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…I should really be ashamed of how my body reacted to Ominis speaking Parseltongue, and yet I’m not in the slightest 🤷‍♀️ that boy has the ✨rizz✨

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I know this is a totally serious moment and all that but… damn that boy is FINE

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Sebastian Sallow has some fucking audacity like what the actual fuck Sebastian, your best friend just found out his favourite aunt who wasn’t a total psychopath just died in this very place and you’re already plotting to make him cast an Unforgivable - not only that but making MC do it?!?

I get that we had no choice, we had to get out of there and NOT die but Sebastian could have given Ominis a minute to process ffs 💀

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No thoughts, just Sebastian checking his pocketwatch in the Scriptorium while I do all the work

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Don’t mind me, just crying thinking of Noctua Gaunt wanting to prove that there’s more to the family legacy than “evil cruel dark wizards”, probably thinking of Ominis (and perhaps his siblings to a certain degree, although we know they had no qualms about using Unforgivables) and hoping he wouldn’t have to grow up conforming to the family traditions.

Just… imagining Noctua and her bond with little Omi, knowing that the two of them felt the same way and putting herself in danger so that he wouldn’t have to grow up like all of the Gaunts before him, only to die feeling that she failed not only her mission but her nephew especially. She probably starved to death too, which is even worse because it means she’d have been feeling lost and like a failure for days, maybe even weeks.

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Ominis Gaunt hissing should NOT have had the effect on me it did…

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Just wanna give Ominis a hug at this point like he’s having to relive all of his family issues and traumas, and for what?!? 😭

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💀💀💀

How long has Sebastian been making puns about Ominis’ name like let’s be honest he’s probably done it since day 1 and Ominis is so over it

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Why choose one boy over the other when we have such a fun throuple OT3 situation going on - “by that logic, three is better than two”. It is simple mathematics, after all 🥰

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We could do it

✨ together ✨

I’m so glad to spend some time with Ominis to be honest, we don’t get enough Ominis in the game in my opinion so every moment with him is amazing 💚

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I’ll be honest, I’m not having a good time mentally right now. There’s a lot going on to be honest and it’s all piling up… but I must confess, I’ve tried to distract myself by imagining how Sebastian and Ominis would react to the MC being sad/depressed/having self destructive thoughts, and it made me feel a little better to imagine and pretend for a few minutes that they were there 🥺

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Angrboða Lestrange (OC)

For anyone curious, Angrboða is my Hogwarts Legacy OC for the purpose of this playthrough!

Etymology: Angrboða is the name of a jötunn in Norse mythology. In Norse legend, she is the mate of Loki and the "mother of monsters"; Fenrir the wolf, the Midgard serpent Jörmungandr, and the ruler of the dead Hel. The Old Norse name Angrboða has been translated as 'the one who brings grief', 'she-who-offers-sorrow', or 'harm-bidder'. The first element is related to the English word "anger", but means "sorrow" or "regret" in Old Norse. The second element "boða" is cognate with the English word bode as in "this does not bode well". Angrboða is also the name of one of Saturn's moons.

Nicknames: Bodhi, Boda

Birthdate: 13th January 1875

Blood-Status: Pure-Blood

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Biography

Angrboða was born in 1875 to the wealthy Lestrange family, an ancient and wealthy pure-blood family that originated in France but has branches in Great Britain. Her parents were Corvus (III) and Eglantine Lestrange, and she had an older brother who was eight years older than her who was named after their father, Corvus (IV).

As a child, Angrboða didn’t seem to show any signs of magical power, much to the disgust of her parents who despised the idea that their daughter was a Squib; the only reason they didn’t rid themselves of her is because of the Lestrange family motto, “Corvus oculum corvi non eruit” - “a crow will not pull out the eye of another crow”, representing how members of the family will not turn their backs on each other. Still, the shame of having what they thought was a Squib for a daughter made them try to hide her away, and many people - including many of their own family - didn’t even know that they had a daughter. As a result, Angrboða was not included on the Lestrange family tree that would later be found by her niece, Corvus’ daughter Leta, at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in 1927.

Growing up, Angrboða tried hard to show her family that she wasn’t useless - that even if she didn’t have magical abilities, she would still worth something to them. It was to no avail, of course; her family despised muggles, muggle-borns and Squibs, and the fact she didn’t appear to have any abilities meant she was completely loathsome to them. Over time, Angrboða developed a love of reading and writing, pastimes that she spent hours doing when locked away in her room or trying to hide from her brother, who quickly developed a penchant for practicing certain spells on her - he never did it in front of their parents, but she knew that they were aware and simply chose to turn a blind eye to it.

Angrboða’s magical abilities only began to show when she was fifteen, and she was both surprised and overjoyed to learn that she was not a Squib after all - she had thought that perhaps her parents might then care for her, that her brother might apologise for bullying and mocking her all those years… but the damage was already done. Of course her parents weren’t going to forbid her from attending Hogwarts, of course she would attend now, but they made it clear that it changed nothing: she would always be a disappointment to them, and nothing she did would ever change that. Still, a small part of her hoped that they might change their minds if she proved herself to them, if she showed them how good a witch she could be.

Other Things

Boggart: Spiders (she's about to have a REALLY bad year)

Wand: Dogwood with Dragon Heartstring, 13 inches and pliant

Favourite Class(es): Care of Magical Creatures, Defence Against the Dark Arts

Least Favourite Class(es): Divination (sorry Professor Onai!), History of Magic (but only because it's delivered in such a dry and dull way - she might like it if it was delivered in a better way)

Favourite Magical Creatures: NIFFLERS. They're little thieves and she adores the absolute fucking shit out of them. She loves all magical creatures except Acromantulas fuck those assholes and if she could, she'd totally try to put a dragon in one of her vivariums.

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Honestly a valid question, Sebastian and MC are going to make Ominis go grey with their antics before he graduates Hogwarts

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Seeing a lot of you compliment my MC and her hair, and I feel bad now because I gave her a different haircut at some point so most of the screenshots after the Scriptorium quest feature a different hairstyle 😭 there’s a huge delay between me playing and me uploading screenshots right now, I’m really sorry, and so in truth I’ve finished Sebastian’s quest line with this character and am in the process of uploading screenshots still.

Having said that, I’m fully open to replaying the game with the same character at some point, obviously I want to do other playthroughs with different characters in the other houses (for fun of course), so I will definitely be redoing all of this once I can figure out how to capture my gameplay properly (perhaps for videos? Idk)

But yeah, apologies in advance became the MC got a new hairstyle - the in universe explanation was she wanted to impress Sebastian but of course he didn’t notice a thing because he’s… well… Sebastian, and his focus is 100% on finding a cure for Anne 😅

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Honestly at this point I’m strongly considering an OT3 of Sebastian x MC x Ominis because both of those boys are gorgeous 😭 I can’t choose between them, I’m sorry-

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✨ ASDFGHJKL ✨

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I have to admire the balls of MC because the last conversation she had with Ominis was him threatening her outside the Undercroft 💀

Also love me some stubborn Slytherin boys 🥰