Stolen because he's not ashamed to admit he's a thief.
What are five ideas/concepts/etc you keep in mind while writing your character that you believe are essential to accurately depicting them? Why did you choose them? How do they relate to the character’s over all persona?
Judas is not English.
That’s kind of a strange point with Judas especially because the last time he was in Japan, he was four years old and he won’t be back till he’s graduated from Hogwarts. It’s a conscious decision for Judas to alienate himself from his family. He chooses to be a stranger in a strange land and in that way he’s wasteful in a way other characters like him weren’t. My original intention was to have Judas be “lost” to prove that point. You can have nothing and lose and conversely, you can everything and still lose. That despite how many gains were made after three wars, and ten years: there are still tragedies.
As it is, Judas will have to learn the same things everyone does and he’s chosen to do it gradually, painfully, and in steps.
Judas is Lily Evans’ son.
Lily and her kindness are one of Judas’ defining factors, something of his core. He is her son, he knows forgiveness, and that way she loves perhaps not wisely but definitely strong enough to pass through hell for the person he loves. He has that courage to do things people normally wouldn’t do- for love, and for family. He is grounded by her sense of family, and pride.
Judas views himself as Severus, Alexander and Sumi’s heir
He’s not their son. He’s the heir and once again, made a choice to be that. Severus was very adamantly against him changing his name from Xavier Oonda to Judas Snape and I think as a kid (in my canon he was eight or so), hearing stories of honor and dignity he must have seen that as shame, and tries to alleviate that by being their heir. He is a Death Eater Prince, and tries to be proud of that- even though he isn’t. It throws him into questioning everything as he tries to find an excuse for darkness instead of embracing of it.
Judas doesn’t know the world he would have been pushed into
There’s a whole mess load of back story that I’ve created for the Oonda to explain at least in my head why Alexander and Sum are they way they are, and it helps set up this world that Judas disappears into for years when he’s done with school.
It’s almost like he couldn’t be broken by Voldemort so he went searching for a darkness that was similar so he could understand his fathers and Sumi. He wasn’t content to just hear about the bad things: he had to see it. He had to taste it. I’m not saying he was innocent, although he was much more a victim then his father ever was, and like everyone who delves into Dark Magic; when he comes out of it he’ll be changed forever.
Judas becomes the old order when he grows up.
What Judas does in Japan for those years he’s gone are a plot I want to write/RP and will one day- hopefully. He will kind of see what his parents were trying so hard to protect him from, and in that way also find his own self: for whatever or whoever that will be. But he will eventually come home, marry his Maia and be more or less what he had intended to become as a boy in Hogwarts: a pureblood prince overseeing a kingdom.
But there will a quietness of innocence lost.
Judas is not English.
That’s kind of a strange point with Judas especially because the last time he was in Japan, he was four years old and he won’t be back till he’s graduated from Hogwarts. It’s a conscious decision for Judas to alienate himself from his family. He chooses to be a stranger in a strange land and in that way he’s wasteful in a way other characters like him weren’t. My original intention was to have Judas be “lost” to prove that point. You can have nothing and lose and conversely, you can everything and still lose. That despite how many gains were made after three wars, and ten years: there are still tragedies.
As it is, Judas will have to learn the same things everyone does and he’s chosen to do it gradually, painfully, and in steps.
Judas is Lily Evans’ son.
Lily and her kindness are one of Judas’ defining factors, something of his core. He is her son, he knows forgiveness, and that way she loves perhaps not wisely but definitely strong enough to pass through hell for the person he loves. He has that courage to do things people normally wouldn’t do- for love, and for family. He is grounded by her sense of family, and pride.
Judas views himself as Severus, Alexander and Sumi’s heir
He’s not their son. He’s the heir and once again, made a choice to be that. Severus was very adamantly against him changing his name from Xavier Oonda to Judas Snape and I think as a kid (in my canon he was eight or so), hearing stories of honor and dignity he must have seen that as shame, and tries to alleviate that by being their heir. He is a Death Eater Prince, and tries to be proud of that- even though he isn’t. It throws him into questioning everything as he tries to find an excuse for darkness instead of embracing of it.
Judas doesn’t know the world he would have been pushed into
There’s a whole mess load of back story that I’ve created for the Oonda to explain at least in my head why Alexander and Sum are they way they are, and it helps set up this world that Judas disappears into for years when he’s done with school.
It’s almost like he couldn’t be broken by Voldemort so he went searching for a darkness that was similar so he could understand his fathers and Sumi. He wasn’t content to just hear about the bad things: he had to see it. He had to taste it. I’m not saying he was innocent, although he was much more a victim then his father ever was, and like everyone who delves into Dark Magic; when he comes out of it he’ll be changed forever.
Judas becomes the old order when he grows up.
What Judas does in Japan for those years he’s gone are a plot I want to write/RP and will one day- hopefully. He will kind of see what his parents were trying so hard to protect him from, and in that way also find his own self: for whatever or whoever that will be. But he will eventually come home, marry his Maia and be more or less what he had intended to become as a boy in Hogwarts: a pureblood prince overseeing a kingdom.
But there will a quietness of innocence lost.