This is Dru -
Drusilla Pettigrew - December 12, 2024
Hello, my name is Lynn and I love past threads. So rather than listing out past connections that might exist and then bantering about what kind of relationship they have now and then ultimately never doing anything with it, I decided to just start some threads and develop some relationships in retrospect.
(we can also banter about relationships if these premises don't appeal! I just also wanted to have threads xD)
WHO IS DRU
Dru is an UCPB socialite, 29yo and married to Albert Pettigrew. She is the stepdaughter of Evangeline Rowle. Secretly, she has a close group of Hogwarts friends with whom she explored dark magic and has done some shady things, including murdering her abusive father. She has never dealt with any of the trauma from her upbringing so she is bad at boundaries, a social thrill-seeker (casual interactions bore her, she wants the extremes of an emotional roller coaster but isn't self-aware enough to know that's what she's craving), and emotionally unscrupulous/manipulative.
I want her to have lots of unhealthy relationships <3 Toxic friends, romantic tension with people who aren't her husband, etc.
WAYS YOU MIGHT KNOW DRU
- Socialites doing socialite things. Dru tolerates all of you but thinks most of you are boring. Want to change her mind at a Lady's Club in 1888?
- Quidditch-adjacents. Her brother-in-law is Thom Pettigrew so there's an avenue for her to meet people that way
- People with obscure magical interests. Dru (secretly) got really into dark magic which involved lots of research at the library, buying weird books at stores, etc. If you have overlapping interests you might know her, or might have fought over a book.
- Prior suitors. Dru had some in her pre-dead-dad deb years (1883-1886) but her father pressured her to not encourage any of them. After she finished mourning for her dad she married literally the first person who asked so there is also a potential for 'wanted to approach again but never got the chance' or continuing angst. Come have a dance?
- School: Some of these existing characters in Dru's year, for reference: Cleon Broadmoor, Camilla Prewett, Irene Crawley, Thistle Potts. She has her established close friend group (two of whom are still open for play!) but might have had a few other friends. Probably sticking to wealthier female students as her dad would have disapproved of being too close with poor folks or male friends and she's already keeping some of those a secret, she needs friends she could openly discuss at home ;P
ANOTHER PLUG
Please consider adopting
The King or the Page <3 Beanie and Emma are here too, it's great fun. Also:
Quote:Lynn: I want the rest of our crew picked up because I would really love if there was a one-sided school romance >>
Lynn: to add to the guilt. Like 'of course A agreed to this, he would have agreed to anything B wanted back then' and everyone is aware of this dynamic but agrees not to talk about it
IF THAT PERSUADES ANYONE
RE: This is Dru -
Henry Berkwood - December 12, 2024
I mean, Evangeline is the obvious best bet, and by Evangeline standards, she's... relatively civil mostly to leave the door open for sibling relationships with the twins, now or in the future.
RE: This is Dru -
Anthea Selwyn - January 7, 2025
Hi! My Name is Jen and I give you
Anthea Selwyn. WHO WAS ALSO IN HER YEAR. AND HER HOUSE. AND SHE WAS MADE PREFECT INSTEAD OF HER IF I DIDN'T FAIL THE READD OF THINGIMIJIGS. How Rude. GIVE ME THINGS TO DO WITH HER PLZZ AND THANKYOU. She needs things to do in her life and I need to use the writing buzz whilst I have it.
RE: This is Dru -
Marlena Scamander - January 7, 2025
I somehow missed this but Dru is excellent and when I get off my phone I will address the possible connections!
RE: This is Dru -
Marlena Scamander - January 8, 2025
I can give you Marlena for obscure magical interests but getting them into the same place may be tricky? She isn't into dark magic exactly but she isn't averse.
Otherwise I only really have
Ambrosia Selwyn as another socialite that hates everyone but is dedicated to keeping up appearances, two debs who will bore her and
Elladora Black lurking on the edges of social gatherings glowering at everyone?
RE: This is Dru -
Cassius Lestrange - January 8, 2025
Thom-adjacents - August!
Probably could have been friends with
Camilla Prewett openly at school until the scandal of her blood status broke? Or after, even!
RE: This is Dru -
Drusilla Pettigrew - January 9, 2025
(December 12, 2024 – 11:17 PM)Henry Berkwood Wrote: I mean, Evangeline is the obvious best bet, and by Evangeline standards, she's... relatively civil mostly to leave the door open for sibling relationships with the twins, now or in the future.
Yes <3 I want a thread. Does a past thread interest you at all, and if so when? Otherwise shout a premise at me, I'm happy to start!
(January 7, 2025 – 11:02 AM)Anthea Selwyn Wrote: Hi! My Name is Jen and I give you Anthea Selwyn. WHO WAS ALSO IN HER YEAR. AND HER HOUSE. AND SHE WAS MADE PREFECT INSTEAD OF HER IF I DIDN'T FAIL THE READD OF THINGIMIJIGS. How Rude. GIVE ME THINGS TO DO WITH HER PLZZ AND THANKYOU. She needs things to do in her life and I need to use the writing buzz whilst I have it.
Yes! Dru wouldn't have been put out about not being prefect, she had bigger things to worry about at the time. I'm not sure they would be close but I could definitely see Dru
pretending they were close as a convenient "appropriate friend" to talk about to her dad. Maybe Anthea got a few out-of-nowhere invites to hang out over summer break while they were in school xD ARE YOU UP FOR PAST THREADS because I always am but if not current threads works too
(January 8, 2025 – 7:29 PM)Marlena Scamander Wrote: I can give you Marlena for obscure magical interests but getting them into the same place may be tricky? She isn't into dark magic exactly but she isn't averse.
Otherwise I only really have Ambrosia Selwyn as another socialite that hates everyone but is dedicated to keeping up appearances, two debs who will bore her and Elladora Black lurking on the edges of social gatherings glowering at everyone?
Okay proposal: might any of these people make the guest list of
Evangeline's birthday party and if so can we have a snarky thread there? Snarking about Evangeline/others I assume, probably not snarky to each other, but you never know.
(January 8, 2025 – 7:42 PM)Cassius Lestrange Wrote: Thom-adjacents - August!
Probably could have been friends with Camilla Prewett openly at school until the scandal of her blood status broke? Or after, even!
August is way too pure for her lmfao but yes they would know each other. And I dig her being friends with Camilla! Openly until scandal broke, still openly but more cautiously afterwards. I think her dad didn't mind her associating with non-PBs (on a friend/acquaintance level) but she would have been wary of anything else happening that he wouldn't have approved of.
RE: This is Dru -
Henry Berkwood - January 9, 2025
(January 9, 2025 – 4:06 AM)Drusilla Pettigrew Wrote: (December 12, 2024 – 11:17 PM)Henry Berkwood Wrote: I mean, Evangeline is the obvious best bet, and by Evangeline standards, she's... relatively civil mostly to leave the door open for sibling relationships with the twins, now or in the future.
Yes <3 I want a thread. Does a past thread interest you at all, and if so when? Otherwise shout a premise at me, I'm happy to start!
So, a while back I felt inspired to write
this and if you'd be game, I would love to write the aftermath of it. XD Just Eva walking down to breakfast like "this is perfectly normal and good."
RE: This is Dru -
Anthea Selwyn - January 11, 2025
(January 9, 2025 – 4:06 AM)Drusilla Pettigrew Wrote: (January 7, 2025 – 11:02 AM)Anthea Selwyn Wrote: Hi! My Name is Jen and I give you Anthea Selwyn. WHO WAS ALSO IN HER YEAR. AND HER HOUSE. AND SHE WAS MADE PREFECT INSTEAD OF HER IF I DIDN'T FAIL THE READD OF THINGIMIJIGS. How Rude. GIVE ME THINGS TO DO WITH HER PLZZ AND THANKYOU. She needs things to do in her life and I need to use the writing buzz whilst I have it.
Yes! Dru wouldn't have been put out about not being prefect, she had bigger things to worry about at the time. I'm not sure they would be close but I could definitely see Dru pretending they were close as a convenient "appropriate friend" to talk about to her dad. Maybe Anthea got a few out-of-nowhere invites to hang out over summer break while they were in school xD ARE YOU UP FOR PAST THREADS because I always am but if not current threads works too 
I actually like past threads so I'm more than happy to do them... especially since cursing Anthea hahahaha. I will have to take a moment (cause I'm slow hahaha) to figure out what teen Anthea was like but it does sound like fun.