[Kaleidoscope update] Colours Under the Moon
This busy fall has not been conducive to fic-writing, sadly. But the long Thanksgiving weekend finally gave me a chance to finish the Kaleidoscope chapter I started at the end of the summer. This one takes place near the beginning of HBP, right after Now Wait for the Tide to TurnThis chapter actually involved an interesting coincidence of timing
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In my head, Remus won't let Tonks touch him only because he doesn't trust himself to be able to stop if he starts. Until he needs support so much that he has to give in, for a moment.
Both assignments are horrible.
Yes, they are. :/ It doesn't come out much in this Remus-centric story, but I have a lot of Snape-sympathy, for all that he can be so nasty. (There's a Snape scene planned for the next chapter...) It's incredible how much Dumbledore piled on the man.
!! I am intrigued by the many names he calls her over the course of their relationship, because there are three (that we know of!) and they all have slightly different contexts/connotations.
Agreed! I had to make a decision about what to call Tonks in scenes where Remus is the POV character, because I wanted it to be the name he calls her in his thoughts. I've finally decided that at first, he thinks of her as Tonks because that's her (stated) preference. But in Blindsided, when he realizes he's fallen in love with her, he starts thinking of her as Nymphadora. (Not all the HBP pieces of Kaleidoscope are consistent with this, since it's a recent decision, but I'll be fixing that when I revise them.) By DH, of course, it's Dora, which is my favorite, but in Kaleidoscope, Remus doesn't start calling her that until they get married and they explicitly negotiate it.
Although you don't say it explicitly, the feeling I get is that she likes it because 1, it's kind of professor-y of him, and that's cute, and 2, she allows him liberties that she denies to others (if he'll take them, which he won't right now).
Aww, (1) is cute, and I like that idea. I was thinking more along the lines of (2) when I wrote this. That, and the fact that Remus started slipping up and calling her Nymphadora more and more as he fell in love, and now that he's trying to keep himself in check, he doesn't do it much anymore. She's noticed the change and sussed out the reason.
And I love how they are still quite friendly and chatty even with all the mounting awfulness and their personal disagreement. Because you know they're actually pretty solid underneath everything.
This! In my head they just fundamentally care about each other, so much, no matter what else they've got going on between them.
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