okay so before i go ahead and reply to the other starters, i wanted to introduce my brand new child, alexander bulstrode !! this isn’t going to be nearly as detailed because i want to get to replies and i have to leave soon too so !!
alex was raised in a pureblood household, one that believed that purebloods were superior than everyone else being part of the sacred twenty eight
he’s got wo other siblings that he loves and adores with all of his heart!!!
his family is ... everything to him, and consequently even though he never fully believed in blood purity, he went along with it to please his family.
going to hogwarts he was sorted into hufflepuff, much to the dismay of his father, his siblings being in ravenclaw and slytherin, along with most of his family.
in an attempt to make his father a little more proud of him, he joined the quidditch team! ending up being the keeper for the team!
during the summer he would do his death eaters duties and go back to school like everything was normal !!
after he graduated he took a year to himself, traveling around the world with his older sibling!!
& then after a year of delaying it, he took the offer to join the chudley cannons as reserve keeper!
during the war he went on missions when they needed him, his father being part of the inner circle it was pretty tough to handle between games, practice and death eater duties, eventually his mother died during battle!
his identity as a death eater however, was mostly hidden. most people not expecting it since he was pretty friendly to everyone during his time at hogwarts and after.
two years ago, he got transferred to puddlemere united !!
as for the past year it’s been pretty difficult, having most of the people that you knew growing up dead, had somehow finally made it back to his system and he started a very long stage of guilt.
and then, just as he was starting to become more like himself, the marriage law came out and!! he did not love that.
even though he didn’t agree with it, he was able to think more optimistically about it
and then via the ministry and being matched up with a pureblood, he discovered that he wasn’t? a pureblood? like he thought he was for his entire life
after talking to his father, he found out that he was actually not his son!! thanks dad!! so he’s mid identity crisis right now and confused and just a mess but trying to keep it together.
dear natalia hunt, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, tbd. you’re so stubborn and impatient yet so compassionate and optimistic that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. you were in hufflepuff, correct? ah, no matter. as a trainee healer, you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic.
bright girl with dreams in your big blue eyes, you’ve always been a ray of hope to those that needed it. but, how often do you stop to take care of yourself? how often do you check that you don’t also need that ray of hope? don’t forget, darling girl, that you can’t pour from an unfilled cup.
shitty intro number two here we come!!
anyways.. this is natalia hunt. she is the younger sister of nikolai and elijah hunt. arguably, two of the biggest assholes in the world. so really, it is a puzzle that this cupcake is actually their sister since she isn’t really an asshole at all. anywho--like her brothers, she was raised with the beliefs of blood purity though she was sheltered from more of the darkness and heaviness of the topic. she was a girl, so she wasn’t expected to fight for the cause like they were. she was just expected to be a trophy in the hands of a “pureblood gentleman” some day.
natalia would like to say that she wholly believed in the things that her family did. but, deep down, she had a feeling in her gut that there was something just not right about it. she wasn’t really brave enough to ever speak up against it though. it was easier for her to just nod her head and act like she believed what they thought than to voice her doubts. so, while she was never cruel towards muggleborns in hogwarts, she didn’t really go openly befriending them either. she tried to avoid them to the best that she could--though that didn’t always work out for her.
it was irritating for her to be sorted into hufflepuff initially. at eleven, she thought her brothers hung the moon in the sky which meant that she didn’t want to be separated from them ever. so, she couldn’t understand while that ratty old hat didn’t place her in gryffindor or slytherin. but, she would soon come to realize that hufflepuff was the best place for her--like it or not.
despite her need to fight against, she’d always been compassionate in nature. this is something that is especially clear when it comes to her brothers. she has always been the one that has tried to “take care of” them despite being the youngest. and despite what everyone says about them, she still views them with rose-colored glasses and chooses to ignore all the awful things that they have done.. or simply chooses to not believe that it is possible.
she’s also always been a bit annoyingly optimistic. not that she has had anything to fear in life. she has been surrounded by the life of luxury that being a pureblood provides. so, really, she hasn’t had to worry about things that others had. but still, she tries to see things on the brighter side and be encouragement to others when they have a negative attitude.
as i said, she has been raised in the life of luxury of a pureblood which means that she can be a bit of a spoiled brat from time to time. she doesn’t like to wait for things--especially things that she feels she is entitled too. she can also be extremely stubborn in her own opinion and refuses to change her mind once she has set her mind to something. this especially goes to something that she cares about.
dear sebastien lacroix, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, gabriela watson-flores. you’re so imprudent and frivolous yet so idealistic and bold that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. i suppose it only makes sense, since you moved here from beauxbâtons / france and became a magizoologist. you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic.
hello, dearies!! i’m jae & have to be awake very early tomorrow morning, but i couldn’t help and had to have my boy’s intro up tonight. oh, right! i’m on brst (gmt-2), so i think... i am either too ahead or too behind from you all... but i promise it won’t be that hard to find me around. anyways, i’m awkward but would love to plot, so if anyone would like to get something with my kid, let me know (liking this post??? sending me an im??? smoke signal????? anything rly).
sebastien is a twenty-five year old halfblood, born in paris (france). he’s quite young, but at this age people probably expected him to have some maturity and responsibility... but he doesn’t seem to have any.
his parents are juliette (muggleborn), a healer in st. mungo, and mathieu lacroix (pureblood), a publisher’s owner (who owns some bookstores as well). they both are french and beauxbâtons alumni, and their family is quite big (six children!!). seb is the second youngest!
recently married and already with children, both juliette and mathieu stayed away from the happenings of the first wizarding war; but during the second, as their kids were all grown ups, the couple transfered to uk with the only intention of helping and allying themselves with the order of the phoenix and helping in whatever they could. juliette as a healer, mathieu in anything people told him to do (they were at war, after all).
during this time, sebastien did his best at not thinking the worst and being the optimistic his siblings knew he was: he continued to focus on his own projects and take care of his younger sister (or tried, as the older siblings were always around to check on them in their parents’ house). before all this had happened, he had been traveling through europe (mostly) along with a mentor, studying and getting to know more about the science he had chosen to have a career on.
he really has a big fascination for magical creatures—his mother often laughs a bit about this, as his father has some werewolf traits (after being injured by one) and pointed this fact as how it all began (both their relationship and their son’s admiration to study 'animals’). managing to become a magizoologist, seb can say he is pretty content with what he has so far, though he wants more, to know more and have even more knowledge.
it was only after the war that he moved to london: both he and his younger sister packed their things completely and came after their parents to help them deal with their post-war situation. they are war heroes, sebastien and his other siblings see them as such and couldn’t be happier that everything went well in the end (though also sad of everything all of those in uk seem to have gone through). they all agreed that at least two of them needed to be more around, for their parents’ sake, to remind them of their family—thus why sebastien ended up here. not that he complains, you see... he’s his parents’ sweet boy, a mama’s boy, he always puts them above everything.
he may know others that work on the same field as his, or as dragonologists, especially those who have their works published. he reads everything he finds, always curious to know what others’ are finding with endless interest.
he has some projects on going and some published as well, but nothing too big or fancy just yet. he has aspirations, but is pretty chill about taking his time with everything.
so, this brings us to nowadays, when he’s been recently matched with someone with this whole marriage and having children “thing” (as he would say). truth be told, he is not ready to have kids (he’s a kid himself!) but who is he to say no to a law? i’m not gonna lie, though, he really thought this was all a joke in the beginning, rip
what else? perhaps i could give y’all a glimpse of his personality and likes and general stuff, so...
he speaks french and english fluently, some german due to his father's relatives, tried to learn latin (and didn't completely succeeded) and is capable of recognizing some terms of his field in portuguese (after reading a lot of brazilian magizoologists' works).
openly bisexual.
his place is filled with collections of old pictures and decorative objects he got from his trips, all in shelves along with his several books.
likes to draw and does it quite well! has some notepads with several drawings, from serious ones to childish doodles of magical creatures and castles.
he is always out and about, and has a pretty friendly personality. he isn't one to actually start conversation randomly, but if someone present the oportunity to him, he would absolutely engage even in small talks or deep drunk blabbing at the bar.
which reminds me: he is a terrible drinker. he gets affected by it quite easily, so don't be surprised if he ever denies drinking and prefer to stay with his soda.
pls come and love my baby boy! i’m up to any kind of plots & here are some random stuff that could work:
other magizoologists / dragonogists who he’s met before or is meeting again (and could be trying to work together!)
other beauxbâtons alumni! friends? acquaintances? he’s been there from 1986 to 1993 and was a pretty social kid, i’m sure we can all get to something.
flings? exes?
frenemies? (he is incapable of actual hate, but... y’know... could be plotted)
best friends???? acquaintances????
listen, my brain is dead, but i’m really up to anything, so bring it on and i’m sure we can come to an agreement!
Hey guys, I’m Ally ( 21 / cst ) !! I’m really excited to be a part of this group, being such a fan of HP marriage law fanfics since way back when !! Without blabbering on too much let me get into telling you a bit about Aliyah !!
p.s excuse my word vomit
( kriti sanon, 28, cisfemale, she/her, pureblood ) — dear aliyah shafiq, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, charlie hunnam, michael b. jordan, charles michael davis, luke evans, shahid kapoor, ryan gosling. you’re so highstrung and inflexible yet so determined and meticulous that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. you were in slytherin, correct? ah, no matter. as an auror, you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic. ( she stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. )
Born and breed in a purist, elitist, and chauvinist environment a lot of Aliyah’s childhood, and young adulthood was spent in struggling with her beliefs and values. Though on the surface a lot of the times she may have appeared like your typical pureblood slytherin, it was the guilt and confusion over the actions and behavior of herself and the people closest to her that set her down a path of redemption.
In her family, a sense of competition was always very prevalent among her siblings and cousins. Hailing from a very large family, one where her cousins were almost like a second set of siblings there was never a shortage of overly involved and judgmental people in her life. She was always trying to measure up to some ideal, because really all her life she was compared to one person or another.
At seventeen as per their families long standing tradition she was betrothed to a suitable pureblood wizard of equal stature. No choice was really given to her in the matter, all her life her choices had been limited and expectations many.
It wasn’t until she graduated from Hogwarts and took the decision to begin Auror Training that she realized how liberating it was to do things for herself and no one else.
It was this feeling of liberation that paved a path to self discovery and acceptance that it was okay for her to love her family but also dislike everything they stood for. And though this didn’t come to her suddenly, she was better off for it.
When Voldmort grew to power, her family was in full support of his cause, and soon almost all the people around her family, former classmates, and friends seemed to be a death eater or a supporter at the very least. It became as though she’d joined up without even agreeing to anything.
The more her uncertainty grew, the angrier her parents became with her because this was beyond simple liberties this was about everything their family had long since believed in, a mentality that was dozens of generations engraved into tradition.
It became quite clear to her that if she was to outright oppose Lord Voldemort, it may as well mean severing ties with them entirely. And that was no an option for her coming from a background and culture where family was so integral to ones life. So she remained docile, not the most active participant, but a witness. A fact that causes her great guilt to this day.
In the war she couldn’t lift her wand to harm anyone, that wasn’t a line she had crossed thus far or planned on crossing. So really the only option was to fight against what she found to be so wrong, a man so completely inhumane.
When all done, everyone had suffered, a lot of her family in Azkaban, some killed in battle, no one had come out unscathed. Her fiance among them. She hadn’t loved her soon to be husband the way that’s described in great romances, but she had grown used to him, affection had grown between them. She mourned him, but the lose of him didn’t break her, or leave her brokenhearted, and perhaps that in itself was quite sad. Seeing how much of her time she’d wasted on a relationship that may never have brought her true happiness.
Things have settled a bit in her life since the end of the war, she’d trying to navigate her relations with her family more thoughtfully, setting some much needed boundaries. Dealing with her guilt of the war, and trying to find a new normal in the ever changing society.
In all of this, the marriage law has definitely sent her on a spiral. Not knowing just how to feel about it. Technically she’d been prepared for an arranged marriage all her life, yet after the war everything had changed, it felt like she had a new handle on life yet that didn’t seem to be the case anymore. Giving u magic was out of the question so she’s going along with it, a part of her hoping this might be a joke after all, a crazy experiment that falls apart before it really goes anywhere.
i am ridiculously late to this party, but forgive me we had a sibling slumberparty at my house last night so it got a little hectic ! anyways i’m aspen coming at you all from the cst timezone plus i’m 20 six months closer til i can support my wine addiction i’m horrible with intro’s so you will have to forgive me for that too. under the read more is more info about my babe camila who is a mess & doesn’t believe in love a lie i can’t wait to get started plotting & writing with you all so if you’re into connections & what not slide into my im’s or like this & i’ll head your way.
( phoebe tonkin, twenty-five, cisfemale, she/her, halfblood ) — dear camila reeves, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, michael neils. you’re so cynical and facetious yet so affable and audacious that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. you were in gryffindor, correct? ah, no matter. as an unspeakable , you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic. ( I’ve always believed that you could be greater, something more than a troublemaker, more than an unruly devil’s maker. You used to laugh at this, a hint of sadness glistening in your eyes, a hint of pain. I never noticed how much it hurt you, and I kept saying you could be stronger, better. ╱ )
camila comes from a family where blood status isn’t a big deal despite her mother being a pureblood, she left her family to marry camila’s father who was a muggle therefore camila doesn’t understand the negativity when it comes to people’s blood status.
she grew up in a very loving & seemingly perfect home though they jumped around a lot due to her father’s military status, but stopped traveling when she got her letter into hogwarts.
it wasn’t even a year that she’d be in hogwarts when her parents let her know she’d be a big sister, something she was very fond of until the baby came & showed no magical abilities inciting bits of jealousy towards the fact that her sister got to be with her parents everyday.
growing up, her parents wanted magic to be hidden from mara so she didn’t feel left out, which lead to camila learning at a young age to control her magic quite well.
she was her mother’s favorite ( she’d never tell a soul however ) even though they weren’t put into the same houses the two reeves’s women were two peas in a pod.
during her career at hogwarts camila excelled in her studies, potions being her favorite, but royally sucked at quidditch & anything with brooms & flying. doesn’t help she’s terrified of heights.
despite being a great student, camila looked at ways to be a troublemaker often landing herself into detention more times than need be, but it was all for fun she’d tell you.
camila eventually grew out of the jealousy she held for her sister enough to where she started to pursue a relationship with her & they’re now very close & she’d do anything to protect her & to keep her from the magical world.
after graduation she took up work as an unspeakable something she had dreamed of since she was a child. something that would finally soothe the daredevil inside of her & while she loves her job she finds it sort of lacking since she can’t speak about her travels. Instead she keeps a journal with a charm on it so only she can read them as a way to help her cope.
however during one of her jobs something went wrong when she was working with the death chamber, something that scarred her enough to seek some personal time off. since then she’s been having some ptsd side effects though she’d never tell a soul.
on the surface camila is a loving person who believes there’s good in everyone you just got to dig a little deeper on some, she’d go to the ends of the earth to make someone feel welcomed & on the inside however she’s guarded & has trouble opening herself to people unless they’ve earned her trust.
she is not looking forward to the new rules though deep down she enjoys the thought of having someone around.
this is probably going to change as i develop her, but that’s all i got so if you’d like to plot connections like this cause i love connections, but at the same time love some chem. i can’t wait to get writing with you all !
holla !!! i’m amy, this is katie bell, whom i’m sure you’re somewhat familiar with, and below the cut is some rough outlines about her !! i’m a dork with the need for Validation™ so please come plot with me !!
( cisfemale & she/her ) ; whoa, did i just see CHLOE BENNET coming to meet their match at the ministry ? no, it was just KATIE BELL, the TWENTY-THREE year old HALFBLOOD. sounds like they’ve been matched with AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, TYLER POSEY, ANY FC. at hogwarts, they were in GRYFFINDOR and now they work as a CHASER FOR THE APPLEBY ARROWS. i heard they’re still pretty EXUBERANT and ALTRUISTIC, but they’ve become TENACIOUS and CREDULOUS since leaving hogwarts. — ( amy, 19, nzt, & she/her. )
my sweet summer child ! let’s be real, she’s firmly against the new decree. she’s not particularly a die hard romantic ( give her firewhiskey and a good night out any day ), but she’s definitely an advocate for free-living and is totally against the ministry taking the freedom out of life.
not very quiet about her opinions !! sarcasm is her greatest strength and her greatest weakness !!
pansexual baby.
currently getting her butt-kicked as a chaser for the appleby arrows. she’s not legendary, but she loves her job and she’s always training. thinking it would be cool to send in a wc for a personal trainer/training buddy ?? hmu if you’re into that.
think combat boots, choppy hair, bomber jackets, crooked grin sort of girl ! probably the sort of person but who pretends not to care but definitely, totally does. think jake peralta and ‘ i’m uncomfortable with emotions ’
still has nightmares about the time she was cursed as a kid. she goes to therapy every thursday but is probably really lowkey, under wraps about it.
if i had to use one meme to sum her up it’d probably be looks like they could kill you; is actually a cinnamon roll.
anyway connections would be so a++ bc this lonely Child needs people to talk to !!
EDIT: here’s a connections page for your convenience !
( alberto rosende, twenty-five, cismale, he/him, muggleborn ) — dear marlon bautista, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, marnie zigs. you’re so sarcastic and critical yet so organized and softhearted that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. you were in ravenclaw, correct? ah, no matter. as a herbologist, you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic. ╱ mia. )
it's time for little baby marlon !
HE'S A CHILD OK
his dad is a well-known colombian singer, or at least he was in the eighties. older ladies still sing his songs when they're doing the dishes or something, and wonder if their husbands couldn't be more like rogelio bautista, stealer of hearts, sweet-tongued bastard.
rogelio's songs are mostly romantic ballads, super mushy and super tacky. he's considered a has-been by most people now, but marlon was born when he was all the rage in south america. his mom, a cuban actress living in colombia, dated rogelio for only a few months, and was labelled a gold digger as soon as news of her pregnancy got out.
despite having spent the first few years unknowingly on the spotlight, marlon had a nice childhood. his father wasn't always present, but took care of him and his mother, and the three of them have a nice relationship.
as his father's fame started to cool down, marlon was still trying to figure out who he was besides rogelio bautista's son. although he was named after marlon brando, he never felt like a tough guy. in fact, he was beat up a lot in school, with kids calling his father homophobic slurs. this prompted his mother to move to england when marlon was eight, where some relatives lived at the time, and try to put the past behind them and go somewhere no one knew who they were.
his early demonstrations of magic prompted his mother, a devoted catholic, to take him to a priest to be exorcized. she actually went to four different priests, all which couldn't find anythign wrong with marlon, before giving up. still, she slept with a bottle a holy water besides her, and made marlon pray fervorously every night before bed.
getting his hogwarts letter was like satan himself had written inviting marlon to attend a school in hell. his mother took him and the letter to the priest again, who laughed it off, believing it was a prank by little marlon. it took visits from both hagrid and dumbledore to explain wizardry and witchcraft to her, and still she was under heavy tranquilizers the afternoon marlon went off to hogwarts.
he was sorted into ravenclaw, much to his surprise, because he never thought he was clever enough. however, his brilliance showed off in some unexpected areas, like herbology, chess and potions. he wasn't cut out for quidditch, that's for sure, but everything was exciting, and he loved learning about everything.
it took seven years, but by the time he graduated, his mother was finally proud of her son, a herbologist !
during the war he probably lived with his mother, writing books and trying to stay out of everything. he's not a skilled dueller and is afraid of everything. he probably popped out of his golden cage once he was sure voldermort was dead, and helped the injured and sick with his knowledge of potions and plants.
he's never had a serious relationship, so he's terrified of the marriage law. it's just too much pressure.
he tries to put on a cold exterior by being sarcastic and overly critical of everything all the time but he's just too Soft. he's sensitive and he cries and he's so insecure. he deeply regrets not fighting the war, he wishes he was stronger and braver. he cries over the ones who died, the ones who lived, and just how useless he was during the whole thing, while there were people out there fighting and willing to die for his right to live and practice magic. he probably has depression but doesn't know it yet.
dear catriona nott, i have the pleasure of writing to you to introduce to you your partner, tbd. you’re so temperamental and demanding yet so resourceful and charismatic that it’s no wonder they were paired with someone such as yourself. you were in slytherin, correct? ah, no matter. as an assistant to the senior undersecretary of the ministry of magic, you must be looking forward to this new step in your life. sincerely, the minister of magic.
the bastard child to a well-known man. you’ve been fighting all of your life to prove that you are so much more than the joke that comes with your name. but, what happens when you claw your way to the top? will you be happy then?
be prepared for the first of two shitty introductions. i have had a headache today so putting my thoughts into words is going to be a challenge. but know that i am super excited to be here with you all. i’m ready to bring all that juicy drama as i am a drama whore. so yus, hit me up with all your dramatic plots if you have any ideas. i’m all ears. anyways.. enough of my rambling, let’s get on to introducing you to miss catriona.
for starters, catriona is the result of a one night stand between the notorious theodore nott and a muggleborn witch. this is something that is scarcely believed. but, really, there is no denying the resemblance that catriona has to the nott family. of course, people would much rather accuse her mother of being a liar. that’s the better way, after all. it is easier for the pureblood community to make her mother look bad than to believe that mr. nott could do such a thing.
needless to say, catriona has been the blunt of a lot of ridicule in her life. she was immediately exposed to ridicule within her own house. since slytherin was filled with purebloods, it was difficult for catriona to escape the judgement of those that belonged to families aligned with mr. nott. the girl didn’t really bother with the ridicule though. she simply kept her head held high and ignored the mockery for the most part.
catriona claimed that the ridicule never really bothered her. but, deep down, there was always this need to prove herself. she always felt the need to be the best at whatever she did. she felt the need to rise above being more than just the bastard child of theodore nott. so, she pushed herself while she was in school to be at the top of the class not only in her house but in the school. she also set her claws into other opportunities that would make her the best--including leadership positions like being a prefect.
it wasn’t too difficult for catriona to achieve her goal of being the best. despite the ridicule around her, she seemed to have this charisma about her that made her generally well-liked. she easily charmed her way into the hearts of her professors and viewed them as the targets that really mattered. the girl has always had a goal-oriented mind and knew that those were the people that would determine her future--not her peers. of course, this made her relationships with her peers rocky at best from time to time. but the girl honestly never really cared.
the ambition that she holds has led her well in life. she is now the assistant to the undersecretary for the minister of magic. while some people think that that is probably a lame profession, she sees it as just another step in the ladder to her main goal. one day, the girl hopes to be in the seat of minister of magic. it seems like an impossible feat--especially given that the position has only ever really gone to a man. but, the girl is confident in her chances of attaining that goal.
