Do you have any abraxas x Tom hc?🐍☺️
MWAHAHHAA YES I DO (evil maniacal laugh)
They are crazy about each other but will always act like they don’t give a fuck about the other. Tom was originally invested in Abraxas because the Malfoys had high standing in the pureblood world, and Tom was curious. Tom had already befriended a lot of purebloods, mostly because those kids wanted to defy their parents or something like that. But Abraxas was different. Abraxas actively opposed Tom, not in a bullying sort of way, but as if he were begging for competition. From this, a sort of rivalry was born. And it picked up FAST. People talked about the two Slytherins who couldn’t stop bickering in potions, exceeded broom-speed limits on the fields even when told to stop, ect. They got cooped up in detention numerous times, but Tom always managed to charm his way out early, leaving Abraxas in the dust. He had this smug smile that just infuriated Abraxas. Overtime, whatever their relationship was began to take form. Tom was curious now, how far Abraxas would go to prove him wrong. The two ambitious boys were the only ones who could push each other to their limits. Somehow, overtime, this became something more than just a roommate-classmate rivalry. Neither are sure when, but it happened.
Suddenly they were both avoidant of each other, but that made things worse, because that gnawing hunger they had for the other ate through them. And then, just like always, tensions rose and snapped and the cycle repeated. It didn’t matter how many times they tried to push away from each other, they fell back into the same old routine. They hated it, and at the same time, constantly wanted more. They were jealous and possessive but it was mutual. Their rivalry continued, but now with more heated undertones.
In the end, Tom is angry when Abraxas married off. He knew it would happen, but it doesn’t make him any less mad about it. He ends up taking it out on Abraxas’s son, Lucius, who he ends up treating pretty badly, humiliating him on numerous occasions. He hated how there was this boy who looked so much like the man he had loved. He hated it.
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Hcs:
• Tom calls Abraxas by his last name whenever he wants to taunt him. He calls him “Abby” when he wants to demean him, which he does a lot. Which Abraxas is alarmingly not as against as he thought he’d be (it wasn’t THAT often but the times that it did happen were funny, in my head anyway) (also Tom just has a thing for humiliating people, friends or not. He’s weird like that idk what to tell you)
• Tom is fucking insane, even as a kid, and Abraxas actively encourages his bullshit. Like all the time.
• Abraxas was not a part of the Knights of Walpurgis meetings, Tom had given him an invite but Abraxas had refused because he didn’t want “hand outs from a half-blood”. But then he’d wait outside the meeting room doors for an hour or upwards so he could walk back to their dorm together
• Their study sessions were INTENSE. It was either they locked the FUCK in and got a scary amount done in one sitting, or they end up making out. lol.
• Abraxas and Tom play wizard chess against each other every other weekend and when Tom wins, Abraxas crashes out and when Abraxas wins, Tom gives him this icy death glare and doesn’t talk to him for a few hours. They both have very fragile egos and temperaments.
• Tom learns very quickly how to deal with Abraxas’s fluctuating moods and anger, in a way nobody else really can. He doesn’t always use it just to soothe Abraxas out of pure care for his friend, sometimes he’s just a manipulative bastard
• they sneak into the forbidden section of the library together on numerous occasions
• when their roommates are asleep, they sit outside at night and smoke cigarettes while they vent to each other. It’s not really emotionally packed venting, more like whining and complaining. They are too scared to be genuinely emotionally vulnerable, but it’s closer to emotional vulnerability when they’re together than with anyone else
• Abraxas secretly but also not so secretly spoils the shit out of Tom. Tom just barely hints at something he wants, sometimes without even knowing he made an implication, and Abraxas will buy a shit ton of it. He acts smug about it after, Tom thinks it’s pathetic and a little sickeningly endearing
They are so toxic and horrifically stupid and just terrible to each other. It’s one of my favourite KoW ships! ❤️ (I normally don’t like ships like this ok but it’s like they both suck and nobody else sucks enough to stoop low enough to be with them…so they get each other now…ykwim??)
