Snowflake days 12-13 (indluding a fannish meme)

[hamsterwoman]

Day 12: In your own space, create your own challenge.

I've tried this with year-round challenges before, and, except for the Community Souced Reading Bingo, which was a lot of fun, that seems too large scale. So I think this time around Iwant to try something immediate, like a meme. Through the confluence of talking about universe fursions with

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[hamsterwoman]

Oh, cool, that's good to hear that he liked Starglass! And I didn't know about a sequel either, but apparently there's even a third piece, a short story.

Temeraire folks:

First the plain vanilla way: Temeraire and Perscitia are both Ravenclaws, although in different ways -- he is the studious and educated kind, she's more the wild genius. Both Jane and Emily Roland are Gryffindors. I do think Laurence would end up in Gryffindor, but I also think a strong case could be made for Hufflepuff -- he definitely has ideas about what is Right and Proper, but ultimately they are less about ideals and more about genuine decency. Iskierka is a Slytherin, and Ning is DEFINITELY a Slytherin. All Regal Coppers are Gryffindors by definition. :P

OK, now going into a bit more depth for some of these folks with the Sorting Hat Chats model:

Perscitia is a Ravenclaw secondary for sure -- she likes making plans and proving things, and all that good stuff. But I think the reason she appeals to me as much as she does is that she's a Slytherin primary (i.e. driven by loyalty to the people she considers hers). When we first meet her, I'm pretty sure she's what the chats call a petrified Slytherin primary -- she's decided that caring about others is not worth it and so prioritizes purely self-preservation. (Which is understandable -- knowing how strong the dragon/captain bond is, being ditched by one's captain has got to be a massive, soul-shaking betrayal.) Anyway, I think over the next couple of books, albeit mostly offscreen, we do see her "inner circle" expanding, and I think as of League of Dragons, she is starting to expand that circle of people in her remit to all the dragons in England -- thus her getting involved in politics. And I think this is really cool!

Laurence I waffled on, because he certainly ACTS a lot like a Gyrffindor primary -- he's a leader, he has strong ideals, etc. But the more I thought about it, the more I'm convinced he's a Hufflepuff Primary, and the Gryffindor captain we see is a model -- his idea of what An Officer And a Gentleman SHOULD be like. Because Gryffindors are idealists, but Hufflepuffs are loyal to the community -- and that describes Laurence better, I think, and that's why his idea of "the community" can expand to include dragons, and even enemies, when they are being decent people. Reading through this post, one of the things that jumped out at me was the note that Hufflepuff primaries are the ones most likely to help their enemies -- Laurence taking the cure to France, I think, is the perfect example of that. And also, when we see him at his lowest, in VoE, I'm almost certain his primary is burnt at that point, but I feel like it's not burnt in a Gryffindor way -- his moral compass is still very much intact -- it's more that he's forbidden himself the luxury of being a decent person. And when duty and decency come into conflict, whether it be overstepping his bounds with Rankin and Levitas or actual treason, it's always decency that wins, however much he angst about it or suffers after. So, yeah, I'm thinking Hufflepuff primary with a very strong Gryffindor model, which between his view of how an officer, an aristocrat, and a Christian should behave himself has been chosen to approximate the "be a decent person to everyone" core which is his actual truth. As for secondary, I think he's a Hufflepuff there, too. He is too straightforward for Slytherin, too decisive for Ravenclaw, and yet doesn't go charging in blindly, either. This post on Hufflepuff secondaries sounds a lot like Laurence -- the emphasis on integrity and hard work.