Do you think Percival owns colorful ties? Pink waistcoats? Red scarves and scorpion-shaped cufflinks? Or is he very stern – all whites, greys , black with only a touch of color in the threading of his jacket?

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Grey? What is this – an indecisive white? A black that couldn’t commit? Non. Graves doesn’t do grey. When he’s going for strikingly monochromatic with just a splash of colour he goes in style – they say he spells his clothes to make them darker black and whiter white. I heard that he transfigured the edge of his coat lapels into folded steel to make the points sharper. And that’s nothing – the rumour went round the other day that his coat is actually dyed with lethifold blood, that’s why it projects such an aura of power and menace.

But, gossip aside, Graves likes his suits. He also likes his ridiculous blue scarf with its tassels, and his scorpion pins, mustn’t forget his scorpion pins. The scarf requires at least two spells permanently active to stop it flying around and getting in the way – or, god forbid, falling in the mud good grief perish the thought.

So in answer to question I think Graves is exactly extra enough to choose waistcoats that are not just pink but glaringly fuschia or what about this one it’s offensively salmon the sort of salmon that burns your eyeballs and this one! It’s neon purple and lime green did you ever see anything so beautiful in your life

And he spells them to look so black that people whisper that he wove them out of nachtkrapp feathers, and all these stuffy heads of states in all these stuffy meetings nod stuffily at him in approval and in his head Graves knows that he’s actually flamboyantly yellow today, yes he is.

And if the meetings are particularly boring he relaxes the camouflage spell but just for one person who then thinks they’re going mad, because what the actual fuck.

what the actual fuck

And they just kinda stumble mid sentence and Graves just blinks innocently because he didn’t quite catch that, what were they saying?