#(i’ve read a lot of lordship fics ok leave me alone)

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Waittt not sure if you’ve talked about this before but I am loving your answers to anon asks and I want to hear your thoughts on Sirius and Dumbledore. I rly like Dumbledore as a character but I also rly rly think that what happened to Sirius doesn’t work unless we accept that Dumbles was actively disinterested in him at best and perhaps trying to move him out of the way at worst. And I kinda think Sirius knew that.

hello anon! >.< thank u for being here, reading the piping hot garbage i’m screaming into the void, and liking it lol

i actually have talked a bit about dumbledore and sirius before!! (it was slightly controversial tbh) but i have so many more thoughts about that omg!!! i love dumbledore as an arrogant, manipulative because the way he was playing with lives was,,,damn. i think i read a fic once where he realised that he was treating the war like a game because he was bored and it horrified him bc he had the power to do so much more than what he did. it was interesting.

anyway, it’s so maddening because i get it, people often ‘fall through the cracks’ in the justice system, that’s a proven thing that happens, yes, but i just absolutely cannot see it happening to sirius black for so many reasons (gonna put it under a cut bc i sense a rant incoming and i’m assuming if you’ve read all the asks so far u don’t have a problem w me rambling lol)

for one, he was directly involved in a situation dumbledore had personal interest in. he was the supposed secret keeper for the prophecy child’s family. he was harry’s literal godfather. why would he not enquire further into wtf happened here?

second, his friendship with james was so fkn prolific that everyone from mcgonagall to fkn rosmerta talked about how close they were. does that not raise *any* doubt?

third, sirius was an order member who was actively fighting in the war. that is on top of loudly & proudly denouncing his family and running away from them (i always imagine his actions in 5th year would’ve caused a minor scandal if it was public). combine that with the abundance of personality/behaviour modifying items like potions, spells, artefacts in the WW, and again, no questions were asked?

fourth, i feel like if dumbledore had assumed a role of leadership in the war, to the point he was giving orders and dictating people’s actions—that also puts the onus of seeing that through til the end. if someone on his watch became a spy, or a DE, then it’s his basic responsibility to find out why, if only for safety purposes and to prevent it happening in the future. why wouldn’t he want to find out how much sirius could’ve told voldy or if he did anything else that was harmful to the war effort?

so, all that in mind, your spectrum of active disinterest to deliberate sabotage is so on point for me.

for dumbledore to not even take a look into his case (which is when inconsistencies would definitely be highlighted) implied he did not care, at all. and i think as the years went on, it was easy for him to put that out of his mind because why should he care?. i also feel like, subconsciously, there was a part of him that recognised he wouldn’t be able to keep harry at the dursleys if sirius was in the picture so he never tried to find out bc ignorance was better in this case (am i part of the camp that thinks he was deliberately creating a martyr? 👀🤭)

when u look at poa, it becomes even more horrific tbh but i talked about that in the other ask. i think sirius’ disillusionment with dumbledore started way before when he was in azkaban—alone, grieving, his brother & lily dead, godson in someone else’s custody, and realising no one was coming for him. that at the end of the way, no matter how much he tried, he was still a black. and it would’ve just been more compounded as he didn’t get a trial, was sent off to recruit for the order, saw harry’s condition, and was kept locked up in the house of his nightmares. the cherry on top of the cake was all the restrictions that were placed on his interactions with his godson, and having to talk to dumbledore for permission on everything. and i think this slowly deepening mistrust made him feel even more helpless because he couldn’t *do* anything about it, he had no power or agency, and his godson was getting more and more involved in the chess master’s convoluted game every day.

fom dumbledore’s end, the man would’ve been a fool not to realise how powerful and intelligent sirius was but more importantly, the influence he had on harry. the beginning of ootp is literally filled with so much content where sirius is telling harry to be careful and harry absolutely hates it (who is he, an escaped convict, to tell me who i am?) but he still listens to him bc he respects his godfather/recognised the merit in his words. and that kind of unconditional support would’ve been, hm, let’s call if troublesome, right? dumbles come off as someone with severe control/trust issues to me, so another influential player on the board who’s not in his control? well. that’s a problem.

(i also think this entire conversation becomes so much more interesting if u think that dumbledore never entirely liked/trusted sirius because of his innate prejudice but that’s speculation for another time)

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The Lion, The Witch, And The Audacity Of This Bitch

aka absolutely correct quotes from witcher Kiyan

“[…]They sat in taverns in Novigrad and Oxenfurt and drank to death, cursing the name of Adrien Moskovitz to the tenth generation. They lost everything. He left them with only the shirt on their backs and dirt behind their fingernails."

"I guess not everything, if they had the money to drink," Kiyan noted dryly […]

*

"I’ve not fought a witcher before. And I've heard quite a lot about your inhuman abilities. Will you do me this honor, Master Witcher, and satisfy my curiosity?" 

[…]"I don't play with toys," Kiyan said finally, glaring contemptuously at the wooden sword in the prince's hand. 

*

"They say you are crazy, aggressive, brutal, and unpredictable," the nobleman continued, his smile still on his lips. 

"Funny," Kiyan replied, tilting his head slightly. "They say the same thing about you.[…]”

*

"The witcher Kiyan himself. I thought I would have to look for you all over the Grassy Knoll, while you, as if nothing happened, show up in the village where we camp. This is very kind of you."

"Pavor Seneca." The witcher looked at the man without an eye with a contemptuous look. "Do you know that this is our third date and at this point in our relationship, I will have to kill you? […]”

*

“[…] Madame Lacerta can torture you like this for hours. I won't even have to get my hands dirty with you."

"Madame?" Kiyan asked politely, trying to shake off the echo of the spell's pain. "Is that a witch or a whore from your brothel who you've taught a few tricks, Seneca?"

Kiyan took a sharp breath as the witch treated him with another bolt of pain, this time on her own initiative.

"Pissing off Madame is a bad idea. I would advise you to be respectful of her," said Seneca as Kiyan tried to gather his thoughts after the attack. 

"Ok, daddy, this shit is too kinky for me, what’s my safe word?" Kiyan tried to keep his composure, but the task was getting difficult.

*

Moments later, his pillow was brutally taken from him, and when he let out a sharp growl in protest, he was doused unexpectedly in cold water. This made him immediately sit up in bed and open his mouth to curse. Second mistake.

Kiyan splashed the rest of the water from the jug right into the prince's face and his open mouth just as he gasped, and Adrien choked.

[…]"His Lordship is awake?" the witcher asked sharply. He held up the jug in his other hand. "If not, I can serve you your morning coffee as well."

"I'm awake," Adrien choked, and instinctively nodded his head to show that he was awake, though he still had trouble understanding this absurd reality.

*

"It's probably time to remind you where your place is, witcher." Adrien dropped the formal tone as soon as they were alone in his office. "I’m your client. Since when does the contractor decide where and when to start the task?"

"Oh, I assure you that I know my place perfectly," Kiyan replied, undaunted by the chill in the prince's voice. "[…] You are a client, yes, but that doesn't mean I'll follow your stupid orders or obstruct my work."

*

"Please give me more information to convince me that you aren’t a hallucination."

"[…] I can slap you as proof that I’m a material being," the witcher offered graciously.

*

"So you actually do listen to what I say." 

"I always listen to what you say." Kiyan continued to stare intently at Adrien. […] "I just usually don't like it."

*

"I guess I didn't make myself clear." Titus stood in front of the witcher, towering over him with his huge, almost two-meter body. "You aren’t the one giving the orders here."

"Now, attention please, I have important news for the Captain of the Princely Guard," Kiyan announced in a lofty tone laced with mockery. "For everything that concerns this expedition, the safety of which I’m responsible for, then yes, I give the orders here. […]”

*

"You are aware that you would have to go through me first?" Titus said seriously, and suddenly seemed to grow even taller.

"I can handle you," The witcher gave him a friendly pat on the arm and moved to leave the stables.

*

"Did I somehow offend the prince?" Marco asked […]

"Don't worry, pretty boy," Kiyan answered calmly [...] "He was born offended."

*

“[…] You just hate losing control. Think of it as a new experience of how life flows when you are out of control." 

"I don't need to experience anything, I know exactly what happens when I’m not in control of the situation: a ton of shit falls on my head," Kiyan hissed through his teeth. "You aren’t paying me enough to put up with the fact that you make my job difficult at every turn." 

"Oh, so it's all about the money again?" 

"It’s about my time and effort, and I swear to gods that I will teach you to respect it!" Kiyan finally got really pissed off.

*

The captain’s bolt tore the monster's head open, splashing the foul, stinking liquid directly in the witcher’s face.

"That's just fucking great," Kiyan cursed in disgust […].

*

And without giving Kiyan a chance to respond, he kissed him. […]

"We have to talk," Adrien said, taking his lips from the witcher's but staying close enough he could feel Kiyan’s warm breath against his chilled skin.

"We have extremely different definitions of talk," Kiyan said dryly […]

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