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Prompt Post #2
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Fill: Young and Beautiful - Percival Graves/Grindelwald, grooming, internalized homophobia
(Anonymous) 2017-03-08 05:13 am (UTC)(link)Warning: Internalized and very blatant homophobia
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Percival is six when he learns what ‘gay’ means.
He watches from his bedroom window as a group of No-Maj kids pick on a small, blonde-haired boy for being ‘gay.’ They call him a fairy, a queer, a faggot. He supposes that he shouldn't feel bad for the kid – he’s a No-Maj after all. But it doesn’t feel particularly good to watch him cry, whimper and sniffle as the other boys point and laugh. He wants nothing more than to tear his eyes away and continue reading his book, but he just can’t. Something about the sight makes him feel more than uneasy. They start throwing rocks at the boy and Percival wonders why. What do those words mean? And how bad can they be that they’re making someone cry?
Dinner’s served a few hours later. Percival sits on the smooth wooden dining chair, swinging his small legs to-and-fro as he waits for his mother to place a plate of food in front of him. House elves are lined against the wall, waiting to be called on. They shuffle around nervously, but they don’t dare make a sound. Percival stares at them and he wants to ask them why they’re so nervous. But he’s not allowed to talk to them. Ever. Even though they’re the only ones present in the house when his parents are gone.
His parents talk about their days as they eat. Both of them work at MACUSA, but they rarely see each other at work since they’re both so busy with their individual jobs. His father works as the lead Auror in the Major Investigations Department and his mother works as a department head on one of the top floors.
They ignore Percival. They always do. Instead, they complain about their bosses and about useless things like the weather. He wishes they’d pay attention to him.
“What does gay mean?” He blurts.
His parents exchange looks. Worry. Concern... Disappointment?
“Did someone say that to you, sweetheart?” His mother covers his hand with hers.
Percival shakes his head. “No. I heard some boys on the street. They made another boy cry by calling him gay.”
His father sighs, a visible look of relief washes over his face. “Don’t let anybody call you that.”
“But what does it mean?”
“Well, son,” his father stops and looks to his mother for approval. She nods, reluctantly. “You see how your mother and I – we’re a man and a woman. It’s like that, but with a man and a man. Do you see where I’m going with this?”
Percival ponders for a second. “But why is that so bad?”
“It’s illegal. Both in No-Maj society and wizard society. There are many reasons for this, but you’re too young to understand. You’ll learn when you’re older,” his father’s face turns cold, like he doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. Percival takes the hint, so he just nods and proceeds to play with the food he’s lost interest in.
Dinner continues in silence.
That night he hears his parents arguing over whether or not they should move, because this neighborhood is turning out to be a bad influence.
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Percival is thirteen when he learns why homosexuality is illegal.
He’s just started his third year at Ilvermorny and he’s already the top student in all of his classes.
“You’re the spitting image of your father,” they always tell him.
It’s meant to be a compliment but Percival doesn’t take it that way. He says thank you anyways. Percival’s grown to dislike his father and the way he always tries to control every aspect of his life. He’s unkind, he’s demanding, and he only reprimands Percival for the small bad things – never praises him for the good that he does. And the only lessons his father ever teaches him are how to hate No-Majs, how to hate wizards lesser than they are, how to hate homosexuals.
They’re unnatural. Their love is unnatural. They’re not meant to live in a society with a declining wizard population. Not when every witch and wizard are out there trying their best to conceive, to contribute to wizarding communities around the world. Homosexuals are simply not fit to reproduce – because they can’t. And with wizards having children on the basis of improving their genes, homosexuality is not allowed.
After learning this information, Percival wonders if that’s why his parents got married. Just to have a son. To create the perfect Graves offspring. They don’t kiss, they don’t hold hands. They don’t even touch. Do they really love each other?
One night he eavesdrops on his parents fighting in the living room.
“I will not let one of those – those… homosexuals set foot in my house!” His father yells when he learns that his mother’s gay relative plans on visiting from Ireland. He’s yelling so loudly that Percival’s sure he’s meant to hear every word from all the way up in his bedroom on the fourth floor. Percival sits by the door, knees curled into his body as he listens to them yell. His mother shouts back, just as loudly, in a wavering voice that tries desperately to mask her tears. And Percival wonders again, how bad can those words be that they’re making someone cry?
In the end, the gay relative never comes to visit.
Percival tries not to let the problems at home get in the way of his schoolwork. Luckily, he’s up to his knees in homework and extracurricular activities.
His father forces him to join Ilvermorny’s Debate Club – only because he was also a member when he went to school. Percival hates it. He’s upset because he wanted to join Astronomy Club instead, but his father had chastised him for wanting to learn such needless skills. Percival thinks about quitting the club, just to spite his father, but that idea quickly disappears when he meets a boy there. A boy that, for some reason, makes his palms sweat and heart thump whenever he talks to him.
Percival is thirteen when he learns that he’s gay.
Re: Fill: Young and Beautiful - Percival Graves/Grindelwald, grooming, internalized homophobia
(Anonymous) 2017-03-08 05:21 am (UTC)(link)Re: Fill: Young and Beautiful - Percival Graves/Grindelwald, grooming, internalized homophobia
(Anonymous) 2017-03-08 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)