#drarralbus

[the-invisibility-bloke]

You mentioning drarry + albus Severus I am actually obsessed with this pair

Do you have any headcanons? Also separate headcanons for harry/albus?

Oh my god yes but more to the point, fuck yes. I recently made my way through the Dralbus tag on AO3 and was so sad to reach the end. I think the obvious headcanon for Dralbus is how they bond over mutual Harry issues. They both resent Harry for how the world treats him, they both see his fame and credit as largely undeserved, but that doesn't mean they don't want his dick. I'm writing it more from the angle of mutual daddy issues, with Draco coming to realize that this barely legal kid who's begged him for attention and experience has some seriously unresolved feelings for Harry. And whaddya know, so does Draco.

Going from Dralbus to Drarralbus(?), I think Draco would be the instigator. I see him as the ethically gray mastermind, logic-ing Harry into boning his son by pointing out that, in fact, this is how Albus needs you to love him, you dense fucking walnut. Harry's Guilt™ is my favorite character to read or write (second only to Sirius' Guilt™), and I don't imagine there is any guilt greater than that of a well-intentioned parent with inappropriate feelings for their child. Compound that with decades of unresolved Drarry pining, Harry as Overprotective Dad, not to mention wildly jealous that they both got to each other before he did... what a fucking recipe.

As for Harry/Albus alone... I expanded on them in this post, but I enjoy Albus as one who simply does not give a shit about taboos and public opinion, due in part to youthful naivete, and partly from the resentment of living under the shadow of a man in the spotlight and all the resulting limitations. The one thing I like about Cursed Child is how the wish you weren't my father/son argument takes on a whole new significance when you look at it through a shipping lens. That is my one unbreakable HC for them: that, subconsciously or not, the reason they wished they weren't father and son was because of forbidden feels.

Yay. :)