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a constellation of tears on your lashes

Name r(eili von wildcat)
Age I was born the year Harry Potter entered Hogwarts, so.
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Is your character from this verse? Y.
Is your character aged up/down? N.

character

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. (Genesis 4:10)

Name Credence Barebone
Gender Male
Blood Status I'm gonna go with he's a pureblood, but registered as a half blood because he only knows his mother is a witch.
Date of Birth/Age December 24, 1902 | 23¹

Hair/Eye Color Black | Brown
Height/Build 5'11" | lanky
Distinguishing Marks His back is quite scarred, but other than that not much.

Marital Status Not married.
Sexuality Bi/homosexual. He's kinda [wobbly hand motion] about female-identifying folks but also all the ones he knows are horrible or like 8 so there's some wiggle room. He's honestly just into people that are nice to him.

School N/A.²
House N/A.
Year N/A.

Affiliation . . . Gellart Grindlewald, technically, although he believes him to be Percival Graves. In-game, he doesn't have one yet.
Occupation Works at the second-hand book store in Diagon Alley.³
Residence The Leaky Cauldron
P.O. Box Right here!

personality

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Genesis 49:7)

Credence is made of contradiction. He's from a time period of excess, of flappers and speakeasies, of queerness and finding the spaces you can squeeze yourself into to make a home. All of this is happening in the world Credence comes from, but he's untouched by all of it. Instead, he's been raised within the the Second Salem church: an austere, insidious organization descended from the Scourers, a group of people who want nothing more than to wipe out magic.

Because of the Second Salem church's mission, Mary Lou Barebone was especially tough on Credence, whose mother was a witch, while he was growing up. This harsh upbringing created the Obscurus that lives within Credence: a manifestation of the divide between who Credence wants to be and who he is. By pushing down the nature of his magic, he's developed to be outwardly soft-spoken, quiet, and unobtrusive - a very testament to the adage "children should be seen and not heard." This unassuming nature allows Credence to blend into the background of wherever he happens to be and observe the things that are going on around him. Despite not having any formal schooling, Credence spends most of his observing other people and has become quite intuitive and intelligent - the only problem is he frames anything he's learned within in his limited worldview.

There's a lot of things that Credence has no frame of reference for, so he'll apply what he knows to what's happening and not always come to the correct conclusion. A good is example is the way Credence tends to view everything as a risk whether or not it reasonably is one, thanks to the way Mary Lou treated him. Somewhere, deep down, Credence knows about the darkness that lives inside of him and, in an effort to keep it from escaping, he's developed a somewhat nervous demeanor. Situations that might cause him stress make him anxious because Credence is always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Any situation he doesn't have experience with is a potential disaster waiting to happen, so Credence tends to deflect and try and keep situations under control but he doesn't always succeed.

Poor control of the Obscurus has made Credence constantly afraid he'll lose control, and for this reason Credence is a person that is consistently afraid to take risks, which is at odds with his internal need to rebel. Inwardly Credence is a tempest of rage and vengeance and when people wrong him, he gets even. Unfortunately, "getting even" for Credence usually means the other person ends up dead, so he carefully weighs the risk and reward for every choice he makes. His priorities can be quite childish and naive, however. Credence craves love and other people's approval, thanks to Mary Lou's conspicuous lack of anything resembling affection, and he's willing to do a lot for even the barest amount of kindness.

It's the combination of Credence's limited worldview and his naiveté that leaves him especially vulnerable to manipulation from outside forces. On one hand, Credence wants Mary Lou's approval and love and is afraid to do anything that goes against her. On the other hand, Credence desperately wants to know magic - to be something more - and that want outweighs his knowledge that Mary Lou is never going to love him. For all of the treatment he's endured, Credence wants to believe people are genuine and that they're telling him the truth, and sometimes they are! But most of the time they aren't and well. Credence doesn't take kindly to being lied to.

history

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Revelation 11:7)

HP Wiki Link Here.
Family Mary Lou Barebone (adoptive mother), Chastity and Modesty Barebone (adoptive sisters), unnamed biological mother and father⁴, Bartholomew Barebone (ancestor by way of adoption)

characters from this verse:
At some point, Credence was born to two witchy parents who died under Strange Circumstances. Instead of being given to another wizarding family, however, Credence ended up in the care of Mary Lou Barebone. Descended from the Scourers, people who would like nothing better than to wipe out magic in America, Mary Lou believed that she could beat the magic out of young Credence and for most intents and purposes she suceeded. Credence displayed no signs of being a wizard, despite being the child of two wizards, but under that perfect exterior lurked a dark inner force of Credence that constantly threatened to take over.

Which was fine, until Credence's 24th birthday loomed and things went a little bit to shit.

First: the wizarding world finally took notice of the Second Salem church, resulting in Porpentina Goldstein being demoted to wand permits after defending Credence. Second: Credence's control over the dark forces within him begins to fray, resulting in a series of strange deaths and property destruction. Third: Percival Graves comes to check on Credence briefly, slightly concerned about the fact that Credence seems to remember the incident with Goldstein even though his memories should have been wiped.

Fourth, and most importantly: Gellert Grindlewald comes to America in search of a mythical form of dark magic known as an Obscurus.

Taking the form of Percival Graves, Grindlewald comes to Credence and asks him to search for the child he believes to be the host of the obscurus. The responsibility frays Credence's control even further, causing him to lash out against people who've wronged him and kill . . . Senator Shaw and just about everyone else at his dinner party. Mary Lou, suspecting something is amiss, puts even more stress on Credence and eventually he's standing on the ruins of the church he once lived in, trying to deal with the weight of what he's done. In his distress, Credence touches the Deathly Hallows necklace that Grindlewald gave to him and is transported to London of the future, now under the Riddle Administration.

Essentially: Credence Barebone is a fucking mess upon arrival. He's a mess and he's never been outside of New York so he's had a rough time adjusting.

He has, however, uncomfortably settled in this unfamiliar new world over the month he's been around, having been escorted to the Ministry soon after arrival and registered as a half-blood. He religiously follows curfew, the very model of what the higher-ups probably want to see, and it's that upstanding and understated nature that landed him a job working at the second-hand bookstore. Well, okay. Mostly he just spent so much time there that the owner finally asked if he wanted to work there so at least he had a reason to be hanging around. He mostly shelves new arrivals and dusts, rarely talking to patrons unless he's directly spoken to, but he's proven to be hardworking and polite, if not friendly. When he's not working, Credence can often be found at Fortescue's trying literally every kind of ice cream. He's never had ice cream before arriving in London, and it's his new favorite thing. In fact, he's rarely seen eating anything else.

Although Credence hadn't had a reason to move out of the room he was assigned at the Leaky Cauldron, they were starting to look less than pleased at his presence as more arrivals from all time periods arrived and space became limited so he's in the market for a new place to live, which is kinda difficult when . . . you're from the past and also not British.

abilities

And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. (Matthew 9:33)

• Obscurus: Credence is in possession of an obscurus, which is a form of parasitic dark magic that's . . . a thing. Credence seems to have a certain level of control over it - although the more stressed out he becomes, the more likely he is to harm people by accident.


• Wandless+Wordless Magic: Technically an extension of the Obscurus, Credence can do a form of wandless and wordless magic that is probably impossible for others to replicate. It's not particularly predictable, Credence tends to just think things and they happen.


• Weird Physiology: Being an Obscurial, Credence has some . . . physical weirdness. As I play him, it's mostly limited to the fact that he doesn't need to eat as much as other people if he doesn't want to and the smoke form seen at the end of the movie. He . . . prefers the corporeal form, but will revert to smoke if he gets stressed out and needs to be convinced to become corporeal again.

samples

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. (Proverbs 10:12)

NETWORK

[The writing of the M.I.A.V.I. post is extremely carefully and precisely formed.]

I was told asking a question through this would be easier than asking several individual people. Being unfamiliar with witchcraft what hath happened since the time I am from, I would appreciate any recommendation of books I might use to learn.

LOG⁵

Credence knows, even before it happens, that his fragile grasp on his coporeal form is slipping. The street he's on loud and full of people brushing past him, and Credence doesn't recognize any of them. Not that he's expecting to - he can't quite place the accents of everyone around him, but this is obviously not New York and that's a frightening prospect.

In the end, that's really what causes him to slip. The whole situation is stressful, but it's no worse than anything he's encountered handing out flyers on the streets of New York. People pass him by, the streets always full and bustling, but there's a certain familiarity to it that he doesn't have here. He's never been outside of the city, and now he's . . . here, wherever here is. Somewhere were magic comes as freely as breathing. Something between a nightmare and a dream.

Credence tries to keep himself together, he really does, but he just can't. He destroys something as the obscurus rips out of him, crashing through it as he tries to pull himself back together and fails. Distantly, Credence is aware that there are people nearby and he shouldn't. He tries not to hurt them; he doesn't want to hurt them, but it's hard to keep anything straight when he's more smoke than human. More monster than man.

other

Burn everything you love, then burn the ashes

¹ He would have turned 24 fairly soon after the events of Fantastic Beasts. In case you were wondering. ↑

² Credence did not attend formal school. He was primarily home-schooled by Mary Lou and knows how to read and write (although his spellings can be creative, thanks to the fact that he's most familiar with the King James Bible), but he's got very little idea about math and almost no concept of science. Or magic. You know, as you do. ↑

³ Because having him work at Obscurus Books is probably too shitposty. ↑

⁴ Sidenote: they're the Dashwoods, if they really need a name. ↑

⁵ I mostly wrote one for the aesthetic of it. Here is a TDM link, for a total of 2. ↑

Bonus gif of Ezra, because everyone deserves a gif of Ezra: