with Reader93 from AO3 and featuring acrossthetallgreenriver from tumblr

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Reader93:

I have this image in my mind where, after leaving the bank, wallburga attacks skull and it becomes this awesome duel. Because despite all his mishaps, skull is a black and Black's are /at the very least/ proficient in duelling/magic. No way about it. (Paranoid defensive measures, thy name is Black... Nice try Moody, but you'll have to have another century or so before you catch up to the well trained Black instincts.)

And I sort of want to see the reactions of the acrobaleno to ice!Cold!Skull!Voice! And then the reactions to BAMF!Dueler! Skull! - like, lackey where have you been hiding this BAMF!? How dare yo show us a lacking side!

And I have this senerio that Narcissa at the very least visits him occasionally, and each time is one of those close-calls where the other elements almost /by a hair's breadth/ finds out (because they use magic to keep their secrecy, and of course reborn, viper and verder keeps listen bugs all over Skull's apartment, he's their lackey!). And it usually ends with skull in some sort of comprising position that they walk in on. And it happens often enough that skull starts to make it into a game, then includes Narcissa into them cause their bros and need to get their kicks somewhere, plus those expressions are both hilarious and wonderful blackmail. (Bonus points for their inclusion to comprising positioning).

(Unfortunately, this means that Narcissa has strong row seat to the general disdain the acrobaleno have for skull. She has been plotting for a long time, the only reason she hasn't acted on it, is out of respect for skull. But she's patient and they'll learn why they shouldn't mess with a black soon enough...)

(Also, I imagine that no matter how much he reduces it, he still has the Black Pride. All those little inconveniences experienced by the acrobaleno? Well, they're only coincidental now aren't they?)

Nyodrite:

okay so how about...

Skull was expecting it, had his wand in his hand already even, but he was still slightly disappointed when he walked out of Gringotts and his sister's voice called, "Reducto!"

"Protego!" he said immediately, taking the time the blasting spell hit his shield - his shield cracked and bend but still kept the blast from harming him - to face his furious sister. "Rude." Skull told her before shooting off a chain of spells whose combined effect had birds of fire attacking his sister, "Incendio-Avis-Oppungo!"

"Aqua Protego!" Walburga's spell created a shield of water which made his fire-birds rather useless.

That was fine, he knew exactly how to get around water shield's, "Oodako, squeeze!" His trusty octopus companion, who'd been with him since he was a third year, dove out from where he was hiding up Skull's sleeve, size increasing rapidly as he approached his sister with tentacles raised, "Fulmen Impervio!" He called, spelling Oodako impervious to lightning because he knew if he didn't his sister would electrocute his friend.

"Saggita," she hissed, shooting arrows at his friend instead and he waved his wand to have his forgotten firebirds knock them off course. Skull had the advantage as his sister was foolish enough to start the fight in Diagon Alley, where she couldn't use her favored spells since they were illegal.

Of course, it helped that his nephew exited the bank after them and so was in a prime position to stun Walburga after the Potter boy broke through her shield with a powerful reducto.

"Thanks," Skull said as he watched his brother apparate away with their sister, trying not to wince when he became aware of the others shouting at him through his communicator. It was easy to ignore when dueling but now though... "That'd be far more troublesome without you helping, good work-" he glanced at the Potter boy, "-both of you."

Skull was nonplussed when the Potter turned red.


acrossthetallgreenriver: This is so wonderful. James your hero-worship is showing, I wonder how Sirius and the others reacted when they noticed James acquired a Sempai?

Nyodrite: Sirius is conflicted because his bestfriend is acting rediculous but on the other hand, Izzy is kind of the coolest adult ever…

Peter who I refuse to believe exists after Hogwarts is sympathetic about it because sometimes he feels the same towards James when Sirius is around

Remus is just in turns amused, because suddenly!shy!James has appeared once more, and exasperated because James always gets prickly after seeing/talking/hearing about Izar and takes it out on him since he's the one Izar remembers


Oh, yess. There was one time where Narcissa had bullied Skull into dressing in her wedding dress so she could decide on what alterations she wanted for it and Reborn comes in and just stares for a bit as Skull in a wedding dress and veil, seemingly alone in his living room and striking a pose. And Skull, the first thing he thinks to say is, "Are you going to take responsibility, Senpai?"

And yes, Narcissa has been plotting- has even dragged in Regulus and Sirius into it- on ways to get back at the Arcobaleno for when they either A) find out or B) Skull obliviates them and moves on. She has them specially tailored for each Arcobaleno; she is especially vindictive about Luce because Luce was nice to Skull but she knew about the curse before hand and didn't tell them so, to Narcissa (and the Black brothers) Luce is responsible for Skull being cursed.

It started when Reborn first dubbed Skull 'Lackey' and the hitman couldn't find his hat for days until he finally asked the rest if they'd seen it and Skull 'just so happened' to find it in Reborn's closet (look I'm not saying it had a muggle-repelling charm on it but...) but Skull really liked this way of getting back at them; he owls his nephew about prank ideas when he's particularly irritated with them.