Post by genevieve s. fernsby-alighieri on Feb 19, 2021 20:40:24 GMT -5
MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET: GEN'S STEPFATHER
STEFAN CAREY || MALE || 45-55|| VINNIE JONES
Reina Alighieri met Stefan Carey a year after the tragic death of Reina's husband and Gen's father Regance. The patriarch of the Alighieri family had been murdered by an unstable wizard who viewed the family as a disgrace on the wizarding world and sought to eradicate the young witch and wizard and their parents. He only succeeded in killing Regance before he was apprehended by aurors and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
The family fell on hard times after Regance's death, with Reina attempted to cope with the grief of losing her husband in such a traumatic way, her children's grief, and the financial pressures of being a single mother. Reina hadn't worked for more than ten years, since before Gen was born, and finding a job to support the three of them proved hard than she had expected.
It was then that Reina met Stefan Carey. He was a pureblood man with a great job, and had the looks and charm to easily win Reina's affection. Within the year, the two were married. At first, Stefan worked hard to present himself as the perfect husband and stepfather, but it didn't take long for that facade to slip and fall away. In a matter of a few months he had revealed himself to be a controlling, mean-spirited man who drank frequently and almost-constantly verbally abused Reina, Gen, and Max.
Though physical abuse wasn't terrible common in the Alighieri-Carey household, it came to a head one summer evening. Gen has only ever spoken to her fiance Claire about what happened that night, and it is completely possible that Stefan doesn't even remember what happened. He had been severely inebriated, as was the norm for him. The altercation ended with Gen at St. Mungo's with a broken wrist, a concussion, and many bruises, cuts, and scrapes. She refuses to talk about what happened and maintains that she fell down the stairs that fateful July night.
Following that night, though, things changed. Gen returned to school and started spending Christmas holidays at Hogwarts, and was almost always able to find a friend to stay with over the summer holidays. As soon as she was seventeen, she found an apartment until she qualified for a loan for her cottage in Hogsmeade. By now, she doesn't speak to her mother or stepfather at all and actively tries to protect her brother from her stepfather.
Gen does a pretty good job of avoiding her stepfather, but her attempts are not always successful. The wizarding world in England is fairly large, but there are still times when she comes face-to-face with the man who haunts her nightmares. It's always an uncomfortable encounter that leaves Gen shaking.
Gen and Claire's engagement have no doubt reached the ears of Stefan, though no engagement announcement was sent to him and his wife and no wedding invitation has been extended. Especially now that Gen's place of employment has burned down, and her brother almost caught in the inferno, perhaps Stefan has decided to reach out to his estranged stepdaughter and try to rekindle a relationship.
POSSIBLE CROSSOVERS
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