~~ El Slytherinne Compadres

I'm starting to twitch every time I see 'Blaise is Draco's best friend' plot-device. Twitch. Twitch. Twitch. Have to restrain myself from writing ficlet where Blaise dies gory death. Twitch.

Had a ficlet started mocking it, where Draco decided to be Blaise's best friend because he had no identity (easy to control!! muwahahahah!) & Pansy was pissing him off so he wanted to snub her. Alas, I was struck in the face with the odious job of creating a personality for Blaise (which makes me twitch). Don't mind giving Theo a personality, but then there's at least that hint that he's supposed to be too cunning to be part of Draco's gang, and I think that's utterly fascinating.

The lone wolf Slytherin. I could so see him kicking Draco's ass (not that I imagine this is difficult, all things considered.) But Blaise? Pure OC; this wouldn't bother me if he wasn't repeatedly made important, however (possibly I wouldn't mind if he was something less cliche than Draco's Slytherin-number-9418 Best Friend). I mean, it might be interesting if Blaise was like, the Remus of the Slytherins... in the background, agreeable but secretly thoughtful, something like that. Ahhh, but then I don't think Draco would mix well with a best friend who's too thoughtful.

Not that I don't like a Draco who's relatively well-adjusted and has several friends who he's close to and is happy as a clam in his Slytherin family (....er). Okay, fine, I admit it, I can't stand well-adjusted!Draco or really almost anyone; if those people indeed exist. And it's also annoying when well-adjusted!Draco has this casual comraderie with his pals, his buds, his Slytherin brothas-- all based on light sarcasm, their great bonding tool. *headdesk* Can't they have some sort of... complex system of back-stabbery and lies or something? That would be so nice. And yeah yeah, write it myself, I know. Le sigh. But I'm lazy; I just want to read a little something where Blaise is an ev0l-traitor-omg, maybe, or more likely Theo does something like go work for Percy. That would be so cool. A spy for the Ministry, yeay.

Actually, now I'm all intrigued-- imagining that Slytherins might get ahead based on some sort of Japanese system of unspoken rivalry disguised by shows of loyalty & some sort of honor. I don't care if it's canon, per se, I just suddenly find honorable-yet-devious!Slytherins rather cute. Possibly I'm suddenly having nostalgia for the Salazar-fic-that-never-was. Now there was a guy with honor/loyalty issues up the wazoo (in my head)....

And possibly I just wanted to mourn my Draco/Blaise fic (destroyed in a crash just now), though it was going absolutely nowhere. Draco needs a friend who's going to be not-so-rah-rah about the war, maybe, and not so important that he'd desert him if things get dicey; it might be interesting. Ahhh, why am I convincing myself to write D/best-friend!B, whywhywhy.... Literary masochism, thy name is Reena... -.-

[nose, meet navel]

So, um, in the comments to my mocking-bastard post (which I now regret, but I was being really sleepy and actually rather flippant), I said I never met anyone who'd thought I was mean, and thomasofdelain (whom I don't remember seeing before) said (and then deleted), I think you're...well, not exactly mean so much as arrogant/self-centred, which can lead to the first.

Mmf. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or not? :-?

Well, not that you can please everyone, and it's not that I try to, but I realize I say many things without thinking them through a lot, and I probably can't change that very easily either....

He probably thought I'd jump on him or something and be like, 'how dare you! my arrogant nature demands you take that back right now!! cur! infidel!' (or something) so he deleted it, but really now I'm curious (paranoid) many more people think I'm arrogant (though clearly I am self-centered, what can I really say about that-- given I still do care about people & their opinions, I figure it's not that bad). But yeah, wouldn't want to seem arrogant-- although... if it's just 'seeming', that would be like protecting my 'image', and I don't care about that.

I suppose I wanted to ask if I'm inadvertently being arrogant? Or possibly being misunderstood that way. Is saying what I think all the time arrogant? I'm never saying 'but you can't think differently' (or rather, meaning to say). Then again, I think people have told me this much in other words, but never with the implication it could be mean.
    Also, since (I'm pretty sure, and people who do know me tell me) I'm not arrogant, then isn't it bothersome if I keep seeming that way?

Okay, possibly, I shouldn't put much stock in the opinions of people who don't know me :-? But he said I could be mean! Well, we could all be unintentionally mean, I accept that. I was just saying, if anyone wanted to tell me how to improve on this front... feel free ^^ I've screened comments, I guess.