emmsie (crocketed) wrote,
@ 2014-05-13 23:38:00

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I'MA TRY?
Give me any one of my characters and one of yours (OR TWO OF MINE!), and I'll tell you how they end up together and about their first-born—even if they are unqualified to have children!

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BENEDICT & ALTHEA FANCOURT

crocketed
2014-05-28 08:12 pm UTC (link)

Max Fancourt and Elsie Branstone were of course Hogwarts sweethearts, and if you weren't at some point either extremely annoyed or entirely nauseated by them, then you never had the pleasure of spending more than five minutes in their presence. Well-liked in their respective houses, both went on to become house prefects fifth year and then eventually head boy and girl seventh. Their academic aspirations were not prompted by the hope of garnering the other's attention, however, and it should be noted that it wasn't until the very end of sixth year that Max finally plucked up the courage to ask Elsie if she would like the idea of going on a date with him walking around Hogwart's grounds not on duty, of course, and preferably at a time that it wasn't ungodly dark or blindingly light out. Two promenades around the lake, one ridiculous Madam Puddifoot's meal, and an exceptionally sweet Hogwarts Express goodbye kiss later, the couple finally (to a surprising amount of their peer's chagrin) made their relationship official and thus started the summer of many, many late night love letters.

Both Elsie and Max had lined up prestigious internship opportunities over the summer before their seventh years (Elsie in St. Mungo's and Max in the Minister of Magic's office), but as the law dictated, even busy worker bees had to take an hour off for lunch Monday through Friday. Between eating lunch together everyday, quaint weekend dates, and enough owls to stock shelves worth of desk draws, their workloads did not get the best of them and all-the-happier Max and Elsie stepped onto Platform 9¾ September 1st with the determination and happiness that any dating Head Boy and Head Girl would have.

Their year as Heads went by quietly, much to their relief, as Max and Elsie were for the most part accepted as approachable, fair, and honest by the student body. Their only downfall was, of course, how unbelievably perfect they seemed, which irritated and alienated quite a few of their fellow Seventh years for whatever personal reasons. But seeing as Max and Elsie rarely ever fought, and didn't put much effort into appeasing the thoughts of others concerning them, they spent their final year at Hogwarts happy, delighting in the other's success however big or small, and in love.

After finishing their education, Max's family began to pressure him to travel abroad immediately to begin his Grand Tour. However, not wanting to leave the country, or Elsie for that matter (who had been offered and already accepted a spot in St. Mungo's healing program), he instead decides to stay in England and move in with Elsie to an incredibly small but fitting for their budget flat. Determined to use appease his family while using as little of their money as little as possible, Max takes up his old job in the Minister of Magic's office and he and Elsie tentatively began what they hoped would be the beginning of the rest of their lives together. They spent the next year making jokes about how incredibly poor they were, but their lack of monetary funds never truly bothered them. Max's trust fund would always be there in case of emergencies, and Elsie wouldn't be bound to a life of destitute as an accomplished Healer.

In October of 1976, Elsie's father fell ill, but not ill enough that he was incapable of blessing Max's intent to marry his daughter. Happy to hear that Elsie's father approved of him and the family heirloom he had picked for her ring, Max proposed to Elsie Christmas Eve in their tiny little flat, and celebrated the news with their families the next day after a night of private celebrating themselves.

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BENEDICT & ALTHEA FANCOURT

crocketed
2014-05-28 08:12 pm UTC (link)

All wedding plans never came to fruition however, as March 1977 Elsie's father finally loses his battle with his illness. Devastated by this, Elsie begins to unravel. She loses her job at St. Mungo's, damages her relationships with her remaining family, and in a particularly low night, calls off her and Max's engagement. Heartbroken and overwhelmed, Max retreats from their apartment in the middle of the night and for the first time since 1974, Max and Elsie spend 48 hours out of complete contact of each other.

That is, until, Max appears on their doorstep two nights later with maps, letters, two suitcases, and a manner of conviction that neither he nor Elsie had ever seen before. After explaining to her that he has quit his Ministry job that he both knew he never liked anyway, Max spends the rest of the night convincing her to let him help her and leave the country with him so they can both start anew, leave behind everything they don't want or don't wish to remember about the UK, and do everything they could possibly want abroad. She initially resists, but after hours of persuading and many tears, that morning Max and Elsie take the first portkey out to South Africa and only return to UK again for select specific reasons.

Within the year, Max and Elsie become integral parts of their community. Elsie opens up a private healing clinic for low-income families, and Max shares his time between working in the local government and studying to become an animal healer. By 1980, both Max and Elsie have a well-know reputation for a house of healing and finally begin to feel at home with themselves again.

In 1982 they finally, quietly marry in South Africa surrounded by friends who wished they had seen the couple more over the past years. Max and Elsie find themselves back to how they used to feel; happy, and perfect, finally free from everything that had almost destroyed them in England.

Having decided they wanted to be surprised about everything concerning the birth of their child in the summer of 1985, Max and Elsie were quite surprised when after the birth of their son, the Healer told Elsie to "start pushing for the other one now!" Shocked, and happy they had decided to finalize a boy and a girl's name in advance, Benedict and Althea Fancourt ruled their parent's lives much like the circumstances of their birth, with a pleasant and shocked welcome.

Having grown up in South Africa, Benedict and Althea are a bit different than their Ravenclaw housemates. However, that has not stopped them from being just as well-received as their parents were in their Hogwarts days. Smart, curious, and caring, the Fancourt twins also have a surprisingly mischievous streak to them that their father completely attributes to their mother's half. After Hogwarts, as they are completely disinterested in any kind of healing, they have decided, as a pair, to create the next "big invention" that will rock the wizarding world just like their great-grandmother's lunascope. So far nothing ingenious as struck them yet (though they believe it lies within integrating muggle technology) and in the meantime Benedict works part time in a bookstore while he twin sister attends the muggle University of Capetown.

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