Hi Followers and Hogwarts Legacy Fans! I might consider making a new main account at some point but please follow this account as this what I am going to be using at the moment but I can’t follow or like anything here and I want to make more friends in the Hogwarts Legacy fandom so please give me a follow.
Ming Wei’s a Fifth Year and Ayehs’a neighbour. She is a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team pre & post cancellations and wants a Quidditch career.
Ayesha Walters (Hufflepuff)
HL Alignment: Good Fanfiction: Good
She is the new Fifth Year in the fanfic series.
She wants to work in the department of Magic Law Enforcement as an Auror.
She loves Natsai, Sebastian and Poppy and grows to love Imelda and Ominis but fancies Amit.
Ayesha takes a part time job in The Leaky Cauldron to help costs.
Ayesha is the Hogwarts Champion in the Triwizard Tournament in her Sixth Year. Joins the Hufflepuff Quidditch team when Quidditch is restored in her Seventh Year after helping bring back Quidditch.
Clara Fraser (Ravenclaw)
HL Alignment: Good (Has 2 Unforgivable Curses) Fanfiction: Good
Clara is a Third Year and close friends with Amit and helps get Ayesha and Amit together. Runs her own book shop and recruits fellow Hogwarts Students after Hogwarts.
She helps out at the Three Broomsticks at age 16.
Elodie Boyer (Slytherin)
HL Alignment : Bad (Has 3 Unforgivable Curses - Yet to get Avada Kedavra at the time of this release) Fanfiction: Good
Elodie transferred from Beauxbatons for her Third Year and has a bit of a dark side which evolves at Hogwarts because her experience at Beauxbatons loyal to her friends. She wants to work with animals post her dark side era.
She had a part time job at The Hogs Head after school but also kept an eye out for shady gatherings.
I will be changing some of these as I try to evolve my characters.
Thank you for defending Seb! I totally agree with the Solomon thing and I think lots could’ve been avoided if Solomon wasn’t such an ass.
Moreover, before finishing the game I always suspected that Solomon knew smth/ was connected to Anne‘s cursing/ cursed her. Smth is fishy about that guy and whatever made him hate Seb & his dad is what escalated things so bad that Seb had to AK him.
Love you lots for that. Especially since the Reddit thread very often takes the hate Seb train.
I didn't realized how often Sebastian is dragged in the mud, but I also don't hangout at hogwarts legacy subreddit, so...😅
Anyways, this is going to be a big thought analysis post:
On Sebastian:
I think the main reasons where my viewpoints on Sebastian comes from might be because I'm an instructor irl and I tend to notice, I really don't have any bad apples.
Maybe it's because I treat my students with respect or I'm just open with them, but whenever they open up to me about their struggles and such, especially since most of them recently became adults as a college student, I notice a lot of their issues comes from their home life and their behaviors is them trying to navigate what's going on.
Some people don't have anyone looking out for them, some are caretakers caring for their families and are falling under the weight of caring for others. Some don't have enough time between trying to do school and work so they can go to school. Some are dealing with family drama of a member going to jail and navigating the emotional distress of that.
I don't see much bad apples - like students who are sincerely bad (like in the evil sense). I just see students on the struggle bus of life trying to get through the day.
Like if I was a teacher at Hogwarts in modern day (depending what are the rules and regulations of teaching in that environment), after finding out one of my students was cursed and her twin wasn't, I would keep a bigger eye on him and try to build a rapport so he at least has ONE adult he can go and talk to about his feelings.
Especially since the older they get, the more (not less) teenagers need a GUIDE to help them navigate their new role as an emerging adults, especially for a boy on the edge of entering manhood.
Sebastian Sallow is a troubled child because he has no real adult guide looking out for him. He honestly has no one checking up on him, making sure he has someone to lean on because he's emotionally hurt from his chronically ill sick twin sister. The fact that his parents are dead (and from what I can guess, they died while they were children - I often headcanon their parents had died when the Sallow twins were 6 or 7) and his current guardian really does the bare minimum to making sure the twins have what they need (Solomon Sallow is more of a guardian than an uncle due to how he treats the twins and has more of an lawful obligation to them to fulfill than a loving parental one to them from my personal view), Sebastian isn't getting his emotional needs met.
So what do emotionally needy kids do at school? They misbehave.
It's canon how often he gets detention at school. It only gets worse after Anne is cursed. And the fact that he bonds to MC that quick because for once someone is giving him the time of day (who isn't reeling from Anne's curse because I'm going to be frank with you, Ominis is just as affected by her curse as Sebastian is, but the two honestly have different ways of dealing with grief. Ominis's way is to just keep it in while Sebastian's form of dealing with grief is a more outward expression) and doesn't pity him and just sees him as Sebastian Sallow and not the twin to be pitied on because his sister is sick. I wouldn't be surprised if that's how everyone sees him at school now - someone to be pitied on. I know that from his character, that's the last thing he wants.
On Solomon:
I think one of the biggest things that made me disliked Solomon Sallow is just how he destroyed that plant Sebastian brought for his sister. He did it right in front of us, the player who is a teen and Sebastian's new friend.
If he does that in front of open doors, I can only imagine its worse behind closed doors.
Then there's the attitude he takes on Sebastian. It's canon that Solomon doesn't like his brother (Sebastian's dad) and it doesn't help Sebastian that he looks like his dad and Sebastian has a fond memory/connection with his father. So Solomon knows how much he is hurting Sebastian when he calls him, "His father's son" as an insult. And he does it on purpose.
I notice that any interaction he has with Sebastian, Solomon tends to escalate the situation instead of de-escalating. Like that opening scene when we met him, Solomon acts like an irrational adult at Sebastian, who is trying something to help out Anne by bringing her a plant that works like a painkiller. This is no different from Sebastian trying to give her some Advil for the pain in muggle terms.
Instead of seeing how this is Sebastian's way of dealing with his grief (Sebastian's is a do-er in trying to navigate, he needs to do something and not feel helpless) and trying to talk to him or at least give him tasks to make him feel like he's helping Anne (like I don't know, maybe he can ask Sebastian to help prepare pain potions for Anne or request that he gets her things to keep his mind busy and feel like he's helping, like he's doing something), he destroys the plant.
He escalated on Sebastian on day one when we just met him. In front of his friend. He embarrassed Sebastian right in front of his friend.
Not only did he do that, he also kicked Sebastian out of his house. He kicked a minor out to fend for himself in the streets to be homeless. I don't care if it's 1890s or 2025. That is enough of an action to tell me he was looking for a moment to get rid of Sebastian with a good excuse. I know what Sebastian did; he used the imperio curse to prevent Anne from getting hurt in a gruesome way.
IF Sebastian was my kid/under my watch after he used the imperio curse, I would drag his butt into the house by his ear and make him sit down and have him explain himself. Explain why he used that curse instead of other spells and even see if I can figure out who taught him that spell by letting him speak. Only then, once I have the full details of what's going on his mind, I'll explain why its bad to use said spell -especially in the way he used it- tell him the consequences of said spell (maybe even take him to Azkaban considering they'll just let anyone in that time period with how MC was taken their by an NPC for a quest item in one of the Hufflepuff quest lines) and make him think out loud what would happen if he went there, how it would affect Anne and how his misbehavior is affecting her and then try to re-orientate his grieving energy to do something productive (because the kid needs something to do to help his sister).
Grieving teen boys need a hand to guide them in life - sometimes it might be gentle or firm, depending on how they're behaving- but they need an adult. Not someone to toss him away like he's worth nothing like how Solomon did.
And lastly, there's is the fight at the catacombs. Solomon was trying to kill MC and Sebastian. You can't convince me otherwise. He escalated the situation by destroying what Sebastian had and pulling the gun on them in muggle terms instead of making Sebastian talk and see what's going on in his mind. Considering the fire tornadoes he threw at us (in some of the game plays that I've seen) and it turned into an all out brawl where even with Sebastian is calling him out ("You were supposed to protect us!") as Solomon attacked both MINORS, I can honestly see how Sebastian might have thought this would be a fight to the death with how much Solomon didn't like him.
Maybe a small part of his mind might have thought Solomon might kill him and this became "it's either him or us", like what happened in the Scriptorium when it came to your lives. Only instead of pain being the major consequence, it's someone's death. And Sebastian had to choice, it will always be him and MC staying alive over Solomon, especially during that short second decision.
The game itself never pulled any punches from portraying Solomon as a bad guardian, especially to Sebastian. It gave us hints from statements either male had said (Solomon with "You're just like your father!" as an insult and Sebastian with "You got a first-hand glance at what I'm dealing with. I apologize for my uncle."), to how Solomon talks to Sebastian with his tone and body language. Make no mistake, its all done on purpose as the game is trying to get the message into the player's head that he isn't a good guardian. At least, not to Sebastian.
Anne's Curse:
Okay so I have two theories on Anne's curse.
One is more of a headcanon joke I said to myself that I couldn't help but post that Anne's real curse is that she just got her period and suffers from endometriosis and bleeds heavily that essentially prevents her from living a normal live and it doesn't allow her to go to school. When we see her "curse" hit, it's just an extremely bad cramp. But because of that time period, men weren't supposed to know. Solomon does cause he is her guardian and Anne was socially shamed by the healer to not tell her brother about her monthly period. Getting your period at 14 years is not abnormal but Anne's periods sure are, especially with endometriosis which has no cure in that time period. Essentially in that headcanon au of my, Sebastian and Anne are doomed by that time's period social status quo about not being able to talk about periods and such and Solomon doing his best to cover for Anne so that Sebastian doesn't know that his sister is just having heavy bad periods because he shouldn't know as that will be a faux pas in that time period.
The non-joke headcanon that I have on Anne's curse is not my idea but I've seen it thrown around on Tumblr about how Solomon knows it was Rookwood who did it (from what he figured out through his Auror contacts) but doesn't tell Sebastian as it would only cause the boy to have a one man campaign against said man who is essentially the mafia leader that controls the highlands at the moment and the current magical ministry in London doesn't care to help out Scotland at the moment in that time period. So Solomon keep mum since he knows that there is really nothing that can be done unless Rookwood is killed or undo the curse.
In conclusion:
Sebastian is essentially screwed either way since Solomon doesn't help him deal with the grief of Anne being cursed. It doesn't help that they're both men and in that era, men won't talk about feelings and Solomon probably sees it more that Sebastian isn't manning up and bottling it in. The problem is Sebastian never had to do that since he had Anne to talk to about his feelings, he had someone to listen to him and now he doesn't.
That's where the really tragedy comes from:
The lack of having Sebastian's emotional needs met.
Solomon never cared for it, made it worse purposely at times and ironically paid that price with his life.
Sebastian may have became a monster in that one moment, but who was supposed to be the adult here? Who was poking or even stabbing Sebastian's emotional wounds? Who threw a minor out to the streets to fend for himself instead of having a sit down and talk like grown ups are supposed and GUIDE the budding young man instead of trying to emotionally destroy him at any chance he gets?
This is very brilliant post on the Sallow situation and I would recommend reading it.
Here is my brief analysis on the situation…
Solomon to me just isn’t parenting type and just didn’t give Sebastian the love he needed. Sebastian felt reckless as he began looking for the relic and the triptych and that recklessness to me without responsible parenting is what made him act and did a bad thing. I would say both of them as just as bad as each other.
I think the whole thing with him fighting MC and Sebastian is pathetic on his part and makes me dislike Solomon with rage as he just assumes without listening which has been on my mind a few months ago as it’s ridiculous to treat the the two minors like that as it’s too far.
Solomon playing the price is important to how that if he did things differently, he wouldn’t have been killed by Sebastian. He is just a a misguided and flawed as Sebastian is.
I feel bad for Anne as she deserves so much better than this mess from the boys. Seeing the death of her Uncle sat the hands of her brother is devastating and to see her stuck in the middle of this drama is horrifying.
I would like to add that Sebastian’s actions have consequences no matter which we choose as we play. It’s something that detrimental what fate the MC goes.
The Sallow’s are a tragic family and a very intresting case.
I want to talk about Ominis Gaunt. Ominis is a character that stands out for being different and that why he is endearing character and deserves more happiness. He has sass and humanity that makes him a likeable Slytherin.
Big thanks to @eternalremorse for her post listing all of MC's classmates, it saved me most of the prepwork for this little project.
Priscilla Wakefield is not in any of the potions classes, at any time. I've replayed both several dozen times, and yes, I know there's a screenshot of her talking to Imelda on the wiki, I don't know when and how that was taken, but from what I can tell, she doesn't exist (at least not in any way that matters)
Also, I didn't include anyone who only shows up in flying class and nowhere else, as the attendance of Sophronia Franklin (who's confirmed to be a third year) definitively proves that that class isn't exclusively for fifth years.
I hope it's obvious that "unidentified student" is MC, I wanted to include them somehow (and had the row to fill anyways)
It’s only Ayesha as the main role but the other three have roles with Elodie being one of two Beauxbaton transfer students alongside Maelle Serber who is a third year but they aren’t siblings.
Ayesha has three siblings, Marcus, Terence who are both at Hogwarts and Tiana who will start a year later.
Clara has a young sibling called Millie who is a year away from attending Hogwarts.
Ayesha and Ming Wei are neighbours.
Hope you enjoyed my quick intro. There will be more.
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