I took part in the @redcracklevalentines exchange this year and this is my gift for @graycracklerulz ! They asked for some kind of AU, so I did Carmen and Grey as flower fairies!
Carmen is Roses obviously lol, and for Crackle I looked up the national flower of Australia which is called the Golden Wattle! It’s got these cute little yellow buds!
Gray: (prepared lots of Valentine’s Day events) Carmen, would you be my Vale-
Carmen: (being surrounded by plenty of gifts that Zack, Ivy, Player, some ACME friends, and the others gave to her) Sorry, I couldn’t hear you because of all these card songs-(*card love songs coming loudly*) Be your…?
Gray: (comparing his card to those cards then hiding it behind him) Well… I just wanted to say that I love you! Happy Valentine!
Carmen: Oh that’s sweet. And this one, too. (opening Gray’s card, by her Great THIEF SKILL…u know)
Gray: Wait! Carmen, stop- ♂️
Carmen: (reading it) Ohh Gray, it’s so sweet. This is my favorite one. Thanks. (*kissing on his cheek*)
Gray: (little blushed and smiling) So…. Shall we go?
Carmen: For your ‘7 Valentine’s Day events for Carmen’? (reading a checklist that had been in Gray’s pocket, by her Great THIEF SKILL, again)
Gray: Ummm… Yeah?
Carmen: Then, YES.
Valentine’s Day pt2.
Carmen & Gray: (watching a romantic comedy movie together)
Gray: (weeping with a little sniffling)
Carmen: (just gazing at him and patting on his back)
Valentine’s Day pt3.
Carmen: My gift, I stole it for you. (giving him a shopping bag) It’s been a while, but I’m not rusty yet.
So… Aren’t you guys wondering… WHAT EXACTLY made Gray confess to ACME?
We all know that he changed his mind, cause he heard that Carmen’s gonna hurt Shadowsan. (someone she really cared for)
But…. How did he hear the word? The evil Carmen doesn’t seem that… easily talk about her plan, right? (like she did at the amusement park)
Did V.I.L.E faculty told Gray, that they made her hate Shadowsan and that she seemed to kill him soon?
Did Gray gradually realize the situation was wrong, or was he shocked at some specific happening?
Or Was Gray that close with Carmen, so he could hear some hints from her? Maybe they had met personally, without any business. (I’m thinking this is most reasonable. Cause…)
He said it was fun while it lasted, and that ‘Fun’…. How exactly?? Like the old days fun? Or the evil Carmen’s new attitude? Or was he just excited that he could do something with her finally?
When Gray tried to help Carmen to get her memories back, Carmen was really emotional. The evil Carmen hated betrayal of someone she really trusted. She said to Gray that “You are a dirty traitor, like Shadowsan.” It showed she was so cruel that she even hurt her close peer, but also that she got really angry and furious, because of Gray’s betrayal. Thus, Gray meant a lot to her.
In brief, Gray and Carmen were really close during the 6 months. And SOMEHOW, Gray found out her plan, and he decided to stop her.
HOW? Looks like I’m too obsessed with ‘how’ though, it’s pretty important to me, cause Gray had really big decision. So… What do you think about this 'HOW’?
I’m 100000% sure that Carmen & Gray had Kissed while they were the V.I.L.E. partners, like some ‘Pretending to be couple’… not to be caught, you know?
Like… they went to a museum to do some crime things, and a situation that they were almost caught by the guards.
It would be Carmen first leading the kiss. She would say, “Close your eyes, and hide your face more.” Then she’d kiss, pushing him to the wall.
Gray would be panic at first, but when the guard came close to them, he’d close the eyes, lower his head, and follow her lead. (The guard.. found them and thinking ’******* hate this job.’ and move on.)
As soon as the guard left, Carmen would stop, and just keep doing her job. She was thinking it was just a business kiss.
Although Gray understood like that too, his heart didn’t.
Gray is calm and friendly to everyone, so it would be easy to join them, unless they tease him.
Zack might pretend to be dignified at first, but Gray’ll agree that too. He’ll react well at every Zack’s interest. Soon, Zack’ll like him very much (with the twinkle eyes), and they’re gonna be boy-bffs.
Ivy must tease him. She’ll call him as a nickname, something like ‘Pretty’ or 'Previous V.I.L.E. member’ (saying loudly), etc. Then Gray’ll be confused, so he would talk to Carmen, “Maybe your friends… don’t like me.” Carmen won’t tell him the truth, just saying “Maybe or maybe not.” and enjoying the situation.
Shadowsan already knows Gray’s personality, so he’ll know Gray won’t try to hurt Carmen anymore. However, he’s gonna whisper to him, “I will silently bury you if you try to hurt her.”
Player may say “It’s Red’s decision, but… Know that I’m watching you.” And He ACTUALLY WATCHES Gray, with the GPS, cctv, hacked phone and so on. But soon, he’ll stop. Cause after Gray quit V.I.L.E. , his most evil behavior is just… such as listening to hard rock music or something.
At this point, Gray might feel little lonely, until they call him 'one of our family’.
1. Carmen’s father, Wolfe, is a professor at Hogwarts. He is killed after the Battle of Voldemort, leaving her an orphan and adopted by Vlie.
Vile is Voldemort’s henchmen. After that, they went into anonymity and taught at Hogwarts, where they secretly recruited new blood.
2. Black Sheep meets Gray, a fourth year student, when she enters Hogwarts.
He bailed her out (as you can easily imagine from the original show) and they became great friends.
Gray had just joined Vile’s underground group of Death Eaters at the time, and he mistakenly assumed she was the same.
3. They had a good school year.
But when Black Sheep discovered the evil plan Vlie had assigned them to do, she made plans to break away from Vile.
Meanwhile, she befriends fellow Gryffindor’s Ivy and Zack and Ravenclaw’s player.
She changes her name to Carmen and they form a friendly alliance to sabotage Vlie’s plans.
4. In the Quidditch match, Vile assigned Gray to play against Carmen.
Bellum plans to use Obliviate against Carmen.
But because the competition is too fierce, Bellum’s spell hits Gray.
He has lost his memory and ambition, and his personality has changed so much that he forgets that he is a wizard. In order to avoid trouble, he is sent to the Muggle world by Vlie.
PS: I will add more in the future, the plot develops like the show, the world view of Harry Potter will make it very reasonable, I only wrote the plot about Redcrackle, but I also linked to other people.
Julia: Hufflepuff, who is in Ivy and Zack’s year, has a sense of justice and wants to become an Auror. She met and worked with Chase while tracking down Vile.
Chase: A proud fool of an Auror.
A.C.M.E: Order of the Phoenix
Vile’s Students: Most of the Death Eater students Vile recruits on campus come from Slytherin.
Because Carmen was raised by Vile from the beginning, as a professor, they gave Black Sheep more care than they needed, which was the reason Chase doubted Carmen.
PPS: Because I use a translator to translate Chinese into English, please forgive me if you can’t understand the sentence.
And I hope I can do some Carmen Sandiego art in the context of Hogwarts later on.)
ok…. ok…. I need some water to calm down myself………….
It’ll take a while to read this, cause I…kinda yell every moment I read each letter.
Watching the old days in V.I.L.E., Black Sheep and Gray had been with seriously, ALL THE TIME!!! They sit next to each other at every class. They were really really close. And Gray always looks at her with his sweet eyes even when she is upset or angry. What is this called? Friendship? Nah…..
I think Gray was loving her without any self conscious. Wish we could watch another s1e1 with Gray’s side. Maybe it was only Carmen’s view that Gray was being with her just because he was a friend. Maybe he had a crush on her when he first met, that first impression you know. Maybe.
The clear thing, is that they were really precious to each other and they had been through a lot, cause they were ALWAYS TOGETHER.
Gray is a complicated character. I think he is one of the most important characters in the show.
So he deserves something better.
Soooooo he’ll be seen in the live action, right? His story will be continued. It should be. ….Or maybe he’ll be in some other cs contents, riggggghhht??? I’ll just believe like that. With some tears.
