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[rot-em-all]

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(( Welcome new comers!  Here is a quick post about my rules for future reference. It is a copy past of what is on my page. )) 

This blog is not new. Ive had it for over 4 years. There was an old OC here who i can no longer RP. 

previously @ torture-for-the-insane

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*please note that Elysium (Rot) has no main verses, no main relationship(s). Each RP is seen as a different world(s) with different relationship(s). *

XMun has over 10+ years RP experience

X Mun and Muse are over 18+

X I WILL NOT ship or do anything of that nature if age is not stated on your blog or confirmed in private.

X If you follow me, expect to have some gore/ NSFW on your Dash at some point. If you are prone to triggers DO NOT follow me because I DO NOT always tag my stuff.

X I AM NOT RPing as Nicolas Brown, it is simply a FaceClaim (FC)

X I am up to date with manga and anime, blog is NOT SPOILER FREE

X Any questions and/or confusion please feel free to message me.

X DO NOT hassle me and attack my Ask for replies.

X I DO NOT promote self harm or mental illnesses.

X Just because Rot is in a fight/hates your muse in our thread DOES NOT MEAN mun hates you or your muse. It is only in the sake of our threads. Please.

X DO NOT GOD MOD your muse to being related to mine in any way (ie, being related, old friends, from the same home,being involved in certain past events, ect.) Just because he is an OC does not mean his backstory is open for grabs.

X If it is for the sake of the thread, PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT IT BEFORE. But generally NO God modding is tolerated. He is my character and I will drop our thread after a second warning

[swanqiu]

"umbridge was threatening her mother! it’s a lot more complicated than marietta just snitching on them unprompted!! i will vent about this another time!!!" please, by all means, rant about marietta! ;D

referencing something i said in this post from forever ago—

so yeah, basically, we get that marietta is one of harry + the DA’s most outspoken critics, and a large part of that (according to cho) is because marietta’s worried about her mum’s position at the ministry since umbridge still has those ties. those influences. marietta also doesn’t really know harry or hermione or ron, other than the fact that everything that’s sent the school year into red alert mode over the last five years have, in some way, involved the trio. of course she’s somewhat wary, maybe even somewhat doubtful that being involved with the DA will be a helpful thing! 

like... good for the other students in hufflepuff and gryffindor (and even some of her housemates) for being more trusting or whatever than she is— reckless might be a word she’d prefer to use, if she has anything to say about it— but that’s not her. she’s not game to just give her trust to whomever, especially if they have a track record of causing trouble. the trio have been able to get away with a lot of it because dumbledore and the rest of the staff clearly favor harry, but who’s to say anyone else who gets involved with the DA will get that same free pass luxury? so yeah. sorry if she’s not as gung ho about this secret club as everyone else is. 

anyway, i headcanon marietta as coming from a single-parent home. her dad’s not in the picture anymore, and it’s just her and her mum, and they’re very close. they’re all the other have at this point, back home. she knows how hard her mum works to provide for her and to send her to school with nice robes and the standard equipment she’ll need for classes, and she knows how screwed they are if her mum loses that ministry job. single parents— women, especially!!!— absolutely still have a stigma attached to them, esp if we’re talking late ‘90s, so she has a lot more to risk by joining the DA than some of the other students might! she attends the initial interest meeting to support cho (because if cho wants to do something she seems passionate about and it’s something that’ll take her mind off of her de*d boyfriend, for sure marietta’s there for her)! she continues to attend the meetings to be a good friend to cho! she signs that contract because okay, at the start of the DA meetings, it seems easy enough not to snitch! there’s not much of a reason to, even if she is cautious about it all!

but then her mum starts receiving the fake-sweet, thinly veiled threats from anonymous— umbridge— sources that clue her in that her daughter might be involved with a secret rogue club at school, and marietta catches wind of these warnings, and ofc she suddenly starts feeling guilty. starts panicking and realizing that her mum’s gonna lose her job and it’s because of her. 

basically, what i’m getting at here is this: if i were marietta and i had to choose between my mom, who’s the only one i have at home and has spent her whole life raising me, and a group of students who haven’t really made an effort to befriend or get to know me but are asking that i choose loyalty to them over my mom— yeah, i can understand why marietta goes and does what she does.

and all of this isn’t even including the very heavy implication that umbridge used veritaserum on marietta!! (edited to bold and italicize this because i feel like it’s SUCH a big factor, if not the main factor, behind marietta being the ‘sneak’; it gets overlooked so much!!)

edit 2: okay i am wrong, i went back and read the quote and no, umbridge didn’t use veritaserum on marietta since she’d apparently already used up snape’s last bottle on harry, but i absolutely would not be surprised if umbridge had tried other tactics or spells, even, to get marietta to say something. not budging on this.

[swanqiu]

There’s a fic called ‘descent (or how to stop being a national hero)’ on AO3 about Krum and Cho. Have you read? I’m curious to know your thoughts!

// hmm i haven’t! but i’ll check it out some time and update this reply with my thoughts, i guess. thanks for the rec!

edit: LOOOL it is only 420 words; i was over here thinking it would be like... 3,000+.

anyway! yes, i just read it, and yes, i enjoyed it a lot! it’s definitely more of a viktor krum oneshot than it is anything else, and i really enjoyed the au scenario and how the writer tackles GoF with this au in mind. loved the part about him putting (or not putting) his name in the cup.

cho isn’t really all that necessary to his oneshot, but i think she’s added less for a ship dynamic and more for us to understand how observant viktor krum is, maybe even how feeling he is, and how that usually gets overlooked in canon because. you know. international quidditch superstar and all that. in conclusion tho, i really enjoyed this! thanks again for letting me know about it! i’d love to hear your thoughts about it, too. :)

[swanqiu]

hey ess! hope it's okay for me to pop in here. I've come across your blog a handful of times and I really admire your writing. seeing the amount of thought and care you put into your work, whether in replies or even just character development tasks, inspires me to strive for the same level of quality in mine. thanks for being so great! looking forward to reading more!

// ahhhh anon?? sweet wonderful amazing anon??? 

i don’t really have much to say to this other than THANK YOU! just the fact that you took the time to write this out and send it to me is really sweet and lovely of you, and please know that i appreciate this message a lot. ❤ there was a time a few years ago that writing cho (at least, the way i was writing her at the time) was just... not the easiest or most fun headspace for me to be in, and i kind of fell in and out of rp for a bit because of how much i struggled with that. anyway, all that to say— having you validate my active efforts to rebuild/reboot/rebrand her muse means a lot more than you might imagine. what an encouragement; thank you x a million!

also, i’m really happy to hear that the time and effort i put in here isn’t just beneficial to me (as nice as it is), but that you and your muse(s) are also finding some inspiration and encouragement from all of this. that is so rewarding to me, and i really hope i get to interact with you off anon someday. 😊 it is always okay to pop in my asks and DMs!