#aurora sininstra

[orchideous-nox]

I SOOO badly want to get into Snape's gang but like where do I start? For the life of me I couldn't find the ancient source material that is fqj's (was too lazy to type out the whole username) first post about it

Oh god I would have no idea how far back that was, for me it started with his whisperings in my ear (DMs going months back). Quibbler (aka Alexander, the other half of everyone's favourite ship quibblernox) was working on these characters for ages before I started posting about them because he roleplays them with one of his friends, so they both are the real masterminds (despite the conspiracy that I am that friend?), I just use their headcanons or rip them to shreds if I have my own thoughts that go off-path.

The basic characters that we both post about as being Snape's Gang are Severus Snape (obviously), Charity Burbage, Aurora Sinistra, Edmund Avery Jr and Igor Karkaroff. There's also Bruce Mulciber Jr and Wilhelm Wilkes but I don't particularly post about them and Quibbler's posts about them are minimal because they're not his faves. Alex is going to be working on an explanation post of who everyone is eventually in the undeterminable future, but you can search our tags for any characters that you're interested in particularly!! If we're also being technical, Evan Rosier was friends with Sev at Hogwarts and is part of Snape's Gang in canon, which leads me on to.....

My pirate fic WIP a vow out to the dark includes all of Snape's Gang as Evan's crew, which can be a fun intro to them whilst including the core Marauders characters to ease people into them. It's on pause at the moment because I was working on Christmas fics and then a one-shot for Lily's birthday but should come back as soon as I'm done with that!

I also have a short one-shot about Aurora Sinistra and Severus Snape called next to infinite skies and they're one of the ships we both post about called starrynight! It's a lot less daunting than a whole 5 chapter fic I guess and is a small insight into Aurora!

Other ships include seabunny (Igor Karkaroff/Charity Burbage), crownest (Igor Karkaroff/Severus Snape), wiseprince (Edmund Avery Jr/Severus Snape) and cosmicbunny (Aurora Sinistra/Charity Burbage). Quibbler and our lovely friend @ecstarry also post about wisestar which is Edmund Avery Jr/Regulus Black which can also be a good gateway, Elena has a cute fluffy 1k one-shot here which is worth checking out. If you search any of the ship names on either mine or @futurequibblerjournalist blog then you'll have lots of posts!!

Before I forget because AAHHHHH I can just keep yapping istg, Alex has this yearbook art that contains the Marauders and Snape's Gang so check that out to see the vision!!! This is pretty much how I imagine them, and if you like visuals then my tiktok account is orchideous.nox and is linked in my intro posts, I've made a couple of edits (it's a lot of Igor).

If you have any questions about Snape's Gang in general or specific characters then please feel free to send them to me or Alex, my ask box is far emptier than Quibbler's so it won't disappear into the abyss, but he does have more knowledge so I sometimes fact-check with him anyway. We both love yapping as you can tell, it's a problem, but in 2025 we both really want to get more people into these characters because they're so fun and the stigma from using Sev's name is so bullshit!!