#Marius Cousin

[cy-lindric]

Musketeer TTRPG characters & NPCs ! Our last couple of sessions was the classic inflitration of a high society party, a mysterious soirée with colour code names and weird drugs

[transbot-brian]

My headcanon for Marius is that he is a bad psychologist normally but very rarely he will pull out this god tier analysis of someone from not even five minutes of talking. He can tell you about things youve completely blocked out from memory and when you ask him about it he'll say some shit like "The way you blinked" with no other explanation

[acesandocs]

Eyyy some more practice sketches

Just some Marius expressions and another Eveline in the middle of just doing her thing. I feel like i cant do Marius justice when i draw him. he always comes out looking more cute than id liked. Not that he isn't, i just wish i could capture some of his cheeky ''I look better than you and i know it'' vibes.

The last time i drew Eveline in pj's it was something a bit more trendy but i'll admits its probably not really like whats described or her style i general. so it used this opportunity to practice drawing some clothing folds and gave her something shed be more likely to wear when snoozing. I can very clearly see her rockin' the scrooge fit, with a hat and candle stick holder.

characters belong to @libras-interactives

[romance-rambles]

so, in the voiceline, ayn says "nee-san" and the marius von hagen stan in me just doubled over from the unexpected attack

i wonder if he says "jiejie" in cn voiceover...

[shark-draws-stuff]

The Akula interactions part 1

[sirmariusrenathyr]

💜 HI MARIUS I HAVE ANOTHER SONG FOR YOU!!!

A Love Like War by All Time Low (this is one of my favorites)

Sounds like one of those boy bands that thirteen year old girls would fall in love with…

[avatarskywalker78]

It's WIP Wednesday (well, a little belated, but still) and here is ANOTHER snippet from my Aquafam AU (which I'm really loving working on.)

"Sorry about that." She said, before holding out her hand. "I'm Maia. Maia Curry."

"Arthur's mentioned you before." Atlanna replied, smiling at her kindly as she shook her hand. "Though we weren't expecting you for a few days."

"Figured I'd surprise people." Maia told her, shrugging as she turned her attention to Orm, who'd...evidently not been told she existed, if the look on his face was any indication...

"Arthur didn't mention any aunt or uncle."

Well, that answered that question.

"It's the former, and it's because he's an idiot." She joked, going to shake his hand too. "Maia."

"Yes, thank you, I was actually listening."

"It's good to make sure."

Orm looked even more confused and Maia had about two seconds of feeling like an idiot because would he even know what a handshake was, was that a thing in Atlantis, but he took her hand and shook it - hesitantly, so hadn't done it a lot, but he did it.

She'd have said Arthur must've taught him, but Arthur could be a little shit sometimes so she wasn't entirely sure about that.

It's still in the early stages of being written, but I've had this idea for years and I'm really enjoying it, and loving the family moments as well (also Maia herself because she's a great character and I love her so much 🥰🥰🥰)

Taglist: @shrinkthisviolet (let me know if you want to be added or removed)

[ofpd]

parallel between me watching succession and me reading les mis and being irrationally annoyed about a cousin once removed being referred to as a cousin

[pilferingapples]

new Les Mis spinoff novel "Theodule Does Nothing" , just following around Marius' cousin while he buys some moustache wax, gets his uniform repaired, flirts in the least intrusive way possible , and has a nap

meanwhile 19C France happens in the background but he's not really involved in all that. There's a missing button on his uniform!

[pilferingapples]

He gets fully re-accepted by his grandpa post-barricades, so yeah, they're probably his grandpa's family/Society friends. :/ They might be some of Marius' work contacts too, I guess??

..Oh, and in the book Theodule, who is related to the family...somehow...is there! So there IS more Gillenormand Family , and they're probably there?

BUT some of them could be Cosette's friends too! We know she doesn't get out much, but given that she has a little stationary set and all, maybe she stays in touch with some convent school friends? (I Choose to Believe This, I want Cosette to have friends ;__;)

the age old question, who the fuck are the people at marius and cosette’s wedding? i mean marius’ friends are dead, cosette didn’t have anyone except valjean. are they people like marius’ family knows? that wouldn’t make sense because he got disowned by his grandpa???? (book and musical canon lets go)

[metalomagnetic]

I’m super fascinated by the squib answer. I imagine there must be a huge element of culture shock for the child, having to assimilate to muggle life. Marius, for example: in your headcanon, was he just sent to a fancy muggle boarding school when time came for him to go to Hogwarts? Did he come home for the holidays and continue to have a relationship with his cousins and siblings? Was he given some sort of crash course on how to act like a muggle, use their appliances, learn their subjects, etc?

And in It runs, is Marius still alive? What does he do?

They held on hope for Marius for a long time! They already knew, deep down, by the time he was 6 or 7 that this child won't be magical, but they didn't want to admit it to themselves until he was 11 and no Hogwarts letter came.

Sirius, Marius' uncle, practical as always, arranged for Marius to start going to a muggle school since he was 8. But because Marius' parents were delusional, Marius lived in Grimmauld until he was 11 and it was incontestable that he's a squib.

After that, he was sent to live with an old Bulstrode squib ( blood related to Marius, his great Aunt) who was already established in the muggle world, even married with a muggle. She took Marius in, but yes, only in the summers and winter holidays; the rest of the times, Marius was sent to the most prestigious muggle boarding schools, where he even met some royals!

His parents always visited him on his birthday, and for the first few years, Pollux and Cassiopeia , Marius older brother and sister, kept in contact, unable to let go, sending letters. But, eventually, the relationship grew cold.

When Marius was eighteen, his father gave him a considerable amount of money, and also ..hmm.. helped with his admittance to Cambridge. (Marius was intelligent enough to get in on his own, but admittance is fierce, so just to make sure, there was a little magical intervention 😂)

With all that help Marius is a very wealthy man. He became an incredibly well respected astrophysicist, has a few businesses, married three times, and has two adopted children and several grandchildren that are all trying to endear themselves to him, hoping to get his money when he kicks it. So he's having fun in his old age, and he had a lot of fun in his youth.

He still receives a letter from his brother and sister on his birthday, and Arcturus visits him once in a while, as did Orion, but that's years apart.

[missingdadneto]

Surfing Session gone wrong

Dad! Orm Marius x Fem Reader x Daughter

[ A/N: I am dying because of the limited Orm fanfics there are, so I decided I wanted to write onee, This is all for fun so I'm sorry if there are any mistakes.]

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After Orm was erased from Atlantis, he no longer lived in the waters, he is now one with the land. The home of the Surface Dwellers, and soon enough it became a land weather he fell in love with Arthurs's best friend, Y/N, a Meta-Human who could adapt to any living circumstances, making her able to breathe in the Waters. She was a part of the Justice League but she rather lives her day-to-day life in her cottage beside the sea, close to Arthur’s house. Orm would spend time with Y/N as much as he could, they would talk for hours, about how Y/N’s interest in the sea rises, as well as how Orm’s interest towards the surface land also rises. 

Soon enough Orm and Y/N were together, and a year later they got married and had their daughter Pearl. She inherits her Dad’s blonde hair, with her vision colors resemble her mother's green hue. Junior on the other hand was Mera and Arthur’s son, he had curly red hair and tan skin. 

Pearl and Junior were as close as ever, their cousin relationship felt as if they were siblings because of the 2 year difference. As soon as they reached their teenage years they would meet up every Saturday morning to go surfing in their Ocean backyard. 

Orm was cooking breakfast as Y/N was reading on the sofa, Pearl came down the stairs and ran to grab her surfing board. She makes a quick stop to hug her Mother as well as to her Father. Orm hugged her back as he kissed his daughter’s head. 

“Be safe, and don’t forget to always watch out for whoever's in the Waters,” Orm warned his daughter every time, every week, and every second she was going in the Ocean. Despite her being half Atlantean. “There are people always hunting for us and if they do-”

“I Know Dad! Besides I’ll always be with Junior so I won’t be alone” Pearl laughed as she went away from the hug. She smiled at her Mother as she opened the back door. “See you guys!”

“Bye Pearl” Both Orm and Y/N smiled as their daughter went to the Waters. 

Pearl ran to Junior as he was already setting up in their usual meet-up spot, they lived quite near to each other as the beach they lived in connects, resulting in them meeting right in the middle.  “Hey, Pearl! I bought this new surfboard and it’s rad I would say” Junior showed off his board to Pearl as she looked somewhat amused. 

“That’s cool Alright, now come on! Let’s go!” She motioned her board towards the bog waves hitting the fine Morning, the sun rises higher and higher as their skins are getting tanner each weekend. 

They surfed as usual, with Junior always making it a competition on who gets the higher waves. Strangely enough, Pearl stopped as she sat on her board to see the corals beneath them. “Junior come look! The corals are more colorful than before…” Pearl spoke as Junior sat on his surfing board as well while looking below. “Hm, that’s weird, yesterday none of them had any colors” Junior confessed as Pearl looked back to him with her eyes rising out of her betrayal state. 

“YOU WENT SURFING YESTERDAY? AND I DIDN’T KNOW!?” She exclaimed with Junior laughing and defending himself, “See in my defense you were not home, YOU WERE OUT!”. Pearl stopped what she was about to say as she looked at the waters once more “Wait look Junior, the water is turning purple”. The color scattered slowly as Arthur and Orm were just about to greet their kids. “HEY PEARL!” Arthur shouted to the two teenagers as Orm followed, “Hi Junior, you guys okay?”

“Hi, Uncle Arthur!” Pearl shouted with Junior following “Hey Uncle Orm!”. “The corals are more colorful but the water is getting purple and it just looks-” Pearl stopped her sentence as he dad shouted to Junior and her. 

“GET OUT NOW!” Orm commanded as he looked at Arthur with a stunned face, Junior and Pearl were confused but they paddled as fast as they could before the purple waters reached their touches. Orm and Arthur swam as fast as they could to grab the surfboards of their child as they pulled them to the shore. 

As soon as they reached the shore Arthur and Orm reached for their child full of worry, Orm hugged Pearl quickly as he looked at her hands and feet that touched the waters. The two Fathers checked for any signs of infection in Junior and Pearl’s skin as Junior cut off the awkward state that they were in. “Uh guys, is everything alright?”

Arthur hugged Junior as tightly as he could and Orm’s arm half hugged Pearl, a relief stance of a Father for their child. “Chemicals have been reaching close to our waters, but we didn’t know that it would be this fast, and thank the Gods it didn’t reach any of you, Atlanteans touching such waters could leave a more damaging stance than humans. Orm sighed as he looked at his daughter as well as Junior beside her. 

“What, who would drop these chemicals?” Junior looked at his Father, Arthur breathed as he shook his head. “We’re going to find out…but let's just go home first and we’ll meet together at lunch okay?” The family agreed as they went back home. 

Orm helped Pearl with her surfboard as he looked at her when they reached home, “Those chemicals….” Orm stopped as Pearl waited for her father's confession “Those chemicals were the same consistency that killed Atlantean children years ago, I just can’t lose you two, I can’t lose you” Y/N opened the door as she heard Orm’s sentence, she looked at Pearl as she also checked any signs of infection in a quick pace. 

“Mom, please! Dad already checked me” Y/N is afraid to lose her only daughter as she looks at Orm. “Oh God, I know you’re fine but I’m just double checking…it’s so close to us we need to be alert sweetie.” 

Pearl shook her head as she washed her foot that was full of sand, “I’ll get ready for lunch, It’s just still a shock” Orm nodded as he smiled slightly, after Pearl went up to her room, Orm and Y/N looked at each other in the backyard, looking at the sea. 

“Have Arthur called for help from Atlantean soldiers to clean the chemical corals?” She looked towards the sea as small waves were being created, somewhat like a small tornado in the waters being summoned by Atlanteans. “I seem like it hun, I was just-” Orm stopped as Y/N’s hand reached Orm’s cheek, “It was this closer to Pearl and Junior, if they have touched the waters they-”

“Shh I know, but Thank God they’re safe now” She smiled as she looked at the waves once more. Orm then leaned to kiss Y/N’s cheek as he went inside to get ready for lunch at Arthur’s house as well. This is going to be a heavy topic for lunch.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Magic and Genetics

So, this is not like 100% finished and will be more musings than a full theory. The main reason is that we, as humanity, just don't really know that much about genetics. Like, we get the gist of it, but we can mostly only say: "it's complicated" about it.

Which is true. Like, the idea of dominant and recessive traits the way most people are familiar with (like the eye color chart for blue eyes and brown eyes) is super oversimplified and inaccurate. Like, there are 2 major genes that affect eye color and then there are 8 more genes that affect eye color, hair color, and skin color, but we aren't really sure in what way. We just think they do from observation. Usually, genes behave in a way that is in line with the dominant and recessive traits charts, but there are exceptions to it. Again, we just don't know much about this field.

Because of this, I can't really come to conclusive conclusions regarding exactly how many and which genes affect a person's magic in the world of Harry Potter. What I can do is use the book evidence to try and create a pattern of how magic behaves genetically.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, nor did I study genetics in any professional capacity, this is from online reading and self-study. And most importantly for fun 😊

Why do I think magic is influenced by multiple genes?

So, JKR stated in an interview she thinks of magic as a single dominant gene. This is impossible, since if that were true squibs and muggleborns wouldn't exist and the chart for the likelihood of a child being born with magic would look like this:

And that's just not what we see in the books...

This is all without mentioning how squibs like Arabella Figg can see dementors while muggles can't:

“A Squib, eh?” said Fudge, eyeing her suspiciously. “We’ll be checking that. You’ll leave details of your parentage with my assistant, Weasley. Incidentally, can Squibs see dementors?” he added, looking left and right along the bench where he sat. “Yes, we can!” said Mrs. Figg indignantly.

(OotP, page 143)

This means that squids do have some magical genes that muggles don't.

Additionally, from what we know about wizards as a species they have other differences from muggles that would effect their genetics in less obvious ways, for example:

Wizards heal faster, so cell regeneration is different than muggles.

Wizards have a completely different set of illnesses than muggles, so their white blood cells are also different.

Their brain cells likely live longer since they have an overall longer life expectancy.

Since they can see magic, like dementors and the Leakey Cauldron, we know the sight receptors are different.

Their nerves likely also function differently since they can sense magic in a way muggles can't.

To name a few.

And this is all without going into the fact wizards can reproduce with other species (goblins, veela, and giants to name a few) which actually implies a common ancestor to all of these races, but I'm not going into that can of worms.

What I am going into is how magic works genetically and how predictable it is. As in, if I know the magical status (pure-blood wizard, half-blood wizard, muggleborn wizard, squib, or muggle) of two human parents, can I tell how likely their child is to be a wizard, a squib, or a muggle?

What are squibs?

We don't know of many squibs in the books, these are the list of the known squibs:

Argus Filch

Arabella Figg

Marius Black

Dolores Umbridge's brother

Molly Weasley's second cousin

Squibs aren't a subject wizards like talking about, even not wizards who don't mind muggles like the Weasleys:

"Er — yes, I think so. I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him."

(PS, page 73)

The definition of a squib is a child without magic born of a magical parent. If we look at the list of squibs above, all of them except Umbridge's brother are pure-bloods. This is kind of important because of the limited genetic pool of pure-bloods.

I tried calculating the inbreeding coefficient (basically how likely it is that a specific genetic trait is identical in both parents. The number ranges between 0 and 1) of the pure-bloods in the Wizarding World. We don't have much information on most families, but even looking at the Black family tree, they aren't really inbred (except the Gaunts). The closest relation there is the marriage between second cousins Walburga and Orion. So the inbreeding coefficient of pure-bloods would be above zero, but not high enough to cause serious health detriments for the most part. But, this doesn't mean wizards don't have a problem with a limited genetic pool even without close inbreeding.

Looking at that same Black family tree, we see a lot of familiar names: Flint, Crabbe, Burke, Potter, Crouch, Longbottom, Weasley, Prewett, Malfoy, McMillian... Basically, all pure-blood wizards are related. Some more closely than others, but they are all related. It means that among pure-bloods there is less genetic diversity which tends to cause illnesses and weakness in children over the course of multiple generations.

Such illness can, for example, come in the form of a squib. If the child just isn't capable of having full access to magic, due to their limited genetic pool, they will be born a squib.

But what about Umbridge's brother?

Well, here's the interesting thing. When looking at accounts of children of a pure-blood and a muggleborn, they are all always magical (and usually quite powerful, but more on that later). Umbridge's mother though is muggle. I believe a muggle parent would also have a higher chance of a squib offspring since they don't have magic. Essentially, Umbride's brother received some of the magical genes from their father, and some muggle genes from their mother, leaving him somewhat capable of interacting with magic, but not casting it — a squib.

Essentially squibs have a higher chance to be born from two pure-bloods (due to lack of genetic diversity) or from a wizard and a muggle. If we look at the books, we actually never see a squib being born from a pair of two wizards where one of the parents is half-blood or muggleborn (since they bring new genetic diversity and make the offsprings much likelier to be magical).

What are muggleborns?

So, we covered that squibs are rare and are caused by the lack of genetic diversity in the pure-blood families or by receiving non-magical genes from a muggle parent. But what about muggleborns? How could they genetically exist?

Well, I discussed here the actual percentages of different blood statuses across the Wizarding World. And the percentages looked like this:

57.5% Pure-Blood and Most Likely Pure Blood

22.5% Half-Blood

15% At Least One Magical Parent

5% Muggleborn

And as I covered here and here, I believe magical Britain is approximately 0.01% of the muggle population. This means that muggleborns are incredibly rare in the muggle population and have an overall very low chance of being born. But under what circumstances would muggleborns be more likely?

We know, for example, that the brothers Colin and Dennis Creevey were both born magical. It means, that their parents had genes that make them more likely to have magical children. This means Petunia had a higher chance of being born magical than, say, Vernon, it was still a low chance, but it was more likely.

Now, I'm not the first to raise this theory, but I believe these muggles that have a slightly higher chance for magical children like Mr. and Mrs. Creevey are descendants of squibs. We know that:

"Squibs were usually shipped off to Muggle schools and encouraged to integrate into the Muggle community. . . much kinder than trying to find them a place in the Wizarding world, where they must always be second class..."

(DH, page 136)

So, squibs have been sent for generations to live among muggles. It means that there are multiple "muggles" running around that are actually squibs. They might be able to see dementors or notice something odd around the Leakey Cauldron, but not enough to produce magic. But they still have magic in their genes. And when they have kids, sometimes, through a fluke of luck and genetics a muggleborn can be born.

This means all muggleborns are distantly related to wizards in some way, but still the muggle blood adds some much-needed genetic diversity that makes them less likely to have squib children.

What would magical genes look like?

So, we talked so far about how to predict the likelihood of a child having magic or not. But we also know not all wizards and witches are magically equal. You have crazy powerful individuals like Voldemort, Harry, and Dumbledore. Hermione is an incredibly skilled and talented witch, often the first in class to get spells right. And then you have wizards like Crabbe, Goyle, or Merope who are barely more magical than squibs. Then you have unique magical gifts like being a parselmouth, metamorphmagus, or seer are all inherited, and therefore genetic.

So, let's start with the power/talent difference between wizards that we see. I think this, like squibs, is correlating to the lack of genetic diversity. Sure, you have pure-bloods that are magically powerful or average, but if we look at the most magically powerful wizards in the books — Harry, Voldemort, and Dumbledore — they are all half-bloods. They all have a higher genetic diversity.

Hermione and Lily, are also examples of this added genetic diversity raising the likelihood of magical talent. Both muggleborns, both referenced as talented and bright multiple times. Snape, another half-blood is also referenced often as an incredibly talented wizard.

Actually, Nymphadora Tonks is one of the best pieces of evidence for magic weakening over pure-blood generations and becoming stronger with the new blood from muggles or muggleborns.

The Black family had the hereditary magical gift of being metamorphmagi. This gift has been lost for multiple generations, the first Black to be born with this gift in recent history is Tonks. And it makes perfect sense, Andromeda, a pure-blood with the genes for being a metamorphmagus, marries a muggleborn, Ted, who has the much-needed genetic diversity, so their daughter is finally durable enough for the metamorphmagi magic to kick in.

The Gaunts are another example of just how much the lack of genetic diversity affects a wizard's magic. All three, but especially Mereope, are portrayed as barely skilled with magic, almost squibs. But then we have Tom Marvolo Riddle, magically gifted so much beyond most wizards because he had the added genetic diversity from his muggle father.

Parseltongue seems to be a more dominant trait than the metamorphmagus ability. As even an almost squib in the Gaunt family can speak it. That being said, the Gaunts are implied to be incredibly incestuous, so perhaps it's just a matter of both parents speaking Parseltongue that causes this gene's apparent dominance.

We also know these genetic traits are only passed to wizards. So a squib from the Gaunt family, would not be able to speak Parseltongue. So, while it is a separate gene, it is connected to the other genes that affect magic. That's why a muggleborn born from a Gaunt family squib line, could potentially be a Parselmouth. They won't necessarily be a Parselmouth, but they have a chance to get the gene.

Conclusions

So, let's put all of it together into a series of rules* to how magic seems to work genetically.

*Rules is not exactly the correct word. It's more like, how it would usually behave, but there are flukes to genetics and everything is possible.

Two magical parents would almost always have a magical child. Pure-bloods are more likely to have squib children than half-bloods or muggleborns due to lack of genetic diversity.

A child of a muggle and a wizard has a higher chance of being born a squib than two magical parents. (The chance is still pretty low though and the child is more likely to be magical)

Muggleborns are the result of at least one parent who is a muggle that descended from squibs and has magical genes.

If both parents are squib-descendant muggles, all their kids might even end up magical. (Like the Creevey brothers)

Being a parselmouth, metamorphmagus, or seer are all unique genetic traits that are passed in a separate gene but dependent on other magical genes. Each one of them behaves differently as a gene.

Genetic diversity promises a higher chance of naturally magically gifted children. (It doesn't promise they will be more gifted, just makes their chances better)

Blood purity and a limited genetic pool cause magical children born to these lines to be overall weaker. (Again, there are exceptions, this is just about chances)

[childotkw]

I swear you're the reason I love Harry/Tom so much and I just kept thinking of Harry time-traveling to before Tom got his Hogwarts letter but he's not at the orphanage since the Potters get notified of his existence and go "A baby!? For us!? BABY!" and take him in.

So Harry is desperately trying to get to Wools Orphanage to get rid of the future dark lord, only the Potters misunderstand his obsession with Tom Riddle. Long story short, Tom wakes to find out a wealthy family has decided to Sponsor him, so they have him move to the house of a squib, also Sponsor by the Potters.

He lives with Marius Black (a man becomes his father figure just cause he is so used to creepy kids due to his upbringing with the Blacks) who lets him know why the Potters are even aware of him.

Tom Riddle goes to Hogwarts under the impression Harry Potter is in love with him and decides that he will be Harry's future husband. Why else would they sponsor him if not to prepare him for his future position in the family?

Oh my god it's fucking brilliant. All of Harry's plots being derailed because the Potters are just a bunch of kind people that would absolutely take in one of their long-lost cousin / son / bastard child??

Harry just wants to get to the orphanage, the Potters just chanting "one of us one of us" in the corner and are happy to finagle things for Harry's obvious crush, Tom is baffled when these people rock up and upend his life in the best way while pushing this random grumpy, angry boy in his direction and giggling.

Tom puts 2 and 2 together and gets 5, and Harry is betrothed before he knows it.

But hey, it's fine. What better way to keep his enemy close than to marry the guy? It's fool proof.

[potatosonnet]

soooo curious potatosonnet my beloved, have you drawn marius' cousin Théodule yet?

now i have

[henry-the-queer-artist]

characters who should be your favorite because reasons #2: marius pontmercy (les mis)

in this 3 hour film/musical / really long book, marius pontmercy managed to:

-get bullied by his grandpa

-leave his grandpa's house to go and be poor instead

-hate his cousin

-befriend the local gay boy (courfeyrac)

-become roommates with aforementioned gay boy

-befriend the rest of the gay people

-talk non-stop about napoleon

-become best friends with the local thief girl, somehow does not get robbed

-look at a pretty girl for one (1) second and decide she is the love of his life

-ask thief girl to go and find aforementioned pretty girl

-not question how thief girl knows this girl's address

-meet pretty girl and climb into her garden to stalk her

-somehow still gets the girl

-tell his gay friends

-bang his head against a tree for 2 hours while his gf cries in the background

-fight in a revolution

-thief girl confesses her love for him and he honestly doesn't really care

-get shot

-get saved by gf's dad

-live even though all the gay friends died

-punch thief girl's dad

-be one of the last two main characters in the musical living

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