before credence, caelestis had never paid MUCH ATTENTION to how she looked, the clothes she wore or what she painted on her face with a sure hand. she always knew that her features were pleasant, yes ; tiberius had told her often, so did his WIFE, when she had been the one to teach cael how to properly darken her lashes & stain her lips red, but this is different. she finishes applying her lipstick. FLUFFING her hair up slightly & smiling at the mirror.
noticing credence standing behind her, caelestis turns around in her chair, directing the smile at HIM, now. ❛ your turn now, carissimus, ❜ she urges, getting up & ushering credence to the chair, sitting him down & carding her fingers through his growing black locks. ❛ i thought we could go out DANCING tonight, would you like that? ❜ she leans down, giggling softly & kissing his cheek. ❛ everyone will be in AWE, i promise. you’ll look even prettier than you are now once i’m done with you. ❜
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The blade was magically conjured and pressed against the other’s throat, he stared at him, feeling his heart starting to pound hard in his chest. The last he heard Credence had been killed.
But the other told him he would be better and he frowned. “How...how are you alive?” Graves asked in a small whisper.
The Dark Lord had Seen it in his dreams not a week ago. He had gathered his followers— the inner circle, those b l e s s e d to have his trust & his ear— to choose a course of action, and it was eventually decided that He would not return to New York himself ; no, Grindelwald would send someone in his place. A delegate. A manipulator proxy.
Regulus had been the first to volunteer.
One of the only to volunteer, in fact ; most of the others had their own GAMES to run at home, where Grindelwald’s ill-conceived war was setting the rest of Wizarding Europe to squabbling for political power. And so he was here : New York City, center of the universe ( or so Americans liked to claim ) . The streets were dauntingly wide, the buildings tall, the alleys dark—– Regulus thanked Merlin his childhood had gotten rid of any claustrophobia, or he’d be even more unsettled than he was now. There was a rogue Obscurus loose somewhere in this city—– and worse, Regulus was NOT planning to find it....
Once he left Manhattan he intended to d i s a p p e a r —–– He hoped that the Dark Lord never found his pet creature, of course, but Regulus was to preoccupied with his own ESCAPE to concern himself more than passingly with the Obscurial’s fate
.........that is, until he ran into the boy on the steps to the tube. ‘ You—–! ’
wow i ;; really love your writing in general, it flows and it breathes. It's rare to see writing /move/ quite so beautiful, and on top of it all your credence is ---- wow i don't think i actually have the right words to tell you how on point your portrayal is. You care about him ; it's evident in the way you write him, and it warms my heart. You make him HUMAN instead of a scrap of a person.
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~ Coming from another person that cares so deeply about Credence I take that as high compliment and good golly after the week that I’ve had I’m sitting here almost in tears… Okay I am in tears over this. Thank you so much for taking the time to send this in because not only did you make my day but, I can sit here and smile knowing that I so don’t deserve this kind of recognition from someone as kind as you. Thank you darling you truly are kind beyond words. (now I need to go and weep in my corner)
ALRIGHT so. Tina and Credence. In my own personal opinion, the most important relationship in the film.
Prior to a short time before the incident with Credence occurred, Tina probably didn’t take much notice to the Second Salemers. In all honesty, I’m sure they were briefed on not acknowledging something as unimportant as their protests, because there was no way that they would ever pick up a great enough following to do any damage to the wizarding society in America in the 1920s. People were no longer afraid of things like that, and the mere thought of it was laughable, I’m sure.
However, Tina being who she is and having been trained for investigative work, knows how to spot the littlest of details. She knows how to tell something isn’t right. And the day she stood there, just a tad longer than she should have, she noticed that something wasn’t right about the Barebone family.
She could see the looks upon the kids’ faces, the way that they cowered. This was not normal for any child, not even those who had been roped up into something as ridiculous as Mary Lou’s anti-witch ideology.
It’s for this reason, that despite her better judgement regarding the law, she followed behind them. It’s for this reason that with every bit of stealth she had acquired through years of training to be an auror, that she was able to witness the looks of anger upon Mary Lou’s face. The look of terror upon Credence’s. Looks that sent shivers up her spine, that had her stomach clenching with anxiety.
This is why, on September 18th, 1926, Tina Goldstein followed the Barebones. This is why, the moment she saw Mary Lou’s arm rearing back, a belt in hand, she put an end to it then and there.
Every move Tina makes is calculated, she is rational in even the most dire of situations. And she knew very well that using magic on a no-maj was very much against the law. However, at the sight of the boy about to be abused by a woman who called herself his mother — well, she wouldn’t stand for that. She could not stand by and watch something so vile take place and not do a thing about it. Wasn’t protecting the innocent what her job entailed anyhow? Wasn’t that what she was trained to do from the very beginning?
But above that, protection is in her nature. It is instinct.
She didn’t know Credence prior to that day. She hadn’t spoken to him, nor had she ever interacted with him. But she knew that he did not DESERVE what his mother intended to do to him. That no one deserves the kind of things she does to her children.
Tina was demoted at work for what she did. She was lucky to receive such an easy punishment, when she could have very well been put on trial and sentenced to death for what she had done. She had attacked a no-maj. It was a huge scandal, and a whole crowd of people had to be obvliviated, which was definitely no easy feat.
And while she was definitely upset to have been demoted from her position, especially when she enjoyed her job so much, there was not a single ounce of regret within her. She did not regret protecting Credence. And if she had the chance to do things over, she would have still protected him. It was one of her best memories. In her mind, it was one of the greatest things she’d ever done, and she would not take it back even for a moment. If she had been punished worse than she had been, she still would not have had an ounce of regret for her actions. What she did was worth it.
What she did, as JK Rowling put it, was an uncomplicated kindness. Tina did not have anything to gain from helping Credence. Only things she could lose, but she didn’t care about that. She is selfless beyond belief, and that’s the way she has always been.
After the incident, she’s been put on watch. She’s not allowed near the Second Salemers, and each time she’s caught near them, she’s reprimanded. The risks of the crowd, and of Mary Lou recognizing her are far too great, and they don’t want her causing anymore trouble. If she did, they’d have no choice but to worsen her punishment.
But that doesn’t stop her. She’s been watching them. She’s kept an eye on those kids. She’s kept an eye on Credence in particular, but on his sisters as well. She knows that if he’s treated this way, the other two are no doubt abused and neglected as well. Even if not always physically.
She takes notes. She documents every little change within the kids; within Credence. If she can spot any bruises, any change in posture, in demeanor — she writes it down. I don’t know exactly what she witnessed in that time that Grindelwald had been manipulating Credence, but I am sure she saw his demeanor change in some way or another, and I am sure she documented it. She never did talk to him again though. She at least kept her distance in that way.
Upon learning that Credence was the Obscurus wreaking havoc in the city, however, I can only imagine this devastated her.
Tina sees Credence in a very human way. She doesn’t look upon him as something she can use, he’s not some beast or being that has lost control. He’s a human being who has been abused and oppressed his entire life. So much so that his magic has turned on him. And he can no longer control himself to the point where darkness engulfs him. He’s lucky to be alive. He’s lucky he can function. And it BREAKS HER HEART to know that he has been treated so terribly, shamed so entirely, that this has happened. For while Tina surely isn’t as well versed in obscurial as Newt is, she does know what they are. She knows why they become the way they are. And for this boy, who she knows suffers at the hand of an abusive “parent” to have formed this darkness is just too much.
But never does her desire to help him falter. She sends Newt after him, believing that he will know how to handle the darkness, while she stays behind to duel “Graves,” to keep him AWAY FROM CREDENCE. She is constantly trying to keep these toxic people away from Credence, risking her own life to do so.
It’s why she rushes into the line of fire. Why she rushes in when Newt and Grindelwald are cowering on the floor, scared to death that they will be hurt, and I can’t imagine that makes Credence feel any better. That he SCARES people because of what he is. But Tina does not let the danger deter her. She is not afraid of him. She knows that he is good, and she knows how he has suffered. She tells him as much, and Credence LISTENS to her because she showed him true kindness when no one else did. She showed him kindness for no reason but to be kind. And he did not forget that. She was the only person to ever show him an uncomplicated kindness. He has dreamed of her ever since she saved him from a beating.
Unlike Grindelwald who used him, who at first only wanted his help finding the child who he thought was the obscurus, who then only wanted him because he was he obscurus, she wants nothing from him. Unlike Newt, who was there to help when this dark form took over, when all hope seemed lost, she helped him when she knew nothing about him. When he was simply a human being that had been mistreated by someone he should have been able to trust. Who he should have been able to love.
She is sad for him, she has tears in her eyes. She hates that this has happened to him. But she believes that she can help him. That she and Newt could help him. If she could only talk him down, talk him away from the darkness, calm him. She could help him.
But she never gets the chance. And he never has the chance that he deserves. And perhaps that is the most heartbreaking thing of all. To have believed that he had a chance, and for that chance to have been ripped away from him because of the fear of others. She is ashamed of her colleagues. She is distraught at the loss.
And I don’t play Credence, obviously, but from a canon point of view, I do believe Tina far outranks the other characters in Credence’s mind. Graves/Grindelwald has used him, and he doesn’t really know Newt. But Tina was there. She protected him. And it is actually stated that no one had ever done him a kindness like she had. She is beyond important to him. He would listen to her. Believe her. And even after the events of the film, he probably feels the same way, because she never stopped trying to protect him.
When she finally learns that he is alive, Tina Goldstein will stop at nothing to continue protecting the boy.
And I honestly have a whole theory about how I think Tina will be the one to help Credence in the end. Because JKR doesn’t write relationships like this for them to mean nothing. And this one is too important to be left hanging like this. I expect there’ll be a ton more Credence/Tina interaction.
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Grindelwald rarely calls himself LUCKY ; what he has, he has gotten through his own, deserving hands. But this - this rare moment, the one where he finds Credence, where he wins - is a BLESSING. A miracle. Hands reach out - GUIDING hands, careful and cautious, as though the creature inside of the boy will still lash out, will still SWALLOW him whole.
“Look at me,” he soothes. Voice softens, warms ; even he is capable of KINDNESS, fabricated as it may be. He wonders if Credence is telling the TRUTH - or is hiding it for his own comfort. “Your name is Credence. Do you remember that? You’re SAFE here - I won’t harm you.”
