FRANCESCA ZABINI really is the spitting image of CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN, right? For someone only 20 years old, FRANKIE has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since OCTOBER, 2028, working as a SUPPLY/WEAPONS RUNNER in the DIVISION OF FORAGE. SHE is a CIS WOMAN and is known to be SNEAKY and DISHONEST but also INVENTIVE and STRATEGIC. Best of luck surviving through this.
CHARACTER PARALLELS: debbie ocean (ocean’s 8), lou (ocean’s 8), amethyst (steven universe), mundungus fletcher (harry potter), veronica rawlings (widows), anatole kuragin (natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812), edmund pevensie (the chronicles of narnia).
i. a comprehensive list of things that frankie zabini is NOT here for:
your shit
ii. francesca learned pretty early on that she wasn’t like her siblings — not brilliant like nadia, not dependable and “eldest boy” (which she swears is a personality trait) like elijah. amalia zabini, her grandmother, the woman she credits with raising her (because blaise wouldn’t? couldn’t? frankie stopped asking that question a long time ago) once took her by the chin, looked her in the eyes, and said, “despite everything, i think you’ll make a fine slytherin.”
iii. for the most part, she was! she didn’t do too badly in school, but she didn’t wow any professors either. instead, she realized a few things growing up: for one, she’s sneaky. or sly or cunning as the sorting hat terms it — frankie calls it sneaky. this is where being ordinary comes in handy; no one noticed her copying a classmate’s answers, lurking in corridors past curfew, slipping bracelets off of too-thin wrists. francesca knows she shouldn’t do any of those things, but she’s so good at it, and it would make her sad to waste her talents. she never tells her siblings, though.
iv. the second thing she realizes is this: she doesn’t mind non-slytherins. or muggleborns. she makes friends and enemies across the houses and blood types and quickly becomes frankie rather than francesca zabini -- and she likes that.
v. frankie quickly went from taking other people’s things to taking money, artifacts -- but she’s smart about it. she knows how to go unnoticed and when not to risk her cover; she’s fleecing first-and-second-years by selling stolen sweets and goods from hogsmede.
vi. the more she steals, the more her family takes notice, especially after she finishes at hogwarts and never seems to have a job. it strains her already difficult relationship with nadia and blaise especially, and she finds herself wanting to leave the uk more and more as time passes.
vii. after a particularly vicious blowout with blaise in january 2027, frankie turned to international cons and crime to satiate her fix for risky behavior and give her an excuse to not come home. she forges qualifications to work on luxury yachts in the mediterranean in the muggle world as a stewardess, slipping into their rooms, stealing their finery and leaving behind magical duplicates that disappear into nothingness after they’ve been home for a few days already; she makes friends with muggle cons and sells these goods through shady channels. all in all, things are going well.
viii. until they aren’t. part of the reason frankie doesn’t go home as soon as she learns of the outbreak is reluctance to face her family again, part of it is because being on the ocean off the coast of greece feels so far away from these inferi. there’s time spent in muggle jail after a ‘business partner’ sells her out, a snapped wand — now, frankie has arrived at hogwarts expecting a very angry family...or whatever is left of it. (DEATH TW, note: frankie doesn’t know her brother is dead yet! see nadia’s intro for more on that harrowing tale lmao).
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hello! i think in my original app i had frankie arriving at hogwarts in august, but that was back when the RP was set at that time! she has only been there for a few days and still getting the hang of looking out for others; no use in stealing when the economy collapses! frankie is still new to me and i’m working out some ideas, but i’m really excited to develop her! thanks to everyone for their patience in this trying time lmao! her stats are coming soon.
❝ In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses. ❞
RILEY HAYES-GOLDSTEIN really is the spitting image of MARGARET QUALLEY, right? For someone only 23 years old, RILEY has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that HALFBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since MARCH, 2028, working as a SUPPLY RUNNER in the DIVISION OF FORAGE. SHE is a CIS-WOMAN and is known to be SARDONIC and PESSIMISTIC but also WITTY and MORALLY RESPONSIBLE. Best of luck surviving through this. ⊰ JINX, 24, PST, SHE/THEY ⊱
CHARACTER PARALLELS: Daria ( Daria ), Seth Cohen ( The OC ), Veronica Sawyer( Heathers ), Ron Swanson/Ben Wyatt ( Parks & Rec ), Quentin Coldwater ( The Magicians ), Pam Beasley ( The Office ), Zari Tomaz ( Legends of Tomorrow ), Nadine Franklin ( Edge of Seventeen ), Lindsay Weir ( Freaks and Geeks )
PINTREST: [ x ]
When you meet Riley Hayes, a picturesque childhood in a picturesque suburbia is not what you would expect and yet it was exactly what she had. Born on the cusp of summer and fall, Rachel and Christopher were over the moon to have their daughter born on August 28, 2010. Finally, a child to complete the perfect family unit. Maybe they had hoped for a boy despite what science said ( hence the name Riley & a full name for a boy they had prepared ) but, they had a daughter and for the first ten years of her life they pampered her greatly. Trips to the coast every summer to visit his side of the family where Riley was praised for being such a pretty, good girl, and what seemed like infinite love from her father was doled out as long as she was what he wanted her to be. The younger girl was cooperative, it was in her nature it seemed, because she loved seeing her parents happy with each other. As long as Riley stayed within the lines, stayed within Christopher’s lines at least, everything would be well. Even when Riley started to develop a few habits and interests that were off the wall, he brushed them aside as childhood obsessions. Never could he accept his family for what they were which is exactly why he left.
[ PARENTAL ABANDONMENT TW ] The ugly truth was, Riley was an accident and the picture painted had been a lie – not that Riley knew until then. While she knew they had gotten married young she’d never known how much exactly her mother had given up to be with her father. Rachel Hayes had left her family, forsaken her religion ( as Christopher was a very religious Christian man ), the semi famous Goldstein Wizarding name, and moved down south into this suburbia all with the promise of a family. The biggest thing? Magic. When Christopher left a year before Riley entered Hogwarts school, Riley was forced to grow up and pick up the pieces of a broken lost woman who simply couldn’t find herself in the rubble that was the aftermath of her father leaving. But finding out she was an accident was the least of her worries. No matter how much poetry she wrote trying to figure out her mind, oftentimes thinking she was losing it, something within her was different, something within her felt different. [ END PARENTAL ABANDONMENT TW ]
It took a few months to coax the why from her mother, and truly she was her caretaker. It wasn’t until her 10th birthday when she got the letter from Ilvermony that she realized what exactly was off. When she confronted her mother – her mother just poured everything out to her. Who Riley was, who her family was, what she was doing with her life before she met Christopher. At first, Riley couldn’t believe it – – she’d grown up hiding comics under her bed, hiding anything about the supernatural away. Even if her whole life she had felt a weird pull to these people who didn’t belong in her comics, these freaks, she never in her wildest dreams thought she’d have something in common with them. It all made sense though, and finally the pieces of her life started to come together. Riley knew what she had to do, so at the age of 10, she went with her mother to Wizarding NYC to try to find out more. To try to find the family her mother left behind.
After that, everything fell into place – her family was beyond accepting, even if they gave her shit, more than she’d ever known from her dad’s family and her mom started to get better as she become more true to herself. The family reconciled, helping Riley and Rachel move into a flat in NYC, in Chinatown. Rachel got a job at the American Ministry as an assistant and with the help of some family members and Riley started to prepare for school wizarding school. She’d never been more happy in her life. New York City was her home, more than her podunk shitty town ever had, and she felt a freedom that made her wander the city, she felt a freedom to finally be herself. The only issue then? Riley wanted to go to a school far away from everything, because even if New York was her home, she needed to a break from being in the states. A break from all these people who knew who her family was & really, a place that was her own to find her own in the world. Easily, she picked Hogwarts and was delighted when they accepted her no matter how far she was. Hufflepuff was the perfect house for her, even if she wasn’t the most conventional or stereotypical kind of one.
For years, she pushed away a lot of the pain she felt – she figured her pain was her own, it was selfish of her to dwell on it or even think about it when she had this new fantastic life. Only in her poetry would she divulge her feelings, only her poetry knew that she felt inexplicably lost in the world the more she saw it. Around her 14th birthday, she met two boys in school who were a bit older than her but the twins ended up being her half-brothers – as they found they shared a father. A scumbag father who’d also been horrible to them. It was then that Riley wanted to distance herself from her father even more, fiercely signing and writing her last name as Hayes-Goldstein or just Goldstein when she could get away with it.
[ DEPRESSION MENTION ] The thing was, the reminder of her father, the reminder that he was out there ruining more people’s lives, that he was out there spawning more children really intensely messed with Riley’s head. Why wasn’t she good enough for him to stay? Why couldn’t they have been enough? It was stupid, but the thoughts started to consume her and the lost feeling just got bigger. [ DRINKING, DRUGS MENTION ] Picking up vices like smoking, smoking pot, drinking beer after a long day of work, anything to escape the feeling that she didn’t really have a place in this world. Not one she could see. What was she even going to do with her life after school? What did she have to offer the world? A loneliness she could not shake slept with her at night like any blanket did, every day felt like she was smothered. [ DRUGS, DRINKING, DEPRESSION MENTION END ] Every day there was a new realization that she didn’t know what the hell she wanted to do with her life, that she didn’t really have a place in the world.
After graduating she lived in a tiny shitty flat by herself in muggle London ( but she loved it ) with her cat Bogart the 3rd, worked at a book store in Diagon Alley and focused on her own writing, attempting to get it published. When the Inferi outbreak happened she had just gotten her first non-rejection from a publishing press, at 23, but as fate would have it the world fell apart. When the climate in the Wizarding World of England became a developing war zone, Riley wanted nothing to do with it but because of who she was – because of what her religion reminded of her – she couldn’t just stand idly by. Riley knew that even if she was Neutral, she would fight & die with her friends if need be, but nothing prepared for a zombie outbreak. Riley is beyond fucked up and freaked out by the idea of zombies, finding comfort in her religion but questioning it even further – how could G-d allow this? She did what she could for the effort at Hogwarts, angry, scared, and simply trying to make sure the people she loves survives as well as herself.
LIKES & INTERESTS: Cult Classics - Movies ( Heathers, Dead Poets Society, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Cruel Intentions, The Breakfast Club, Almost Famous ), Blue raspberry Slushies, Donuts, Judaism, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, The Smiths, the color blue, writing poetry, e. e. cummings, art museums, greek mythology, rmemes, Rolling joints on her favorite books, biblical mythology, astronomy, astrology ( she finds it very entertaining in a mocking way and would never admit there’s a small part of her that enjoys it ), Star Wars, black cats, black cats named Boggart, black nail polish, tattoos, carnivals, comic books, ferris wheels, puns, the sea, jellyfish, NPR every morning, going to the beach at twilight, 4 am drives, 5am runs, spliff.
❝ I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are. ❞
DAMIEN JACOB FLINT really is the spitting image of RICHARD HARMON, right? For someone only 24 years old, DAMIEN has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since JUNE, 2028, working as a PATROL GUARD in the DIVISION OF PROTECTION. HE is a CISMAN and is known to be ARGUMENTATIVE and RECKLESS but also ENTHUSIASTIC and KIND. Best of luck surviving through this. ⊰ SAM, 24, EST, THEY/THEM ⊱ (Raised as Ysabeau’s fraternal twin, but is actually the result of an affair Marcus had with another woman.)
♡ CHARACTER PARALLELS — Ron Weasley ( Harry Potter ) + Lilo ( Lilo & Stitch ) + Anna ( Frozen ) + Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier ( MCU ) + Donna Noble ( Doctor Who ) + Peter Quill ( Marvel Comics ) + Eragon ( Eragon ) + Lorelai Gilmore ( Gilmore Girls ) !!
LIL FACTS AND WHAT NOT ( TWs: Forced Parental Abandonment, )
FORCED PARENTAL ABANDONMENT TW. no but ok. i’m in a weird place right now, so i’m sorry if this doesn’t make sense, but! basically! marcus flint had an affair with damien’s mother. damien was born not too far from ysabeau, so the flints raised them as fraternal twins. the reason damien’s mother didn’t fight against that? she had two other kids, and knew the flints could make their lives a living hell if she didn’t do something. she had to choose between her kids, which makes me so sad, but yeah. she knew damien would be well cared for, as the heir to the flint family, and so she believed she was letting him have a good life, even though she’d never get a chance to be part of it. nowadays, she lives in canada again, in b.c. specifically, and damien knows NOTHING about his true parentage. still thinks mrs. flint is his mom. it makes me emo ok !!!!!! pls be emo with me :(
has adhd and it showed when he was a kid but i bet that they were all like “boys will be boys” and let him get away with shit because he was the heir and what not. ofc though, they wouldn’t let him get away with being kind to the wrong people, though. and though he was energetic and quite good at getting intro trouble, damien was SUCH a sweet kid. like a sweetheart, 100%. a cute ass grin and lil dimples and bright eyes, and like....... i bet people were just!!!!! “aaaaaaw” when they met him. and then he “accidentally” broke all the alarm clocks in their house, and they maybe felt a bit differently.
he loved people!!!!! loved interacting with people, and made friends really, really easily. he made all kinds of friends, really, which his father did NOT approve of. damien didn’t care if you were muggle, muggleborn, squib, halfblood, pureblood, werewolf, etc. if you were nice to him, and didn’t question his illogical plans, he automatically liked you.
in hogwarts, he was sorted intro gryffindor, which, really, shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone. but still, his dad was far from happy. he was supposed to be the heir!!!!!! the one the flint family could count on!!!!!!! but!!!!!!! like ok so only marcus and mrs flint know that but!!!!!!! he’s the result of an affair and was sorted in mcfucking gryffindor!!!! big yikes from the flints tbh
more on his relationship with his father tbd if someone plays him which...... just saying but...... that would be some good family angst right there!!!!
would kill for ysabeau even tho he knows he probably needs her to kill people for him more than the other way around honestly he wouldn’t be very good at killing BUT inferi????? he’d kill inferi for his twin
mrs flint hmmmmmmmm well. that could also be quite angsty tm! bc i doubt she was full of love for damien but he thought she was his mom so egoijergjergjeroijgerijger it’s sad!!!!!! so sad!!!!! everything is sad!!!!!!!
reckless!!!!!! acts before thinking!!!! in fact, even after acting, he often doesnt think!!!!!
loves arguing rip!!!!! he’s either an aries or a taurus soooooooooo it makes sense, really.
ok but like!!!!!! he’s gay!!!!!! and i’m pretty sure he’s out to everyone so it’s not like?????? news or whatever????? but!!!!!! what’s important IS!!!!!! that i need a romantic connection for him pls and thank you!!!!!!!
SO SWEET. an angle. who says jokes that are like, not good? not offensive; just not funny. but he says them with so much belief and enthusiasm that they make people laugh anyway
gets sayings wrong all the time!!!!!! “flowers don’t attract honey that way” <----- WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN DAMIEN
so enthusiastic omg he’s always down for stuff. probably does things he shouldn’t do because other people are excited about things and he’s like HELL YEAH
pinterest board + connections page + about page are coming soon but i wanted to post this asap!!!
CHARLOTTE MEADOWES really is the spitting image of DIANA SILVERS, right? For someone only 21 years old, LOTTIE has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that MUGGLEBORN has been scraping by at the sanctuary since MARCH, 2028, working as a POTIONEER in the DIVISION OF RESEARCH. SHE is a CISWOMAN and is known to be DEFENSIVE and EXTRAVAGANT but also CREATIVE and DEDICATED. Best of luck surviving through this.
CHARACTER PARALLELS: elena gilbert (tvd), buffy summers (btvs), nancy wheeler (stranger things), buttercup (the princess bride), francis houseman (dirty dancing), alice kingsleigh (alice in wonderland), scott mccall (teen wolf), romeo montague (romeo & juliet)
some time ago, the meadowes family adopt three children; two of whom enrol at hogwarts, while the other passes the age of eleven without incident, and without magic. the first wizarding war begins not long after, and their daughter, dorcas, acts as a double agent for the order for years until she dies at the hand of voldemort himself. they know little of what she did during the war, but still hold onto her memory dearly.
charlotte is born in a small cottage just off the coast of scotland, her scream piercing the quietness of the little village for barely a second before dying off, her eyes wide and all too curious. veterans of the second wizarding war, charlotte was a surprise that her parents had never wished for. there was, of course, nothing but love in their eyes as they cared for their newborn daughter, but there was also fear: that they couldn’t give her what she needed, that they were too broken to be proper parents. they spent but a few years with her before they were killed, leaving their young daughter alone just as they had feared.
she was soon taken in by her uncle and his wife, both of whom knew of the wizarding world, but had no magic of their own. they took her in and cared for her just as they had their own children, but, just maybe, worried about her slightly more. she showed signs of her magical abilities early on, and, to the meadowes family, magic had come to be a source of fear for them. not of magic itself, but of the world it came with. they had, after all, lost two family members to the wars borne from it, and they feared how it might affect their children.
raised in a muggle family, charlotte has more knowledge of the muggle world than she ever has of the wizarding world; except for the stories her family has
she knows her parents were killed, but she doesn’t know by who.
loves art and sells her art online.
she’s got a lot of raw magic, but she’s also not very good at school and so she doesn’t have a lot of control over that magic ; high emotions can trigger her magic like it would have before she got to hogwarts.
she has dyslexia, which she learned when she was learning how to read and write, but didn’t understand what it meant until she got to school and realized just how difficult it made everything.
the only class she was good at was potions, and once she realized that, she quickly became one of the top students in her year. she focused pretty much all of her studies on potions, despite working on her casting wherever she could/when she wasn’t feeling defeated.
hogwarts was difficult because of her position as a perceived muggleborn, which engendered a lot of bullying from her classmates who were blood purists.
alcohol tw super sweet, loved helping people out. the kind of girl who gets really shitfaced at parties, though, and make friends with people in bathrooms at those parties tbh. end tw
lesbian af.
focused alot on potions and created the draught of peace potion whenever her friends really needed it/when attacks by death eaters were mounting. also used potions against some of her bullies to get them to leave her alone.
super insecure about the fact that she wasn’t that great at casting and such, but she joins the order not long after leaving hogwarts, partially to protect herself, and partially to protect other people.
fratricide tw, death tw, sickness tw after spending the holidays with some friends, lottie flew up to visit her family in early january. she knocked at the door of their family home, happy to be back home, although worried for the state of her cousin, whom her adoptive mom had told her had gotten sick and had contracted a high fever. it was that fought which came just before the screams inside the house. lottie dropped all her things and barged through the door, her wand pulled out of her pocket despite how useless she felt with it. she found her two youngest cousins huddled in the corner, her oldest cousin advancing on them
she couldn’t tell anyone what she did to get his attention, only that when he turned, he set his sights on her just as he had her cousins. she remembers telling him to stop; telling him to go back to bed, that everything would be fine, but he just kept coming, until her cousins moved and was on top of them in seconds; until he was no longer moving. she remembers doing it, remembers killing her cousin, but the details of that day are foggy at best. she remembers trying to help her cousins out from their older brother; remembers her youngest cousin recoiling at her touch and looking at him as the glamour dissipated, leaving only the truth of what he’d become end tw
lottie is, admittedly, in shock at all of it. she talks with the aurors who come investigating what happened, but isn’t of much use. she asks if she can go back to london and goes back to her friends
disassociation tw she can’t remember much of what she did after that. right now, she’s managed some semblance of who she was before, but she still has a lot of moments where she’s just; not there. she feels as though she isn’t really there anymore. sure, she forgets about it sometimes and she’s able to smile and all, but everything feels foggy. end tw
she still acts really nice and is always willing to help people, but she feels as if she’s not what she was before
thanks to the new arrangements, she’s been able to really focus her energies on making potions, which she’s really been enjoying and she’s found it really helpful in feeling grounded again.
i don’t chase, i conquer. you will crumble like rome for me.
JOSEPHINE GREENGRASS really is the spitting image of ALEXA DEMIE, right? For someone only TWENTY-FOUR years old, JOSIE has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since JULY, 2028, working as a TEACHERS ASSISTANT in the DIVISION OF CIVILIANS. SHE is a CIS-WOMAN and is known to be ARROGANT and PRETENTIOUS but also ELEGANT and CUNNING. Best of luck surviving through this. ⊰ TRI, 19, AEST, SHE/HER ⊱
character inspiration: maddy perez (euphoria), jackie burkhart (that 70′s show), lucrecia montesionos (elite), lucille bluth (arrested development), blair waldorf (gossip girl), alexis rose (schitt’s creek), gina linetti (brooklyn nine-nine), heather chandler (heathers)
links: pinterst
triggers: verbal abuse, death, murder, nsfw (all are marked before the dot point)
[ VERBAL ABUSE TW: Josephine Greengrass has always had a taste for the finer things in life. She likes large cut diamond sitting on silver rings, wide golden bathtubs filled to the brim with soapy water, overflowing glasses of champagne and pearls hanging from her neck. She likes luxury, and extravagance, and everything that is too much — even when she was told she didn’t deserve a cent.
Christoph Avery (an older man Daphne had met post-Hogwarts) had never been much of a father, after all. He’d wooed poor Daphne in the first few months of their whirlwind romance, and once she was pregnant with a ring around her finger, he brought her crashing back down. He wouldn’t lay a hand on the girls and so no one seemed to realise that both Daphne and Josie constantly had to deal with a house that felt nothing like a home, with a husband and a father who told them they were nothing, a man who would bring them down any chance he got. Christoph was an awful man, and he would always be that way. END TW ]
Daphne and Josephine have always been close. Mother and daughter stick together like glue, buying into each other’s delusions of grandiose until Josie had grown up to appear as a spoiled brat. They didn’t have as much as they might’ve wanted, but any love they lost from Christoph they made up for with each other and the occasional stolen ring from an expensive jeweller. Daphne taught Josie what it meant to be a woman, and Josie took this and ran with it — Daphne was proud of the bitch she’d raised, even if others shook their heads.
At Hogwarts, Josie shone. No one knew what went on behind the closed doors of her house in London (not even her Malfoy relatives), and so she appeared perfect, untouchable, a queen amongst pawns. She relished in her popularity (even if you hated her, you would get nowhere if you didn’t love her) and found joy in keeping everyone she met on her tight leash. She moved from pointless hookups to pointless relationships faster than anyone could keep track, and she cycled through friends like she was trying on every fit. She adored to be adored and she adored to be feared.
Josie never did particularly well academically and that was because, simply put, she didn’t care for it. She didn’t care to work. She’s not lazy, don’t at all get that confused (she was sorted into Slytherin, for Merlin’s sake), she just doesn’t believe she was born to work. Her passion and her ambition is funnelled into her obsession with the highest standard, and she truly didn’t care to try in Hogwarts. In fact she barely managed to scrap something together that was viable for a graduating grade. She just did it so that she could get out into the real world (or, well — those she’d made to finish her homework did it, really).
In fact, Josie has such a complete disinterest with work as a whole that she didn’t care for a job once she graduated. She continued to live with her mother and her wretched father and throw parties and drink until she was drunk all while buying (or sometimes stealing) whatever her heart desired. She had no way to fund her fixation with luxury other than the money her high class name had borne her.
[ VERBAL ABUSE, DEATH/MURDER TW: Never, though, did Christoph change. In fact, once Josie has graduated, things only got worse. Anything Josie or Daphne did seemed to infuriate him, and they were around all the time. His abuse only got worse, his threats only got stronger, and it was one cold evening in December of 2027, Daphne and Josie left alone in their house drunk on champagne, that the thought they had both been dreaming of is finally voiced — Christoph needs to go.
On quiet mornings and in the dead of night, the girls try to hatch a plan. They want not just for Christoph to be out of their lives — they want him to be out of everyone’s. But what are two girls born to a sheltered life of luxury going to do? It is not until April of 2028 that the universe seems to drop a plan right into their laps.
People are dying already, the world is slowly being overrun by these zombies, as the muggles seem so intent on calling them. Missing posters are plastered all over the town walls, people knock on doors asking if anyone has seen their loved ones, and death seems to leave a foggy haze over the world. To Daphne and Josie and perhaps only to Daphne and Josie, this is fate — this is how they will do it.
It’s 2:30 in the morning, June 3rd, 2028, and Daphne and Josie are in Christoph’s room, standing over his bed, a knife in their hands. Finally, finally, the man who tried to ruin their lives for 24 years is dead, he’s gone, and in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, these two girls feel at peace. Neither can really remember who dealt the killing blow — it’s all a blur and both their hands are dirty. The body is dumped and tears are strewn across their faces the next morning as they run into the arms of family and friends and tell the tragic story of how they witnessed their husband and father fall prey to the Inferi. END TW ]
Not long after that fateful night, Daphne and Josie make the joint decision to move into Hogwarts, telling everyone that they fear for the lives after witnessing such a horrific act. Truthfully, they are scared — or at least, Josie knows she is. She and her mother are alone now, and it’s everything they’ve ever wanted and everything they’ve ever feared. She don’t know how to live in a world that doesn’t pander to her or a home that doesn’t hate her. Josie hates having to work within the walls of her new house (teacher’s assistant seemed the easiest, though now she is living to regret it), but she’ll do it if it means she’s safe. If it means that one day, when all this is over, she and her mother will be alive and they can build that extravagant life they’ve always dreamed of.
MISCELLANEOUS
Despite never really being taught such a thing, Josie has taken quite a taste to blood purity. She thinks the acts of war and violence are ridiculous and a waste of time, and therefore would never engage in such frivolous games, but that doesn’t mean the thoughts and the prejudice aren’t still there. In fact, Josie was somewhat vocal about this standing during her time at Hogwarts — she only kept it quiet in her adult years once it seemed those aligning themselves with such a thought were being punished. Daphne has never really taught her otherwise and Christoph was always far too busy yelling at her to groom Josie’s taste in blood, and so it seems she came to this conclusion herself — there is pride in being pure, untouched by those who aren’t worthy of her power.
[ NSFW: Josie loves sex! Pointless, meaningless, oftentimes rough sex! And if you try to call her a slut for it, she’ll make you wish you were never born. She likes sex but she’s never been much of a fan of commitment — in fact, the only part of a relationship that interests her is the idea of being eternally adored, of being showered in praise and gifts simply because you have chosen this one person. She’s never had a serious relationship, though — and she doesn’t intend on it. Monogamy is overrated. END TW ]
Josie has always gone by the name Greengrass, even before her father’s ‘tragic’ demise. When she was young, it was because of the way it sounded on her tongue — far sweeter than the abrasive Avery — but as she grew older, it was a way for her to stick it to the awful man she had the unfortunate luck of being biologically related to. Josie relates far more to the Greengrass name than to the Avery, even if both have equal social status. She is her mother’s daughter through and through and her name should reflect that.
probably more to come, i have, however, just now blanked. cool! enjoy.
YSABEAU MARGARET FLINT really is the spitting image of LYDIA GRAHAM, right? For someone only 24 years old, YSA has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since JUNE, 2028, working as a GUARD in the DIVISION OF PROTECTION. SHE is a CIS-WOMAN and is known to be AGGRESSIVE and BRUTISH but also PRAGMATIC and CARING. Best of luck surviving through this. (Note: Ysa was raised as Damien’s fraternal twin, but is actually his half-sister!)
CHARACTER PARALLELS: zuko (atla), nancy downs (the craft), susanna (girl, interrupted), tracy freeland (thirteen), the furies.
GENERAL WARNINGS: child abandonment, dysfunctional family, verbal abuse.
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i. it’s pronounced “EE-zah-boh”, in case you were wondering.
ii. ysabeau can’t remember where her rage comes from, but she’s felt it her entire life. tantrums so strong that the walls shook with accidental magic surges, hexes shot at classmates who stepped on her toes, screaming into pillows after a long, stressful day. she has so much trouble managing her anger that she feels lost in it, sometimes. worries that one day, she’s really going to hurt someone: everyone always says, after all, how much she takes after her father, marcus.
iii. [VERBAL ABUSE TW] marcus channeled his anger into quidditch, messing about with dark magic and taking his aggression out on people who were smaller than him, weaker than him. he took a lot of pride in his brute strength and even more in his bloodline. try as he might to instill that into ysabeau, he was largely unsuccessful, because his daughter did not like being told what to do. ysa’s fights with her father were legendary — but being bigger and older, marcus always had the upper hand. at first, this meant groundings, dismissal from the dinner table without dessert, but as ysabeau grew more obstinate, the punishments escalated — now accompanied by horrible words. the first time her father told her she was stupid and selfish, she cried for days. [END TW] (NOTE: sam and i are totally open and willing to have a marcus in the RP, and i can change this section if needed!)
iv. true to the flint name, she liked flying. ysa took to quidditch like a fish to water; playing as a beater for the gryffindor quidditch team from second year on, relishing in the fact that she could take a bat to something — even hitting other players — and have it not throw herself further into the idea that she is secretly a bad person. because she must be a bad person for feeling this way, right? so out of control, so violent??
v. ysa played as a beater for the tutshill tornadoes and was heading into her fifth year on the team when the zombie outbreak hit. the british and irish league carried on for a few more months, a decision made by the department of magical games and sports as a means of keeping the public hopeful — until travel became too risky, and the teams were grounded until the general population could be considered safe.
but they never were.
ysabeau floo’d to damien’s flat the second she realized that quidditch wasn’t going to start up again; this was unfortunately just a few weeks before the fall of the ministry. she and damien camped out in the countryside, and later fought their way to scotland for a few months before finally arriving at hogwarts in june.
vi. she doesn’t know that they’re not actually twins, but she’s always noticed something off about the way the family treats her brother. she’s a veritable pain in the ass, sure, but her father’s never been distant and disappointed with her the way he is with he is with damien. she’s always been aware that their mother favored her over him — and she hates it, because he’s the best guy around.
damien, by the way, is her favorite person on the planet, and if they both survive the apocalypse long enough to see damien find a husband, she’ll cry like a baby the whole time. the only time the two don’t get along is when ysa challenges him to arm wrestling contests and squeezes his hand too hard — or when they’re under duress due to like, inferi.
❝ Besides the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. ❞
CELESTE DIGGORY really is the spitting image of KANG MINA, right? For someone only TWENTY years old, CEL has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that MUGGLE has been scraping by at the sanctuary since OCTOBER, 2028, working as a SOLDIER AND GUARD in the DIVISION OF PROTECTION. SHE identifies as CIS WOMAN and is known to be DIRECT and RECKLESS but also TENACIOUS and CHARMING. Best of luck surviving through this. ⊰ JO, TWENTY-FIVE, EST, SHE/HER ⊱
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Trigger Warnings: torture mention.
History: ( torture tw )
Celeste was born on a snowy December 7th to Rhys and Annette Diggory. The high school sweethearts had planned on two children, however a case of baby fever and one too many glasses of wine on their weekly date night, and they ended up with three. While her siblings were more conservative like her father, Celeste embodied the best of both of them; her mother’s big heart and her father’s simplistic honesty. She was born in Nice, France but the Diggorys had decided to move to London just before Celeste started kindergarten at the age of three. This is where Celeste met Lily and ever since became best friends.
Her family was quite well off as her mother was a journalist for a fashion magazine and her father a renowned music professor after retiring from his music career for their family. Her brother grew up to be a lawyer, a damn good one at that, and her older sister ( sophmore ) studied at Oxford while she was finishing up Sixth Form ( April-May 2027 ) and beginning her first semester at Cambridge ( September 2027 – 2nd starting in Jan 2027 ).
The attacks came as a shock as it seemed no one was safe. Masked men dressed in black robes appeared as if out of thin air and wreaked havoc only to be gone in seconds. It was the beginning of the end it seemed and she’d seen it with her own eyes: a wish of their hand and perfectly healthy people were writhing on the ground screaming in pain. It was confusing but that didn’t stop her from standing her ground against these…WEIRDOS?
It was late October and the Halloween party she was at had become the target – and Celeste came face to face with her first Death Eater. In efforts to protect her friends she had stood strong, shooting a fiery glare into the eyes of the mask, too stupidly brave to back down. After all this was some douchebag in a costume, right? The wand was raised as insults about ‘muggles’ spilled from the man’s lips, however before he could hurt her, he was struck from the back by a blinding flash of white light. –Oblivated and sent back home, she still felt that something was off every once in a while when the light hit metal and shined in her eyes. That white light somehow feeling familiar and scary all at the same time.
December and November passed as normally as it could. Her birthday had been stellar, Christmas and New Year’s was even better than the year before – thankfully as they would unfortunately be her last.
She returned to school only to be preoccupied, as most other students where, by the headlines of attacks and news stations interviewing people who had witnessed the attacks. Hysteria over ‘The End of The World’ had already began as more and more reports were released and riots erupted. The government swept them up into quarentine and thankfully, her family had been reunited in London – though not for long.
It took only a mere month for everything to fall apart. The quarantine that they were staying at was attacked by a massive horde of zombies and in the panic she was separated from her family by those who pushed and shoved their way to the doors only to find the building surrounded. Her saving grace was her brother, who split from the other three diggorys out of worry for her and pulled her to her feet. She clung to him and sobbed for her mother, but his strength is the only thing that managed to keep them to safety.
Celeste and her older brother had been travelling through the countryside for months, hearing from other survivors (both muggle and wixen) about a fortress in Scotland that served as a refuge for people, no matter if they had magical blood or not. It’s been a long, arduous road, filled with a lot of near-misses from rogue inferi, but Celeste hopes that this safe place is actually safe and she’s doubtful that it is.
Celeste is determined to settle down and make herself a ‘home’ as she feels that there’s no other way to survive this zombie stuff otherwise? But she’s particularly good with a bow due to archery she learned when she was in school – so she is typically assigned to stealth missions now. STILL trying to have a good time tho.
Chill Personality Section LOL:
her brother and sister are well mannered and then there’s…celeste lmfao the youngest of three and probably the most spoiled out of her siblings. she has quite the charm – even though you don’t like what she’s doing you end up following her anyways.
if there’s an adventure, she’ll find it. honestly she has bright eyes and knack for finding all of those hidden treasures the world has to offer. there is no ‘i can’t do it’. it’s always I WILL DO IT. which a lot of the times gets her in a lot of trouble ( like say climbing up but not knowing how to get back down?? )
she has had a lot of broken bones and injuries in her past due to her diving into things without having a plan how to get back out – but even that doesn’t stop her.
famous last words: “IT’LL BE FINEE~~~”
she’s extremely determined and tenacious. once she grabs onto something be it a project, bungee jumping, an argument, you name it – she won’t let go until she has the last word in it.
she’s also honest, brutally so. no matter who you are if you don’t want to hear the truth – the blunt truth at that – you should just not ask. she’ll tell it as it is. if you don’t look good in something, she’ll tell you. if she thinks what you did was stupid, she’ll tell you. she doesn’t spare feelings when it comes to telling the truth or pointing out what went wrong. dat sass doe. even so she’s really friendly and open minded. she has a bright personality and a knack for extreme sports and makeup. and honestly she loves to joke around and tease people ( not in a mean way but in a fun way )
she is often lmfao seen as flirtatious and sometimes she does mean to joke that way but other times she’s like ??? why do u think that pls
honestly the type that’d break your wand if you’re mean to her.
i am strong but also destructive. i’m restless and harsh and hopeless.
though i have love inside myself. it’s just that i don’t know how to use love.
AILYN ZANELE YAXLEY really is the spitting image of ANTOINETTE ROBERTSON, right? For someone only 26 years old, AILYN has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since JULY, 2028, working as a HISTORY TEACHER in the DIVISION OF CIVILIANS. SHE is a CIS WOMAN and is known to be INDIFFERENT and SECRETIVE but also INTELLECTUAL and ADAPTABLE. Best of luck surviving through this.
LINKS – pinboard, stats. playlist.
CHARACTER PARALLELS – elle woods (legally blonde), allison reynolds (all for the game), michaela pratt (how to get away with murder), sun bak (sense8)
TRIGGER WARNING – sexism, alcoholism, abuse, trauma, death (all have a trigger warning in-text too)
pre-outbreak
sexism tw || ailyn was born as the first child to andre and thandi yaxley, the first granddaughter to corban yaxley (who, at the time of her birth, was still rotting away in azkaban). she was wished for, kind of ----- her parents didn’t wish to raise children together, but did wish to have children so they could further their legacy. and then, of course, there was the fact that ailyn was a girl, which was a bit of a disappointment for andre yaxley, who wanted his firstborn to a son, because --- well, he’s instilled with traditional values that make no one happy (except him, i guess). || end of tw
andre yaxley is not a good man. he grew up in the shadow of his father ---- a successful death eater, who pulled the strings behind a ministry coup once, filled with a bitter wish for justice for him, angry that his father is imprisoned when he was so good at what he did, constantly hoping that the day will come where he can prove himself to be as good at scheming, plotting and cruelty as his father
spoiler: he’s not. he’s a useless piece of stale bread.
alcoholism tw || ailyn is raised in a web of lies. her father had inherited the once successful family company and had let it go bankrupt due to his incompetence, the shame that followed the family name and again, his incompetence, but did not speak of this: every day, he’d kiss his wife goodbye and go to work. but his workplace was the pub, and his work was drinking more beers than good for a man. her mother, who acted as if she was happily married to andre yaxley, smelled of other lovers when she came home from shopping or tea dates with friends.
ailyn is a smart child, an observant one, and figures out all the lies her life is built on quite early on in life. she learned how relative really truth is, how easy lies come. she confronts her father once, when he’s intoxicated and half asleep, and he tells her that he doesn’t have a job any more, that all the money they have comes from his parents-in-law, and he’s angry and disgusted and ailyn thinks he’s angry with her at first, but later understands that he just hates himself. (she would too, if she were him.)
abuse tw || but while he is mostly angry at himself, he does sometimes direct his anger towards his wife, towards his kids. mostly verbally, sometimes physically. || end of tws
her brother is born when she is five. he is a boy, and her dad prefers him, and she would like to say now that she never cared about her father’s useless opinions, but she did, and she hated it. but she loved her brother, even though he wasn’t as critical as she was, and kept truths from him because of it.
hogwarts rolled around, and ailyn was sorted in slytherin, though she was nearly a ravenclaw. she would have thrived in both, to be honest, but the sorting hat saw her ambition and self serving nature and thought her a slytherin more. she didn’t care either way. at hogwarts, she kept up her family’s façade, pretending that they were indeed like many other old pureblood families --- rich and thriving, despite controversy.
she was bitter, though, didn’t want feigned success and richness, wanted something to be really proud of -- not just those fucking lies. ailyn’s hunger for her own success was born then.
hogwarts was where she learned --- where she learned about her own power, and her lack of it. because here’s the thing: ailyn isn’t a good witch. she’s no good at wand waving and spells and any kind of practical magic besides potions. she understands magic --- delves into the theory of it and understands the tough texts --- and writes stellar essays, but when it comes to charming or transfiguring things, she’s shit. and honestly, ailyn has always had her doubts about blood purism but never pushed herself to actually doubt those ideals (because that’s what she was learned, and sometimes she’s scarily indifferent, and it puts her on a pedestal, and she didn’t mind that for a while), but when she sees that she -- a witch with so-called pure blood -- is no good at magic when others with so-called lesser blood are ten times better, she understands: it’s fucking bullshit.
she’s vague about her stance on it, mostly keeps her feelings hidden under layers of eye rolls and cynicism --- part of her is scared of word getting back to her parents, she supposes. another part of her likes being vague, too. an enigma.
ailyn also found her love for history at hogwarts. not because of binns, of course --- she wishes she could kill a ghost multiple times during her years in his class --- but because of the work she does herself. obscure parts of history are devoured by her in the library. she learns about muggle history, shamelessly, intrigued by the ethics and morals of humans.
ailyn might be a shit witch, but she’s very, very intelligent. she’s booksmart, able to read tough books with ease, able to write stellar essays and retain a lot of information at once. she likes learning theoretical stuff, likes getting her head dirty rather than her hands, and it’s because of that that she keeps passing her classes.
besides, she thinks that it’s more valuable to have a good set of brains than to be good with a wand.
after graduation, ailyn got an administrative job at the ministry, just to make a bit of money, not because she wished to kickstart a career there. she started interning under a historian, and once she had made enough money from her job to have a bit of a safety net, she moved out of her parents house.
and then she didn’t look back. she didn’t cut ties, not really, but she started sending letters less frequently. her relationship with her parents had only worked when she had been dependent on them, and now that she was no longer, she no longer had any interest in being close with them --- she hated her father, thought her mother a coward, knew that they didn’t care about her, not really, not as they should. and so a wedge grows. ailyn shows up for family dinners every now and then and keeps in touch, but she focuses more on her own life, her life outside of her family.
ailyn gained the title of historian when she was twenty two, and started writing essays, starting doing research, comparing patterns in muggle and wizarding history, writing for magazines and reveling in her own success. she builds her own life, in her small apartment in cardiff and does what she loves, and does it well.
outbreak
ailyn is working on her first book when everything goes to shit. she is in talks with obscurus books about a publishing deal, and is working on her first draft --- it’s a dream come true, and then everything goes to shit.
sexism tw || a bit of background on her family: her father and brother rejoined the death eaters, her father so fucking desperate to live up to his own father, her brother in his turn desperate to make his own father proud. ailyn isn’t even asked to join as well, because she’s just a girl, and she’s a bad witch at that. she doesn’t care. she doesn’t even want to join, anyway --- the death eaters are stupid, just as blood purism, and she doesn’t care that her father underestimates her because of her femininity. let him underestimate her. || end of tw
cardiff is overrun when she’s at home. she barricades her doors, her windows, everything, thinks that she can survive in her small home, sit it out, but it doesn’t fucking end --- there’s no government to fix this, no one is coming, no one is fixing this --- and ailyn is terrified. she can’t stay at home, but where can she go?
away. and eventually, hogwarts. she travels by foot -- and sometimes by car, or another muggle vehicle -- with a small group, made up of muggles and wixen alike. she doesn’t dare apparate, because she was never very good at it and she’s unable to get in the right headspace to even try. besides, she feels a sort of loyalty to the people she’s with. which ... is odd, because ailyn has always only felt loyal to herself, and maybe her brother, and maybe some of her friends --- and yet it feels good, amidst all the bad, so she sticks with them.
trauma and death tw || ailyn isn’t built for an apocalypse. of course, no one really is, but her weapon of choice is wit and words, and she can’t fight inferi with those. and so she fights with a bat, at times, rather than a wand. it’s not an easy journey --- of course it’s not --- and ailyn sees things that traumatise her; death and decay, and the inferi in general, and she’s not sure how she’s able to keep moving because she’s not built for this, she’s not, she’s not
she arrives at hogwarts in july, and has to prove that she’s not a death eater --- which she does with an eyeroll, even if she understands. she’s filled with trauma and grief, but she’s not the only one at least --- which is a strange comfort, but a horrible thing, too. she’s not sure how to deal with these emotions, though, because they’re overwhelmingly real, and before she was always able to choke her feelings down and ignore them, but now she shakes with them at times, and she doesn’t know how to talk about them, or what to do with them ---- theyre just there, these traumas and memories and feelings, and she can’t do shit about them. end of tws
ailyn becomes a history professor, teaching kids and teens, an infinite times better than binns ever could have. and she loves that. she finds comfort in that, that she can still do something with her passion. she returns to the library with warmth in her heart --- that’s the only good thing about this, she supposes, that she has unlimited access to the hogwarts library again (ye - she is a nerd)
it’s all ... a big learning experience, mostly. a way for ailyn to learn about the danger of her own indifference (which is fading more and more), a way for her to learn how to be compassionate without feeling like she’s weak, a way for her to open herself to people she wouldnt have looked at twice before
the circumstances suck though lmakldfhsjdf
personality & details
ailyn is a true neutral, powder pink lipstick lesbian who will drag your ass through the mud while speaking to you sweetly with a :) smile :). she has a mean streak and her nature isnt necessarily malicious but she can be when she chooses to. this streak most often shows itself in front of people that ailyn thinks lesser of/people that annoy her
she’s just … tired. tired of humanity and all the people around her and the ruckus theyre causing. ailyn just wants people to Chill Out and use their heads in stead of whatever’s motivating them ( their genitals, hearts, stomachs, whatever ). she feels very … Genius LMAO because she’s such a realist and she thinks she has the world all figured out when, obviously, she doesnt.
ailyn is very sure of herself, incredibly confident — sometimes too confident ( though she’s of the opinion that girls can never be to confident ) and in turn she can be condescending and haughty. she’s self aware, though, about most things. she knows where her strengths and weaknesses lie and has made peace with it, even knows that she’s arrogant and harsh, but doesn’t care much.
ailyn is hyperfeminine, believes in lethal femininity and the colour pink. very much elle woods in that sense — she loves fashion and make up and velvet high heels and looking good, but has a ready mind that she’ll apply to reach her goals at any given moment in time. will Not be underestimated because she’s girly (or, well, youre free to underestimate her, but you’re wrong and she cant wait to let you see that). a firm believer in the matriarchy. lover of womanhood.
she also … just thinks lowly of men a lot. like — her dad’s a deadbeat idiot alcoholic broke dude and he Sucks, and then there’s people like grindelwald and voldemort and a long string of ministers, prime ministers and presidents that just proof that men shouldnt be in power to her LMAO. her interest in history is mostly just ailyn sighing at the deeds of men and how they continue to disappoint her.
LOVES greek mythology and medusa is her #1 fave
emotionally constipated but less so than usual???? whew
she’s .... a nerd ... .... we stan
tbh she can be quite charming and fun to be around but she also can be all sharp edges and iciness ... depends on the mood, and who you are
idk i just love her and she’s ... rly living up to her potential here whew!!!
