~~ 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: 2005-06-03 02:45 am (UTC)I'm not sure about the Slytherin-honour thing. On one hand, as long as it suits their ambitions, a Slytherin would honour someone or something a lot. But is that really honour, if it gets dropped as soon as something better comes along?
And your Draco/Theo pairing sounds plausible. I mean, it's not hard to be smarter than Draco, and not all Death-Eating-children in Slytherin are dumb dolts, right?
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Date: 2005-06-03 04:13 am (UTC)Haha, the Draco & Theo I'm talking about are from an H/D fic, so it's not really a pairing, per se, I was just imagining counter-slashing my own fic, and it wouldn't really work at all and is really wrong in that context, which is probably why I can't help fiddling with it absent-mindedly. Plus I like my Theo, asshole that he is. Then again, I seem to like writing assholes ^^;