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I feel like James speaks in this kinda unhinged way. Like he's overflowing with humor and words and snark and wit. Asking him what he's thinking about is like opening the floodgates to the most insane conversation

"Hey, Prongs! Whatcha thinking about?"

"Why do we say you'll lose your head? You know the expression 'I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached to me'? Why do we say that? Your consciousness is in your head. You'd be losing your body. And the running around like a headless chicken? Insane. We're the head! We're the head not the body. These sayings aren't logically sound!"

I like to think James and Marlene are the ones who speak fast. It matches them perfectly because at their core, they are just two excited kids. I imagine they talk like the Gilmore Girls, fast with jokes coming out at record speeds and jumping topics topics randomly but with an air of confidence

And the others are always watching them back and forth like pinball machine. Peter can understand all of it since he grew up with them. He can understand their quick, witty talk and doesn't blink when they switch topics on him - while Pete may be more careful and deliberate with what he says, he understands his friends better than anything else. Remus and Sirius are quick to catch on. Their minds move fast as all the Marauders are rather intelligent. So they understand Jame as well, his fast paced speech doesn't shock or confuse them (anymore). To Dorcas, though, it feels like she's missing something every time they talk. She gets the references a little too late because they move on so fast and Dorcas is so used to people like Frank and Alice (I imagine those three were besties), who speak slower and with less wit.

I do imagine that Dorcas starts to get it later on! I mean, she spends every waking moment with these people, she starts picking up what they're saying and can even join in sometimes. By join in, I mean make some snarky comments, watching James and Marlene sharply turn to her and spitfire jokes right back at her.

Lily is like Remus and Sirius, she catches on to what they're like easily. She gets a lot of practice with Marlene but tended to tune out James for a while. I think when Lily and James start becoming friends (I think they become friends 5th year), the others are shocked at how well Lily can throw back snark to James wit. James isn't, he never really thinks about how fast he talks but Sirius especially is entranced because it took him months to truly get down James' speech pattern.

The first time Lily just effortlessly went along with James' bit, everyone was so shocked. Like Peter made this huge scene over it. And Sirius was clutching his chest like he'd just watched a murder. James doubled over laughing because he loves when people--Lily--go along with him. Lily sat there watching the chaos with a smile and a soft giggle.

I think this group, especially the warmth in their relationships, is a really comforting thing for Lily. Like she's so used to people dismissing her and the cold atmosphere in her house--cough cough Petunia cough cough. But this group is filled with love and warmth. They throw jokes at each other and expect the others to catch them and pitch it right back. It's a dynamic filled with love. And Lily feels such a warm, bright feeling rise in her everytime one of them jokes around or just talks. I think this group is a welcome change to her, going from people like Snape and Petunia to people like James and Marlene.

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I think it'd be really funny if Dick Grayson only ever Batdisappears on Roy Harper. Like, Dick is nice enough to stay for the whole conversation before disappearing... As long as you aren't Roy.

He would stay through the most boring conversation with Garth, he'll stick around when Wally's rambling, he never even considers it when Donna's talking. But Roy's there telling him about some super cool mission he crashed of Oliver's and Dick gets a minor alert from Jason or Barbara and Dick's outta there. Mid sentence, Roy looked away for a second and Dick's gone. Poof.

Roy: so like, I was in Star City and Oliver kept trying to get me to try this gross new pizza he found. I don't know why he's so obsessed with it or why he won't just give it to Dinah to try? Basically I went with Ollie to the stupid pizza place and this sauce villain comes out of our pizza?

Dick, getting a buzz that Babs wants him to come over for a girls night and now sufficiently distracted: uh huh

Roy, drops the arrow he was holding and bends to pick it up: have you ever heard of a pizza villain? He apparently wanted us to stop harming his brethren. What is that?

Dick, gone:

Roy, looks over to where he's supposed to be: Gotham's weird, you must have some villain like this right, Dick? Dick?

Roy:

Roy: Oh for the love of-!

The thing is though, no one believes him. Cause Dick never does it to anyone else, it's only him. Roy will try to complain about it to Wally and Wally's all like "what are you talking about? Only Bats does that, not Dick" and Roy's screaming into his pillow. He doesn't know why he's the only one. He thinks he'll never know.

It's because Dick figures Roy won't be a jerk about it or be offended by it. Also because Jason has a crush on Roy and as the older brother Dick needs to put Roy in his place. That Dick's baby

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Okay, stay with me on this. James Potter. As Taylor Swift. EXCEPT he thinks it's really funny to write love songs about his friends and watch his fans go crazy trying to figure out who it's about (Spoiler, they never get it). This has happened on every album. Here's the songs!

Debut:

Sirius - Tim McGraw

Peter - Mary's Song (Oh My My My)

Remus - Our Song

Fearless:

Sirius - Superstar

Peter - The Other Side Of The Door

Remus - Jump Then Fall

Speak Now

Sirius - Superman

Peter - Ours

Remus - Mine

Red:

Sirius - Starlight

Peter - Holy Ground

Remus - State Of Grace

1989:

Sirius - Style

Peter - This Love

Remus - I Know Places

Reputation:

Sirius - Call It What You Want

Peter - Dress

Remus - King If My Heart

Lover:

Sirius - I Think He Knows

Peter - London Boy

Remus - Paper Rings

Evermore:

Sirius - willow

Peter - 'tis the damn season

Remus - cowboy like me

Folklore:

Sirius - seven

Peter - august

Remus - cardigan

Midnights:

Sirius - Paris

Peter - Lavender Haze

Remus - Maroon

TTPD:

Sirius - Down Bad

Peter - I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

Remus - But Daddy I Love Him

Yes, I did spend an hour or two thinking about this. James Fleamont Potter would think this is absolutely hilarious and would love the drama it would create. And sometimes he's not even dating anyone when the albums come out and everyone freaks out thinking he had some secret affair. James is cackling

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Is this a place I can be honest? I wanna be honest... The reason I ignore Nymphadora Tonks isn't because I want to "elevate" wolfstar, it's because I hate the age gap between her and Remus and it's better for my psyche if she just doesn't exist/that situation doesn't exist. Their love story would even be cute if their age gap didn't exist. I'm sorry, but I can't look past that (and the reason Remus wins and doesn't disappear into the void is because we met him first and that's it)

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Posting this cause tumblr won't leave me alone about it. I just want to lurk, man