#thorley greengrass

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Okay, so how does Thorley interact with people? Two ways, either he tries to be charming and falls flat on his face or he gives zero fucks about whatever the hell you are talking about. Depends on his mood. Either way, he is an awkward lemon through and through.

Charming Thorley:

thinking: “oh shit oh shit oh shit what am i doing????”

Zero Fucks Thorley:

thinking: “just gonna nope outta this situation”

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Thorley Greengrass

➛House: Ravenclaw ➛Year: Seventh ➛Family: Pureblood ➛Face: TBD

It’s sick that all these battles are what keeps me satisfied.             -- (x) The ends justify the means             -- Machiavelli No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism             -- Emily St. John Mandel

Logic and citron, Thorley had stopped actually trying in class about four years ago. Sure, he did the assignments, he took the tests, he scored near perfect on all of them. Hogwarts was supposed to be a challenge but his pleasure reading would send Professor Slughorn into a confused stupor. Not that that was saying much. Thorley simply wasn’t challenged and he sat in class bored out of his mind, praying for graduation so he could do something useful with his time.

Like perhaps track down Grindelwald. It was ambitious, but he’d been tracking his movements for almost two years just for this very reason. Thorley did the arithmancy in his fifth year - this constant overflow into muggle society, muggle bedrooms, would cause the wizarding line to die out. They needed to stay within the pureblood circles if magical children were to be assured. The muggleborns could not be allowed to continue enjoying the benefits of the magical society. He wasn’t uncaring, he was logical. Sometimes difficult choices have to be made in order to benefit the greater good.

                    The role of Thorley Greengrass is currently closed.

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◮: My muse gets possessed

Walburga was minding her own business, walking down the corridor, about to head back to the dungeon. She had just finished the round as Head Girl, and to her surprise no one had been out and about, doing things they weren’t supposed to. It almost disappointed her, actually. 

What was that?  The Black heiress stopped dead in her tracks. A shadow, and it was nearing her. “Who’s there?” she questioned, her voice firm, cold, sharp. No reply, no nothing. The brunette realized she must of just imagined the whole thing. It was getting too late. She continued her route, towards the cold depths of the Slytherin dungeons. The nasty feeling wouldn’t peel off her, however. 

Thorley Greengrass. Bloody hell. “Greengrass, where the fuck did you come from?” she hissed. For once in her life, she actually looked…not quite scared but not far from it. She shook it off in a second though. He had appeared all out of nothing though. The Ravenclaw never replied to her. “What’s your deal, Greengrass?” she spat. It was then she actually realized that Greengrass looked…different? His usual awkward, at times clumpsy self was missing and he stood straight, giving her a stare that could give her a run for her money. 

The man moved, in a confident manner she had never seen in him before, and he was moving closer to her. Walburga held her head high, but she didn’t look nearly as confident as she wanted to. Something was definitely wrong. “Move it, Greengrass.” she ordered him, but the only reply she got, was a smirk. A bloody smirk!  She had never seen the man smirk once truthfully. Now he looked….malicious. 

“What’s wrong? You look uncomfortable.” he finally spoke and that voice was certainly not Greengrass voice. It sounded dead. Before she even got to say something, the man’s eyes changed. His usual eyes turned black. Utterly, completely black.  A gasped rang through the empty corridor and Walburga was about to run. 

A cold hand wrapped around her wrist though, in a dead tight grip. Walburga was sure it would leave a bruise. “I honestly didn’t know I’d find so much hate inside this body, but he sure did hate you, Black. I’m sure he’ll thank me when I’m done with you.” Walburga gulped, and for the first time in her life, she felt honest terror hammering inside her chest and she realized that she might not be lucky enough to last until next morning. Fuck. 

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So I’ve been musing on Thorley’s ambition to track Grindelwald’s movements. Why did this start? Well, I think Thorley is fundamentally one of those people that never crosses the line into action. Let me explain. He has been doing all this research since probably third or fourth year on muggle blood and its affects on the magical community, and, despite finishing the majority of the research, he hasn’t published his findings. Why? Well, this is a question of his personality. I think it’s not because he is a private person who doesn’t want to share his findings with anyone else, and I don’t think it’s because he isn’t confident in his research either. It is because he knows that unless you put a powerful figure in front of an idea, no one will hear the message clearly. He has been waiting and watching for such a figure that is worthy of his research. So far, the only one that has come close is Grindelwald, an international Dark Lord figure. Going back to “never crosses the line into action”, it’s not that Thorley doesn’t want to save the magical world, he just knows logically that he isn’t the figurehead that is going to be the hero. He knows his own role in this master plan and it’s not at the front lines. Additionally, I think secretly Thorley doesn’t know how to function within split second reactions. He needs time to think, weigh the pros and cons, make a plan, and use logic. Instinct and emotional responses? He believes using those are weak habits. Intellectually, I truly believe that Thorley could match a Dark Lord. However, power and charisma wise, he falls short. He is in this state of mind that he knows his research is good enough, but he himself isn’t good enough to make anything happen with it. It seems like a confidence issue, but it isn’t, it’s carefully analyzed logic; it’s knowing thy self.  

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Okay guys, I have this really dumb headcanon that Thorley IS a lemon. I was just imagining that since he likes lemon bars and he talks with pursed lips like he’s constantly eating lemons that he just BECAME a lemon one day. XD Like, if you had to assign him a fruit it would 100% no doubt be a lemon. He’s such a sour asshole sometimes cause he wants to be charming but all he is IS AN AWKWARD LEMON.

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Thorley Aesthetics

dozens of incomplete journals, messy bed, trying to get thoughts onto paper, 3am talks, constant fiddling, chewing on inside of cheek in concentration, quills scratching against parchment, picking at fingernails in boredom, avoidance of emotions, classical music, heavy rainfall against glass, cricking neck after hunching over a notebook for hours, denial of feelings, crisp new book pages, the greater good

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Thorley Bio 0-17yrs

0-10: Thorley’s childhood life was full of wide eyes and brilliant smiles. Listening to his mother sing to him in Italian, folk songs that her mother had taught her, and playing wizards and dragons with his father, in which father always was the mighty dragon, Thorley was a happy and adventurous child. Then he discovered another way to view the world, books. He consumed words faster than his favorite lemon bars, devoured letters quicker than his fastest broom. How the world worked, why people did the things they did, no question was unknowable, no equation unsolvable. These books were like guides on how to solve the puzzles of the universe, limitless knowledge in his grasp. Instead of going outside and exploring the forests, Thorley spent his days inside the family library reading. His sun-kissed skin faded, his bright smiles and sparkling wide eyes dimmed as he learned the sins of humanity, his mother’s songs lost their comfort and his father’s imaginary games became pointless. On the one hand, his parents were proud of their prodigy but on the other they mourned the loss of their warm-hearted child.

11-13: As Thorley entered Hogwarts, he became acutely aware that he was not like other children. Sure, there were studious and book loving children, but they didn’t see the world like he did. He saw the truth of the world. It was full of magic, yet it was stark and grey. Surprises felt like they didn’t exist anymore, or rather, they were pointless. It wasn’t that Thorley was an unhappy child, he just understood that happiness wasn’t the highest priority in life. Solve the puzzles, do the homework, score high on the tests, this was his world; a person’s worth was measured by test scores, and he wanted to be worth something.

13-15: It was in the winter of his third year that he discovered something that sparked a passion within him, gone was the dull tick-tock of his life and in its place a crackling fire began to burn. He knew that empires rise and fall, that powers overturn, this was the way of the world, but… his new found revelation was unacceptable. Magic, the constant force in the world that has been around since before the dawn of time, was dying. Poisoned by the non-magical humans in this world, their blood mixing with ours was dampening magical power and bloodlines were thinning. Not to mention sacred traditions were being replaced, rituals overwritten and forgotten, and pure magic was being tainted through poor regulation. He’d done the arithmancy work, if this intermingling with the muggles continued, magic would die out. Thus his mission started, to save the magical world. We would collect as much evidence as possible, do and re-do all the research, and read the data over and over until he was satisfied that it would change the world.

15-17: With his research nearing completion, Thorley finally admitted to himself that he was not going to change the world single-handedly. With all of his knowledge, his logical mind, the two things he lacked to make his project soar were: charisma and power. Although he was the heir to one of the sacred twenty-eight pureblood families, he did not have enough power to hold much sway over the magical community; in both political and magical power. He needed a charismatic captain to man his precious ship. Thus, his search began. At last, Thorley turned to a radical figure that was changing the world with terrorism; the Dark Lord Grindelwald. Honestly, he would rather change the world with a saner and less ruthless individual, but in order to accomplish his dream he needed the power and voice of a Dark Lord. Tracking Grindelwald’s movements wasn’t easy, but he was getting close to finding a pattern amongst the chaos.

17: Now in his seventh and final year at Hogwarts, Thorley has completely given up on appearing like he cares about school work; not that he lets his grades drop of course. Putting all his energy into finalizing his plan for presenting his research to Grindelwald, he waits for the perfect opportunity to make it all happen.

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Thinking about Thorley’s “greater good” moral, makes me wonder if he is so logical why does he want to interfere with history in the making? For example, it is logical, from my perspective, to let things change and develop naturally. That is how the world works, by going against the current you are just delaying the inevitable which is illogical. It is easy to fall into character types and tropes that squish you into two dimensional boxes. Humans are complex creatures that often contradict themselves. So when Thorley says he is completely logical in all ways, that isn’t true one-hundred percent of the time. He is still human, much as he is loath to admit sometimes, and he cares about his family and his community. Thorley has a heart whether he likes it or not. When he says he wants to eradicate muggle blood from the magical community for the greater good, it is both out of logic and out of love.

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“Everything interests me but nothing holds me” 

-Fernando Pessoa

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The first thing he hears is buzzing,

the constant white noise of knowledge

circling around in his brain.

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Finally, below are acceptances for our initial round. I am so thankful to each and every one of you that took the time to develop these characters and pour your time, effort, and soul into these applications. If you would like some feedback on why your application was not submitted, please feel free to send me a message. To those who were accepted - yay!! I hope to hear from you soon! Acceptances are listed in alphabetical order, with OCs last.

Congratulations SARAH, you have been accepted for the role of ALPHARD BLACK with the faceclaim of TBD. I really appreciated how in depth you went in your explore section, and how you related it to his family. I also really liked the quotes you linked to show what inspired you - I thought they captured his spirit so well! In addition, I’ll be sending you a private message to discuss his faceclaim. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations WHITNEY, you have been accepted for the role of AUGUSTA FAWLEY with the faceclaim of CELINA SINDEN. Seeing your development tp the strict grandmother we love from this young girl was such a pleasure. I love how you integrated the impact of of Alice/Frank on her, taking from the character you have into the adult we know. Also Celina Sinden, yaaaasss. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations LUCY, you have been accepted for the role of DELORA ROSIER with the faceclaim of NAOMI SCOTT or CAITLIN STASEY. The first link in your inspo section literally had me laughing out loud - perfect! I also really loved how her sister’s relationship is impacting how she sees the world as she grows up. Caitlin Stasey is one of my FAV fcs, but I thought Naomi worked very well as well, so you pick and just let me know. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations KIRSTEN, you have been accepted for the role of EUPHEMIA CURREN with the faceclaim of ANNALISE BASSO. I was so glad to see this application, and that she was your preference. Your description of her equating to holding sparklers was so on point, I loved it. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations KAT, you have been accepted for the role of FREYA SLOAN LESTRANGE with the faceclaim of MARIE AVGEROPOULOS. I adored the background you created for her, and how you made her Rab/Rod’s mother with so much pride they carry her last name. The variety of songs offered in the musings section also really helped round her out. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations TRISH, you have been accepted for the role of LORAINNE SHACKLEBOLT with the faceclaim of ZOE KRAVITZ. From the very first line when you compared Lorainne to Wonder Woman, I knew I was going to love this application. And a Joan of Arc quote for her? Omg, SOLD! I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations CY, you have been accepted for the role of LUCRETIA BLACK with the faceclaim of LORDE. The boggart you chose for her was so unique, I loved it! Also describing her as ‘practically hippy trash’ made me cackle and I cannot wait to see you bring that to life! I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations GEM, you have been accepted for the role of THORLEY GREENGRASS with the faceclaim of NICHOLAS HOULT. What I found so interesting in this application is the number of questions you asked about Thorley as a character, and then still didn’t answer all of them. It showed me that you’re questioning a lot about who he is and willing to really delve into him to discover where he’ll go. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations TOM, you have been accepted for the role of TOM RIDDLE with the faceclaim of TYLER YOUNG. So much of this app had me grinning like an idiot and ecstatic to see this enigma start interacting with other characters. Anyone who can call their character a ‘fucking terrible person’ and then also delve into why without justifying it is a+ in my book. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations AV, you have been accepted for the role of TYRON AVERY with the faceclaim of KEITH POWERS. By far the most difficult decision I had to make, ultimately is was the depth of connections with other characters that really pushed me into choosing your Tyron. The family creation and impact on his pscyhe/development was spectacular. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations RACH, you have been accepted for the role of WALBURGA BLACK with the faceclaim of TBD. Your description of her needing control and how she copes with that, not always well, was great. The aesthetic you chose was perfect, and I loved the hunger games song so much. Also, I will be messaging you privately about your faceclaim so that we can get it squared away. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations KALETON, you have been accepted for the role of OC: XALDIN LOVEGOOD with the faceclaim of EVAN PETERS. I am once again so happy to see Xaldin back at Mors! I love the family background you have created for him and how that relates to our favorite blonde Ravenclaw. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations BABY, you have been accepted for the role of OC: LAVERNIA ‘VERA’ MALFOY with the faceclaim of DOVE CAMERON. Your descriptions of Vera are so vivid and loaded with imagery, and I am dying to see her actually interact with some characters. And her Shakespeare quote was so great. I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations ELLIE, you have been accepted for the role of OC: ROSE SELWYN with the faceclaim of ELLE FANNING. I adored both of your applications, but if you prefer Rose I’m definitely going to throw you in here with her! Her biography was beautifully written and I loved the list of headcanons at the end.I am so excited to see you get involved! Please follow all instructions found on the checklist page and we’ll see you soon!

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tw: blood mention

Entertainment provided by the house ghosts left everyone in stitches, cheeks burning from laughter. Professor Dippet dismissed everyone back to their common rooms and the hall was filled with cheering voices and further appreciation for the annual feast. Students spilled out the great hall doors and poured into the entrance hall--

Loud clanking interrupted the cheer, just as students began bending down to more closely inspect the debris on the floor. Feathers? Chicken feathers? What was on them, was that -- blood?! Suits of armor lining the hall leapt into action, grabbing students at random and holding them prisoner in their steel arms. A few students laughed, thinking this was further part of the show, but they were the minority. The oldest students started firing spells at the armor in an attempt to release their friends, but the magic simply bounced away. Chaos began to reign until in unison the suits of armor began to speak in a deafening tone.

“The Heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts. This is your only warning. Expel mudbloods from this place, or face the ire of those truly worthy of magic. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened.”

The sound was grating metal akin to nails on a chalkboard and many tried to cover their ears, to no avail. The suits stopped talking but remained motionless, holding students tightly, though unharmed. Until one began to yell - “It’s burning, it’s burning me!” Roman Schelling, a fourth year Ravenclaw, had abandoned his school robes at the beginning of the feast and stood in the arms of a suit now in only a t-shirt. He twisted this way and that as other students began to complain. Those with little skin showing seemed to be merely warm, but those exposed touched the armor that had grown very hot.

Suddenly, the suits of armor released all the students and stepped back into their normal, stationary positions lining the corridor. Disturbed chicken feathers swirled around the floor, their white fluff marred by half dried blood. Professor Marchbanks, the first professor into the hall, shot off several rounds of fireworks to garner attention.

“If you need medical attention, please report to the infirmary. Everyone else, return to your house common rooms in a calm, orderly fashion immediately!”

The following students were ‘prisoners’ of the suits of armor and received minor burns that are treated within a few hours at the infirmary before returning back to their common room. 

Euphemia Curren

Walburga Black

Thorley Greengrass

Lance Burke

Students are confined to their house quarters for the rest of the evening. Any starters posted in immediate reaction must take place there, unless they reported to the infirmary and wish to interact with other students in the infirmary. Otherwise, starters posted with time stamps for the next morning or anytime after can be open to all. Conversations left from the feast can continue throughout the week if desired. This event will last until Monday, July 24. The current time stamp is October 31st (common room confinement) or November 1-7 (open time). A new time stamp/event will be posted on Monday, 7/24. 

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Sloan Lestrange and Thorley Greengrass Headcanon(s)

1. Thorley seriously considered proposing that they be casual sex partners, to vent frustration and to kill boredom together. But then, in his fifth year, it was rumored that she slept with a mudblood and that was a huge turn off for him. 

2. Sloan pranked him once at one of the pureblood summer solstice galas by spiking his drink with a scentless watered down version of amortentia that made him flirt with one of the old ladies in which he kissed the lady’s hand a bit too long and received a sharp cuff on the head, about a month’s worth of embarrassment, and a lifelong paranoia about his drinks. He doesn’t know for sure who did it, but he suspects it was Lestrange.

3. In his fourth year, he was at a party in Ravenclaw’s common room where members of all houses were present playing a silly game of Spin the Butterbeer Bottle. Semi-drunk, he was convinced to play. The bottle landed on Sloan; it was his first kiss. A secret he keeps guarded to this very day.

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Up With A B-A-N-G!

tw: mention of anxiety/insomnia

Really, he had only wanted to rest his eyes for a second. However, before he knew it he was on the verge of actually falling asleep. He had probably been going on 6 hours of sleep over the past three days, not unusual but with the pressure on to track down Grindelwald before he left the United States his stress levels had been higher. The fact that Thorley was close to falling sleep while studying arithmancy, his favorite subject, was a testament to how exhausted he had really been. 

Sleep never came easy to the Greengrass heir. There was always the dread of waking up that came before he could even shut his eyes. Often, Thorley experienced anxiety when waking up, constantly feeling like every nerve in his body was suddenly functioning at the exact same time; it was overwhelming. Lucy had put him on a strict regimen of essential oils to help him wake up more gently, but with the excitement and stress of his research he had been behind on using them. Just a moment more and he no doubt would be sinking deep into hours of sleep-

BANG!

Violently jolting in his seat, causing his chair to fall backwards and dump him on the floor, a high pitched ringing echoed in his ears. Disoriented, Thorley groaned and tried to right himself upwards from off the ground. What in the bloody hell was that? Standing shakily, he grabbed his wand off the desk and stomped down the stairs into the common room. “Who?” He snarled at some of the second year’s in the corner. Pointing up to the sixth year dorms in fear, Thorley’s eyes narrowed into icy slits. There could only be one person in that dorm who would dare to make such a racket. Xaldin Lovegood. 

For the past six years, ever since the other had entered Ravenclaw, Thorley had heard bangs and all sorts of noises coming from that dorm. Normally, he just packed up his belongings and went elsewhere for the afternoon. But, for some reason, today of all days, he couldn’t take it anymore. Thundering up towards the sixth year dorms, Thorley roared the other’s name as he slammed open the door.

“LOVEGOOD!!”

@xaldinlovegood

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Walburga Black and Thorley Greengrass Headcanon(s)

1. Determined for Thorley to make friends as a child, his parents arranged for Walburga and Thorley to take dueling lessons together from the same tutor. Walburga, being much more clever and quicker than Thorley, mercilessly beat him time after time in the dueling ring. After the first week, his parents cancelled the joint lessons at Thorley’s insistent begging and crying. 

2. Whenever Walburga enters the classroom, Thorley hunches in an extra inch to try and avoid being noticed by her piercing hawk eyes.

3. On a dare in fifth year, he was challenged to send a howler insulting poem to Walburga Black anonymously. To this day she doesn’t know who sent it, but has promised to skin alive whoever sent the letter. Thorley still lives in fear that he will be discovered.