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let’s start off by saying that rabastan is the least favorite child between him and his brother. it used to really bother him when he was younger bc he honestly thought there was something wrong with him. he always tried to better himself and change who he was to please his parents, but as he got older, he stopped caring about it and stopped trying to please them. he knew that no matter what he did, their feelings about him would never change. 

he’s kind of an asshole, but he’s lowkey about it. he’s that guy that will be friendly and kind to your face and learn info about you, but he’ll release that info if it benefits him in some way. he won’t do that to the people he considers friends tho. 

he keeps to himself most of the time, but he’s always watching everyone and everything. he’s also very stubborn and is a ball of anger. honestly, he can be totally fine one minute and the next he’s planning a revenge plan. sometimes even the smallest things can set him off, it just depends on the day and what he’s feeling. 

despite his asshole tendencies, he can be a genuinely decent person whenever he wants to be. although, he usually reserves that for those he truly cares about (they can be purebloods or halfbloods, maybe even a singular muggleborn. highkey want him to care for a non-pureblood or two? it’ll go against his family values, and i love angst.)

after starting at hogwarts, he picked up a huge liking for potions which eventually grew into a passion. he was so passionate about potions that he usually followed slughorn around and tried to get the man to give him more advanced potion recipes. also, during his school years he was a seeker on the slytherin quidditch team. 10/10 was OBSESSED with quidditch.

unlike his brother, rab did fall in line after graduation and took an apprenticeship at a potions shop. one that, depsite the fact that they wouldn’t say anything bad about rod due to him being a lestrange, already had a sour attitude about rab. they wondered if he would do the same thing as rod and run off to help him at his own potions shop, but it’s been like 3 years and rab hasn’t. he has a big head, but he knows he has so much to learn and he won’t jeopardize that bc of his pride. 

contrary to canon belief, rabastan isn’t a death eater yet. he prefers to be on the neutral side of things. why should he have to pick a side? he’s selfish and doesn’t care which side wins as long as he’s left alone. (which of course, being a lestrange, remaining neutral won’t last.) 

also, side note: i have this idea that (sometime down the line) rabastan will eventually become a death eater. but something hella intense and life changing will have to happen to him for him to finally decide to sell his soul to the devil the dark lord and become a death eater. 

as for plots, here is a small list of vague plots that i’d like filled for rabastan! 

enemies: an obvious one. rab is a lowkey asshole that will fuck people over if it benefits him so these are inevitable. 

frenemies: these are inevitable as well considering the community he is part of it. 

friends: i’d like for him to have at least a handful of these. they won’t know him deeply, but he’d still be a friendly. 

best friends: there could be one to two, maybe three maximum. rab doesn’t like to opening up to people, so these people would be really special to him. he’d be a ride or die type of best friend. 

exes: maybe one or two past relationships, flings can work too. rab is pansexual, so any gender works. we can discuss whether they ended on good or bad terms.

betrothal: has to be one of the sacred twenty-eight, preferably one from the purist families. whether they hate it or are okay with it, we can talk about it.

maybe also a painful kind of love? you know, one where it never works or it shouldn’t even be a thing bc you know it can’t last due to arranged marriages (or maybe different blood statuses?)  

Narcissa is the youngest of her sisters. One might think that meant the expectations were lessened for her, but that’s far from the truth. If anything, they were more stringent for the youngest Black daughter (the sweetest, the most eager to please, the most malleable).

She’s been raised to be the perfect Pureblood lady, who will marry a Pureblood lord and have perfect Pureblood children while hosting balls and planning dinner parties and wearing pretty dresses. Her sisters might have bucked the Traditions, but if anything Narcissa clings to them. She excels in that realm, and she does so like being good at things. She’d never be able to be a warrior like Bella. Thank gods it’s not expected of her.

As much as she sometimes wonders if there’s more to life, she hates the idea of letting her family down or disappointing her mother. It’s easier to put on an act and make herself into what she’s expected to be than to buck the system and risk losing everyone that she loves. Andromeda is braver than her. She’s always been braver, and Narcissa will never admit that she idolizes that bravery, but she does. 

Her family is the most important thing to her. She loves her sisters dearly; she’s been trailing after them with stars in her eyes ever since she was a child. She’s also fiercely loyal to her extended family as well. Narcissa might look like a pretty flower, but if you mess with her loved ones, you’ll see there’s steel underneath the layer of gossamer.

That being said, she’s not one to get her hands dirty. She plays a different game, one of sideways glances and fake smiles and whispered secrets. She spent so long turning herself into an ideal that developed quite a talent for it and realized that it could be used for other matters as well. She uses her image like a sword, 

Narcissa is as prejudiced as anyone else in her family, but in a softer, more insidious way. She’s not one to openly scorn those she deems lesser than her. You catch more flies with honey, after all, and she’s always been able to turn on a sweet air. She values her reputation as a “reasonable” pureblood, and if she can play more moderate to get what she wants, she will. 

People tend to dismiss Narcissa as another pretty face, some vapid rich girl, but she’s very clever. She’s fairly booksmart and always got top marks at school—as is expected for a Daughter of the Noble House of Black. She’s skilled with many forms of magic, though not at combative ones. She excelled more in potions, astronomy, herbololgy, charms, and the like. She dropped Defense the moment she could. She said it was so she could focus on her full courseload in other subjects, but really she just hated it. 

She’s also very perceptive. You have to be, growing up in a house where all serious conversations stop when you walk into a room. She pretends not to catch as much as she does, but Narcissa is highly aware of what’s going on in her world, even if she prefers to play the innocent. 

She’s always been fascinated with mind magic, and has dabbled in it very quietly in her down time. It’s something she’d consider a hobby, and so far she’s better at occlumency than anything else, but it’s something to keep her occupied. 

She doesn’t have any sort of job. Her mother wouldn’t hear of her precious baby daughter entering the work force. She could be described as a socialite more than anything else. She gets bored. So bored. But then she doesn’t really like the idea of being beholden to anyone at a job anyway, so maybe it’s for the best. 

╰ °✧ ( HOME BY GABRIELLA APLIN ) comes on as soon as ( EMMELINE VANCE ) comes into the room. they are ( 22) and were formally in (RAVENCLAW ) and are rumored to be sided with the ( ORDER). some people say they look particularly look like (IMOGEN POOTS) and would describe theirselves as ( CARING ), but also ( TOO TRUSTING) { Laney, 20, EST, she/her }

Emmeline Vance is 22, a former Ravenclaw, and the sweetest/most fiery little thing you’ll ever meet.

She has two adorable, loving, older muggle parents that adopted her when she was just three weeks old. Eleanor and Henry are 59 and 61, respectfully, and adore her with all their hearts. They live in a little cottage on the bay and while they’re so glad that Emmeline is out and pursuing her dreams, they do miss her living at home oh so much. They think she’s a Healer at the Wizarding Hospital, and she was. But now she’s looking to join the Order, and doing everything she can to keep the fact that there’s a war brewing from her sweet parents. She lies and sends letters and comes to family dinners and pretends that everything’s peachy on her side of town.

Emm says that she’s a muggle born, and goes with it because in her eyes she is. Her parents are muggles, and she has no idea who her biological parents really are. (Unbeknownst to her, she’s from a family of purebloods that gave her up because they didn’t want a kid. It broke her mom’s heart, but they couldn’t afford to keep her. They figured she would be safe in the muggle world, and maybe Hogwarts would find their way to her.)

Emmeline is kind to everyone, has a gentle heart, and is sweet and loving. on the flip side of that, she has a quick tongue and a short temper.

She learned how to heal people the magic way and the muggle way through her schooling and work training, and wants to use it to her advantage in the upcoming war

Emmeline is quite the artist and loves to paint and draw and sketch, especially in the front garden at her parent’s house. The inside of their house is full of murals she’s painted, different scenes and settings that her parents requested be put on the walls. Their room looks like a beach, the bathroom looks like a forest, and her room looks like its flying in the sky. She left the kitchen a bright, sunshiney yellow. Her mom spends a lot of time in there and she wanted to make it as cheerful as possible