#so that's why he just automatically remarked that he feels like overall the Sins are generally easy for him to get along with

[soulsxng]

Pythius, any plans to let Deianeira off you?

@arcxnumvitae (mentions @thewolfisawake's muse!) | Relationships | Accepting!

"No, I don't have any plans to let anyone kill me any time soon. Ask me again in another few centuries, and we'll see if anything has changed, yeah? Anyway, the fact that she was so quick to say she wanted to spill my blood was fun. Refreshing. A lot of people are usually too afraid of me to want to fight me for the hell of it, after all, let alone tease about it. Being that she is one of Hell's Sins, however, I expected that she'd be different than the demons I usually see from day to day...and she is. Like Soon-hee and Arya...and the rest of the Sins, for that matter, Deianeira is a pretty easy person to be around, so I'll spend time with her when she's up for it. Simple as that."

"I'd be happy to let her try on my life some other time, with that being said. Blood and sex tend to be equally good ways to get to know someone without getting too deep, yeah? So why not?"

[chocolate-chip-rookies]

NCT Angst Series: Taeyong

Prompt: “You said you’d always be there for me… so how did this happen? Why weren’t you there?”

Word Count: 1,448

Pronouns: Gender neutral; they/them/theirs

Trigger Warnings: Hints at death, mentions of vomit

“Taeyong?” (Y/n) asked, treading into the kitchen. They knew he wouldn’t be in there - they couldn’t hear the kettle boiling, which they always did first thing in the morning - but they’d found themself asking for him a lot lately when they entered rooms in their shared house. A force of habit that (y/n) still couldn’t get into control.

They’d always done it to prevent startling him, just in case he’d fallen asleep somewhere he hadn’t planned to. But he wasn’t in the kitchen, how could he be? He wasn’t anywhere anymore, which made the emptiness even more brooding.

Which meant (y/n) would have to make their own breakfast, something they’d become used to doing. Fine. Good, in fact, particularly this morning. They walked hotfoot to the garbage bin and crammed the plastic bag they were holding into it near the bottom.

“There,” they said to no one, and stood breathing for a second. Then they dipped their head and said, “Breakfast.”

Some bread in the toaster, some cereal in a bowl, some juice in a glass, and they were ready to go, sitting down at the minimal table in the kitchen to feed. Taeyong used to have his own bread and cereal which he bought at a health food shop in town and which (y/n) was pleased they didn’t have to share. It tasted as miserable as it looked.

They gazed at the clock. Thirty-five minutes before they had to leave. They were already in their work uniform, their backpack packed for the day and waiting by the front door. All things they’d usually not do for themself but did.

They sat with their back to the kitchen window, the one over the sink that looked out onto their modest back garden, across the train tracks and up to the mountain with its array of tomb graves.

That’s where he is.

(Y/n) took another bite of their cereal. Their crunching the only noise in the whole house.

Hina was walking back to her dorms. Alone. Late at night. She arrived at a deserted crossroads.

In one moment, every drop of blood in her body was caused to halt by the contact of a hand attached delicately and abruptly on her shoulder from behind her.

She turned on the instant, with her fingers securing themselves around her phone in her pocket.

There, in the middle of the broad night-lit high-road - there, as if it had that moment vaulted out of the earth or transported from the heavens - stood the shape of a solitary man, preened from head to foot in black, a hoodie covering the majority of the stranger’s face, misshapen in grave inquiry on Hina, his hand pointing to the dark shadow over the sky, as Hina faced him.

Hina was far too remarkably startled by the suddenness with which this epic apparition stood before her, in the dead of night and in that barren place, to ask what he wanted. The unknown man communicated first.

“Is that the road to Myeongdong?” he said.

Hina looked far too attentively at him, as he put that singular query to her. It was then nearly 1AM. All Hina could see distinctly by the moonlight was a colourless, youthful face, thin and undernourished, meagre and sharp to glimpse at about the cheeks and chin; and a pair of shaky, chapped and uncertain lips. There was nothing unwise, nothing immodest in his manner: it was calm and self-controlled, a little gloomy and a little affected by suspicion, not undoubtedly the manner of a gentleman, and, at the same time, not the manner of a man in the humblest rank of life. The voice, faint amount that she heard of it, had something curiously familiar and automatic in its effect, and the utterance was remarkably rapid, as if trying to not be heard. His gait, manner of walking, and actions free from the slightest approach of extravagance. This was all that she could witness of him in the dim light and under the disconcertingly strange circumstances of their meeting. What sort of a man he was, and how he came to be out desolate in the high-road, an hour after midnight, she overall failed to predict. The one thing of which she felt certain was, that the grossest of mankind could not have misapprehended his motive in talking, even at that suspiciously old hour and in that suspiciously secluded place.

“Did you hear me?” he gushed, still peaceful and rapidly, and without the least fretfulness or frustration. “I asked if that was the way to Myeongdong.”

“Yes,” Hina replied, “that’s the way: it leads to the city centre. Excuse my not answering before. I was surprised by your sudden appearance in the road; and I am, even now, quite unable to account for it.”

“You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you? I have done nothing to sin. I have met with an accident - I am very inapt in being here alone so late. Why do you suspect me of doing crime?”

He spoke with purposeless intensity and worry, and shrank back from Hina several paces. She did her best to reassure him.

“Don’t imply that I have any idea of suspecting you,” Hina jested, “or any other command other than to help you. I only wondered of your appearance in the road, because it appeared to me to be empty the instant before I saw you.”

He turned, and pointed back to a place at the junction of the road to Myeongdong and the road to Insadong, where there was a chasm in the hedge.

“I heard you coming,” he said, “and enshrouded myself there to see what sort of a person you were, before I chanced speaking. I wavered and feared about it until you passed; and then I was obliged to steal after you, and poke you.”

Steal after her, and poke her? Why not call to her? Strange, to say the least.

(Y/n) mumbled in annoyance to themself, walking into the house, laying their keys on the desk next to the front door. They didn’t need to hold it in anymore, all of the guilt, all of the frustration they were storing in their body was trickling down their cheeks in the form of liquid emotion.

Once the faucet was relaxed, though, it wouldn’t tighten.

Years of tears, finially seeing the light of day.

But crying wasn’t enough to quench (y/n)’s emotions. Oh no, along with the crippling sadness there was also the overwhelming emotions of fear, guilt, anger. Anger. So much anger.

Anger because he left, left them alone to fend for themself when he had explicitly promised to see them through everything life could throw, promised to be there when work got too unbearable, promise-

Everything stopped with a short scream and a fist to a wall.

Punching a wall doesn’t do anything, it just moves the pain from your head to your hand, the back to your head when you hand heals.

“You said you’d always be there for me… so how did this happen? Why weren’t you there?”

Any movement was stopped by the ringing of (y/n)’s phone. Ningning. If anybody could make (y/n) feel better right now, it could be her. But before they could say anything, Ningning was already speaking down the phone to them.

“(Y/n)? Hina’s just made it home, she’s shaking like crazy and she’s muttering something about Taeyong. She keeps saying she saw him and how she’s seen a ghost? She’s 100% convinced it was him, it can’t be though? (Y/n), I’m really scared, I don’t know what to do… Irene wants to talk to you, I’m going to pass the phone over now.”

“(Y/n), Hina’s crying so much and she’s irresponsive. It’s like she can’t hear anybody, but she keeps whispering “ghost, ghost, ghost”. Herin and Lami are getting things like blankets for her but nothing seems to be doing anything, can you please help us?.. (Y/n), are you there?.. Are you okay?”

Any attempt Irene made to make (y/n) speak up ran futile, as they couldn’t hear her. They had dropped their phone and ran into the kitchen, opting to vomit into the sink instead of the hallway floor. The wretching the only noise in the whole house.

[r-o-se]

Produce 101 S2 Episode 9 summary nice nice very nice 10/10

first off the eliminated trainees and LAST SEASON TRAINEES got more screentime than half of the trainees lkrjelj im so mad lol anyways lets do this jake paulers

1.      Oh nice we start with flashback scenes from the last elimination great good amazing I love pain

2.      BoA back at it again with giving kids heart attacks

3.      Oh my fucking god WHAT they’re…. They’re changing the number of debuting people*? Why? What? They’re revealing it after this evaluation…. Why….

4.      Anyways the benefit is 220k votes, 100k for the member who brought in most votes and 20k for the rest PLUS the winning team will get to present their song on MCountdown

5.      Open up team lost so many members they’re left with only 4,everyone from Daniks training group got eliminate. I know you know and Showtime also need one extra member

6.      Oh Little Girl and Never are going to vote people out from the team and the teams that lack members are going to choose new members from the ones who got voted out

7.      Everyone are trying to save their asses to satay in their teams now

8.      Oh my fucking god Minhyun just shaded Haknyeon lmaooo

9.      ‘Ong why did you move are you uncomfortable?’ ‘What am I, an amateur?’

10.   Open up only has Baekho, Danik, Kenta and Yongguk right now

11.   Moonbok gets eliminated from Oh Little Girl riperoni poor dude

12.   Sungwoon, Haknyeon, Youngmin and Seonho get eliminated as well

13.   I feel so so sorry for Seungwoon he tries so hard and his vocals are AMAZING and he looks super cute and is so determined with his skills and he is a great dancer but people won’t fucking give him attention please take better care of my boy he is so cute and so skilled

14.   They actually chose Guanlin over Sungwoon. Why. I love Guanlin but Sungwoon is so much more skilled. This hurts. Let my boy be center. Let my boy sing. L

15.   LMAO THEY DEADASS ELIMINATED SUNGWOON SO THEYD HAVE MORE SINGING PARTS COME THE FUCK ON

16.   Danik will choose people now, he picks Seonho, Youngmin and Haknyeon. Why Haknyeon. Pick Sungwoon. Why does no one like Sungwoon. Let Sungwoon sing. Bitch

17.   Jisung chooses Sungwoon as his vocal and Moonbok automatically goese to I Know You Know

18.   TAEHYUN EXPOSED SUNGWOON THAT HE HATED THE SHOWTIME SONG AAAHAHAHAHHA

19.   Oh Little Girl team is sad and moping and choose the center from Ren and Jihoon. Ren really wants it and honestly he has a good reason to be it since Jihoon is popular and not in danger at all

20.   SOMEONE WROTE JIHOON DOWN AS PARK WINK HOW CUTE AKJGRNK

21.   Anyways they do a blind written vote and Ren became center WOOO BABE GOOD GOING!!!

22.   They have another nemesis as well, Gunhee vs Sewoon for main vocal

23.   Sewoon has never been main vocal apparently??? What is this blasphemy??? Blocked LET HIM SING BUT ALSO LET GUNHEE SING HE IS IN DANGER IM CONFUSED AND SAD

24.   They did a blind vote, Baejy was thee only one who voted for Gunhee, others for Sewoon and Sewoon got the main vocal part. Gunhee takes the sub-vocal part from Baejy

25.   Sungwoon just expressed his heartbreak over being rejected by the Never team, people are laughing with him, offering him the leader spot and he’s like ‘Weeeeeeellll I’d like to be center actually J’ FEARIJKJFEKR I LOVE MY BOY Jisung and Samuel got heart attacks from that I swear to god

26.   Taehyun keeps giving him small snide remarks and it’s BEAUTIFUL let Hotshot live

27.   Anyways the Showtime center is Samuel rip Jisung and Sungwoon

28.   IM CRYING JISUNG TOOK OFF HIS CENTER STICKER AND SUNGWOON PICKED IT UP AND STUCK ON HIMSELF LET MY BOY BE CENTER I BEG PLEASE PLEASE

29.   Sammy boyo has problems reaching the high notes poor baby

30.   HYUNBIN BAB VOLUNNTEERS AS LEADER FOR I KNOW YOU KNOW AND EVENTHO DONGHYUN VOLUNTEERS AS WELL HYUNBIN GETS THE SPOT DO WELL BABE I LOVE U

31.   I hope Donghan can stay center this dude is so good hearted and gorgeous but low ranked he deserves better NVM RIP taedong is center

32.   Kenta and Seonho and Haknyeon all volunteer as Open Up centers

33.   FHRAEID THEYRE DOING THE CRINGEFEST OF FACIAL EXPRESSION COMPETITION SAVE ME

34.   It looks like Youngmin has adopted Seonho this is cute as fuck he keeps asking how others think about him

35.   They are blind voting again, Baekho, Yongguk and Danik choose Haknyeon, Youngmin and Seonho Kenta but….. Yongguk is like…. Entirely edited out from here lol what did he do @MNET STOP HATING ON CHILDREN but at least Kenta has screentime it’s the small things that matter

36.   Haknyeon has a loooot of problems with both choreo and singing and Baekho is guiding him a lot this is so cute ajeofljlkeslvnl

37.   Anyways Never is practicing and Minhyun gets chosen to be the center literally everyone are favouring him

38.   Never team are doing reallllllly well, they have no aired problems lol

39.   Ong is dumb as fuck and just claps slates thanks Mnet true quality content we all needed

40.   Rlaejfoaiejsof Big Woojin is filming Jonghyun who’s like ‘DON’T AIR THIS’ lol too late babe

41.   Someone nominate Woojin for the best cameraman those clips are SO GOOD LET THAT BOY DEBUT

42.   This team is so pure seriously

43.   They are preparing for the stage everyone look so good this is SINFUL KANG DANIEL SIT YO ASS DOWN

44.   THEY SHOWED JINWOO!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!!! AND TAEWOONG AND JAEHAN!! MMO LIVES!! SUNGWOO IS THERE AS WELL

45.   Sammy bab is so taken aback by the crowd aw also seriously Jinwoo has gotten more screentime here in the crowd than the rest of the show combined

46.   Anyways back to practicing Triple H is there and literally everyone get so giddy when they see Hyuna SAME TBH but yeah all producers are there

47.   Showtime team really fuckin kills it during the showcase for the producers and Sammy babe gets praised a lot I’m HAPPY!!!

48.   Showtime stage is ALIVE and OH MY GOD!!!!!!! HOTSHOT BOYS!!!! LOOK SO GOOD!!!!!! PEACHY SUNGWOON AND ASHY TAEHEYUN!!!!!! THIS IS WHAT LIVING IS ALL ABOUT

49.   Fiaerjofiej they show the last season trainees more often than they show some of the current ones like damn u ever heard of Kim Yongguk?

50.   Showtime stage was SO LIT AND HAD SUCH GOOD VIBES!!!!!! THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD TAEHYUN GOT HIS DUMB LIL TONGUE OUT AND SAMMY DID THE RABBIT POSE

51.   Next up is I Know You Know and ppl are cheering really loudly for Hyunbin my heart hurts thank u everyone for loving my tall child

52.   This teams mood is pretty low since they’re all really low ranks I hope they can do alright

53.   The fucking slurping noses they record need to ALL be deleted and burned

54.   The producer for I Know You Know is suuuuuper tight up lol and wants everyone to be perfect BUT HE PRAISES HYUNBIN!!!!!!!! GOOD BABY IM PROUD!!! GOOD KID!!!!!

55.   Akaefhkdifhaseoifd all trainers are praising Hyunbin this feels like heaven I’m crying

56.   This team has the ‘we are probs gonna be eliminated anyways so let’s just have fun’ mentality and honestly? I love it good luck kids love ya do well

57.   Sunghyuk is so cute I can’t get over this small byoo and then theres Hyunbin whose legs are like what two meters long

58.   OPEN UP OPEN UP OPEN UP WOOOOOOOOOOO MY BOYSSS THEY SHOWED MMO YEEE

59.   Haknyeon is really lacking so they gotta change the center. Even Seonho can do it (the choreo and vocals at the same time) so anyways Yongguk is the center now but they didn’t even say his name jesus damn

60.   Never stage is a goddamn bedroom and Seonho pushed Kenta onto a bed and straddled him BOI WYD UR LIKE 12

61.   DANIEL KANG IS ILLEGAL!!!! FUCK THAT GUY!!!!!!! KANG DONGHO WHO!!!!! NOONE THEY CAN GO FUCK RIGHT OFF

62.   BAEKHOS VOCALS!!!!!! BRUH!!!!!

63.   KENTA GETTING ACTUAL SCREENTIME!!!!!!! AS WELL AS MMO LMAO MNET WHY COULDN’T U SHOW THEM BACK WHEN THEY WERE IN  THE SHOW

64.   It’s time for Oh Little Girl ye boiiiiiiiii

65.   Afijoiajos Jihoon has a new aegyo oaireojfijw it’s the Jooheons baby voice gugugaga thing I for once support Park McWink

66.   Jihoon is dressed up in all pink while others are monochrome black and white aaaaahhahaha

67.   OLG team has some problems apparently plus the center is still not clear. Baejy has problems with his vocals and Sewoon is helping I’m glad

68.   Sewoon does really well and gets praised by the producers and hes all jumpy and cute lil baby overall EVERYONE are doing really well Baejy as well this is so cute what a pure recording session

69.   Minki has prorblems concentrating and Gunhee is being a bit shady and holy damn Jihoon fuckin slammed thhe door and walked out

70.   Sewoon followed him and Jihoon apparently finds the groups atmosphere problematic and Gunhee is like tell us whats wrong?? (To Ren) and Ren walks out and slams the door even harder holy fucking god

71.   AAAAHAHHAHAHAH THE DUMBOS GUNHEE WALKED INTO THE ROOM AND THE TWO IDIOTS HUGGED AND GIGGLED WHATS GOIN ON

72.   DUMBASSES THIS IS A HIDDEN CAMERA AS A BDAY PRESENT TO SEWOON AND PARK WINK

73.   Jihoon looks shook af and hides his face in hands and Sewoon doesn’t really realize what’s going on and just claps along and then falls on his back oigjrolawirjo SOFT KIDS

74.   ‘We slammed the door too, this will definitely get into the trailer’

75.   Is eating cake with chopsticks a thing people do

76.   Aejofiejwafofi Jihoon looks like a McDonalds mascot I’m cryin

77.   Gunhee looks SO GOOD! BRO WTF HYUNGSEOB AS WELL

78.   And Mnet did Ren’s visuals dirty as literally Always

79.   Oh my triple H are visiting the never team and everyone are dying inside

80.   Everyone are freaking out and Guanlin is like oh hyungs came lol

81.   Everyone love the Never team and tbh? They deserve it the song is great the team is good and everything just fits

82.   Guanlin took the Never team to Cube HQ everyone are like woaaaaaaahhhhhh holy shiiiiiiiiiiitttt

83.   His locker is messy as fuck lol clean after yourself boy

84.   Krehhfnlakjwef hes presenting his first evaluation choreo he did with Seonho and others are able to follow it right away this is so funny lol

85.   ERAFKLAEN THE CUBE CHICKS WERE SUPPPOSED TO DO THE EVALUATION WITH A TROUBLEMAKER COVER BUT DIDN’T BECAUSE THEIR SKILLS WERE TOO INCONSISTENT THIS IS SO FUNNY DUDE I SAW THE VID BUT I DIDN’T KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO AUDITION WITH THAT AGELRIJFAEL

86.   THE SLAPPING SOUNDS WHEN GUANLIN HITS SEONHOS BUTT BOI UR LIKE 12

87.   This team is so giddy at every single little compliment and they’re also treating them as equals not trainees

88.   JAEWHAN IS RAPPING WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! KIM JAEHWAN!!!! MY BOY!!!! GODDAMN

89.   What the fuck is Hyojong wearing does he even see behind his hat

90.   AEAAAHAHAHAHAHAH HYOJONG ASKED WOOJIN TO SIGH INTO THE MIC AS AN EXTRA EFFECT THIS IS SO FUNNY FUCK EVERYONE ARE SIGHING AND BREATHING REALLY LLOUD

91.   Minhyun looks so good he has everyone whipped

92.   Ongs ‘everytime, everywere’ is…….. wow…………. Fuck……………. Why is he in danger of dropping like seriously yall he’s so good

93.   The vid keeps freezing every few seconds I hate this I’m just tryna look at Kim Jaehwan is this too much to ask for

94.   HYUNA LOOKS AT GUANLIN WITH SO MUCH AFFECTION THIS IS SO PURE

95.   Woojin got so much praise by the trainees they personally went down to praise them

96.   The team that got last place is I know you know…….. it only got 83 votes I’m super emo…. They really deserved better this is so sad…. Showtime got fourth with 135, Oh Little Girl got third with 398

97.   The jumps in votes are so fucking massive it feels so humiliating to see them all laid out like this….

98.   Ong repeated his really very totally hella etc etc thing and then Baekho copied it but added Japanese and Chinese as well aaahahah what an intellectual

99.   ANYWAYS Never got second with 443 votes and Open Up first with 552 THE TEAM IS SO FUCKING SHOOK AND CHEERFUL AND BUBBLY I LOVE THIS I AM REALLY HAPPY AND APPARENTLY BAEKHO ADOPTED SEONHO TOO AND FUCK IM SO EMO THIS IS SO GOOD AND PURE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

100.   DANIK IS SO HAPPY AND SMILEY THIS IS SO PURE AND SWEET I LOVE THIS

101.   The overall first place got 205 votes….. the entire I Know You Know team together had 83 votes…….. The entire last row, people like Woodam and Yehyun with two votes, all on the last row have 2-12 votes this makes me so sad poor kids

102.   KENTA GOT RANKED LAST IN OPEN UP IM SAD anyways the others from last to first are Youngmin-Yongguk- Seonho-Haknyeon and they don’t say if the first is Daniel or Baekho it’s the battle of Kang D’s I’m mad lol

103.   ??????? They only revealed where Minhyun ranked what the hell anyways hes 12th L that’s one hell of a fall

[bloodroyalsrpg]

                                  RABASTAN LESTRANGE

♕ II: CHARACTER INFORMATION ♕

FULL NAME: Rabastan Haverill Lestrange

FACECLAIM: Gaspard Ulliel

DATE OF BIRTH: 10 April 1950

HOGWARTS HOUSE & YEAR: Slytherin 1961 to 1968

GENDER & PRONOUNS: Male. He / Him / His.

SEXUALITY / SHIPS / ANTI-SHIPS: Aromantic Bisexual. Much as I should probably put Rabastan/Chemistry here, the fact of the matter is that Rabastan fully expects and accepts the fact that sooner or later some poor pureblood brood mare is going to be thrown at him so that he can do his duty and populate the world with more little Lestranges etc etc etc. So Rabastan/Convenience is the ship to sail. 

OCCUPATION: Socialite (albeit one less keen to be discussed in the gossip columns than his peers). He is an amateur architect and was a professional boxer up until his 25th birthday.

ALLIANCE: Death Eater

POLITICAL VIEWS: Unabashed and volatile purist. Might as well have “Magic is Might” tattooed on his chest.

Hilariously, Rabastan, entirely straight facedly and with the blase of one remarking on the color of the sky, has frequently stated that he’s not biased. However it is often the case that those who feel the need to qualify that they “aren’t prejudiced or anything, but...” tend to be just that. Overall, it’s a spectacular lie, though not a deliberate one and therein betrays the empiricism with which he thinks about the world. In Rabastan’s mind, prejudice has nothing to do with the way he regards “mudbloods, muggles, and blood traitors”, it’s an issue of bald fact and therein are his protests and his vocal purism able to co-exist. Muggles are sub-human. End of story. In the case of one, Rabastan H. Lestrange, arguing that muggles are on the same level as wizards would be as successful as advocating that animals are on the equal standing as humans. Rebuttals that have feelings and build civilizations and cities are pointless; to draw from a exchange once held, “ants can build an anthill, that doesn’t mean they’re not insects.” 

When one has other’d muggles as thoroughly as Rabastan Lestrange has, muggleborns are an unacceptable infringement upon the natural world order. They shouldn’t exist. Certainly, they shouldn’t be inducted into the ranks of wizard-kind with open arms and all acceptance as if they were due a place here. Their blood is tainted and their inclusion in society is a contagion. 

On down the hierarchy...if pureblood are the template, half-blood are a mold with something subtle blemished in it. Unconsciously he’ll attribute any fault and flaw in talent or body with that hereditary dilution. His ideas about half-breed follow similar patterns. He doesn’t approve of werewolves and vampires and other “creatures” being brought into the ranks, and thinks it’s a joke to give them the idea that they have any sway.  

KNOWN FACTS: 

TRUTH.   Rabastan was expected to enter the Ministry after Hogwarts, but rebelled against paternal orders and entered the realm of sporting fights instead. He abruptly retired in 1970, after the death of his mother. 

FALSE RUMOR.  He was supposed to marry Andromeda Black, but was jilted when she eloped with the muggleborn Theodore Tonks.

 TRUTH.  He has an extremely contentious relationship with the Head of the DMLE's Auror Office and has been a prime suspect in several cases though never ones with substantive enough evidence to even warrent a questioning, let alone anything more definitive.

BOGGART: Rodolphus’ corpse.

In the interest of heading off any sentimentalists, it must be emphasized that this has nothing to do with affection or brotherly love. For all that Rabastan frequently can’t stand the old nag (or rather, one of the reasons for why he can’t), younger brother sees elder brother as invincible. Utterly. A frustrating but inescapable constant. A dead Rodolphus means something has gone very very wrong with the world. 

AMORTENTIA: Kindling after the fire's been put out. Air after it just snowed. Expensive perfume.

PERSONALITY TRAITS: At least four detailed personality traits

Cruel

Much of Rabastan’s perceived fanatical hatred of muggleborns springs from his tendency to be particularly cruel to anything less than pureblood. This is a textbook case of misattribution. Rabastan is cruel. Period. The fact that channeling his considerable penchant for ruthlessness into the offensive against "mudbloods and muggles" is more productive in the grand scheme of his ultimate goals is just convenient happenstance. One need look no further than his hard handling of Alecto Carrow to see that, when given license, Rabastan's brutality is enthusiastic and undiscerning. He naturally favors violence as a course over any other and while he knows that blood and pain isn’t always the best option he stands by the position that it’s always the fastest option.  

Temperamental

Beneath the brittle veneer of gentility bred into him by generations of self-proclaimed aristocrats, Rabastan is all sound and fury. As a Death Eater, he is a force of nature. Titanic boundless emotion and unashamed to show as much. With violence as his domain to control, it'd be simple to assume reckless, berserker rage on his end when it comes to fighting and leave it there. He's nothing so straightforward, so pat. Reality proves Rabastan to be a muddled study in duality. War itself is rarely anything personal; holding a grudge is not characteristic to Rabastan, nor niggling over personal annoyances. His moods and impulses are changeable, fickle, and rarely static. 

Irreverent

He lacks in respect or reverence for anything; even the Cause, his Lord, and his own narrow world view. Nothing is sacred, not even the things that he holds most important. He is sacrilegious and thoroughly stubborn. With few exceptions, trying to tell Rabastan what to do is a study in futility. Even asking him to do something for you is a useless endeavor unless you have a very excellent reason why he should, presented lecture style complete with well calculated statistics and visual materials.

Charismatic

If he were capable of letting himself out of his own head space a little more, Rabastan would make a superb leader. When he means to be, he is good with people. His social intuition and charm are one of the few edges he has on his prodigal brother. Young school aged Rabastan was a master of charming professors, but even when not exerting considerable effort, he has a magnetism that often comes pack and parcel with the irreverent and the impulsive. Broad grinning, good humored, and quick to laughter in the way that Rodolphus is decidedly not, when he’s in one of his oddly good moods Rabastan is an easy creature to get along with. At least until, eventually ( inevitably ), that latent brutality bleeds through.

Loyal

One is not elevated into the ranks of The Dark Lord’s inner circle without at least a certain degree of demonstrative fanatical devotion. For all that he is fickle and bitter, mocking and disrespectful, Rabastan is faithful down to the bone. If there is a sin in his own self-centric religion it’s betrayal. While it's a fair fear that Rabastan might stab you, one can at the least rest easy in the confidence that he won't stab you in the back.  

SPECIAL SKILLS: Rabastan is thoroughly a fighter, with magic and without. He excels, particularly, in wandless magic; something he considers the most primal example of proof in the power of pure blood and raw impact. He’s a remarkable artist (surprise!) and a mathematical savant, particularly in the areas of cartesian geometry.

BIOGRAPHY: It was decided, even before he was delivered screaming into the world, that the second child to come of Odilia and Rivalen Lestrange's union would be claimed almost entirely as his mother's. The firstborn, Rodolphus, was his father's son and the family's heir, and what maternal instincts Odilia had were not sated by the time her husband usurped his upbringing. And so Rabastan became hers rather than the family's; the mother-son bond was quickly sparked and forged into something so durable that the years did little in the way of lessening the attachment. His father, a hard disciplinarian, had denied Rodolphus such mothering, seeing it as a form of affection that would no doubt soften both the mind and constitution of the boy, and so automatically saw his second son as something inherently weaker due to an upbringing he himself had allowed to continue unchecked.

And thus the family lines were drawn. He's a greedy little brat, of course -- one who ultimately turns into a greedy bastard. (Though not little. Definitely not that.) Their father's attention is tantamount, is the moon to their mother's sea, the pull to all their tides. Rabastan demands their father's eyes, nudges Rivalen with baby-strong hands, callous adolescence, and finally sullen respect. He makes himself impossible to ignore by dint of being an obnoxious shit, grinning as though he owns an entire set of especially bad secrets, even as he bows his shaggy head and offers deference in place of snide asides. Deference from the younger Lestrange would look like rebellion on anyone else; he doesn't just walk the thin line, but bounds down its path: sure-footed, cocky, smiling the radiant smile which all but forces others to return it in kind. 

The template of Rabastan's relationship with his father was set; so too that of the fraternal dynamic, with Rabastan going on to make an art of swiping, prodding, and testing just how abundant Rodolphus' supply of stony-faced patience really was. Rivalen tries to whip it out of him. Second son laughs and laughs, smirking through rivulets of blood and tears to further rankle his father. Why? Because he can. Because he cares. Because insolence tastes coppery-sweet, and if he can't be the favorite son, then he'll damned well make himself unforgettable. In those long days of disobedience, he escapes by diving into his mother's cold heart. His first war is with his father. His mother, though -- soft but flinty Odilia -- she teaches him to reconcile for the greater good. He hides their lessons in his windstorm heart.

His tenure as a Hogwarts student was a matter of public record. Slytherin was both relief and annoyance, Rodolphus' own wearing of the green factoring into both, and Rabastan proceeded to forge a scholastic career in which he maintained the barest minimum of a relationship with his brother and while his instructors seemed at first reluctant to forget that he was Rodolphus’ younger sibling, but caved to the younger Lestrange’s unique brand of charm and incivility. He got into fights often and was immune to attempts at correction, but completed school for 5 NEWTs under his belt.

The question of his future thereafter was a terse discussion at family dinner table. A jeering statement that he was waiting for elder brother to set the standard and mother’s elbow jutting into the space between father and youngest son to keep them from crossing proverbial battle lines. True to his dedication to obstinacy, Rabastan’s course veers deliberately away from any trajectory intended by father or brother. Except in one area and that was swearing fealty to The Dark Lord. 

CONNECTIONS: 

Rodolphus Lestrange

As a babe and a boy, Rabastan assumes Rodolphus knows the way only a parent knows: everything, and everyone. He makes effort to be an occasional thorn in his brother’s side, a point of provocation and frustration because breaking that poker face would be the ultimate achievement. But in the end it all boils down to admiration, to idolization. In his own contrary, heavy-handed way, he needs his brother's grounding presence more than he will ever care to admit. At the end of the day, should he ever take his antics to far he’ll bend his pride enough to go to this man who will ever be the favorite, the wise one, the safe and strong one. Says "I'm sorry," says "brother", and they are mended.

Regulus Black

It seems like unsubstantiated suspicion, but Rabastan is all gut and instinct and his say Regulus Black lacks in conviction and cut-throat both. This generation of Blacks has as many traitors as they do members who stayed on the proper path and he’s waiting to see which way their no-longer-spare heir will tip the scales.