#frankdavis--longbottom

[starbrightblack]

Date: Mid-afternoon February 20, 2982 Location: Potter Estate Starter: @frankdavis--longbottom​

Sirius paced back and forth. Every once in a while, his hand would move toward the pocket holding Regulus’ letter--no, the letter; he couldn’t say for sure it was Regulus’--but he would snatch it back rather quickly. He was a mess. His conversation with Peter last night had been helpful, but he still felt all torn up. He should talk to the inner circle about it, but Sirius was afraid they’d try to take and control everything. He needed to be ready to be firm about what he would say to convince them that this needed to be his mission. Not only did the letter say as much, but Sirius refused to put anyone else in danger. They couldn’t lose more people, especially not right now. Not after... Sirius was still walking mental circles around that part too. He’d cried with Lily, and he’d woken up with his eyes wet and crusty more than once since. But it was still too much.

Sirius was so wrapped up in his own mind that when a hint of movement caught his eye, he whirled around and fumbled for his wand. Sirius was normally so quick on the draw, and his slowly scared him. Everything was causing him to crack, whether he wanted to admit it or not.

“How long have you been standing there?” he asked, lowering his wand again when he realized it was Frank in the doorway. 

[rylandgreen]

Crafting a Report

Location: Auror Office at the Ministry of Magic Date: January 12, 1982, early afternoon Starter: @frankdavis--longbottom

Ryland took a shaky breath, balling his hands into fists on his lap. He needed to look as calm as possible while he did this in case anyone stopped by. He had been missing for several months now, and while he was more cleaned up than he’d been yesterday, Ryland was still a mess. The less attention he could attract was probably better.

He looked up to catch Frank’s eye again and looked away. He had a basic false story mapped out, but Ryland didn’t know enough details of the real story to have a convincing fake one. Hopefully Frank would be able to fill in some of the pieces he was missing. “Well, um, it was September 23. I decided to walk a bit before I apparated to a family event.” That was a lie. He’d apparated straight there, but he’d needed to create a plausible gap to implement someone other than family. “I never saw them. They came after me so fast, and I didn’t have my wand. It was just a family dinner. I didn’t think I’d need it.”

Hopefully that was for the best. Hopefully that meant his wand was still sitting at home right where he’d left it because his wards were too strong for other people to get in. Ryland hadn’t been brave enough to check yet. He didn’t want to walk right back into another ambush.

[justicebones]

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SEND ME A ◈ AND I WILL RESPOND WITH 3-5 SCENARIOS I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT OR COULD SEE OUR CHARACTERS IN.

1) They’re close enough in age to have gone to Hogwarts at the same time, so while he wouldn’t have gotten the brunt of Amelia’s chaos with being in different houses, there is the chance that he could have been crashed into or witnessed some of Amelia’s more crazy antics while they were at school.

2) They work in the Ministry together, so there’s always the possibility of them having either crashed into each other (Amelia is obviously very good at that), or that their jobs have overlapped at some point, or maybe even clashed a little in their views of their jobs and which is better?

3) In that vein of maybe clashing with ideals, maybe hashing out where they stand on justice and the law in general, to see if they agree about anything, or if Amelia’s going to get a little fighty on the ways of justice and how it should be carried out, or how people should act?

[spellnbone]

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at hogwarts:

what if frank was the first person that made edgar realise that rules were all a matter of interpretation? frank catches edgar doing something against the rules and to get out of it, edgar lays out the rules before him, analysing it and explaining why what he’s doing is technically not against the rules

now:

playing off the fourth situation here: what if frank was one of the people who were against edgar’s suggestion, and up until today he still thinks it was pure luck that they got out of the situation with edgar’s plan.

considering the whole ainsley-illness plot: edgar tracing the rumor back to frank and getting appropriately mad at him

[bristlybranwen]

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at hogwarts:

did frank play quidditch? quidditch team mates? bran – as beater – always keeping frank save? except that one time where he said something “rude” to her and so she just hammered the ball straight at his skull?

if he wasn’t big into partying, her annoying the shit out of him for always throwing gryffindor parties.

now:

starting a fight with him on his wedding day because dare he not keep alice safe.

basically resenting him for making alice his ever since and always believing that alice deserved better.

this leading to pretty big problems one day at a mission where they’re paired up

[starbrightblack]

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3-5 scenarios I’ve thought about or could see our characters in

Sirius taking Frank’s accusation to heart about only being able to joke around. I could see him closely surrounding Frank with fake secret admirer gifts like chocolates and flowers just because he can.

Or the opposite happening and Sirius never so much as cracking a smile in front of Frank. He’s not the only person who can always act like a humorless hardass. Sirius can do the same when he wants to.

Maybe someone requires them to end up together for something because of expertise they both have. Sirius would struggle with whether to spend the whole time passive aggressively reminding Frank that he’s “useless, right?” and therefore shouldn’t be there, or to use it as an opportunity to show he’s a competent asset to the Order. It might depend on how Frank treats him at the beginning.

[artemthevictorious]

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3-5 scenarios I’ve thought about or could see our characters in

Lets go a couple rounds. Artem would love to just casually make their way through the order teaching people to fight the muggle way.

Artem is feeling a lot of doubts right now related to the Order. Perhaps Frank could be a good person to sit down to talk to about what things are going to look like in the future and why they should continue to care.

I could see these two being a bad (and fun) combination in a crisis. Maybe something simple but immediate happens, and the two of them are stuck problem solving through the moment together.

Frank looks like someone with a good poker face. Artem wants to test that.