NextGen Discussion #5

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NextGen Discussion #5

Share your head-canon for Scorpius Malfoy?

What does he look like? Do you have a specific actor/actress/art that personifies him in your mind? What type of personality does he have? What is his sexuality? Do you have any reccs for your favorite stories or art featuring this character? Share your favorite Scorpius ships?(

Comments

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Scorpius is probably the next-gen character I've written the most about so I have a lot of feelings about him.

Looks: I remember a fanartist once saying that when drawing Draco and Lucius to differentiate from them, she thought "Abraxas" while drawing Lucius and "Narcissa" while drawing Draco. With Scorpius I tend to imagine "Greengrass" or "Lucius" more than Draco. He tends to be broader than Draco, a bit taller, the kind of build for someone who could be a Chaser or even a Beater. He's blond and pale, like Draco, and has his sharp cheekbones and pointy nose but a stronger jaw.

I'm using Boyd "All the Malfoys" Holbrook here but he doesn't look much like my idea of Scorpius.

Personality: I write Scorpius as very independent but also contrary. He was the type of child that always wanted to know why and would argue and pester if he didn't agree and as a teenager/adult he's the type enjoy flouting conventions and fighting for a cause. He's a lot like how I imagine his mother to be - stubborn, caring - and also a lot like his father - arrogant, clever- and beyond those two, I tend to write him as having some similarities to Sirius if Sirius had had more loving parents and been in a world where the stakes weren't as high.

I have written him as being in every house by now and I do love me some Hufflepuff!Scorpius but most often I write him as a Slytherin or a Gryffindor.

Sexuality: He's usually straight in my fics (and with Rose) but I have written him as bisexual and gay before (and then with Al).

Ships: I'll read him with a lot of characters (Ginny, Daphne, and Pansy being the guilty pleasures) but I prefer him with Rose or, as a distant second, Al.

Recs: I'm biased as these are commissions I had done by the amazing glockgal but: Scorpius playing chess with his parents and Teenage Scorpius on the Hogwarts Express are two of my favorites.