ETA: Just to clarify, because a lot of people are reacting the same way. I'm talking about what I see as inaccurate base characterizations, i.e. what makes up the bedrock of a personality. I'm not talking about secondary or learnerd/acquired traits. So, Snape can be a bastard and like books, but he's not a bastard because he likes books.In no
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Lovely rant.
While I like a Snape who makes some sense I also want people to mix that with a large amount of pure hatred, vindictiveness, paranoia and general idiocy. Because even if Snape has a masterplan somewhere inside his head, he's likely to fuck it up anyway, because Sirius Black aside, he's the most emotionally cramped, stubborn little asshole in canon.
Which is why we all love him.
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But. I can't completely agree with #3. There's just something really deeply, innately pervy about Snape. His sexuality would have been deformed from years of being an outcast, he's like an aesthete, a nerd, and a wanna-be hard man all rolled into one. None of which would make him likely to have a partner, and would probably generate in him all kinds of voyeurestic, pervy tendencies.
Here's the thing, Snape trusts no one. He certainly doesn't trust anyone enough to explore his kinks with them. Go on, let's see some evidence that Snape would ever be comfortable expressing masochism. Or even that he'd be comfortable with sexual sadism. I dare you. Kink requires trust ( ... )
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Also, voyeurism is non-consensual. It doesn't require finding a partner, or opening oneself up to scorn in any way. It's the opposite of the kind of kink I was vilifying.
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This is absolutely dead-on. And you've put your finger on something that most fan writers seem not to get -- BDSM is very much a game, with rules.
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Also, voyeurism is non-consensual. It doesn't require finding a partner, or opening oneself up to scorn in any way. It's the opposite of the kind of kink I was vilifying.
That's a really interesting point, and one that I hadn't thought about much. Yet it's exactly what I meant - there's something about his personality that suggests this kind of possibility.
-brodie
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Alcohol similies again? :p
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I could write the same about Lucius. *weeps at fic being written about Lucius*.
Although I see two three types of fanfic (all three types I've written):
1. Canon fic, which painstakingly carries over the characterization from canon.
2. Exploratory fic, which proposes what if scenarios and explores plausible extrapolations from what is present in canon.
3. Fan fic, which is whatever the fuck goes. Most people write this. Most people don't label it AU but should.
I think some aspects of your points, if tempered somewhat and balanced could slide into 2., but it's when they're excessive with the unreal attributes that they quickly fall into 3.
Well said, well said.
Hugs.
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I think that most of my points can work if they're written as secondary personality traits. Snape's a bastard AND a lover. Snape's a bastard AND a whatever.
It's when the above takes over from the bastardness that we run into problems.
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And your predatory Glory (that is Glory, isn't it?) is so adorable.
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