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Basics
Character Name: Lucius Malfoy
Username: byrightsinhell
Fandom: Harry Potter
Played By: Julian Sands
Icon: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/100366621/27372923

Canon Character Section (disregard if applying for an original character)

Physical Description: Lucius is 32 years old, of a lean build. He is 6’3” tall, and holds himself aristocratically. His features are patrician, a bit sharp and more handsome than otherwise, though a bit on the frosty side. His hair is pale blond, cut to just around chin length when not tied back; his eyes are gray.

Sexuality: Lucius is straight, and very happily married. His relationship with Narcissa was certainly tempestuous in their younger years, and they can still have blazing rows from time to time, but generally they are devoted to one another, and their sex life could be described as robust. (Blazing rows, it must be noted, tend to enhance rather than detract from this.) At this point, he wouldn’t dream of cheating on her, both because he has no desire to, and because she’d have his balls if she ever found out. Canon never suggests he is anything other than devoted to his wife, whatever his other flaws.

Though Narcissa was more or less always on his radar post-puberty, there was a time when they were not together, during which Lucius dated a series of pretty, more or less vapid pureblood witches (mostly blonds) who served a more decorative than functional capacity in his life. He was, in these relationships, much more prone to be strictly dominant than his relations with Narcissa (both in and out of bed). He also felt not particular compunction about cheating on them – it’s not infidelity in theory he has a problem with, just infidelity to Narcissa in particular. He didn’t very often, mainly because it was less work to just dump the girl before moving on.

Though not his first sexual experience, he had an early and memorable one: When he was sixteen, the Lestrange brothers and Antonin Dolohov decided he needed a proper education. They got him drunk on gin and hired an expensive courtesan to set him straight. Dolohov has yet to get sick of telling this story – or he hadn’t, before being sent to Azkaban.

History: Particular to this version, general reference

In addition, this version of Lucius is taken from Bête Noire, where he spent a few months, and in the interim, ended up in an alternate future with Sebastian LeMat. He is thus somewhat familiar with turning up a place he isn’t meant to be, but was also very earnestly hoping to get home to his six-year-old son. (He is, because of this side trip, temporarily a brunette, but will probably charm himself back to normal promptly.)

Powers: Lucius is a Potterverse-flavored wizard, meaning he has all the standard wand magic of the setting at his disposal. He is quite a talented duelist, handy with an Imperius curse, and though a little out of practice, above average with potions. Please let me know if you need me to expand upon any of his abilities.

Talents/Abilities:: He is of above average intelligence, and has many of the talents typically associated with a very privileged upbringing. (Knowledge of wine, an extensive magical education, etc.)

Personality:
Lucius Malfoy, at 32, was in the middle of reinventing himself while maintaining a tranquil surface for the public eye. He joined Voldemort’s cause while still at Hogwarts, and was admitted to the Death Eaters’ inner circle quite young. He grew up during the war, quite literally, fighting clandestinely from the ages of 16 to 27. When the war ended, he was left with a wife, an infant son, and his liberty; what he no longer had was a pat cause to dictate his life’s greater arc.

Lucius was raised to believe that the world exists in a hierarchy. Wizards are superior to other magical creatures, and especially to muggles. Pureblood wizards are superior to muggleborn wizards, and older pureblood families are superior to those who can only trace themselves back a century or two. This idea is tied up in both personal and familial pride, and a belief in purebloods as the protectors of wizarding culture. For Lucius, his family, his blood, and his magic are bound up very tightly together, and all make him better than most everyone else. Thus, his arrogance (colossal as it is) is supported by the framework of the society he was raised in. Though his friendship with Sebastian has poked at the edges of this, his racism is canonical and fairly deep-seated.

As such, he sees himself as above the law, but it is also to be expected that he’ll keep up appearances within society. Rules are meant to be worked around with loopholes, not gleefully smashed through (one of the many reasons he and his wife’s sister did not get along). He prizes his ability to remain outwardly calm and collected, and feels that outward display of emotion in public is both crude and weak.

This is not to say, however, that he does not feel deeply. He loves his son more than any other thing on earth, with his wife a close second. Beyond this intense devotion to his family, both emotional and ideological, he believes in the importance of preserving both his own family heritage, and the heritage of English wizarding culture. After all is said and done, he isn’t certain that Voldemort’s ideas were the purest expression of that, but they were better than Dumbledore’s alternative; with the war over, however, he’s much more content and successful at manipulating society from within. He is willing to play a game that is long, slow and indirect.

Lucius is a fan of chess.

Object: A wizarding photo album, mainly with photographs from his wedding and of Draco’s early years.

Reason for playing: I originally began playing Lucius after a long discussion with Liisu (Dele), who had once played a Narcissa and was considering playing with one again. We agreed on a lot of our interpretations of the Malfoys’ marriage, and a lot of credit goes to her for helping me develop and flesh out this portrayal, both through discussion and threading.

After Bête Noire, I had really just begun to hit my stride with this version, and I’m interested in exploring him both on his own, and with some other characters that I understand will be apped. He’s been forced to examine a lot of what he believes and why, and I want to keep exploring that. He’s also just fun to mess with.

At bottom, I just enjoy threading with him, and would love him to be in a game with a bigger arc than just kicking around the multiverse, fun as that sometimes is.

Gods: Given Lucius’ almost fetishistic regard for magic, Shada seems a likely candidate.

Writing Samples

First-Person Network Post:
[Lucius sits, immaculate, facing the camera.]

Please excuse the interruption. My name is Lucius Malfoy, and I am looking to get in touch with anyone who might have an accurate map of the city, or an interest in creating one. I would be willing to barter for such information. Feel free to contact me at your convenience.

First-Person Journal Post:
I’m quite aware of what you all think, you know. You make it patently obvious, for anyone who cares to look. But I challenge you to this; prove it or leave me be. Prove it or prove yourself a hypocrite when you cut through the law to come after me. It is comforting, I know, to see oneself as the conquering hero and one’s opponent as the black villain.

But we do not live in a children’s story, and I will not give you the satisfaction of being simple and uncomplicatedly wicked. You, after all, have not done me the same courtesy.

Despise me, then, if it comforts you. I know what I know, and even if you could prove your charges, you could never prove that I acted as I did for any reason other than thinking it was the best of my limited options.

Third-Person Arrival Post:
Lucius was and was not surprised to walk through a door and to find himself somewhere other than he intended. It had happened twice before, and he’d suspected it would happen at least once more, but this was not at all where he’d been hoping to go. It was, for one, far too close to a prison for comfort. He checked that his wand was where it should be, then tried the door, mundanely and magically, to no effect.

Using magic felt more normal here, suggesting it wasn’t, at least, some place resistant to wizards. (Or too happy to have them.) He was, however, a bit chilled to flip through the album on the table. Someone had been expecting him. His attention turned to the pamphlet, and a quick read-through oriented but did not in the least reassure him. He’d been Chosen, and while it wasn’t surprising, he had a family to get back to.

Finally, he picked up the Network device. He simply observed, for a time, and then very cautiously began to broadcast.

“Excuse me. My name is Lucius Malfoy, and I don’t seem to be able to get out of my room. Is there a protocol I am missing?” Real names would be just as well, considering someone evidently knew it already. He intended to charm his hair back to normal as soon as he had a free moment.

Considering, he added, “LeMat, if you can hear me, I’m fine. Let me know where you are if you can.” Probably wishful thinking, but it couldn’t hurt.

Third-Person Action Post: http://byrightsinhell.livejournal.com/1126.html