[ SECRET POST #2429 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2429 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Arrested Development]


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03.
[George R.R. Martin]


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04.
[Bee and PuppyCat]


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05.
[Harry Potter]


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06.
[Resident Evil 6]


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07.
[The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings]


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08.
[Naruto]


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09.
[Jin, Hanzawa Naoki]


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10.
[Neverwinter Nights]


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11.
[Shina Dark]


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12.
[Thomas Gibson from the series Criminal Minds]












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Comments

just my two knuts~

[(Anonymous)]

For an antagonistic "we are on opposite sides of a war and believe completely different things" pairing like H/D, if it was really 100% IC, they wouldn't... hook up or have sexual tension or anything... so merely by pushing them together, one is bending the characters to a will that is not the characters' own. The result can be fic they're still very true-feeling, even if they're factually OOC if written by anyone other than JKR, but a lot of the time characterization gets sacrificed on the altar of porn. Or fluff, w/e. A friend pointed out to me that with popular ships especially, some authors feel obligated to write to a certain "getting together" formula. You can find this formula everywhere, not just with H/D, but authors do like to serve what they know their audience wants.


I used to write H/D rather a lot and was terribly conscious of how I wrote Draco in particular, since fanon!Draco was so prevalent. There were many popular Draco characterizations, not just ice prince sex god leather pants Draco. I always strived to keep him pretty lame, whiny, sarcastic but not in a witty or snarky way, and not remotely Whedonian or leather-clad. I really cared that he still came across as the Draco from the books and it was a point of pleasure for me to deliberately not try and redeem him, make him any cooler or smarter, and still find a way to write the H/D dynamic enjoyably.

I wouldn't say characterization was a top priority for a lot of H/D fans, even though honestly the difference in character is what is fun (for me) and attractive about H/D. But for a lot of people writing SHIPPY FIC, where the point is that they get together, it's about resolving their differences and bringing the tension between to a close or curbing it or something. To me, that kinda clips the wings of H/D, but we all want different kinds of fic!