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theclocky1 · 2 years ago
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“Legend says that if you see a man with a brown coat and a dimly lit cigarette, chances are that the man you’re seeing is known as Mr. Anonymous…”
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he’s a proud smoker because cigarettes are good for him apparently…oh yeah a couple of friends you guys don’t know of helped me out with designing him!!
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misssclumsy · 2 years ago
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Hey...
How r you...🫡
Can we be frnds??🤧
- Mr. Anonymous
Hello....
I'm fine....
Yess yesssss why not ......
-miss clumsy
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viciogame · 11 months ago
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🎮 Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (Virtual Boy)
Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/WevpnX4SHkg
#StreetFighter #VirtualBoy #HyperFighting #Nintendo #Capcom #MrAnonymous #SF2 #StreetFighterII #StreetFighter2 #Fight #Fighting #Fighter #MortalKombat #バーチャルボーイ #ストリートファイター #ストリートファイターII #Viciogame #Gameplay #Walkthrough #Playthrough #Longplay #LetsPlay #Game #Videogames #Games
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stormyboi7 · 2 years ago
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OC_tober, Days 9-10: Mr. Anonymous & R3DAC7ED
a cold case, about to get even colder
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(believe it or not, this is kind of a spoiler, though we’re a long, long ways off before this’ll ever actually be important)
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galaxy-lilies · 4 months ago
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on my knees STEAMPUNK SCAR. his create series skin was so peak
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a little bit of a redraw of one of my first hermitcraft drawings :3
(Note: I am not taking any requests at the moment, I am answering the ones that were already in my inbox)
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lostingrayrain · 7 months ago
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hello hello!! i bought homicipher the day it came out and i'm so in love with it.. but there's no content whatsoever and i'm so sad 😭😭 could you write literally anything for any character.. i just need to see more homicipher content!!! 😭😭💗
I GOT YOU ANON I've clocked in like 20 hours since the release on November 1st omg....
I've been cooking up something for my first Homicipher post.....here's some general thoughts on the relationships/dynamics with the main guys.
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Characters: Mr. Crawling, Mr. Silver Hair / Mr. Silvair, Mr. Gap, Mr. Hood, Mr. Machete, Mr. Scarletella
Word Count: 1454
Warnings: sfw, some mentions of canon-typical violence
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Mr. Crawling
He loves you!! He loves you so, so, so much!!!
Do you love him?
He asks you that. A lot. He loves to be reassured that you adore him. And he's always vocal about how much he adores you.
He follows you everywhere, like a lost puppy. It's honestly so endearing and sweet. He's constantly on the lookout for you.
He also adores physical touch, once he knows it's fine. Other than the little headpats, he likes to touch your legs, especially your calves. In times of rest he's incredibly cuddly and loves to nuzzle into you.
Pet his hair and he'll melt immediately. It's so relaxing to him.
He's usually with you, but when he's not he's often on the lookout for gifts and trophies to bring to you. He just wants to make you happy, in any way possible. The second there's anything you mention liking or being fond of, it's a priority for him to see if he can scrounge it up.
If you'll let him, he'd love to touch your hair. He will play with it and make silly nonsensical braids and giggle quietly to himself all the while.
He's a bit of a chatterbox. He loves to talk to you. Any time he's been away he likes to give you little reports of what he's done or what he's seen. And he wants to hear all about your day or your dreams, too. There's never a time he won't want to hear what you have to say.
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Mr. Silver Hair / Mr. Silvair
You are so very interesting to him! He wants to study you.
But not hurt you. Normally, he probably would have already dismembered you to watch how your body pulls together again, but since you're friends with Mr. Chopped, he's put aside that urge.
Instead it's been replaced by something else, though he doesn't really understand what it is. He's never felt it before. Or maybe he has? Maybe he doesn't remember? Could you help him remember?
Whenever you’re feeling ill, he finds that he wants to make you feel better. He’s trying hard to learn how to keep you together just as you are.
He’ll get you to lie down when it seems you’re feeling faint, and carry you to bed when you collapse in the middle of an errand. Before he realises it, he's massaging your hair. Think nothing of it. Your head hurts, right? So it makes sense to pet you.
He likes to watch you sleep. He can’t put a finger on why. He likes to tell himself he’s doing armchair research when he’s really just….zoning out.
He's extremely perceptive and observant. He's always checking your reactions to things and events to figure out what you like or don't like, or to try to understand how you're feeling in the moment.
He's the type to politely ask if it's okay to touch you before doing so.
He would never hurt you unless your urges became unbearable, in which case it's self-defense, right? He'll make sure you'll turn back to normal and he'll be there for you every step of the way.
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Mr. Gap
He's probably...one of the strangest denizens of the otherworld. You're still not sure if he has a body. But he has helped you on multiple occasions. You've found yourself growing fond of him.
You often see him peeking at you from various holes and gaps. Sometimes he tries to get your attention, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he just watches.
When you find a bag in the underworld, you begin carrying it around with you.
He's usually inside, but sometimes not. You have no idea where he goes.
He'll often bring back little gifts like weapons or food, like some bizarre cat. When he finds out you like candy, he tends to focus on that.
He always asks for your heart before he gives you anything, and you always say no, and he always grumbles.
But somehow you'll always find those same things coincidentally in your path or somewhere in the room after you wake up, if you've taken a nap.
He likes to scope out newspapers and magazines too, and show them to you, especially if they feature himself. He's so proud of that.
Over time, his requests for your heart grow less and less frequent. Sometimes, you forget he used to ask you for it at all, until he suddenly pipes up with the query again.
Is his wanting your heart the same thing as wanting your love? Things to ponder.
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Mr. Hood
He's quiet and reclusive but he's there for you whenever you need him.
You need or want anything? Just ask. He'll give it to you immediately with hardly a question.
No harm will ever come to you whenever you're with him, and he hardly lets you out of his sight. He's incredibly protective of you.
He loves to carry you in his arms or on his shoulder, whether you're small or not. It's no bother to him. He's more than strong enough.
Hand touches are so pleasant to him -- whether you're touching his hands, or he's touching your face. He's secretly touch-starved. As long as you don't shy away, he'll continue to hold onto you.
He enjoys quizzing you on your knowledge of the otherworld language. When things are slow, he’ll randomly ask you if you know the names of certain things.
Whenever you both encounter something new during your travels, he’s quick to ask you if you know what it is or outright tells you what it’s called.
He seems a bit self-conscious of having minimal form. What is under his robe? If you don't ask he'll be grateful. He doesn't know himself.
But if you're not repulsed by his anomalous form, that's just -- incredibly touching.
He claims to not understand love, but he'll never abandon you.
Maybe he doesn't understand. Maybe he's forgotten.
But there's something about you that comforts him, and makes him feel safe. Quite paradoxical -- he's the one doing the protecting, after all. But your presence soothes him.
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Mr. Machete
He's just looking for a way to not be bored. And being with you -- somehow, it's fun.
Maybe because he's usually alone, so he doesn't often have anyone else to talk to. It's...fun to banter with you, even if sometimes your words confuse him.
It's unquestionable that he's the brawn, you're the brain of this duo. Maybe the beauty and the beast, too?
He's always, secretly, been a little bit of a coward. The second things don't look like they'll turn out well for him, he ditches and flees.
But, oddly, you give him the courage to stand against things or monsters he would have thought were impossible to defeat.
Sometimes, you die -- whether by accident or because something else got to you before he could. But he always sighs and waits for you to wake up again. If you're mad, it's a little funny. You were just too slow that time.
He likes sparring with you. You have to get faster, right? Your weapon is pretty funny, too. So small and yet somehow you manage to not get overwhelmed by him. He's not holding back. He never would. Right?
He likes to pick you up and sling you over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Likes to hug you like a teddy bear, too. You're soft and warm. You feel nice against him.
He's not the type to ask, but if you made any indication of not liking anything, he'd stop. He doesn't want to break you.
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Mr. Scarletella
You are his queen. He literally worships the ground you walk on.
You are so fascinating to him. He just can't believe he's found someone as perfect as you. Someone who likes to destroy and kill people, just like him? Immaculate.
You haven't and never will give him your name. That's fine. He can live with that, as long as you're with him.
You've likely given him something else to call you. It's not quite your name -- maybe it's not your full name, and he knows it, because he can't quite grasp your essence. But it's enough to be able to give a sound to the person -- thing -- he likes most in this world.
He likes to say that not-quite name, and he says it often, just to get your attention.
He's fascinated by everything about you -- including how small you are in comparison to him. He loves that he can easily dwarf your form and loom over you. It's exhilarating in a completely different way from mindless violence.
Speaking of which, his favourite thing is without a doubt to commit violence with you. There's a new urban legend steadily growing in the human world, of a pair of murderers characterised by their red and white umbrellas. You're the perfect perfectly awful duo, truly.
Even when he's not with you, he's always somehow got an eye on you. Most of the otherworld residents know by now who you belong to, and they'd never lay hand on the one cherished by the red umbrella man.
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divorcedtom · 4 months ago
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SEVERANCE 2.05 - "Trojan's Horse"
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soundleer · 6 months ago
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Hello! I remember you saying that your sprunkis are the size of jellybeans. If that's the case, if you don't mind, can you draw something involving the sprunki cast swinging and chilling on someone's hand? Idk I just thought of smth lol/nf
whee yea i can take this opportunity to draw how tiny they are to us!
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assorted jellybeans (+ my sona) :33
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mtsodie · 2 months ago
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SB & homestar at a concert?
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canisalbus · 8 months ago
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Machete is like one of those surrogate sufferers where we imagine painful things happening to him so we can be happy.
God's special little boy. He sure is tested a whole lot.
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theclocky1 · 5 months ago
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recent stuff
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nqueso-lies · 12 days ago
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eddie's new wife (married between seasons since casting anyone would mean harassment for an actress, every single wedding pictures are angled just perfectly that theres a glare on the glass entirely over the bride or is held in a way that covers her) is only heard through charlie brown adult noises off screen to protect any actress's voice from being heard and tracked down
You get me, Annie
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ever lovely, wonderful, and most talented miss/mr anonymous what are ur thoughts on drawing satoshoko in this way 👀? (if u graciously decide to take this request on pls pls pls choose the 1st one 😭)
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I had a sketch started a while ago that I never finished. It's not exactly what you asked for but I hope you still like it. I'm glad i picked it up again, I'm a sucker for clingy!Satoru and I think if anybody would let Gojo relax like that without finding him annoying or obnoxious it would be Shoko
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ckret2 · 2 months ago
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I know you semi hyperfixation is/was on samurai jack, and ppg was only related for the au, but do you have any hcs on ppg you want to share?
Okay sure. PPG was my show when I was like, nine—there's a distinct possibility I read more fanfics about PPG than about any other fandoms except Invader Zim & Transformers—plus I just rewatched the entirety of PPG in a failed effort to distract myself from Samurai Jack, so I've got a few fresh ones:
— There has been at least one wild one-night stand between Prof. Utonium and Him. I don't know when, I don't know how, but it's happened, and then they just tacitly agreed to never talk about it. No emotions involved, purely just sex. They both enjoyed it, they both regret it, and they'd both do it again.
so, now that I have your attention,
— Most of the people who live & work nearest to Mojo's volcano are like, weirdly fond of him.
Sure if he comes into your store there's a 50% chance he'll steal his weekly groceries but there's also a 50% chance he'll forget he's supposed to be evil and actually pay for them. He's either DELIBERATELY a menace because that's his thing, or else he's grumpy yet extremely formal and polite. And he has such interesting stuff at his garage sales. And he HAS saved the world a few times, he's not so bad! And let's be real: a chimp walking around in a little suit and a little cape is ADORABLE.
When you're that close to his lair you see him just going about his normal daily business WAY more often than you see him doing his supervillain stuff (and you might even be comparatively safe there, since if he's got some new giant robot, he usually won't start kicking down buildings where they might fall on his own lair), so everyone just sorta got used to him.
Now they miss him when he's in jail. When he comes back to one of his regular haunts after a long absence people will go "Hey, Mojo, you're back! Didja break out again or get out early for good behavior?" "What an asinine question that is, the answer to which would be obvious if you stopped for a moment to consider the personality and temperament of the person to whom you are addressing it, which is me. I BROKE out!" "Haha, that's our Mojo!"
Mojo has NO idea the neighbors like him.
Also I like writing his dialogue.
— I don't think conquering/ruling the world actually appeals to Him that much. Yeah, it's CURRENTLY his goal; but I think he just wants as many people to suffer as possible, and recognizes that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. If that means he needs to wear the crown, then so be it.
But if somebody else sufficiently evil conquered the world first and made everybody sufficiently miserable, he wouldn't intervene, he'd just sit back and let 'em rule. This is great. Free buffet.
— When I first watched the show as a kid, I was inexplicably fascinated by Him. Something about Him just compelled me in a way that was instinctively familiar—familiar in the sense of part of the family—but that I was incapable of expressing in words.
This is because, at 9 years old, I did not know about queer people. But even so, in my heart of hearts, I already knew that demon was queer as hell.
But now it's 2025 and we can get a lot more specific than that.
I don't think anybody's gonna be surprised if I say I headcanon Him as having some kinda genderfluid-genderfucky nonbinary thing going on. He strikes me as the exact polar opposite of the agender, genderless, androgynous side of the trans umbrella; he's like, maximum gender. As much gender as possible. Not always the same gender but at LEAST one gender at all times, often more. Primarily juggling male and female but if you hand Him a fresh new gender he'll try it on for a few days to see how he likes it. However if you hand Him a neopronoun he'll toss it in the trash. He uses he/Him pronouns ONLY, regardless of what his gender is up to.
No idea what his orientation is. Only that it includes Prof Utonium.
— Just to cover both sides, I feel obligated to mention that Prof Utonium is 99% sure he's straight.
Was 99% sure he's straight.
— Trace amounts of Chemical X sometimes get in the water and/or food supply. (Not due to Prof. Utonium; he's getting his supply from somewhere else and that's where the accidental poisoning comes from too.) Chemical X can build up in the body like heavy metals.
Unlike taking an acute short-term dose of Chemical X, which gives you powers then wears off quickly, long-term low-grade Chemical X poisoning that results in bits getting permanently incorporated in the body can cause symptoms that include, most commonly, turning people green; but at the low doses you'd get from ingesting tiny bits of it slowly, it typically doesn't grant any power, you just get weird symptoms. And this is why there are just,, randomly some green people running around in Townsville. Hence: the Gangreen Gang.
Obviously, Mojo's also green due to permanently having Chemical X in his biology, but he DID get a big enough dose to get (brain) power. The girls are about the only people with Chemical X permanently in their system that AREN'T green, due to their other ingredients balancing it out.
— this isn't an actual current headcanon but when I was nine I convinced myself that Snake was, like, cool & smart & actually had charisma. lol. lmfao. this is what happens when you're a small child who really likes snakes: you see a snake and you WANT him to be cool.
— I think as adults the Powerpuff Girls have grown fingers and toes. Their bodies are still pretty weird in other ways, like they still have the bug eyes and disproportionately short torsos compared to their arms/legs, but for some reason missing fingers/toes strikes me as a juvenile trait.
Unfortunately, this means that when their normal classmates are dealing with puberty symptoms like zits and hair growing in weird places and bra shopping, THEY'RE dealing with puberty symptoms like weird little nubby fingers and toes. You know how babies teethe and it's a miserable painful affair? That's how the girls get fingernails. It's uncomfortable and soooo embarrassing. They're wearing mittens to class in August.
Buttercup is in her edgy preteen phase and going HEY YOU WANNA SEE WHICH ONE OF MINE'S THE LONGEST NOW?? 🖕
That winter for the first time they get gloves with fingers, and are confused that they don't also get socks with toes.
Their handwriting is horrible for the next few months.
— If you stick all the local villains together in a big room, eventually Mojo and Him will drift over to each other and start shit talking everyone else in the room.
— All three girls go through a supervillain phase before they reach adulthood. Like, actual voluntary supervillain phase, not like when Bubbles knocked her head and thought she was Mojo.
Buttercup's comes first, to nobody's surprise. Let's be real, she's already having micro-supervillain phases as a kindergartener, and the local villains have the dental records to prove it. She might even have more than one villain phase.
Lotta things could triggered it—hanging out with a bad, "cool" crowd? Greed? Just, angry at the world? Frustration with their recurring villains and deciding to deal with them more permanently? Got in a fight with Prof. Utonium and shouted "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!" and flew out of the house and an hour later half of downtown's on fire? Side effect of that demonic bargain she performed to become Mange? Why does nobody ever talk about that demonic bargain.
— Bubbles has hers next. Her love of cute animals progressively expands to include a broader and broader range of animals, until it includes the kaiju of Monster Isle. She starts refusing to fight them, then fights Buttercup and Blossom when THEY fight them, and THEN she just flies to Monster Isle, declares that she's moving there and joining them, and says from now on she's protecting them from ALL threats. Including Townsville. Naturally, they run rampant.
Bubbles's supervillain phase lasts the longest of the girls. She remains close friends with the monsters after that. She still refuses to fight them, but now if she goes "pllleease stop destroying the city, if you do and I don't stop you I'm gonna get in troubllle 🥺" they'll usually go all right okay fine. If the monster's in town specifically looking for a sparring match with the girls they'll willingly relocate out of town for the fight, now that the monsters can just ask for a match rather than have to goad the girls into it.
She might get a job working with the monsters after graduation.
— Blossom's supervillain phase is the last and most devastating.
She tries to take over the world.
She's the smartest, she's the best leader, she knows what it would take to make the world a better place, if everybody would just listen to her then she could make everything perfect, AND IF THEY WON'T CHOOSE TO LISTEN TO HER, THEN MAYBE SHE SHOULD FORCE THEM TO.
Mojo's like "Now YOU understand how I feel EVERY SINGLE DAY!"
He's genuinely impressed by the planning and intricacy of her evil scheme. He thereafter starts calling her up to workshop his own evil schemes before he executes them and she always goes "Mojooo I gave up villainy, I'm NOT gonna help you with your plot" and then she helps him with his plot. Because if somebody's doing something wrong she's irresistibly compelled to correct them.
It's 50/50 whether she then tells his scheme to the other girls.
— Now, I don't say this very often. I consider this a high honor that I award only to the most worthy and well-qualified. But I think there's compelling canonical evidence to support the theory that Mojo Jojo is an AuDHD king.
— You know how sometimes the kinks that people develop are a response to the traumas & taboos that happened to be twisting around in their heads when their libidos were developing, and so they end up with kinks that either lean into or buck against the fucked up stuff they dealt with as kids and being able to reinterpret that part of their life in a safe sexual context helps them reclaim a little power over those situations?
On a completely different topic, you know that one episode with that super sweet and charming substitute teacher Mr. Green who loves children and brings cookies to class and is always kind and caring and patient, and also he's a fanged horned green monster who dresses like an evil wizard? And he kindly and caringly and patiently teaches the Powerpuff Girls—right after they tried to attack him—that you can't judge people by their appearances, even "icky" "ugly" monsters? Remember him?
You think he's probably been getting treated like that his whole life for being a nice monster?
So anyway Mr. Green has a super secret very embarrassing erotic fantasy about being a noble knight in shining armor slaying a terrible evil monster. Sexually. With his "sword." And also a literal sword.
Which he feels horribly guilty about. He knows how awfully monsters are treated! He is one! Why would he get off to leaning into the worst propaganda? But hey, you don't get to choose what kinks your brain hands you.
So on weekends he hangs out around Townsville's gay scene quietly searching for a huge terrifying-looking monster who likes to bottom and has a humiliating erotic fantasy about being slain by a hero.
— way back in 2002, Mojo's sob story to manipulate the girls in the movie totally worked on me too. I forever after believed deep in my heart that Mojo should become a good guy and reconcile with the Powerpuff Girls. (AND LOOK WHO WAS RIGHT. LOOK WHO WAS RIGHT! 9-YEAR-OLD ME VINDICATED, BABY!!! sorry I only just saw Powerpuff Girls Rule for the first time like three days ago and I'm still riding that high.)
Anyway, over 20 years later, Mojo's sob story in the movie is STILL working on me. And I'm STILL heartbroken that Prof Utonium rejected his accidental simian son even though Mojo was just trying to manipulate him, too. I want that chimp to get unconditional love and acceptance poured on him until it seeps through the aloof supervillain shell he's built around his heart, and I want it NOW!
And even if he stays a villain, I want the Utonium family to fully acknowledge him as their weird estranged son & brother! He should get invited to family dinners, dammit! He should get a birthday party with the girls! Technically he wasn't born that day, but I doubt anybody kept hold of the records of when Jojo was actually born, so it's close enough!
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pinklimonadart · 3 months ago
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if you're still taking these? i want to see byakuya togami happy. it is my one wish
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POV: You just got murdered and your classmate Byakuya, who carries an extension cord everywhere he goes, is very happy to see you
[Danganronpa requests closed]
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hollowed-theory-hall · 19 hours ago
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Hey! Do you think Hermione had a good relationship with her parents? this is only headcanon but i always felt Hermione didn't have any friends before Harry and Ron, given how the first two months people only tolerated her and i imagine it must have been the same way in her muggle school. But considering how she remains self-assured in who she is and doesn't try to hide herself or change herself to fit in (like Harry does, who also grew up friendless), it makes sense only if she had a loving and supportive family. But she doesn't mention them much, the only thing we know is that they're dentists. And I know a lot of people put this to Harry not being observant enough but I think he'd still know something about his best friend's parents through 7 years despite how "unobservant" he is. Even on her vacation in France, she spends more time visiting wizarding destinations. And many people talk about this too: her visits to her parents go on decreasing as time passes and at one point, she spends more time with the Weasleys and the Order than at her own home. Do you think text/subtext gives us enough of an idea about her family and home life?
I have talked about it in the past a few times, I believe. This post, is one, for example.
Now, I don't think Harry is unobservant; he is occasionally selective in what he observes, but he is quite perceptive and notices way more than people give him credit for — so, I don't think that's the main factor here. So, no, I don't think Hermione's relationship with her parents is great, but I don't think it's bad either.
I agree Hermione likely didn't have friends in her former Muggle school (though, I can see her having one or two friends, who she wasn't super close to, but could sit with. That being said, all ties with them would've been cut once she got to Hogwarts). That is definitely the impression I got, and her bossy and self-assured behaviour speaks of a spoiled only child, which she is.
Her parents are dentists; they live very comfortably and can go on vacations out of the country every year. They went to France, as you mentioned, but they also went skiing multiple times in the past. She comes to Hogwarts as a swotty-know-it-all who is comfortably middle-class and is used to getting her way. She never lacked anything material growing up; there was always food on the table, and nice new clothes if she wanted them, and any toy or book she wished for, and her parents had no other child to spoil and buy all this for. I think she was loved growing up, but I don't think she was ever close to her parents, because the facts are:
She rarely talks about them. Even early on, and when she does, it's only to bring up their job as dentists; she doesn't really know them well as people, despite all their vacations together. Once she enters the wizarding world and realises how Muggles/muggleborns are treated there, she is very purposefully choosing to be a full-time witch. She cuts her parents out of her life long before she oblivates them.
We see her stay most holidays in the wizarding world, be it school, summer break at the Weasleys, hell, even Christmas since second year she spends away from her parents. Cutting them off more and more.
And we see muggleborns that are in touch with their families:
Colin Creevey brings a camera to Hogwarts just so he can send photos to his parents and keep them involved in his life. He clearly loves his parents and is proud to be related to his father, whom he mentions. Hermione does none of that. She seems almost ashamed to bring up dentistry when clearly the wizards don't care.
I think Hermione loves her parents, and her parents love her, but she doesn't want them involved in the wizarding world. She keeps her two worlds very separated. She actively lies to them about the danger she and her friends are in. She doesn't want them to worry, or worse, not let her come back to Hogwarts. So she lies:
“What are you doing here?” Harry asked her, pulling open the door, as Buckbeak resumed his scratching at the straw-strewn floor for any fragments of rat he might have dropped. “I thought you were skiing with your mum and dad.” “Well, to tell the truth, skiing’s not really my thing,” said Hermione. “So I’ve come for Christmas.” There was snow in her hair and her face was pink with cold. “But don’t tell Ron that, I told him it’s really good because he kept laughing so much. Anyway, Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed, but I’ve told them that everyone who’s serious about the exams is staying at Hogwarts to study. They want me to do well, they’ll understand. Anyway,” she said briskly, “let’s go to your bedroom, Ron’s mum’s lit a fire in there and she’s sent up sandwiches.”
(OotP)
Her parents want to spend time with the daughter they sent to wizard school and barely see, and they are trying so hard to be supportive of her and her studies (I kinda headcanon the family vacations were a new thing. That before Hogwarts, they didn't go as often, but they were trying to connect to Hermione). I assume they told her all her childhood how smart and brilliant she is whenever she brought home a good exam — hence her confidence.
Hermione is the first in the trio to offer to go to an adult with any problems they have — this speaks of her having had a support network. She had people who were there that will help her with certain issues — the big issues.
Since she also acts like she expects herself to be able to handle things on her own. She takes problems she sees as "small" into her own hands, and wants to bring up "big" problems to Dumbledore or McGonagall. She acts a lot like she was told growing up that she is so responsible and mature for her age, and she really took it to heart. I sorta assume that even in her Muggle school, she'd deal with her lack of friends or any bullying she may have encountered on her own because she was "the mature and smart one" and she should be able to handle it on her own — hence her tendency
Now, the blame is kind of on both parties. Her parents probably did make her feel like she should be able to handle her own issues herself, and allowed her a lot of independence growing up (which isn't necessarily a bad thing!). From the little we hear about them, they seem like they are very concerned with their jobs as dentists and it's one of the only things Hermione brings them up with.
Hedwig had returned from Hermione’s house with a large box stuffed full of sugar-free snacks. (Hermione’s parents were dentists.)
(GoF)
So they are probably a little strict and very preoccupied with their work. It's possible, growing up, Hermione felt their jobs came first and she came second to that, since their job is the only thing she mentions about them. That being said, they probably taught her to love books and reading and strive for academic success, but they are probably also the ones to instil in her values of courage and kindness. I think her childhood was a happy one at home, even if she was never super close to her parents and was a mostly self-reliant kid.
But when Hermione entered the Wizarding World, the distance grew. Because Hermione knew she was a fish out of water and she wants to be seen as a real witch and part of this world so damn much. So she learns, and studies, and stops bringing up her Muggle parents.
And she acts like a witch. She looks down on her parents, in a way. Yes, she loves them, but she is condescending towards them. She doesn't see them as authority figures or people who are supposed to protect her — because they're muggles and she's a witch. She sees them as incapable of protecting her and helping her. So she makes it her job to protect them and decide what's best for them, because Hermione believes she always knows best. So when she thinks the best way to protect them is to erase their memories and uproot their lives completely, she does so, without asking them. because they are muggles, and she's a witch, and she knows better.
I think, with all Hermione says in DH that she is a "Mudblood, and proud of it!", she doesn't act it. Like, look at the difference throughout the series:
“You will keep looking while I’m away, won’t you?” said Hermione. “And send me an owl if you find anything.” “And you could ask your parents if they know who Flamel is,” said Ron. “It’d be safe to ask them.” “Very safe, as they’re both dentists,” said Hermione.
(PS)
Hermione almost doesn't want to leave in book 1, she doesn't want to miss out on the search for Flamel. She sees her parents as safe to ask because they're dentists, because they are so muggle and disconnected from this world. I think she doesn't believe her parents would know anything important about Flamel because they are dentists.
but he was distracted almost at once by the sight of Hermione’s  parents, who were standing nervously at the counter that ran all along the great marble hall, waiting for Hermione to introduce them. “But you’re Muggles!” said Mr. Weasley delightedly. “We must have a drink! What’s that you’ve got there? Oh, you’re changing Muggle money. Molly, look!” He pointed excitedly at the ten-pound notes in Mr. Granger’s hand.
(CoS)
Hermione nodded, beaming. “Mum and Dad dropped me off this morning with all my Hogwarts things.”
(PoA)
Early in the series, her parents come shopping with her, from her 1st to her 3nd year. They are involved and try their best to understand the Wizarding World for their daughter's sake, even though they don't really get it.
And they likely aren't stupid. They see they are being treated like zoo animals by wizards, even wizards who like muggles, like Arthur. But Hermione probably tells them it's fine, that no one cares that she is muggleborn, so they won't worry.
She thinks about them and talks about them and what they like:
“We can do all our Christmas shopping there!” said Hermione. “Mum and Dad would really love those Toothflossing Stringmints from Honeydukes!”
(PoA)
(Again, they sound like they are too serious and like their work is their whole life). And while she thinks about them, we see she clearly prefers the magical world to the muggle one. She likes shopping there better. She likes living there better, and we see how she slowly does just move in with the Weasleys for the summer since 4th year, which is when we start seeing the distance grow more:
Hermione suddenly smiled very mischievously, and Harry noticed it too: It was a very different smile from the one he remembered. “Well . . . when I went up to Madam Pomfrey to get them shrunk, she held up a mirror and told me to stop her when they were back to how they normally were,” she said. “And I just . . . let her carry on a bit.” She smiled even more widely. “Mum and Dad won’t be too pleased. I’ve been trying to persuade them to let me shrink them for ages, but they wanted me to carry on with my braces. You know, they’re dentists, they just don’t think teeth and magic should — look! Pigwidgeon’s back!”
(GoF)
I think this scene is an important one. I think Hermione is right that shrinking her teeth magically is fine, but it shows the distance I was talking about — her parents don't understand magic. They don't understand her, and she feels like a stranger in her own home, and neither party is really taking the right steps to bridge that gap. And like I mentioned, she is the witch, she knows better than the muggles, in her opinion, she doesn't need her parents' permission or approval. And this distance just keeps growing:
“Thanks,” said Hermione. “Erm — Harry — could I borrow Hedwig so I can tell Mum and Dad? They’ll be really pleased — I mean, prefect is something they can understand — ”
(OotP)
Because she stops telling them about things they won't understand. She just shares academic achievements that they can understand as muggles. No need to worry them, no need to bring them into her world. She gave up on them understanding her life. She lies to them about staying at Hogwarts for school that year. She loves them, she wants them to be proud of her, but it's a distant sort of memory of how things were. After all, she rarley ever writes to them. Ron gets letters from home, Harry gets letters from Sirius — Hermione doesn't get letters from home and very rarley sends them.
Then, in the summer before 6th year, she's at the Weasleys again. Her parents don't really see her since the end of her 3rd year. They missed so many of their daughter's formative years, and she doesn't confide in them about anything she goes through. They probably don't know she was petrified in 2nd year, or time-travelled for a whole year. So is it really that strange that they aren't close, and they don't know her, and she doesn't know them?
So, it wasn't that shocking when she chose to oblivate them. I think they loved her, and I think she loved them, but I don't think they were ever as close as Colin was to his parents.
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