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TASK 01. — THE PEOPLE / THE TOWN.
“ Could there be a temple of the hearth, of Home, which lurks beneath the paltry mechanisms of sinew and bone, Claude? Cruel mistress and tempest-tossed, the Sea is. To say aloud that I tire of her wraith-like keening is to insult the divine art of piracy itself. She is Home, what ever left of it I have left. But I will not cease my searches, for if any sailor knows well that there need be a day where you crash upon Her rocks, or unearth a final port for your weary soul. ”
p. 221 — “The Pleiades Above, The Captain and His First Mate Discuss.” Raiders on the Seas.
i. ——
let me tell you about the man who lives in the manor at the end of crescent road. coalyard is hardly the type to get new visitors, the static nature of the town almost piling up like corpses in a mass grave, sediment on the crust of the world. eccentrics, such as the man who bought the house on crescent road, would have wanted to go somewhere with arthouses and people as odd as him. but he stood there, another dead man in the dead-end town. another corpse for the pile. on some level, do you think he knows this?
let me tell you about the man who lives in the manor, the ghost living in the skeleton of a once magnificent house. the first day that the strange man buys the old house near the woods, movers come in, and he stands unnaturally still in the daylight, watching as the movers walk into the house and furnish it one by one. the long dining room table, the plates, the armoires. the furniture was old as the sin of our forebears, kept alive by sentiment and elbow grease. when a mover scuffs the chair, he does not flinch. he does not acknowledge it. he barely even breathes.
this is no story, you say, only observations. a painting made with the backdrop of shifting light and painted regret.
let me tell you something else, then.
ii. ——
did you know that paris is built upon the bones of its dead? did you know that saint petersburg is built on the dead that built it? did you know that the bodies of history have overflown and spat out men from heaven and hell alike? did you know that purgatory is a wasteland of souls, wailing outside the gates and running from the flames?
did you know that the man who lives in the manor is alone? in some form or another, we are all alone. measured by the distance between our heartbeats, divided by our differences, our loneliness can be quantified, even known to us, if we only stop to notice. but who wants to know their solitude? the man who lives in the manor walks down the street, people giving him a wide berth. some of them whisper and ask who died, and there is almost something in the man that wants to reply.
did you know that coalyard is the last place anyone will find him? he has no family, of course, only the memories in his diary, long-dead and rotten beneath his touch. this is the finalé to a punchline, the arc of a swing calculated over centuries of questions. there will be no body, but he will be dead, as will all the people he had carried with him. only another thing that coalyard subsumes into itself. at least he is a part of something, he whispers, staring out into the open water. at least there is that.
iii. ——
he wears his existence in town like an ill-fitting coat. the grocery clerk stares at the man and the man, as a kindness, pretends not to notice. he pretends not to notice a lot of things, of course. he’s had practice. death streams down from the light in the afternoon sun. perhaps the man on crescent road will pretend not to notice that as well.
iv. ——
why do you tell me this? what is this for? you ask this, unknowing. i forgive you. sometimes, stories have no purpose but to be what they are.
that’s a shit explanation. so let me end the story. perhaps we can start anew.
v. ——
two years pass and he still walks to the door and feeds a stray. the man that lives on the end of crescent road does not disappear anymore, only lingers. dusk sets and the stars shine, but the town still feels wrong. maybe the problem isn’t the town, or the wine, or the people, just him. but the coat fits better in the end, even if the wrongness never leaves. the corpse is content with being what it is, here in the graveyard where it waits.
the man only waits, but does not live, the idyll of the days outside going by in a haze of months. what is one more in the span of centuries? he’s lived his life thrice-over, and the toll of the bell drones only to let him remember the passage of time. there is no savior coming for the man, so what’s a little more waiting? what’s a little more torment? the corpse becomes lazarus, and the old mythology rears its head through the fog.
a christian god is something anathema to the man, and yet he swallows down every walk to the church through the silence of the mosaic glass. there is a miracle yet to come. agnus dei, agnus dei. he will be content to sit and to live through coalyard yet again. the coat fits his shoulders, not his arms. perhaps four lifetimes is enough, and lazarus will return to the earth.
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME : LESTRANGE , taliesin cadfeal
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND / OR PSEUDONYMS : none .
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS : PUREBLOOD.
KNOWN LANGUAGES : ENGLISH , french , welsh , latin , german , russian
BIRTHPLACE : NANT-Y-DERI , wales
FAMILY : LESTRANGE , aneurin ; LESTRANGE , dorthea née avrey
MARITAL STATUS : unmarried
SPOUSE , IF APPLICABLE : – –
OFFSPRING , IF APPLICABLE : – –
ORIENTATION : bisexual , biromantic
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE : august 30th , 1924 ; twenty - six
WESTERN ZODIAC : VIRGO SUN , virgo moon , pisces rising
PROFILE :
EYE COLOR : brown
BUILD & HEIGHT : lanky , though mildly athletic ; 6′4
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS : a large , albeit faded , line
on his left forearm from falling out of a tree as a child ; small
marks on a few of his fingers from a shattered glass
SCHOOLING : BEAUXBATONS , academy of magic
HOUSE , IF APPLICABLE : – –
N . E . W . T . S : none on file . archivist note : please look into this .
OCCUPATION : CURSEBREAKER , privately employed
MINISTRY FIELD , IF APPLICABLE : – –
REGISTERED WAND : HEIRLOOM , brittle , blackthorn wood , kelpie mane core , 10½ inches ; previously registered to rhys lestrange .
AMORTENIA : apricot blossoms , burning wood , earl grey tea
BOGGART : A CROWD OF PEOPLE , all of which known his truth . they stare at him with disappointment , anger for being tricked , and remind him that he is different , that he does not belong .
PATRONUS : none on file
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS : YAXLEY , sabine . AVERY , lazarus .
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS : 7⅋✖32 , KERNAKIX PLACE , apt . 6*
LAST SEEN LOCATION : LONDON , england . returning through king’s cross .
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : unexplained frequent purchases of train tickets to zürich , switzerland .
SECURITY STATUS : PROBABLE THREAT , pending further investigation on his occupational status.
#burialtask#i. selective vocabulary means the details are somewhat obscured ; concealed or complicated with purpose. : about.
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- -- ---𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃- ---- -𝙲--- -𝙰𝚁𝚁𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝙾𝙽𝙱𝙴𝙰𝙼𝚂 𝙷𝙾𝙼𝙴 𝙸𝙽 𝙰 𝙹𝙰𝚁-- ---- --𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙱𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝚃𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙾𝙵𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙽 𝚈𝙾𝚄- --- --𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃- -- 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙽𝙾𝚆, 𝙰 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚂𝙿𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙾𝚁𝚂, 𝙴𝚈𝙴𝙻𝙾𝙿'𝚂-- 𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝙷𝙷𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃-- -- ---- -
GOOD AFTERNOON, and thank you for tuning in to the WIRELESS WIZARDING NETWORK! For our transmission today we’re pleased to present BURIAL SOCIETY’S third task –– roll up your sleeves and get to work !
Our third task requests from everyone who is willing to do so to reflect on their character(s)’ culture, heritage, ethnic background, and ancestry.
Everyone comes from somewhere, and whether your character has their roots in the hills and mountains of Wales or the plateaus and plains of India, ancestry and culture have a heavy-handed way of shaping how we are raised and who we are.
Your task, should you accept it, is to research and explore your character’s culture and/or ethnic background, and to write 3-5 NEW HEADCANONS inspired by these influences.
You may not recycle headcanons from your application.
The headcanons may range in depth and subject including but not limited to a common household dish from their childhood, a tradition their family always upheld, trips back to their parents’ homelands, a physical representation of their connection to their culture, or anything else you can dream up that connects your character to their cultural and ethnic background.
This task, like all tasks and prompts, is not mandatory and may be completed at any time.
Upon completion of this task, characters may deposit 100G per headcanon into their vaults, in addition to the pre-prescribed task reward !
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game of thrones / dir. jack bender (2016)
cardigan / taylor swift (2020)
crooked kingdom / leigh bardugo (2016)
a letter to vita sackville-west / virginia woolf (1927)
the sweet far thing / libba bray (2007)
game of thrones / dir. david benioff & d. b. weiss (2019)
the state of dreaming / marina (2012)
i, tonya / dir. craig gillespie (2017)
the song of achilles / madeline miller (2011)
little women / dir. greta gerwig (2019)
#burialtask#not me actually doing something#also im proud of myself for only including one taylor swift thing#ignore that theres two game of thrones things and be proud of me too#┈┈ ♫ ► AS LONG AS DANGER IS NEAR AND IT’S JUST AROUND THE CORNER DARLIN’ CAUSE IT LIVES IN ME || ABOUT.#task004
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FULL NAME : LESTRANGE, elisabeth thérèse
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND / OR PSEUDONYMS : lissa, the heiress of house lestrange, charms master, mistress lestrange.
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS : pureblood.
KNOWN LANGUAGES : dutch ( native ), english ( native ), french ( fluent ), german ( conversational ), latin ( fluent, exclusively used for spell work ).
BIRTHPLACE : ghent, belgium
FAMILY : LESTRANGE, corvus v ; LESTRANGE, marie élise née faber.
MARITAL STATUS : unmarried, seeking a worthy match
SPOUSE, IF APPLICABLE : ––
OFFSPRING, IF APPLICABLE : ––
ORIENTATION : panromantic, pansexual
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE : july 14, 1923 & 27
WESTERN ZODIAC : cancer sun, cancer moon, leo ascendant.
PROFILE :
EYE COLOR : green, like the sunlight that filters through leaves in the early days of summer.
HAIR COLOR : dark brown.
BUILD & HEIGHT : defined jaw and cheekbones, shapely curves. 5′6
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS : none of note.
SCHOOLING : BEAUXBATONS, academy of magic.
HOUSE, IF APPLICABLE : éclatant. the house of brilliance, the members of this house have found excellence in their magical pursuits and boast graduates such as perenelle flamel and marie curie. exceptionally creative, forward thinking, and more ambitious than most knew how to focus it before their arrival to the school, éclatant’s students are at the forefront of innovation. whether reinventing spells and maximizing their use or inventing new ones ( something about modern problems needing modern solutions ). still, éclatant’s house has laid out one thing very well: some of the most creative minds don’t choose the most clear cut paths. independence, so says the plaque beneath perenelle’s statue on beauxbaton’s grounds, is watered by creativity and confidence.
N. E. W. T. S EQUIVALENT : charms · o, transfiguration · o, herbology · o, potions · o.
NOTE : beauxbatons academy of magic offers a different set of examinations which ultimately qualify their students at sixth year and allow seventh year students to specialize in their fields of success after their sixth year. this allows beauxbatons students to typically enter their workforce earlier as some students intern with the french ministry or find masters to learn under for their own future masteries in. with this being the case, miss lestrange’s grades come from her sixth year of studies. her tutelage under richard macintosh began when she first visited ireland and sought mister macintosh out. he only accepted her as a student, so she says, because she impressed him with an undoubtedly strong cheering charm that kept him under her spell for almost two hours. he came to his own faculties while they were in the midst of tea. miss lestrange has carefully stressed this was in no way an imperius curse.
OCCUPATION : MASTER of charms. mistress lestrange is currently crafting spells as part of her research for her own charms textbook. mistress lestrange has also been experimenting with combining transfiguration and charms spells into a single action.
MINISTRY FIELD, IF APPLICABLE : ––
REGISTERED WAND : willow wood, veela hair core, 12 ¾ inches, and surprisingly springy. willow wands are typically considered to be feminine, favoring charms work, non verbal spells, and healing magic. willow wands also favor a wielder who bears some kind of insecurity and equally have an incredible potential. veela cores are notoriously temperamental but they, too, have their own favor towards charms, and the master of charms is as graceful in her magical expertise as she is in everything else that she does.
AMORTENIA : there’s a fondness that comes with the question, a moment of remembrance for a first love and disastrous potions class all in one go. elisabeth said that the cherries from across the room were the first thing she smelled, because of the cherry trees on the lestrange property growing up. it’s the one smell that was truly familiar, like she was going home. the second thing she mentioned was something deeper, that she couldn’t quite place her finger on at the time ( now it’s something she recognizes faintly as someone’s cologne, though she has been in the presence of too many men attempting to win her over to identify specifically which one -- though it did have notes of sandalwood ? or perhaps bergamot ? ) . and then, without a doubt, there was the sweet notes of toffee and butterscotch that have become part of her christmas traditions.
BOGGART : her own gravestone, marking her as the last of her family’s line . her father’s spirit rises up and begins cursing his daughter for failing them, for failing him because she wouldn’t live up to the one thing he asked of her. upon the casting of a successful counter charm shows her surrounded by multiple children, with a partner beaming at her with pride. one might be careful to note that even though the charm is successful, it might lead to a deeper fear that even with all these children and this legacy secured, she is not truly happy.
PATRONUS : corporeal, a raven . mystics tend to find comfort in ravens, but they are insightful creatures who are generally known for their cleverness and understanding . it’s a toss up in the muggle world if ravens are a good omen or agent of sin, but in the magical world it is far more indicative of a person who seeks ( or has attained ) freedom. it is worth noting that the raven is the symbol of the house of lestrange.
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS : BURKE, fidelia. LESTRANGE, taliesin. MACINTOSH, richard. MCKINNON, malachai. WEASLEY, septimus.
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS : 3 faber road, her mother’s former summer home and built by the faber family in 1667 after the great fire.
LAST SEEN LOCATION : arriving by portkey in the ministry accommodations for international travel from france, after attending a meeting for the académie française des sorciers.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : member of the académie française des sorciers as their secondary supervising body on charms , first belgian born witch to win the dunstable dueling competition as set forth by the british wizard dueling association, her title as master of charms was awarded after studying with sir richard macintosh who is only known to have produced ten such masters before her ( most thought he was dead prior elisabeth’s mastery ).
SECURITY STATUS : not a known threat, under observation. there is no need for observation, gerald, stop editing miss lestrange’s file.
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME: Druella Eurydice Rosier
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND/OR PSEUDONYMS: Dru, Ella
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS: Verified Pureblood
KNOWN LANGUAGES: English, Turkish, French
BIRTHPLACE: Istanbul, Turkey
GENDER, PRONOUNS: Cis-Female, She/Her/Hers
FAMILY:
MARITAL STATUS: Single/Unmarried
SPOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: Cygnus Black, fiancé (deceased)
OFFSPRING, IF APPLICABLE: N/A
ORIENTATION: Demiromantic, bisexual.
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE: August 31st, 1925 / Twenty Four
WESTERN ZODIAC: Virgo / Trustworthy / Disciplined / Opinionated / Honest / Dedicated / Resourceful / Stubborn / Intuitive / Meticulous / Practical
PROFILE:
EYE COLOR: Dark Brown
HAIR COLOR: Light Brown
BUILD & HEIGHT: 5′8″ / Slim Build
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS: Long scar on her right knee from a Quidditch accident at Hogwarts in 1940.
SCHOOLING: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
HOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: Ravenclaw
N.E.W.T.S: Transfiguration E / Charms O / Potions O / Herbology O / Ancient Ruins E / Care of Magical Creatures O / History of Magic O / Defense Against the Dark Arts E
OCCUPATION: Unspeakable
MINISTRY FIELD, IF APPLICABLE: Department of Mysteries
REGISTERED WAND: 11 ¼" beech wand with phoenix feather core, hard flexibility.
AMORTENTIA: Petrichor, Tulips, Leather, Smoke
BOGGART: It’s always been an inferi crawling towards her, but in a recent encounter, took the form of her dear departed fiancé, Cygnus Black, still as an inferi.
PATRONUS: Adder
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS: Euphemia Gibbon, Lucretia Black, Orion Black
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS: 1✘¤3 Rigel Drive / London, England
LAST SEEN LOCATION: Ministry of Magic
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Member of the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers ; Travels frequently to Turkey and France
SECURITY STATUS: Ministry Clearance Level 2
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BEFORE & AFTER . / artemis fawley inspired playlist.
artemis fawley had been asleep in her bed when the door to her flat had come off its hinges. she had never known fear like that of aurors kicking in her bedroom door in the middle of the night and pulling her from her bed by her hair. they’d spat curses and profanities into her bleary eyes. magical cuffs were attached to her wrists and she was dragged, not walked, dragged out of her flat to the horror of her neighbors. she had been stupid, dropping hints. she had been expecting repercussions of her secret, but not this. never this. she was a dead woman walking in the arms of the aurors. the magical community was no better than the muggles in their views of her blood; she was a monster, but only to them.
before.
the ravenclaw alum is all soft edges and soft smiles, helping hands and kind words. she wants nothing more than companionship, friends to call her own. her blood does not keep that from her, but rather her own fear. what would those closest to her say? would they shun her, see her as something terrible? would they pass judgement on something they did not understand? if the rest of the wixen community was a base line, the answer was leaning closer and closer to yes. yet, artemis does not let these fears dull her bright light in any way. she will be as she is, even if others hate her for it. there is beauty in being a legacy.
after.
the ravenclaw alum is all careful movements and hardened glances, cloaked appearance and whispered words. the careful line, though becoming more and more blurred over the years, had been scrubbed away. her peaceful life had been ripped out from underneath her. she had been dragged, nearly beaten, and then stolen away. dark circles are a new accouterment beneath her eyes. the world is falling apart and she has been placed so precariously in the middle of it. she is innocent. the wolf within sinks its teeth into her and refuses to let go; she may be a wolf, but she will not be damned for that or anything else.
*click the link above to be directed to the playlist or click the ‘read more’ tab to be directed to the song list!
— before.
i’d like to teach the world to sing .
say you like me .
unwritten .
cool kids .
brown eyed girl .
come dancing .
if i die young .
— after .
roar .
girl on fire .
she’s so gone .
look what you made me do .
wolf in sheep’s clothing .
you’re gonna go far, kid .
could have been me .
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME: Malfoy, Abraxas
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND/OR PSEUDONYMS: Brax
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood
KNOWN LANGUAGES: English, Latin, French
BIRTHPLACE: Oxford, England
GENDER, PRONOUNS: He/him
FAMILY: MALFOY (son of Lucius and Matilda)
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
SPOUSE, IF APPLICABLE:
OFFSPRING, IF APPLICABLE:
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE: January 15th 1924, 26
WESTERN ZODIAC: Capricorn & Virgo ascending: adaptable, motivated, ambitious, practical, hard worker, narrow - hearted, inhibited, distrusting, demanding, selfish
PROFILE:
EYE COLOR: Green
HAIR COLOR: Dark blond
BUILD & HEIGHT: Defined facial structure, ectomorphic build, 192 cm (6′3)
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS: None
SCHOOLING:
HOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: Slytherin
N.E.W.T.S: Astronomy -- E, Charms -- O, Defence Against The Dark Arts -- O, Herbology -- O, History of Magic -- O, Potions -- O, Transfiguration -- O, Alchemy -- O
OCCUPATION: Potioneer
MINISTRY FIELD, IF APPLICABLE: --
REGISTERED WAND: Unyielding, blackthorn with a dragon heartstring core
AMORTENTIA: Crisp winter air, heavy cologne and cigarette smoke
BOGGART: HIS OWN DEATH: he sees his own body sprawled on a black leather couch, lifeless. There’s a party going on but no one seems to notice
PATRONUS: Bobcat: aware; strategic; cunning; intelligent; patient; playful; solitary; visionary; secretive; observant; perceptive; nurturing; accepting; curious; flexible; mysterious; enigmatic; outgoing; elusive; quirky; energetic.
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS: Avery, Lazarus. Lestrange, Taliesin. Greengrass, Prosperina
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS: 24 Regent Park Rd, Camden, London.
LAST SEEN LOCATION: WILTSHIRE, England, Malfoy Manor
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Single heir of the Malfoys, yet their fortune has remained untouched. Is known to visit the Malfoy manor every fortnight
SECURITY STATUS: Not a known threat
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME: POTTER, fleamont rashmik
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND/OR PSEUDONYMS: monty, flea
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS: PUREBLOOD. traceable and verified lineage.
KNOWN LANGUAGES: IN ORDER OF FLUENCY. english, gujarati, hindi, french, latin
BIRTHPLACE: SURAT, gujarat. india
GENDER, PRONOUNS: CIS MALE, he/him
FAMILY: POTTER, ashwina née kaushik. POTTER, henry - deceased.
MARITAL STATUS: single
SPOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: n/a
OFFSPRING, IF APPLICABLE: n/a
ORIENTATION: bisexual, hopelessly romantic
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE: april 17th, 1925 & 25
WESTERN ZODIAC: ARIES. courageous, determined, confident, honest, passionate, impatient, moody, short-tempered, impulsive.
PROFILE:
EYE COLOR: warm, mid-toned brown
HAIR COLOR: dark brown, almost black
BUILD & HEIGHT: strong jaw, expressive eyebrows. a fine height, with a body bordering on lanky. & 6′1″
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS: tattooed outline of narasimha on his back. always hidden by clothing, seldom spoken about and never revealed in polite society.
SCHOOLING: HOGWARTS, school of witchcraft & wizardry
HOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: gryffindor
N.E.W.T.S: charms –– o, defense against the dark arts –– o, potions –– o, arithmancy –– e, ancient runes –– o, history of magic –– o, wizarding law –– o, muggle studies –– e
OCCUPATION: OBLIVIATOR, licensed
MINISTRY FIELD, IF APPLICABLE: department of magical accidents and catastrophes
REGISTERED WAND: HEIRLOOM. 10.2”, carved sandalwood with a bronze handle embedded with sunstone flecks, naga scale core, slightly yielding.
AMORTENTIA: spiced chai, dark chocolate, woodsmoke & incense
BOGGART: HIS FATHER, drenched in lake water, aquatic plants growing out of his mouth, eyes, ears nose, hand outstretched toward fleamont –– ‘you didn’t do enough’, the animated corpse garbles out through a lungful of water and weeds. ‘why didn’t you try harder to save me?’ When combated with the proper incantation, the boggart transforms into a reverse mermaid in rollerskates.
PATRONUS: A TIGER - powerful; energetic; independent; protective; private; unpredictable; sensual; passionate; patient; mysterious; ferocious; courageous; adventurous; secretive.
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS: ZABINI, lysander. GIBBON, euphemia. ABBOTT, augusta.
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS: ✻∯q37, DIAGON ALLEY. apt. 5⅔
LAST SEEN LOCATION: CHESHIRE, england. potter family manor.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: noted interest in experimental ministry projects and materials.
SECURITY STATUS: known threat, currently under observation due to unauthorized use of restricted magic.
#burialtask#hopping back here from the main to post this after posting the task makes me feel like a personality chef with a network show#'now that i've shown you the steps let me take out this completed dish i prepared earlier while no one was looking'#— ⋆ -ˏˋ 🗡️⚖️ › sol iustitiae‚ illustra nos — 「 details 」
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little weirds / jenny slate ( 2019 )
a letter to mathilde trampedach / friedrich nietzsche ( 1876 )
you are jeff / richard siken ( 2008 )
/ helene delmaire ( 2015 )
bright dead things / ada limon ( 2015 )
crush / richard siken ( 2005 )
anne with an e / dir. paul fox ( 2018 )
dogfish / mary oliver
/ beautiful company ( 2015 )
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500 days of summer, dir. marc webb
little women (2020), dir. greta gerwig
the feeling may remain, akif kichloo
the harpy, robert w. service
euphoria, dir. sam levinson
jolene, dolly parton
titus andronicus, william shakespeare
richard siken, scheherazade
no second troy, william butler yeats
bonus: little women (2020), dir. greta gerwig
#burialtask#paige finally does a task? shoCKING#the bonus one is me blatantly attacking fleamont potter#⋆ ╰ you sunshine ; you temptress . ╱ 𝖘𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖆𝖘 : details .
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i just want to sell out my funeral, the wonder years / passing through a screen door, the wonder years
30/90, jonathan larson
the fancy and the fooled, critical role
the hockey prince, ngozi ukazu / stack of assorted color suitcases, erwan hesey
deathless, catherynne m. valente
this book is full of spiders, david wong
young, grayscale
the riot club, laura wade
#burialtask#burialtask004#i. you are still who you are ; even so you wear expectations and assumptions like an overcoat. : muse.
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- -- ---𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃- ---- -𝙲--- -𝙰𝚁𝚁𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝙾𝙽𝙱𝙴𝙰𝙼𝚂 𝙷𝙾𝙼𝙴 𝙸𝙽 𝙰 𝙹𝙰𝚁-- ---- --𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙱𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝚃𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙾𝙵𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙽 𝚈𝙾𝚄- --- --𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃- -- 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙽𝙾𝚆, 𝙰 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚂𝙿𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙾𝚁𝚂, 𝙴𝚈𝙴𝙻𝙾𝙿'𝚂-- 𝙲𝚁𝚁𝚉𝙲𝙷𝙷𝙷𝚉𝙲𝙷𝚃𝚃-- -- ---- -
GOOD AFTERNOON, and thank you for tuning in to the WIRELESS WIZARDING NETWORK! For our transmission today we’re pleased to present BURIAL SOCIETY’S fifth task –– it is time to think about the bigger picture !
Our fifth task requests that players consider their character’s stories, where they might be headed, and any particular aspects you’re excited to explore! Your work here will help the Burial Society Staff better integrate your character and desired story arcs into upcoming plot drops and events !
Your task is to think about what stories you’d like to tell with your character, and come up with 3 - 5 PLOT POINTS you’d enjoy having play out. These could involve personal secrets being revealed, mysteries uncovered, ambitions being archived, failures faced, or anything else you can think of.
While inter-character plot points are very important, we encourage you to discuss those with your fellow players, and for this task focus instead on plot points that could be caused by external forces (things happening to your character) or independent moves (things your character can do themselves).
An example of an external force could be someone discovering a secret your character has been keeping, or the discovery of a letter that wasn’t meant for your character’s eyes. An example of an independent move could be your character pursuing a promotion at work, or deciding to switch factions.
We encourage you to think big, be dramatic, and integrate aspects of the overall plot of the group into your ideas.
If you’d like, think about two or more possible outcomes of your plot points that you’d be open to occurring. Consider the promotion example: if your character succeeds, what then? How do they feel about it? What would they do next? If they fail... well, the same questions apply.
Instead of posting these possibilities, please submit them to this account after you have written them. That way we can all keep a little bit of magic and mystery in our lives! We look forward to hearing your ideas.
Upon completion of this task, characters may deposit 100G per plot point into their vaults, in addition to the pre-prescribed task reward !
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME: greengrass, prosperina alena .
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND/OR PSEUDONYMS: posy .
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS: pureblood .
KNOWN LANGUAGES: english, gaelic, french, mermish .
BIRTHPLACE: stamford, lincolnshire .
GENDER, PRONOUNS: cisfemale, she/her .
FAMILY: greengrass, marius; greengrass, davina; greengrass, julius; greengrass, dante; greengrass, faustus; greengass, marcello .
MARITAL STATUS: unmarried .
SPOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: n/a .
OFFSPRING, IF APPLICABLE: n/a .
ORIENTATION: bisexual, biromantic .
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE: 30 june 1924 ; twenty - six .
WESTERN ZODIAC: cancer ; scorpio rising, gemini moon .
PROFILE:
EYE COLOR: green .
HAIR COLOR: blonde .
BUILD & HEIGHT: 5′1 ; slender build .
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS: birthmark ; left shoulder .
SCHOOLING: hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry .
HOUSE, IF APPLICABLE: slytherin .
N.E.W.T.S: charms - o; defense against the dark arts - o; potions - e; transfiguration - o; care of magical creatures - e .
OCCUPATION: musician .
MINISTRY FIELD, IF APPLICABLE: n/a .
REGISTERED WAND: 9 ¾, aspen with griffin feather and unicorn hair core, unyielding .
AMORTENTIA: seawater, old parchment, sandalwood .
BOGGART: herself, in nearly full selkie form, in ministry robes; a manifestation of the idea that her own rise to power could be the very thing that causes her exposure and downfall .
PATRONUS: leopard .
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS: malfoy, abraxas; avery, lazarus .
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS: 9✗ε1 cadogan square, knightsbridge, london, england .
LAST SEEN LOCATION: greengrass manor; stamford, england .
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: sister of julius greengrass [improper use of magic], dante greengrass [obliviator], and faustus greengrass [committe on experimental charms] .
SECURITY STATUS: possible threat, pending investigation of her association with avery, l.
#burialtask#┈┈ ♫ ► AS LONG AS DANGER IS NEAR AND IT’S JUST AROUND THE CORNER DARLIN’ CAUSE IT LIVES IN ME || ABOUT.#┈┈ ♫ ► WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG THEY ASSUME YOU KNOW NOTHING || PROLOGUE.#this took me so long and for why
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𝙼.𝚘.𝙼. 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙴: 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚊 𝚌. 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔
𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙴: 𝟾.𝟷𝟽.𝟷𝟿𝟻𝟶 𝚊𝚝 𝟷𝟽:𝟹𝟹 𝚑𝚛𝚜.
𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰𝚄𝙳𝙸𝙾 𝟶𝟶:𝟶𝟶:𝟷𝟸
could you please state your name, age, house, and wand specifications for the record?
“lucretia charis black, 23 years old. i’m a slytherin alum. my wand is eleven inches and made of mulberry wood and a dragon heartstring core.”
who sent out your invitation to the Norris’s home?
“i assume mr. cecil norris did.”
was there a signature of any kind?
“it was signed to the name of cecil norris esq.”
did you attend the event with anyone?
“no.”
could you state, in your own words, what happened at mr. norris’s home prior to his arrival?
"i remember everyone was confused because it was getting late and the host hadn’t showed up at all.” there’s a long pause followed by a crease in her forehead that makes her look like someone who had risen from a thousand year sleep and was stuck making sense of everything that transgressed before and after the slumber.
though in fact, she saw and sensed many things that night, even if she had been distracted after her encounter with said pandora box. but it’s something that she bares with equal distance, the minutest of details carefully laid out around the aurors. “eventually we all sat down for dinner, and still nobody had shown up, and then fleamont potter - yes, FLEAAA-mont. write that down. he gets up and invites everyone to the lounge to try to speak to mr. norris the only way you can if you believe someone is no longer among the living. so we went, we contacted someone, and mr. norris arrived.”
were you, at any point, aware of mr. norris’s location between the night of his alleged disappearance and the dinner party?
“i have always been entirely unaware of where he could be.”
as far as the seance, what kind of questions were asked of the deceased, mr. cygnus black?
uhhh, her lungs reverberate. what to coagulate? what to hide?
“how and when he died.”
did anyone seem particularly uncomfortable with the event during or immediately after?
"i don’t know,” she lies. “my mind was somewhere else.”
do you know if there’s anyone else who might be more knowledgeable about the situation?
she rearranged herself in her seat, looking like something unlike what she really is: a pawn, all manipulated strings, a slow learner only in games like these, but in the end, she still learns.
“mr. norris needs to be questioned. he bust the door open only after my cousin, cygnus black, said that someone in the house had murdered him. and then he abruptly ordered us to leave. now he’s nowhere to be found.”
do you know anything about the necklace that was recovered?
“i brought it in when it was still in the box,” she nods. “let me me begin by saying that i know it’s rude, but everyone was getting bored, and all that stomping up and down the stairs offset a ringing in my ears that i’ve learned to manage with medicine. anyways, i went to look for my coat because i keep my pill-box in there but it was gone. i assumed the servants had confused it with one of mrs. norris’s so i went and found nothing. i came back out, took taliesin lestrange with me the dressing room this time, and...” lucretia pauses again, doubling down in speed to funnel through dark tunnels where the caverns of slick, age-old memorex can be obscured from the inquisitive and hovering light above her. the cameras are rolling, rolling, and rolling to scenes no one can pinpoint, because the point is: the truth will always be what she makes of it, and not what actually transpires. “i picked up this jewelry box, and i just went into a trance. i felt like it was telling me to open it, and i knew i had to, but i was fighting the urge for so long that someone had to come get me for dinner.”
“and i couldn’t stop touching it, so i had it in my coat all night and it was so distracting. i’d never meant it to leave the house, but after mr. norris arrived, i knew it was something important to hand over after what happened. i want to make it clear that i did not know what was in there.”
were you aware of any business dealings between Mr. Norris and Mr. Black?
“no,” she says truthfully, but lucretia can hardly bring herself to be surprised over many things these days. a rat is a rat, after all. whether it was raised in a vacuum or not is besides the point: if the adornments were removed (the black name, the sterling silver, the servants, the playthings), the animal would still react in much the same way it would with others of its kind. and much like cygnus, cecil had grown to be a pest in the inviolable space of her home.
would you be willing to leave your memories with us for observation?
“how?”
she’s frozen on spot, expecting to feel blood run into her face, pinching it red, or for her chest to heave into a spell, but there’s nothing of that sort. it would be expected to have to extract memories from someone related to cygnus, but both mind and mannerisms would remain empty and blank in a way that bespoke of an ancient magick that barricades one’s mind in full measure.
“i was jinxed. and i already said i was in that dressing room for hours. i really don’t see how helpful anyone’s memories could be if they were fussing and jittery over that box for the length of the night.” her shoulders settle squarely. “so until you can explain how much of that isn’t going to be a waste of your department’s efforts, i say no.”
have you spoken with anyone outside of the attendees about the event?
“yes..”
if so, who? And what did you tell them?
her eyes cast down for but a breath, not out of shame but in emulation of a sore lightly prodded. despite everything, she was still dedicated to strong-arming the black family, of which lucretia was a mournful cog of nestling secrets and wider hurts. and that meant telling them details before they hit the press. “i told my family that cygnus black knew who had murdered him.”
“i also told them about the jewelry box and how mr. norris eventually arrived.”
is there anything else of relevance that you can think of that I didn’t ask you about?
the realization comes at the speed of a blink: the wife. they hadn’t asked about mrs. norris. why wouldn’t they ask where the other member of the household was?
“no,” she sighs in want of a quick escape. i now wash my hands clean of this. “i think i’ve had enough.”
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𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.
FULL NAME : WOOD, thaxter finlay
KNOWN SOBRIQUETS AND/OR PSEUDONYMS : thax, thaxy
REGISTERED BLOOD STATUS : HALFBLOOD
KNOWN LANGUAGES : ENGLISH, scottish gaelic
BIRTHPLACE : ST. VIGEANS, angus, scottland
GENDER, PRONOUNS : TRANS MAN, he / him
FAMILY : WOOD , finlay ( father ) ; ADDAIR , elsbeth ( mother ) ; ADDIAR , william ( step father ) ; ADDAIR , connor ( half brother ) ; WOOD , oliver ( paternal uncle ) ; WOOD , vanille ( paternal aunt ) ; MACGOWAN , douglas ( maternal grandfather ) ; MACGOWAN , margaret ( maternal grandmother )
MARITAL STATUS : – –
SPOUSE , IF APPLICABLE : – –
OFFSPRING , IF APPLICABLE : – –
ORIENTATION : heterosexual , heteroromantic
DATE OF BIRTH & AGE : march 31st , 1929 ; twenty one
WESTERN ZODIAC : ARIES SUN , sagittarius moon , gemini rising
PROFILE :
EYE COLOR : hazel
HAIR COLOR : brown
BUILD & HEIGHT : muscular ; 5′9
IDENTIFYING MARKS & SCARS : a variety of marks from various
quidditch and flying accidents, along with his antics at hogwarts, but
none that would stand out particularly well without close observance
SCHOOLING : HOGWARTS , school of witchcraft and wizardry
HOUSE , IF APPLICABLE : RAVENCLAW
N . E . W . T . S : astronomy ( o ) , history of magic ( e ) ,
arithmancy ( o ) , study of ancient runes ( a ) , alchemy ( e )
OCCUPATION : PROFESSIONAL QUIDDITCH PLAYER , chaser for the montrose magpies
MINISTRY FIELD , IF APPLICABLE : – –
REGISTERED WAND : chestnut wood , dragon heartstring core , pliant , 12 ¼ inches
AMORTENTIA : rosemary , freshly ironed clothes , worn leather
BOGGART : recently changed from it’s previous form ( dealing with thax’s fear of being unknown ) , and is now a small child, connor addair, who looks afraid, while dark hands reach out and grab at the edges of his clothing, a threat that they will tear the child apart if a riddikulus charm is not conjured quickly enough
PATRONUS : a FERRET
KNOWN AFFILIATIONS : the montrose magpies quidditch team , henry picquery
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS : &33L42 WAART AVE, penthouse
LAST SEEN LOCATION : at his family home in st. vigeans
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : – –
SECURITY STATUS : VULNERABLE , protection provided to family
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