Adoptable Plots

[Topaz Urquart]

Pottermore:

Any bite or scratch given by a werewolf will leave lasting scars, whether or not he or she was in a wolf’s form at the time of the attack.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO FIND OUT THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHER IS A WEREWOLF BECAUSE THEY GET SOME SCRATCHES IN BED THAT JUST DON'T FADE. MAKE IT HAPPEN CHARMING.

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   Dorothea Potts, Edmund Grimm, Lydia Harleston, Odira Potter

[Darling Whitledge (Hymn)]

This is an idea that has been ruminating in my head for, honestly, a few years...

There should be an opiun den somewhere – probably London. The family that owns it could have something like a “traditional oriental” (see: exotic and vibrant) tea/herb shop in the front, while behind it or downstairs there is an opium den. The opium den would be a public secret.

The family would likely originate from the lower class, but I think, depending on business, they could easily rise/have risen to the middle class.

P.S. If anyone is down for this, I will totally help brainstorm/family build because I seriously want in – I just don't want to make another character right now. >>;

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

Someone should run an owl retirement/rehoming service for owls who are too old, too daft, or too silly to be good at delivering mail. Like the adoption services for dogs who flunk out of seeing eye dog school. They should be used as pre-Hogwarts pets for kids because 1) teaches them responsibility so they can take care of a proper owl while at school 2) you're seven who would you actually need to write to, anyway?

And then children who attempt to use their owls for mail can have them get lost and freak out, and parents can be like /sigh NOT AGAIN okay junior let's go find this fucking bird before he gets eaten by an eagle or something.

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   Ginevra Blackwood

[Hudson Pine]

Going off of this headcanon

1. Your LC female student purchases a second-hand book. She discovers dick doodles in some of the pages. She doesn't know what they are. ;)

2. Super cliche, but a less dramatic take of the 6th Harry Potter book. xD

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

Inspired by "The Juniper Tree", aka that really bizarre opera we went to see.

A child finds the recently murdered/otherwise killed body of someone they know. An adult they trust (parent, guardian, older sibling, nanny) was actually responsible, but convinces the child it is his/her fault. The adult promises it can be "their secret," then uses the child's guilt over "what you did" to manipulate them for years to come.

Obviously sooner or later the kid grows up and starts to realize there are some holes in the story...

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   Acacia Ruskin, Cassius Lestrange, Ginevra Blackwood, Priam Lestrange

[Ophelia Dippet]

A man/woman exchanging letters with someone they like asks a friend for a little editorial help. You can't woo someone with misspelled letters! Their friend, however, edits the letters so heavily that they're totally unrecognizable (but much better). This creates some difficulties later in the relationship when the fraudulent letter writer can't really talk intelligently about any of the things on their letters.

Or: get multiple friends involved and write love letters by committee, so that the "person" the woo-ee is enchanted by doesn't actually exist.

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   Ellory Pendergast

[Ellory Pendergast]

I found this list of facts and some of the animal ones gave me Animagus ideas:

Sharks are immune to all known diseases

After becoming a shark animagus, your character also gains immunity or near immunity! That could explain why they are the sole survivor of the Laughing Plague from the family. ;)

Crocodiles are color blind

After becoming a crocodile animagus, your character also becomes colourblind.

Kiwi birds are blind

Guess what happens to your kiwi bird animagus... ;)

Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal

After becoming a giraffe animagus, your character begins to have high blood pressure issues.

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

After many years of contemplation, Symmes announced his answer in a single-page circular dated April 10, 1818: "TO ALL THE WORLD! I declare the earth is hollow..., containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking." (Sea of Glory, America's Voyage of Discovery, Philbrick)

Someone should mount an exploratory mission to a place that doesn't exist.

Someone should also just go explore something in general because the Victorians did that. Antarctica wasn't even discovered until the 1820s and they were still launching expeditions to try and determine where, exactly, the North Pole was in 1905-6 when Peary finally calculated it. You could tie in this adoptable plot, too. ;) also if someone was going to do it with my I wouldn't mind making an explorer just saying >>

EDIT: ALSO Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Lost World in 1912 and it was about an expedition to find the VE version of Jurassic Park somewhere in South America - there is still a LOT of unknown in the world in 1887!

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

I just finished "Lolita" and YOU GUYS IT WAS SO GOOD.

So, inspired by:

A character is madly in love with another, but cannot marry them for some reason (wrong age, wrong gender, wrong class, wrong blood, already married, or just unrequited). They marry into the family (or their flame's closest friend) instead, just to be close to them. Obviously, their spouse eventually gets wise to all this.

An unhappy child intentionally tries to get themselves kidnapped--maybe as a temporary act of rebellion, maybe as a more permanent gesture as an alternative to properly running away.

A child witnessed or can prove an adult in their life committed a crime, and blackmails/extorts them into spoiling the child.

A character is out for (potentially lethal) revenge for a wrong committed by an unknown party. After trying to find the culprit for months/years, they finally realize they are much closer to their intended murder victim than they realized.

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

Went to MoPOP's "Scared to Death" exhibit and they had a section on Vampire facts (e.g., vampires must be invited inside), complete with sassy/silly "Try This!" blurbs, and...



If that's hard to read (shitty phone picture sorry), it says: "Try this! Offer to house sit for someone you dislike, and when they're out town invite hundreds of vampires inside for a soiree. Then get the hell out."

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

An authoress, who has been using a male pen name for her entire career, meets a man of the same name--who has been claiming her works as his own and reaping the associated prestige. She can't reasonably prove that he's not the author without killing her own literary career, and dragging her publisher through a cloud of scandal--so what does she do?

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   Cassius Lestrange

[Ophelia Dippet]

Jack just told me a story from his childhood where he got into a fight with another boy and they got sent to the principal's office. When they were questioned about what had happened, they both asserted "Nothing happened. We don't know why we're here." After going around in circles for a while, they were eventually dismissed... and in Jack's words, "We were best friends from that day forward."

I don't have any student characters but that's cute and someone should use it. xD

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   Cassius Lestrange, Finn Rowe, Marceline Gillum, Tansy Abberton

[Ophelia Dippet]

blood feud (n.): a lengthy conflict between families involving a cycle of retaliatory killings or injury.

See also: Hatfields & McCoys

The idea of having a "ward" comes from an old conquering/conquered kingdom relationship where the conquering ruler would take a young prince/princess/etc from the conquered royal family as a hostage to ensure the conquered nation continued to meet its demands. The ward would spend their entire life in their new kingdom and would often be raised as a son/daughter--except for the lingering threat of death should their distant relatives start screwing around.

That concept was later adapted as a way to solve blood feuds, with peacemakers offering to marry their daughters into the rival family--and occasionally insisting that they then be allowed to raise their first grandson, you know, just in case anything should happen to their daughter that seemed fishy.

The amount of played characters you'd need in order to make this a feasible plot is a little ridiculous, so it'd basically have to involve at least one already played family and I'm not sure we have any that would fit. But HOSTAGE EXCHANGE. SO MUCH DRAMA.

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   Aeror

[Ophelia Dippet]

A character needs to communicate something they can't come right out and say, so they expend a LOT of work into studying illusions and how to create them. Finally, they feel confident enough in their ability to convey their message... via dream. Which would have been perfect, if the intended recipient didn't completely misinterpret it.

  

[Souri Avninder]

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant Victorian Era Edition:

Basically what it says on the tin. Some married lady (or not for extra scandal/panic) doesn't figure out she's pregnant until she's in labor. It could be a cryptic pregnancy where she thinks the symptoms are signs of some other illness orrr something else. Whatever the case, this would be hilarious.

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   Socellia Morzolla

[Cassius Lestrange]

so I'm listening to the Lore podcast and the narrator talks about how women would sometimes conceal illegitimate pregnancies and then abandon the babies to die of exposure... and specifically the case of a woman who got caught, and said that the baby was stillborn. (We don't know if it was, obviously.)

Do that. Get caught. Did she kill it, or was it a stillborn? Get brought to trial. What happens now?

the episode