"Unforgivable" thoughts
Sep. 18th, 2015 07:16 pmwhen you discover something in drafts from like a month ago but whatever
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this_bloody_cat recced Unforgivable over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_broom! Unforgivable’s probably my favourite of my own fics and I love a crack_broom rec most of all.
(Quick re-cap: it’s dark, dub-con Ron/Draco set a few months after DH. Draco’s joined the rebuilding-Hogwarts team and he’s being all vulnerable and likeable and it’s working. Ron blows up about him being a murdering Death Eater, have we all forgotten that, and Draco comes to him afterwards and offers a deal: do anything you want to me for a night, but then you have to forgive me. Cue bitter, angry dom!Ron and humiliated, anxious, making-himself-keep-going Draco kinking it up and failing to deal with their war damage. Open ending.)
this_bloody_cat has this cool idea which I didn’t think of at all while writing it, but kind of love. So in my head Draco goes to Ron for forgiveness because Ron is the only one who is still actively remembering what Draco did, who’s stubbornly refusing to be softened by Draco’s charm offensive - and probably therefore sees Draco more the way Draco sees himself. Cat suggests:
It did make me wonder, when I first read it... why did Draco want Ron's forgiveness that much? Had he made deals like that before, to other students -- and if he had, perhaps they just requested something different, something safer, something not as humiliating?
WHICH IS FASCINATING. And also plays into why the other students were forgiving. Like, I think it works anyway; it was partly a comment on fandom dynamics, our willingness to forget a character’s past misdeeds if it’s a vulnerable charming dude - and I also think Draco is canonically charming, and that a small group of idealistic young people, who likely saw people they loved doing bad things, would be more-or-less willing to move past things, especially with Hermione and Harry’s strong personailities leading in that direction. But the idea of Draco quietly going round and offering this deal to people is awesome and totally fits.
Also HOT.
SQUEE,
this_bloody_cat recced Unforgivable over at crack_broom! Unforgivable’s probably my favourite of my own fics and I love a crack_broom rec most of all. (Quick re-cap: it’s dark, dub-con Ron/Draco set a few months after DH. Draco’s joined the rebuilding-Hogwarts team and he’s being all vulnerable and likeable and it’s working. Ron blows up about him being a murdering Death Eater, have we all forgotten that, and Draco comes to him afterwards and offers a deal: do anything you want to me for a night, but then you have to forgive me. Cue bitter, angry dom!Ron and humiliated, anxious, making-himself-keep-going Draco kinking it up and failing to deal with their war damage. Open ending.)
this_bloody_cat has this cool idea which I didn’t think of at all while writing it, but kind of love. So in my head Draco goes to Ron for forgiveness because Ron is the only one who is still actively remembering what Draco did, who’s stubbornly refusing to be softened by Draco’s charm offensive - and probably therefore sees Draco more the way Draco sees himself. Cat suggests:It did make me wonder, when I first read it... why did Draco want Ron's forgiveness that much? Had he made deals like that before, to other students -- and if he had, perhaps they just requested something different, something safer, something not as humiliating?
WHICH IS FASCINATING. And also plays into why the other students were forgiving. Like, I think it works anyway; it was partly a comment on fandom dynamics, our willingness to forget a character’s past misdeeds if it’s a vulnerable charming dude - and I also think Draco is canonically charming, and that a small group of idealistic young people, who likely saw people they loved doing bad things, would be more-or-less willing to move past things, especially with Hermione and Harry’s strong personailities leading in that direction. But the idea of Draco quietly going round and offering this deal to people is awesome and totally fits.
Also HOT.
