Fic: True Colours (PG)

[gehayi]

Title: True Colours
Rating: PG
Characters: Sirius, James, Peter, Remus and Regulus. Possibly Sirius/Remus and Sirius/Regulus, but only if you squint.
Summary: Sirius doesn't talk about it, but he pictures people and things in terms of colours.
Word Count: 947
Disclaimer: Not mine--to my eternal regret. And I'm not making any profit from this

Comments

[gehayi]

Thank you!

Oh, God, yes, "Stopped" was sad. Me writing a fic based on a couple of lines from Sylvia Plath...that story was just destined to be cheerful. Oddly, I think that this fic takes place in the same universe; it's just that this one is pre-Prank and pre-Order and pre-everything going wrong. And so much does go wrong, unnecessarily. Those are four tragic boys. Five, if you count Regulus.

I'm very glad that you liked it!

[lareinenoire]

::sniff::

As per usual, I love it. Especially--and this should not surprise anyone--Sirius as red. Not just the romantic bit, but the bit about brownstones. It suits him. And James really would be blue. The colour of freedom and flying and the sky.

[gehayi]

Blue's also the colour of loyalty and fidelity, which fits James--after all, he died to save his wife and son from certain death.

And thank you. I'm very pleased that you loved it!

[underlucius]

Wow.

Firstly - thank you so much. This was just... incredible.

The colours are perfect, each for each - and the fact that Remus is brown works completely. A blending of each of their colours.

And Regulus!

fire chars green wood *sniffs*

There are just so many many images in this I can't pick out one particular favourite. As I've already said to you, it's particularly clever to have the line from Lewis and then putting in some Christian imagery to intertwine. The scent-colour-association thing that dogs possibly perceive is fascinating and I doubt it's ever been done this well.

The sense of Severus falling away from him, into the green, which stands for so many many things is incredibly powerful.

This is hardly even a "fic" it's more like a prose-poem.

Thank you THANK YOU! Its a miracle! I feel better!

xxxx

ps post on hp-lit please??

[gehayi]

I'm so delighted that you like it! (Immensely so--I didn't think it was very good, and came very close to deleting it out of sheer dissatisfaction.)

I think that Regulus, at this point, is still young enough to turn away from his family's way of doing things. He's still redeemable. His fall isn't inevitable. If only Sirius could see that.

[dreamsinvisible]

Wow. I love the line...

"He knows, in a dim way that he takes care not to examine too closely, that he should not be thinking of his brother in connection with serpents and apples."

I love the symbolism all throughout this. Its vivid descriptions pulled me right in. Beautifully done.

[gehayi]

Thank you. Thank you VERY much.

[prettyclever]

Very well executed, and gracefully done. The colours suit them absolutely, and I really love the struggle of Sirius the romantic versus who he feels he should be and what he feels he should feel. It's very easy for me to relate to. The language was especially beautiful. Good work. :)

[gehayi]

I don't know what to say. So I'll just blush and smile, and say, "Thank you VERY much, Seph."