#me writing @ 4am: calm down u pretentious edgy fuck

[leonoraflint]

❧ there is a hole in my walls where your hands went through ❧

❝ In the wrong light, anyone can look like a darkness. ❞ CONOR LESLIE? No, that’s actually LEONORA “LO” FLINT. Only TWENTY FOUR years old, this RAVENCLAW alumnus works as a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR and is sided with the DOUBLE AGENTS. SHE identifies as a CIS WOMAN and is a PUREBLOOD who is known to be WRY, UNTRUSTING, and ABRASIVE but also PRAGMATIC, PERCEPTIVE, and FAITHFUL.

leonora “lo” flint is both flint and rowle, and there is duality in her bones

the truth is this: lo does not like bullies.

bullies are cowards at heart, and she does not lionise bravery, but she has always derided those who put others down for their own enjoyment — there is nothing superior in having to tear others down and claw your way to the top over their bodies

it’s for this reason that she’s never been notably pro or anti purists: she’s always been scornful towards those who were cruel and vindictive towards those based on their blood status, but she’s always been that to anyone with that sort of behaviour, and always called them out for the way they were doing things, not the why

she is not a purist, but the truth is complicated

case in point: she loves her family, and has a complicated relationship with them. purism is in their bones, runs through their family tree, and she grows up with it on all sides. it touches her particular unit less, but not extremely — eirianwen rowle and sabina flint are the most open-minded set in their families, but when they earn that title from being the only ones of the flints willing to take in the gryffindor, it’s a low bar. on every side, there is blood purity, and supremacy is the backdrop to lo’s life.

death tw // nowadays, on the flint side, sabina’s siblings are all death eaters — marcus, the eldest, was involved in minerva’s death; diana, the youngest, was involved in harry’s; and octavian, diana’s twin, is one of the right hands of the death eaters; and on eirianwen’s side, wes is a death eater, tactical like octavian, and not much older than lo herself. // end tw 

pregnancy tw // being the fucking extra purebloods they are, lo had to be both rowle and flint. blood is everything to these nutcases, and so wes’ father was the sperm donor and sabina carried the child. a younger lo got a certain satisfaction from knowing that, even if the other kids were brave enough to say something about her mothers, they couldn’t say anything about her blood, the currency that so many of them were taught to trade in. it’s not something that’s ever really affected her, except now, with her membership with the death eaters, being not only family but also blood has certainly helped her case // end tw

the thing with telling everyone off is that there is a certain ambiguity about it, a distance created between beliefs and perception, and it makes you a canvas, allowing for people to assume their own truths, their own expectations. there is a certain freedom in that.

she’s a private investigator, and that’s actually a lot of why she ends up as a double agent

some of it’s experience, sure — she’s picked up certain skills throughout her career, like how to move through crowds, how to listen without people noticing, how to shrug on and off personas and keep your selfhood tucked away — but some of it is the effect of the experience. she’s always had a knack for finding things, for seeing things, for thinking things through and using unorthodox methods, but she does not like bullies, and sometimes... well, in her job, you can see all ends of people, all the edges of humanity, and sometimes chase something for months on end without answers, and the truth is, it’s made her a bit jaded. tired, too.

jaded, on most people, looks like not believing anything can make a difference: with lo, it looks like believing in the worst in people, and, bizarrely, it’s what motivated her to help.

she looks at it like this: if people are as bad as she thinks, then the people fighting against the awful things need all the help they can get, because they’re already at a disadvantage. and maybe it’s a hopeless fight. maybe it’s something that lo shouldn’t bother with, because she knows her family, and to do so would absolutely be to risk her own life.

but lo has never liked bullies.

her relatives and names are, in theory, enough, but leonora flint does not take chances, and she also very actively, within their private familial circles, shifts more solidly towards her flint aunt and uncles, citing things like throwing in her lot with the favoured side, because marcus’ heir is going to be disinherited, and she says — why not decidedly make a stance now?

wes is an interesting figure. he is her cousin, closest in age to her on the rowle side, and she loves him, she does. he’s her half-brother technically, he’s her cousin in truth, he’s sharp and clever in ways she appreciates, cruel and dangerous in ways she doesn’t, and it does not matter if he has always been a constant in her life, because she knows him, and she knows if she slips up, if he gets suspicious, if he catches her... she’s dead, and she won’t even know it’s coming, because he’s clever enough to bide his time and play the long game, like a chess master setting up his board for his masterstroke play.

the truth is, there’s no winning. either she is caught, and she dies, likely at the hands of one of her many relatives (marcus or diana are likely to do it themselves... octavian or wes, however, might just plan it mercilessly, and get someone else to execute their will, and there is something worse in that), or she succeeds, she holds out until the war is over, until they’ve won, the order has won, and then she is alone: a double agent, not trusted by some of the order, and with no family left, because she has betrayed them, and the flints and rowles have their differences, but neither are forgiving.

she’s always been a bit sarcastic and acerbic to the surface, but she’s warm when you know her

the rowles are Welsh™ and they got terrible welsh names but thankfully they did not pass it on to their children (lo and wes got off a lot better than genie—iphigenia, honestly—or the branch that married into anothe rpureblood family with extremely cornish names), but to this day, lo prefers felinfoel if she’s ever at a pub, and ended up learning cymraeg amongst her other languages of study in her youth

has actually done some physical fight training since becoming a private investigator, but she doesn’t particularly publicise it (being able to throw a punch, however, is a useful skill)

not particularly an animal person

has a pinterest HERE

easily fed up w men

not very trusting at all, even before being a double agent, which has made it even harder than usual to express her emotions, especially about what she’s doing

so she buries it down a bit

particularly wrt her thoughts about betraying her fam, esp wes (the others are like, A Generation Older, but he’s around her age so), bc like... there’s literally nobody she would feel comfortable bringing it up with

very seriously considered how this could all easily lead to her potential death lmao

wes vs lo!! let’s go!!

character parallels: jessica drew (marvel); rosa diaz (b99); baz grimm (carry on); magenta (sky high); zoë nightshade (pjo); lola drake (the drake chronicles)

it’s 5:45 am what the fuck ok i’mma post this and try hit the hay <3 hopefully it makes sense!!!