#dawn:open

“How is it my fault that I didn’t know tequila was flammable? Every time I light things on fire, people get mad-- and now they’re mad when I don’t try it. It’s like, pick a side.”

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who: open!

“No, hold still for a second-- you’ve got something in your hair, let me fix it.”

OPEN  //  @beforedawnstarters​

( cis man | he/him | fionn whitehead / aneurin barnard ) —— isn’t that ANTAINE TRAVERS? yeah that is them, outside the three broomsticks! they used to be in SLYTHERIN but apparently they now work as a JOB in/at the PLACE. sybil once said that they reminded her of at least four aesthetics which seems about right. anyway i’ve heard they’re still a bit CHARISMATIC, SHREWD and BROODING, they’re TWENTY-FOUR now but some things never change! i wonder how being a PUREBLOOD is affecting them after school, especially now they’re a MARKED DEATH EATER? i guess only time will tell…

the heir apparent of the travers legacy, antaine’s name would likely carry a lot more weight if the rest of his family was not so deeply mired in scandal. between his father’s extremely public divorce, his mother’s reputation for tackiness, and finn’s flagrant disregard for the pureblood way of life, it’s a wonder he’s managed to secure himself any kind of future at all. still, a well-placed betrothal to the daughter of a foreign official, a head for strategy, and a commitment to maintaining blood purity have earned him many friends and admirers amongst his fellow death eaters. if only this sentiment was shared by antaine’s father, whose approval he desires above all else, in spite of his hatred for the man.

connections

finn travers: once they were thick as thieves, but growing up changes many things, and antaine’s relationship with his younger sibling is one of them. though they were both sorted into slytherin house, each of the travers siblings got something very different out of the experience: antaine some new friends and a troubling set of core beliefs, and finn the absolute certainty that they were never going to fit in with their pureblooded peers. finn misses the way their relationship used to be, and often wishes things could go back to the way things were, though there’s little chance of that now. they don’t know that their brother has sold his soul to the dark lord - or maybe they just don’t want to know.

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( cis man | he/him | max irons / utp ) —— isn’t that MORGAN MACDONALD? yeah that is them, outside the three broomsticks! they used to be in UTP but apparently they now work as a AUROR with the MINISTRY OF MAGIC. sybill once said that they reminded her of at least four aesthetics which seems about right. anyway i’ve heard they’re still a bit STOIC, COLD and OBSESSIVE they’re TWENTY NINE - THIRTY THREE now but some things never change! i wonder how being a HALFBLOOD is affecting them after hogwarts, especially now they’re a AGENT with the ORDER OF THE PHOENIX? i guess only time will tell…

mary isn’t the first wix in their family line, not by a long shot. unbeknownst to her and her parents, the branch of their family stemming from her father’s uncle iain, which long had a reputation for being interesting where all that and more. iain being a muggleborn wizard that started the new halfblood macdonald family. the side of the family that gave rise to magnus ‘dent-head’ macdonald, long known to mary as MAD COUSIN MAGNUS.

eldest child of magnus, where his younger brother malcolm inherited their father’s temper, morgan took more after their mother in most regards. too often consigned to being the peacekeeper, the level headed one when tempers inevitably flared the fact morgan took to that as his work shocked no one. less still when he joined the order of the phoenix when it was nothing but a fledgling. but with age comes an exasperation, for his dent-headed father and also for how the war has rooted deep in his family. the tensions in the wider macdonald family are nearing boiling point and morgan has been the one trying to keep things merely simmering for too long. a younger brother and a cousin just as wild as each other with a sister tired of them both, morgan swears he’s going grey early over his one common ground with his brother putting him at odds with his sister. what he sees as the natural desire to protect their family, even their cousin mary who some days seems to seek out trouble.

connections

mary macdonald: a silly little childish thing, in mary's youth morgan had been the least favourite of the two cousins that came by in the summer to babysit them, if only because morgan did the job properly, not letting mary get into their usual scrapes that malcolm was usually right behind mary in. but being the least favourite does not bely any lack of affection between the two, even if its something they both express in ways that might seem a little foreign to the other. a staunch supporter and loyal member of the order mary's desire to fight is something morgan deeply understands even if he lacks the same fire behind his actions as the younger wix does but it's his work as an auror that has brought the two closer than they'd ever been in mary's youth. advocating for a case that too many wrote off as a prank gone wrong, mary's case. pushing his department to look deeper and when his efforts to investigate himself were stopped due to his closeness to the matter, insisting his cousin got nothing but the very best the department had to offer. and its something mary can never repay him for... though morgan says just keeping their head down from now on would be more than enough.

malcolm macdonald: it is a rare sight to see the brothers in a room together these days that doesn’t end with one storming out, rarer still when you add their father into the mix, but things had never been smooth sailings between morgan and malcolm. morgan the elder and more sensible of the pair to malcolm’s loose cannon of an approach to life things have only been exasperated by what’s become an open secret between the pair: their vastly differing stances on the war they’ve both found themselves in. but that division also plays into the common ground that sometimes seems the only thing they can agree on. that that secret stays between them and that they’ll both do anything to protect their family. both little jeannie who keeps her head down and little mary who they both played a part in babysitting summers home from hogwarts.

jeannie macdonald: jeannie and morgan’s closeness is something that’s waned a little of late. a sister once proud of her brother being a man of the law growing exasperated at the risks he deems as simply necessary. a brother once glad to see his sister keeping her head down now near pulling his hair out at how single minded she’s becoming. its a testament to how well both preserve that things have never sunk to the level of vitriol things often reach with other members of the macdonald clan.

( cis man | he/him | richard madden / utp ) —— isn’t that MALCOLM MACDONALD? yeah that is them, outside the three broomsticks! they used to be in UTP but apparently they now work as a SQUAD LEADER  with the ACCIDENTAL MAGICAL REVERSAL SQUAD. sybill once said that they reminded her of at least four aesthetics which seems about right. anyway i’ve heard they’re still a bit RECKLESS, CRUEL and JOVIAL they’re TWENTY SEVEN - THIRTY TWO (YOUNGER THAN MORGAN) now but some things never change! i wonder how being a HALFBLOOD is affecting them after hogwarts, especially now they’re a DEATH EATER? i guess only time will tell…

mary isn’t the first wix in their family line, not by a long shot. unbeknownst to her and her parents, the branch of their family stemming from her father’s uncle iain, which long had a reputation for being interesting where all that and more. iain being a muggleborn wizard that started the new halfblood macdonald family when he took a pureblood wife. the side of the family that gave rise to magnus ‘dent-head’ macdonald, long known to mary as MAD COUSIN MAGNUS.

malcolm is magnus’s second child and youngest son, a hot headed scot like his father its little surprise the two often find themselves at odds. perhaps what would be surprising, if it was widely known, would be just how far that division cuts — maybe not to the bone but to the dark mark malcolm bears. stuck between an older brother who’s an auror, and staunchly with the order, and a younger sister clinging to neutrality,  the tensions in the wider macdonald family are nearing boiling point. helped in no small part by malcolm’s equally wild thing of a cousin, mary. a person his sister couldn’t care less about but who malcolm, morgan and magnus find a rare common ground — the need to protect them from this war that’s already hit a little too close.

connections

mary macdonald: mary and malcolm get on like a house on fire, are highly likely to set a house on fire if left together unsupervised for too long but such a thing serves only to drive a close bond between the two. a shared coarseness between the pair (that could be called an acquired taste by a charitable soul) leads both to their closeness in personality and nature and yet also is the source of a secret that if unveiled would force the cousins apart. while malcolm might be a death eater, he also believes there should be an exception to every rule and his exception is his muggleborn cousin. the young wix he baby sat as a wean, who’s first big show of accidental magic he was witness to, who’s fire he thinks should never be extinguished — maybe just hidden away for a spell? if mary could just make themself less of a target his job would be a lot easier, and yet what would he do in the same situation...

morgan macdonald: it is a rare sight to see the brothers in a room together these days that doesn’t end with one storming out, rarer still when you add their father into the mix, but things had never been smooth sailings between morgan and malcolm. morgan the elder and more sensible of the pair to malcolm’s loose cannon of an approach to life things have only been exasperated by what’s become an open secret between the pair: their vastly differing stances on the war they’ve both found themselves in. but that division also plays into the common ground that sometimes seems the only thing they can agree on. that that secret stays between them and that they’ll both do anything to protect their family. both little jeannie who keeps her head down and little mary who they both played a part in babysitting summers home from hogwarts.

jeannie macdonald: to ask jeannie, malcolm was the kind of brother that was fun to have as a kid but who really is well past growing up. malcolm on the other hand would claim jeannie has grown into being a right stick in the mud. but while there might be an undercurrent of tension between the two they’re still siblings, still have each other’s backs. even if jeannie might wish malcolm didn’t extend the same courtesy to their cousin mary, and if malcolm wished that jeannie would show a little compassion.