Second: Sorry for taking so long(the last question was hell XD)
Third: Please Enjoy <3
13. Can MC see thestrals? Who did Mc see die in order to see them?
(Remember my HPHM!au is also a partial crossover with FMA)
David can see them, yes. The reason is that Jacob sealed/rewrote David’s memories about himself, so David was sure to be an only-child, with an absent Father and a dead mother. Jacob didn’t fixed/rewrote David’s personality so he couldn’t/wouldn’t feel lonely, and in fact David’s feeling of being alone and envious of other happy families around him, tries to resurrect his dead mother, God/Truth punished him by removing his sense of touch and pain(with the words “The one who sought for a warm embrace of a family lost the ability to feel at all!”) what came out from that human transmutation(like in FMA) was nothing but a blob made of flesh, bones and blood, but for David’s mind that thing was still human, he believed that thing was his mother(and by extension a human) later(like soon as he will have a talk with his Mother’s ghost in Hogwarts) he will learn that he just transmuted a random person and his mother’s soul never joined that disgusting blob of flesh not even for a second(still a human transmutation anyway).
In the end, my point with the Thestrals is that someone MUST BE conscious of the concept of “Death” in the moment when they see someone die in front of them (Sorry i had a conversation a long time ago about this…still salty about it, because they were mad about baby Harry Potter not being able to see thestrals since day one in Hogwarts)
22. Does MC trust Dumbledore?
David is quite intuitive, so he doesn’t hate Dumbledore(i’ve an headcanon where a sad and lonely but before losing his memories about Jacob David met him thanks to Jacob so he could have some fun with this funny old guy, enough to name him “Grandpa Beard” and enough that the three of them shares a photo they took together), but he has a weird feeling about him, like he is a mastermind and everyone is dancing on his hands.
They have an unusual relationship, where David trust him but without truly feeling anything for him sometimes is the opposite, he feels something for him but without showing any form of trust for him(mostly depends from their interactions)
During the years of HPHM, David even while he is not Headboy(because fuck, let’s give Rowan some recognitions, he works hard) David is still the loudest voice of all the crap and problems happening in Hogwarts, trying to modernize and assure the safety of the school for the next generations of students.
After HPHM we can truly understand what is the most powerful ability of David Haywood(yeah at this point is either married with Penny or about to): When you hide something (or lie) to him, he will do everything to jeopardize your plans/uncover the truth. Dumbledore had some experience with this aspect of David, to the point to share his plan related to Harry(the whole Chosen One) and decides to include him as a failsafe-mechanism and emotional support for the whole Golden Trio, even with his job and being busy, even in his worst situation tries to be there for them(in both Auror!AU and Cursebreaker!AU), trying to lighten the weight of their problems but still help them to learn from those problems.
In general Adult!David and Dumbledore are quite similar in a odd way, they both think in a similar way but they act differently, while Dumbledore is a strategist quite far away from the frontline, David is more like a Leader(the kind that is friendly with his subordinates) in the frontline. This small but very important difference is also the main reason why David wasn’t there during Dumbledore’s funeral, while everyone was crying the death of “a great man” David was cursing Dumbledore’s plans that bringed him to his willing end.
I also want to add that David or MC in general in a “most near to the canon AU” is one of the outcasts collected by Dumbledore like it’s mentioned in THIS post.
Like Harry, MC became an outcast because what Jacob and R(and anyone related) did with the Vaults, putting shame and hate on MC’s family.
The bad reputation of MC and their family, became so bad(thanks also to Rita and the Daily Prophet and their lies) that MC is the most hated person in Hogwarts and it will take five years(almost six) to be considered by the other students(not our friends) a hero. Similar to Harry’s situation during his Fifth Year, but MC has to deal with that kind of bad reputation for a longer period/time.
It’s most likely that Dumbledore in this “most near to the canon”!AU will most likely abandon MC or take care of them the minimum enough for not making them go crazy/insane until they solve the problems with the Vaults.
After all from what i saw in the game, MC is not loyal to Dumbledore but too their cause: Saving Jacob and Save Hogwarts. It’s a fact that Basic!MC(also known as “Game!MC/The MC without headcanons”) didn’t spend enough time with Dumbledore to feel faith in him. Maybe Dumbledore’s abandonment is more like “Okay now, go out there, and live your life away from hogwarts and never come back because I don’t need you anymore and Harry must stay away from you because you know how shitty i am”.
30. Do you have any songs that remind you of MC, Jacob, and/or their relationship? Do you have a playlist? Would you mind linking me to that playlist? Thanks.
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This playlist should represent their relationship as Rivals and Brothers, they love each other but in a way that resemble the relationship of Dante and Vergil during the ending of Devil May Cry 5, at the same time they both act like a brat to each other, always teasing and mocking each other, trying to start a fight. But in the end they give their best shot when they fight together, like a walking natural disaster, nothing can stop them. (The seven pages of Muda are mostly there because like Giorno, Jacob’s sense of justice is similar to Giorno’s)
treasure cheat opened you acquired the holy sword Excalibar
"Oh yeah, i can definitely do some hack 'n slash trickswith this beautiful piece of craftsmanship" as Shadow uses the sword like the rebellion from DmC
