CRUCIO.

001. there is only one person in amycus’ life that he considers family --- his sister. the rest of the carrows are either IRRELEVANT, or have let him down. alecto has always been there ( the one constant ), and she is all that he needs. 

002. the carrow twins were born into a respectable pureblood family. one of the sacred twenty eight. in the carrow household, IMAGE was everything --- the impression that they left on the world was deemed more important than the people in it. unfortunately, their mother did not fit into that image of the perfect pureblood family ( she was labelled WEAK by their father, and struggled with mental illness ). she suffered through years of abuse at the hands of her husband, before being LOCKED away, out of sight, out of mind. behind closed doors, the carrows were far from perfect.

003. his parents never had a happy marriage. it was arranged, and doomed from the start --- their father much too cold to please his wife, and their mother far too unstable to last his reign of terror. before marrying him, evelyn parkinson had been described as a PLEASANT girl. she rarely kept quiet, and her smile had men on their knees ---- in pureblood circles, she was considered to be an ‘attractive prospective wife’. but along came ivan carrow, and he was to become her undoing.

004. he was ambitious and cold, and a few years her senior. they’d produce two children ( twins ), but as her health deteriorated, he could no longer stand to look at her. his words became harsher ( more abusive ), and though he never raised a hand to his wife, he slowly chipped away at her soul. 

005. and then there was victor carrow. amycus’ grandfather, and the true tyrant of the carrow household ---- he’d come to rule with an iron hand as he raised the twins ( ivan carrow was far too busy with work to bother with the children ). for amycus, this meant that all lessons were drilled in using pain and corporeal punishment. and whatever little warmth and humanity amycus had left, was slowly chipped away at too, and broke him down into something much colder and darker.

006. at the age of seventeen, he left home and never looked back. he’ll exchange tame pleasantries with family members at pureblood parties, but he no longer consider them to be his family. alecto is all he’ll ever need.

Amycus works as a curse breaker, mostly for the ministry of magic, but he has also done a few jobs for Gringotts. His job at the ministry mostly entails removing and countering particularly nasty hexes, jinxes and curses from objects (and sometimes people). For the latter, he is sometimes called into St Mungos.

He works at the office for the removal of curses, jinxes and hexes, which is a subdivision of the improper use of magic office, and thus located on the same floor (Level 2). The Cursebreakers’ office is tucked away behind the improper use of magic office, and is smaller in size. It consists of a larger locked room ( in which cursed objects are kept ). In the room next to it, objects that are no longer cursed but still considered property of the ministry are kept ( and it’s way too easy for someone like Amycus to nick stuff from there ). Behind yet another locked door, the offices of the cursebreakers are kept. They are a private bunch that value security.

Amycus has his own office (mostly due to his old money + family name). He doesn’t spend a lot of time in there though, since most of his workdays are spent outside the ministry or in the cursed objects room.

His office is sparsely decorated, and doesn’t have anything to tie it to him. The walls are a dull shade of grey, and the floors are wood. Stock images of smiling wizards hang on the walls ( came with the office, Amycus just never removed them ). Withered plants are placed in the rather large windows ( he has two ), and a ridiculously large cactus is standing in one of the room’s corners.

The room only has one chair ( standing behind his steel desk ), and the general aura of the office is that it’s not inviting. He doesn’t want visitors.

Amycus hates paperwork, and is notorious for being very bad at it. His handwriting is illegible (on purpose), and he writes the bare minimum that is required for a report. He also doesn’t have any filing cabinets in his office, and instead keeps all papers in the general area outside, where some bookshelves stand.

Amycus prefers working at the ministry compared to working for Gringotts. While working for Gringotts was nice because he didn’t have to interact too much with other wizards, he also couldn’t get away with having sticky fingers. Goblins do not tolerate missing treasures. Wizards on the other hand, rarely notice.

However, Amycus is reluctant to working with other departments at the ministry, and it’s a... major part of his job. He works regularly with the auror office, the misuse of muggle artefacts office (my boys working together!!!), the improper use of magic office and also st mungos’ hospital. He’s not a fan.

He became a cursebreaker at the age of nineteen, and the first few years were spent working for Gringotts ( which he enjoyed ).

When working for Gringotts, a lot of his tasks entailed travelling abroad to ancient tombs and historical sites, and bringing back treasures to the bank. He has spent time in Egypt, Russia, Brazil, the United States, China, Mexico and Peru to name a few. 

Became a cursebreaker because 1. curses are kind of what he does best 2. when he was nineteen, he really wanted to get far away from his grandfather + parents and becoming a cursebreaker seemed like the best way to ensure that happening.