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@krumovik ♥’d for a starter : draco & viktor  

Viktor Krum, star seeker for the Bulgarian National Quidditch team, was riding a piece of garbage – a broom so old that the house elves wouldn’t even sweep a floor with it. It bothered Draco immensely. He was of the opinion that such an esteemed player should use only the best equipment. He found it terrible that the Bulgarian team wouldn’t allow Krum to continue to use the team’s Firebolt brooms outside of the season, especially when it was so clear that Krum was unable to afford one for himself.

“I noticed that your broom isn’t very good,” Draco spoke as a greeting, “a Nimbus 1500? I’m surprised that duster can even make it off the ground,” it truly was a testament to Krum’s dedication to the game that he would risk himself flying on such an old death-trap, “I have a Firebolt. If you want it, you can borrow it – in fact, you can have it. My father will buy me another one.” It was, of course, a genuine offer. He would like to be friends with a famous quidditch star, after all.

[nospraedirus]

@manichaeisms ♥’d for a starter : draco & rabastan 

Although he was undoubtedly the brightest and most talented student in his year ( discounting the mudblood ), he was far from being properly prepared to duel a man who was perhaps one of the most powerful wizards of the era. If it came down to combat, Draco would lose – and he simply couldn’t afford to do that if he had any intention at all of restoring faith in his family. He was currently working to concoct an assassination plot that would ensure that he would not have to be anywhere near Dumbledore at the time of the man’s death, but he had to consider the possibility of that plan’s failure – and be adequately prepared in that case.

He went out into the gardens as fully prepared to learn as he would be if he had entered a classroom. His mother had told him that if he wanted to learn the sort of stuff that would help him complete his mission, he would have to learn it from his uncle ( since his father wasn’t here to teach him ). 

“I’m ready,” Draco spoke with determination. Although he did not know what exactly it was that Rabastan did in the service of the Dark Lord, he had heard rumours. He knew that whatever it was that Rabastan could teach him, it would be valuable.

[viaminvenia]

💍 – What style engagement ring would your muse like best? What is their ring size? -- for Susan, Viktor needs to Know

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I could see Susan liking a few different things, really. 

Firstly, she wouldn’t want a huge ring – she also doesn’t want a super tiny ring, but Susan wants something elegant, classic, and delicate, she wouldn’t want an enormous or gaudy ring that’s going to weigh her hand down and be really inconvenient. 

She likes an oval cut stone, and a halo ring setting, with white gold or platinum for the band. She could also go for a round or marquise cut, but likes oval best. She doesn’t really like square or rectangular cuts (emerald, princess, radiant, asscher), she thinks rounded cuts are more elegant. 

She’d love diamonds, of course. However, in any modern sort of time period where the knowledge of conflict diamonds would be public, Susan would absolutely feel very strongly about only having conflict-free diamonds. For that reason she’d also be perfectly happy with moissanite instead of diamond, to be sure her ring was ethically made. (Moissanite is also more sparkly than diamond, so added bonus there.) 

Susan also could be very partial to an old, vintage ring. She loves old things and finds them beautiful, and would love that aspect of a vintage ring. Same general preferences as above, just for her taste. 

And… I don’t really know what her ring size would be, trying to guess her finger size and also convert to UK sizing was complicated and various charts showed different sizes. But I think UK size L? or M?

[viaminvenia]

“ Dance with me! ” Vitja to Susan

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“Alright!” Susan takes his hand, quite willingly allowing him to pull her up from her chair and in to dance, laughing as she moves. She loves dancing, but she hadn’t known that he likes dancing. She shouldn’t be surprised, she supposes, since he’s constantly surprising her with new things she discovers about him. He’s certainly not the type of person who one can know everything about after just one conversation (even one conversation as wide-ranging and unexpectedly intimate as their first conversation had been), or even ten conversations. 

He’s a pretty good dancer, too, and a fun one, more importantly, and Susan’s already thinking that they ought to go out more often. “I had no idea you like to dance!”

[viaminvenia]

❤ Have they ever been in love? 💕 How easily do they fall in love?

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❤ Have they ever been in love?

She hasn’t been completely in love, no. Largely because she hasn’t let herself be after the train crash, and before the train crash she’d mostly been figuring out herself and who she is and wants to be, and she needed to know who she is before being able to really understand what it means to be in love. 

I do think that she thought that she was in love with her first serious boyfriend, at least at the time they were together, she thought she was in love with him. She was seventeen when they started dating and they were together for two years, and Susan was sure that they were going to get married and live happily ever after. He wasn’t her first kiss by any means, but she did lose her virginity to him, and it was her longest and most serious relationship she’d had up to that point (and quite honestly, remains one of her longest relationships well after the train crash, since she dated much more casually for a while after they broke up, and then started serial dating after the train crash). Looking back on it, she realizes that she’d been in love with the idea of being in love, rather than actually being in love with him, if that makes sense. 

At the time she definitely thought she was in love with him, especially since that was also a time when her relationship with her siblings was fracturing. She largely lost the support network she otherwise could have had in her brothers and sister, and relied very heavily on her boyfriend, even though that was hard for him since neither she nor her siblings were ever able to really articulate what they were fighting about. It wasn’t necessarily a cruel or ugly breakup, but Susan was still devastated by it (she thought she loved him, she thought they were going to get married and be together forever, and it also hurt a lot that it felt like a betrayal that he was leaving her during the period of time when she also pretty constantly felt betrayed and abandoned by her siblings). They didn’t get into any horrible fight, he just realized that he wasn’t infatuated with her the way he had been, his feelings had changed, and he also just couldn’t deal with how clingy Susan became by the end. 

In hindsight though, Susan realizes that she hadn’t actually been in love with him and probably wouldn’t have been happy with him for the rest of her life, but she’s glad for what the relationship was while it lasted, and she generally has fond memories of him and of their time together. 

💕 How easily do they fall in love?

I think that she doesn’t fall in love extremely easily, because love means a lot to her, and she isn’t going to give her heart away to just anyone. She’s a romantic at heart, though, and she loves the idea of love, and the idea of being in love. (Even though it also frightens her.) She is, however, charmed very easily, and can certainly become infatuated pretty easily. Actual love, though, takes longer for her, in part because she so deeply values the way that someone treats others, the way they interact with the world around them and the people around them, and Susan isn’t the sort of person who’s going to fall in love with someone before she’s seen a lot of them, and really knows them. Love is something deep and important and meaningful for her, and so it takes a lot for her to really fall in love, especially since she’s also afraid to let herself. 

[viaminvenia]

“your hands are so cold” viktor to susan

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“I should’ve worn gloves,” she admits as he takes her hands, evidently having noticed her rubbing them together. The sea is beautiful in the winter, but colder than she’d thought it would be, and the wind bites. He cups both her hands in his, and that helps. “Oh, thank you.” How he isn’t cold is beyond her – his coat isn’t even fastened, and she’s shivering and thinking she really ought to have worn a hat and gloves. 

“How are your hands so warm, it’s freezing.”

[viaminvenia]

❛❛ I am not going to leave. I will stay as long as you need me to. ❜❜ Viktor to Susan

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She nods, looking at the front door to her aunt and uncle’s house from where she’d just stopped halfway up the front walkway to tell Viktor again that he didn’t need to come with her if he had other things in London he needed to be doing. She’d only accidentally dragged him along with her, when he’d happened to visit that morning and she’d mentioned the party. He’d offered to come, and she hadn’t argued at the time. 

She’s having second thoughts now – about going at all, not about having brought him with her, but it seemed only fair to tell him he really didn’t need to come. She’s not at all sure this is a good idea, and from the way Uncle Harold had spoken on the telephone, Susan doubts that Alberta knows she’s coming (even though Harold had said she said it’s alright), which is what worries her. 

They haven’t spoken since Susan had made Alberta leave her family’s funeral, and they hadn’t really spoken at that point other than Susan demanding that she leave, if the last time they exchanged more than five words is what counts, then they haven’t spoken since Alberta had thrown Susan out of Eustace’s funeral. But it’s been a couple years, and maybe it’s time to mend things and move forward… that’s what Harold had said on the telephone anyway. 

It’s a little difficult to want to ‘move past’ all of the vicious things Alberta had said about Edmund and Lucy, but Harold and Alberta are the only family that she has left now, and so maybe Harold is right that it’s worth the effort. (Susan still thinks that maybe Harold oughtn’t have just invited her to Alberta’s birthday party, but she’ll try if he wants her to.) So she takes a breath to try and make herself feel braver, and reaches over to take hold of Viktor’s hand to feel steadier. “Thanks…”

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❛❛   you  should  not  be  here.   ❜❜           the  shadows  hide  her  from  human  eyes,  but  she  could  feel  he  was  no  human  at  least  not  like  those  that  had  dared  to  come  to  see  the  snake.  those  whom  their  own  need  for  greatness  had  brought  them  to  their  end.  she  was  doomed  to  live  in  this  body  a  body  she  was  now  learning  to  love  more  for  each  year  that  passed  her.   he  was  different  he  could  feel  him,  a  connection  as  if  he  would  understand  her  even  without  her  making  him  do  so.            ❛❛   who  are  you?   ❜❜             her  curiosity  would  never  change,  slowly  she  showed  herself  to  him  so  their  eyes  could  meet.   //  @manichaeisms  ⇾  sc.