open | july catch-all

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Who: Luna Lovegood + you!
What: Catch-all; general prompts + Leitners Player Plot prompt + eventual event toplevels.
When: The month of July.
Where: Various.

Content Warnings: warnings in individual prompts.

☽ i try to still look with wonder on the world | general catch-all — early - mid-July
cw: n/a

[ July brings an insufferable heat that reminds her much of a mix between the July and August months of the last summer in Deerington before the end. Luna does not work well in this heat, and she tries to balance trying to remain comfortable with trying to be practical about living in a world of blood. Not to mention the distinct feeling of anger in the air. Even Luna seems more snippier than usual; prone to snapping or falling into cold, withering looks when she’s annoying. Hot Girl Summer has never been so difficult.

(Luna really wishes that she’d been wrong about the Season of Blood, she really does.)

As she goes about her day to day business, she’ll be looking less than thrilled about the weather: melting in the markets or over at Ritual Gig in Willful Machine; slumped at desks in the Archives as she works on her Beasthood book; trying to clean up the rotting fruit about Gaze, or down by the Farther Shores to catch the sea breeze. You might catch her blasting herself with a cooling charm which, perhaps if you ask nicely enough, she might allow you a go.

Fortunately her home is very cool and comfortable, with the use of her magic to adjust the atmospheric charms accordingly. People she knows are free to come visit whenever they like for somewhere to chill, and even some delicious baked goods Luna worked on last month, magically charmed to keep for longer than usual. Or maybe they might end up coming on a bad day when Luna’s tweaking of her enchantments don’t go quite to plan, and they’ll turn up at her home with it actually snowing inside, or with a miserable drizzling happening. The only one happy about this is Helga, who’ll be rolling about the floor in the little snow that’s collected there already if they come on a snow day. Luna will be quite exasperated: ‘It’s just, ah. Um, technical difficulties? But with magic. Magical technical difficulties.’

Or perhaps she’s caught out when one of the thunderstorms hit. She’ll be taking refuge beneath the doorway of the closest building as soon as the rain starts, low and terrible cracks of thunder stretching overhead so loud it sounds like the very sky itself is splitting apart. Probably not for the best to be out in it, and she’ll be ushering anyone else caught out to come share the doorway with her: Come on, there’s plenty of room. It’d be better to wait for the storm to pass. ]

☽ i'm on fire, but i'm trying not to show it | leitners player-plot — mid-July
cw: references to parental death, character death; supernatural/cursed books; possible magical misfires / mild magical violence.

[ It’s creeping in the shadows, unseen. Some unknown form that lurks about her, no matter where she goes. And even Luna can’t shake it off; the distinct feeling of being watched and finding nothing there. But no, it’s not nothing is it? It’s something. Something is watching her, day and night. It knows her.

The words come; whispers that follow her. A voice so gentle, but it’s not just any words that it whispers to her. It tells her things she already knows: it recounts the story of how her mother died; of her loneliness and stolen things for years in the corridors of Hogwarts; of the wild-haired witch and her wicked, unforgivable curse. Of her deaths in Deerington, her mistakes; the people she hurt and how. And how delicious they are: secrets and horrors of her past tasted and savoured like a fine wine, or sweet dessert. It knows her.

The days in which she spends pouring over the Handbook for the Magnus Archives, the voice comes; they watch. Each time louder, more insistent. And with the growing heat and bubbling anger beneath her, Luna becomes on edge, paranoid. The voice is stalking her, creeping a little too close — she walks with a hair-trigger. Approaching Luna will not have the best of consequences; she may draw her wand, other times she might fire-off a swift knock-back jinx to the poor unsuspecting person. But they'll always be met with a rather biting: ]

Don’t sneak up on me like that—!

☽ the feeling comes so fast and i cannot control it | event
cw: here

FORTUNE'S FOOL — network: un: quibbler

[ Luna is dating Peter Graham. Some people might already know Peter happens to be possessed by the ancient demonic deity Paimon, a king of hell. Others perhaps know there's something up with Peter, and consider him dangerous. Whatever your character knows, there's room for judgment on such a relationship.

Which could be for anything, but most notably people could judge Luna on the fact she's dating someone who's demonically possessed. Or she's dating someone deemed dangerous, unstable. She's probably going to get herself killed one day being around him, or worse.

Not only that, is that Luna also has a bond with the very demon inhabiting Peter. And who knows whatever that's about. Maybe that's why you're casting your judgement. Maybe there's something more going on here between those two. It's hella sus.

Essentially, consider this prompt your open space to start throwing stones. Call Luna out. Judge her for dating the demonically possessed stoner. ]

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