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CONTACT: PM; nowalouderstrain@gmail.com;

balsamandash

ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Central Time; irregular hours. I can be both slow and irregular with my pace. I have several health issues, and some days I can't tag at all. If I haven't tagged back in a while and you want to make sure I got the tag or am still planning to return it, feel free to poke me.

STYLE: No preference between brackets or prose; prefer present tense, but will match past. I will occasionally post to texting memes, but tend to have trouble keeping up with text threads for long unless they switch to in-person.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: No gore in picture prompts, no graphic descriptions of gore in tags.

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGS/SLOWTIME: Always, and happy to do it for ages. Please feel free to respond to things no matter how old they are, as well.

THREADHOPPING: Check, but generally fine.

FOURTHWALLING: Go for it.

NOT INTERESTED IN: Smut without build-up or previous CR.

DEFAULT CANON POINT: 19-ish, after Hogwarts but before everything went totally to hell; but any time between Hogwarts and the first few years after the Potters' death works equally well.

ALT JOURNALS: Canon, First War-era --

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IN CHARACTER

VISUAL: PB reference. Often looks a bit sick, clothing is generally both worn out and layered, holds herself as if she's trying to avoid attention. She has numerous scars, ranging from almost so faded they're invisible to still healing, but hides the majority of them under clothing as much as possible.

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Have at. Friends will get plenty of physical contact in return; she's touchy with people she likes and feel are likely to like her enough not to mind. Strangers will probably get frozen at until she can politely remove herself.

FLIRTING: Feel free. She's likely to be awkward if she notices at all, and shut it down if it's coming from someone she doesn't know.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Rhea will go for her wand before she goes for anything else unless it's immediately after a full moon, in which case the wolfish instincts might drive her to physical violence. She has training with defensive and offensive magic, and is a fairly skilled duelist. Her experience with hand-to-hand is basically nonexistent, but she's strong even as a human; it's not quite enough to register as supernatural strength, but more than would be expected. She won't injure unless you're on the opposite side of the war or go for her first, and won't kill unless necessary.

PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: The werewolf thing may interact oddly with some supernatural effects, so feel free to ask if you have questions related to that. She's had some training with Occlumency and therefore may be able to notice if somebody's in her mind, but the training is not extensive, and as that seems to be more about hiding what you don't want found than putting up blocks, she's unlikely to be able to keep them entirely out. She worries a lot, and tries to tamp down and ignore any instincts that she feels come from the wolf, whether they really are or not. She doesn't like to be noticed, and will be a little paranoid if someone who's not a friend is paying attention to her.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Rhea is a werewolf, and doesn't take the best care of herself. There is a brief period between the Marauders becoming animagi and things getting bad in the War where she's relatively healthy, and even then she runs on the thin side, still regularly collects new scars, and is at least a little bit sore through about half the moon cycle. Before then, and after then, she's a lot sore most of the time, collects a lot of new, fairly vicious scars every full moon, and looks constantly sick and run down. While she's never so unhealthy she can't get by, she's never really in a situation where she's entirely well, either.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: She doesn't do well with anything about werewolves, especially when people start talking about how dangerous they are, or things that makes her worry her secret's going to come out: pointing out her scars, noticing her weird monthly absences, etc. After Halloween 1981, she's also going to have a bad emotional reaction to people talking too much about James, Lily, Sirius, and Peter. Before her friends die, she may shut certain things down as politely as possible, but she'll also try not to show she's bothered, and just about anything else she can basically brush off; after, she's more volatile, but will at least try to hide her reaction out of habit.

RELATIONSHIPS

PLATONIC: She has a hard time making friends, or more specifically, believing people are actually going to stay friends with her if they learn her secret, and tends to shut down to politeness rather than risk opening that wound. But if people stick around, she warms up and becomes attached quickly.

NEGATIVE: Rhea tends to be chilly but polite with people she doesn't like through most of her life, but there's a period of intense anger after Halloween 1981 where she's more apt to lash out if pushed that I'm always interested in playing with.

SHIPPING (GENERAL): Always open. F/F, M/F, threesomes/moresomes/poly, canonmates, and cross-canon/AUs all welcome. Canonmates listed below apply whether also R63 or not.

CANONMATES--

FAVORITES:

YES:

WITH DISCUSSION:

CROSS-CANON TYPES: Other werewolves, especially those either equally paranoid and unhappy about their status, or the polar opposite. Supernatural beings or non-human species with similar standings in their home world to Rhea' standing as a werewolf in hers. People who also have secrets and issues opening up to others for their own reasons. Alternately, people who attach hard and easily and won't let her close himself off despite her instinct to.

WANT ADS

MWPPL all the things, always, especially shippy things. Exploring any differences that come from Remus being female, especially with mixed-gender or otherwise all-male Marauders. (She is likely to take a bit longer to warm up if she's not rooming with any of the others, which could be interesting!) Other werewolves (whether HP-verse or not), especially those more comfortable with it. First War things involving everybody being tense and losing trust in each other. Any CR -- positive or negative, HP or cross-canon -- for brittle, angry post-Potters-dying Rhea. Fake game setting where recently-post-Potters-dying Rhea runs into Sirius, Peter, James, or Lily. Cross-generation HP-verse stuff with young Rhea meeting book or next-gen era characters.

Canon-divergence AU: Things go differently on Halloween in various ways; Rhea never gets to Hogwarts, especially ones where she ends up being convinced to side with Voldemort over it; Rhea gets kicked out after the Willow incident.

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