#fonks

Hiiiiii YES ABSOLUTELY thank you for asking! Get ready for a LONG YAP session here because I LOVE THEM.

Okay so I hc that Tonks meets Delphinium (she goes by Fina or Fie a lot of the time) at Auror training on, like, day one, and Tonks tries to make friends but Fie’s got kind of a difficult backstory with her family life and stuff that makes her automatic response to strangers be ‘defend thyself!’ and so she says something rude back. And then Tonks is like okay you know what fuck you then. Two can play at being rude. And so they’re rather antagonistic towards each other for a long stretch of time as Aurors-in-training, and they avoid working with each other and are petty towards one another on missions, much to the annoyance of the other Aurors in training in their group who are like “Guys.. Work together. Be adults. You’re giving us all à bad rap here.”

But Tonks being the sweetheart they are (I hc Tonks as non-binary or genderqueer and any pronouns btw) eventually sort of make their way into Fie’s heart, especially at a certain point when they're the only two of their group available for a mission and so get paired up and the bad guy they’re supposed to apprehend turns out to be a figure from Fie’s past, who starts trying to guilt trip Fie about abandoning her family and pretending to be some big shot when all she is is just the same as all of them, which causes Fie to freeze up and get hit by a curse. Tonks tries to stun the guy, but he gets away, and by that time neither of them are strong enough to be able to Apparate, so they sort of take shelter in some door and Tonks hesitantly gets Fie to let them heal her a little bit, and when they finally make it back to the Ministry Tonks visits Fie every single day while she recuperates and they get to talking and realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought, and each other are actually really kind in ways that the other didn’t expect. Some of the other guys in their Aurors-in-training group won’t stop bothering Tonks, trying to screw with her metamorphmagusism stuff and leaving stuff for her to trip on, telling on her to Moody, etc, and won’t stop using her first name, and when Fie heals and sees this she stands up for Tonks, and after that they're friends.

You’d expect that sweetheart Tonks would be the natural good cop in their relationship, but it turns out that she’s actually an amazing actor and loves to dramatically monologue, whereas Fie is quieter and loves to watch her, so they fall easily into a good cop (Fie) and bad cop (Tonks) routine, and soon enough they're pretty much inseparable in missions and in daily life. Fie falls first, watching Tonks trip on their face and wax poetic about a suspect’s cruel eyebrows, and Tonks is blissfully unaware until one day when they’re sitting in the sun together somewhere and the sun catches juuuust right on Fie’s face and Tonks is like “oh….. wait fuck”

So they graduate Auror training together and become fully fledged Aurors together and become Auror Partners and they’re so painfully obviously in love with one another that their colleagues are like ‘how are you not seeing this’ and keep trying to hint at one of them that they like the other, then vice versa, until one day Fie decides to just go for it and very bravely and terrifiedly asks Tonks out and Tonks goes blank for a good minute and then is like “YES ABSOLUTELY”. And they get an apartment together and adopt a cat named Wolsey because they’re both really into Dr. Who and then the cat turns out to be vaguely magical and they have to figure that out. Moody makes them separate their Auror Partnership because he thinks lovers make bad Auror Partners, so they get partnered with other people, but they still live together and see each other at work every day so in general, they are extremely happy together.

I hc Tonks with a quick temper and a rebellious streak, but ultimately and unabashedly an absolute sweetheart. Fie is harder to read— a lot quieter than her girlfriend, and with some past stuff that she still hasn’t fully sorted through yet— but when she trusts you, you can see her genuine kindness and how much she cares about the people around her underneath all that. Fie is a secret nerd— Tonks is an out-and-proud nerd. Tonks meets Fie’s parents once and both end up forbidden to return, but Tonks’ mum and dad love Fie and are super supportive of their relationship— they gave up trying to control Tonks long ago. During the war, Tonks joins the Order of the Phoenix (they’ve never been good at hiding what they believe in) and Fie becomes a spy inside of the Ministry, falsifying Muggle documentation forms and sending back information to the Order through Tonks.

Eventually, her boss and other higher-ups hear rumor that she’s dating Tonks, which is problematic both because that means she’s a lesbian, which they despise, and also because she’s in cahoots with an out-and-proud supporter of Dumbledore and the Order, so they plan to fire her, but Dumbledore comes up with a plan that everybody sort of agrees to (in the way that people tend to do with Dumbledore’s plans). Fie, he decides, is too important of an asset for information from the Order to lose. Therefore, Tonks will get married to someone else (her close friend Remus Lupin who she’s worked with in the Order, who is running from prison under the new administration for not only being a werewolf but also the Big Gay, so by marrying Tonks he can stop worrying about one of these legal pressures at least), thereby falsely dispelling the rumor that Tonks and Fie were in cahoots. So Tonks moves in with Remus and Fie works alone for a while, as a spy, all by herself. Tonks and Remus end up adopting an orphaned kid during the war, and they name him Teddy.

When the War is over and ALL OF THEM HAVE SURVIVED, and Tonks and Remus stay legally married for a while to hide from the law but both get ‘married’ to their respective partners (for Remus, Sirius Black) in pretend ceremonies, and at Tonks’ and Fie’s Sirius narrates the entire thing like the ‘mawwiage’ guy from the Princess Bride and Wolsey the cat is the ringbearer. Then, in 2014 when gay marriage becomes legal in the UK, Remus and Tonks get divorced and Tonks marries Fie (Teddy is the ringbearer now) and Remus marries Sirius. Teddy grows up happy and coparented by two sets of gay parents.