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Hah! abitloony, whoever you are-- I've found the first Luna that works for me ^^

Almost (but not quite) too insane. The poetry really helps.

Hee. This whole RPG (natternet) looks to be totally cute and IC~! Whee! ♥ ♥

Every time someone I consider intelligent (from afar, usually) unfriends me, I think this journal became really boring at some point. Alas.

Seriously, I'm very impressed with people who can RP in-character (or, uh, -write- in-character... which I never claimed I do...). Or just generally write with a natural, age-and-character-appropriate 'voice', which is really what's essential to believable RPing (to me). See, I don't think I do different 'voices' for characters -nearly- enough, so basically I can only RP people who're like me (that's... Luna... and also Luna... and then there's Luna). Uh. Which is why I don't write her much (it would be too embarrassing and I'd feel like I was cheating.)
    Basically, I don't think I've ever truly caught a character's voice in HP (though I think I did with Peter Pan... that one time... *sigh*). I mean, at least I know I suck. I really wonder where are the fanfics the good RP-ers write, or whether the talent doesn't necessarily extend itself to plotting, overall characterization and dynamics of multiple characters, non-dialogue things in general, etc-- so maybe it's just the difference between actors & writers. I'd make an... odd sort of actor, I think. If I ever got over my stage fright, that is. Hahah, though I did play a lead role in a school production at age 10 without too much trouble....

I think the best fanfic (as far as I'm concerned) also captures the characters 'voices' distinctively, and makes you -believe- it's Really That Person because they just -sound- like it, if nothing else. (Interesting) people really talk very distinctively. The Hermione here (parchmentandink) and the Harry, too (whatherocomplex), as well as most of the old N_A players were really good examples of what I mean, too-- they just speak their characters' language.

I do think that as soon as real 'romance' comes into it, often enough this ICness/voice-accuracy goes out the window and people become walking talking cliches because-- well, probably because the players/writers get carried away with the excitement. Thusly, I think it's truly a mark of a brilliant writer when they can write characters 'in extremis' emotionally still sounding and acting recognizably like themselves. So generally, my choice is either to stop reading romance & read gen (...argh) or to accept my reading choices are very limited-- and I hate the idea of both, because obviously I'm an addict. *sigh*

It's a lot easier when it's not fanfic though, so the writer is more naturally comfortable with the characters-- maybe. I can't say there's really a greater percentage of 'realism' in original yaoi, say, than slash fanfic, not by far. Argh, I am doomed. But on the bright side, that really is a cute RPG.

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Mmm, maybe because the Harry fans don't want him to suffer an aneurysm before he turns 20? ;)) Haha, who knows? I used to be big on H/D myself, but I noticed that a lot of the big H/D shippers are actually very big on the Draco-love.

Haha, well, what little I write of it is Harry/Zacharias (which you could probably deduce from the game--biased? what??) with maybe a couple of rarepairs on the side. Though I notice a lot of the Harry Greats have been H/D shippers--I'm pretty sure H/D is what they were gunning for in N_A and that's one of the most beloved games in fandom.

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In the H/D fandom at large, there's something like rampant Draco-worship, which sort of freaks me out, but.... I'm too old-school to change a pairing once it's my OTP, so Zacharias and any post-GoF character never had a chance~:)) Though I'm not sure who to think of as a Harry Great (I mean, I suppose I like Ivy's and Cassie Claire's in their own way but I dunno if that's IC or merely memorable). And then there's Thess (ie, thessamunga), who's like, my yeay happy Harry place, but since she only wrote him extensively in a private RP.... *laughs* Well, I suppose you could say Aspen is a Harry Great, though :D

It's true that just_harry and potterstinks was great... though in retrospect I see that as um, pre-GoF!Harry, kinda, which takes away from my 'omg-so-IC' joy ^^;;;; Then again, I also notice that I'm one of the rather few Harry fans who likes his OoTP self best in a lot of ways (or rather, I like exploring his darker issues and the opportunity to do so), even though I -do- want to coddle him. I always try to stop myself and go, 'but it's really not good for Harry to be coddled! yes!' :>

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One of the few but definitely not alone!! I much prefer OotP!Harry myself over his later incarnation, when he was still growing into his skin and had these giant character flaws that seemed to get glossed over completely in HBP. *grumbles* I guess I'm sort of in denial--everything I write now always works from the basis of OotP!Harry. Like if I don't acknowledge its existence, HBP will just go away!

Heh, well, I wasn't even a year into the HP fandom when OotP came out so I wasn't too attatched to H/D or anything, that might be why I jumped ships so easily. I can imagine a pairing would have a lot more significance after keeping it afloat through things like canon changes and the lessening degree of seperation between the fandom and the canon.

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Oddly, I think I've made my peace with HBP Harry now, but at the same time I'm still not really writing him anymore-- it's just that I -can't- ignore canon even if I try (which is definitely a curse I wish on many a ficcer, lemme tell you, ahahah). I think Harry was -always- 'special' in his development, as Dumbledore said, ahaha. Though it was still a cop-out, basically, at the same time I think the book only wildly accelerated a process that was always likely, if that makes sense. I mean, er, well, Harry could always snap later, ahahaha. :D

Man, there are/were so many uber-meta as well as personal reasons I've had for pairing Harry with D-boy... things like them needing to see the other truly in order to really grow up-- hey, that's canon now, them being complementary, them inspiring each other to, um, extremes, etc. There was also snark, Harry's fixation on Slytherin, rivalry being hot and me liking unrequited love/obsession way too much for my own good, ahahah.