#bellatrix black hcs

[enbysiriusblack]

since you have a Bella themed blog ATM, what's your biggest Headcanons on her

she's very short !!!!! honestly the only character where i actually care about their height. like she just gives such short energy and also as a short person, i need one fellow short character and for some reason i chose her

^also adding to that andromeda is a lot taller which is like one of the defining differences people use to tell them apart (other than their clothing style), however its still a bit hard cause bellatrix wears very tall heels all the time

has a soft spot for narcissa & draco & no one else

she suffers from eldest daughter </3

lesbian!!!!! she's a lesbian!!! dating rita during school, alecto during early death eater years, before marrying rodolphus who is in my transfemme

pre azkaban her and post azkaban her act completely different

chronic overachieving attention seeker with massive abandonment issues and mummy and daddy issues and an overwhelming duty to provide and protect her family

[starrysillhoutte]

love the idea that all the black cousins have some sort of health issues like they may be apart of a noble and ancient bloodline and have crazy magical abilities but an immune system? i think not

[rudamaruda520]

so I have this hc that little Bella on her first year at Hogwarts have met a deaf girl and learned sign language from her, and came back home so happy

she spent the whole summer teaching it to her sisters and cousins cause in the noble house of Black 'Silencio' was used on them for even the slightest of misbehaves

and from then on they finally were able to communicate thorough this <3

and I just know that later in life they used it solely to talk shit about their parents during family dinners <333

[royalthorned]

if i said james was to sirius what voldemort was to bellatrix

[elmodoescrimes]

MARAUD AND THEIR CAREER CHOICES

HERE WE FUCKING GO!

Jimames: Athlete (footsieball) or an ambulance person (paramedic? EMT? idk)

Sirius: Rockstar. Or an artist of sorts (tattoo or canvas, pick your poison)

Pete: CHEF.

Remoonsy: Author or like barista? Or a farm person.

Lilithie: Teacher. Or lawyer.

Mary: She does some shit to do with fashion or photography. (she worked as a waitress for ages tho)

Marlen: Athlete (MMA or footing ball) of sorts or piercer.

Dorca: Bartender. For fancy people.

Redgeged: actor or singer. or if you want to go down a less fame route he's doing some police related crap (criminal or justice side, idc)

Bart: Unemployed. Stripper. Tattoo artist.

Even: Forensic scientist, mortician, or also unemployed. (or he's an artist)

Pandorf: Scientist, florist, or magical pixie lady. (natropathy?)

Xenosyphilus: Drug dealer.

Sybilllllllllllllllllll: Psychic. obv.

Bella: criminal. (or she a buisness whoman)

Narcissius: Trophy wife. (jk, she a criminal justice lawyer)

Alicea: Agent or police officer

Francisk: Athlet or police officer

Rita: journalist or gossip bloggist

Gid: Small buisness owner

Fab: Smol buisneees owneeeeeer

(think fred and george but more illegal)

anyone else i should add, tell me

[maxdibert]

Random hcs you have for Sirius?

Ah, Sirius Black, the walking contradiction. Yes, I have a few thoughts about him, even though I make fun of him a lot, deep down I appreciate him. This is going to be long, but that way I can compile it all in one post.

Walburga is a Scorpio like him, which is why they clashed so much. Scorpio is one of the most intense signs of the zodiac, and both Scorpio men and women are ruthless, but Scorpio women are the alphas of the zodiac and always dominate Scorpio men.

I like this idea because I think that deep down, the reason he and his mother got along so poorly is precisely because they had terribly similar personalities, the kind that don’t let anyone control them. Sirius wasn’t going to be tamed, and Walburga wasn’t going to let her authority be questioned, so they constantly clashed.

Sirius didn’t start having problems with his mother because of any blood purity ideals or that nonsense. Sirius is much deeper than that. He started having issues with Walburga because she was very dominant and imposing, and he had a naturally rebellious character that wouldn’t accept orders from anyone. As a child, he would do the opposite of whatever his mother told him, just to annoy her.

His idea of going to Gryffindor didn’t come about until he met James on the train. I mean, he knew he wanted to annoy Walburga, and thought that becoming best friends with a “blood traitor” would be a good way to do it. Plus, James was like him: rich and from a good family, so they would get along. If he ended up in Gryffindor, even better, because that would make his mother lose a lot of hair.

His rejection of his family’s ideals wasn’t ideological at first, but stemmed from the need to rebel against his mother. Over time, he rationalized those ideas and turned against them, but he never delved deeper into this aspect. That’s why, even though he said blood purity was wrong and that the Blacks were rubbish, he still had attitudes very similar to those of his relatives, just on “the other side.”

As children, he and Regulus had a fairly close relationship typical of older and younger brothers, where the older one always annoys the younger one, and the younger one tells them to piss off. But Regulus never forgave him for taking his rebellion to such an extreme and always thought he’d gone too far with the whole hanging out with Potter and going to Gryffindor thing.

He didn’t have major issues with his brother until he realized Regulus was getting close to Death Eater circles and was considering joining their ranks. They had a terrible argument about this, where Regulus accused him of spending years ignoring everything and everyone because he was too busy acting like an idiot with “his dear Potter,” and now he wasn’t in a position to lecture him on morality, basically telling him to fuck off. Sirius would never admit that this hurt him deeply; he just told Regulus to fuck off too, and they never spoke again.

Orion Black didn’t have much of a role in that house. He just watched what happened without saying anything because he was afraid of his wife, and Sirius always resented his father’s attitude, considering him a useless puppet.

His biggest goal in life was to annoy his mother, which is why he covered his room with everything that could drive Walburga crazy, while Walburga would give him all sorts of orders and punishments to make him do things he hated, just to annoy him. It was basically a competition between them to see who had more power.

People often speculate that he was abused and other nonsense, which is why he left home, but I think he made the decision for something much simpler: maybe they tried to betroth him to some pure-blood woman, maybe it was at a family gathering when they announced that Regulus was going to start joining Bellatrix’s circle to join “the cause,” or maybe it was a way to punish his mother after a big argument. Either way, I don’t think he intended to leave forever, but once he went to the Potters’ house and discovered what a functional family was like—rich, where he wouldn’t lose any comfort or privilege—he stayed.

Walburga spent years sending him threatening letters to come back, and he spent years secretly responding, telling her to fuck off. Eventually, when he finished Hogwarts, the letters stopped arriving.

He always said his brother died because he was an idiot and got involved where he shouldn’t, and repeated that he was stupid and had it coming. But when he found out about his death, he basically had one of the biggest drinking binges of his life, and obviously told everyone at the pub, while drunk, that his brother was an idiot and deserved to be dead, while crying uncontrollably, because that’s how Sirius Black confronts his cognitive dissonance.

He never told James that he’d done that.

Speaking of James, Sirius had a terrible dependence on him, very similar to Severus’ dependence on Lily. James was Sirius’ moral compass, and he looked up to him as an example of how he should be because, to Sirius, James was everything a pure-blood wizard should be.

He also had a crush on James that he wasn’t even aware of because he told himself it was just a brotherly attachment. In reality, he was totally obsessed with James, to the point that he got angry when James finally started dating Lily, claiming that “he’d become less fun,” which was basically a way of saying he was really resentful because they no longer spent all their time together, but Sirius was too in denial to admit it was jealousy.

He probably couldn’t stand Lily at first, but since Sirius is a loyal dog, he ended up being the third wheel in their relationship and came to care about her a lot because he wanted everything James appreciated by association.

Contrary to popular belief, Sirius didn’t give a shit about Remus or Peter. He only hung out with them because James did, but if he could use them or manipulate them for any of his Machiavellian plans, he wouldn’t hesitate. He didn’t truly start appreciating Remus until he got out of Azkaban, and even then, he did it in a very utilitarian way, basically because he felt lonely and James was dead.

Sirius had a very classist background. He knew the theory of equality, but didn’t apply it. He never questioned his privileges and never deconstructed the elitist and sadistic mentality his family had taught him since childhood, which is why he treated Severus like garbage or was pretty inconsistent between what he said and what he actually did.

Sirius did project onto James in Harry, just like Severus did, but while Severus projected hate, Sirius projected affection. However, he was also a dysfunctional adult who couldn’t see the kid as an independent person in himself, and anyone who denies this doesn’t understand how trauma works, sorry folks.

Sirius was bisexual, though he probably didn’t even realize it, because he never wanted to admit he had a massive crush on James.

The one who got on his nerves the most was his cousin Bellatrix, who ironically, was the one who resembled him the most in terms of personality.

He said he hated Snape because he was disgusting, liked the Dark Arts, and sucked up to people like his family, which seemed inconceivable to him. But the truth is, he subconsciously hated him because an aristocrat like Sirius Black, who reveled in abandoning that world for the “good,” couldn’t stand to see a working-class guy daring to climb socially to the sphere he had rejected. His internalized classism made such a thing inconceivable, so he projected all his frustrations onto Snape.

James was the one who started the bullying, but Sirius was the most sadistic and violent of the two. Sometimes James had to remind Sirius that there were certain limits he couldn’t cross because no one had taught Sirius limits; in his family, sadism was encouraged.

One of the reasons he was so disturbed by being locked in his childhood house with his mother’s paintings yelling at him all the time was because he had to face the reality that she saw him (even though it wasn’t really her) as a failure. He had to come to terms with the fact that, at 36, he was only a shadow of what he once was, and his mother, the one he’d always confronted and bragged about being better and doing better without, now saw him as a wreck. That was too much for him.

Sirius Black was a smoker and died a smoker.

He had problems with alcohol in his later days.

He kept telling himself to blindly trust Dumbledore and convinced himself it was the right path, but deep down, he’d been questioning a lot of things about the old man for a while, though he never said anything out loud.

Had he been a father, he’d say he’d prefer to have a boy, but deep down, he would have been the typical “girls’ dad” at heart.

Had he ever settled down, he never would have done it with a Muggle or a Muggle-born, he would have done it with a pure-blood witch from a rich family with a personality strangely similar to his mother’s. But he would have never admitted that, not in a million years.

If he’d gone to therapy, every single session, without exception, would have revolved around Walburga.

[kairospy]

Just saying,

James is the spoiled one in the relationship. He’s used to getting all he wants because Effie and Monty would indulge his every whim. He’s dramatic as shit, loud, confident, but so theatrical about it.

Regulus is the more quiet one (though not shy or insecure AT ALL. This man was meant to inherit an empire and associate (if not better) the most powerful wizards, be honest with yourself, he was be confident and stoic), and if he wanted something, he had to take it for himself seeing as his parents mostly focused on Sirius for 15 years. He’s independent.

To summarise: Regulus wears the pants in the relationship and James is just happy to be there and be pampered and be bought nice things. Regulus calls him ‘love’ and he’s gone. He wears Reg’s jumpers when he’s home alone. He’s pathetically whipped and would let Reg do anything to him. James cooks so well and makes Reg a different dish each week bc this man is used to house elf menus and that wont cut it. Regulus stands behind him, chin on his shoulder arms around his waist asking about ingredients, and James just about fucking dies—

[marylily-my-beloved]

Bellatrix black !! 

She was the first quidditch woman captain in Hogwarts and she was widely celebrated for that one fact. Even if most people already hated her 

She loved cooking but absolutely despised baking. She hated making sweets because she thought it was ‘useless’ and ‘who would eat the sweets anyways?’ 

I feel like she was very tall, like the rest of the blacks. I think she was probably 6 foot or 6’1, her dad Cygnus was 6’5 and her mom Druella was 5’10 

She always had a very one track mind, so if she was focused on something she had to finish it and practically forgot about everything (or everyone) else 

In a modern au she would probably become a cult leader and be very infamous for being said cult leader 

She never listened to music that wasn’t classical music, except for certain occasions (like parties or when she was hanging out with her sisters) 

She could play the viola and the harp and the piano, but her favourite instrument was actually the bass guitar 

[lupiinist]

alright, so, i'm writing something and wanted to share my black sisters hcs because i like them so much (and also because i need to so i won't forget it)

first of all, bellatrix is a very good sister. she's a bit unhinged, sure, maybe can get a little violent, yes, but it's alright so long as you don't mess with cissa and andy (or regulus and sirius by extent, but she prenteds she doesn't like them)

they have a thing with nicknames. for everyone, they are bella, cissa, and andy. but for each other, they are trix/trixie, cissy/ciss, and an/mendy. the only other people who get to call them that are their loved ones (sirius, reggie, ted, alice and rita)

narcissa likes jewelry, she has rings, earrings, and necklaces to match with every single one of her clothes, and she can even make her own, she likes to chose gemstones and knows most of them by name (her favorite are emeralds and rubies)

bellatrix is a ballerina, she has so much strength in her body, like, she doesn't look like it, she looks scrawny at first, but she's very strong and flexible, ballet is a thing requires a lot of focus and determination, and for everything that she's chaotic, she has her moments of peace with dancing

andromeda tonks is bisexual. fight me on this one.

i feel like andromeda would also be a lot into fashion, like, just generally, she likes clothes and loves to push gender norms with her clothes, she rocks in dresses, and she rocks in suits, and sometimes she mixes both and guess what? she rocks!!!! (no, but seriously, andromeda tonks in a suit. please.)

the three of them like to gossip, like, a lot. they paint each others nails, bellatrix learned at a young age to do her sisters' hairs, so she does them whenever she gets the chance, and they talk about every bit of gossip they hear

narcissa painted her hair black once because she felt left out from her sisters. next thing she nows, once the paint fades, bella and andy have dyed their hair blond. now they all match

once they all have their lives apart, they still like to hang out when they can. cissa brings draco to his favorite aunts (although he likes pandora a lot too), sometimes bella brings rita when she's not working, and ted likes to pick andromeda up from their meet-ups so he can at least say hello to his in-laws

when they were young, their parents used to fight a lot, and it used to get really loud, so the three of them would get together in bella's room, and she would sing them a song until things got quieter. she's a surprisingly good singer (although narcissa is better)

when andromeda marries ted, bella and cissa walk her down the aisle, one on each side

[maraudersooup]

"If you need to be mean, be mean to me." But it's Narcissa to Bellatrix when she started to despise Andromeda because of her choices. She just wanted to keep her sisters together.

[isthoughts]

The Black family doesn't bother with geography. They don't know *anything*. You could show Sirius a map of Narnia, tell him it's England, and he would 100% believe you. Bellatrix burns maps on sight. Regulus probably didn't know if he was drowning in a lake or sea, or in England or Scotland for that matter. The only one I can be kinda convinced knows something geography is Narcissa and that's only because she wanted to know why she couldn't fly to France.

[catinthemoonlightwrites]

In a modern world AU Bellatrix and her father are that daughter-father duo that go out for a run at 6am, and he tries to live some of his failed athletic dreams through her

[de4thbycre4tion]

Here's some of my other headcanons for the Marauders girls' relationships with food/their body! Part 1, where I explain myself and go over Lily, Mary & Marlene, is here. This time it's the Black sisters because, to me, the Black sisters all had a very complicated relationship with their body and body autonomy because of how they were raised.

Narcissa: I've always hc all three sisters as having grown up doing ballet, but to me, Narcissa is the only one who actually loved it and continued doing it in her teenagehood. Her ballet teachers monitored her weight very closely, and she wasn't allowed to go above or below a certain weight. Because of this, I think that all of her life she obsessively tracks her weight and forces herself to eat when it's too low and starve when it's too high. Into adulthood, she feels like she has to keep everything under control and her weight is one of the easiest things to control to her so stepping on a scale, to her, is sort of a comfort, a reminder that she does have things under control.

Bellatrix: Bellatrix took the phrase "your body is your vessel" a little too seriously. Like Marlene, if she closed her eyes, she couldn't picture herself, but unlike Marlene she doesn't fear mirrors at all, but she loves them. She spent hours staring at herself, nitpicking what's "good" and what's not. She views her body as a means to an end, she knows what clothes and what makeup will make her look more innocent or more desirable and she uses it to her advantage, but it is not her. She doesn't view her body as a representation of herself, but as a tool.

Andromeda: Andromeda, unlike Bellatrix, sees her body as something she must protect at all cost because it is her. It is her human form and who she is. Her sister used her body to do/get anything her mind wanted, she didn't care about the damage, but Andromeda cares too much about the damage. In the same way that she would have never did something damaging/disgraceful to her body, she would never put something in her body that she didn't see as healthy. She refuses anything with sugar and any processed foods because to her eating that "unhealthy" stuff, is disgracing her own body, therefore herself. I think as a child she was pretty loud and her parents put her under the Imperio curse to just calm her down for a few hours, and as a result of that trauma she became afraid of losing her body autonomy. She must have control over her body, otherwise she gets crazy panic attacks.

Pls somebody tell me they'd like me to make a post about the Black sister's relationships I wanna yap about them so baaad

Part 3 with Dorcas, Pandora and Alice is coming soon btw :)

[lienspien]

Anyway I'm going to assign marauders era characters jnto a game role (I mostly based this on hsr/genshin role things so idk how other games do these things)

DPS : Sirius, Evan, Dorcas, Mulciber, Edmund, Emmeline, Bellatrix, Emma, Gideon, Hestia, Kingsley

Support : Regulus, Remus, Peter, Alice, Charity, James, Narcissa, Lily, Fabian, Xenophilius

Healer : Mary, Pandora, Frank, Andromeda, Benjy, Florean, Amos, Lucinda

Debuffer : Barty, Marlene, Sybill, Severus, Aurora, Wilhem, Amelia, Caradoc

I jst ound out that there's a tag limit which is wtf like I have more than 30 characters here but wtv

[fiendishfyre]

Do you think Sirius had a favorite cousin in canon? If so, who?

We are told it's Andromeda, I'd have liked proof or more mention of it, of why. Was it just because she married a muggleborn? I mean that is an implication she was more open minded than her family. That being said... I go with Bellatrix. I can see them with being similar gravitate to each other. I love picturing her being a lil devious one teaching Sirius all sorts of spells, showing him pranks she did. But rarely ever getting caught. Despite her leaning into pureblood views, I also see her have her own sort of rebellion, esp as a woman who doesn't settle back, she gets in the middle of things. I can see Sirius admiring that about her even if won't admit it. (Of course Andy rebelled too but I think it wasn't the same, different type of rebellion.) This is all hc, no one come at me. Hahahah, have to add disclaimers to everything. XD I build my hcs around canon but I honestly love Bellatrix so I favour hcs that have her in it. Sorry, Andy.

[maxdibert]

When Snape praises Bellatrix for killing Sirius in Spinner's End, do you think he was being earnest or was just manipulating her?

Well, it could be both, honestly, though with some nuances. Bellatrix and Severus clearly couldn’t stand each other, and we could totally get into why that makes perfect sense for both of them, but that’s a whole other topic. The thing is, Bella never fully trusted him. I also don’t think she really trusted anyone who hadn’t been absolutely militant during the years Voldemort was gone, because in the end she had that role of being the ultimate fanatic, and for her, Voldemort’s mission mattered more than even her own family. I mean, to her, Voldemort was everything.

Someone like Bellatrix could respect what Barty Crouch Jr. did, for example, but she’d always despise what Severus did, even if he managed to convince Voldemort himself that teaching at Hogwarts and sticking close to Dumbledore was all just a performance to infiltrate the other side. Bellatrix is super black-and-white about these things: it wouldn’t work for her because for her, there’s no middle ground. Either you give everything for the cause or you’re useless. (She’s a bit like her cousin Sirius in that sense, the parallels between them are actually hilarious, and the fact that she’s the one who kills him is one of the best ironies in the saga.)

To her, Severus was just a half-blood who chose the easy, safe way out by “switching sides” when it suited him, instead of facing the consequences of his own actions. He wasn’t pure enough, not just in blood but as a follower of Voldemort. And obviously, it pissed her off that he’d managed to climb so high in rank.

On the other hand, it goes without saying that Severus couldn’t stand her either, because basically, her entire personality was everything he hated: a reckless fanatic who acted before thinking and wasn’t guided by logic but by blind devotion. And Severus was always a highly rational man who despised that kind of behavior. Not to mention the fact that the woman literally enjoyed torturing people for fun probably didn’t help make her one of his favorite people. Plus, I’ve always believed Sirius and Bellatrix had a lot in common, and it’s very likely there were things in her that reminded him of his old bully.

That said, it’s pretty clear there’s a little game Severus is playing in that scene where he’s deliberately trying to mess with Bellatrix. He’s on his turf, in his house, he knows more than she does, and he’s got a golden opportunity to subtly mock her, and there’s no way in hell he’s gonna pass that up. In fact, he doesn’t. He totally relishes it.

But even so, I don’t think he was faking it when it came to Sirius. Severus hated Sirius, and their encounters in the third and fifth books make it very clear that the trauma from the abuse still affects him a lot, especially since Sirius never stops treating him like they’re still teenagers, like Severus is still that weird kid he used to torment for fun, instead of an adult man now, far more powerful and capable, and a much more important player politically and in the war than Sirius ever was. I don’t think for a second Severus would’ve felt bad about Bellatrix killing his cousin. I also don’t think he would’ve celebrated it, because he had much bigger things on his mind, but he probably thought he had it coming, and that it was kind of funny that it was Bella, of all people, who did it.

So in a way, I think he meant it half-serious, half-ironic, but always keeping in mind that there’s a lot of truth in irony.