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“Did you hear that howl?” | Newt @ Tristan!Gellert- he sounds terribly excited where most would sound terrified.

{ Late Night Wanderings } 

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“If you’re referring to the cacophony of demons that just let loose a few moments ago I daresay it was hard not to,” Tristan returned blandly, even as he straightened himself up calmly. “I trust you recognize the call, Mister Scamander?” Although hardly a master of beasts like the man before him, there was a broad enough understanding for what happened to magical creatures this close to Muggle settlements for a genuine strain of alarm to course through him. “I can seal off the area, if you feel it necessary.” 

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“ what do you remember?” | Newt poppin in on Jacob in his bakery sometime after NY

{ Interrogation Starters } 

“What do I remember? What don’t I remember?” The affable tones were bright as the smile that preceded them – even if that secondary question might have held some real inquiry behind it. There were – gaps, at times, odd jumps that didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but he had a feeling things would fill in now. 

“I remember you of course!” Jacob laughed, his hand still holding on to Newt’s arm like he thought the man might disappear into thin air on him or something. ( And he could do that, too! For real! He’d had dreams about that popping, wooshing sound for weeks! ) “And Queenie – “ Gosh, who could forget her? “And Tina! And of course all your friends! How are those occamy fellas doin’ anyway?” 

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✶ ✶ ✶ Do you like Queenie Goldstein?  If not, what’s wrong with you, look at this angel!  Give this post a like or a helpful reblog if you’d like to come give this sweet little queen a hug, or perhaps a tidbit of pain.  Come on over, friends, we don’t bite!  Hard. ✶ ✶ ✶

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Sixx: A.M. — Prayers For The Blessed  {Sentence Starters}

  • ❛❛

    I am sick of being told how to feel by the old, the decrepit, and the greedy rich. ❜❜ 

  • ❛❛ Are you gonna stand up? ❜❜ 
  • ❛❛ Say a prayer for the blessed. ❜❜ 
  • ❛❛ Do you want to die? ❜❜
  • ❛❛ Are you going to fight back? ❜❜
  • ❛❛ I see the shock when you face it. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ We couldn’t take it so we got a little wasted. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ I’d really love to hear the sound of your voice. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ You gotta burn it down. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ You can try to kill yourself, but you can never kill me. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ We will not go quietly. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ They’re gonna try to take the blood from your veins when you open your eyes. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ The only people that you find will betray us. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ You gotta give them hell. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ You’re out there all alone. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ Everything you touch is so cold. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    You might feel like you’re dying, like you’re digging your own grave. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ It’s never too late to fall on your sword. ❜❜
  • ❛❛ Don’t be alarmed, you’re not alone anymore. I’ll be right by your side. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    I’ve seen my assassin; I’ve even held her hand. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ All the scars, all the lines on my face… they show the times I’ve abandoned my own life. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    Maybe I’ll sober up; maybe before I die.  

    ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    When I was young, I was dumb. I was never strong enough.   ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I don’t know what’s haunting me or where I’ll be tomorrow. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I’ll fan the flames that burn inside of me. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I’m in chains. I can’t explain. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    This is how it feels when you lose a war. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ You’ve got a death wish. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    My heart is shattered. You cut like a dagger that’s gonna leave a scar. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    Hell is gonna damn the road you’re on. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I can’t forget this evening, or your face as you were leaving. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    You always smile, but in your eyes the sorrow shows. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I can’t live if living is without you. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I was suffocated where I stand, but I’m not just the shadow of a man. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I only wish you would’ve begged. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ Sometimes the bleakest days are the only place to hide. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    You can’t ever smile, you can’t ever breathe.

    ❜❜

  • ❛❛ You can’t have a soul. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    You should have seen this coming when you chose him over me. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I might as well be left for good and dead. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I look back at all those burning summer nights when you said you’d love me ‘til the end of time. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    Even though I pulled the trigger, you’re the one who just blew out his brains. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    You’re the one to blame; I’ll just plead that I’m insane. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    No matter what you need, don’t shed a tear for me. ‘Cause this was worth it. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    No matter what you need, I got revenge, my dear. So this was worth it. ❜❜

  • ❛❛

    I’ve got Jesus breathing down my neck, and angels gather like crows. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ You left me here all alone to suffer. Why’d you have to go? ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    I wish that I could hold you, and say the things I never told you. ❜❜

  • ❛❛ If I could, I’d bring you back to life for one more chance, just you and I. ❜❜
  • ❛❛

    I wish we never had to say goodbye. ❜❜

memesfromstuff:

*: ･ﾟ✧   interrogation starters.

feel free to change pronouns etc as needed.

CALM / QUESTIONING.

  • “ tell me, what happened?”
  • “ did you see anything?”
  • “ what do you remember?”
  • “ do you remember anything unusual?”
  • “ please, try to remember as much as you can.”
  • “ every detail is important.”
  • “ and what happened next?”
  • “ and what did you do when all this took place?”
  • “ what were you doing around __ am/pm?”
  • “ where were you around __ am/pm?”
  • “ can anyone verify that?”
  • “ was someone with you?”
  • “ and you had nothing to do with it?”
  • “ and you weren’t involved?”
  • “ did you see it happen?”
  • “ did you see who did it?”
  • “ did you see or hear anything? anything at all?”

CARING / UNDERSTANDING.

  •  “ you seem scared… is that why you don’t want to talk?”
  • “ did someone hurt you?”
  • “ it’s okay. you can tell me.”
  • “ you were just trying to defend yourself, weren’t you?”
  • “ we can take a break, if you want.”
  • “ everything will be okay, i promise. but you need to talk to me.”
  • “ it’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it. but it really would help if you did.”

SUSPICIOUS.

  • “ there is something you’re not telling me.”
  • “ i think you’re lying.”
  • “ you looked away just now when you said that. are you sure you’re telling the truth?”
  • “ except what you’re telling me doesn’t align with what we already know.”
  • “ seems to me like you know more than you’re letting in on.”
  • “ what aren’t you telling me?”
  • “ who are you trying to protect?”
  • “ so you really don’t know what any of it means? no clue at all?”
  • “ they must’ve told you more than that.”
  • “ you have to have seen more than that.”
  • “ and you want me to believe you don’t remember?”
  • “ and you want me to believe you had nothing to do with it?”
  • “ an accident? is that what you’re going with?”

DEMANDING.

  • “ i need you to tell me the truth.”
  • “ i need you to tell me what happened.”
  • “ i know you’re not telling me the truth.”
  • “ that doesn’t line up with the evidence. so… you wanna try that again?”
  • “ stop lying. i already know that’s not what happened.”

MAKING A DEAL / ASKING FOR HELP / DEMANDING HELP.

  • “ what do you want in exchange for this information?”
  • “ i’m listening…”
  • “ you’re coming with me.”
  • “ since you’re the only one who knows how to find them, i don’t really have a choice but to take you with me.”
  • “ fine. i’ll take you with me, but if you try anything…”
  • “ i can’t give you that. you know that.”
  • “ if we’re going to make a deal, you’re gonna have to ask for something a little more rational than that.”
  • “ okay. we have a deal.”
  • “ sorry. no deal.”

This is a headcanon pertaining to Very Particular Verbal Triggers of Jacob’s that we kind of see in CoG but are not presented the way that I write him.

— okay. Jacob would be absolutely furious if anyone called him a coward. Full stop, his rage would be very real, very raw, and very flooded with recollection of What He Did To Survive and the shit he had to go through in the War. And the fact that he wrote papers to illustrate how fucking terrible it was – those kinds of men were seen as cowards – and that is a big trigger for him not going to lie. 

Part of him wonders if he was a coward for writing those papers and he hates that because he knows the people fucking calling him a coward don’t know fucking shit about what he saw, and they wont know, because he and the boys fought the war so they wouldn’t, but goddamn if it doesn’t grind his gears when anyone tries to call him a coward.

So yeah. Absolutely, that would be a Nigh Unforgivable Line Crossed, but crazy? No. No no, he might say or think some regrettable things – like stupid, ignorant, arrogant, self-centered and even fuck you – but he wouldn’t go for crazy for the very simple reason that he hates that word just as much. He hates it. 

The amount of men who have been called crazy because the war Fucked Them Up is astronomical. The amount of men he knows who have been quietly put away and labelled with Women’s Disease ( aka: hysteria )  because the War Fucked Them Up is also astronomical. Crazy is just as much of a trigger word for Jacob as coward. Its not a word he would use to describe a person. A situation, yeah very much so – but never a person.

 

This is mostly me copying what I already have up in Jacob’s bio and sharing his CoG verse, with a little bit of expansion regarding how my lad will be operating through Crimes of Grindelwald. 

I have yet to decide how I feel about Jacob and Queenie here – because while part of me likes there being a reason for one of the main four to split off and join the wrong side of the war, I am not sure how I feel about this particular attempt at the arc. For now, I will be divergent, and work with Queenie players on a case by case basis, developing matters with them based on how they want to run matters.

Not Another War is absolutely pivotal though, as Jacob is a WWI veteran who was deeply affected by what he saw during his time among the expeditionary forces. I will be writing Jacob strongly from this perspective rather than from a romantic angle as a fair warning, regardless of what tale is woven by any portrayal of Queenie.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND — I loved Jacob and Queenie in the first movie. I would love to explore them reuniting and forming a friendship — and while romance is something that can be discussed, this is not my primary focus in writing Jacob. His fascination with magic, his perspective as a Muggle on the brink of a wizarding war and his unique knowledge as a veteran are why I picked Jacob up to begin with. Considering how their “romance” went in Crimes I uh – I can’t get behind it for the following reasons:

  • It grants neither one of them any fucking autonomy – Queenie is more than an extension of Jacob, and Jacob is more than an extension of Queenie. They should have been allowed to develop as their own people rather than shoehorned into a relationship that was budding naturally last time we saw it. 
  • IDK I just feel like Queenie, who has had so much forced on her in her life, would be the last person to ever force someone to stand beside her? She has too much empathy for that – her heart is too kind for that – and while I LOVE the idea of Grindelwald seducing her because her heart is so big – I cannot see her being so quickly won over, I cannot see her being so ? Wildly selfish and entitled with Jacob like ? I loved that Queenie was a gentle soul – this was strangely aggressive and it felt very off key ? She never wanted ownership of him before so. IDK. IDK like I said I leave all this to the Queenies to determine but at the end of the day I won’t be writing a Love Potioned Jacob – ever. 

  • The whole. Crazy thing. Jacob – yknow what this gets its own post.

CoG Compatible Main Verse: Not Another War

Following my initial main verse, I am pleased to find that my theory that Jacob didn’t have ‘bad’ memories being what saved him was made canon. However – in light of the narrative taken in the films – this verse is divergent, and Queenie will be addressed case-by-case.

The divergence here is that due to Queenie finding him again and their friendship / budding romance causing strife with Tina ( not to mention a conflict of interest what with her being an auror again! ) Jacob decided to take things into his own hands a little and give the sisters some space. As Newt was trapped in England with his license to travel revoked, Jacob made his way to London on his own in search of his friend – and the adventure there carries on much the same.

Jacob will aid Newt in general, serving as a friend and companion – though when he sees Queenie in the crystal ball, surrounded by what looks like trouble – he’s not about to sit that out. Which leads to him being there for Grindelwald’s presentation, and the horrors that follow – the idea of another war chills him, and the darker side of magic fills him with a deep sense of dread. He will need his friends now more than ever – but he also has a strange feeling, they’re going to need him, too.

After some discussions while I skitter around trying to figure out my thoughts regarding Crimes of Grindelwald, I have decided to post How To guides for plotting purposes. I shall start with the easiest one – Abernathy. 

Abernathy’s history was designed very specifically, as I wanted to use him from the very beginning as a means of challenging the idea that Percival Graves – 

Director of Magical Security and Head of Magical Law Enforcement – overall Very Public Figure – was impersonated without anybody noticing, or any follow up being taken to find out what the fuck happened to Graves, anyway? Because we know from Goblet of Fire you need a living human for Polyjuice to work. 

He is an ambitious person and one with very complex loyalties – the kind that can get pretty disastrous pretty fast, given that he has a do whatever it takes attitude when it comes to defending those who have managed to earn that loyalty. He is fastidious, and extremely goal and rule oriented which doesn’t make for the best personality sometimes, but ultimately speaking his heart is usually in the right place he just doesn’t know when to stop. 

The fandom was hugely anti-Abernathy when I first started writing him, prompting his original url to be fuckyouabernathy – and yes, that url still belongs to me, and no, I will not be relinquishing it so long as I live. That said, due to how virulent some of the things could get, I did incorporate an element of that hatred into his character because I felt it was pretty important to touch on.  

Between that, the very misconstrued ‘oh good gravy’ moment being labelled as this idea he was Hot For Queenie and the idea that he’s So Damn Awful To Tina as if there aren’t completely justifiable reasons for his frustration AND FOR HERS – I was pretty nervous about what the movie was going to do with my son who – considering he didn’t even get a first name in Film One – I had kiiinda hoped would be a throwaway character I could do what I wanted with forever and nobody could stop me. 

So imagine my IMMENSE SURPRISE AND DELIGHT when I realized the following.

From day ONE I have had a verse where Abernathy – being seen as a nosy desk jockey with no prospects and even less threat but a Prestigious Family Line – manages to weasel his way into helping Grindelwald because he wants to find Percival Graves despite knowing that Graves himself would be livid that he aided and abetted a war criminal to achieve it.

ABERNATHY IS FUCKING SMART. He isn’t going to reveal himself until he has Graves and can bring him back. He is willing to sacrifice his career for it because partly, its the right thing to do in his strange little head but also, because he feels guilty – he liked Graves well enough, and I do headcanon that while Graves never really gave Abernathy the time of day, he was never outrightly cruel either. 

Mainly cause Abernathy barely even registered to him, lets be real. They had a positive working relationship because Graves didn’t see much in Abernathy beyond a strong work ethic, and Abernathy liked Graves because he was efficient, good at his job, allowed Abernathy to do his job, and was never an outright asshole. 

But the idea that nobody noticed – the idea that he had been hoodwinked as well, that he had allowed Graves to suffer who knows what because he hadn’t paid enough attention – well it triggers him right into that loyalty issue he has with his brother. He immediately has to understand and to fix it and to somehow show Graves he has someone in his corner.

So having him lose his own tongue to aid Gellert Grindelwald in escaping MACUSA custody – having him act like a quiet and supportive burr to Grindelwald – makes perfect sense for my portrayal. He wants to be close enough to Grindelwald to discover where Graves is – but also obscure enough to Grindelwald to never present himself as a threat, because he doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell.

Kid knows his strengths, and going toe to toe with Grindelwald is not gonna happen. But yes – in short, Abernathy remains loyal to Graves and to his Own Sense Of Right – he is not a Grindelwald fanatic, he is not a follower – but he is a very determined kind of dumbass. And if you’re wondering how he fooled the fire, well it all ties to the fact I write him as an occlumens.

Plotting wise, this can go a lot of places because he IS contemptuous of MACUSA and he is bitterly angry and upset on Graves’ behalf. On the other hand Grindelwald is everything Graves opposes so he’s in a pickle that could make him susceptible to people like Tina or Queenie or Newt if they hit him upside the head with a shoe made of better logic. 

BTW I HAVE A THEORY RE: THAT THING IN COG

I don’t think Gellert actually knows who Credence is – and I also don’t think he cares. Eliminating all access to the truth was very important though because it ensures that Credence has ?? no way of finding out.

Gellert already knows how powerful Credence is. He can make Credence into the weapon he needs
by crafting a very good story – one that gives him a family but also creates a target, the one thing Gellert himself cannot fight against. Where Albus chose Newt as his champion  –  Gellert chose Credence.

The phoenix is a red herring – more for the audience than for Credence – but a very good one cause ‘the audience’ is not just us, but Grindelwald’s followers who need to believe that Credence Is A Dumbledore – and through this, support him.   

I MEAN IT DOESNT. APPLY FOR SHIT WITH MY GELLERT. 

BUT IF I WAS WRITING THESE —- THAT WOULD BE MY SURPRISE TWIST + something something for who Credence is actually related to.