@quaintnecromancer I don't want to post this huge fucking idea under someone else's post because I feel like I'd annoy them, but...
Sickeningly familiar...
What if... and I'm just ranting my fanon about it here, but...
Enver didn't want to become famous with his father's name - that man literally sold him to a warlock (devil), and he wouldn't make history with that name. No. He'd break away from that. He is the master of his own fate, and from nothing he'd emerge as something new, something different than his father, thank you very much.
He'd carve a future and a legacy through a name he invented for himself because his parents, especially his father, don't deserve a single gold piece from the fortune and power he'd acquired on his own.
In fact, he goes as far that he takes free will from his parents, because when they had that free will, they've valued their business and gold more than the life and well-being of their own son. They've tossed him in the hands of people who tortured him for fun as a kid. When he should've felt safe and taken care of, everything was taken from him, from his freedom to his dignity. Just because they were bored and they loved it when he begged and screamed.
Fuck that. Fuck the Flymm name.
So he wondered - he needs a good, strong name he could call his own, one that wouldn't make him feel angry whenever he heard it, and he has a few ideas. Eventually, he settles for an idea that the Dark Urge comes up with.
And he fucking loves it. That's him.
Enver Gortash. Strong. Regal. Merciless. Fit for a Banite, much better than the weak and pathetic Flymm.
Enver Flymm is the boy who had been sold, locked up, and beaten for entertainment.
Enver Gortash is the mastermind who seized power and became the most influential politician and inventor of Baldur's Gate and made his adversaries kneel.
Sickeningly familiar... because the Dark Urge helped to create it. And if anyone dared to call Enver Flymm and not Gortash, the Dark Urge relieved them of their tongue on the spot. After a few incidents like that, people collectively stopped ever calling him Flymm again.
One another idea: he'd kept the name Enver because that name came from his mother, and despite everything, deep down, he still loves her. Abandoning the name Flymm rather tells a story about the conflict between father and son; perhaps they've been spared because of his mother. Perhaps that's why he kept Enver, too.
Yet another idea: he keeps the name of his father's business the same, while he owns it, of course. Just to rub it in.
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don't think about it - marauder's version
don't think about the marauders all throughout their hogwarts years looking forward to all growing old together
don't think about them as seventh years, now including lily in that group.
don't think about the five of them on the wedding day, all happy and celebrating
don't thinking about them all having fun with harry when he's just a baby, planning to continue their legacy through him
now don't imagine peter being there, at that house, for months, knowing what's about to happen to his best friends
don't imagine all five of them sitting on the floor a few months before halloween, joking and playing with harry while peter seems a little off
don't think about that halloween night, when they all know their lives will never be the same
don't imagine sirius and remus feeling the unbearable pain of knowing that two of their oldest and closest friends are gone forever, at the fault of one of their other mates
don't imagine peter knowing he's ruined everything the moment he finds out that voldemort was successful in killing james and lily
don't imagine sirius sitting in his cell in azkaban, four days after his group of best friends was torn apart, singing happy birthday to himself quietly
don't imagine remus, all alone again
don't imagine him having to deal with full moons by himself again
don't imagine the next thirteen years being agony for all three of them, peter guilty, sirius imprisoned, and remus alone
don't imagine sirius believing he deserved to be locked up in a depressing slab of rock, blaming himself
don't imagine the betrayal sirius felt when he saw peter as scabbers in that newspaper
don't imagine remus hearing about sirius escaping, and struggling with feelings of hatred and hope, still thinking that his absolute best friend and lover killed the other three
don't imagine sirius fighting to survive every day for months after he's escaped with likely barely any food and so little strength
don't imagine him crossing the country to where he will finally get revenge on the culprit for james and lily's deaths, fueled by anger alone
don't imagine him finding out that remus is back at hogwarts as a teacher and being so excited to see his old friend after so long
don't imagine them reuniting and working to capture peter, with a spitting image of young james standing right next to them
don't imagine them having to constantly remind themselves that this is not james, this is another person
don't imagine them replaying all the good moments with their friend, along with the painful memories of the fateful halloween night that stain their minds with incurable spots of betrayal and hurt every time they see him
don't imagine them taking upon themselves the responsibility to do every single thing in their power to protect this boy at all costs so that he doesn't meet the same fate as his parents
don't imagine them feeling overwhelmingly responsible every time he's hurt or in danger, even when they know they couldn't have done anything
don't imagine the two most restless souls you'll ever meet be forced to sit still as others do the dangerous work.
now don't you dare imagine remus watching sirius fall through the curtain, having to hold harry back so that both of them don't run screaming after sirius
don't imagine him having to go through knowing he won't be able to see his closest, most dependable friend who he's loved known for almost two decades for the second time
don't imagine him knowing that he won't be seeing sirius again
don't imagine it
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