning 優 [yu] (gentleness, superiority) + 月 [zuki] (moon).

Aoyama: "blue mountain"

Lilith Hildebrand

Lilith: Derived from Akkadian lilitu meaning "of the night". This was the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish tradition she was Adam's first wife, sent out of Eden and replaced by Eve because she would not submit to him.

Hildebrand: the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is Hiltibrant and in Old Norse Hildibrandr. The word hild means "battle" and brand means "sword".

Lucille Crawford

Lucille: French form of Lucilla, which is the Latin diminutive of Lucia, the feminine form of Lucius, derived from Latin lux "light". Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus is the patron saint of the blind. 

Crawford: In some cases it is a habitational name derived from several different places called Crawford. The placename is derived from the Old English elements crāwe ("crow") and ford ("ford"). In some cases the surname is a variant spelling of the English surname Crowfoot (see Crofoot).

Minerva Baker

Minerva: Possibly derived from Latin mens meaning "intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, approximately equivalent to the Greek goddess Athena.

Baker: Occupational name for a baker, derived from Middle English bakere.

Beatrice Hartnell

Beatrice: derived from the Latin Beatrix, probably from Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name Viator which meant "voyager, traveller"

Hartnell: locational name, from any of the places called Harthill.

Jordan D. Winchester

Jordan: From the name of the river which flows between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river's name in Hebrew is יַרְדֵן (Yarden), and it is derived from יָרַד (yarad) meaning "descend" or "flow down."