Percival Graves is not easy to handle as a pet, but one day Grindelwald discovers that Percival is horribly ticklish. Next time Percival misbehaves Grindelwald ties him up and uses feathers, his fingers and his tongue to agonizingly slow tickle Percival all over. Proud Percival is reduces to a sweaty, sobbing/laughing mess who still can’t help getting rock hard under Grindelwald’s tongue.

Percival hates being tickled. He hates it.

Even when he was young he hated it, particularly the way his older brothers used it against him. The first hex he ever cast was to make them stop it. Now, any lover who tries it better knock it off quick if they want to remain in his bed.

It’s not that it’s silly or undignified – he can live with embarrassment. It’s the way it feels on his skin, how it makes his muscles twitch and jump with a horrible invasive crawling sensation. The way people seek out the most sensitive places on his body and think it’s okay because “it’s just tickling,” when they otherwise wouldn’t dream of touching him that way. Most of all he hates that it makes him laugh, because it isn’t funny. It feels awful, he doesn’t like it, and when he’s laughing no one believes it when he says “no.” He decided a long while ago that tickling was invented to torture him, specifically and personally.

Gellert Grindelwald agrees.

He discovered it by accident. It wasn’t the first thing that came to mind when thinking of ways to tame and punish his pet without risking permanent damage, but when his fingers tease over Percival’s naked side it’s impossible to miss the way his jaw tightens. Gellert is so curious what caused that reaction. He digs his fingers into Percival’s side viciously, and Percival jerks away but there’s nowhere to go. He’s relentless, and when a laugh claws its way out if Percival’s throat it only takes one look at his stricken expression for Gellert to know he’s won.

“You like that.” Percival shakes his head and struggles violently, but he can’t make himself stop laughing. And, oh – he’s even getting hard, the slut. “l can see you do. Don’t worry darling, I’ll give it to you. Your body wants it.”

Gellert tickles Percival until he cries, and then leaves him hanging limp from his restraints while he ponders the best way to make use of this information.

Newt ans Albus get caught by Grindelwald’s followers. Grindelwald restrains Albus and makes him watch while he excruciatingly tortures Newt. And he tells Albus that it is only his fault this has to happen. And Newt looks at Albus with eyes full of pain, he cries and asks him to help, but there is no help cause Gellert won’t stop. In this moment Albus’ mind shatters and his soul breaks.

Newt tries to be strong at first. It’s obvious what Grindelwald’s game is and Newt refuses to be used against Albus. He grits his teeth and holds in his screams while he waits for it to end, because surely help will come soon.

He manages to keep that up for an entire day. One whole day of torture, and then Gellert sets him up for the night – restrained in a rig that keeps a current running through his entire body and makes his muscles painfully twitch and spasm, sometimes surging intensely but always enough to cause pain. Gellert leaves him like that, and leaves Albus to watch him, long enough for Gellert to get a good night’s sleep and have a relaxing breakfast. It ends up being just shy of ten hours.

The next morning he greats Newt by turning the intensity up until screams are ripped from his throat, and Newt just isn’t able to pull himself together again after that.

He keeps Albus gagged so that all he can do is watch – no manipulation or negotiating or words of comfort for Newt.

Newt though, he lets Newt scream and beg as much as he wants. And Newt knows what Gellert is doing, he knows Albus is as much a victim as he is, but when the pain hits it doesn’t matter – he just wants it to stop. He begs his mentor for help, to do something, anything, please please make him stop oh God –

But Albus can’t. Gellert will not stop. It’s clear – Grindelwald has won.

What about Percival using some kind of Voodoo doll on Credence? He touches the doll, and Credence actually feels it, not only in his mind, but on his body. Percival does it whenever he wants, and Credence has no idea what is happening. When he hands out the leaflets, when he prays with his mother, the touch can come anytime and make him a sobbing, shivering mess with ruined pants. And Percival knows his mother will punish him and looka forward to console his poor boy.

Percival setting Credence up to he punished is so awful, I love it. Credence would be so scared and confused, humiliated with no idea what’s happening to his body and in constant fear of punishment. And the worst part is that despite all that – sometimes he looks forward to it happening. He wishes it were when he’s alone, but he’s never felt pleasure like that before. He didn’t know it was possible. He loathes himself for that.

It’s a good thing Percival is there to reassure and guide his boy. It sends him running right into Percival’s arms, each and every time.

Theseus does, and it’s a wakeup call for Albus. He realizes he’s training Newt too much. He wants Newt to be a good boy and to never leave him, but he doesn’t want a slave. So he changes the training… a little. He keeps Newt dependent on him for love and touches, but he also works on helping Newt develop a bit more autonomy. As such, when Newt is ready, he can go traveling for his book. Newt does, but he still prefers it so much more when Albus takes control and makes his decision for him.

This is the happier ending I suppose :’) I do like the idea of Albus easing up, but still not quite getting the point. Theseus doesn’t want his brother trained and conditioned at all, but Albus is just like, oh you’re right, I’ll train him a little differently. Poor Newt.

I do love the idea of Newt always, always craving submission though. He doesn’t want to make the hard decisions, he doesn’t want to fuck up, he just… he wants someone to do the thinking for him and tell him the right thing to do. It’s so much easier that way.

Theseus confronts Albus with his concerns abiut the marriage, and Albus asks Newt to answer the question. Newt is so confused, didn’t he do well? Didn’t he try his best to make Albus proud of him? Did he fuck up again? And he begs Albus to not be left alone. Theseus finally understands that this has already gone too far. And when he realized that the drink Albus gave him in the beginning is making him drowsy, he hears him say: “Newt, why don’t you show your brother how good you can be?”

I. Love. This. Albus calmly calling Newt into the room and asking him, and when Theseus sees the confusion and, yes, panic spread over his brother’s face he goes cold at the realization that it’s already too late.

And I have such A Thing for non-con drug use, you’ve got me completely hooked. The slow fogginess in Theseus’ head that starts to set off distant alarm bells, but he’s too angry about what Albus is doing to Newt to pay attention… It isn’t long before he really starts to feel it though, swaying on his feet, and Albus helps him into a chair which he can’t resist sinking down into. He wants to get up, to grab Newt and take him home, but instead he sits placidly in Albus’ study, his body and mind getting heavier by the second.

The big question though – does Newt demonstrate how good he is by letting Albus undress and use him while Theseus is forced to watch his little brother getting fucked, or by personally showing Theseus all the skills Albus has taught him for sucking cock?

Grindelwald loves to challenge his pets, but with imposible challenge. Percy is not allowed to get hard, but Gellert teases him so much that he it still happens. Newt mustn’t cum, but Gellert enters him and hits that one spot just right, and even though Newt tries so hard to stop it, his fighting is useless. Their punishment will be that they have to stimulate themselves after their orgasm, and Grindelwald watches them beg and squirm and sob.

Oh yes, this is wonderful. I love impossible challenges, and I love Percival’s task specifically. Newt at least has some chance, he can try to be good and hold back his orgasm, but for Percival it’s a completely involuntary reflex he’s trying to fight. And when he fails, spectacularly, Gellert makes sure he knows what a slut he is, how disgusting it is that he doesn’t have the slightest bit of self control, how ashamed he should be at acting like a wanton little whore. And even as Gellert says all those things, Percival can’t make himself go soft.

I think Newt’s punishment is good, appropriate for what he did – he wanted to come, well, go ahead. Keep coming, don’t you dare stop, this is clearly what you wanted to happen.

But for Percy, I don’t think he should get to come at all. He should be kept on edge for hours, stimulated just right so that he cries with desperation and it’s impossible for him to finish and then, without coming, his straining prick should be iced until he’s soft enough to be locked into a cock cage. Possibly one which makes it physically painful to start getting hard.

Seems fitting for what he did, no?

Oh my god yes. Gellert AND Credence catching Newt. Newt being so horribly confused about why Credence is now helping the bad guy. And Gellert letting Credence break Newt, only getting involved when his pants get too tight. THIS.

Okay but what about – Gellert TEACHING Credence how to break Newt??

“Harder, my boy. See the set of his jaw? He doesn’t understand his place yet. No, no, leave the blindfold on, I want you to see what sensory deprivation does to a person.”

While Newt begs Credence to stop and think, Gellert is using him, already used him in New York, please Credence there are people who can help you –

And Credence just stares at him with a look of awe on his face, marveling at the power Gellert is teaching him to wield over another human being. He loves Newt’s whimpers, his pleas, the way his body gets all soft and desperate when he’s hurt.

As Newt comes closer and closer to breaking Credence grows to admire Gellert more and more.

Grindelwald watches Credence touch and explore his body and gets so painfully aroused, but he knows that the boy needs time. But pleasuring himself is not enough to satisfy Grindelwald’s need, so Percival has to be the “victim”. He wants Percival to suffer twice as much as he has to, so he restrains him and edges him into insanity. Then he fucks him until they both are screaming. And Credence has no idea of Grindelwald’s desire for his body.

Ooh poor Percy XD It sounds like Grindelwald is holding him captive? In which case I love the idea that while Gellert may have taken great pleasure in playing with him at first, he now uses him only as a substitute for someone he desires more. Maybe Percival even misses when Grindelwald used to treat him as someone special, even though he hates himself for feeling that way. But Grindelwald’s moved on, and Percival is nothing special at all anymore. Used up and replaced.

What about Credence being the whipping boy for all of Gellert’s anger and resentment towards Albus? He couldn’t have him, and Albus turned his back on him, so now he has Credence (possibly young Dumbledore brother) to take it all out on, both as punishment and sex.

thepiperofhameln:

mercurial-tenacity:

I am so here for Gellert taking out all of his issues with Albus on poor Credence – who, despite presumably researching the wizarding world after leaving New York, cannot possibly have the full context for who Albus is and why Gellert is does what he does.

Personally I have a soft spot for Gellert being horribly, manipulatively gentle with Credence, but I can get behind Gellert being rough and aggressive with him as well. Perhaps after he’s thoroughly won Credence to his side and doesn’t need to be so careful with him anymore his behavior starts to change; the gentle touches turn more demanding, words become harsh, and gradually Gellert grows outright cruel.

He’s still kind and gentle sometimes, though – when he’s in a good mood, just often enough to make sure that Credence won’t ever leave him.

I like your soft spot.

Maybe he fears his personality coming out too much
in front of Credence, and knows that it will, eventually. He is cruel and
manipulative and controlling by nature, even in those rare, rare moments that
he does, actually, care for someone. He doesn’t necessarily want to be, but it’s the way he is. He could have become that way with Albus,
and he knows it. It probably did come out in little ways while they were swept up
together, and of course, at the end. It blew up astronomically. He fears this
will cause him to lose Credence (again, exactly as his callousness and
obliviousness did in New York) and tries to hold it back as long as possible.
But he still snaps. His temper still rises and carries him away, no matter how
much he doesn’t want to hurt the boy in the long run. His viciousness wants him
to hurt the boy in the moment. Regret follows after.

I love this so much.

Gellert doesn’t want to hurt Credence, but sometimes he needs to. He gets agitated, worked up – and it’s always worst when it’s to do with Albus. Gellert uncovers a spy in his ranks, learns of some counter move, and it’s bad enough that his plans are being disrupted but worse that it’s Albus doing it – Albus, who was supposed to rule at his side –

It’s time like that when Gellert finds he needs to see Credence cry.

Once the anger fades afterwards he takes Credence into his arms, soothes him and holds him close, and Gellert knows how lucky he is that the boy sees a certain amount of abuse as a necessary component of love.

On his rescue mission for Credence Newt gets caught by Grindelwald. He then makes sure to break him and to make him his good pet. He also makes sure Dumbledore knows what’s happening. And when Dumbledore tries to save Newt he sends his pet against Albus, knowing he could never hurt his former student.

I am so here for Gellert using Newt against Albus. Just – yes, the emotional torture of making sure Albus knows Newt is being broken, the struggle of Newt either being forced to fight against him or being used as collateral – so good.

The worst part, for Newt, is that by the time he gets there Credence doesn’t even want saving. He’s been thoroughly won over, and maybe he’s even the one who gets Newt caught.

Gellert makes sure to shield Credence from the more brutal aspects of Newt’s reconditioning, but he does involve the boy when he can – it’s good for Credence to be exposed to that sort of thing, and it goes so far to emphasize Newt’s failure.