Question meme
Nabbed this off ginger_veela, since I share her need for a distraction.
Pick any character from the Harry Potter, BTVS/Angel, Doctor Who/Torchwood, White Collar, or Misfits universes and I'll answer the following questions:1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her ( Read more... )
Pick any character from the Harry Potter, BTVS/Angel, Doctor Who/Torchwood, White Collar, or Misfits universes and I'll answer the following questions:1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her ( Read more... )
I like her! She's a little mean to Hermione at times, she's involved with the Skeeter scam in GoF, she cares for Draco a lot and maybe loves him - we don't see much of her, and what we do see isn't all great, but it's kind of classic-teenager-cute. And I love her in DH. I think her standing up and saying "let's send Potter out there" is great. She has no reason to think Harry can defeat Voldemort, which means to her, it's a choice between sending Harry out there so he dies, or keeping Harry there until Voldemort invades and Harry dies along with everyone else. I actually think she makes the moral judgement although I don't judge the others - they love Harry, or they want to believe he can save them. And she does it publically, even though the rest of the school aims their wands at her. GOOD FOR YOU, PANSY.
2) Is he/she important to the general plot?
Nope. She's one of Draco's crowd, a Slytherin female leader, a voice against Harry - she has her roles but she's far from crucial.
3) Can you relate to this character at all? Does he/she grip you emotionally?
I don't really 'relate' to characters in the usual way, generally. But I guess so.
4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?
LOVE the fandom. Quite like the source material.
5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by his/her relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)
LOADS, lol. Pansy/Ginny is fun and sparky - they have a lot of second-hand enemities with nothing personally between them, and they're both hot and popular and fun-loving. Pansy/Hermione can be a lot of fun too.
Pansy/Harry is interesting in light of DH - choosing the greater good is something Harry understands, sacrificing someone else isn't, so I find their possible interactions interesting whether romantic/sexual or not.
I like Pansy/Draco - two old friends who know each other well, and she loved him, and they attract each other and like each other. I don't think I'd want to read it as True Love but I think they're very cute as each other's firsts.
But my favourite is Pansy/Ron. It's a hot pairing and they're both used to being second-best but they could be each other's first choices, and I can see them being far more long-term compatible than Ron/Hermione.
Pansy is basically my little black dress, lol. She goes with everything. I've read her with Scorpius, Snape, Astoria, Narcissa and Lucius too :D
6) Is there anything about the character you would change?
We would know more!
7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how would you see yourself interacting with him/her? Would you get along well? Fall in love with him/her? Dislike? Have a friendly rivalry?
If she had the dark-hair-dark-eyes-silk-dress-badass thing she usually does in fanon, she would be precisely my type. I have a pretty big thing for dark-eyed, dark-haired women. So I would be massively attracted to her.
8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?
We don't know enough about her for her to be one of my all time favourites, but she's absolutely in my top ten to read and write about.
9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about this character (if you dislike) to someone new to fandom?
Neither, really... I guess I'd hype her up as a character I interpret as not being a Harry fan while also not being the soul of evil?
10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?
Portions of it. She's popular with femmeslash fans, certainly. Draco marrying another seems to have dulled the hatred of a lot of H/D fans, so she gets a fanon characterisation as a rich-bitch and Draco's best mate which is often fun to read/write. She's traditionally been bashed a lot but I think on the whole people like her :)
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I think you capture quite well Pansy's motivations and train of thought in her Great Hall moment in DH, though I can't help having mixed feelings about her there.
But my favourite is Pansy/Ron. It's a hot pairing and they're both used to being second-best but they could be each other's first choices, and I can see them being far more long-term compatible than Ron/Hermione.
Fandom wise, I noticed that I normally tend to write Pansy/Hermione, but I also love a good Ron/Pansy. I agree with you that they'd be more compatible than Ron/Hermione. I can easily see Ron and Hermione drifting apart after the war, once the storm settles into a normal calm.
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I might try to steal this meme, though... I'm kinda lacking motivation after the response to my last one (for which I was so curious).
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Yeah, I think it's fair enough to have mixed feelings about that, heh. :D
Steal it! It's fun. And self-indulgent.
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Yeah, can be a good reason... though I'm currently hating the fact that another friend is making me like Obi-Wan, from Star Wars. LOL. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that I play him in our RP, though :P
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