#[HAPPIESTPLACEHQ]

[sweetellafontaine]

"𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮, 𝓓𝓮𝔃𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓮." Ella said softly. She was a bit startled when her sister started to shout and frowned at her like a mother would if their child was having a tantrum.

"𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓰𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓹 𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓸𝓴𝓪𝔂." She pointed out the obvious.

Deziree did not take Ella's arm (perhaps an unwise choice when the room began to spin). Her heart-rate had skyrocketed, her attempt at calming it by holding her breath proving futile. She followed Ella, instinctively, but could not allow her to help.

"I'm fine," she replied bluntly. "Ella, can you please just stop asking so many questions!"

[jane-pxrter]

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[magicalellafontaine]

Water - open starter (canon date 21 may 2024)

"I watched Avatar the last air bender today with Dandelion, and I have to say if I had any element, I certainly would be water." Ella giggled as she sat next to someone. Striking a conversation, she hadn't been out very long and she longed to just talk to anybody willing to listen.

@happieststarters

[happiestjameshook-archive]

A WALK | Date: May 28th, 2019

The first thread. Tina Bell is running late for work and bumps into her boss, James Hook.

the halls of the motel had a sense of nostalgia, being it the dark wood hat eerily dented or the particular use of color. In a way, he’d placed a few of his childhood memories hidden in the motel he owned. It wasn’t like he was an overly sentimental man, at least that’s what he liked to tell himself. But you learned to take the lessons you’ve been given as a child with you, even if it’s subconsciously. And especially when parental figures were not a thing in someone’s youth.

‘I’m going out for a walk. Call me if I’m needed-James’  He’d written down. Days had been a bit calmer in the Neverland motel. And it was never wrong to go out for some fresh air.

The weather seemed to work in his favor, as there was a clear sky as he looked above. Perhaps that was why he failed to notice another person heading his way and bumped into them by accident. “My apologies.”

Tina was due to start work any minute now (and by any minute now, she meant ten minutes ago, and she was still a ten minute walk away from the motel). She had lied about having a presentation in class that morning, because she and Peter had been up late creating chaos, and she didn’t feel like slogging through work. The afternoon shift was the best she could get.

With a brisk walk, she weaved her way through the streets, avoiding pedestrians and bike racks and trash cans, and prayed that Hook or Smee wasn’t waiting for her at the door. It wasn’t the first time she had been late. Nor would it be the last.

Turning a corner, the hope of making it to work late but unnoticed shattered. A collision caused her to stumble, and she almost toppled over had she not swiftly stuck off hands on her hips and lurched forward with a mouthful of profanity. At this time, she hadn’t been looking up. The curses fell when she realized she was standing before the very person she was hoping to avoid. 

“Miss Bell.” James looked at his employee with a raised eyebrow, his hands crossed in front of his chest, and his head moved into a slight tilt. “How did the presentation go?” Seeing the bags under her eyes made him wonder if she had any sleep at all.

“I’ll make Peter’s meal instead. I’ll tell him you’ll be back tomorrow.”

Her brow furrowed and she found her mouth gaping open in confusion. “Presentation…?” Tina repeated. She had completely forgotten her excuse! When it finally dawned on her, the girl took a sharp intake of breath and feigned a laugh. “The presentation! Oh, it was… Just… Terrible. Didn’t go as planned. I have to redo it next week.” Hopefully, he would believe her. After all, she looked so utterly exhausted that she could blame her lapse in memory on the stress of the whole thing.

Of course, Tina had every intention of heading straight to see Peter and telling him that Old James Hook had gone soft. But Hooky didn’t need to know that.

“Ah, that’s a pity.  Anything of help I can offer?” However, he didn’t have a grand education due to being an orphan. He always had put effort into it before his new family kicked him out, and he got thrown out of school. No school took on a student for free, and those amazing stories of how teachers pity a student and hand them a free education, well that was a rarity on its own.

If anything, he was in a good mood. That was overshadowed by a worry about Peter, but he wouldn’t voice that.

“Not unless you feel like bribing my tutor. Or you could totally take her out on a date! Cheer her up a little, put in a good word for me maybe?” Tina was rambling now, hoping to steer the conversation away from her education completely. It wasn’t that she didn’t like going to class, but she had a hard time getting on with the other girls and her tutors found her stubborn and difficult to teach.

The girl nodded, though it was deliberately half-hearted. She would take offense to the fact that he thought she looked pale and tired later, but for now, she would milk it for all she could. “I mean… If you insist, Mr. Hook. I’ll go right home and sleep!” Tina resisted the urge to giggle when he pushed her hand away. “But really, you better watch we don’t come down with the same thing.”

James could feel himself rolling his eyes. “Do I seem the type of man who needs a date right now?” Sure, he’d been single for a while, but it wasn’t really the highest priority in his life right now. “Why does she even need a cheer-up?” Did this teacher get any gray hairs from teaching her students? He probably would if he was the one filling her shoes. Then again, he’d never say no to a challenge.

He nodded as she finally accepted his advice to rest. “I don’t get sick that often, so I’m not too worried. And even if I were, I’d know when to rest.” He shrugged. “Take good care of yourself, Miss Bell.”

[THE END]

[sweetellafontaine]

Ella couldn't help but giggle. "𝓝𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓲'𝓭 𝓼𝓪𝔂, 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷'𝓽 𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮-"  Ella mused. "𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝓲𝓽." She said on a teasing tone. "𝓘𝓽'𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓹, 𝓘 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮?"

Tina breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh my god, thank fuck you're here, Ella," she said, hand on heart. "I genuinely thought my brain was short circuiting or something!"

[sweetellafontaine]

Starter/Plotting call

Hey guys, take this as an opportunity to get to know Ella, and get a connection with this sweetheart. By liking this post, you agree to me coming to your dms (either on discord or Tumblr) and plot with you for a thread with Ella.

All my characters will get a plotting call like this, so you can still pick out of my ten muses.

[happiestplacehq]

                   SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT                                                AND STRAIGHT ON TILL

                                                     SEASON TWO !!

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It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce the end to our hiatus, and the beginning of the new season of HAPPIESTPLACEHQ!

I cannot wait to see what the future brings for us, and hope that you are all as thrilled as I am to be back. Keep your eyes peeled for updated bios and graphics, new characters, events and plot drops, as well as an update to our rules and pages.

Not everything is complete just yet, so pardon our pixie dust for a moment longer while graphics continue to be changed in the coming weeks.

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Please find below a full list of everything that has been updated during our revamp. Once you have read through the updates, roleplaying can once again begin!

The Rules Updates - [read the new rules page here]

New activity and character rules are now in place for all players! Please read carefully as this is in effect from 1st October.

Activity Changes

Players must be active on all their characters at least twice per month, on two separate weeks. (For example, posting on the 1st week of the month and the 3rd week of the month). This will be checked at the end of each month, and a warning issued to those who have not posted within this time span.

You must have an interaction with at least 2 other players (not characters) on each character. If you are seen to only be interacting with certain players (bubbling) and not reaching out to anyone else in the RP you will be issued a warning. You will be notified if you have been inactive on individual characters.

Please keep on top of the threads you owe and don’t drop threads after the first or second interaction. Reply to the starters people make for you, and reply to the replies you get on your open starters. Reply to open starters!! I will be checking reply counts on threads. Reply to your replies and communicate with your partner if the thread isn’t working.

If you’re going to be gone for between two weeks to a month or more, you must ask for a hiatus. You do not need to give a reason for the hiatus, but you are asked to check in with us at the end of your hiatus if you need an extension or are returning to the dash.

Muse posts do not count toward activity. Completing tasks does, as long as you have also been active at least once in the month.

Other Rules

In the interest of diversity and making our group as welcoming as possible to all writers, your 2nd character’s faceclaim must be either a Person of Colour, Body Diverse or Gender Diverse (or meet multiple criteria). If your 2nd character is not a person of colour, then your 3rd character must be a person of colour.

As our upper limit has been extended to 10 characters, we ask that no more than 4 characters are white & cisgender. This means that 6 characters must be diverse in some way, meeting at least one of the above criteria.

Starters are your friends. Please reply to at least two open starters before posting your own, and remember to post an open starter at minimum every few weeks so all players have a chance to interact.

So I know you have read and understood these changes to activity and character diversity, please reply to this post with your least favourite colour.

Character Bios

All bios will be receiving a fresh coat of paint over the next few weeks including better formatting and new graphics (the graphics load was too much to finish before the hiatus ended)

All currently taken bios will be reposted via the queue with new graphics and the updates everyone sent to me last month. (For blacklisting, I will be using the tag #happiestbio).

Open bios will be getting updates including new FCs and re-writes, which are still ongoing with the graphics. These will simply be updated rather than re-posted.

The character navigation page has been updated.

All old OCs have now been archived.

Page Updates

OOC and Contact Pages

Locations - now includes a long list of brand new locations! You can find it [here].

The navigation sections and plot drops section is currently being updated to be more cohesive. (This was more work than anticipated, but a dedicated page to the entire plot thus far is in the works.)

Applications

OC applications will now be open to all until the end of the year to celebrate our new season!

Applications will be open again from October 1st.

Our first acceptance of the season will be Friday 4th October!

Coming Soon

Our next event!

Another big plot drop and a big push toward furthering our plot!

New bios are on their way, and I'm super excited for you all to see them! These will be mixed into the queue with the taken bios.

A locations blog is coming soon, which will feature information on various spots around town. (Thank you Naomi for your ongoing help with this!)

Once again, thank you all for sticking around! I look forward to writing with you all again.

[shock-borror]

HAPPIESTPLACEHQ TASK 7 - HEADCANONS

Shock was actually nicknamed “Psycho Saaiqa” by the other kids at the orphanage and in elementary school. She didn't mind the nickname too much, but she ended up managing to get the other kids to call her Shock, which she liked much more, by sheer determination (and some use of intimidation, too). Once the other kids started using her preferred name, the rest of her supervisors and teachers ended up following suit.

From the years 7 to 10, one of her main hobbies was using dolls (either her own or stolen from other girls) and altering them in whatever way was the most scandalizing and disturbing to others. This, along with her penchant for drawing graphic violence on school art projects, yelling detailed curses and obscenities, and generally having "a morbid imagination", has led her to be sent to the psychotherapist’s office quite a few times. While most of these dolls were taken away from her, Shock managed to keep a few when she was adopted and moved to Oz’s house.

She learned how to play the bass when she was 13. Her one and only is a black Yamaha TRBX 504, nice and sturdy, which was Oz's first reward for good behaviour and a job well done. To this day, she plays it almost nightly. It's her most prized possession.

Her first girlfriend, Louise, taught her how to ride a motorcycle back when Shock was 16. The one she has now, a vintage-style Royal Enfield, is her second most prized possession.

The only time she has been arrested by the RHPD was when she took the blame for a misdemeanor Louise had been responsible for. In that sense, Shock has never been actually caught by the police for something she did.

Shock has been gathering animal bones and owl pellets ever since she was allowed to roam the Redwood Hollow forest. Her collection now occupies three shoeboxes, which she keeps under her bed.

Her best friend in high school ended up fighting with her and never speaking to her again after Shock stole her boyfriend when they were sophomores. Breaking up with this friend felt more painful than her eventual breakup with the forgotten guy she dated for about three weeks.

She has been directing short horror films on her phone for several years now, though she often has difficulty finding crew members and actors to join her. Shock is currently trying to get them to be played at Carthay Cinemas, where she works.

Shock was never religious, but she had a Satanist phase when she was 14, during which she attempted several times to sell her soul to the devil, surrounded by candles and sitting on pentagrams she drew on the Redwood forest floor and that local mothers found on their morning jogs, to their great dismay. The small 2012 scandal of devil-worship in town is one of Shock’s greatest sources of pride.

Her rock band has changed names and members several times throughout the years, but generally speaking, Shock has a scattered network of other musicians that occasionally played with her, with Bailey Lightfoot being the most constant member.

Talking about Bailey, her favorite piece of jewelry that she refuses to take off is a coyote fang necklace that he gifted her when they were seventeen, the day they had their first kiss.

TATTOOS

Made with the good old homemade stick-and-poke technique, Shock has a spider, a scorpion, a cage, an open safety pin, a knife, a dice, a skull and a pentagram tattooed on her fingers, under her knuckles. She made all the ones on her left hand, while she only made one on her right. The rest were made by an inexperienced friend, so they’re not as neat and clean as the ones she made herself.

Made professionally by Bailey, Shock has a long lightning bolt tattooed over her back, on her spine, though she complains it looks less like a lightning bolt and more like the cracked surface of an egg.

Shock also has the words “I suffered, I learned, I changed" written in Arabic on her right forearm. She suspects it’s a mistranslation.

[sweetellafontaine]

"𝓣𝓱𝓮 23𝓻𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓜𝓪𝔂...." Ella sounded slightly disappointed, but that was only because she had missed Sofia's birthday. Surely she wasn't as close to her or her parent - so she wasn't surprised she wasn't invited to that gathering. "𝓞𝓱, 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 13𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓯 𝓕𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂, 𝓪 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓓𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼." It had been quite the celebration. She remembered how she confessed to Patrick, how their relationship began on a line that she couldn't quite shake 𝑔𝑜 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝐸𝓁𝓁𝒶, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒹.

And here she was in love again, though this time with a woman, and both of them were quite clueless to what they wanted in the relationship. If they wanted to be together as a couple, or simply, well...friends. She shook those thoughts away, after all, she was dealing with her daughter's babysitter and not with her lover right now.

She wondered if 60 to 100 was a little low for a heartbeat to be at rest, because she clearly had 140 at times (if she had to believe her smartwatch) but that could be stress related.

Not only that, but she chuckled. "𝓘'𝓶 𝓰𝓵𝓪𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽." When dandelion was older she'd let her explore the attic, but for now it was closed, like the suppressed memories Ella locked up in her heart. Memories of a time not as happy as it had been now.

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“My birthday’s the twenty-third of May,” she answered, though she wasn’t quite sure why Ella would need to know that. “When’s yours?” She would also need to take into account when Dandelion’s birthday would be, to be prepared to help with arranging the party and preparing food and party games. And having a gift ready for the little girl too, of course.

“Oh, the hummingbird is such a fascinating little creature,” Sofia said excitedly, glad that the mother shared her child’s interest in birds. “Did you know that the average hummingbird’s heart rate is more one-thousand-two-hundred beats per minute? In comparison, a human’s average heart rate is only sixty to a hundred beats per minute at rest.” Her mind was already racing with ideas of making bird feeders with Dandelion, so they could have hummingbirds in the garden for spring.

“Perfect,” Sofia nodded as well, quickly writing it all down in her notes app. “That means she can go to the bathroom on her own, no upside-down pineapple cake, and a reminder to check the cabinet just to be sure.” She also took note of the specific rule of not going into the attic. Immediately, as soon as it was mentioned, Sofia was curious to know what she could find there: the attic of her own house was full of old dusty treasures, and she remembered how much she liked exploring and finding small interesting trinkets back when she was younger. But if Ella forbid it, then she would make sure the rule was enforced. “Got it. Don’t worry: as cute as Dandelion is, she will not sway me.”

[gemmamakeslists]

Join us for Season Two at HAPPIESTPLACEHQ !!

We are now officially open for applications! In celebration of 4 years as running, and to announce our official re-vamp, OC applications have also been opened to all potential applicants for a limited time only!

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Welcome to REDWOOD HOLLOW, a quiet little college town where all your dreams were supposed to come true. Why so many people are drawn to this little town is a mystery to most but something sinister is brewing behind the quaint facade. Those who were not born here always say they felt pulled toward the town, as if it was the perfect place for them. Those who were born here rarely feel like leaving, and when they do, they always come back eventually, like moths to an open flame. Maybe it’s something about the fresh air, or the surrounding woodland, or the award-winning college that brings them here. But could it be something more?  

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[olivia--flaversham]

HAPPIESTPLACEHQ Task 5 - Family

Describe your character’s family

Do they know their family? Were they raised by them?

Olivia knows her most direct family members, that being her parents and grandparents. She has no cousins, uncles or aunts, at least none that she knows of. Hazel Flaversham, her mother, disappeared mysteriously and without a trace when Olivia was an infant: nobody knows if it had been voluntarily or not. This event threw Olivia's father, Hiram Flaversham, into a paranoid phase (which one might say he never fully overcame) during which he began fixating nearly obsessively on Olivia's safety and whereabouts, to make sure she wouldn't disappear like her mother did. And then, a few years later, it was Hiram's turn to disappear...

Olivia's contact with her paternal grandparents, Richard and Patricia Flaversham, was quite brief and distant, what with Hiram's tense relationship with them. Richard and Patricia had been the ones to insist on meeting semi-regularly with their granddaughter, even if they still rejected Hiram as their son. After Hiram decided not to join the family business and came out to them as bisexual, back when he was just starting as a college student at a business school, his already crumbling relationship with his parents was finally destroyed. Hiram and his father had a big fight and falling out, and despite Patricia's constant attempts at convincing her son to apologize, go back to business school and follow in his father's steps as head of his company, he had made up his mind. Even if it didn't bring in much money, he would follow his dreams to become an artist, a sculptor and inventor. His bohemian lifestyle shifted slightly when his girlfriend Hazel, a similarly free-spirited writer and theater critic, turned up pregnant, and they decided to keep the child and make sure she was raised in a more stable environment. Hazel herself, a New Zealander living in Edinburgh, tried to pursue a career as a professional writer while raising little Olivia, though she went missing before she could become a published author. After more than a decade, Hiram still secretly wonders if she had walked out on them, and often goes over his last memories of her, to try and find out any possible reason for why she might have left.

When Olivia moved to Invercargill with her father, after his disappearance and eventual rescue, she often stayed with her maternal grandparents, Anne and Phineas Browne. They both cared for their granddaughter while Hiram was away from home, trying for jobs and finishing college to get a degree in engineering. Olivia became very close to them and considers them a second set of parents. Even Hiram ended up seeing them as surrogate parental figures, warm, caring and loving as they were, and supportive of their son-in-law and granddaughter's dreams and projects, wherever they may take them.

What was your character’s relationship like with their parents?

Olivia and her father are very close, though sometimes Olivia wishes she could be a little more independent. For the last few years Hiram has slowly been accepting that he needs to let his daughter become her own person and forge her own path, mostly for her happiness though also partly to make sure he doesn't become just like his parents, controlling and authoritative. However, now that she's an adult, Olivia has been wondering if she should move out of Redwood Hollow, where her father has already happily settled down and found a good job, and follow a career in criminology in a bigger city that could pose more of a challenge. This would mean leaving her father behind, which, while originally a goal she had in order to become self-sufficient, now has her doubting whether she can truly manage, knowing herself to still be perhaps a bit too trusting and naïve to face life in a city on her own.

If they weren’t raised by their parents, who raised them? Do they consider the people that raised them to be their family?

Partly raised by her maternal grandparents, Olivia definitely considers them her family. She loves them dearly and are one of the aspects of her life in Invercargill she misses the most.

Overall, how did the idea of family affect your character?

Family is very important to Olivia, but over time it has slowly lost its status as her priority and main source of relationships. Even with how much she misses her maternal grandparents, she finds she misses her friends just as much, and as part of her efforts to make a name for herself apart from her father, she's been trying to focus more on herself and on her own wants and needs.

Thinking about the future, do they want to make a family of their own? What would that look like to them?

Olivia isn't very much interested in having a family of her own. From a couple jobs as a babysitter, she learned she isn't the best at dealing with kids and would much rather she didn't have to interact with them too often. Apart from that, she has never been one to fantasize with romance and marriage and would much rather have a bunch of friends to call her family than searching for a supposed other half.

[guinevere--bach]

HAPPIESTPLACEHQ Task 5 - Family (part two)

Presenting the Laverne sisters

[magicalellafontaine]

Ella couldn't help but chuckle at Myra's compliment. A warm smile spread across her face as she listened to the kind words about her gown. "Yes, it's quite different from the usual, but it's my own design," she confessed. "I wanted something elegant yet understated, as I didn't want to overshadow my date tonight." Of course, Ella's definition of "simple" was far from ordinary by most fashion standards.

"Flattery will get you everywhere," Myra said in response, a slight smile tugging on her lips. She quirked a brow so slightly at Ella's response, playing with pressing the issue. She was only going to stay a moment longer tonight, anyway. "You look wonderful yourself. Is this one of yours?" @magicalellafontaine

[chelsea-katz]

HAPPIESTPLACEHQ TASK 8 - ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

  ... You wanna know what the papers won't tell ya?

Well, what can I say? When a good-lookin' dame like that walks into your office, asking for your help, who am I to refuse? Not like the official investigation was goin' anywhere, poor thing. It seemed nobody cared about a missing child, not when it was a kid from the streets. Me, I've always prided myself in caring about everyone, and makin' sure such injustices get their spot in the light. The kid who disappeared was a friend of hers, she told me. A lounge singer, she was. The kid was a paper boy, so I had seen him here and there a couple times... And he ended up bein' in the wrong place, at the wrong time. There might be somethin' he heard that he shouldn't have. Somethin' about the mayor being implicated on some big deal with his mysterious benefactors. The three Bs, I call 'em. The top dog at the local casino, where people went to empty their pockets and their bank accounts; the head honcho of our most frequented waterin' hole, where my singer friend charmed the crowds; and the enigmatic heavy hitter businessman, our mayor's largest contributor, who had his sticky fingers all over town. The usual suspects, see. Now, I'm no big-shot PI, but I am a reporter, and I take my job very seriously, as you know. So I went snoopin' around, as I do. And whad'ya know, there's a whole lotta secrets going 'round here! What a surprise, right? And my hunch, of course, was right on the dot. What I wasn't quite expectin' was how protective these folks would be of their secrets. But when there's money and power involved... I don't mind the occasional tiff 'n scuffle, of course, I'm used to it. For whatever reason, people don't like me stickin' my nose all in their business. But I do take issue when people's lives are on the line. With an ongoing string of strange random murders, that I knew I could link to these three Bs's associates in the underworld... I was deathly worried about my singer friend and the kid! So just imagine my surprise when it turned out the singer had been blackmailed into helpin' these crooks catch me, paint me as a drunk and a phony, and as if that wasn't enough, destroy all my investigation... That, I can only take that personally.

[magicalellafontaine]

Ask Meme 1: 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 15 - Ask Meme 2: 4, 10, 16, 18, 20, 26 - Ask Meme 3: 15, 16, 17, 18, 10, 21

Ask Meme 1: 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 15

What did you dream about last night?

I dreamed about Sally (*blushes*) that we were dancing at a ball, and that we were both princesses. It was cute.

Do you feel more connected to the moon or the sun?

Good question, where Dandelion is my sun, I'm more of a moon person?

Have you ever wished on a shooting star? - death tw

countless of times, I wished my mother would get better, my father would safely return, that prince charming would swift me away from my stepmother and stepsisters. But sometimes wishes upon stars don't come true, and you get something better.

Do you believe in guardian angels?

I do.

What’s a smell that reminds you of home? - death tw

When my parents were still alive, it was the varnish they put on the furniture and old book pages. When I lived with my stepmother it was ash, and now I'm with Sally it's orange juice in the mornings.

Talk about something exciting or good that happened to you this year.

Well, I got a girlfriend this year, which is the joy I've currently been feeling. @sallytheseamstress

Ask Meme 2: 4, 10, 16, 18, 20, 26

What is your dream? (And you don't have to answer this out loud but what steps can you take towards it?)

To work for Vogue, or dior.

What would you rather be doing right now?

Lazing around on my couch, but as a mother, you have a lot to do and so little time, especially as a single parent, luckily I have sally to help me when I have it rough.

A food you want to try?

Paella

What or who has had the biggest impact on your life?

My mother, she taught me to be courageous and kind no matter what.

At what age do you wish you could (even temporarily) return to with all of your knowledge intact?

I'd want to be ten again, and hold my mother one last time before she passed away, tell her everything will turn alright in the end. And that I'll make her proud one day.

Hum the first thing that comes to mind. What was it?

HMM HMMM HMM HMMMMMMMM

the story of us - taylor swift

Ask Meme 3: 15, 16, 17, 18, 10, 21

What kind of weather do you like the best?

snow, Dandelion was born on a snowy day, so therefore I like the snow.

Talk about something you love?

Well, it comes as no surprise that I love fashion, graduated as a fashion student in college, but my true passion lies in the design of shoes. Rather than suits and dresses.

What is something you are scared to do, but absolutely should?

enter the attic, it holds a piece of my darker past but it also would make for an ideal place for a play room for dandelion. I'm still divided if I want her up there.

Share with us a recipe?

Talk about something you are working on?

Why talk about it if i can just show you ;)

I've designed these for Elsa.

What are you currently reading? Give us a quote if you like?

Romancing mister Bridgerton

“His love hadn’t been a thunderbolt from the sky. It had started with a smile, a word, a teasing glance. Every second he had spent in her presence it had grown, until he’d reached this moment, and he suddenly knew.

He loved her."

Well I hope that answered all you wished to know about me - toodles

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About James

Eyes: Blue | Green | Brown | Hazel | Grey | Other Hair: Blonde | Brown | Black | Red | Ginger | Grey/White | Multi-color | Other Body Type: Skinny | Slender | Slim | Built | Curvy | Athletic | Muscular Skin: Pale | Light | Fair | Freckled | Tan | Olive | Medium | Dark | Discolored Gender: Male | Female | Trans | Cis | No Gender | Other Sexuality: Heterosexual | Homosexual | Bisexual | Pansexual | Asexual | Demisexual | Other Species: Human | Undead/Vampire | Shapeshifter (Weres) | Demon | Angel | Witch/Wizard/Sorcerer | Incubus/Succubus | Other Education: High School | College | University | Higher Education Living Situation: Lives alone | Lives with parents/guardian | Lives with significant other | Lives with a friend | Drifter | Homeless | Boarding school Parents/Guardian: Mom | Dad | Adoptive | Foster | Grandparents | Family friend | none Relationship: Single | Crushing | Dating | Engaged | Married | Separated | It’s complicated I’ve been: In Love | Hurt | dealing with a crush | Sick | Abused | stabbed I have a(n): Learning Disorder | Personality Disorder | Mental Disorder | Anxiety Disorder | Eating Disorder | Substance-related Disorder | none of these Things I’ve done before: Drank alcohol | Smoked | Done drugs | Stolen | Self-harmed | Starved myself | Had sex | Had a threesome | Gotten into a fist fight | Gone to the hospital | Gone to jail | Used a fake ID | Gone to a rave | Killed someone Positive Traits: Affectionate | Adventurous | Athletic | Brave | Careful | Charming |Confident | Creative | Determined | Fearless | Generous | Honest | Humorous | Intelligent | Loyal | Modest | Patient | Selfless Negative Traits: Aggressive | Bossy | Cynical | Envious | Fearful | Greedy | Gullible | Jealous | Impatient | Impulsive | Insecure | Irresponsible | Possessive | Sarcastic | Self-conscious | Selfish | Unstable