Is it Dumbledore telling him he's expelled from Hogwarts?
Is it James and Sirius?
is it himself, covered in soot as he comes back from a shit job at the mill factory?
Also I sure hope their DADA teacher back then didn't make them fight one because, as @ghostscarface pointed out to me, when you really think about it it's such a bad idea to force kids to reveal their worse fear in front of their peers?! The Maraudeurs would have never let him live this down.
I don't think they had DADA together, but at any rate, Sirius would have 100% seen his Mother.
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Harry talking about a creepy supernatural experience he had as a kid and the trio all simultaneously realizing that Harry saw a boggart that was trying to hide in his cupboard but found it already occupied
Because simply explaining it as "halfbreed with a Boggart Father" isn't very easy to understand, and I feel like it's easy to get the wrong impression of how something like that is meant to have happened in this specific context. Like yes, the story is sad, but it's not a non-con situation.
Only three members at the moment (family tree is too screwy to depict visually):
Abraham Boogey
Anastasia Reaper (Boogey)
Abyssina Boogey
I have made a post about Abyssina here, and while I further explained her life in a community post here, that's not super publicly available.
Basic Rundown:
Abyssina was the first OC, she's a Cursed Era character around the same age as Dom/Nyx Weasley, sorted into Gryffindor, and she's a halfbreed with a Boggart for a father, specifically a Boggart who took the form of her Mother's late husband. They're named the way they are because HP characters all have really on-the-nose names, and I felt like these names were pretty on-the-nose (Abraham: Father to all, Anastasia: Resurrected and Abyssina: Abyss, with Boogey being a Boogeyman reference and Reaper being a death reference).
Abraham Boogey and Anastasia Reaper:
Abraham and Anastasia would have actually been Marauders Era characters, roughly around the same age as characters like Gilderoy Lockhart, Olivia Green and Jacob. They were both sorted into Gryffindor and were kind of a friends to lovers situation, although they didn't get officially married until well after the first war had ended. Abraham worked as a low ranking Ministry Official and Anastasia worked as a Magizoologist, specialising in amortal beings (Poltergeists, Dementors, Boggarts etc.).
They didn't have children together for a variety of reasons, including a lack of desire to and also a fear of pregnancy on Anastasia's part. I haven't fully thought out this part, but I would imagine her birth story might've been fairly traumatic, possibly ending in her mother's death, so she is very afraid of pregnancy.
During the second wave of the war, neither of them really "picked a side" so to speak, although they definitely weren't pro-Voldemort. Abraham really just had no way to fight back, since he was technically working for a bunch of Death-Eaters, and Anastasia had no idea how they would even contact the Order. So they stayed out of the battle, mostly because they weren't sure how to fight back and they were a little afraid that if they did and Voldemort won, they would lose each other.
Anastasia did end up losing Abraham. He died at some point during the second wizarding war, although before the final battle, and Anastasia was heartbroken. She didn't really see a point to fighting back against Voldemort when to her, it seemed like he had already won. He took the love of her life away from her, so in her grief she accepted that he would win and there was no point to defying him.
When Harry Potter won, she tried to move on, but a part of her had died that day with Abraham Boogey.
Abyssina Boogey:
This is where the genetics get a bit screwy. A year or two after the war ended, while Anastasia was working, she encountered a Boggart who took on the form of her worst fear, losing Abraham. The difficulty with that is that, she already had. Her worst fear had happened, so the Boggart didn't have much power over her and she was able to communicate with it. It wasn't healthy, it was no way to grieve, but visiting this Boggart was the only way to see her husband again, so she did it quite often.
Eventually, she ended up sleeping with the Boggart, and as you can guess by the fact that I mentioned she was scared of pregnancy, it was very much a case of "you have sex once and instantly get pregnant". After this happened, she stopped seeing the Boggart, because with this act it became very suddenly clear how she had perverted and distorted her husbands memory. She did decide to keep the child though, admittedly out of loneliness, although she was a very gentle and loving Mother.
Abyssina is, as a result of this, biologically Abraham's on a technicality. She shares genetic material with him, although in all ways that matter, she is not his daughter. Due to the fact that the Boggart had taken the form of Abraham, Abyssina also ended up looking very much like him, but also not like him at all. Her hair was just a little too dark, her skin a little too pale, her eyes a little too shiny, and there was something almost uncanny about the way she looked. Like she was Abraham's daughter, but she also wasn't. She has pointed ears and her skin is almost too smooth, and there's a certain haunting quality to her that makes her look just not right. Like an imitation of a person.
Now obviously, I'm sure halfbreed Boggart children might exist, but as far as recorded history, Abyssina's existence was unprecidented, and people weren't sure what to think of her. Boggart's are amortal, and therefore neither alive nor dead, and not really conscious, so it was hard to say just how mortal and alive Abyssina was. How human she was compared to how inhuman she was. It's easier with other halfbreeds, because usually they're fully considered beings, but Boggarts are not, so she fell into this legal grey area where she is both an autonomous person and a not quite dead non-being.
Her mother obviously loves her unconditionally, and she finds her daughter to be beautiful, but larger society is very creeped out by her. She'd almost be considered something akin to a dark fae or a changeling, in the sense that she's a dark creature imitating a person, although to the rest of society, it's not quite clear how much of her appearance is real and how much of it is her intentionally taking a form that makes them scared.
Abyssina and her Mother are both fully aware that Abyssina does not really possess many magical abilities of a Boggart, she can sense emotions, particularly fear, and she had some vague shapeshifting powers, much like a metamorphmagus, but she cannot actually read your mind and transform into your greatest fear. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't know that, and why would they trust her to be telling the truth?
She's a Gryffindor, because a creature of fear in the brave house is fun to me, and dormmates with Sage Kelleen and Trinity Lynn (and Dom/Nyx Weasley if you headcanon her as Gryffindor), but she's not really friends with them. Sage (according to my headcanon) is also half-fairy, so you'd think they might get along, but Sage really just doesn't know what to think of her, and Trinity, as much as she doesn't want to admit it, is also pretty freaked out by Abyssina. Aby, as a result, doesn't really have any friends, as far as a "canon-compliant" (she's not canon but you know what I mean) interpretation would go. People are generally speaking too scared of her to try and form emotional bonds, in case she is a dark creature like a Boggart that can use that against them.
(For those that don't know: Trinity Lynn and Sage Kelleen come from a Gryffindor Quidditch Practice Signup Sheet in the amusement park, and the name Trinity was not in popular use until after 1999, so the Next Gen fandom claimed them, and a few others on the sheet, because we have so few characters and we didn't want other people to claim them first. Like, I saw Marauders Era try to claim Cereus Greengrass from HPWU even though HPWU takes place when Harry's already Head Auror and at the oldest she's the same age as Teddy)
She has a pretty lonely existence, and part of that is that she is created from her mother's worst fears. She quite literally embodies everything that terrified Anastasia. She looks like Abraham, she's a daughter that could have killed her in childbirth, she's extremely lonely with no loved ones aside from family to care for her, those are all things that represent Anastasia's worst fears.
She's not really meant to be a happy character, she is kind of tragic and even in the realm of Next Gen, where you'd expect society to be nicer, she's still treated as this extreme other. Of course, Next Gen in general has this whole theme of "I am not my parents/namesakes" and I like to think this theme is present in Abyssina's character.
I don't really ship Abyssina with anyone, it seems antithetical to her theming (she's not meant to be aspec though, people just don't like her), but if I did I reckon some Abyssina/Delphi would work, in an AU where Delphi is adopted by either Concordia Rowle or Draco Malfoy and gets to attend Hogwarts. Just two goth lesbians bonding over how everyone assumes the worst of them for who their fathers are. I do have a Pinterest board called Augurabyss for them.
Other Ships:
Disclaimer, some of these ships would not be "canon", but they are ships I would see working. I have also included the codeshipnames since people do sometimes prefer those ones, and I'm not going to harp on your enjoyment, so these are the words I would use. Also feel free to ship these characters with OC's of your own if you think they'd work.
If you want to use these guys or ship them with your own OC's, go ahead. I'm obviously a Next Gen main person, so I'm fairly used to trading OC's and letting other people do whatever they want with mine, since we have so few characters that are actually the same age and not related that we might as well just share them. Also if someone else wants to come up with stuff for Anastasia's Mother, who would be Riddle Era, I don't mind at all. Preferably keep with the themes of the names I've used though.
Tagging people that I know like my OC's and the specific gens involved: @explodes-like-a-diva @boredomsbonedeep @luvieville and @rustytyperwriter.
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Percy is a nerd (complimentary), we know that. But what if he read muggle horror and sci fi combined with his maladaptive daydreaming?
He would 100% appreciate the character designs but also be fucking terrifed because of how vivid his maladaptove daydreaming would make the images, like a love-hate relationship.
That one lesson where his class has to face boggarts and Percy's is just a horde of the most hideous and grotsque creatures. His classmates are just staring at him like, ". . .Are you okay?"
And Percy's just like, ". . .I forgot about that." Pointing to a random 8 feet skinwalker that crawling on the ceiling and with an unhinged jaw. "Oh my god, that was my favourite character!"
Rumours definitely spread and people were concerned for him for a while.
hey anybody else think. maybe, um, that. making your thirteen year old students face their greatest fear in front of the whole class. as part of the regular curriculum. every year. is a fucked up idea
Sandman Vol 2 19 was published with a cover date of September 1990. The issue took place in 1593 and once more featured William Shakespeare. The issue introduced to the Sandman universe King Auberon, Dick Cowley, Hamnet Shakespeare, Henry Condell, Richard Burbage, Will Kemp, Queen Titania, Nixies, Peasblossom, Skarrow, and Puck/Robin Goodfellow. They were a mixture of historical figures and creations of William Shakespeare and were imagined for the comics by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. The issue was also the basis for an episode of The Sandman radio drama. ("A Midsummer Night's Dream" Sandman vol 2 19, DC Comic Event)
