Jan 14, 2019
Starter call for Bellatrix
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Starter call for Bellatrix
Family
It’s a good thing Regulus has never watched a TV-Family nor has he spent much time with any family that might constitute as “normal” by anyone outside PureBlood Circles. Even still, Regulus understands that families love each other and generally care for each other.
And that is why, at the heart of things, Regulus truly believes if he were a better son, his parents would be better. He even believed, for a time, that if he had been able to be better, Sirius might have stayed (although this has evaporated, the thought is a well worn path in his head and he’s liable to fall back into it for other things)
These thoughts were what helped him move forward after so much family upheaval. He could sit up straighter, he could find a way to almost make eye contact--which was enough, he could enunciate better, learn finances... Of course it has never been enough but Regulus is still trying.
After all, if his family didn’t love him, they wouldn’t push him to be better (although push is a generally light term). Of course, many of the things being asked of him are against his personality or nature--but one day, maybe, he’ll be able to do those, too.
He tries less around Narcissa ( @missmvlfoy ) and her husband ( @purestpeacock ) because, simply, they haven’t demanded it of him and Lucius hasn’t ostracized him for protesting the various things Regulus refuses to do. Bellatrix ( @lestrangebtrix ) is something different all together--and Regulus wanted to imitate her throughout his late teens but now it is more of show, an attempt, and much like what he does with his parents.
Regulus stays where he is, putting a lot of effort into learning how to be the head of house, because he loves his family and, at the same time, he has comparatively fewer people outside of it.
Sirius ( @siriuscrionblack ) and Andromeda ( @ofandrcmedas ) are both complicated topics. While Regulus might begrudgingly admit that he still loves them, trust has been largely broken and he can’t imagine a time when he’d give them something important to do involving him or someone else he cared about. When he says, ‘I’d trust you to slit might throat’ he might mean, ‘You’ll hurt me again if I trust you even a little’
"Right... I don't think that was pumpkin juice..."
“That would be my drink then,” Bellatrix took the goblet from the other. Honestly the elf would have to be reprimanded later for that. She didn’t need anyone knowing she was drinking alcohol right now.
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((The book was FABLES: Animal Farm))
“Please spare me the sordid details of your social life.”
Snape, Lucius, Yaxley (for the Lady's of the Black family.)
“Well I suppose I’ll kill Snape, fuck Lucius as Narcissa would surely find that the least problematic of the three, and that leaves marrying Yaxley who I assume is Corban Yaxley and not another Yaxley.”
“Marry my husband, of course, sleep with Severus, and kill Yaxley. Sadly I am closer with Severus than I am him.”
“If I had to I’d probably marry Snape as he must have some sort of heart given what Sirius has told me of him he grew up outside of our world and was friends with a muggleborn. Then I guess I’ll sleep with Lucius because killing Narcissa’s husband isn’t something I want to do. Which leaves killing Yaxley.”
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“Everyone always acts like me loving Ted makes me better than the rest of the Blacks but there are moments when I catch myself using the m word.”
“Sometimes I don’t know if I actually care for Bella or I just act like it because she is my sister and I have to.”
“It isn’t that I’m incapable of getting pregnant that keeps us from having an heir but rather the fact we aren’t trying.”
“I lean towards lighter grey and the only reason I’m still on the tapestry is Orion is way too lenient and the Prewetts are a very old family.”
“I never told the boys my maiden name, it would only cause issues for them if they realized just who they were related to. Plus knowing Arthur he’d try and befriend some of them.”
“I do actually love Sirius, regardless of the stupid things he does and how irritating he is. I just can’t let his behavior go unchecked.”
“I love my wife but we’ve both sought pleasure from other sources a multitude of times.”
@choosehero
“Mudblood,” Bellatrix made no attempt to hide the contempt in her voice. She disliked every mudblood but this one had done the unthinkable, he had stolen something precious to her and ruined it. “I think you should leave.”
❛ You could say please. ❜ (from andromeda to bellatrix?)
“I only say please when I need something from father,” Bella was the oldest of the three of them and she certainly acted like it, never bothering to ask for permission for anything from the younger two. Why should she when she had been around longer than either of them?