Fanfic Intro: Corvids and Magic
↠ I didn't expect to feel kinship with Persephone upon waking up in this world. And yet here I am, walking down and into the coldest, darkest place I know of. Because I want pomegranates— because I want darkness, because I want him.
Subgenre: Dark Academia (New Adult)
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence. Heavy themes such as pedophilia and rape are adressed. A lot of fucked up shit happens, so proceed with caution.
↠ "Ignoring the politics around me is a privilege I'm fully aware of."
Tags: Self-Insert OC, SI-OC, Antagonistic!Male!OC, Angst, Headcanons & Worldbuilding, First War with Voldemort, Wizarding Politics and Wars, Pureblood Society and Politics, Marauders Era, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Dark, Fix-It of Sorts, Torture, Manipulation, Slow Burns (yes, multiple slow burns for this oc), I Only Keep the Parts of Canon I Like, Grey Morality, Actually I Set Canon On Fire And Am Doing My Own Thing
When a woman is reborn as Corvus Uriel Black, the eldest of three brothers and Heir to the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black, she's more than determined to protect her new family. Between surviving strange conversations with a devastatingly handsome Voldemort, playing keepaway with the ongoing war, navigating wizarding court politics, and avoiding the suspicions of Aurors, Corvus, or Corvo as everyone calls him, has his hands full. Add to that; his desire to prove that Horcruxes are curable, his endless curiosity in discovering the limits of Magic, and the very real threat of him becoming an Obscurial should his control over his Magic falter... and you've got yourself a modern tragedy waiting to happen.
An openly gay poc protagonist in a Wizarding World that is not racist or homophobic. (It's still awfully muggle-phobic and hateful to anyone non-human, though.)
LGBTQ+ and POC characters. That includes canon characters, whose vague whitebread ass backgrounds I've tweaked to suit my taste (which is: More Spice, Please).
Author going batshit on worldbuilding and characterization. A few examples are:
↬ Every Founder has built a special room in Hogwarts. Canonically, we only got two: Chamber of Secrets (Slytherin) and Room of Requirement (? I hc it was Hufflepuff's).
↬ The Black Family has their ancestral seat in Greece. The Malfoys and Rosiers in France.
↬ Walburga, Cygnus and Alphard Black are half-Vietnamese through their mother Irma, who married in, which makes all of their children Vietnamese too. That means Regulus, Sirius (and Corvo) wearing Ao Dai ♥♥♥
Heavy, flowery prose. Lots of metaphors, analogies, etc.
↠Hogwarts is a sanctuary. Also a very good place to find monsters. Young, teenage monsters.
