THIS!!
call me problematic but the death eaters will always be the more compelling characters to me specifically BECAUSE they exist in a narrative with such rigid black/white morality; because they are considered evil as fact; because they are punished as individuals for the way a system made them; because they are offered no avenues for redemption!
every glimpse of humanity & personhood from one of the cartoonishly-evil disposable background villains (bella’s petnames for her sister, peter’s friendship with james, barty’s skill as a teacher, the carrows’ love for each other, regulus’s note) automatically carries INFINITELY more weight than any dramatic gryffindorish act of heroism BECAUSE it comes shining out from a vacuum. lock me up!!! you should be feeling empathy for them!! do you see how humanity becomes more textured when applied to characters that we, as readers, are meant to disregard as monsters. should i call mary shelley
If We Were Villains and The Secret History are siblings. One is the pretentious, intellectual older sibling and the other is the earnest, romantic younger sibling. One makes tongue-in-cheek jokes at the expense of the other and one rolls their eyes at the drama of it all, but they share the same nose and have the same taste in red wine because they're in the same FAMILY.
UNDERSTOOD??????
"noo not the consequences of my actions"
exept its being wet after jumping into a river fully clothed (me yesterday after having to take the bus drenched)
THIS.
if you have to change a character THAT much in order for it to be “interesting”, you don’t actually like that character.
I AM NOT WRITTEN BY REMUS J. LUPIN I AM PLAQUED BY HIM ((ive got insane joint problems and am pissy abt it) pls dont mind this)
thank you regulus black i say as i buy the once worn doc martens oxfords at the flea market
I think HCing characters with physical disabilities is good and should be done more often but whenever I do it I feel like
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