Cold villains. Elegant, refined, maybe, with disinterested eyes and icy composure. Their breath makes a shiver run down your spine, their freezing fingers following the curve of your neck. The coldness is almost, IS inhuman. A ghost of the past come to haunt you for eternity. A vampire, come to steal the life from your veins and the vigor from your step. A victim of scientific experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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Hot villains. Temperamental, wild, feral, full of barely contained desires and unquenchable rage. Their eyes spark and burn and blaze with all the things they want to do. Are they made of fire, or are they just full of energy? Sweaty and passionate and involved. They would never sit from the sidelines. Their very touch leaves blackened ash in the wake. They are so very angry, and will not back down, even if it might be wiser to.
Just had an amazingly sad idea for an AU of CS - a bad ending time travel fix-it one where Hadrian dies (whether in the third task or afterwards because of the compulsion) but it’s Raina who goes back to the very beginning.
Raina, who knows everything.
Raina, who saw everything.
Raina, who wants to protect a boy who, at this time, is an emotionally distant acquaintance rather than a friend.
It’s weeks before the Tournament is set to be announced, and she’s faced with the bitter realisation that she can either stop Hadrian from becoming the Beauxbatons’ champion and save him from a laundry list of injuries and trauma and being dragged into a decades long war, but deprive him of the emotional growth he so desperately needed…
Or she can let things play out as they did originally, and this time influence things so that Hadrian could emerge largely unscathed.
There’s little she wouldn’t do for Hadrian at this point - even if this current version of him looks at her with cool eyes and empty, if charming, smiles.
(And perhaps, she isn’t the only one who came back. Perhaps another person who loved Hadrian has returned too, determined to save him. Perhaps Raina has an ally - though she and Riddle have different opinions on what constitutes as ‘saving’ Hadrian)
I kinda want to differentiate ND and NT but I doubt this will get many votes and I don't want to over separate
I know half of this website would say "you have thoughts?" or some variant thereof so I'm just getting that out of the way I'm really curious about the actual results
The first thing they noticed about Bill (besides the whole, being human thing) was the scars. Dozens of marks, all over his body. Burns, cuts, bites, and plenty of blemishes with no discernable origins.
When Mabel had asked about the burns that engulfed both his hands up to the elbow, Bill just shrugged and said, "Uh, the fire?" Offering no further explanation when asked.
When Dipper asked why he had them, despite being reborn, Bill considered him, remarkably thoughtful. The demon flicked his eyes down, staring at his lap before snorting. When he looked back at Dipper- no, looking through him -he said, "Well kid, some wounds just run that deep."
Tolys sluggishly arrives and takes his seat in the conference hall. He had gone drinking the night prior and is suffering from a hangover. He is approached by both Alfred and Matthew, who have brought him coffee.
They begin to bicker, and things escalate. As the two large men wrestle on the floor, Feliks leans close to Tolys with a cocky grin and says, "Looks like you were busy last night."