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The Townhouse

Type of Location: Housing
Location: Gaze
Lamp Location: Yes
Identifiers: Identifiable with a pale blue door, and the addition of magical wards that seem to give off the appearance of a soft iridescent haze — a bit like a kind of lens flare — to those who are magically sensitive.
Roommates: Peter Graham.
Means of Contact: Luna's Inbox | Peter's Inbox

A georgian-style townhouse with three floors, plus a cellar. Narrow rooms, old hardwood flooring and an overall cosy but slightly cluttered feel to the place. Luna's taken a great deal of care in making the home feel her own after inheriting it initially from Newt and Theseus, but there's elements of Trench here too in dated appliances and furniture. There's plenty of cosy corners and nooks all over the place, little safe havens to relax. Not to mention quite a lot of books.

The ground floor includes a living room, kitchen, pantry, bathroom and a dining room, along with access to the cellar. First floor is both Luna and Peter's bedrooms, a third spare bedroom, bathroom and Luna's 'Potions Room', where she keeps her ingredient store and other important items. The top floor is largely disused, containing a master bedroom with en-suite, a spare bedroom which will be converted into a greenhouse of sorts, a small study / library and an informal 'hang out' area. There is also a small attic room, mostly used for access to the roof, although Paimon likes to go up there a great deal and has essentially coveted the space as his own for demon related business.

GROUND FLOOR

LIVING ROOM

This room remains probably the closest to how those who knew Newt left it. There's something almost Edwardian to the furniture, but the room is a lot more cluttered that it once was. Decorated in rich, dark tones, it's a very cosy and warm room. A roaring fire is almost always going in the colder months, which adds to that effect. Comfortable sofas and a single arm chair crowd round the fire, a coffee table situated in the middle of them. Bookshelves line several of the walls, filled with all sorts of books. In one end of the room, a chess table sits. This isn't any ordinary chess set, though. This is Wizard's Chess, which anyone who decides to play will quickly find out.

Helga can be found in here often, lounging in her bed in one corner of the room near the chess table, or more preferably stretched out before the fireplace. She is a very good girl, and will pester all visitors for scritches. ... This is also one of the many places that Paimon will scurry into the ceiling, on occasion. Sometimes he just... goes up there and clucks and speaks in ancient tongues. He's fine.

KITCHEN

You can absolutely tell a witch lives here, or certainly someone who embraces the cottagecore witchy vibes one might find on pinterest. Luna, in fact, does not know what a pinterest is but she might be amused the kitchen looks like it. It's a cosy, cluttered place. Herbs and such hang from the ceiling to dry out; there are shelves for herbs and spices and pantry staples, Luna's baking supplies, plenty of cooking utensils, recipe books. There's a lot going on.

Much of it is dated, both the kitchen cabinets and appliances, but there are a few modern appliances like a microwave (almost entirely used by Peter) and fridge-freezer. Luna has also give the place her own decorative twist by painting the kitchen cupboards with flowers and animals and patterns. This place always seems to smell good, even if no cooking is happening. It's very Luna vibes in here.

A door leads to a small pantry, along with the access to the cellar, while another one leads to the house's small back yard. While there's a dining room in the house, just off from the kitchen, there's a small, round kitchen table with a few wooden chairs. There is also a small hutch that houses Queliot, a talking rabbit from the land of Fillory — who was given to Luna by Diarmuid to care for before he returned to the ocean.

FIRST FLOOR

LUNA'S ROOM

If there were a word to describe Luna's room, it would be cosy. A safe haven from the horrors of Deerington and Trench, Luna's bedroom is a warmly lit space. The walls are painted a soft yellow, with many of them adorned with hand-painted murals by Luna of flowers, and creatures both Muggle and Magical: foxes and hares, unicorns and occamies. There is a great deal of 'mood lighting' too: strings of fairy lights and various kind of low-light objects, like her moon lamp on her bedside, or the jars filled with tiny phosphorus lights stored within bookshelves, or magical light encased in crystal suspended from the ceiling. It's an incredibly calm and inviting place.

Much of the furniture is dated to around the British Edwardian era, or maybe just after. Other than her bed and beside, there's a long dresser with a mirror fixed atop it. There's also Luna's desk, which is filled with jar of drawing tools: paints, pencils, pens, jars of beads and little boxes of her sewing and knitting equipment. It's an incredibly busy space, but it's kept neat and tidy for the most part. Like with most of the house, there's a few bookshelves in Luna's room too: filled with both books and little nooks and spaces for Luna's treasures she's bought or been gifted. Her Hogwarts trunk sits at the bottom of her bed, much like when it did at Hogwarts. There is even space in one corner for some huge pillows on a raised, cushioned spot, more fairy lights decorated around it — a little reading nook, or somewhere for Paimon to sit quietly when he's allowed in Luna's room.

PETER'S ROOM

The Depression Pit. As of January 2023, Peter's room has undergone a little decorating project thanks to Luna. Gone are the piles of dirty laundry and small hoards of forgotten trash. Peter's new room is almost unrecognisable compared to how it had once been to those who've been in here before.

While the walls are coated in white paint to freshen them up and make them look a little more modern with the house's older architecture, the ceiling, however, Luna has painted to look like the stars in the night sky. There's something a little magical about it, too. Quite literally. The ceiling mural looks incredibly real, the stars twinkle, or the odd one will shoot across the space at intervals. Even some actual constellations can be picked out at times. Like with her own room, Luna's added some of her own touches of fairy lights and trio of little jars in different sizes filled with magical phosphorus lights to sit on a shelf to make the place a little chill and cosy. It's a bit more of a muted kind of cosy compared to Luna's room, but it's a pretty nice place to be.

Peter's room is home to several of his items from home: his telescope sits in a corner closest to the window. His guitar and electronic keyboard are set up in another. His record player sits on one side of his desk. Another.... 'noticeable' point of interest is the small tank that sits on top of his chest of drawers, housing a two-headed fish (their names are 'Lu' and 'Na', thanks Paimon.

LUNA'S POTIONS ROOM

A room few people go into, if any. Not even Peter goes in here. It's kept locked up tight, and arguably both the most precious and safest room in the entire house. It is protected by a crystal deer skull which has been placed inside of it. Gifted to her by Alice Quinn, who first received it from Sodder's Blessings Basket in Deerington, the skull will make the room a safe haven from any horror happening in Trench. Enemies that invade homes will not be able to enter the room with the skull in it no matter how strong their abilities are. Any Trench created illness or malady will not progress while in the room with the skull. It will soothe emotional turmoil and alleviate physical pain, though it will not heal any injuries. The skull will give the room a faint, golden glow and anyone inside the room will feel extreme peace.

It's no wonder she chose this room to keep safe. Luna's Potions room houses both all her magical workings, and some of the most precious items she owns: items from home, ingredients and magical texts, her research on Paimon and the more occult forms of magic, her potion stocks. Once a bedroom, Luna converted the space so she could have a secure room to work in, given both the delicate nature of potion-making and the sensitive information that's housed in here. There's little furniture in it other than a desk with two stools, benches and shelves that house her belongings. It's a pretty busy room, but everything has its place and it's kept in order.

SECOND FLOOR

soon.

ATTIC

THE ATTIC

For the longest amount of time, the attic was an unused space, other than for Luna to use as a way to access the roof. That is... until Paimon decided to frequent the space often enough and wanted to use it and keep it as his own, out of the way of the rest of the household. Luna agreed, and Paimon keeps a great deal of his treasures up here. It's almost like a little magpie's nest of things he's collected from both Deerington and Trench, some look harmless enough, others might be a little more unsettling, like dead animals, bones and jars containing dubious contents. He's crafted himself a little comfortable, albeit spooky space that is his — with Luna helping him decorate it with some fairy lights and soft furnishings for him. You don't really want to go up there, unless Paimon insists.... and well, even then... do you really want to?

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