#cassandra|character

Five AU’s! Fun!

First one up, is one of my canon-divergent AU’s for Regulus. Basically, it goes off the idea that Regulus doesn’t die? Not quite at least. He exists between life and death, in the inferi cave. So when, Albus and Harry go to retrieve the locket, and Regulus crawls out, unaware of the fact that so long has passed? There is a lot of complications. For one, Regulus has no one. His brother has died (telling him that was Not Good. He was very close to searching out Bellatrix and killing her.). The rest of his family is either, a) part of the Deatheaters, the people he can’t go back to, without dying, and they’ve grown up anyways. He’s 18, mentally and physically. Everyone he knew is either dead, or in their 30′s. So new name, and he joins the order, it’s not like he has much other choice.

Number two is… defection AU. This one is where Regulus and/or Barty, do precisely that. They defect. Instead of going after the horcrux alone, they go to the order first. With the support of at least one other person (who defects depends on who goes with), they manage to retrieve the horcrux without anyone dying! Score one for the good guys?  So yeah, that’s that one. In theory, Regulus manages to repair his relationship with his brother.

I can’t really do any for Ilya, because he has none as of yet. Let’s go Albus!

So, it’s a character specific one, but I really want to do one, and had a thread where Albus, at like 18, just months post-Gellert ends up messing with a time-turner, or (time) magic he ought not be messing in, and it sends him 50 years into the future, where he meets young, charismatic Tom Riddle. And Tom, is well, exactly what attracted Albus to Gellert, and the anger and the hurt is still fresh enough, but without the wisdom that comes with time. So the idea that maybe he shouldn’t get involved with (morally skewed) revolutionaries hasn’t quite sunken in yet? And let’s face it, Tom would use this opportunity. Access to a young Dumbledore? It’s like a gift of fate. So I yeah. I really want to do something where Albus ends up co-Dark Lording with Tom. Albus has grey morals already, this would push him properly evil, and I love it.

Another one of my character’s ends up siding with Tom Riddle verse? Cassandra’s. In her’s, she is still engaged to Bartemius Sr. and she hates that fact. She’s smart, and not terribly ambitious, but enough that she catches Tom’s eye. It’s easy enough to convince her parents he would be a much more suitable match… alternately, elopement. Somehow, she ends up married to Tom. He’s still Tom. Still cold, and very Slytherin, but he’s hers. And he’s brilliant, and listens to her input. It’s a lot of Hades/Persephone vibes for it. Fun, at any rate. Granted, I seem to be a fan of a lot of ships where one person is legit dark/evil and either drags the other participant down with them, or the other person goes willingly.

And for the final verse! I already added this into an ask for this meme but damnit it, I like this verse, so it gets to go again. Barty’s survival verse! The base, start is; after the war, and the dementors are no longer used, provided the human body is still alive, some people regained their souls. Barty is one of the lucky few. It’s a bit of a trying time getting out of Azkaban. But he does, either by proving his innocence for some of his crimes, or by being able to pull the ‘I’ve paid penance, I lost my soul, I’m a changed man, give me a break’ card. So he gets out, and he doesn’t know what to do. He has no money, no friends, and no family (his cousin doesn’t count. He couldn’t do that to him. He has a family, has a life, Barty made his choice when he was 15, besides, the guilt would kill him). No respectable business would hire him, so he goes to knockturn alley, and Borgin and Burkes hires him. He’s smart, if a little broken, and good at remembering the stock, there are worse jobs. It keeps a roof over his head. It’s a small, cramped apartment. But it’s home. A lot of life is living one day at a time.

“Evander? What about him?”

“He’s the best person in my life, has remained it our whole lives. I don’t know what I’d do, or where I’d be without him. He is my closest confidante, and my biggest supporter. “

“He is my twin, the person in the world who I’m sure carries a portion of my soul, just as I carry part of his. We have the same hair, same eyes- my son looks more like Evander than Bartemius, a fact I’m sure my brother finds most amusing, and one I’m not certain my husband has realized yet.“

“I remember being children in the garden, where we’d design games, and then later, when we’d both spend hours int he library. I taught him piano- mother taught me- and when he found one of father’s spell book not in the library, we practiced spells out of that.”

“Coming to Hogwarts was an interesting experience, for the first time, there were other people aside from Evander, and Hyacinth, though our cousin was never around nearly as much.We studied int he library together, and in the common room more often, and we shared the same classes, so at least I never had to wonder who my partner would be. He was better at potions than I was, but I was better at alchemy when we took it in sixth year.”

“Even now that we’re both adults, and no longer as attached as we were, there’s still no one I trust more. We visit frequently, and I’ve spent more than a few nights sleeping in my old room on nights when we loose track of time talking, and I don’t go back to Crouch Manor.”

@wordbound || Musical headcanons

Neptune - Sleeping at last

I wanna love you but I don't know how I wanna love you

Pitch black, pale blue These wild oceans shake what's left of me loose Just to hear me cry mercy The strong wind at my back So I'll lift up The only sail that I have

This tired white flag

There was a time that Cassandra had wanted to love her husband. She’d been young, and newly wed, and Tom was... was a tragic impossibility. She had tried to play the devoted wife, and happiness seemed like it could be attained, but Bartemius was cold, and focused on work, and she wasn’t in love with him in the first place. 

Days became weeks, became months of an awkward encounters between them where they barely spoke. Even when they were both together, there was rarely any words. He would work (he was always working, always determined for another promotion, a better position), and she would read, or play the piano. 

And eventually, she stopped trying, and stopped caring about it trying to make something of this mockery of a marriage, because she had her brother and her son, and her cousin, and there was still people she loved. For almost 15 years, that was what it was, life was... not like she had dreamed of, but it was good enough,.

And then her son joined with the Death Eaters, and he got arrested and charged. Cassandra will never forget that day, or the sounds of her child calling out for her to save him. Convincing her husband to let her take Barty’s place in Azkaban wasn’t even hard. She was wasting away (her heart, her frail Greengrass heart was failing), and she was dying. If he had ever loved her at all, even a little, he would let her do this. And he did.

@wordbound sent this in eons ago.

Name: Hyperion Riddle

Gender: male

General Appearance: There was no doubt that Hyperion was his father’s son. The dark, nearly black hair, the dark eyes and high cheekbones. He wasn’t a complete mirror of his father when he was younger, but it was close. In was in the details, that people could see the Greengrass line; the shape of his face, the glasses (both Evander, and Hyacinth wore them, though Evander with less frequency), and the pianist’s hands. Hyperion’s colours are dark– hair, eyes, and his features were angular. 

Personality: Hyperion was raised by his mother more than Tom, but that didn’t stop the impact of Tom on his progeny. Hyperion was brilliant– quick witted and cunning, but cold. He cared little for blood purity, but power was important to him and he gravitated towards people like him, at the top of the year. Hyperion is outwardly, quite charismatic, and while he won’t ever work against his father, it doesn’t stop him from fathering like minded fellows in the event that a new revolution needs to be waged. 

Special Talents: Hyperion is a powerful wizard, and his tendency towards academics, in no small part due to Cassandra, only illuminates that. He was top of his year during his tenure at Hogwarts. 

Who they like better: Cassandra

Who they take after more: Tom

Personal Head canon: Hyperion is Slytherin, but his best friend is a Ravenclaw (Everett is half-blood, but arguably one, if not the best potion maker Hyperion has ever met).

Face Claim: Elio Riley

@wordbound the faceclaim meme from a decent like… two months ago? It can go under a read-more because it’s a little long.

Name: Hyacinth GreengrassFace: Robert Sean LeonardBio: Cassandra’s parents uncle had a son a year after her and Evander was born. In proper Greengrass tradition, he had a Greek name, and because of the relatively small age gap, and similar interests, the twins and their cousin were close. 

Being a pureblood heir was lonely, and Hyacinth, unlike his cousins, didn’t have any siblings. He read, and studied, and by the time he started at Hogwarts (Ravenclaw, of course) he was ahead of most of his classmates. The close quarters meant he and his cousins were really close, and he saw, in a way that Evander didn’t (Cassandra hid things from her twins in a different way), the relationship between her and Tom Riddle.

After he graduated, he and Evander both joined the Ministry and for the next two decades, life was reasonably quiet. He married a nice pureblood woman, and had a daughter. Then of course, the war started and both his cousin’s died.

He joined the Order of the Phoenix to try and make sure no one else lost people like he had. He’d already lost so many people. His daughter grew up and graduated, and his wife joined the Order with him. He survived the first war, but he left the Ministry, and opened a book store in Diagon Alley. 

When Voldemort returned, he and his wife fed what information they gathered to the Order. (He never knew that Barty hadn’t died in Azkaban, but he did go confront Bartemius at Cassandra’s funeral to ask if he had any guilt for what he’d done).

Name: Doctor Gwendolyn LaurelFace: Jennifer MorrisonBio: Gwendolyn had, considering all the heroes flying around, a reasonably normal childhood. She had friends, and a bike, and then when she graduated highschool, she went to university and got her bachelor’s in biology. And then she met Janet, and the normal life became… slightly less normal.

She had some medical training, and was the lucky, or maybe unlucky passerby who found Janet after the aftermath of a fight, it wasn’t until years later that she learned what had happened. (Leaving the League of Assassins meant that any enemies Ra’s had, had decided to try and kill Janet to get back at him, they failed, but she’d still taken a few injuries). She stopped the bleeding, and managed to bandage it up a little before taking her to one of the free clinics. 

Somehow, they became friends, and Janet spent a week sleeping on her couch before finding an apartment of her own. Life continued, September rolled around, and Gwen started her medical degree. At least once a week, she would go out with Janet, and when she got married to Jack Drake, Gwen was the person standing beside her. 

 When Janet took over Drake Industries, Gwen went with her and ended up running the free clinic that DI opened. It was good work, and she had known Janet for long enough to know that it would be a better job than some of the ones she could get anywhere else. She’s the one that delivered Tim, and when years later, he developed an interest in the infamous masked vigilantes of Gotham, she was the person who patched up his minor injuries. (And the person that reminded Janet of her own past when Tim broke his arm so Tim could be spared at least some of her ire).

Name: Pelin KovvokFace: Terrence Mann (circa Critters)Bio: There were many planets in the galaxy, and Pelin knows Corellia better than a lot of them. He grew up there, his father one of the many shipbuilders. The problem with Corellia though, was that it had a vicious underbelly, and Pelin got wrapped up in one of the gangs young.

Eventually, one of the many gang wars killed a lot of them, and already an adult by that time, Pelin left Corellia as the gunner for a spice trader. For a year, he and Evoc traded the drug. They split after a deal gone sour, and Pelin ended up on Nar Shadaa.

He ended up taking a bounty hunter contract, offering a tidy sum, and upon collection, took another. By the time Hux came looking for a bounty hunter, Pelin had managed to make a decent name for himself. Hux wanted someone– an older, former Imperial officer killed, and was willing to pay. The decision had been easy, and the work had been efficient. A year and a half later, Hux contacted him again. 

The First Order rose, and with decent frequency, he’d get an encrypted message from Hux with a name, and he’d make sure the deed was done. He didn’t necessarily care about he brewing war, but even he could see just how fast Hux was rising through the ranks. 

Pelin never joined either side, but the arrangement was mutually beneficial for both of them.

Name: Professor Elden VasserFace: Michael Sheen Bio: Monerida wasn’t part of the Federation, the whole planet had taken to a view of pacifism, after a long, and bloody civil war had nearly torn their planet apart two hundred years earlier. Elden hadn’t lived through the wars, but his parents had, and for him, he could see why the planet had chosen to stay out of the affairs of the Federation. 

He grew up in one of the smaller bubble towns outside of the Kathil, capital of the western province, and when he was old enough, he travelled to the city proper to go to the university there. For two years, he worked on a classics degree, studying literature, and plays that had been important to the Moneridian society, before changing his major to history, and in particular, the time before the civil war. 

When the Dominion came to the Alpha Quadrant, Monerida stayed out of the conflict, which is why when after the Federation had sent out the broadcast that peace had come back to the Quadrant, it was so surprising to see one of the Vorta. 

Elden took Keevan in, and it was with the professor that Keevan spent the second and third months after the war. When Keevan eventually left Monerida, Elden supplied him with credits, and identity chip that would get him into Federation space.

AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Cassandra Persephone Crouch née Greengrass NICKNAME :: Cass FANDOM :: Harry Potter GENDER :: female ORIENTATION :: bicurious  BIRTHDAY :: September 15th, 1944 ZODIAC :: Virgo SHIPS :: /Tom Riddle, chemistry

• BIOGRAPHY •

Born to the Greengrass family, Cassandra and her twin Evander were close growing up and during their Hogwarts years, where they were both sorted into Ravenclaw. Married to Bartemius Crouch at 18, she had her son just a few months later. During her son's childhood, and later at Hogwarts, Cassandra was always a caring parent. She was always the person her son went to first. And when he got sentenced to Azkaban? Her health took a sharp decline, the result of her arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, the heart disease that killed many Greengrasses. And she managed to convince her husband to let her take their-her sons place. She died less than a month later in Azkaban, buried under her son's name. When her brother heard that day, he died just as well.

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Linda Cardellini HEIGHT :: 5′7″ BUILD :: medium build VISUAL AGE :: 37 ACTUAL AGE :: 37 HAIR :: brown EYES :: blue SPECIES :: Human witch HAND :: Right GLASSES :: No IDENTIFYING :: n/a

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