The Effects That No One Saw

The effects that no one saw

- After second year, Ginny could no longer stand snakes. Everytime she saw them, all she could think about was how she had woken up in an unfamiliar place, knowing that she had been the one harming everyone, and discovering that the monster had been a basilisk. What if someone had been killed?

- After everything that happened with the Snatchers, Hermione never wore perfume again. She didn't understand how anyone could. They would just lead the enemy right to their own doorsteps! It took her a long time to remember that there was no enemy anymore.

- For the first time ever, Luna hated darkness. She had always loved it before, but after she was held captive in Malfoy Manor, something had changed, and her love of the darkness turned to hatred. She learned how to make glowing balls of pure energy, and in her room, thousands of them floated in the air. It helped to remind her, when she woke up from another nightmare and forgot where she was, that she wasn't in the dungeon anymore.

- In his second year, Harry found that he couldn't look into mirrors anymore. Every time he did, all he thought of was the Mirror of Erised, and whenever he looked at his reflection, he couldn't help but hope that his parents would be looking out at him again. Every time that they weren't there, his heart broke a little more.

- Ron had always been fine with leaving his friends alone. But he was seventeen, and whenever he tried to leave a room that his friends were in, all he felt was the overwhelming panic of them disappearing, leaving him behind even though all he wanted was to join them again.

- "Please let them be okay," Neville whispered to himself whenever he went to sleep. Because after his seventh year, he had grown so used to his friends disappearing in the night, reappearing days later with new injuries and a haunted look in their eyes. He was terrified to close his eyes, because there was always that fear that one day, one of his friends would vanish and would never come back.

- Whenever her children visited her, Molly Weasley was overjoyed. But whenever her family sat down for a meal, that joy soon turned to grief, as Molly realized that once again she had laid a place for a son that would never eat with them again.

- Andromeda Tonks lived in a house that felt far too big for just herself. She was used to laughter filling up the halls and tripping over messes left by a bubbly girl who changed her looks to suit her mood. She was not used to the empty feeling of grief that followed her everywhere she went. A few days a week, her grandson would go to her house to spend time with her, and he was just as bubbly and irrepressible as her daughter had been. She loved him for that, but sometimes, she hated him for it too.

- For five years after the war, George refused to speak, because he could not fathom how he was supposed to say anything when there was no one who would finish his sentences.

- It took years until Draco could allow people to hug him. And even then, it took everything in him not to shudder and recoil, as his mind flashed back to a pair of cold arms embracing him as he chose his family over his friends.

I reclassed some HP characters into Dungeons and Dragons classes not one wizard in sight. ✨️

Imagine having to DM for this crazy D&D team. 😂

I feel sorry for Sev, he would not enjoy putting up with Lockharts singing, Sirius being Sirius, the twinsies shenanigans and then being protected by Neville of all people. 🖤

Alpine really, really, REALLY wants those pancakes.

Since it's new year it's time to clean up the wip folder. Mostly out of things that are like 90% done but the last 10% got stuck in most time consuming procrastination/perfectionism combo.

There is also a second part to this one with them eating takeout supper post mission but it will take some time (keep your fingers crossed, I really want to draw it but I'm having problems with the sketch)

Clean lineart version is here. I's been posted a little over a month ago which means I'm getting better with my timing :D

TVD/Legacies: Jade as Stefan and Valerie's great-great-granddaughter

(Re-editing this because I realized I got the generations wrong!)

Two seasons late, I know. But I've read the theories and...it would make sense, just needs to be fixed. Being of relation to Valerie and Stefan started great but as their direct child? I quickly decided to fix this theory into something more realistic!

1. A miracle of a last-minute save and Julian letting Valerie believe her baby (dubbed "Jacob") died to keep her from doing anything rash...which we already know inevitably happened.

2. It wouldn't be the first time someone with ties to the supernatural went blissfully unaware of the fact and lived normal lives before they were forced into it and killed, some no more well known than the Salvatores, specifically Tom Avery and Sarah Nelson/Salvatore. So the idea that Jacob was born and lived his entire life blissfully unaware of what his father's life tied him to and it catching up with any of his future children or grandchildren would be fitting!

3. Given the math and flashbacks, the baby would've been born in 1863, and Jade was born in '02/'03 (she was 16 when she was sent to the prison world). That estimated 140-year gap is enough for 3-4 generations of Salvatore-Tulle descendants to be born (and 156 counting Stefan and Valerie being born in the 1840s). And if my math is correct and 2002 is the year Jade is born, she fits the timeline of being Jacob's great-grandchild and Stefan's 2x great-grandchild.

4. Genes get lost and resurface over the years. Jade appears to have Valerie's looks, but I wish we'd seen more of her to know who's personality she's closer to (though considering Stefan wanted to be a doctor before he was a vampire, his distant relative, Tom Avery, was paramedic and Jade was training to be an EMT...yeah, she's likely closer to Stefan's personality).

(Notice I'm not going anywhere near the topic of Jacob - and by extension, Jade - having magic since through Valerie, either could have the gene. And ignore if that active gene could have played a part in Valerie narrowly saving her son's life. For me now, it's easier to say Jacob's line was all human and it ends with Jade being the vampire.)

(And also, how does the saying go? Ah yes: once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a habit. Tom's death, as pathetic as it was and no accident, I could understand. While staying out of the supernatural may have prolonged her life, Sarah's death fit the coincidence. But imagine this whole theory coming to heel here: Jade being the 3rd lost Salvatore relative who died (cementing a pattern - fate or curse, you call it) but breaking the pattern when she became a vampire, thus surviving? It would have been INGENIOUS if Plec had done this route as it would add to Jade's character and be befitting of the show title since she'd be Stefan's legacy!)

In conclusion, Jade being Stefan and Valerie's 2x great-granddaughter through their supposedly dead (but miraculously surviving) son is a great way to connect the 3 characters in a more realistic (and Plec Verse-like) way. Gives her more screen time and arc compared to just being Josie's love interest, gives a next-gen. connection to the Salvatores (because as much as I dislike Damon's character, ain't no way would he let anything happen to the only living tie he had left of his brother), and gives fans the satisfaction of seeing what no one else saw. Plus, it could be a running gag that she and Stefan share a Ripper status, like 2x great-grandfather, like 2x great-granddaughter!

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