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send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch - Neither, the couch has, er, other uses, and is, in fact, one of the bedrocks of the unholy relationship.

makes friends with the neighbors - Both, with Usi trying to keep the conversations even remotely civil…

is the adventurous eater - Rita - she’ll eat anything from fancy dinners to children’s sweets, but eventually gives up on ice cream for all the fuss it causes…

hogs the covers at night - Rita, but she suspects Usi simply doesn’t sleep - how would she know?

forgets to do the dishes - Rita, who hints heavily that they should get a house-elf like those other fancy purebloods; Usi responds for the umpteenth time that those things are expensive, and frankly, they disgust him…

tries to surprise their partner more often - Rita, she thinks Usi needs to loosen up, and prints things in the paper to try to get the man to spit take his morning coffee

leaves dirty laundry on the floor - Rita, occasionally, as hints they should get a house-elf

stays up til 2 AM reading - Both; they share some quieter, nicer moments that way

sings in the shower - Usi occasionally hums a tune from his records collection when showering; around this time is when Rita (who is incidentally near tone-deaf) jumps him…

takes the selfies - Rita, Usi admits he looks rather dapper in half-light and grudgingly admires Rita’s technique

Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?

Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?

Has your character ever cast an unforgivable curse? If so, what was their motivation? 

Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?

Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?

In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

Is your character bothered by the sight of blood? If so, in what way?

Does your character remember names or faces easier?

Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?

Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?

What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?

Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?

What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?

If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?

What does your character like in other people?

What does your character dislike in other people?

How quick is your character to trust someone else?

How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?

How does your character behave around children?

How does your character normally deal with confrontation?

How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?

What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?

What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most comfortable.

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most uncomfortable.

In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?

Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?

How does your character behave around people they like?

How does your character behave around people they dislike?

Is your character more concerned with defending their honor, or protecting their status?

Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?

Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?

How does your character treat people in service jobs?

Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?

Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?

Has your character ever had a dependent figure who was not related to them?

How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

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send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch

Rita nightly, occasionally with an unfamiliar girl squashed next to her; Walden unceremoniously kicks the girl out; Rita gripes that she doesn’t have to stick with their “arrangement” - she can just publish what she knows and make some gold; Walden comments that in that case, he ought to just kill her; this shuts Rita up

makes friends with the neighbors

Rita, trying not to be too obvious checking out girls and the occasional guy; to her annoyance, the best-looking guy is off limits and sits in a corner “talking” with Walden while the ladies mingle; Rita is quietly astounded how blind everyone is

is the adventurous eater

Rita, who brings back a sack of Honeydukes sweets and throws it at Walden’s general direction; It bounces off Walden who doesn’t blink; later he picks out the jelly-slugs because waste not

hogs the covers at night

Rabastan; Rita pops in asking for a threesome and is kicked out

forgets to do the dishes

Rita; What? She just did her nails - and Walden should feel right at home with manual labor

tries to surprise their partner more often

Rita; who seems to think if she gathers enough embarrassing dirt on Warren Macnair or Veronika Lestrange she might finally get some

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Rabastan; Rita immediately calls the boys out for being filthy hypocrites; at least her clothes are hung up

stays up til 2 AM reading

Rita, not that anyone is sleeping judging by the noises from the bedroom

sings in the shower

Rabastan and Walden; the low and high untrained voices sound so pleasant together that even Rita does not have the heart to interrupt; instead, she uses the time to ferret around and finds what she assumes is an extremely pretty costume ball mask

takes the selfies

Rita; she takes flattering photos of each, gives it to the other, and scores brownie points with both for a nefarious purpose

plans date night

send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch

Dawn when it’s cool in the room; Rita eventually learns not to bother to conjure her a blanket or something when this happens as it simply gets kicked off

makes friends with the neighbors

Both; Dawn eventually allows Rita to gossip about only select individuals due to how sulky it makes Rita when she’s completely banned

is the adventurous eater

Depends; Dawn has more fine tuned preferences and wishlists; Rita has a wider range and higher tolerance for cheap and nasty food; together they discover sweet things and baked goods are a reliable topic of common interest…

hogs the covers at night

Dawn, who somehow kicks the covers off both of them without waking up; Rita wakes up shivering and quickly gets over her annoyance by admiring Dawn’s sleeping form

forgets to do the dishes

Rita, but only once after which Dawn put her foot down

tries to surprise their partner more often

Rita, who makes an effort to focus on Quidditch the next piece she writes; Dawn is proud of her

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Rita is not allowed to even think about it; On the bright side reorganizing her closet with Dawn was significantly more fun than she thought it would be

stays up til 2 AM reading

Rita, while distracted by Dawn’s occasional weird twitches in sleep that Rita suspects are Beater moves

sings in the shower

Dawn; Rita tries to join her and is promptly kicked out

takes the selfies

Rita; Dawn often comes out looking like a supermodel; Dawn is mildly impressed but likes the ones with her weird expressions better and tells Rita so

plans date night

send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch

Peter; Rita Transfigures it into a bed for him when she glances up from her writing

makes friends with the neighbors

Rita; Peter is initially shocked at Rita’s sheer brazenness, then eventually learns to laugh at the gossip she gathers

is the adventurous eater

Rita, who takes them to bars and, like a bad mother, encourages Peter to have more sweets

hogs the covers at night

Rita, who also hogs the whole bed and snores, but Peter likes to look at her asleep and un-made up, and so doesn’t mind

forgets to do the dishes

Peter cleans up after Rita, who thinks perhaps she’s finally found a keeper

tries to surprise their partner more often

Peter, trying to impress Rita - one day he finally shows her his animagus form and the possibilities explode

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Rita occasionally; at which point Peter tries timidly to hint at something…

stays up til 2 AM reading

Both, in companionable silence

sings in the shower

As neither can sing, Rita frequently suggests other things they could do instead that makes Peter blush…

takes the selfies

Rita, who knows the basic tricks to make anyone look good and reckons Peter needs the confidence boost

plans date night

send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch

Occurs at about the same frequency for both, which is rarely - but when one of them does and is woken by the other, there is always a paranoid wand-grabbing moment when the sleeper jerks awake, followed by a crisis moment of how-(the-fuck)-did-it-come-to-this…

makes friends with the neighbors

Lucius, initially making introductions at some extremely shocked influential associates with Marlene in tow rolling her eyes at it all; five minutes later he is trying to drag Marlene away from heated arguments that are wrecking havoc with his politics…

is the adventurous eater

Lucius; Marlene is suspicious of any fancy party food resembling duck and it’s impossible to tell if Lucius is lying when he tells her what the meat is

hogs the covers at night

Marlene, keeping Lucius’ up half the night plotting petty vengeance - next time, he’ll tell her it’s not duck

forgets to do the dishes

Admit it, McKinnon, it’s nice to be untroubled about such things

tries to surprise their partner more often

Both; there is an unspoken competition between them trying to prove who could better survive, nay, thrive in what the other calls a lifestyle

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Neither; Marlene stubbornly refrains just to spite Lucius about his house-elf quip and general attitude

stays up til 2 AM reading

Neither; they grudgingly appreciate each other’s regular bedtimes

sings in the shower

Both; and both are equally horrified when they find themselves humming the other’s music

takes the selfies

Marlene; Lucius is annoyed that she deliberately only keeps the photos in which he’s doing something undignified like yawning or checking his reflection

plans date night

send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:

falls asleep on the couch - Rita can take care of Mary for this one

makes friends with the neighbors - Together, for friendship and gossip respectively…

is the adventurous eater - Mary when they go out, but Rita enthusiastically eats Mary’s cooking, she’s actually eating square meals, fancy that!

hogs the covers at night - Rita, who also snores…

forgets to do the dishes - Er, Rita

tries to surprise their partner more often - Rita, because she’s feeling like she needs to make some sort of gesture of appreciation - maybe she’ll propose with the Weekly horoscopes…

leaves dirty laundry on the floor - Neither, Rita is good about keeping clothes at least sort of draped…

stays up til 2 AM reading - Both, and if Mary reads Rita’s books Rita will actually become a better person for her

sings in the shower - Mary, Rita swoons or stuffs her ears depending on how busy

takes the selfies - Mary, Rita takes a few decent professional photos of Mary; is disconcerted but totally touched to realize Mary took photos of her unawares…

2. What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

On the whole, very cordial, with underlying tensions that have been left to fade away.

Much younger and nearly opposite in nature to her wily, analytical husband, Urtica Malfoy is flighty, capricious, and delights in the macabre. She was not an especially attentive mother when the children were very young, toeing the line (for her husband was one of the few who could control her) and delegating as much as possible to the house-elves. When Lucius and his brother were older they were fundamentally distractions to her, things to amuse her and occupy her day. She acted more like a crazy aunt or older sister than a mother, teaching them, when they were old enough, Quidditch, dancing, knife-throwing and the operation of a variety of elaborate torture devices, among other things - fun topics that did end up endearing her to her children and forming their particular sort of bond.

As far as she cared, she was more attached to her younger son; Domitius was a younger sibling like her, and as a smaller child born when she was older, he touched her as he had touched young Lucius, and both mother and eldest son had a soft spot for him in unspoken agreement. At three years of age, however, Domitius died suddenly of dragonpox contracted at the same time as Lucius, who survived - Urtica blames everyone in the household but herself for this, and afterwards her careless treatment of her remaining son became briefly distinctly crueler - but it was around this time that Lucius developed by leaps and bounds his nascent ability to flatter and prevaricate, providing Urtica with the sort of attentiveness that her husband never did - this, the fact that Lucius was now her only son, and the unspoken rule of the Malfoys to keep the nuclear family close and functioning smoothly saved the relationship, which had nowadays developed into a familiar, fond, tease-and-appease sort of interaction. If there were lingering resentments on part of either the son or the mother, they are left to lie, for neither Malfoy really had the emotional capacity to resolve them.

5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

In a specialized pocket, his wand; in a regular pocket, a silk handkerchief, a silver pocket watch and a small black mokeskin pouch containing a load of gold; another extendable pocket acts like a briefcase and contains a variety of necessities that cannot be conjured or would be annoying to repeatedly conjure - such as Gringotts keys, a comb, leather folders of documents, or a bottle of Pepper-up Potion. Finally, depending on the particular garment he’s wearing, there are usually a couple of concealed pockets meant not to be easily discovered, that may on certain occasions contain things like Essence of Dittany or an unregistered wand - things that would raise questions if he was found to be carrying them.

6. Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?

He tends to dream about real, past events of significance - he dreams recurrently these days about the night he got the Dark Mark, or a particularly memorable night out with Narcissa Black. When his dreams are not of specific events then they tend to be dreams of a distinctly different quality, and usually involves the heady, addictive feeling of practicing Dark Magic…

11. In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?