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?
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.
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Date: 2014-11-30 04:00 am (UTC)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.