a hiccup escapes rosy lips, and she wipes the tears from her cheeks, purposefully making a mess of her carefully applied eyeliner. “ i swear, i never do this, “ she says, voice weak, a little hoarse from crying. lipstick becomes a little bit smudged as by design, and she looks at them with big, sad eyes. blinking away tears. seeing if she can break them, slither in. gain some sympathy. “ crying, alone in a bar? what you must think of me. “ another hiccup blends with soft laughter, and she leans her upper body across the counter, an arm stretched out under her. “ can you just tell me if you’ve seen my boyfriend in here with someone else? please? “ she asks, voice a little shaky, filled with uncertainty. sounding like she really, really cares. as if rita skeeter has ever given a fuck about anyone other than herself. no, she’s writing a piece on a man that’s elusive enough to slip through her grasp, but is also ( according to the most RELIABLE sources ) supposed to be sleeping with someone other than his wife. and of course, rita is tasked with finding out the who, the when and the where. what a glamorous job she has.
the choked out hiccups were not familiar ones but brought a significant annoyance to rodolphus' already lingering headache. all he wanted after work was a couple of drinks, something to help him sleep later knock him out with ease not have some crying girl sat next to him blubbering about who knows what --- not that he cared. " do you always care so much about what strangers think? " he muses with a lack of care, not particularly wanting to talk to the woman out of anything but he supposes politeness if you could even call it that. " no, " he doesn't even know what the man looks like, doesn't care. this is too exhausting for his bland thursday night.
edgar is exhausted and despite being far from old age --- his back in aching as he chases around his far too hyper daughter who is shimmying through people and living her best life. he isn't too fond of this game, far too tired from a mission the previous night to be chasing his five year old around a crowd of people while carrying the two year old in his arms. and before he can actually catch her, she slams into someone's feet plopping to the ground staring up at the other. " c'mere, --- " he begins snatching her hand before glancing over at the person in front of him still out of breathe. " sorry bout that. "
WHEN: january 30th, 10:32pm
WHERE: the hogs head
WHO: open
𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐔𝐒 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 — 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃. plastered on the headlines of every paper, on every doorstep. she couldn’t escape it even if she tried. and what was worse was that she couldn’t even mourn. because it wasn’t fair — she wasn’t a black. she was an onlooker. she was supposed to read the news, shed a tear and move on. but regulus — little regulus. little regulus who she’d watch grow. little regulus who was too young to understand when she walked out. little regulus who she’d never had the chance to apologise to, who she’d once loved so deeply and who had once loved her. she’d never said goodbye — i’m sorry — i still love you. and now she never could. but there was no one to talk to — except, maybe, sirius. and yet a part of her didn’t dare try and find him. and so instead she sat where she so often did, at the bar of a seedy pub in hogsmeade, slowly nursing a dry whiskey. ❛ this seat’s taken, ❜ she lied to the figure who was hovering beside her. she needed her space. little regulus black was dead, and she had no choice but to mourn.
dear regulus was dead and well, tragic as it may be --- narcissa could not even say she was surprised. those two black boys, always gotten themselves into a bit of trouble even if the blonde had always favored the younger of the two. it was painful nonetheless, he was family and it left a sour taste in her mouth. the same kind of feeling she got when she remarked of andromeda's departure from the family, leaving without a damn word. the ghosts of her past were fading faster than narcissa could count and it was not something that she had ever desired, certainly not now. and the witch now, has no fucking clue what brought her into a bar this late --- or maybe she wouldn't admit that the one reason she was there had been sitting in front of her all along. " they'll find a new seat, " the younger sister says, not knowing what to say to the nearly unrecognizable woman in front of her, someone who feels like a ghost to narcissa.
“ i’m so sorry to bother you, but by any chance have you seen my cat ? she’s missing and i’m worried SICK. ” sybill is standing outside the three broomsticks and she is still smiling despite the lack of success so far —– has been hanging flyers and handing out photos around hogsmeade all morning but no one is helping her has any information. sybill hasn’t seen luna in a few days, she missed thursday tea time and luna has never missed thursday tea time ( luna’s favorite is oolong and sybill had brewed a large pot for her yesterday, drank it all herself when she was stood up and couldn’t sleep because of it —– which just gave her more time to obsess over what could be wrong. ) “ please, do you have a MINUTE ? ”
narcissa was digging through her purse for something she couldn't even remember now --- pregnancy brain was pretty fantastic like that --- when the others voice completely snapped her out of her concentration. " what? i haven't seen your cat, any cat for that matter. do you need something else or are you going to continue bothering me about it? "
🎶 for me to use my favorite line of the last song I listened to as a starter / LUCIANA
" you know --- i could always lie and say i like it like that, " narcissa offers a half assed shrug of her shoulders, knowing damn well that most of her life had been that way. the blonde was decently used to faking a likeness to pretty much everything in her life. it was nothing more than a mask to please whoever the fuck needed her at the time.
🎬 for me to use a line from the last movie I watched as a starter / MARY
" I only pretend to know everything, Mary. " It wasn't a secret that Edgar knew pretty much nothing, in general and to be quite fair --- the statement wasn't entirely wrong but it was going to get his ass royally handed to him some day.
💻 for me to use a line from my favorite TV show as a starter / ALICE
“ I’m hopeless and awkward and desperate for love. “ Edgar was a fucking nightmare and generally for some reason, the male felt the need to spill all of his inner thoughts onto his best friend.
because i take eighty thousand years to do anything here is rodolphus intro! here is his pinterest and trigger warnings for child abuse, murder and drug use!
throwback to cami, he is in fact the worst TM i didn’t disappoint you this time <333
shock to no one rodolphus lestrange is the first born to the new reign of lestranges and he was a demon child. spoiled, angry, always getting into trouble but mostly because he was so used to replicating his fathers rage.
his parents hated each other by the time rabastan was born and rodolphus never seemed to care about the prospect of love. however, the only person he's ever cared for (before his wife) is his baby brother who he would one hundred percent protect to his own death.
he looks decently prim and proper. hair combed back perfectly, tattoos hidden by perfectly tailored suits. the boy is filled with an untamable rage yet, not many people would know it's there. he hides it mostly to blend in.
inherited the whole death eater thing --- that was not one hundred percent his choice, mostly tagging along to please his father and nothing else. eventually he ended up thriving in that environment of chaos and destruction. he likes being a death eater and has no shame in the terrible things he does.
loves cats sooooo much. he has two cats, one really hates his wife and he'd die for them. those two cats are the closest rod is ever getting to children bc fuck no!!!!
he's dabbled in drugs for fun because why not? mostly did coke in the past and smokes pot occasionally. rodolphus likes to claim he did all of it because it takes the edge of but it's definitely code for i'm dealing with my childhood trauma and abuse fuck off
speaks four languages because he's an extra over achiever
btw if anyone wanted to know his cats are named hades and lucifer
he kills to feel alive
was definitely a slut while at hogwarts so if anyone wants to bang rodolphus in the past go for it
also a bisexual menace
i never know what the fuck he is doing to be real honest
character insp: jason todd, erik lensher, killmonger, nathan summers/cable, rafe adler, winter soldier bucky barnes, james valdez, loki laufeyson, jax teller.
🎬 for me to use a line from the last movie I watched as a starter
📹 for me to use a line from my favorite movie as a starter
📚 for me to grab the book nearest to me, flip to a random page, and use the first line of dialogue I see as a starter
🎧 for me to shuffle my playlist and use the first line of the next song as a starter
🎶 for me to use my favorite line of the last song I listened to as a starter
📺 for me to use a line from the last TV show I watched as a starter
💻 for me to use a line from my favorite TV show as a starter
🎵for me to shuffle my playlist and use my favorite line of the next song as a starter
💋 for a shippy starter
😡 for an angsty starter
👊 for an argument/fight starter
🌈 for a random encounter starter
💀 for a dark starter
🍬 for a fluffy starter
wiggles around intro number two here we go fam! i'm really lazy so like i was going to recycle cissa's old intro and shockingly decided against it bc i'm changing things up a little but not really! miscarriage and child abuse trigger warnings! over here is her pinterest and you can find her lovely playlist over here!
ok so cissa was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. got everything she wanted, grew up never wondering where her next meal would come from but things weren't perfect. parents buying her everything she wanted wasn't going to fix the fact that she was unwanted and empty inside.
narcissa was the black's last attempt at having a boy and like the two previous attempts --- just another girl. she was completely unwanted by her mother and occasionally her father would show an ounce of affection but it was never more than maybe tucking her into bed a handful of times.
she spent most of her childhood not knowing what she did wrong --- despite the fact that she did everything in her power to be the perfect child. her grades were flawless, she was beautiful, never got in trouble and as far as either of her parents knew did nothing wrong. she didn't talk to the wrong kind of boys, gave the black's a good name ---- everything they could have wanted but she was never enough.
any rebellion as a kid was usually met with harsh slaps from her mother and having her things taken away or broken. eventually she learned not to cry, at least not in front of other people. she held it in, wore a fake smile and grew to be a diamond instead of glass.
she's honestly the aesthetic of lana del rey's ultraviolence
had a serious rebellious phase in her teen years, didn't want to be stuck in an arranged marriage and just wanted to be free. a golden cage is still just a cage and that's not how she wanted to spend the rest of her life --- wishing she was someone else. quickly it ended, she smartened up, shut up and went on being the best daughter she could manage to be.
i don't know how the timelines are going to work yet but she loves her sisters a lot like would do anything for them or well, would in the past. andromeda leaving kind of killed her a bit since i feel like she just went to her for everything, loved her so much and being naive and a lot younger then --- andromeda leaving for a boy was the worst thing she had ever felt at the time.
and she didn't even get the mourn the process of her losing her sister because it was like she never existed to begin with. she'd never admit it but she still misses her a lot, even if andromeda is now just a ghost in her past.
i don't know how her marriage is going to be with lucius since we don't have him at the moment but fuck i just really like to think she married for love. i really want to believe that she did, even if he doesn't feel the same or whatever i feel like she loves him a lot.
she used to be so afraid of being stuck in a loveless marriage like her parents, stuck in a completely miserable unhappy marriage just to have an heir and call it a day but that's a cycle she refuses to repeat.
drinks a lot of wine and smokes a lot of cigarettes when she's not pregnant obviously because right now she's probably like almost four months along with draco.
but not many people know she's pregnant like currently? probably just lucius, maybe bellatrix and ana bc she's got a gal pal i'm hype! cissa isn't crying over baby blaise get out of here! (you know her hormonal ass definitely is)
before draco she's been pregnant twice and both times had miscarriages within the first ten weeks. it was a fucking nightmare and it's just been really hard to try not to freak out when she thinks that so much can go wrong. she really feels like it's her fault for the other times, she's sad i'm sad
she's kind of a bitch but she's certainly not heartless, just angry and 100% done with people. definitely the most competent person to be named malfoy without a doubt.
supports her husband so ie, supports the death eaters but she’ll never wear that make has no desire too. could kill a man without a second thought but she doesn’t care enough to be involved in all that. uses trying for a child as an excuse tbh
character insp: caroline forbes, lydia martin, buffy summers, leia organa, karen page, felicia hardy, emma frost, alice cooper
aesthetics: pearl necklaces, spilled wine, white lace, red velvet cake, sharp heels, white cats, fur coats, diamond earrings, silk sheets, tear stained cheeks and cheek kisses
ok it me tay with intro number one here! i'm still garbage at writing intros but i'm hype to write the best single dad edgar! i'll have his stats up soon but his pinterest board and playlist are here!
for starters edgar is lowkey one of the most irresponsible people possible, or at least was? he's a great dad and is surprisingly fantastic at being a single dad because like wow he loves his kids so much. as far as he is concerned they are the best kids ever and total nerds and he'd do anything for them.
his kids are named malerie and althea i love them with my whole fucking heart, so does edgar. mal is five and thea is two, their mom is out of the picture and honestly he isn't even bothered bc he got the best part of the deal.
he's just a giant softie okay?
wears too many flannels and those god awful hawaiian shirts bc he's that meme where the guy is like gesturing to a butterfly but imagine the dude is edgar and the butterfly is his god awful wardrobe just. is this fashion? NO IT ISN'T EDGAR
messiest hair ever, does he own a brush? yeah i'm sure he does but he's usually more focused on braiding his daughters hair than giving a fuck about his own.
oof he loves rock music, specifically 70s rock and just has the playlist of a dad i'm so proud TM
definitely a dog person i feel like he's got two and an owl
lives in a kind of small but nice three bedroom house with his kids, two dogs and the owl. still undecided where he lives but i feel like when he has order meetings, the weasley's probably end up watching his kids.
could be super loveable if he'd open up enough to let someone love him. he's pretty big on hook ups and doesn't want to get his heart broken again bc the way things were left with his baby mama just weren't great i imagine. they don't talk, she never sees the kids, etc it just sucks a lot
this fucking nerd honestly makes my whole life. loves x-men, star wars, batman and pretty much everything in between. also has an indiana jones hat he got in america and loves it more than anything.
i feel like he's super close with his siblings like he looks up to amelia a lot and she's practically his best friend. she's also like basically in charge if something happened to him, like he trusts her so much without a doubt he'd want his kids to be raised by her. sadly they all fuckin die and it hurts me because he's just in the order to make the world a better place for his kids and everyone else.
the idea of his kids growing up in a world run by the dark lord, so hateful and just terrible is not something he'd ever want. he wants his girls to grow up loving and accepting, not caring about things as silly as blood status.
did i mention that he was lowkey a slut while in hogwarts because he was! also he's super bisexual so like! give him a boyfriend or a girlfriend! however i'd die 4 him to get a boyfriend i'm happy with whatever my dudes
drinks too much coffee bc this boy is not a tea person what so ever
fascinated by muggle shit to be completely honest
malerie got him a best dad mug for his birthday and he definitely cried bc how fucking cute is that
has lots of tattoos and makes a lot of awful jokes, ends up regretting that too just aasjfas his constant mood is YIKES
is trying to quit smoking but it's not going so hot he's a progress
i don't know if this would help at all establish his character but i considered chris evans as a fc for him just bc i love that dumb bitch and he lowkey radiates the energy i'm playing for edgar but so does matt daddario in all his god awfUL SHIRTS
character insp: chandler bing, isaac lahey, roy harper, jim halpert, scott mccall, sometimes he’s a peter parker, simon lewis, marcos diaz
aesthetics: dad shirts, burnt out cigarettes, comic books, rings in tables bc of coffee mugs, dogs barking, colorful hair ties, rock music, complaining about being old, dirt caked sneakers
“Do you think we could’ve made it?“ She quietly asks him. He looks over at her, tracing every feature of her face like he had a million times before, and as his heart begins to beat to the rhythm of her short breaths, he turns away. “Yeah,” He barely whispers. “Yeah, I think we could have.”
— E. Grin, we met at the wrong time (via written-in-pen)
