meme time is ... all the time?
THE GRAB BAG MEME
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
OH MY GOD PERCY. OKAY. Okay. Stanning for him isn't weird at all because I have an absurd amount of love for every single member of the Weasley family and that includes Percy. Now, I actually haven't had the opportunity to play against a Percy in all my years of writing Ginny (not just in poly, but in general; I started playing her before HBP was even published, omfg) so my headcanon on the relationship between him and his sister isn't as solid as Bill, Charlie, the twins, and Ron. That being said, I do have a few ideas knocking around my head about Perce so let's see. Um, hmm.
At this point in time, Ginny is from the part in canon where Percy is still a massive, family-disowning prat. But notice how the twins and Ron are the most vocal about their distaste for the third oldest Weasley sibling - and perhaps it was assumed that she agreed, and for the most part, she did. She flung parsnips in his face that fateful Christmas day, after all. But I feel like there was a quiet part of her that hoped that he'd come back to them before it was too late, and she didn't want to admit it even to herself. Ginny, I think, feels incredibly betrayed by Percy's abandonment of the family in an especially dangerous time because Weasleys are always their strongest when they're together and they might be killed at any moment so what the hell, Perce? That being said, while I firmly believe Percy tearing that hole in the family hurt them all, it hurt Ginny deeper than even she expected. She and Percy were, arguably, the outcasts of the Weasley siblings as children - him for being far more interested in books than brooms, and her for being a girl - and in that, they were united. When the twins pushed their teasing too far, Ron probably laughed along with them to avoid being laughed at, and Percy was probably stuck with comforting their baby sister when she tried not to show how much she wanted to cry.
That forms a bond, and Ginny does love all her brothers in their own specific ways, but the one she has with this one is a lot more subtle, more of a quiet understanding than the open and loud displays of affection with the twins, for example. During her first year at Hogwarts, Percy was the only one of her brothers to notice something was wrong with her and was concerned enough to send her to the infirmary and write to Molly and check on her - neither of the twins nor Ron did that. And while Ginny must have been embarrassed and annoyed by it at the time, in hindsight she knows that it showed just how seriously he took Older Brothering - almost as seriously as he took being a prefect. She never forgot that he looked out for her like that, and that he had never done anything to hurt her (because she always got into fights with Ron, regardless of how much she'll defend him to the end; and the twins went too far sometimes) - which is why his leaving the family the way he did hurt so much.
Ginny isn't the first to forgive Percy when he returns. Fred is. Fred, who had been the most vocal about how much of an idiot their older brother was. But the fact that he came to them when they most needed him isn't something she forgot during the battle and in the aftermath and I feel like that was enough for her. Because as a girl whose actions tend to speak louder than her words (though her words can be pretty damn loud too), Percy's return and willingness to fight at their side again was apology enough. She didn't need to hear it.
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AND THIS IS LOVELY. I love the Weasleys too. I'm all like... lol Percy shouldn't have flounced out in his egomaniacal butthurt, but I also can't help but understand why he flipped and snapped and walked away, and I just think oh you poor stupid proud git. Omg, wow, playing Ginny since before HBP! Did HBP totally rock your world of characterization or were you already on that road?
I don't know if I can comment on this extensively beyond how much I love it -- I love the insight to their being outcasts, the way he was such a rigid, even mothering older brother (everytime I think of his reaction to Ron's coming out of the lake late, even, as a judge, KNOWING there was no danger, I die) -- especially that, right, he was concerned and noticed that year. WOW I NEED TO REREAD. The image of comforting baby sister trying not to cry, my heaaaaartt. Then he had to go be a big prat. But she forgives him and of course and of course Weasleys and slkdmfsdl.
you gotsta git you know who in poly what.
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AHAHAHA BUTTHURT. BEST word to describe Percy's flouncing, omg. And yeah, I feel so awful for Percy because all he wanted was to be successful, probably because he'd grown up with the family being so poor and mocked by people like the Malfoys, and by the time he got to that point and realised how much it cost him, it was (almost) too late. And YES, he was such a mother hen in terms of being a brother, pestering Ginny to take Pepper-Up Potion when she looked all pale and peaky (BECAUSE SHE WAS POSSESSED) and rushing to Ron after the Second Task, omg i almost forgot about that! I love Percy a lot because he's so wonderfully complicated and nnngh. Yes.
Sooooob playing Ginny pre-HBP. I was really really awful back then, she was my very first RP character in my life. I focused a lot on her trying to overcome the diary and working towards having friends (and not just being That Weasley Girl who had to be rescued by Harry Potter from the Heir of Slytherin), having a normal life, really struggling in her second year to get there. A lot of it was really writing her as a child, and then having the chance to try and explore her growing into this more confident young witch, like what we see in OotP, was something I had only begun to touch on when HBP was released.
HBP gave me that boost to make that all snap and fire transition certain, definitely, though we got glimpses of it in previous books so it didn't throw me too off-course. She really started to stand up for herself (where Harry could see it) in OotP - "Excuse me, but I care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!" and "I'm three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who for the philosopher's stone" - and was all awesome at Quidditch and taking everybody by surprise. So HBP let me expand on that even more, and when Ginny and Harry got together, I was just like AWWW YEAAAAHHHH and the reasons why he finally noticed her helped me out, too. 8)
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