Alrighty then, I’m sure the lot of you wanna know what this little announcement is going to be, right? Well, I’m going to be writing a fic, which will be an AU, that goes along with the story-line kinda thing of the MSTs. In other words, this will be a story in which James and co. found out that Peter was the spy and they never made him the Secret Keeper and James and Lily never died. And then I started thinking about how I always have a bit of romance in my story no matter what, and what my usual pairings are. Unfortunately, my pairings almost all tend to be slash (Draco/Harry, Remus/Sirius, Seamus/Dean Terry Boot/Blaise Zabini, don’t ask about that last one). So, though I love my slash, and if I had things my way, I’d probably make every single character in the fandom gay (with the exception of Ron and Hermione, since I always put them together), I decided to cut back on the slash, making only one or two slash couples (which would make it more realistic anyway), and have OCs for the rest of the charas, including the three I made up myself to be Harry’s younger siblings. However, making OCs to date nearly every character in the book is really hard work, seeing as I’d hafta make up personalities, descriptions, histories, and various other things for about fifty-million people, I decided to make this little proposition. If you give me the info I need (all of which is found on this little announcement thing), I’ll (maybe) give you a chance to make a character up for me to put in the fic. Now, this character may or may not be exactly like you, they can have your own name if you like, they can be from whatever country you want, truth be told, I really don’t care. However, there are a few things that I won’t let you do, and you’ll find them out as I write up my little list/form thinger. And, just for the record, if you want to do this, I need you to have either an e-mail address where I can reach you personally (I don’t want one that belongs to your whole family or anything) or your own screen name. No matter what, I don’t want to risk the chance of needing to talk to you and getting stuck trying to explain to some member of your family I don’t know. And one more thing, I believe… if you want to have a character in my fic, please send all the info from my little list/form thinger to slytherin_marauders@hotmail.com. I don’t want it sent to the e-mail address I have up on my bio page. And if you can’t send it through the e-mail (like the problem with the family e-mail address), try to catch me on my screen name. (And if there are any doubts as to what my SN is, it’s QueenStrata.) Now, onto the little list/form thinger.
Okay, first thing’s first. I’m going to need five people to volunteer for a couple parts.
*I’m going to need a name for a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (male or female) who will be killed in the prologue. If you give me a name for the DADA teacher, you can also come up with a major character as well.
**I need a name for a guy for Professor Trelawney to run away with and get married to. I need her out of my hair for my character to be in. If you come up with a name for that guy, you can also come up with a major character as well.
***Harry’s younger sister. If you want to be his younger sister (by one year), she must have black hair and blue eyes, as well as a good personality. No evilness in the Potter family. You can, however, come up with her first name.
****Harry’s younger twin brothers. Harry will have twin brothers that are two years younger than him. Both of them have red hair, however one has green eyes, and the other has blue. Other than that, they are entirely identical. Again, their first name is your choice. If you want your character to be one of Harry’s younger brothers, name one, and tell me whether you want blue-eyed twin or green-eyed twin. And, again, no evilness.
FULL NAME: I want the entire name: first, middle, and last. And in that order. If they don’t have a middle name, make sure it says they don’t have a middle name. If there are any nicknames you want me to have people use for him/her, make sure they’re written here as well.
BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND: If there is a certain person from the HP series you want him/her to date, please say it. I’ve got a list of people they can’t date down at the bottom as well. If you don’t want them dating anyone, just say so. Or, if they have a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/whatever already, give me their name and any other info you think is necessary.
AGE: When Harry is eleven years old, how old is your person?
BIRTHDAY: What is his/her birthday?
ETHNICITY: What country is he/she from? Are they American, British, Japanese, African, from Timbuktu? If they were born in a different country, but moved to Britain or something like that, just tell me what country they were from and put in parentheses, “moved to Britain.” (or England, whichever you use.) ex. Madagascar (moved to Britain)
ORIGINS: I want to know if your character is a pure-blooded wizard, Muggle-born, an actual Muggle or what? No demons, aliens, elves, or whatnot; I want them human, please.
DRESS: What does he/she tend to wear? You can have them wear only bright colors, only black, Muggle clothes, kimonos, I don’t really care. Be sure to mention if your character is a female if she absolutely refuses to wear skirts.
SPEECH: How does he/she speak? Any particular accent? Do they say ‘yeh’ or ‘ya’ instead of ‘you’? Do they use ‘da’ instead of ‘the’? Do they have a potty mouth? Do they speak formally, like a rocket scientist, with no emotion? I need a legitimate reason why they speak like that as well. I don’t want some guy from Japan speaking with a New York accent for no good reason other than you like the accent. (And if any of you watch Ronin Warriors, you’ll know where the Japanese guy with a New York accent idea came from.)
WIZARD SCHOOL: If he/she is a wizard/witch, what school did they go to? You can make up your own if they don’t go to one of the three mentioned in the fourth Harry Potter book, but make sure its name matches the country that person is from or the country the school is in. And, if they go to Hogwarts, I need to know what House you want them in. That’s Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.
LOOKS: I want to know what he/she looks like. Hair color (if it’s an odd color like they would have in an anime, please tell me why it’s that color), eye color, height, weight, things that stand out about a person, like tattoos, scars, body piercings, and all that junk. I don’t want inventory of exactly where every single freckle is, just a couple things that are easily noticeable. If they don’t have any tattoos or scars or anything, simply don’t mention any.
PET PEEVES: What can he/she absolutely not stand? Do they hate the sound of knuckles cracking, people who think they’re better than everyone else, etc.? Be a bit creative if you like, but if it’s something really weird, I need a reason.
DISLIKES: What does your character not like? This isn’t the same as pet peeves, because dislikes are things he/she doesn’t like, but can still live with. Like, I hate bugs, but I’ll live with them if I have to. Which I usually do. (Damn gnats)
LIKES: What does he/she like? I don’t want a fifty page list, just a few things they really like—you know, their favorite things.
FEARS: What is he/she scared to death of? Using myself as an example, I’m terrified of heights and bees. I want to know why they’re scared of that as well. If they don’t know, tell me, but try to have a reason.
HOBBIES: What does he/she do in their spare time? Do they read, draw, primp in front of a mirror?
STRONG AND WEAK POINTS: If your character is a wizard/witch, tell me which subjects he/she is good at. For example, the character I’m making up myself is great at Divination, but can’t figure out Transfiguration at all. And if they’re Muggle, I don’t want to hear that they’re good at everything. I mean, I breezed right through Algebra when I barely ever paid attention in class, but I failed Geometry, even though I paid attention every day! (I’ve never failed anything before Geometry either.)
QUIRKS: What are bits of his/her personality? Examples are: good cook, good with children, you know, a few things (just the good ones) from their personality.
FLAWS: What are the problems with his/her personality? Short temper, cocky, irritable at that time of month, a permanent case of PMS?
HABITS: What are a few things they tend to do? Do they doodle in class, run their hand through their hair, pace when they’re worried, crack their knuckles?
PERSONALITY: If there is anything I might not have gotten from his/her personality that you want to clear up, mention it here. For example, your character could be incredibly good at History of Magic class, but the problem is that they really hate it. (Just like me in my World History class. How boring…) Another thing, if you know anything about astrology, numerology, or anything else that tells about a person’s personality, do try to make their sun sign and their personality match a bit? I mean, I was born on the cusp of Cancer and Gemini, so I’ve got bits of both sun sign personalities. (I’m really moody from the Cancer side, but I’m a bit flighty and sometimes easy to change from the whole Gemini thing, though I can be very stubborn from the Cancer side of me as well. I’m just full of contradictions. =D)
HISTORY: Give him/her a short history. However, make sure it matches their personality. I don’t want to hear about how he/she was beaten ruthlessly as a kid, and have one of their habits be that they constantly touch people/like to be touched by people. Hell, the worst that’s ever happened to me is that my brother would mess around with me a bit (you know, all that play fighting stuff boys do), but I really don’t like being touched. I also don’t want to hear about mental abuse, and how everyone would always tell him/her how worthless he/she is and have them be overconfident. If anything, they’d have a bit of an inferiority complex.
WAND: If they’re a wizard, I need to know what their wand looks like, what color it is, what wood it’s made of, its size, the core of it, and… that’s it. ^^;
ANYTHING I MISSED: And this one, if there’s anything else that wouldn’t fit into any of the categories above, put it here.
Okay, now, here’s a few more rules I have about what your character can/cannot be/have done/etc.
~They cannot be related to Voldemort, any of the Founders, Lily, or James in any shape, way or form. I do not want to hear about them being from the immediate family of Draco either—I don’t mind cousins or aunts or anything, but no immediate family. No immediate Weasley family either, seven kids is quite enough for Molly, thanks. Oh, and they can’t be children of Peter, either. Um… or brothers or sisters. Oh, and I will only allow one person to be a sister to Sirius. Um… and he doesn’t have any brothers. And Remus has no siblings.
~~They cannot date any of the following people: Lily Evans, James Potter, Severus Snape, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Harry Potter, or Draco Malfoy. Oh, or Voldemort or Professor McGonagall. ^^;
~~~The last name of the character I’m making myself is Date, so, unless you want to be related to my character, I don’t want anyone with the last name of Date.
~~~~They cannot be more powerful then Voldemort and/or Dumbledore.
~~~~~They cannot have created any spectacular object or spell or anything—I don’t want amazingly famous people to date one of the main characters.
~~~~~~If you don’t want your character to have a big part, or if you desperately want them to be famous, they cannot date any of the known Harry Potter characters.
~~~~~~~If you’re too lazy to come up with everything I need for your character, you can ask for them to have a small part, and just be someone I mention once and never again. I mean, a minor character, so you can be the author of a book the students need or something, but nothing really big. That also means they don’t need a personality or history or anything. However, they cannot have made a Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone.
~~~~~~~~You can only come up with one character, unless you want to be one of the two minor people mentioned at the top of this.
~~~~~~~~~And, just for the record, Pansy will take Draco’s place on the annoying Harry Potter thing. And that’s only because I like Blaise, or else I would put him in Draco’s place.
~~~~~~~~~~Do try to keep your character from the Harry Potter universe. No coming from some other dimension/realm and giving them special freaky powers.
~~~~~~~~~~~Oh, yes, and if you want your character to be an Animagus, they can be. There’s really no rules to this, except that I can only have six Animagi from England altogether. The reason for this comes from page 351 of Prisoner of Azkaban, where Hermione says that the Ministry of Magic keeps tabs on all Animagi and there were only seven Animagi on the list. McGonagall, of course, is one of those seven, so there are only six of them left. I will allow a total of seven Animagi from all of the other countries, too. And they’ve got to be registered.
~~~~~~~~~~~~One more thing, you can come up with the personality/history/first name/whatever needed for any of the following minor characters mentioned in the books: sorted in Harry’s first year-Hannah Abbott(a Hufflepuff), Susan Bones(another Hufflepuff), Terry Boot(a Ravenclaw), Mandy Brocklehurst(another Ravenclaw), Lavender Brown(but she must be good at Divination), Millicent Bulstrode(a Slytherin), Justin Finch-Fletchley(yet another Hufflepuff), Moon, Nott, Parvati(Gryffindor) and Padma(Ravenclaw) Patil, Sally-Anne Perks, Lisa Turpin(yet another Ravenclaw), and Blaise Zabini(Slytherin, but he’s a good guy Slytherin); sorted in Harry’s fourth year-Stewart Ackerly(Ravenclaw), Malcolm Baddock(Slytherin), Eleanor Branstone(Hufflepuff), Owen Cauldwell(Hufflepuff), Emma Dobbs(house unknown), Laura Madley(Hufflepuff), Natalie McDonald(Gryffindor), Graham Pritchard(Slytherin), Orla Quirke(Ravenclaw), Kevin Whitby(Hufflepuff).
