GLP (gratuitous link post)...

[donnaimmaculata]

...for my own convenience.

I've been linking to my fics in the memory section and decided to include links to the two fics I've never posted on or linked to from LJ.

Awakening, a short first kiss ficlet. Sirius/Remus. R-rated.

The Bill/Sirius fic was the first one I've ever posted. It's R-rated and written for the boozefqf. Bill and Sirius get drunk and talk about animal perception and freckles.

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See, I always perceived Sirius and Remus as friends, but I like playing with the reader's perception. In my head, they are clearly friends, not lovers, and when I write them together, I write them as friends. But I like dropping allusions and have other characters wonder about their relationship (like Bill in Genesis, for example). I think I've written only two explicit Sirius/Remus fics, but I hinted at the possibility of their being lovers plenty of times - for my personal pleasure.

interesting dynamic you'd set up there between them

Oh, that's very nice of you to say. I think I just see Remus as quietly influencing Sirius, without actually saying or doing much. Remus strikes me as the sort of person who will just hang around in the background and wordlessly exude disapproval. I use this a lot in my fics, especially with regard to Sirius.

Ah, Bill. Well, we we didn't know much about Bill, his character and his motives, I stuck to what we knew: he's good-looking, self-assured and casually arrogant (especially with regard to Ron). I guess the attack will have shattered his perception of himself - not only because of the contamination with the whole werewolf thing, but also because he suddenly finds himself being deprived of his self-assurance (he was defeated by a monster, instead of defeating a monster, which, as a curse-breaker, he was used to do), as well as his looks. And despite all that we like to say about looks not mattering much - if a person has been used to having them, the loss will weigh rather heavily, I'm sure.

Anyway, what I meant to say was: I liked Bill because he was fairly uncomplicated and fun to write. He didn't come with the emotional baggage (as far as we knew) that other characters carry, and I liked putting him in light(ish) scenarios. Now, he has been elevated into the ranks of the uber-angty guys, of which there have been plenty to begin with!

I doubt all my fics would have that 'character exploration' vibe though, LOL. ;)

You might think so, because you don't necessarily actively put so much thought into the characterisation when writing. But as soon as you start writing, you extrapolate the text and base your characterisation on that extrapolation. I think that, unless you write pure PWP (and often even then), there's always some character exploration hidden in there, even if you're not aware of it. Or something *g*

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Oh, I'm so happy to have this conversation, because you've given me some nicer fodder for Bill-thinking, which I love to do, as I'm quite the fangirl. ;)

It will be interesting to see how his attack affects his confidence. In the fic I'm working on right now, it's set a couple years after the attack and is from Remus' POV. He sees Bill as being very confident still about himself, wearing his scars with pride, but Bill's started wearing his hair down, because his ear is completely mangled and he tries to keep people from staring at it because it makes them uncomfortable. (Nice excuse to have the hair, LOL) But I haven't worked out Bill's thoughts on the matter, and the way he deals with his appearance internally might be very different from the way others perceive. I've been focused more on the emotional upheaval that subtle changes in his personality have had on him and those around him.

I think he can still be the easygoing guy we all liked before, at least on the surface. You know, it sounds so simple, but I always enjoy when people write, as you did, that a character just likes Bill. Because he's likeable. It was very simple, as you've said, but I think he's a well-adjusted enough sort of guy that he won't become too angsty. Or at least, I think his angst will be both at a very superficial level, because I do like him to be a little narcissistic, and a deeply personal level. I think very few people will truly notice a difference in him--I obviously am a proponent of Remus being one of them. ;)

BTW, you have to see the art that odyssey01 did of post-HBP Bill (the one in my icon). I'm such a sap that I cried when I saw it.

But I like dropping allusions and have other characters wonder about their relationship
Yes, I think you do! I enjoy that very much! You certainly got me thinking about how it would all work out.

And I am quite the advocate of the 'supposed-PWP!' I never can put my finger on the difference between a true PWP and a supposed one, but it involves whether I feel an author thought through how a character would act in a sexual situation. It really can say a lot, even if the entire plot is about the sex! I have quite a few of these on my favorite fics list; the authors toss it off as pointless sex and I just don't see it that way.