Ambiguous (Remus/Tonks) PG

[hansbekhart]

Title: Ambiguous
Author: hansbekhart
Rating: PG
Summary: Love pays no heed to reason, rhyme or logic, and Nymphadora Tonks is in love. Remus Lupin is something else entirely. (Remus/Tonks)
Notes: For lilchickadee, who puts up with my natterings and was very inspirational for the last bits of this. Omg I wrote het! I'm so embarassed. I was really boggled by this ship

Comments

[kenazfiction]

God, I love your Tonks!!

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool R/S 'shipper, but I really do adore Tonks, and you've created such a spot-on characterization, completely capturing what it's like to be young and in love and selfish in the utterly clueless way of youth... And you've also done a lovely job of illustrating Remus' struggle and frustration. A lovely, lovely piece!

[hansbekhart]

Aha, thanks! I'm also a hardcore R/S shipper (with the occaisional aside into Snupin) and it was really irritating to me the way that it was all done in the book (especially with nopersonality!Tonks). Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!

[lyras]

Wow. Your interpretation is very plausible, and the execution is flawless. A few favourite bits - Tonks's awareness of Moody and Sirius exchanging glances over her head, Tonks fighting at the DoM, "Remus Lupin is not very good at protecting anyone" (oh, that hurts!), the image of Tonks waiting out Christmas Day "for the crack of an Apparition that never comes" and Remus losing the strength to stand at Dumbledore's death.

I wouldn't say you've made me like the ship any better, but I definitely like and empathise with the Tonks you've presented here, as I can't in HBP. Great stuff!

[hansbekhart]

Oh, thank you so much :). I hated Tonks in HBP and wasn't really all that fond of her in OOTP, but this fic just sort of sprang fully grown out of my head. I'm very glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for reviewing :).

[le_mru]

Brilliant. Interesting. Detailed. 100% canon, and correcting the errors of canon. The best R/T post-HBP to date, and believe me, I've been searching for good R/T far and wide, though I don't like the pairing too much.

"She thought that Remus Lupin would protect her against all of the ills of the world, but in truth Remus Lupin is not very good at protecting anyone."
That's exactly what I think, though I don't agree with Lupin being so tall. But I'm just being picky.

And the ending - that's what many of post-HBP fics miss, the fact that there may be no happily ever after.

[hansbekhart]

Lol thanks so much! I watch this ship with large, wary eyes, being a slash fan to the bone. But it is an interesting dynamic, isn't it? Just odd, and I kinda like that no happily ever after thing (obviously ;).

I like a tall Remus. The movie might as well have been a crackfic and every time I watch it I get more and more irritated with it, but I have a huge crush on David Thewlis (I know, he's so weird looking) and it's just cemented into my mind that Remus is all tall and gangly. But thanks so much for your review! Glad you liked it.

[le_mru]

I don't like Thewlis (and I hate his moustache, no no no, totally un-remusy, that one) and I've always seen Lupin as a bit shorter than Sirius, rather the ordinary height - 5 10' or so. :)

[tesseract_5]

right, in cannon Remus is shorter than Sirius (think of the kitchen scene with Snape and Sirius, and Sirius towers over Snape)

awe, I don't know why people have such strong feelings about the Lupin mustache. It's a period detail in the film, Lupin's whole get up is ala 1940s non?

[justholdstill]

I'm glad someone else wrote Remus/Tonks at the same time I did, so that I wasn't alone in being bitten by the strange het muse!
Seriously, though, I loved this, especially your characterisation of Tonks. I think she's so underused and so often misunderstood, but in your able hands she's got so much dimension - strength, doubt, sadness, determination. I actually sat here and sniffled (not just because of my cold) when I first read this last night, because you captured so well what it feels like to love/desire someone who won't have you.

Liked this line: And when the war breaks over them like a wave it is with a swiftness that steals her breath away, and she is dueling with real Death Eaters, with real enemies so suddenly that her thoughts of dinner, of a nice cuppa are still lodged in her brain, no matter how fast her heart races. I like how real it is, the ordinary juxtaposed with the extraordinary.
Anyway, that's enough out of babbling me.:) Suffice it to say that this was beautiful.

[hansbekhart]

Aha, I thought the same thing! It was just a weird little grip that got into my mind, and half of it just wrote itself.
I had a really hard time liking Tonks for a long time, especially after how lame she got in HBP, and it's hard to find fanfic that captures the qualities that I DO like in her. Lol I think writing this was very theraputic to me ;). Same for yours?

But thanks so much for reading and reviewing! I feel all squishy that it could make you sniffly.

[nassima]

You know, it's the first Remus/Tonks that I read that wasn't a way to rationalise the Remus/Sirius behind it... And I'm so glad I read your fic! I have the feeling that this is exactly the story that was written in HBP. And your characterisation of Remus is spot on, with his humour, the way he directs it so subtly against Snape, the way Sirius was the one able to make him let things out a little more.

Such a great story!

[hansbekhart]

Ahahaha my beta will be glad to hear that! I'm definitely a slash writer, so I felt kind of stupid, making a concious effort to keep that out of this. It sort of muddles the message, doesn't it? But thanks so much for that! Glad you enjoyed it.