Wealth & Taste

He’s pretty traditionalist in a lot of ways and definitely comes across as a proper pureblooded gentlemen but some of his preferences in things aren’t 100% traditional. He never touches any muggle content or media period but he has odd tastes in things like music and books. He likes to listen things that are basically wizard psychedelic pop, wizard vaporwave, and wizard experimental indie which are all not the most acceptable things for a nice proper young lad to listen to. His favorite musician is the wizard equivalent to David Bowie. His taste in books is usually towards the psychological and experimentally structured literally and narratively, Lots of cosmic and psychological horror and creatively laid out pages. His clothing, decorating and aesthetic are all very traditional however along with his thoughts on muggles, muggleborns and magical creatures.

❸ He has a fairly good sense of humor and can take a joke or two at his expense. Mostly he just likes being kind of ridiculous and getting a laugh or an eyeroll. He tends to only really joke with his friends since his sense of humor ranges from lewd to creepy. With outsiders he goes for more standard crowd pleasing humor and peppers it in here or there as the situation requires, whereas with friends it can be almost a barrage of weird/bad jokes. He let’s his friends get away with some potshots at him but strangers aren’t so lucky usually, he’ll laugh and seem to brush it off good-naturedly at the time but he marked it down and it will come back and bite them later.

❸ Rookwood would love to get married. Let’s pray for the poor girl who'd be marrying him it never happens though. Augustus seems like a great boyfriend and perfect husband material but only because he’s done the research and knows what he’s supposed to do to be considered such a catch. In reality his ideas of romance and relationships are not exactly healthy or accurate. His concept of how a romantic relationship works like is really closer to a BDSM relationship gone wrong. He’s highly possessive, suspicious and not above manipulating his girlfriends or isolating them from their friends and family if he feels threatened. He’s the classic Mr. Perfect-Gone-Wrong story, his only saving grace is that he is honestly kind of a romantic at heart and not so heartless that he wouldn’t make the attempt to not be so massively shitty if confronted about it correctly.  

Rookwood has a sadistic streak he's been keeping under wraps for years now. He used to act on it when he was younger but after children started telling their parents he realized that just because his actions didn’t have consequences at home didn’t mean that applied to the rest of the world. He’d been exceptional on never acting on his darker impulses for years and then he meet Barty and things started to go downhill on the whole self control thing. After meeting Dolohov and joining the Death Eaters he has to genuinely struggle with himself sometimes to not do what he actually wants to and do what’s smart. The thing that saves him is that he has a lot more foresight than people like Barty and instead of just acting on an urge immediately he will bide his time until he can ensure the situation is in his favor and his chances of repercussions are minimum and that promise to himself to act on an urge later is what helps keep him out of trouble. Even then he’s still hilariously easy to convince to do some pretty heinous shit. If someone is trying to persuade him on something and he already kind of agrees or is already tempted to do it he resists about as much as someone does when they’re out to dinner and a friend is telling them to order a dessert.