Countdown to small gifts 5/6: Character talk

[smallgiftsmods.livejournal.com]

What aspects of Sirius' or Remus' characters do you yourself identify with? Are you attracted to the characters or the pairing because you see something in their lives or their relationship that reminds you of your own?

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[nerakrose]

Like (fanon?) Remus, I too wear a lot of cardigans. XD

I identify with both of them on different levels and different circumstances, but where my buttons really get pushed is with Sirius and his relationship to his brother. We know so little about them. I have this whole elaborate headcanon about them and when I write AUs I make sure to keep Reg in Sirius' life. Tend to give them a good relationship too. I have a thing for families. :p and siblings. I'm a big sister myself and would do anything for my little siblings, and I imagine Sirius would too.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Like (fanon?) Remus, I too wear a lot of cardigans.

:)

The family dynamics draw me in, too. A different part of a character's personality comes out with a parent or a sibling--it makes them fuller, for me, to have this background. And I love Grimmauld Place as a family-laden setting.

I haven't read any Pottermore, so I don't know Remus' family story, but I enjoy imagining it. M.

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

I love reading stories with Regulus in them!

[mutuisanimis.livejournal.com]

For a long time I identified with Remus' supposed bookishness and how he was the quieter of the two. (There was a girl I had a crush on who reminded me a lot of Sirius, actually, so there was also that.) But lately I have found myself more on the Sirius end of things, being impulsive sometimes, speaking without thinking, talking and loving loudly and sometimes excessively—by which I mostly mean being abundant with my emotions. *shrug*

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Remus' bookishness is interesting, isn't it? Because in canon he's such a hands-on teacher, not bookish at all--not like Hermione--but I think folks sense something about him--maybe the tendency to hang back and observe others--that makes him sympathetic to bookish folks and allows us to write him like that comfortably nevertheless! M.

[andreyahalms.livejournal.com]

Remus' bookishness is interesting, isn't it? Because in canon he's such a hands-on teacher, not bookish at all.

This is true! While I've always liked muggle au headcanons where Remus is an English/History major and is bookish, lately I've been wondering if he's more likely to take up something like engineering or physics.

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! Not to toot my own proverbial horn, but when I was a teacher I was very much like Remus. In fact, Remus was the first teacher at Hogwarts that I felt really taught with intention and modern methods. When he was introduced, I thought, "Finally, a real teacher."

[museinabsentia.livejournal.com]

There is nothing wrong with living loudly and having an abundance of emotions. It could, in fact, be seen as a good thing. :)

(And oh yes, on the old crushes... I may have, accidentally, in hind site, sort of patterned my version of Remus after my old college roommate because of the remarkable number of similarities, who, incidentally totally broke my heart when she moved thousands of miles away and got married - and holy-run-on-sentence,Batman. Sorry about that... and the over sharing. I'm prone.)

[mutuisanimis.livejournal.com]

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[museinabsentia.livejournal.com]

Oh wow... Hmm. I see bits of myself in both of them. I tend to sympathize with the probable lack of self esteem that I assume comes with being a werewolf and the way Remus is treated for it, but then I also tend to find myself compensating for it by being loud and probably overbearing. I tend towards Sirius' emotional dependency and sense of hiding that behind indifference. Also, until I was old enough to move out probably the most common feeling I inspired on my parents was disappointment, and my kid sister is my father's mini me (I'm a secretary, she's studying to be a doctor). On the flip side, my family all likes each other.

P.S. I love this travelling to places that have Wi-Fi thing, I can check in at all hours. Too bad I'm going back to no internet tomorrow... ::is sad::

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

I think that I'm not that much like Sirius at all. He's just so wild and impulsive and I'm not like that in the least. Actually, I took one of those character tests one time and it said that Sirius was the HP character that I was least like which may very well be true. Being so different from him does make him interesting to me, though. And it's fun, almost a form of wish fulfillment, to write about someone so very different from myself.

With Remus, there are certain things about him that I identify with such as his tendency to hold himself apart from other people. I also identify with the whole werewolf thing to a certain extent because he has this huge part of his identity that he has to keep a secret and I think that's very easy for certain groups to identify with. I think that I'm also different from Remus in lots of ways as well, though. So it's not as though I write about either character because I think that I'm just like him.

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

Personality wise, I'm probs more like Remus: slightly quieter and more introverted, etc. Also, as I mentioned above, when I was a teacher, he and I had similar methods. I find Remus easier to write because I feel like think like him a bit more and that we could share similar humor and head-space.

Sirius, though, is my first love. I feel so strongly about him on many levels, not the least of which is the idea of injustice. I've been falsely accused and I know what that feels like. I am AVIDLY against the prison-industrial complex, and extremely concerned with prison reform. He just gets under my skin.