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Hmmm. I've been seeing this meme around and have really enjoyed reading what some of my favorite authors have to say about their writing and their processes - the details have been fascinating and the frankness has been admirable. But I haven't felt comfortable about commenting to others unless I also have the nerve to do the meme myself. So, I'll ( Read more... )
About Lupin's scars, I know, I know :). But as soon as I saw 'em in the movie, all I could think of was "wow - great idea - those are going right in, canon be damned!"
I just like the idea that Remus is an extraordinary man posing as an unremarkable one, and that he's used the mystique his culture has drawn around his condition to make the very marks on his face seem unremarkable and average. Also like the idea that while Lupin is marked on the outside and his marks go unnoticed, Sirius is marked on the inside and might regard his own handsome face as a blemish. As teens, both of them might look into a mirror - Sirius would see a Black and Remus would see a werewolf - but they might both think "ugly, ugly, ugly" in secret. But they also have each other, so Remus revels in Sirius' pretty flesh, and Sirius glories in Lupin's fabulous scars.
This kind of yin/yang parallel is one of my main reasons for being such a scar advocate regardless of all reason and canon-compliance, yet I never use movie-Sirius' tatoos, though they too are a very striking visual image and are even less canon-violating than the scars. I guess I always put how well an element will fit my fic above anything else. LOL. Grist for my little mill. Maybe I am an ogre after all!
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And about the scars....well, better than the moustache, I suppose. *smile* I completely understand your reasoning here. I also like the complementary way these two characters can be developed--it's why they're so good together--and I really like the parallel between social estrangement on Remus' part and family estrangement on Sirius'. Plus the idea of Sirius not being especially happy with the way he looks--which I remember first encountering in your stories--has completely taken over, and I can hardly imagine him any other way now.
M.
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