~~ sword-of-doom!Draco <3
Nov. 27th, 2004 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaA combination of reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
the_leaky's latest storyline and listening to the LoTR movie soundtrack made me picture Draco... in a light I've forgotten I loved, really. A heroic light.
It's not Frodo-style heroism I'm talking about, actually-- not that of the hapless innocent who's chosen by Destiny to fight darkness. No... but it's another form of the archetype, just as old. It's about the youngest, the weakest-- the most foolish-- Ivan the Fool, setting out on a hopeless journey to save someone he loves best-- his dying mother, perhaps-- or to rescue a kidnapped princess he'd loved at first sight. It's the heroism which sends one on a journey of self-discovery same as any other, but it's often borne not of bravery but desperation.
And reading about Draco saving Harry, I remembered-- that's my favorite story. Draco the Fool, hopeless and without any obvious skill, a laughing stock more than likely. Whatever powers he has, he misuses them, but more likely none are apparent.
Harry saving Draco seems... redundant in a way. Harry is already saving everyone else-- that seems to be his job and his pre-existing journey. Draco's future-- that's limitless. He can define himself in almost any fashion. It's his choice, where Harry's was taken away from him.
I mean, this is fanon Draco in the best sense-- where you take a cute-yet-annoying boy from canon & give him an AU future to turn him into a man. Someone who could stand alone-- carry a story. And yet there's no need to add anything to his character except a number of challenges to temper it, the way one tempers steel. That's what defines a hero, after all-- not his traits but his choices. Surviving under pressure and seizing a trial as if it was an opportunity to show the world what one is made of, but mostly to show oneself who you are.
Most likely I just wanted an excuse to draw a guy with a sword.
the_leaky's latest storyline and listening to the LoTR movie soundtrack made me picture Draco... in a light I've forgotten I loved, really. A heroic light.It's not Frodo-style heroism I'm talking about, actually-- not that of the hapless innocent who's chosen by Destiny to fight darkness. No... but it's another form of the archetype, just as old. It's about the youngest, the weakest-- the most foolish-- Ivan the Fool, setting out on a hopeless journey to save someone he loves best-- his dying mother, perhaps-- or to rescue a kidnapped princess he'd loved at first sight. It's the heroism which sends one on a journey of self-discovery same as any other, but it's often borne not of bravery but desperation.
And reading about Draco saving Harry, I remembered-- that's my favorite story. Draco the Fool, hopeless and without any obvious skill, a laughing stock more than likely. Whatever powers he has, he misuses them, but more likely none are apparent.
Harry saving Draco seems... redundant in a way. Harry is already saving everyone else-- that seems to be his job and his pre-existing journey. Draco's future-- that's limitless. He can define himself in almost any fashion. It's his choice, where Harry's was taken away from him.
I mean, this is fanon Draco in the best sense-- where you take a cute-yet-annoying boy from canon & give him an AU future to turn him into a man. Someone who could stand alone-- carry a story. And yet there's no need to add anything to his character except a number of challenges to temper it, the way one tempers steel. That's what defines a hero, after all-- not his traits but his choices. Surviving under pressure and seizing a trial as if it was an opportunity to show the world what one is made of, but mostly to show oneself who you are.
Most likely I just wanted an excuse to draw a guy with a sword.
