~~ El Slytherinne Compadres
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reenkaI'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... -.-
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... -.-
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Date: 2005-06-02 07:19 am (UTC)Though I think I like more what you describe, where Blaise is just sort of quiet, the Remus of Slytherin, and Draco just sort of finds himself liking him. As opposed to the "we have been best friends since birth and build treehouses together." I always think of Blaise as being sort of in the background, watching, and just commenting at the right moment.
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Date: 2005-06-02 10:24 am (UTC)I love Blaise and Nott in it, especially.
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Date: 2005-06-03 01:33 am (UTC)...In the end it is entirely possible there have been some interesting characterizations of him which I've wilfully ignored the way I ignore minor characters in canon as well (until reminded, ahahah). :>