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C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Draco Malfoy
Canon: Harry Potter
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: Post-Deathly Hallows
Number: RNG me!

Setting: The setting is defined largely by the existence of the wizarding world, which describes a community of magic-capable people that remains separate from the rest of the non-magical world and the people in it, called Muggles. As well as witches and wizards, it also has almost every imaginable folkloric creature, such as centaurs, house elves, unicorns, and hippogriffs, as well as original monsters and concepts.

This society is completely separate, with its own form of governance and academia, as well as internal conflicts mostly based around a system that mingles blood politics (pureblooded wizards, half-blooded wizards, and the Muggle-born) and class politics (wealth seems to come with being an old family, and being an old family means being pureblooded, etc.), with the former being a source of two wars.

History: When the First Wizarding War came to an abrupt close with Lord Voldemort's death, Draco Malfoy was approximately one year old. He was born into a family that was deeply entrenched in what would then be considered the losing side of that war -- a battle of ideology and supremacy, the belief that those of magical quality (wizards and witches) were superior to the non-magical (muggles) to the point of fighting for a separatist society that would oppress anyone born of mixed blood or of muggles. People died, and many on the side of supremacy were arrested or likewise punished.

The Malfoy family was one of those that managed to deny their involvement. Lucius Malfoy claimed that he had been under an Imperius Curse to perform the deeds of Lord Voldemort, while his wife, Narcissa, simply upheld the ideology without any concrete attachment to the war. While notoriety tainted their reputation, it didn't do lasting damage -- even with the fall out of Lord Voldemort and how he struck fear into the hearts of almost every wizard and witch, their values were received as unsavoury at best among more powerful, political circles. They were feared rather than rejected, and the Malfoy wealth and name still held much influence.

By the time Draco was old enough to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he carried these values with him. He was sorted immediately into Slytherin, the house notorious for taking in those affiliated with Dark Magic and pureblood, and failed to make friends with the infamous Harry Potter -- a young wizard known for defeating the Dark Lord when he was only an infant. Draco's father had suggested that Potter could well have some darkness about him himself and might be a useful friend to have, but after Draco showed what an arrogant little prick he was, insulting Potter's new friend Ron Weasley for being poor and a ginger, Potter was having none of it.

So began the weirdest bully/victim relationship to ever grace the school. If Harry could not be Draco's friend, then Harry would be his rival, and Draco went out of his way to cause Harry torment and humiliation in the form of stupid pranks right through to serious potential for grievous harm. Their hatred for each other ran hot and cool -- Harry didn't like that Draco was cruel and a snob and came from a family that was probably evil and worked for the man who killed his parents and was bigoted towards Mudbloods and mean to his favourite teacher Hagrid, and Draco didn't like Harry because...

Because reasons.

Reasons mainly involving that Harry stood up to him, as well as that initial rejection of friendship, that the most famous young wizard in the world refused his hand, consigning himself to enemy. But unlike Harry's antagonism in return, this was obviously a source of entertainment for Draco, and Harry was not the only peer that Draco picked on. In his world, his school life was perfectly fine -- he had a good cabal of likeminded friends and minions in the Slytherin house, the esteem of the Slytherin Head of House, Professor Severus Snape, got a place on the Slytherin Quidditch team (never mind that he bought his way in), became a Prefect which opened up a whole field of opportunity to abuse his powers, and so on.

And then Lord Voldemort returned. This meant that the war was not over, or, worse still, was beginning anew. It meant his family had an obligation to their ties fourteen years ago -- his father, Lucius, bared a Dark Mark, making him a Death Eater, which is not the kind of title you can just abandon. It is very probable that the Malfoys were as glad as anyone else that the war was back on, and Lucius was one of Voldemort's more trusted followers. But after failing to complete a mission securing a prophecy that Voldemort wished him to retrieve, Lucius was arrested, and jailed in Azkaban.

Suddenly, the Malfoy family was on the back foot, and it was a terrible time to be so. The war was progressing with numbers amassing and plans being hatched, one of which was given to Draco. Although he at the time believed (or tried to believe) that Voldemort had chosen him, Voldemort was punishing Lucius by taking Draco in as his replacement and giving him a nigh impossible task -- Draco was given the Dark Mark and made a Death Eater, and the special mission to kill Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts and the most powerful wizard in the world.

Not unknown to Draco, his mother, Narcissa, put in place a contingency. She, along with her sister, Bellatrix, asked Severus Snape to swear to assist Draco in his task, with the fine print being that if Draco failed, then Severus was to kill Dumbledore himself. Snape agreed, and even undertook an Unbreakable Vow, which is so called because he would die if he failed to honour it.

Getting Draco to let him help was another mission entirely. Draco believed that Snape was looking to steal his glory, and underneath that, Draco also believed he couldn't save his family or himself if this happened any other way. He shut Snape out and spent his sixth year attempting rather feeble assassination plots, although not totally stupid ones. Ultimately, he was put in a position where he wound up pointing his wand at Dumbledore and trying to steal up the courage to kill him. And he couldn't.

Snape kills Dumbledore, the spoiler of a generation.

Draco, Snape, and the Death Eaters that Draco sneaked into the school all fled in a rush of chaos. His unofficial graduation.

The next year was... well, awful too, if far less pressure. Draco did not return to Hogwarts and instead, was practically under house arrest along with Lucius, returned from Azkaban, and Narcissa, while Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters made liberal use of the Malfoy Manor as a sort of headquarters. During this time, the most Draco was seen was when Harry Potter and his two friends were captured by Snatchers, who took them to the Malfoy home to turn them in for reward. Harry had been afflicted with a stinging curse to obscure his features, throwing his identity into some ambiguity -- and Draco was asked to confirm.

He didn't. And before he could be pressured further, hell broke loose when Bellatrix identified some stolen property. Naturally, Potter and co. eventually broke out, but not after a short duel wherein Harry disarmed Draco and stole his wand. Dick.

The battle of Hogwarts, the final phase of the Second Wizarding War, saw all Death Eaters and dark magic affiliates attacking the school, with Draco among them. Armed with his mother's wand, Draco went to take his own back while chaos reigned, interrupting some critical moment in the Life of Harry Potter, predictably. He failed to do so when one of his friends accidentally set fire to everything and died and Draco fled the scene promptly. As the battle lurched to a climax in form of a tense stand off, Draco was briefly called out and invited to break away from the Hogwarts rabble and stand with the Death Eaters. He did so only after his mother beckoned, enduring the world's most awkward hug from Lord Voldemort as he did so.

The battle began.

And the Malfoys left. They defected, even, which ultimately spared them another Azkaban sentence when Voldemort inevitably fell for the last time, along with Narcissa's actions in at one point having lied to Voldemort about Harry Potter's death. Later, an epilogue happens, but none of it matters because Ataraxion happens first. In the aftermath, there was a reckoning of justice and a restructure of the wizarding world as a whole, with the Malfoys slipping free as stated. Probably, this is not the society that Draco remembers, and probably departed Wizarding Britain for a time before getting ensnared by the Tranquility.

Personality: Draco Malfoy is presented to us as the Bully role of Harry Potter's high school musical, and he plays it to a tee. He is cruel in a way that indicates he delights in it, relentless in delivering insult and antagonism, with no room permitted for mercy or reflection. Any confrontation that does not go his way is immediately dropped and fled. Like many bullies, this kind of interaction is a means of demonstrating power. He had first wanted to befriend Harry, out of a sense of prestige for being pals with the Boy Who Lived, and upon rejection, aimed to be important to Harry in a different way, practically forcing them to be rivals. The only thing it even had remotely to do with Harry as a person as opposed to Harry's fame, is that Harry would actually stand up to him. How dare he.

This kind of behaviour extended to just about anyone Draco either considered he had power over or sought to have power over, and the prejudices of being pro-blood purity as well as a snob meant that he tended to target those who were lesser in comparison to these things, such as half-bloods or muggle-borns. 'Mudblood' is a slur in the wizarding world, one he freely tossed at Hermione Granger, provoking a strong reaction in the wizards and witches nearby who had context for it.

He has grown up, by the time of his canon point. At least, he's kind of grown up, and mainly by necessity. The wizarding world is not quite as he remembers it, with the aftermath of the war likely meaning that pureblood values and bigotry are less than tolerated, even among old, prestigious circles, and considering his family defected from the Death Eaters, even those of like mind (that hadn't gone to prison) probably would not associate. This means that the wind in Draco's sails is gone as far as his arrogance surrounding his position in life and his beliefs, reducing it to bare bones cruelty, contained to snapping, avoidance, and petty hostility. Far less joyful, far more apparent that it is all he really knows.

When he is much older, he will depicted to have grown more, underlined by an amicable, silent exchange with his former rival, but he a lot more maturing to get through before that ever happens. It demonstrates, however, a capability to learn better. Eventually.

He is also something of a coward. Not as much as he was prior to his sixth year, probably, wherein he would cringe and whimper when confronted with the slightest trouble. His cowardice was tested by the immense pressure of the mission he was given by Voldemort, and that he struggled against it, struggled against taking easy ways out, indicating at least a little self-awareness for this quality. All the same, he spent a year trying desperately to carry out his mission without needing to get close and personal, which was as much about fear as it was that he really didn't want to be doing it at all, but in the end, forced himself to try.

What this experience means is less that he too jaded to be that coward, but that he continues to respond badly to fear, and now in new and interesting ways -- attacking, rather than always running away. Savage bravado, instead of showing it or admitting it. He did have a bit of a whine to a ghost, but he refused to offload his burden onto his friends, preferring to cry in the loo.

When he isn't crying in the loo, there are some better qualities. Or at least, some hilarious ones. Despite demonstrating several hallmarks of being utterly soulless, Draco has some constructive relationships -- although his family might come across as cold and aloof, even to one another, they share a real bond that wound up surpassing any actual fealty they might have had to Lord Voldemort, and in the end, all the actions they took were out of interest of protecting one another. His friends are few and far between and deeply entrenched in who their parents are and where their loyalties lie, but during the last book, it's made apparent that Draco has capacity to care for them, making earnest efforts to save both Crabbe and Goyle from the Fiendfyre cast during the Battle of Hogwarts, and showing distress when Crabbe didn't make it.

On better days, with confidence in place and no one he wants to belittle in sight, he comes across as kind of harmlessly dickish. There is an obvious (delicate, but large) ego that remains in place today, a desire to show off and impress, and an enjoyment of attention. The kid that used his horrible assassination mission as a way to impress his friends by dropping hints of his new found importance at the start of the year hasn't entirely gone away, and there still exists desires to assert superiority in ways other than dragging people down. He cared about grades, he cared about being the Seeker on the Quidditch team, he cared about taking a pretty girl to the ball.

Other things that define who Draco is as a person are the relationships he has made and the way they change over the course of the series. The one with his father is certainly significant, as Draco was pretty infamous for declaring he would report all slights made against his person to his father. It's obvious that, growing up, Lucius was a somewhat aspirational figure, with Draco mimicking affect and interests and ambitions, listening to advice, sharing gossip about his school mates, and trusting that if ever Draco were in trouble, Lucius would swoop in and sort it out with a sharply written letter. Or money.

Draco's disenchantment with the Death Eater lifestyle and its cause coincides with the deterioration of his relationship with his father. Both of these were slow, hung in suspension out of necessity -- there was a long period of time where the Malfoys still relied on their side winning, on getting into Voldemort's better books, even if they no longer shared these ambitions thanks to their suffering. When the Battle of Hogwarts reduced what had once been a second home to rubble, Draco was done. He saw the useless destruction of Voldemort's cause, the deaths on either side of the line, the bleak future that would be, and wanted no part of it. His cold shouldering of Lucius is an indicator of blame for involving his family at all, a resentment that is probably set to last.

His relationship with Severus Snape is almost more complicated. When he was younger, Draco was one of Professor Snape's favoured students, in no small part because of the fact that Snape had a friendship with his parents, and was obviously aligned with the Death Eaters. And then Lucius was imprisoned and Draco witnessed, probably, a lack of empathy amongst the faction -- certainly nothing anyone could share without their loyalty being questioned -- as Death Eaters jockeyed for position in order to not die. What he saw was Severus being Voldemort's favourite, and Severus trying to ~help~ him complete his mission. His kneejerk response to this is obviously somewhat panicky, but also the hard belief that Severus couldn't be any real friend at all, instead trying to take what his father had worked to earn by also stealing Draco's mission. Admiration became suspicion, respect became hostility.

But then it became known that Severus Snape was never Voldemort's agent, but Dumbledore's. The canon never displays what Draco would have thought about all this: but the reversal of Snape's intent to help him, the lies that must have gone on all of Draco's life, all must be somewhat rendered into abstraction what with the man being dead.

The real turn around between who Draco was and who Draco is now can probably be summed up by two separate scenes. The first being when Draco crushed Harry's face under his heel and sent him paralysed back to London, and the second being his stand off with Dumbledore. The first shows a potential for much harder, much more real brutality, in the same way the series indicated the same thing of itself, along with Draco's capacity for real anger and cruelty, while the second -- when Draco wavers at the promise of protection for himself and his family, under Dumbledore's care -- shows that he does have a sense of right and wrong. It is selfishness and fear and arrogance and occasionally stupidity that has him pick the wrong, serving to contrast the small moments when, given a chance, he can also pick what's right.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: The magic of this world is very broadly encompassing, with areas of specific study such as enchantments and charms, cursing, transfiguration, potions, disappearing/reappearing, and more niche subjects like fortune telling, herbology, and so on. While limitless in application, magic is at the same time limited through requiring established spells unless invented by wizards and witches who specialise in doing so or are savants (and as a result, most magic depicted is handed down over centuries), as well as through use of a wand that is attuned to the user which assist in focusing the wizard or witch's intent.

Draco is a wizard, and despite what he might or might not believe, being pureblooded has little to do with his prowess. It helped to grow up around it and grow familiar, but ultimately, no one starts practicing magic until they are given their wand at age eleven.

While he was a passably above-average student before, with foibles like arrogance and distraction and cowardice and general adolescence, his induction into the Death Eaters saw him upskill into a formidable young wizard. He also, earlier still, demonstrated a knowledge about dark magic from simple osmosis of growing up in such a culture and learning little curses and facts beyond the Hogwarts curriculum, such as summoning a snake in a duel with Harry Potter.

His strengths lie in dueling, enchantments, and curses. He has mastered being able to block spells aimed at him and cast spells nonverbally. He has also developed the rare talent for Occlumency through training with Bellatrix Black, which is a skill allowing a wizard to block his mind from telepathic invasion, or the magical rough-equivalent of: Legilimency (which Draco cannot himself perform).

His weaknesses include a likely aversion to "light magic", or magic that revolves around good intent and love, the latter being an incredibly powerful, if not the most powerful, magical advantage. There has been a lot of darkness in Draco's life, and although he experiences a strong love for his parents (who, in turn, sincerely love him back), it's not something he would know how to harness well, specifically when his feelings are very murky and complicated. He also lacks patience and the necessary empathy for anything involving interacting with magical creatures.

There is also the very pragmatic weakness in that his wand, which he will receive, turned its allegiance to Harry Potter, and is still aligned as such. He never won it back, and so, it won't always work for him as it should. This will take extensive work to figure out. He is also limited by Tranquility rules regarding Apparating only to places he is familiar with, and never to plot-locked areas.

Inventory:

one black suit, black shirt, black tie, pair of shoes

his wand

a bottle of Superior Red

Appearance: A lanky-set young white man standing at about 5'8". He has a washed out affect, with pale skin and almost equally pale blonde hair that he usually combs neatly and keeps short. His eyes are a watery, icy blue, and his entire demeanour is generally sharp and cold. On his right arm, he has what most would consider to be a tattoo, of a skull with a snake slithering out its mouth. He is played by Tom Felton.

Age: 18

AU Clarification: n/a

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

It's been almost an hour since the last soul who endured the latest jump has departed the stasis facilities.

Second to last, anyway.

One stall in the bathroom adjoining locker ranks is sealed closed while the others remain ajar, and a pair of shiny shoes can be made out for anyone willing to peer beneath the gap of door and floor. He had come in here to think, Draco knows, and he's done that. Thought very hard. But as minutes tick by, even he might have to admit something to himself. He's not really thinking so much as he is hiding.

His breathing feels high in his chest, like his lungs are being squeezed, and the rest of him numb, the last of disorientation slow to filter out of his system beneath the glare of strange light, all this steel and glass, the jostle of-- they had to be muggles. A big dumb herd of the things, on all sides of him, pressing in. They're prisoners. Prisoners like he's a prisoner, marked and numbered and filed away.

The grip he has on his wand and why or how it's even come into his possession is another layer of mystery atop all the other bloody mysteries he's trying to wade through is white-knuckled, feeling as though he is holding onto a stick chopped off a tree yesterday, not his wand of seven years at all. Abruptly conscious, he relaxes his hand, and dips his other into the pocket he had stowed away the little glass tablet, alien to him, but obviously meant for him. This time, he touches the screen, and manages to keep a handle on his nerves when a voice sounds out: Please take the blue lift to the passenger quarters.

Draco twitches a paranoid glance up at the closed door, pocketing the tablet inside his jacket, at the same time--

There is another, answering noise. Foot steps. Someone approaching. Tension draws sharp and haughty down the slope of his jaw, Draco standing slow out of his sit on the toilet seat. Gentle, silent, he opens the door to his stall, trying to think of his wand as more than just a piece of wood, just as he steps out into the open, a long-limbed and lean shadow in black.

Movement is turned to, and he acts fast, before anyone else can; "Stupefy!"

Comms Sample:

text. anonymous.

I'M GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A "SECURITY" DEPARTMENT ON THIS DIRTY GREAT BOAT
FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, THEY JUST ABOUT LET ANY OLD RIFF RAFF IN

TELL ME HOW EXACTLY YOU PLAN TO GUARANTEE SECURITY TO ANYONE WHEN YOU'VE ONLY GOT ONE WIZARD
ONE WHO'S ONLY FAMOUS FOR BEING AN INSANE CRIMINAL
MY I FEEL SAFER ALREADY

I SUPPOSE IT'S NOT ANYONE'S FAULT THAT'S NOT COMMON KNOWLEDGE CONSIDERING

YOU'RE WELCOME