(Enemies/Rivals ("I'mma kill this idiot!") that deep down don't hate each other, and when they team up are just the most chaotic, dangerous, random shit duo to ever walk on Earth! + Dazai and Jack have the same savvy and Chuuya and Barbosa have cool hats.)
There's no way in Hell I'd ship Jack and Hector, just don't.
I have not finished watching BSD yet, but IF IT DOESN'T END WITH THOSE BITCHES GOING FULL ON "ROMEO AND JULIET'S DOUBLE SUICIDE STYLE"--
Please, no spoilers :)
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This is the scenario I came up with:
Dazai is fatality injured during a big final battle (probably after sacrificing himself), Yosano is unreachable or far away. Chuuya see Dazai all covered in blood on the ground and kneel next to him, not realizing that he's crying. They both KNOW that there's nothing they can do, but Dazai smiles and whispers something only Chuuya can hear (not even the audience) and Chuuya holds a knife in Dazai's hand and stabs his heart. The life leaves quickly his eyes as Chuuya cries, lays his head on Dazai's dead body, only to also stab himself with the same knife.
Later, when the battle is over, they're found like this:
I recently read Chamber of Secrets for the first time and, as someone who watched the movies first, I was genuinely surprised about how much I relate to Ginny Weasley!
Tom Riddle is incredibly charming and, just like little Ginny, I completely fell for it (even though I knew he was Voldemort all along). I just couldn't help it, he plays the role of the sweet, innocent Golden Boy too well!! I genuinely felt sorry for him when he started blushing while talking about the orphanage he lived in 💔
Obviously it's just a facade, a mask he wears to manipulate people and not his real self. I'm not at all trying to somehow justify the actions of Lord Voldemort. I'm just saying that, like Ginny and Harry, I fell for him.
But when I decide to search online for Alternative Universes where he was actually this prince charming with a heart of gold (*hyperbole*) that he pretended to be, I only found disgusting Tomarry smut.
I do understand that this is a crack ship that shouldn't be taken seriously, but damn, I must say I'm deeply disappointed and sad. Apparently, Tom Marvolo Riddle can only be "good" when the author wants him to fuck Harry James Potter.
And those fanfiction don't even base his "good side" on what we actually see him performing in the book, but apply the most generic and cliche 'cold, no feelings boyfriend and only y/n can made him love again' personality, but y/n is just called Harry.
I'm deeply mad at this fandom. Tom Riddle could be such a layered and complex characters if we consider his Golden Boy Persona as real, or at least something he's trying to be.
I know that J.K. Rowling dives more deep into his past in later books and I currently only read books 1 and 2, but from I could see, good!Tom Riddle (canon based + a bit of my headcanons): Comes from a negligent (possibly abusive) household that he much rather not go back to;
Tries to be the perfect boy in school, in a desperate quest for acceptance;
Tries to do what he judges right, even if it hurts other people or himself, it's for the greater good;
Does not have actual friends because he can't bond with people (and some people think he's just a show off);
Is a Teacher's Pet because he subconsciously wants validation;
Spent 5 years trying to learn more about who he and his mother's family are;
(Probably has a pet Basilisk — who might or not have killed Myrtle);
Gets along better with snakes than humans, because he doesn't need to try so hard around them.
Speaks Parseltongue in his sleep.
I'm fully aware that it also sounds very cliche, and I the need to say that as I, myself, don't ship Tom and Harry at all, I'm not here to hate this ship or on its shippers. “Ship and let ship.„ You do you, guys. I can understand how the whole Dark Mirror situation could have been appealing to some.
I just wanted to vocalize my frustrations about this damn ship basically monopolizing the "Good Tom Riddle" tag on Ao3.
I'd love fanfiction recommendations about it if you have some <3
(I also think we should talk about more about the friendship between Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley, but this is a talk for another post. Anyway, if you got some platonic recommend for them, I'd love to read! <3)
For the love of Merlin, fanon is not canon and this doesn't justify Voldemort's actions at all.
I made a video based on the song: “Fairytale„ by Alexander Rybak on The Sims 4 featuring the life of Severus Snape, mainly his tumultuous relationship with Lily Evans Potter and how his relationship with mr. Harry Potter is a continuation of that turmoil.
This explores from their childhood friendship, passing through the rough adolescence and bullying, her death, his hard years as the Potions Master in Hogwarts and, finally, his death.
I do believe that his song was perfect for him, only surpassed by “Always„ by Bon Jovi, perhaps.
This video means a lot to me, as it took me about an entire month to finish it. Besides, when I took the decision of making this video I only had I rough idea of what was the Harry Potter saga, so I decided to actually check the source material for a better understanding of what I was doing. During the month I spent doing this project, I watched eight (8) films and read two (2) books. I'm currently reading Prisoner of Azkaban.
I must thank this video for bringing me, definitively, to the Harry Potter fandom.
With all my love and dedication, Rose.
P.S.: Here's all the Custom Content I used in this video with links.
Headmaster of a school that teaches kids how to fight against the forces of evil
The second in command of that school is a good witch who's actually pretty strict (McGonagall and Glinda)
Hosted competition in their school against other schools where kids died + a ball happened (Triwizard Tournament and Vytal Festival)
Has an army of children and sent them to fight and die in a battle at their own school
Was in love the greatest evil witch/wizard of all times who's actually the villain (Grindelwald and Salem)
Allows the fiction oppressed group in the school even though himself is not a part of (muggleborns and faunus)
Have white hair
Wear small glasses
Lived longer than a century
Is a wizard
IS A FUCKING MANIPULATIVE LAIR ("omitting important information" if you want to call it that way)
Has been manipulating the protagonist's life since they first met
The protagonist's mother died fighting for their cause
The protagonist have their mother's eyes and wear red
Have an informant with black hair and who is often compared to a winged creature (Qrow [who is a literally crow] and Snape [who's known as the dungeons bat])
The fandom often wishes that said informant was the protagonist's father
Was murdered by someone with black hair (Snape and Cinder)
Bad feelings attract the forces of evil (Dementors and the creatures of Grimm)
Think with me, Petunia only met James once, and she was trying to forget the memory more and more. Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid had only seen Harry as a baby.
I need a fanfiction where Hagrid comes pick Harry up, takes a look at the boy and goes: "This is not James' son."
Black greasy hair, pale skin, big nose.
The was no deniability, the kid looked exactly like a mini Professor Snape, unless, of course, for the famous scar and the eyes — ah, Lily's eyes! Would it be true? Lily Potter was a cheater?!
I doubt that Petunia would even remember that one neighbor she had as a child, who spent most of the year away, that was just as freaky as the sister she was trying to forget and who she hadn't seen in more than a decade, let anole realize that the kid, who she rather pretend didn't exist, looked like him.
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Snape had alittle petty smile on the lips, realizing that James Potter had sacrificed his little life to save not only a baby that wasn't his, but no other than Severus —no, Snivellus' son.
At same time, somewhere in the other side, James was smiling too, when Snivellus' son got sorted into Gryffindor, basically begging to not go to his father's beloved Slytherin.
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Rita Skeeter was reveling with the news. The Daily Prophet's machetes spent weeks looking like:
"Young Savior Harry Potter enters Hogwarts with Shocking Scandal!"
"The myth of purity of Lily and James Potter: AFFAIR?!"
Honestly, the guy who created the Elder Wand died stabbed. Dobby died stabbed. Why can't we just shoot Voldemort in the head?!
"Oh, but what about the Horcruxes?"
Headshot, that body dies, he goes back to be whatever he was before Philosopher's Stone. Shoot every other Death Eaters, because they would simply die and so no could perform a ritual to bring him back.
Congratulations! Now you got all the time to go after the other Horcruxes!
That's the kind of thing I was expecting Snape to have tbh...
“I picked a side. Most people think it's the wrong side, but I picked it anyway.„
How many fandoms can you apply that phrase?
Are you applying it to a character who's on the dark side or the fact that most people hate your favorite character (plus if you hate their beloved one)?
Watching "Prisoner of Azkaban" and it's amazing how they set everything for the mystery so everything is so satisfactory (is that the word) when it all pays off and we find out that Remus and Sirius were actually friends along.
And then Severus Snape comes in and the smile on my face wears off. Although it is satisfactory see the results of his investigations throughout the movie and all coming together in that scene.
I just remember that there's two marauders there and he's inevitably is going to get mocked and humiliated.
Lucius: Urh, I hate anyone who is not a pureblood, c'mon, you're all so dirty and disgusting! Shame to the wizard world!
Severus: *Gets upset, but doesn't say anything.*
*Later*
James: Oh, what we got here? Little, disgusting Snivellus! Look at that hair, when was the last time you showered, you dirty thing!
Lucius: Hey! Leave. Him. Alone! You stupid git! Is not like you're any better, Pottah!
Severus: *Clings to Lucius like a life buoy in a sea of ​​torment*
instead of the Dursleys, we got Tobias and Eileen;
instead of Gryffindor, we got Slytherin;
instead of Draco's Gang, we got the Marauders;
instead of Pansy Parkinson, we got Lily Evans;
instead of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, we got Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Black;
It's Harry Potter
but instead of Harry Potter, we got Severus Snape.
(I thought about "instead of Dumbledore, we got Voldemort" and "instead of Minerva McGonagall, we got Bellatrix Lestrange" but they don't really play roles similar enough.)
Do you guys know any fanfiction about the Marauders actually realizing how bad they screwed up Severus' mental health and/or that he was being abused at home?
Not necessarily befriending him (that could be a bonus+), but just the paradigm shift.
I read Into The Woods by JKarrEagle and Trickster32 on Ao3 and that's basically about that concept and I love it so much, totally recommend it.
Writing Prompt (that I desperately want to read, please): The for whatever magical reason, Villain is turned back into a child, and the Hero ends up taking care of Kid!Villain but then he see how much scared Kid!Villain is, perhaps afraid of being hit or something like that, and he realizes how much trauma the Villain had endured at such a young age.
BONUS POINTS: Eventually, when the Villain goes back to normal and they meet again in the battlefield, there's that awkwardness because the Hero doesn't want to fight to fight that kid but he knows he has to stop the Villain, meanwhile the Villain doesn't want to harm the Hero because that's technically the only good parent figure he ever had.