#Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them

[strawberrybunny27]

In my healing era ✨

[afrenchaugurey]

Ok, not the best ones, but I don't mind, I just love seing Newt when he exits his case

I really like the pattern here (and how -if we makes an exception with Jacob's one- it shows a transition to the last act of the movies)

[letthewhumpbegin]

Fanfic requests open 😎 - just for a few hours longer!

As I am looking to pick up whump writing a bit more again, my requests have now been opened! UPDATE: Request will remain open until tonight 10pm (Dutch time, GMT+1). After that time I will close them again and start writing your amazing requests 😇

So, who am I? I am a whump writer, mostly focusing on hurt/comfort and angst. You can see my writing masterlist here, so you can have an idea of what I write.

What can I request? I will only be accepting requests from my prompts list and for selected fandoms / characters. You can see the prompts and the selected fandoms ánd make your requests through this form.

When can I expect my request to be posted? I'm not the fastest writer on the block and sometimes "suffer" from writer's block for weeks on end, so don't expect it to be posted within days after making the request. A little patience is needed (sorry!😥)

Any other questions? You can direct those at my Ask Box 😎

Happy requesting!

[worshipcircle01]

UPDATE: How to survive a magical courtship (and adopt dozens of fantastic beast in the process)

Jacob is the voice of reason for Newt and Percival

[where-dreams-dwell]

Just seen a post which reminded me anew of some of my frustration with the Fantastic Beasts series and the train wreck it became.

Firstly and mainly: Why did they align Grindlewald with ‘preventing the holocaust’?!

There was literally no need for this plot point as Grindelwalds viewpoint and justifications had had little to no fleshing out in the original material (HP1-7). As a result any subsequent opposition to him no matter how well intentioned, well reasoned, or factually accurate necessitates someone arguing that either the holocaust isn’t likely to happen (and so Grindelwald is lying) or has to happen ‘for the good of the world’. You can state that you don’t believe he truly wants to save more lives, that his current methods are violent, that his future plans also look to cause pain and suffering, that his actions will cause division in the magical community….. and still the only take away is that you have to argue in defence of the holocaust.

And one on my main frustrations coming off of this is there was so much you could have done with the character and they didn’t use *any* of it. All we know from the primary material is: grindlewald was a dark lord around the time of the 2nd world war; he went to durmstrang, he was expelled when he was 16 and spent the summer with relatives in the UK where he met and charmed/radicalised a young Albus Dumbledore; he was essentially a supremacist who thought that wizards were inherently better than muggles and therefore deserved to rule over them; when confronted about these views by Aberforth he fights him, during this fight Ariane is killed (and no one is sure who actually killed her); he eventually steals a wand which is the Elder Wand; he is defeated in a duel by Albus Dumbledore and imprisoned in his own jail; he dies regretful of his actions at the hand of Voldemort.

There is literally SO MUCH room to add things in there, and none of it called for explaining his actions as ‘he predicted the holocaust would happen and is acting to prevent it’.

And I just wish they had fleshed out those viewpoints more or have given any creative thought to that.

Grindelwalds supremacy system (to make it distinct from Voldemort’s) could have viewed magical ability as more important than breeding. It’s implied in the books that some people are better at or stronger at some types of magic (Gilderoy Lockhart is very talented at memory charms, Ginny’s bat bogey hex is particularly strong) so his system of oppression could be based upon magical strength. You could have assessment checks or test within his ranks that ensure only the magically strong progress; a magically strong muggleborn is more respected than a magically weak pure blood (think Hermione vs OG Nevil). This would also support his slogan Magic is Might, and the view that wizards are inherently better - it is clearly only magical talent that should be rewarded with promotion and responsibility.

And this system therefore has its own fundamental flaws - just as a system based upon class and breeding will encourage nepotism, stifle innovation, and reward mediocrity, a system based upon rewarding brute strength with access and approval will result in corruption, a strong gang mentality, and violence. Introduce characters that show this, just like the Malfoy’s did for blood supremacy.

And he should have been written as a supremacist: an eloquent, articulate, charming one but one with a flawed and corrupted world view. Someone who is able to win over people to his side, a charismatic leader figure. I wish they had modelled him more like a cult leader; someone who with the sheer force of their personality recruited wizards and witches to fight against the stature of secrecy (under which they and their families have lived their entire lives) and advocate for ruling over muggles. There’s something compelling about him, and once people are swayed by his view they find it hard to leave.

I wish they had orchestrated several confrontations with Dumbledore and Grindelwald where they fought head to head but circumstances always got in the way of them fighting to the death: one side was evacuating a position so one of them had to flee with the fighters to protect them, one was only on a recon mission and so fled to fight another day, one was injured in a previous fight and so was trying to escape the whole time, etc etc. There could have been a run up of fights (like Harry Potter and Voldemort had every year in the books - it’s formulaic but it works) leading up to the final flight between them at the end of the (supposed) 5th movie. The confrontation a long time coming and the audience dying to see them finally loose all against one another. And them not meeting before or outside of these fights? Harry/Dumbledore and Voldemort didn’t meet outside of specific fights, there are magical ways to hide and cloak yourself to prevent attack. Grindelwald stays in a secret location, unplottable and with few people around him: so the only times to attack him are when he moves into the open. There you go, lack of confrontations solved.

You could even have had him not graduate to violence right away, or have the violence be small and not able to be traced to him. Mirror the rise of the N*zi party and H*tler in that initially people don’t take Grindelwald seriously, then they won’t think the small time attacks are linked to him in anyway, then people start to agree with some of his points, and he is suddenly a leader of a ‘revolution’ and it’s too hard to oppose him now. The first few confrontations with Dumbledore or the audience stand in ‘good guy’ could even be before it’s known that he is behind any attacks and it’s literally a meeting of minds, a discussion of view points, the good guy thinks Grindlewalds behind these recent attacks but no one is going to believe him as Grindelwald is an upstanding public figure.

Don’t have him just waltz into a house and kill a baby for no f*cking reason just to remind the audience ‘oh yeah this is the bad guy, don’t like him’. Have him be charming and nice and persuasive to someone and then have a comment or a cut scene or something where he describes a future workforce of muggles to make magical products like someone describing a sweatshop, have him talk about managing the needs of muggles or ‘culling their breeding’ like a farmer would a herd of cows, have him mention the killing or maiming of a muggle like they are an animal or a pet. There are so many chilling ways to show lack of humanity or care, to show how beneath him he feels muggles are, and the absolute worst and most sloppy would be… to kill a baby in its crib for literally no reason.

And the magic system!!

I wished so much for something different for the USA but the system they got in this is just appalling.

And when you think about it, it could have been so much richer!

Like The Mayflower was 1620 and the Salem witch trials were in the 1690’s… so almost from the get go of the colonisation of America, the magical and non magically communities would have been separated. So for the majority of the colonisations cum settlement of the USA witches and wizards would have been in hiding.

In the UK we see magical enclaves hidden away in muggle surroundings (fake doors and walls, additional buildings squeezed between others) but these places and cities have been around since long before the Statute of Secrecy. London was the Roman city Londinium. So when the statue came into effect they had to seal away their magical districts and houses, but they still existed in the same space as previously integrated but now solely muggle architecture.

Not so the case in America. Chicago for example wasnt ‘founded’ as a city until the 1780’s. You could argue that as the magical community had been separate for almost 100 years at this point they might have walled off a whole section of the city for themselves to live in. Or even founded their own cities, which you needed magic to access. As colonisers/settlers moved West you could imagine a group of solely magical people creating their own enclaves. Society and muggle/wizard culture would have evolved completely differently than what it had been and became in the UK due to this concurrent growth and settlement.

Americans think about their national identity in a way unique to them, due to how recently their country was ‘created’. Wouldn’t this translate to the magical community? Would magical family’s talk about coming over on the ‘first Portkey’ the same way people claim they can ‘trace their family back to the Mayflower’? Would they measure their standing in the magical community not on wether they were pure blood, or from a Noble House… but instead on if their ancestor helped found a city, or settle a state?

Immigration/emigration/refugees, what makes someone American, the fight for American citizenship… does this translate to the magical community? Do they view European Wizards or Asia-pacific wizards as ‘not American’ if they’ve only recently moved, or working on a temp visa? Do they worry about other wizards and witches overstaying their visas or their welcome, and disrupting the American system of government? Is their a feeling of the ‘old world’ magical communities being slow and behind, stuck in the antiquated past?

In the UK setting of the HP books grounding the racial struggle in the class system worked perfectly as anyone living within that system understands it and accepts it intrinsically - the arguments and fights over blood purity are just British classism given a different name. But what’s the American version? Is it how recently you settled (is something like ‘first Generation witch’ similar to mud-blood, but it implies your parents only recently came to the USA and so you’re not a real citizen yet?) or if your family has been here from the start (Mayflower Mast families is slang for those who came over with the first port-key, the Mast of the first ship) or where you settled (just as some cities in the USA are seen as historical or ‘established’, is there a similar viewpoint to living in an all magical city vs living in a muggle city and hiding).

And due to the long lives of magical people you could have introduced characters in America who were the Malfoy’s or the Black’s - not due to pedigree or age or being titled, but because their grandparents founded/built/created the American St Mungos, the USA’s diagon Alley. Heck even have someone at MACUSA is called Ilvermorney because their grandmother founded the school. They have a younger sibling still there but they are working their way up the Autor ranks, likely going to aim to run MACUSA at some point, their aunt did in the 1870’s…. Basically make them the Kennedys of magical America.

The list just goes on and I get so angry when I think about what could have been! There were so many cool things they could have done when expanding the world of HP to another country, or when fleeing out the main villains methods and plot. And to see that waste on what they did do, which is now cancelled anyway… it’s just so soul destroying.

[katherinewinchester13]

Your eyes whispered, "Have we met?"

Across the room, your silhouette

Starts to make its way to me

The playful conversation starts

Counter all your quick remarks

Like passing notes in secrecy

And it was enchanting to meet you

All I can say is I was enchanted to meet you

This night is sparklin', don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, blushin' all the way home

I'll spend forever wonderin' if you knew

I was enchanted to meet you

★∻∹⋰⋰ ☆∻∹⋰⋰ ★∻∹⋰⋰ ☆∻∹⋰⋰★∻∹⋰⋰

★★★✩✩

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Ships 💜

Percival Graves/Newt Scamander

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DESCRIPTION

The aurors of MACUSA don’t believe Queenie Goldstein when she tells them their boss is a clingy man. They’re aware she’s a legilimens, but it’s hard for them to picture the Director of Magical Security, smiling happily while being wrapped around someone.

Because it’s not possible for the wizard that growls instead of talk, that’s constantly with a frown on his face and is in a permanent bad mood to be needy. Percival Graves seems like a man who doesn’t need or want company of any kind.

***

But when Newt Scamander returns to New York they find out how wrong they are.

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The lingering question kept me up

2AM, who do you love?

I wonder 'til I'm wide awake

And now, I'm pacing back and forth

Wishing you were at my door

I'd open up and you would say

"Hey, it was enchanting to meet you"

All I know is I was enchanted to meet you

This night is sparklin', don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, blushin' all the way home

I'll spend forever wonderin' if you knew

This night is flawless, don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, dancing around all alone

I'll spend forever wonderin' if you knew

I was enchanted to meet you

★∻∹⋰⋰ ☆∻∹⋰⋰ ★∻∹⋰⋰ ☆∻∹⋰⋰★∻∹⋰⋰

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SHIPS 💜

Percival Graves/Newt Scamander

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DESCRIPTION

In which Newt wonders how did Graves become an auror being the walking disaster he is and has absolutely no idea that Graves turns into this clumsy mess only when he is around.

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This is me praying that

This was the very first page

Not where the storyline ends

My thoughts will echo your name

Until I see you again

These are the words I held back

As I was leaving too soon

I was enchanted to meet you

Please, don't be in love with someone else

Please, don't have somebody waiting on you

Please, don't be in love with someone else (Ooh)

Please, don't have somebody waiting on you (Oh-oh)

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Ships 💜

Percival Graves/Newt Scamander

╲╱❀╲╱╲╱❀╲╱╲╱❀╲╱╲╱❀╲╱╲╱❀╲╱╲╱

DESCRIPTION

When Percival Graves realized he had fallen in love it was too late. He used to think he was immune to that kind of “stuff” and didn’t question his own behavior even when he found himself smiling after meeting the shy magizoologist for the first time.

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[itisiives]

[konusmakistediklerim]

Arkadaşlar, bugün Harry Potter kitaplarından ve onların filme dönüşme sürecinden bahsedeceğim. Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling tarafından yazılmış bir fantastik roman serisidir. Kitaplar büyük bir başarı kazandı ve birçok hayran kitlesi edindi. Warner Bros. stüdyosu daha sonra kitapları filme çevirdi.

Harry Potter serisi, 1991-1998 yılları arasında geçiyor. İlk kitap olan "Harry Potter ve Felsefe Taşı" 1991 yılında başlıyor ve son kitap olan "Harry Potter ve Ölüm Yadigarları" ise 1998 yılında sona eriyor. Hogwarts Cadılık ve Büyücülük Okulu'nda öğrenci olan Harry Potter'ın maceralarını konu alıyor. Seride, Hogwarts'da okuyan Ron Weasley ve Hermione Granger gibi diğer öğrenciler de yer alıyor.

Film yapımı oldukça uzun ve detaylı bir süreçti. Yapımcılar, J.K. Rowling'in yaratmış olduğu fantastik dünyayı mümkün olduğunca doğru bir şekilde yansıtmak için büyük çaba sarf etti. Özel kostümler, setler ve özel efektler kullanıldı.

Harry Potter filmleri, birçok farklı mekânda ve mekanik öğeler içeren sahneleri içerir. Bu nedenle, filmlerin yapımı oldukça karmaşık bir süreçtir. Filmlerde kullanılan büyüleyici mekanlar ve objeler, gerçek hayatta inşa edilmiş ve modellenmiştir.

Örneğin, Hogwarts Kalesi filmlerdeki en önemli mekanlardan biridir. Kısmen gerçek bir kale olan Alnwick Kalesi'nin temelinde inşa edilen bir set olarak yapılmıştır. Set, ölçekli maketler ve dijital efektlerle tamamlanmıştır.

Görsel efektlerin teknolojik gelişmelere bağlı olarak eskimesi mümkünken, gerçek hayatta inşa edilen setler ve modeller zamanla değerini kaybetmez.

Gerçek hayatta inşa edilen setler ve modeller, filme görsel bir derinlik ve dokunsallık katarken, karakterlerin sahneleme ve performanslarını da etkileyebilir. Ayrıca, bu setler ve modeller, filmlerde gerçekçilik hissi yaratır ve seyirciyi filmin içine çeker.

Filmler, kitapları sadık bir şekilde yansıtmak için bazı değişiklikler içerse de büyük bir başarı kazandı ve dünya çapında geniş bir hayran kitlesi edindi. Hem kitapları hem de filmleri sevenler için, Harry Potter dünyası sonsuza kadar unutulmayacak bir macera sunuyor.

Evreni genişletmek isteyen stüdyo, kitaplarda ve filmlerde geçen Newt Scamander’ın yazdığı ansiklopedik ders kitabı “Fantastik Canavarlar Nelerdir, Nerede Bulunurlar?” kitabını serileştirmek istediğini açıklamıştı. Seri, Harry Potter evreninde geçen ve farklı karakterleri ve yaratıkları konu almaktaydı. İlk filmi 2016'da yayınlanmıştır ve J.K. Rowling tarafından yazılmıştır. Serinin yönetmeni de Harry Potter serisinin son dört filmini yöneten David Yates'tir.

"Fantastik Canavarlar Nelerdir, Nerede Bulunurlar?" 1926 yılında, İkinci film "Fantastik Canavarlar: Grindelwald'ın Suçları" 1927 yılında geçmektedir. Üçüncü film “Fantastik Canavarlar: Dumbledore'un Sırları” ise 1932 yılında geçmektedir.

Fantastik Canavarlar serisinin Harry Potter serisi kadar popüler olamamıştır. İlk film Newt Scamander’in farklı yerlere seyahat ederek karşılaştığı fantastik yaratıkları konu alırken beklenen ilgiyi görmemesi nedeniyle ikinci film ve özellikle üçüncü film ile Dumbledore'un gençliği ve Voldemort öncesi en büyük karanlık büyücü olan Grindelwald arasındaki ilişki ve kavga merkezde yer almaya başlamıştır. Beklenen ilgiyi yaratmamasının birkaç nedeni vardır.

Birincisi, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi, Harry Potter serisine kıyasla daha az bilinir bir hikâye anlatır. Harry Potter serisi, J.K. Rowling'in çok satan kitap serisi olduğu için, filmlerin de popüler olması kaçınılmazdı. Ancak, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi, yeni bir hikâye anlattığı ve daha az bilinen karakterleri içerdiği için, daha az ilgi görebilirdi.

İkincisi, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi, Harry Potter serisinden daha farklı bir ton ve atmosfere sahiptir. Harry Potter serisi, genç yetişkinlere yönelik bir fantastik macera hikayesi iken, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi daha karanlık ve ciddi bir tonu vardır. Bu nedenle, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi, Harry Potter hayranları için beklenmedik bir değişiklik olabilir ve bu nedenle bazı hayranlar tarafından kabul edilmedi.

Son olarak, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi, eleştirmenler tarafından da daha az olumlu eleştiriler aldı. Eleştirmenler, serinin senaryosunu ve karakterlerini eleştirdi ve bu da filmlerin daha az ilgi görmesine neden olabilir.

JK Rowling, "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisinin ilk iki filminin senaryosunu yazmıştı. Ancak, üçüncü filmde senarist olarak görev almayacağı açıklandı.

Rowling'in senaristlikten çıkarılmasının nedeni, transfobi iddialarıyla ilgili tartışmalarla ve senaryo yazarlığındaki eksikliği ile ilgilidir. Rowling, sosyal medya hesaplarındaki bazı paylaşımları nedeniyle trans topluluğu tarafından eleştirilmişti. Ayrıca Rowling güzel hikâye ve evren yaratıyordu ancak senaryolaştırırken sorunlar yaşamaktaydı. Yönetmen David Yates, Rowling'in senaryo yazma sürecinde daha fazla yönlendirilmeye ihtiyacı olduğunu belirtmişti. Bu tartışmalar, Warner Bros. stüdyosu ve "Fantastik Canavarlar" serisi yöneticileri arasında bir endişe kaynağı haline geldi.

Ayrıca Posterlere baktığımızda Fantastic Beast yazısının zamanla küçüldüğünü görürüz.

Cursed Child, orijinali tiyatro oyunu olarak yazılan ve 2016 yılında sahnelenmeye başlayan bir eserdir. İlk olarak, John Tiffany ve Jack Thorne tarafından bir tiyatro oyunu olarak tasarlandı ve yazıldı. Oyun, Harry Potter serisinin son kitabı olan Ölüm Yadigarları'nın 19 yıl sonrasında geçiyor ve Harry Potter'ın oğlu Albus Severus'un hikayesini anlatıyordu. Hikâyede pek çok Harry Potter karakteri de yer almaktadır.

İlk çıktığında, bazı eleştirmenler ve hayranlar tarafından olumlu eleştiriler aldı, ancak birçok kişi tarafından hayal kırıklığına uğradı. Bunun bir nedeni, karakterlerin yazımının ve karakterizasyonunun orijinal seriden farklı olmasıydı. Ayrıca, bazı hayranlar, hikayenin orijinal seriden ayrı bir yol izlemesinden rahatsız oldular.

Bununla birlikte, Cursed Child sonunda Wizarding World'e dahil edildi ve canon olarak kabul edildi. Logosunda orijinal Harry Potter fontu kullanılmaya başlandı. İlk başta kitap olarak yayınlanmadı, ancak daha sonra tiyatro oyununun senaryosu kitap olarak yayınlandı ve büyük ilgi gördü. Bu kitap, orijinal oyunun senaryosunu içermekteydi ve JK Rowling'in adı da kitapta yer almaktaydı.

Son zamanlarda Cursed Child’ın film olarak uyarlanacağı söylentileri de internette dolaşmakta.

Harry Potter serisinden daha fazla para kazanmayı kafasına koyan Warner Bros. Şirketi seri içerisinde geçen bir oyun yapma kararı aldı. “Hogwarts Legacy” olarak adlandırılan bu oyun diğer iki seriden de yıllar yıllar öncesinde yani 1800’lerde geçen oyun bize açık bir dünya sunarak Hogwarts’da ve birçok büyülü mekânda gezmememize olanak tanıyor.

Hogwarts Legacy oyununda Voldemort'un büyükbabası Marvolo Gaunt'un da yer aldığı söyleniyor ve Marvolo'nun kız kardeşi Morfin Gaunt ve oğlu Ominis Gaunt da oyunda arkadaşımız olarak yer almakta. Morfin, Tom Riddle ile karşılaşması ile ünlüdür ve olayların gidişatını büyük ölçüde etkilemiştir. Ominis Gaunt ise, Tom Riddle'ın annesi Merope Gaunt'un erkek kardeşidir ve dolayısıyla Voldemort'un amcasıdır. Ominis Gaunt'un Salazar Slytherin ile doğrudan akrabalığı olduğu da belirtiliyor.

Warner Bros., 2021 yılında Harry Potter için bir dizi planladıklarını açıklamış ancak daha ne olacağına karar vermemişlerdi ancak internette ne hakkında olabileceği hakkında pek çok teori ve düşünceler yer almıştı. 2023 yılına geldiğimizde internette kesin kaynak olduğunu belirten haber siteleri, Warner Bros.’un bir dizi veya bir film planladıklarını ve yakın zamanda açıklayacaklarını söylüyordu. Çok vakit geçmeden HBO’nun dijital platformu olan HBOmax adını sadece max olarak değiştirdiği yeni bir düzenlemeye giderken pek çok yapım açıklamıştı. Bu yapımlar arasında Harry Potter serinin yeniden uyarlanma olarak geleceğini ve her kitabın ayrı bir sezon olarak planlandığını açıkladı. Bu da demek oluyor ki filmlerde gösterilmeyen pek çok ayrıntı bu dizide yer alacak.

Belki de Fantastik Canavarlar serisine dur diyor olabiliriz. Tabii iki yapımı aynı anda ilerletebilirler ancak bu pek çok izleyici ve hayran tarafından kafa karışıklığına neden olabilir. Bu serinin planmasında Hogwarts Legacy oyunun yaptığı yüksek popülarite ve Fantastik Canavarlar’ın istenilen ilgiyi görmemiş olmasıdır. Seriye en çok parayı getiren şey Hogwarts Cadılık ve Büyücülük Okulu’nun olmasıdır.

Harry Potter serisi ve onunla ilgili diğer yapımlar hakkında konuşmak gerçekten keyifli. Umarım yeni dizi beklentilerimi karşılar ve umutlarımı boşa çıakrmaz. Başka bir konuda tekrar görüşmek üzere!

[oncasette]

FANGTASIA. send in a character from my guide + one of the prompts below for a drabble!

OK LAST ONE I PROMISE. but you know I had to send in a theseus request so … theseus + "You think I like being like this? Every time someone fucking touches you I want to rip their hands off!" teehee 😋

'𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗡 (𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗢)

theseus scamander x fem!reader

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“I can hear you sulking over there. C’mon,” you urge as you watch him out of your periphery. He closed his eyes before he exhaled slowly. Deeply, forcing all of the air out of his lungs in the hopes that his foul mood would exit with it. He didn’t want to be like this. He didn’t want to hate your secretary, to be the possessive guy that never let his partner speak to another man, but it was starting to eat away at him. It was a lot easier to lose you when he didn’t fully have you, yet.

or the one where theseus can't stand your secretary.

warnings: none that i can think of, semi-possessive theseus?

masterlist 

He was just your secretary. That’s what you keep telling yourself. And Theseus. All he does is your filing and allow people entry into your office. And bring you your morning coffee without you needing to ask for it, with the exact amount of cream and sugar you take without you ever having told him in the past. 

Of course, this was just him being excellent at his job, it was why you’d kept him on for so long. There was a quick turnover rate for secretaries at the ministry. A year or two, at most, before they were either fired by their respective bosses or they left to pursue a field they were actually passionate about. But not Richard. No, you’d been working with Richard for the better part of five years. Long before you’d ever met your now boyfriend–if you could even call him that, only having been on a dozen or so dates at this point. Not that the question hadn’t been on the tip of his tongue since the first time you batted your eyelashes at him. 

That didn’t stop Theseus from clenching his jaw every morning when he stopped by to say hello only to find your secretary to have abandoned his post outside your office in favor of holing up in your loveseat and carrying on with whatever annoyingly dull topic of conversation he’d chosen to occupy your time with. It didn’t stop him from rolling his eyes at the way his hand lingered over yours as he dropped off the accounts you needed that afternoon during your lunch break, little more than a glance cast askew at him as he sat beside you. It didn’t stop him from biting his tongue so hard it bled each time you brought Richard up in the evenings when he walked you out of the building.

No, it didn’t matter how long you’d worked with the man. Theseus knew a crush when he saw one. 

“What’s wrong, love? You’ve been tense all day,” you say, gently placing a hand onto his shoulder. He’d been sitting in your office for a little over an hour, his work day having already drawn to a close but you’d had to finish up a last minute assignment your boss had thrown on your desk fifteen minutes before you were supposed to leave. Theseus hadn’t minded waiting.

“Nothing,” he clicks his tongue against the roof of his mouth. Richard had been especially irritating that day. He’d barely had five minutes alone with you before you’d forced your secretary to go home once the clock hit six. 

“I can hear you sulking over there. C’mon,” you urge as you watch him out of your periphery. He closed his eyes before he exhaled slowly. Deeply, forcing all of the air out of his lungs in the hopes that his foul mood would exit with it. He didn’t want to be like this. He didn’t want to hate your secretary, to be the possessive guy that never let his partner speak to another man, but it was starting to eat away at him. It was a lot easier to lose you when he didn’t fully have you, yet.

“It’s nothing, lovely. Promise,” he says. At the very least, having this time with you was beginning to dull the headache that had formed earlier in the day. He thinks it started when Richard had once again waltzed into your office during your lunch hour with the hopes of taking you out to the bakery a couple blocks away. 

“Okay,” you drawl, eyebrows drawn together. 

It’s then that Theseus notices the parchment stuck to your desk lamp. It was a charmed doodle, one that poorly illustrated a man with smoke shooting out of his ears sitting at a desk played on a loop. To keep you company while you work - Rich. Of course.

“You ready?” you ask, shuffling around documents and files on your desk to deal with on Monday when you return before grabbing your bag off the ground and slipping your coat on. You circle around the furniture in your office to stand in front of Theseus. He ran a firm hand across his brow bone as he stood to meet you. He leans forward to place a chaste kiss to the corner of your mouth as he nods. 

It’s hard to ignore how stiff he’s become.

“Are we still good for dinner at yours tonight?” you ask. 

“Of course,” he hums. He wasn’t going to let this ruin the one of the few evenings a week he got to spend with you. Or, at least, he was going to try to not let it ruin it. 

Once he was sure you’d both collected the remainders of your belongings, he takes your hand in his to apparate the two of you to his flat. Since you weren’t going back to your place, he didn’t feel the need to walk the two of you all the way across the ministry just to disapparate from there. He only did that to spend a couple extra minutes with you, anyway. 

It’s only the second time you’ve been to his place, but the short wave of nausea prevents you from feeling too overwhelmingly nervous about it. You set your bag beside the door before you move to the kitchen to sit and let the urge to vomit begin to dissipate. Theseus smooths a palm over down your arm as he slides up behind you. 

He leans down to whisper in your ear. His nose brushes against your cheek. “Can I get you anything?”

“Maybe a penny…” you trail off.

“A penny?” he huffs amused.

“For your thoughts,” you say.

“I told you it was nothing.”

“Darling, I know something’s wrong. I want to help if I can,” you say, tilting your head back enough to look at his face. He bends again to kiss your forehead. It’s tender, sweet. Nearly domestic. 

“It’s just work stress, I guess,” he says. He wasn’t technically lying. 

“I’m sorry,” you hum, bringing a hand up to smooth across his cheek for a second. “Do you want to talk about it? It might help if you get some of it off your chest.”

“I wouldn’t want to burden you, love,” he says as he begins to move away from your chair. He meanders around the small kitchen as he starts to gather the things he needs to cook dinner. You hardly notice as he charms the cutting board to dice vegetables for him. 

“It wouldn’t be a burden. Richie’s always telling me about the kinds of things that bother him at the office,” you say. Theseus’ jaw clenches. With his suit coat already having been slung across the couch in the living room, he’s quick to roll his button-down sleeves up to his elbows. 

“Fucking Richard,” he mutters. It’s so quiet you almost miss it. Your brows raise. He runs a palm over his jaw, resisting the urge to bite down on one of his fingers. 

“This is about him?”

“What?” he asks as he turns away from you to grab noodles from his pantry. The first time he’d asked about Richard had been harmless. A one-off question at the end of your evening when he’d been walking you back to your flat. A question you’d answered simply. He’s just your secretary. Then he’d asked again. A second and a third time. 

“This. Your… mood. It’s about him, isn’t it?” you ask. You’re attempting to sound understanding, but you know there’s an edge to your tone. He doesn’t elicit an answer. “I thought I told you he wasn’t anything to worry about. He works for me.”

“I know,” he grumbles. 

“Then what’s this about, hm?” you ask, standing from your chair and moving into his space. 

“It’s just.” He’s cracking, slightly. He hates that he’s allowed himself to get affected by something so trivial. “He’s always there.”

“You’ve got yourself in a fit because my secretary comes into my office during work hours?”

“It’s the way he is around you, you know? He’s always around, always touching or trying to touch. You should see the way he looks at you,” he huffs. The box in his hand drops onto the counter suddenly, his hands following as he pushes his weight against them. 

“Thes-” you start. 

“You think I like being like this? You think it’s something I want? To be so angry and aggravated about something that I can’t control? That you can’t control?” he asks. “Everytime he touches you I want to rip his fucking hands off.”

You step behind him, winding your arms around his middle until he’s stood straight again. His hands find yours and interweave between your fingers. 

“It’s not you,” he sighs. “Well, I mean, it is you. I don’t see how there isn’t a single man left in the world not wrapped tight around your finger.”

You press a kiss between his collarbones. He relaxes into your hold. 

“I don’t want Richard,” you say.

“I know.”

“I want you.”

“I want you, too, darling.”

“But I also want you to talk to me,” you say as you urge him to turn to face you with a tap of your fingers against his torso. “I’ll talk to him. I can’t say I haven’t noticed him being a little closer to me than some of the other secretaries have been with their bosses, because I have. So, I’ll talk to him. But, I need you to talk to me, too.”

His forehead falls forward until it’s pressed against yours. 

You continue, “I need you to tell me when stuff like this bothers you. You can’t just be all angry at the world and do nothing about it and expect it all to change. Okay?”

“I can do that,” he hums. 

“Good,” you nod. 

“Good.”

“You also need to remember that I’m a grown-up and I can handle myself, too, right? Just because another man may or may not have his eyes on me doesn’t mean I’m going to go running off into the sunset with him,” you say. A soft laugh rumbles in his chest, his eyes crinkling with a soft smile at the sides. 

“Alright,” he says. 

“Now,” you say. “What’s for dinner?”

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