Countdown to Small Gifts 6/6: Happily ever after

[smallgiftsmods.livejournal.com]

Hi, folks! If you're just joining us, we're on DAY SIX of six days of discussion before Small Gifts begins posting. Start off by introducing yourself (and meeting fellow participants and watchers) over here!

Today's question: if you could give Remus and Sirius a happily every after, where and when would it be? At what age? In what circumstances? I know our art and fic address this question all the time--in fact, many in our exchange will do so!--but chime in with your thoughts today, right now. Are there parts of their story that are essential to them and their dynamic--parts you'd need to keep despite the tragedy? How would you go about making them happy?

Comments

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Personally, my favorite happily-ever-after scenario is Bring Back Black. (Does anyone remember that old Veil of Possibilities challenge? It kills me that no one ever finished it and got Sirius back to the right 'verse!) That way we get most of the events of the series plus the happy ending (and as I said in another one of these posts, I'm a big sucker for reunion fic).

That said, I can read lots of different versions and be happy. Raising Harry (as long as it's not too cutesy), Sirius never went through the veil, total AU, meeting again in the afterlife...it's all good. :)

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

Yes, and oh, it's been a while since I read a long, potty BBB fic. Love those. You're right, that gives us all of the tragedy that shapes them, and a reunion.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

What was the Veil of Possibilities challenge? That sounds fascinating. M.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

It was a challenge that imagined the veil as a gateway into all other possible universes -- so when Sirius fell through, he ended up in a place where, say, he had died instead of James and Lily, or in a place where Remus was a Muggle, or whatever. It was a fun way to showcase a bunch of AUs, at the end of which he would return to the veil to try to get back to his Remus.

It has disappeared from the internet, but fortunately the Wayback Machine has it: http://web.archive.org/web/20071010061909/http://broyc.laudatio.com/veil/archive.htm

The individual stories vary significantly in quality -- my favorite is the first one. But every time I reread it I get angsty over the fact that no one ever wrote Sirius coming home!

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Fun! I had no idea this was going on--though I recognize most of the names as folks who were writing when I first found fandom (and was convinced I'd read everything under the sun. :)

Thanks for linking, S! Always something new, even when it's old. M.