Countdown to small gifts 5/6: Character talk

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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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[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.)

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