May prompt: Rebellion.
Prompt: Rebellion.
Character: Blaise Zabini (au)
Fandom: Harry Potter.
Rating: 15+
Word count: 557
Disclaimer: I don't own them, if I did, Blaise would look like Hans Matheson.
Blaise has never been one for following the rules. He's always pushed the envelope - from third year, he's refused to wear his school uniform or even basic Wizard robes, preferring Muggle jeans and tee-shirts, doc marten boots and a battered leather coat or black jumper. He's grown his hair shoulder length, smokes cigarettes - sometimes during class - cuts classes frequently, and still manages to pass everything with grades so good that his professors mourn for the potential that Blaise is wasting.
Blaise breaks the rules when he goes into Hogsmeade after lights out, sometimes with his friends, bent on a night of drinking and dancing, or, when he goes alone, it's to a certain house in the Wizarding village that caters to certain requirements of the single gentleman or lady. Blaise learns all sorts of wicked and lascivious things at this house, things he has no hesitation of putting into practise when he wants something and the usual means of snearkery, trickery or outright bribery don't work. Sex is a weapon, a very effective one, as well as being something enjoyable for its own sake.
When Blaise steals the diary from the Malfoys, he not only robs one of the richest families in Britain, he manages to disable wards that no one of his age should have any knowledge of. Blaise's reading material often consists of things he should not be reading, and he knows how to do things others his age should not. Theft is not unusual to him; indeed, he has stolen all sorts of things over the years, not because of any sort of acquisitiveness, but just simply because he gets bored.
This is the reason for all of Blaise's rebellious behaviour. He is easily bored, easily has his attention diverted. He finds it tedious in class because most of the time, he's made leaps in the curriculum that his fellows have not and the tedious repetition of something he already knows doesn't interest him. Sticking to rules bores him; and likewise, relationships have always bored him, so much so that up until the day he stole the diary, Blaise's longest relationship had lasted a sum total of five hours.
The diary, though, opens up whole new vistas of possibilities. It isn't just that Tom fascinates Blaise, he excites him. The danger implicit in their liaisons and conversations through the diary keep Blaise's attention almost as much as the person he's interacting with. And Tom is complex, full of secrets and shadows and Blaise wants to unravel them all, find them all out, and keep them safe with his own. It's only natural then, that when he does t he unthinkable and falls in love with Tom, the boy who becomes Voldemort and is not supposed to love, that Blaise doesn't care what anyone else thinks, and remains loyal completely and only to Tom.
Rules are made to be broken, and Blaise has never found a rule he couldn't bend or break or twist to suit his purposes. Obedience holds no appeal for him at all, and the only thing that has consistently held Blaise's attention and kept his love, his loyalty and his trust, is the Dark Lord, Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort. Considering where he has ended up, it really is no wonder then, that Blaise's entire life has been a story of rebellion.
Character: Blaise Zabini (au)
Fandom: Harry Potter.
Rating: 15+
Word count: 557
Disclaimer: I don't own them, if I did, Blaise would look like Hans Matheson.
Blaise has never been one for following the rules. He's always pushed the envelope - from third year, he's refused to wear his school uniform or even basic Wizard robes, preferring Muggle jeans and tee-shirts, doc marten boots and a battered leather coat or black jumper. He's grown his hair shoulder length, smokes cigarettes - sometimes during class - cuts classes frequently, and still manages to pass everything with grades so good that his professors mourn for the potential that Blaise is wasting.
Blaise breaks the rules when he goes into Hogsmeade after lights out, sometimes with his friends, bent on a night of drinking and dancing, or, when he goes alone, it's to a certain house in the Wizarding village that caters to certain requirements of the single gentleman or lady. Blaise learns all sorts of wicked and lascivious things at this house, things he has no hesitation of putting into practise when he wants something and the usual means of snearkery, trickery or outright bribery don't work. Sex is a weapon, a very effective one, as well as being something enjoyable for its own sake.
When Blaise steals the diary from the Malfoys, he not only robs one of the richest families in Britain, he manages to disable wards that no one of his age should have any knowledge of. Blaise's reading material often consists of things he should not be reading, and he knows how to do things others his age should not. Theft is not unusual to him; indeed, he has stolen all sorts of things over the years, not because of any sort of acquisitiveness, but just simply because he gets bored.
This is the reason for all of Blaise's rebellious behaviour. He is easily bored, easily has his attention diverted. He finds it tedious in class because most of the time, he's made leaps in the curriculum that his fellows have not and the tedious repetition of something he already knows doesn't interest him. Sticking to rules bores him; and likewise, relationships have always bored him, so much so that up until the day he stole the diary, Blaise's longest relationship had lasted a sum total of five hours.
The diary, though, opens up whole new vistas of possibilities. It isn't just that Tom fascinates Blaise, he excites him. The danger implicit in their liaisons and conversations through the diary keep Blaise's attention almost as much as the person he's interacting with. And Tom is complex, full of secrets and shadows and Blaise wants to unravel them all, find them all out, and keep them safe with his own. It's only natural then, that when he does t he unthinkable and falls in love with Tom, the boy who becomes Voldemort and is not supposed to love, that Blaise doesn't care what anyone else thinks, and remains loyal completely and only to Tom.
Rules are made to be broken, and Blaise has never found a rule he couldn't bend or break or twist to suit his purposes. Obedience holds no appeal for him at all, and the only thing that has consistently held Blaise's attention and kept his love, his loyalty and his trust, is the Dark Lord, Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort. Considering where he has ended up, it really is no wonder then, that Blaise's entire life has been a story of rebellion.