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Draco's History @ high_seas & cerealia

♦ Original canon point: very beginning of Order of the Phoenix, the day before school started. He was fifteen.
♦ Since then: Draco spent two years in another game called High Seas, plus a couple months in a game called Cerealia. He is now seventeen.
♦ Because he lived on a ship on the ocean for a good two years, he's probably not as pale as you would expect him to be.
♦ His hair is also slightly longer and a little more unkempt than he normally wears it in the books.
♦ Draco can Apparate, and he is an Animagus. Much to his eternal disappointment and disgust, he transforms into a white ferret.
♦ He cannot produce a Patronus.
♦ The broomstick Draco brought with him from High Seas is a Cleansweep Eleven
♦ While living in Cerealia, Draco reluctantly gained the most basic of basic knowledge about technology. He could probably figure out how to work a tablet or cell phone at this point, but don't expect much beyond that.

High Seas was a panfandom RPG that took place in a mythical pirate world full of endless ocean and countless islands. Draco was there from October 2013 until September 2015. He then ended up in the futuristic, highly technological world of Cerealia until August 2016.

So basically, while at High Seas, he played pirate for nearly two years.

When he first arrived there, there was also a Harry Potter in the game. Given the option of hanging around with Potter or being stuck by himself in a strange world seemingly full of only Muggles, Draco chose the lesser of the two evils and joined a crew with the other wizard.

It did not go well.

At least, not at first.

Being in forced close quarters with someone he wasn't fond of, to put it lightly, had him nearly permanently in a bad mood. It also didn't help that he couldn't avoid the aforementioned Muggles, as there were several of them on his crew. His captain (one Captain Jack Sparrow) was one of the worst, and though he was around only briefly, he and Draco never got past their antagonistic start. Being ordered around and told to perform normal ship duties and chores without magic certainly didn't help matters.

After a couples months or so had passed, Draco had reached a point where he could actually maybe sort of tolerate Potter (some might've called them friends (barely), but Draco would've denied it), only for the boy wizard to abruptly up and vanish as the player left the game.

This did not make Draco a happy camper. Because as per usual, the Golden Boy got lucky and Draco didn't, as he remained in the game as a lone wizard for most of the rest of his time there. He ship had two more captains after Jack Sparrow, but the one Draco could admit to being closest to was the third captain, Sasuke. Ha..."closest". More like Draco enjoyed pushing the ninja's buttons and confusing him and his brother with various types of Wizarding candies. The most important thing was that Sasuke seemed genuinely interested in Draco's world and in magic -- if also confused by it and not a little skeptical about everything -- and if there's one thing Draco enjoys, it's going on and on about the superiority of the Wizarding World.

By this point, it was abundantly clear that there was no Statute of Secrecy to worry about breaking in this world, though Draco never really stopped attempting to find out if there was some kind of underground Wizarding society. He never had any luck with that, even though there did seem to be some sort of magic at work in the world. But since there was no Statute of Secrecy to deal with and as he was still surrounded by Muggles and the like (also all sorts of other people from really bloody weird worlds), Draco took it upon himself to educate everyone who could actually manage to listen to him for more than five seconds.

Sasuke was just one of the more receptive people to his babbling, and he actually made use of Draco's abilities by bringing him along to help in various game events that involved fighting other pirates (or zombies) and rescuing kidnapped crewmates. The two of them also experimented with new spells, both offensive and defensive, and he supported Draco's studies in the months that they sailed together.

A young version of Draco's mother, Narcissa, joined High Seas for a brief period of about two months. Draco wasn't quite sure how to deal with her, and at first he tried to pretend that he wasn't her future son, that he was just a random, distant cousin of Lucius'. It worked for a time, but he was eventually found out. It was a shock for Narcissa, but they overcame it and she helped him a lot with various things he was working on (like learning how to Apparate, for one). Draco always sort of held her at arm's length, though, because it was just so strange having her there. She made him painfully homesick, and he also felt incredibly protective of her. Overall, he was not entirely disappointed when she vanished and found it almost a relief. (She also wasn't very active, so it was just easier not having her there.)

Unfortunately for Draco, Sasuke also eventually left the game, and Draco had never really formed close ties with the remaining members of his crew on that ship. Entirely his own fault and he would've been the first to admit it (maybe), but that was the same ship he'd joined in the very beginning of the game, and his attitude at that time had been...well, terrible. Frankly. He'd taken his usual snottiness to the max, and as first impressions certainly stick, it was hard to overcome the snobbish and cold front he had put on all those months ago.

After Sasuke left, Draco found himself a new ship to join and was able to enjoy having a clean slate with his new (and final) captain and crew. He actually had only intended to visit their ship to check out the dragon they had (Toothless from HTTYD), and then ended up never leaving. He had another captain, Gan Ning, who appreciated what he could do (they even magically blew up a kraken together and it was awesome), as well as other crewmates he might've actually called friends -- particularly Hiccup, Ariel, and maybe even Roxas.

The other close tie Draco formed in the game was with the captain of another ship, Luffy. Oddly. But Luffy was fascinated with his magic and that's always a quick way to get Draco to tolerate someone!

It was while sailing with Gan Ning's crew that Draco was finally able to complete his Animagus transformation, after months of practicing. Much to his horror, his animal form is that of a white ferret. Still, he's somewhat managed to accept it by now, sort of, and he would even willingly play with Toothless while in that form. ...And Luffy, who then tried to adopt Draco as his pet.

The roughly two years Draco spent in the game changed him a bit. Mostly, they softened his attitude toward Muggles and different sorts of people, because frankly he didn't have a choice but to live with them. The structure of the game meant he had to have a ship and crew, and he wouldn't have done well if he'd tried to sail alone. If asked, Draco would probably still spout off a bunch of pure-blood superiority nonsense, and he would almost certainly still say he supported Voldemort's cause...but for him, those sort of things have basically just been put on hold for two years. He has no idea what might be going on in the Wizarding World back home, but he has no reason to believe that he wouldn't just pick up right where he left off once he eventually returns.

For now, it's something he doesn't have to think about. And he's not particularly disappointed about that. If he really thought about it, he might find his feelings on the matter confused. Because now that he knows a lot of people who don't have magic, who he's lived with and who have helped him over the months, it might be difficult to imagine causing them harm.

But it's easy to block those thoughts out entirely when he doesn't have to think about them.

Draco still likes to act all high and mighty, mostly because he gets a kick out of it. His journal posts in High Seas always bordered on ridiculous, something he would do on purpose. That's not to say it was all an act, but a lot of it is at least partially one. It's almost a defensive mechanism for Draco, and one that he used plenty to avoid seeming vulnerable as a 15-year-old boy thrust into that strange, mad world. The whole superior, looking-down-your-nose-at-people thing is something he's definitely good at.

But that doesn't mean that he didn't learn to respect the people around him -- even if they came from very, very different worlds.

Of course, he also continues to have zero problems mouthing off to those people who he still very much views as being below himself. And there are definitely still plenty of people like that.

In High Seas, there was a shop from which Draco was able to purchase items from back home, so he bought himself the remaining spellbooks for his fifth, sixth, and seventh years at Hogwarts. Not knowing how long he'd be away and refusing to fall behind in his schoolwork, he basically taught himself the material over the course of his time in that world and as such has very much kept up with his studies. His spellwork is on par with any seventh year student, however his Potions work is probably a little behind. Potions, of all things! He wasn't able to set up a proper lab to practice in until a few months before the game ended.

Draco was pulled out of High Seas during its end game phase (then he reappeared again for the final game log in September 2015), so he was thoroughly confused and more than a little pissed off to find himself in yet ANOTHER new world when he was suddenly dropped into Cerealia. His history there is a little shaky... That game worked with a 1 IC day = 2 OOC days ratio, so he wasn't actually there very long. He showed up for about two months in September 2015, then was dropped from the game for awhile and didn't reappear there until May 2016.

Being a little more familiar with the situation this time around, he was far less standoffish when meeting people and gained a few acquaintances here and there. The most important thing he'll take away from this world is the vague knowledge he very reluctantly gained about various sorts of technology. After a bumpy start, he somewhat learned how to use the CereVice, which was Cerealia's version of a tablet / cell phone used to communicate with others. He also tried to start up a virtual Quidditch game that others would be able to play (like a video game), but he vanished from the world in August 2016 before that was able to come to fruition.

Where will he end up next? Merlin knows. Wouldn't it be nice if it was England?