#grindelwald!graves

[mygraveisgold]

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

[katiehavok]

Look close. Look real close. Do you see what I see? I think you do! Gosh golly and gee willikers, I wonder how Newt figured out that Graves wasn't Graves! *blinks* Actually, I really wonder how many people missed that, even after repeated showings. That's what I get for being hyper-attentive though.

[potionsprincessmaster]

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[lovelyonism]

Totally based upon @osteolojist and @resistanceposterboy back and forth/headcanon here

I am completely in love with the idea of part fae graves and was feeling super inspired. Got a little messy towards the end of finishing this up but i didn’t want to stop even though I probably should with how late it is.

[randomactsofthinkingthings-blog]

Gradence plots that haunt me

They are independent and incompatible, and I just can’t find it in myself to write three different fics at once, so take these plots and write them at will. 

1. The one where is no Grindelwald. Don’t need him. He can eff off. Just Percival Graves, Director of Magical Security, dedicated and callous. He is looking for obscurial for himself, i.e. for security reasons - it is definitely not OOC for US security services to try to weaponise, well, everything. “There is an IMMENSE UNCONTROLLABLE DARK POWER somewhere on the loose!!! And it’s tethered to an abused child! - F yeah, let’s find the child and harness the power for our purposes!” That’s definitely the government security services at their finest, magical or otherwise. 

 Graves tries to find the source of the obscurial and uses Credence in the same abusive ways as in the movie. But somewhere along the way he begins to develop a fondness for the boy. He’s torn between desperate wanting and righteousness (as he understands it). He is not a good person, but it doesn’t mean he is incapable of love. At the crucial moment, when Credence is all hurricane-y and all the forces of MACUSA are aiming at him... Graves just can’t let him die. “Don’t shoot!” he cries. “Credence!” - but they shoot anyway, and he shields obscurial!Credence for as long as he can, but there’s just too many of them. He falls on his knees as several shots penetrate him. “Credence” he whispers. Credence is so shocked to see this man, the man he thought used him and betrayed him, to protect him with his life, - that shock overcomes Credence’s rage and hurt, and he collapses back into his human form. Astonished, the Aurors carefully approach Credence. He is cradling Graves’ dead body in his arms. 

2. The one where Grindewald is the main character. It’s Grindewald, not Graves, who is in love with Credence. Not at first, no.

Grindelwald id, in his own twisted way, sincere - he is genuinely horrified by the oppression of witches and wizards. We are born this way! No one should force us to hide in the closet! Magic is not something to be ashamed of! Black Gay Mutant Wizard and proud! Grindelwald sees magic as beautiful and precious, and will do everything to liberate it. Ironically, this puts him against his own magical government: he sees them as perpetuators of systemic oppression and traitors to their own kind. And what is more proof of that than the existence of an obscurial - not somewhere in the middle of nowhere, but here, in New York, in the centre of magical civilisation - a thing of beauty, a magical child, failed by this civilisation of liars and hypocrites.  

Credence is, of course, of no interest to him - right up to the moment when Grindelwald realises that this immense power he is in constant awe of is, in fact, Credence. Caterpillar has turned into a beautiful butterfly. Grindelwald falls on his knees in front of him. “You’re beautiful like this”, - he wants to say. - “And they want you to hide!” Right at this moment, when everyone is frightened or concerned, Grindelwald is in love.

3. The one where Credence lives, and the real Graves is found, and Graves is even more traumatised than Credence. This is not to diminish Credence’s experiences. But when the Aurors find Graves, he is barely clinging to life. He was tortured (liberal application of Crucio can drive one mad, see Neville’s parents), confined, immobilised, Grindelwald messed with his memories. Even if he can recover physically, it’s full-on PTSD for him. Credence, by the way, is cleared of all charges and is learning magic and coddled by Goldstein sisters. Due to his own experience of abuse he is not blaming Graves for Grindelwald’s deeds; so Credence sets out to help Graves. He achieves full agency, he clings to the chance to care for someone he loves, actively help this one person who was kind to him. Credence is the one to gently coax poor Graves back to life, to hold him through his nightmares, to protect him and support him. (Basically, every single Stucky fic). It will be a long journey for the two of them.

[kingofthepitt]

♫ He’s so bad but he does it so well and I ask myself what the fuck ♫