a brief return before the 'end' of HP
Apr. 20th, 2007 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseI was supposed to be finishing That Damned Fic tonight, but then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nekokoban showed me this Malfoy-centric HP fanart gallery, and I kind of... got distracted. And remembered how much I adore Narcissa. And realized that I only have a few more months to write whatever I think of her before canon kills her stomps all over whatever ideas I have.
For the most part, I'm settled and prepared for the 7th book. I know my favorite pairing (Snape/Lupin) won't ever happen, so that's not an issue. I've brought my ongoing S/L fic up to date as far as HBP, and I'm resigned to one more 'chapter' so that I can twist whatever ending the final book brings them to into something that I can cope with. I've also resigned myself to certain canon potentials that I regard as nearly impossible to avoid... Ron/Hermione, for instance, which I hate but also am certain will, inevitably, turn out to be a big deal.
Thanks to the damned RP, though, I'm realizing that I'm not quite ready to give up on Cissa just yet. She's the one character that I really feel like I owned - there was so little canonical knowledge of her at the time I started playing that I had a lot of freedom to create her as I wanted. Unlike Hermione and the others, she really felt like my own creation in a lot of ways. I got to take her in a lot of really fun directions, and really play up not only her good sides, but also her bad, nasty, ignorant side. The part that made her a complete twit, or that led her to say one thing one minute, and then something completely different when she was caught out doing something that Bella or someone else didn't like. Her complete lack of ability to cope with the realities of modern life. Her willingness to throw herself to the ground for the benefit of her family, abasing herself in every way imaginable... and then turn around and yell at her husband for putting her in that position. I'm going to miss her, damn it. And I want a few more chances to play around in her head before I see her off to whatever (probably disastrous) end JKR has planned.
Like I didn't have enough writing projects to work on already. :P At the very least, though, I might have to do a sort of... 'best moments' type thing, from the games. Just for my own benefit, since I'm always afraid they're going to disappear at some point or something, and I want to be able to find them for nostalgia's sake. And I've been meaning to write a little "canon be damned, this is how I think the characters should all end up" kind of thing. Which... I really ought to do before the book plays merry hell with my mental images.
Not tonight. It's too damned late, right now.
nekokoban showed me this Malfoy-centric HP fanart gallery, and I kind of... got distracted. And remembered how much I adore Narcissa. And realized that I only have a few more months to write whatever I think of her before canon For the most part, I'm settled and prepared for the 7th book. I know my favorite pairing (Snape/Lupin) won't ever happen, so that's not an issue. I've brought my ongoing S/L fic up to date as far as HBP, and I'm resigned to one more 'chapter' so that I can twist whatever ending the final book brings them to into something that I can cope with. I've also resigned myself to certain canon potentials that I regard as nearly impossible to avoid... Ron/Hermione, for instance, which I hate but also am certain will, inevitably, turn out to be a big deal.
Thanks to the damned RP, though, I'm realizing that I'm not quite ready to give up on Cissa just yet. She's the one character that I really feel like I owned - there was so little canonical knowledge of her at the time I started playing that I had a lot of freedom to create her as I wanted. Unlike Hermione and the others, she really felt like my own creation in a lot of ways. I got to take her in a lot of really fun directions, and really play up not only her good sides, but also her bad, nasty, ignorant side. The part that made her a complete twit, or that led her to say one thing one minute, and then something completely different when she was caught out doing something that Bella or someone else didn't like. Her complete lack of ability to cope with the realities of modern life. Her willingness to throw herself to the ground for the benefit of her family, abasing herself in every way imaginable... and then turn around and yell at her husband for putting her in that position. I'm going to miss her, damn it. And I want a few more chances to play around in her head before I see her off to whatever (probably disastrous) end JKR has planned.
Like I didn't have enough writing projects to work on already. :P At the very least, though, I might have to do a sort of... 'best moments' type thing, from the games. Just for my own benefit, since I'm always afraid they're going to disappear at some point or something, and I want to be able to find them for nostalgia's sake. And I've been meaning to write a little "canon be damned, this is how I think the characters should all end up" kind of thing. Which... I really ought to do before the book plays merry hell with my mental images.
Not tonight. It's too damned late, right now.
