BASICS:
Name: Rabastan Eltanin Lestrange Birthday: December 15th, 1954 Gender & Pronouns: Cis-male & he/him Occupation: Curse-Breaker for Gringotts Wizarding Bank Blood Status: Pureblood House: Slytherin Affiliation:Â Death Eaters Family: Rodolphus (older brother) Languages: French Residence: Central London townhouse, hidden from Muggles. Boggart: Himself without magical ability. Patronus: Lynx Amortenia: Leather, parchment, rain.
PERSONALITY:Â
+ ambitious, logical, diligent, loyal, reliable. - prejudiced, arrogant, selfish, unforgiving, cold.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born some time after his brother, Rabastan's purpose as the second child was twofold: to be the spare, and to give his mother something to dote on while his father was occupied with Rodolphus. In this way, it was hoped that he would be a girl. But alas, he was another son, and much to his mother's chagrin, he was naturally more like his father than she had dared to dread.
Young Rabastan showed little need for affection or companionship from the adults in his life. He was a quiet child, lacking emotion and content to indulge in his own company, occupying himself alone for hours without complaint. The only person he allowed into his personal games was Rodolphus. Blood was the thickest bond after all, and their blood could not be any more alike.
For years, he watched as his father molded Rodolphus and encouraged his fierce pride and relentless ambition. Jealousy was never on Rabastan's mind. He didn't crave his father's attention or envy his brother's place as the heir. Rabastan greeted this way of life with cold apathy. He simply accepted his place and gripped the cards that fate had dealt him with an increasingly iron fist. He understood that everything had its correct place and purpose. He favoured order, logic and tradition. He loathed anomalies and change, and therefore he grew to despise those who threatened the ancient bloodlines and the position of their families at the top of the social tree; muggles and mudbloods were actively loathed before he even set foot in Hogwarts. Birthright became an almost religious belief.
It was only when the Dark Lord began to rise to power that his father turned his sight onto his younger son, deciding to steer him more violently towards becoming a Death Eater. The endeavour was not unwelcome, but it was unnecessary. Rabastan knew what his father was, and he was already willing to devote himself to the same cause. He saw nothing more valuable than ensuring a future worthy of the Lestranges' status. So, at school he studied hard and, unlike many of his Slytherin compatriots, he preferred to glide under the radar, biting his tongue in public and expressing his malcontented opinions from the shadows. One would not find Rabastan openly cursing mudbloods. But if harm mysteriously befell them, he would certainly be high on the list of possible culprits and he would deny responsibility with an arrogance so strong that it pierced even his remarkably icy demeanour.
Excelling in arithmancy and ancient runes, and having an unhealthy interest in dark magic, Rabastan became a Curse-Breaker. He took pleasure in studying the oldest forms of cruel magic and twisting them to fit the Dark Lord's purposes during the war. He travelled frequently for his work, which offered a useful front when the Dark Mark's delicious summon trickled through his veins like the purest ecstasy.
Though the Dark Lord was vanquished, nothing changed for Rabastan. He still had the same beliefs and goals, and did not intend to stop bringing them into fruition. There was simply no longer a leader to inspire and rally the troops. And yet, he couldn't quite accept that a wizard as powerful and knowledgeable as the Dark Lord had truly gone. If he could aid his return, he would do it in a heartbeat.
