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HILDA DAGNA FINNEGAN

Occupation: Full time mom Age: 27 Gender: Female Blood Status: Pureblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Holland Roden

You should have listened to your mother, that Finnegan man wasn’t any good and you never should have ran off with him, you shouldn’t have gotten pregnant, you shouldn’t have done any of the things you did until you left him. You were too ashamed to go home, so instead you fled to family in London with a baby on your hip, thinking you’d be safe from him there because you were a pureblood and he was only a muggleborn. You thought you’d be free in a war zone, but he never did what he should have, either - it’s why you fell in love.

HISTORY:

From the moment she was born, Hilda was a princess in the eyes of everyone around her. The Dagna’s were a rich, pureblood family from Denmark. For generations they had had a rumoured reputation for practicing the dark arts and toting blood purist ideologies. And it was all true. Hilda was raised in a household where she was told that she was the best of the best and that others were beneath her. A household where she was told she could take whatever she wanted, and she deserved to do so. While Hilda never felt the same passion towards blood purity or the dark arts as her family, she enjoyed the theatrics and pageantry of it all, so she never protested.

When she was eleven, Hilda was sent off to Durmstrang. She didn’t care for the martial magic that the school pushed, but she did enjoy the people she met. Like her, the peers Hilda surrounded herself with were from rich, pureblood families. Together they formed a bubble in which they could operate without consequence. Despite not having their parents resources physically at their fingertips, their status and family power allowed the group of spoiled teenagers to party and get away with antics others couldn’t. She was never the ring leader, but Hilda went along with whatever the others’ suggested. It could be cruel at times, especially when they targeted younger students, but Hilda never protested. She loved the benefits that came with her life and didn’t feel there was anything worth jeopardizing what she had.

After graduation, Hilda travelled around Europe using her family’s money. For several years she flitted from city to city, partaking in whatever lavish events were going on, before running off to the next adventure. Every so often she’d spend some downtime at her family’s estate in Denmark. Her parents always welcomed her back with open arms, adoring and showering their picture-perfect daughter with love whenever they got the chance. However, as the years went on, her family began to bring up the importance of her future, specifically the importance of selecting the right husband. It was a subject Hilda soon wanted to avoid, because while her family thought of her as their perfect pureblood princess, Hilda had a messy secret in Ireland.

In the spring of 1977, Hilda’s family began to float potential suitors by their daughter. Hilda wasn’t opposed to any of them, she was actually quite excited to meet them. The problem was that with each man she met, she was disappointed again and again. Hilda had always dreamed of being swept off of her feet by a whirlwind romance, and each of the suitors failed miserably to do so. Some of them weren’t terrible as individuals, but none of them made her feel the way the man in Ireland made her feel.

After a summer of luckless romance, Hilda left on another traverse across Europe, this time to Ireland. Rather than travelling with or to meet friends, Hilda went to Ireland alone and that’s when she met Patrick. Like the cliche of love at first sight, Hilda fell for Patrick hard and fast. He was cute and charming and made her feel alive in a way she’d never felt before. Places that’d she’d been before felt exciting and new when she was with him; he was everything she was looking for. When she returned to Denmark for Christmas, all she could think about was him.

Over the next year, Hilda visited Ireland frequently. Her parents grew increasingly worried about their daughter finding an appropriate, pureblood suitor, so Hilda had to alternate being with Patrick and going on dates with pureblood suitors she wished were Patrick. It wasn’t until the fall, one year since they met, that Hilda built up the courage to run away with him.

What had held her back from committing to him sooner was her family. Hilda knew that if she chose Patrick, her family would reject her. The life she knew would cease to exist. Though she wished it weren’t the case, Hilda knew that she wouldn’t get to see her nieces and nephews grow up, her friends would stop taking her calls, and she could never go home for Christmas again. Despite all that, she chose him. Loving him was unlike anything she’d ever experienced before, and she knew that if she didn’t take the leap, she’d forever regret it.

The following spring Hilda and Patrick got married, and that summer Hilda became pregnant with their first child. When the news first broke, the newlyweds were ecstatic. While Hilda felt confident when she made the decision to run away with him, she could never fully shake doubt from her mind. What if she had made the wrong choice? Seamus changed all of that. Hilda’s worries faded away, because what was really important in life suddenly became clear to her.

However, by the fall amended versions of the lingering doubt crept back into her mind. How would Seamus’s life have been different if she hadn’t run away from her family? What opportunities had she possibly deprived him of? More than that, Hilda missed her family. She wanted to sit in the drawing room with her mother and father and show them the miracle she had created. On the good nights she imagined them fawning over Seamus and her beautiful little boy running around her family’s estate with his cousins. On the bad nights she remembered that it was impossible for her dreams to ever come true.

The holidays hit her the hardest. While she tried her best to stay in the moment, to enjoy her son’s first Christmas, all she could think about was the Christmas she and Seamus were missing in Denmark. It killed her and, though she tried to hide it, Patrick could read it all over her face. Naturally, they fought about it, which only made Hilda feel worse. And it was that guilt that pushed her over the edge. In an attempt to escape the agony she felt, Hilda fled from their Irish coast home on New Year’s Eve. That afternoon when Patrick went into town, Hilda took Seamus and ran away to family in England.

Specifically, Hilda ran to Malfoy Manor. Through her mother, Hilda was cousins with Lucius. Though they hadn’t seen each other in years, their families visited on a number of occasions when they were younger. Hilda was hopeful that their connection was still strong enough that Lucius would provide her refuge. Thankfully, he did, allowing her to reenter the world she fled from to be with Patrick. Things weren’t the same as they used to be, but Hilda began on the way to “fixing” things in the eyes of her family. At the advisement of her pureblood friends and family in England, Hilda became a Death Eater and began dating Caleb Goldstein. Though her father and her still aren’t on speaking terms, she’s hopeful that they might be one day. As long as she doesn’t fall from grace again.

CONNECTIONS:

Patrick Finnegan: Ex-husband, still loves

Silas Podmore: Looks out for her

Nicholas Chastain: Dislikes

Yoshi Hayashi: Doesn’t trust

Caleb Goldstein: Pretending to date, can hardly stand

Imogen McLaggen: Friends

Yael Odgen: Worried for by

CLOSED · PENNED BY STEPH

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YOSHI HAYASHI

Occupation: Up to player Age: 25 Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Yoshizawa Ryo, Shiraishi Shunya, Higashide Masahiro

Hard work and perseverance are what it takes to be recognized and get places in life. You keep your mouth shut, do your job, and eventually you'll climb over people until they're jumping out of your way to save their own skin, that's a fact of life that won't go, there's a pecking order on the food chain. People say you're severe and call you intense, but you've found a man using his power to clear a trail to glory and you plan on following right behind.

BIOGRAPHY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Jamie Abbott: Scares

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Distrusted by

Haruha Utada: Cousins

Nicholas Chastain: Blackmailing

Teresa Edgecombe: Friendly with

Bellatrix Lestrange: Becoming friends

Emi Kurosawa: Blamed by

Mika Kurosawa: Looked up to by

INTERESTED IN YOSHI? HE IS OPEN. YOU MAY APPLY FOR HIM here.

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CONGRATULATIONS, STEPH!

You have been accepted for your first choice character, Hilda Dagna Finnegan, with the face claim Holland Roden! Ugh, she is such a perfectly messy princess, caught between two worlds and doing her best to navigate them, I’m so enchanted by the way you’ve presented her and I’m so thrilled to have her on the dash. Please submit your url within the next 36 hours and review our checklist.

WELCOME TO THE UP IN SMOKE FAMILY!

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CHAPTER 03: TASTE OF HOPE

Litha has arrived and with it comes the heat of summer and short nights with swiftly approaching sunlight promises to fight away the darkness. After such gruesome and tragic attacks in the first half of the year, there’s a silent, but unanimous choice among the people of the wizarding world to rejoice in this light while it lasts.

Over what seems to be the course of a single night, a fair has been assembled in the same fields that would usually hold official quidditch league matches, flyers for the event tucked into copies of the Daily Prophet, the Quibbler, and Witch Weekly alike. It’s announced on the Wizarding Wireless Network and posters are plastered across boarded up shop windows, usually without people knowing how they got there.

At the funfair, the grass is lush and the air is warm, the music that permeates the grounds overlaid with shrill sounds of pleasure instead of screams of fear. There’s a risk in having so many people gather in one place, there’s always a risk, but everything looks distance from the top of a ferris wheel, even the dangers of war. 

The peace won’t last forever, just like the summer will slip away, but that is what fuels people into flocking from their homes to take part in the event. For a week, they will be able to rejoice in knowing that the days are long and the nights are short, but they still know the darkness will return.

This fair/carnival will run for the rest of the month and while you’re free to interact with whomever you please (and encouraged to respond to any open starters you see), you will also be assigned a partner for the end of this chapter. 

Please find your muse and your partner on the list below and reach out to start plotting! And for any open starters you choose to create that are related to this chapter, please tag them as smokechapter:03.

Adelaide Boot and Luka Petrov

Hestia Jones and Pippa Strout

Iliana Solace and Zephyr Bell

Alastor Moody and Yuki Yamashita

Mafalda Hopkirk and Oskar Almstedt

Daisy MacNair and Patrick Finnegan

Han Lee and Narcissa Malfoy

Odette Vogel and Tristan Rojas

Bailey Shaw and Mirek Yaxley

Edith Clearwater and Zahi Shafiq

Henry Fawley and Miriam Clearwater

Cassidy Runcorn and Sofiya Nott

Leona Podmore and Valentina Nott

Nicholas Chastain and Vanja Novak

Juliette Fortescue and Zara Ivanova

Hilda Dagna Finnegan and Nathan Chastain

Alexander Church and Marcus Bulstrode

Kirsi Salo and Valerija Novak

Aliya Shafiq and Liliana Zabini

Levi Bulstrode and Lucius Malfoy

Felicity Grant and Rowan Montague

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KIRSI SALO PATRICK FINNEGAN HILDA DAGNA FINNEGAN

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+01: PATRICK FINNEGAN (DYLAN O’BRIEN FC)*

+01: HILDA DAGNA FINNEGAN (HOLLAND RODEN FC)*

+01: ELSA BAUER (PHOEBE BRIDGERS FC)

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CALEB GOLDSTEIN

Occupation: Up to player Age: 30 Gender: Male Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Aneurin Barnard, Casey Deidrick, Nathan Parsons, Zane Holtz

The thing is, you’ve never thought of yourself as a bad guy. You don’t look like a bad guy, everyone you meet compares you to a puppy and yet you know that in the eyes of your family, your beliefs are wrong. You grew up hearing about Grindelwald’s time in America as well as how your cousins were there, as if it matters when you’ve never met them. Everyone was so proud of you when you decided to go to Britain for the war, you just never said what side you were joining.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Rosa Lee Xiadani: Hated by

Monika Klein: Avoided by

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Pretending to date

Patrick Finnegan: Intimidated by

Luka Petrov: Trying to befriend

Pippa Strout: School enemies

Oswyn Dawlish: Friends

Levi Bulstrode: Despised by

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PATRICK FINNEGAN

Occupation: Bartender and new owner of The Three Broomsticks Age: 30 Gender: Male Blood Status: Muggleborn Allegiance: Neutral Faceclaim: Dylan o’Brien

How dare she? How dare she not only break your heart, but take your kid when she did it? How dare she bring a new sort of magic into your life and then not only leave, but make you track her down into a warzone in order to see your son? It’s a wonder the two of you lasted as long as you did, but now you don’t even care about the rumors she’s seeing another man, you only care about breaking down those fancy doors she’s closed on you.

HISTORY:

No one expected anything to come from Patrick Finnegan's life and why should they? He was just another Irish boy that didn't come from anything special, his family wasn't known for anything in particular and even if it was, Patrick had two brothers that he would have needed to compete against in order to stand out. From a young age, this meant that Patrick had low expectations of himself, of what the world would give him without a fight, and how could he ever think anything else when the strain of living was written into his father's bones?

A railway worker, Patrick's father was a man with stooped shoulders and grimy hands that seemed to come back with stories about deaths on the job at least every week. If you listened to him talk, every bit of railway track was laid on the bones of the Irish and maybe it wasn't the sort of life that he wanted for his sons, but it was the only sort that Patrick expected.

Until the first time he used magic.

His mother swore he'd been taken by the fae, that something had replaced her son or that some other supernatural creature was working its magic when the incidents kept happening, but all the answers came when he turned eleven and a letter showed up clutched in an owl’s beak.

Patrick Finnegan, son of two ordinary people that worked hard for their livelihood and one out of three sons, had magic. 

Without even trying, Patrick found that he stood out amongst his family and if his brothers ever wondered ‘why is he the one with magic and not me?’ Maybe there were numbers about that somewhere, some fancy person with a good pedigree that knew how rare it was that he was the only one with magic, or what the odds were that he had magic at all, but Patrick never bothered to find out and none of his family seemed to care.

While his mother once worried about her little boy being stolen away, that changed with the letter and she resorted to pushing her fingers through his hair as Patrick tried to duck away, fondly saying that maybe his father was a little bit magical, maybe that’s why he had such a green thumb, why she was so charmed by him.

The love that coated the strain in those words always broke Patrick’s heart.

Hogwarts was an escape from a lot of things - from his family, from the muggle world, from all the expectations his old life put on him, but there were some things that remained the same. He was special in terms of his brothers, but not in terms of the magical community, his parentage garnering him the title of mudblood and Patrick wasn’t even surprised that even in the magical community, his family was enough to put some sort of black mark against him, that he was less valued than some others.

Still, there were certain facts that their bigotry and prejudice didn’t erase, like the fact he had access to an entirely different world than his family and unlike his father, he never, ever had to be a railway worker.

After he went back home to Ireland, he mostly focused on trying to help his family, his ability to use magic making it so much easier, so much faster, to help do things like repair their roof and help ready his mother’s little garden, and if sometimes he slipped potions into his dad’s tea to help with the pain, well, you couldn’t blame him, could you?

Patrick didn’t consider it any sort of secret that he was close with his family and losing part of it wrecked him more than he could imagine. Three brothers became two and Patrick grit his teeth at the unfairness of it all. Maybe that’s why, when given the chance, he was so quick to let his family grow again.

Hilda Dagna was something out of a fairytale. If Patrick’s mother was ever going to be right about Patrick fooling around with someone fae in the sense that she understood it, then it would have been with Hilda. She was beautiful and smart and far too good for him, but she wanted him anyway and Patrick didn’t even hesitate in handing over his heart to her, this magical woman from another world.

His family didn’t care that she was a witch, but they did wonder why Patrick couldn’t find a good Irish girl and Patrick could tell that they didn’t understand what he was doing with a rich girl, but Patrick ignored their concerns. Hilda had chosen him despite knowing he wasn’t the sort of man her family would approve of, so of course he would choose her in return and support her.

Which wasn’t to say they didn’t have their fights, they could tear into each other with words, but they could also stitch each other up with kisses and it was always worth it to Patrick and when he found out Hilda was pregnant, that was a gift. One child would turn into more and they would make up after every fight they had and their children would never feel limited to one future, those were things that Patrick was certain of even if he never spent much time picturing what the future would bring.

Of course, he paid a price for trying to predict the future. In what felt like the course of one day to the next, Patrick went from being someone’s husband and someone’s father to being on his own.

Not because his family was taken from him, there wasn’t any terrible accident on a railway to kill them, there was some attack because of the war, no, but because Hilda ran away from him. After so much sneaking around, after choosing him by marrying him and then having a baby with him, Hilda cut herself out of his life and left Patrick with a ripped up heart, the places where she and Seamus resided left empty and raw.

Anger was a familiar friend to Patrick and it ran through his blood at what he saw as undeniable betrayal. There weren’t any kisses to sooth him, there wasn’t the scent of perfume to settle him, there was only the quiet and the emptiness, the taste of whiskey on his tongue, and it really shouldn’t have been any wonder that Patrick chose not to take defeat lying down.

Defeat because that was how he felt. Beaten by his own foolhardy expectations, a loser of his future and bereft of his other half. He was cut on the pieces of his broken marriage, but he would not, could not, lose his son. If Hilda wanted to run away, fine, she was an adult and that was her right to try pretending like she’d never chosen him over her last name, but Patrick would be damned before he left Hilda do the same thing for their child.

He sold everything. The cottage they lived in, the vase he bought her the first time he brought home flowers, even his wedding ring was passed out to help collect as much money as Patrick could be after all, Hilda had made it clear their marriage didn’t mean anything to her, so he might as well get as much out of the ruins she’d left as he could.

It wasn’t that chasing after her would cost that much, but it was after he arrived in England that Patrick worried about. It would cost money to stay there while he fought her and it would take even more money to try getting hold of his son because Patrick didn’t have any doubt that Hilda would use the funds at her disposal to keep him and bay and that meant he would need to be ready for that, he wasn’t going to be caught off-guard and locked out of his son’s life just because her background was wealthy. 

Patrick was certain he would never be a railway worker, but he would if that’s what it took. He would work on the tracks of the Hogwarts Express even if he resented it, that was how badly he wanted his son back. It didn’t come to that, instead he found a home in the struggling pub known as the Three Broomsticks thanks to the business suffering after the owner’s murder a year later, but that one stroke of lucky wasn’t much comfort.

Sure, he had a job and a place to sleep above the pub, but he still didn’t have his son and he didn’t think he’d ever have his wife back. Patrick should have known from childhood that some things were too good for him, but he knew beyond doubt that he wasn’t too good for anything if it meant having Seamus back.

CONNECTIONS:

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Ex-wife, still loves

Leona Podmore: Friends

Omar Santiago: Sympathized with by

Caleb Goldstein: Hates

Oberon Marchbanks: Eemies, finds arrogant

CLOSED · PENNED BY CL

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YAEL ODGEN

Occupation: Up to player Age: 26 Gender: Female Blood status: Pureblood Allegiance: Death Faceclaim: Inanna Sarkis, Mina El Hammani, Ayça Ayşin Turan

Your mother had to be drunk when she decided to marry your father. Either drunk or pregnant or both because you never could figure out why anyone would want to tie themselves to that man while you were growing up, but you were certain he deserved death long before you ever lost your mother. He was your motivation in the worst kind of way and every time you see his name on a bottle of booze, you remember your dedication to making sure the world is rid of men like him.

HISTORY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Oswyn Dawlish: Hates

Imogen McLaggen: Very close

Cassidy Runcorn: Exasperated by

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Worries for

Cyril Corner: Wary of

Oberon Marchbanks: Owed a debt by

Alecto Carrow: Friendly

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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SILAS PODMORE

Occupation: Up to player Age: 34 Gender: Male Blood status: Halfblood Allegiance: Neutral Faceclaim: Jai Courtney, Scott Eastwood, Chris Hemsworth, Max Riemelt

Everyone is being divided into groups these days and it makes them so transparent, easy to predict because everyone follows a set of guidelines determined by the type of person they are and they think everyone else does, too. You know what people see when they look at you, someone that’s made up of brawn instead of brain and everyone underestimates you because they’ve assigned your role, they never realize how smart you are or how much attention you’re paying to things they don’t know you can see. Just because you’re not fighting doesn’t mean you’re not dangerous because knowledge is power and you’re not going to be caught unaware.

HISTORY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Felix Moore: Looked up to by

Valdis Hawthorne: Friends

Leona Podmore: Siblings

Asher Westenberg: Disapproves of

Charity Burbage: Respects

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Looks out for

Imani Diggle: Treated bitterly by

Oberon Marchbanks: Inseparable friends

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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YOSHI HAYASHI

Occupation: Up to player Age: 25 Gender: Male Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Yoshizawa Ryo, Shiraishi Shunya, Higashide Masahiro

Hard work and perseverance are what it takes to be recognized and get places in life. You keep your mouth shut, do your job, and eventually you’ll climb over people until they’re jumping out of your way to save their own skin, that’s a fact of life that won’t disappear because there’s always been a pecking order on the food chain. People say you’re severe and they call you intense, but you’ve found a man using his power to clear a trail to glory and you’re not ashamed of being second in command, you’re going to follow right behind.

HISTORY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Falan Abbot: Scares

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Distrusted by

Haruha Utada: Cousins

Nicholas Chastain: Blackmailing

Bianca Edgecombe: Friendly with

Bellatrix Lestrange: Becoming friends

Emi Amano: Blamed by

Kyo Amano: Looked up to by

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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IMOGEN MCLAGGEN

Occupation: Up to player Age: 25 Gender: Female Blood status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Faceclaim: Conor Leslie, Alycia Debnam Carey, Ivana Baquero, Emilija Baranac

The problem with being told you’re cute and special your entire life isn’t the confidence that comes with it, but the danger of beginning to believe you’re better than anyone else. The word charm was made for you and thinking you’re a princess only instilled in you the idea that having people beheaded was your right. The dark lord may not know your name yet, but you’re sure you’ll have your throne one day.

HISTORY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Oswyn Dawlish: Fancied by, enjoys the attention

Cassidy Runcorn: Former friends with benefits

Yael Odgen: Very close

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Friends

Constance Corner, Cyril Corner: Looks down on

Xavier Flint: Suspected by

Andromeda Black: Pitied by

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NICHOLAS CHASTAIN

Occupation: Con artist Age: 22 Gender: Male Pronouns: He/Him Blood Status: Pureblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Maxence Danet-Fauvel

Troublemaker. That’s how people brand you and one flash of your smile gives away why, but it never stops anyone from falling for it. It’s almost boring, really, how no one would ever give you a challenge, but then you realized you were thinking too small. A person is just a person, easily swayed by your looks and bad boy ways, but helping a dark lord overthrow a government? Well, that might actually be interesting for a while.

HISTORY:

Nicholas has been bored since he came out of the womb. Hell, he was probably bored in the womb. Regardless, what he knows for sure is that he’s been disappointed in the world for as long as he can remember. Even as a child nothing was big enough, or grand enough, or unexpected enough to hold his attention. Life was predictable: have Nate follow him around and copy him, badly, then get yelled at by their mother for flicking his cereal at the old family cat, and then listen to her sigh about the consequences of raising children without a father, and then be told to go outside and amuse himself until it was dark.

By the time he got to school he’d exhausted every avenue of mischief he could find in their home city. He’d finally pushed the friendly family cat into biting him- it turned out that the eight-hundredth grain of cereal was one too many-, he’d wrecked at least a dozen friendships among the children who lived in their area, and successfully stolen at least one item from every single store in the local mall. Around Christmastime he’d even convincingly played at a street urchin and gotten a few euros pressed into his grubby hands, which he promptly spent on butterscotch for himself and Nathan. Their mother despaired of him, and continually blamed her absent husband for the lack of discipline among her sons. She couldn’t have known that Nicholas had been born that way- or at least, that he’d viciously deny having ay issues or lingering feelings about the absence of a father. One can’t have issues with someone if the someone in question was never really there, right?

            Beauxbatons was a change. The uniforms were crisp and everyone looked rich in them. He finally got to learn how to use his magic. There were whole new levels of chaos to explore. All it took was a subtle hex here, a wordless jinx there, and he got to lounge in the background while events unfolded, all of them more interesting than what was happening in his classrooms. He couldn’t even really be blamed for what people did, after all; he’d just given them a push. They were the ones who settled on a direction. He only began to calm down after his first two years, when Nathan joined him and he got his shadow back. Everything got a little less boring with his little brother around, but the lull didn’t last long. In his seventh year he took one look at the adoring way Nathan’s girlfriend looked at his brother, and wondered if she was really as besotted as she seemed. The idle curiosity gnawed at him until it couldn’t remain idle.

            Nathan found them kissing in library and didn’t do anything at all, just walked away, even when his girlfriend started crying. That was when Nicholas truly understood that his brother just couldn’t be pushed like other people. Maybe that was how Nathan was special- Nicholas was always bored and searching, but Nathan simply stayed the course and observed.

            Nicholas graduated with a black hole in his heart. It was a miracle he graduated at all, considering how often he’d end up in muggle jails on school nights, or caught after hours in places he shouldn’t be. As the years went on he learned better and better how to hide his involvement in major incidents, but he still had petty, impulsive moments of boredom where he couldn’t stop himself from doing something, even when people were watching. He smuggled in muggle cigarettes and didn’t comment when Nathan started smoking them too. He framed classmates for petty pranks. He rode a motorcycle at full speed down country lanes just because he could and sometimes it almost felt like flying, even though it usually ended up with him getting chased- and caught- by muggle cops.

            His mother finally snapped. He’d pushed and pushed and discovered her breaking point a month after he graduated. She’d set him up with a desk job and said it was time for him to make something of himself. He was dismissed a week later for setting fires in his colleague’s trash cans when people weren’t looking, and that night he was arrested again. By that point, though, he’d decided that normal life just wasn’t for him. The world was boring. People were boring. France was boring. He was going out of his skin looking for new ways to keep himself occupied, and when he heard about a brewing conflict in England he knew he’d find something interesting there. Besides, his mother had decided she was tired of putting up with the demon in her house, and Nathan was coming with him- of course Nathan was coming with him, as if that was ever even question- so everything had to work out fine.

            If pressed, Nicholas would admit that he doesn’t have any particular feelings about muggles, or blood purity, or even creatures. He went to school with several half- and quarter-veela, after all, and werewolves are only werewolves once a month for twelve hours, which is hardly the scariest thing in the world. But the Death Eaters were curious about his mind and his skills, and he was curious about being part of something bigger. What would happen if he took the Dark Mark, stood behind a legion of men and women determined to change the world, and just- pushed?

He took the mark. He put his skills to good use, charming and smuggling and lying, making mischief as a professional con in the Dark Lord’s service. All of British society was open to him with the new connections he had. He had his shadow by his side, and endless opportunities in a new country, with new chances. He’d never be bored again.

CONNECTIONS:

Nathan Chastain: Brother

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Dislikes

Iliana Solace: Used to date, now hated by

Yoshi Hayashi: Being blackmailed by

Frank Longbottom: Had a run in with.

Wolfgang Selwyn: Friendly with

Cyril Corner: Taking advantage of

CLOSED · PENNED BY PHOEBE

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SILAS PODMORE

Occupation: Up to player Age: 34 Blood status: Halfblood Allegiance: Neutral Faceclaim: Jai Courtney, Scott Eastwood, Chris Hemsworth, Max Riemelt

Everyone is being divided into groups these days and it makes them so transparent, easy to predict because everyone follows a set of guidelines determined by the type of person they are and they think everyone else does, too. You know what people see when they look at you, someone that's made up of brawn instead of brain and everyone underestimates you because they've assigned your role, they never realize how smart you are or how much attention you're paying to things they don't know you can see.

BIOGRAPHY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Felix Moore: Looked up to by

Valdis Hawthorne: Friends

Leona Podmore: Siblings

Asher Westenberg (Fled): Disapproves of

Charity Burbage: Respects

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Looks out for

Imani Diggle: Treated bitterly by

Oberon Marchbanks: Inseparable friends

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CALEB GOLDSTEIN

Occupation: Portrait Artist Age: 30 Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Freddie Fox, Jesse Rath, Ronen Rubinstein

The thing is, you've never thought of yourself as a bad guy. You don't look like a bad guy, everyone you meet compares you to a puppy and yet you know that in the eyes of your family, your beliefs are wrong. You grew up hearing about Grindelwald's time in America as well as how your cousins were there, as if it matters when you've never met them. Everyone was so proud of you when you decided to go to Britain for the war, you just never said what side you were joining.

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CONNECTIONS:

Rosa Lee Xiadani: Hated by

Monika Klein: Avoided by, misses

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Pretending to date

Patrick Finnegan: Intimidated by

Luka Petrov: Trying to befriend

Pippa Strout: School enemies

Oswyn Dawlish: Friends

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HILDA DAGNA FINNEGAN

Occupation: Up to player Age: 27 Blood Status: Pureblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Elena Satine, Holland Roden, Rose Leslie, Eleanor Tomlinson 

You should have listened to your mother, that Finnegan man wasn't any good and you never should have ran off with him, you shouldn't have gotten pregnant, you shouldn't have done any of the things you did until you left him. You were too ashamed to go home, so instead you fled to family in London with a baby on your hip, thinking you'd be safe from him there because you were a pureblood and he was only a muggleborn. You thought you'd be free in a war zone, but he never did what he should have, either - it's why you fell in love.

BIOGRAPHY:

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CONNECTIONS:

Patrick Finnegan: Ex-husband, still loves

Silas Podmore: Looks out for her

Nicholas Chastain: Dislikes

Yoshi Hayashi: Doesn’t trust

Caleb Goldstein: Pretending to date for her image

Imogen McLaggen: Friends

Yael Odgen: Worried for by

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