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FUN FACT, Teddy has a soiled past! The first time I played him was under an alias (I was like... 15. I thought it was okay because an older player I looked up to was doing it too!)

That Teddy was WILDLY different from any of my other Teddys. He was more concerned with animals than anything else, I don't think he even HAD a personality? But I believe the reason I started playing him there was because the other alias player and I were basically monopolizing on the Tonks-Lupin family, ngl. She played Tonks/Andromeda, and I played Remus/Teddy. WE WERE THE WORST. :| THAT ONE GAME, THAT ONE TIME I WAS A FACTOR IN DRAMA, AND YET SOME OF MY BEST CHARACTERS COME FROM IT why

But! Now the reason I play him is because I like him. At VI I decided on him... actually, I'm not sure why. I was considering between him, au!Tonks, au!Remus, and au!Andromeda I believe. But Lily had a Tonks, and I think I didn't want to step on her toes. (Erin held an au!Teddy but I'm okay with stepping on her toes, I guess?) And it was a good decision because VI!Teddy is one of the best characters I've ever played. I decided on kid!Teddy, because I wanted a kid character because I love playing kids-- they make rash decisions and think up stupid crap. They're fun! (Random, but now I really miss baby!Dorea.)

He and Victoire made a pamphlet. I don't think anything beats that, at this point.

I also love this post of his. And when he threatened canon!Remus with a lightsaber. And basically everything he does is hilarious.

a) That he likes cleaning / is proper because he was raised by his grandmother, which I think some people tend to forget. I've played messy Teddy's before and I regret that trait, because Andromeda Tonks would not let her grandson be anything less than a cleanly gentleman. VI!Teddy doesn't showcase his cleanliness or gentlemanly qualities often, but that's mainly because he's twelve.
b) His birthday is April 7th! This comes from MY CAT, I recently remembered. I had to once change his birthday because a Tonks at a game was using it (... why are most Tonks' birthdays in March/April? I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THIS.) but April 7th is my VERY PREFERRED b-day for Teddy.
c) That he idolizes his mother more than his mother. Tonks was an AUROR. Remus was an unemployed werewolf. Plus, Teddy would have grown up with a LOT more info about his mother-- photographs, stories, etc. But there was no one who knew Remus like Andromeda knew her daughter. It's kind of SAD, really, because Teddy could learn only so much about his dad while learning oodles about his mother. /sniffle
d) GEEKERY. He was raised in the 2000s. Of course he's seen Star Wars and Doctor Who and will own an Amy Pond cardboard cutout one day.

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What I love about Teddy is that 99% of the stuff he does is just hilarious to me. He's pretty batty, really.

ORPHAN. See the above headcanon #c. I've spent a lot of time about the impact that's had on him. YES, we know that he was surrounded by "family", the Potter-Weasleys and of course his grandmother, and was never as unloved as Harry, but I still think that's affected his life in ways.

I HAVE THIS HEADCANON STORY, that Teddy was going to use as an example~ that he could handle more crap than people thought he could that was basically: one day at primary school, when he was like six or seven, there was a career day or some other show-and-tell thing where you were supposed to bring in a parent/guardian. And, perhaps because it was a small class or he just had the worst luck with his class, every other kid had a parent with them and Teddy was the only one who brought in a non-parent. Which he was fine with, at the time, because his grandmother is awesome and the best person ever. But then the other kids asked him why his mum or his dad didn't show up, and he had to explain that his parents were dead. And to his face they were all like "oh, I'm sorry!" or "well that sucks!" but kids are jerks so behind his back they made fun of him/insulted his dead parents. Or badmouthing them since they're war heroes, and they might have been like "well they shouldn't have done that!"/"war is bad!", in edition to "that freak teddy, he was weird before but now he's got dead parents? pfft." or maybe even "he's just saying that to get ATTENTION I heard his parents live in CORNWALL and left him as a baby because he was UGLY!" And he found out/knew that they were and SURVIVED THAT HELL, basically.

HE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO HAVE PARENTS FOR A MONTH BEFORE THEY DIED. Harry had over a year, which doesn't mean that much, but it does make it still sad. And also? May 2nd, his future wife's birthday & Victory Day for the Second War? HIS PARENTS DEATHDATE. So, a lot of the Wizarding World likely CELEBRATES that day and Teddy is like ":| :| :|" and pretending it's okay and is like "yeah, they're war heroes!" but they're DEAD. It doesn't help that, I think, for at least a short while Teddy at some point BLAMED HIMSELF for not being a good enough reason to STAY HOME and STAY WITH HIM.

WELL SUSAN IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE HERE, also Sirius!

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Petunia's origins are in the same game as Teddy, minus stupid alias. I played her as after-death Petunia. NOT VERY WELL, I MIGHT ADD. Again, I WAS YOUNG. But I've always had a strange soft-spot for Petunia Evans.

Petunia was an EASY choice to play at VI. I wanted her, damn it. At old!VI, last year, I was planing on playing my Petunia from that old game except spruced. But the best thing about VI is ALTERNATE UNIVERSES, so I decided she'd be a witch. And so the world wouldn't be too boring, I decided Lily didn't exist. AND THUS: Nia; Gryffindor, Order member, engaged to James Potter, only child, and mediwitch. ANOTHER BEST DECISION I EVER MADE, I'D SAY.

... I'm not really sure. Nia, unlike Teddy, isn't super hilarious or into crazy antics. I KIND OF LIKE EVERYTHING SHE DOES, in a way, because she's brasher than my other characters, more likely to be a bit... meaner, I think. Teddy can be a mean sometimes, but he's more polite than to jump in cussing and rawr-ing; Bells is forcefully neutral and polite; Wes... Wes doesn't care, tbh. SO I LIKE THAT I GET, because she can be a bitch to people when she feels like it.

Since Nia is AU everything on her is pure headcanon!

For canon!Petunia my biggest headcanon is that she wasn't as horrible as a person as we see in the books. She's painted as this abusive, horrible aunt. And at the end she seems to be less horrible, maybe just then, than we've ever seen her. The books are from Harry's view, and so he sees her as this petty, smug, bitchy lady WHICH SHE REALLY IS and while she was certainly neglectful of Harry ( I think she hated Lily more than she hated Harry; the way Snape hated James and felt bad about losing Lily to him and losing her to Voldemort for being a dick) I think a) she didn't start out that way and b) VERNON DURSLEY. We don't really see that much of the real dynamic between these two, but considering how angry and controlling Vernon was? He clearly wore the trousers, there. Yes, Petunia hated wizards and hated that world that her sister got to be apart of, but I think it was Vernon's hate of Harry, hate of anything that wasn't perfect and like everything else that poisoned her over the years, what made her truly a horrible woman. I like to think that when Harry first showed up, and when he was very little, she wasn't a complete terror. She took him in! Even if it was a fear of Dumbledore, I don't think that would have stopped her if she had hated Harry at the start. Basically, I feel like Vernon, this angry man who refused to be anything but normal and who even in the books it's Vernon who seems to always be terrorizing Harry.

IN OTHER WORDS: Vernon Dursley is an asshole and while Petunia was a bitch even before him, he made her even worse.

... which isn't a good "favourite" headcanon but it's headcanon so there we go.

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The way she hates Harry Potter and his gilded ass is kind of hilarious to me. ACTUALLY, her entire worldism against the canon folk (minus the pirate kids and Albus Potter) is kind of amusing to me.

Oh my Merlin. WHERE DO I BEGIN. LET'S TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS ON PETUNIA EVANS.

I don't think the books take the time to really explore Petunia and how utterly jaded she was by Lily being a witch. We get shown bits of it, but tbh I want a book or short story all about Petunia and how she dealt with this. And the thing is, it's not just Lily she was upset with. It was her parents, who praised and adored Lily and her witchiness, who were so proud of their younger daughter. MORE HEADCANON, but I'd be willing to bet the Evans parents favoured Lily even before Lily's witchiness, that they always favoured Lily over Petunia. Lily was this pretty girl, red hair & green eyes, who was academically stellar and who was responsible and kind and basically perfect in everyone's eyes; and then there's Petunia who was never as pretty or academically gifted or well-behaved or anything. I imagine Petunia was frustrated with this as a child, but then when Lily becomes special, a witch? It all blows up.

As Petunia said, "they were so proud to have a witch in the family" with a bitter voice. I imagine the Evans parents bragging to their friends about how their daughter was attending this ~prestigious~ school for gifted children. And then about Petunia: "oh, well, she's Petunia. you know teenagers these days! ANYWAY BACK TO LILY..."

AND THAT BREAKS MY HEART. And a lot of this is bias/headcanon, but I think I understand why Petunia became so bitter. She was the unfavoured child, the one who was never as good as her younger sister who was so ~perfect and who could never, ever earn her parents' love like Lily had. So, she hates Lily for being a witch, and for being so wonderful. We never learn much about the Evans parents or how Petunia feels about them, but that fact shows that Petunia must have been upset with them as well.

WHICH is why I decided to take away all of that from Nia; took away her competition in Lily. Nia was an only child, and while she was still not ~perfect or anything, she never felt like she wasn't good enough or special enough. Which I think is the reason she hasn't taken well to the Lilys. She can connect the dots; in another world, she's a muggle with a witch sister (one of whom MARRIES JAMES :|) and hasn't spoken a kind word to Lily since Lily started Hogwarts. Nia remembers how happy her parents were about her specialness, and she realizes that if she's a muggle and Lily's a witch that means that she didn't get all that attention. Nia/Petunia, I think, is someone who has always liked/wanted to be loved and given attention. Nia got that in her world, but in canon Petunia was just... the other Evans daughter.

She and Sirius get along WELL ENOUGH, I think? I'd bet they wouldn't if Nia wasn't James' girl, though.

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None, obvi.
















JAMES, I'D THINK

But she also likes the "little pirate girl" aka Victoire.

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