#it doesn’t help i keep being enabled on here 💀

[padfootastic]

hi! i've no idea how i came to your page but i realised i'd read two of your one-shots in ao3 before and had adored them (you'll probably get comments from me in future, btw) and i just wanted to say thank you for your writing and thank you for your prongsfoot<3

i've been very critical of this sort of new, cool and aloof and martyred version of remus lupin for quite a while now (honestly, where did all those traits come from?!) and gosh, you're so eloquent when talking about him!!!

i was wondering what your thoughts were on regulus black? because i think he's getting the same sort of royalty treatment as remus does by making him sort of-- er, perfect? i mean. i've seen so much recently of him basically saving the world single-handedly and i-- ugh. and james is always just there, like a useless idiot? it makes me irrationally angry, and this is coming from someone who enjoys jegulus quite a bit. my problem is that i don't know if this rejection i feel against those two comes from a place of genuine dislike of them or from a place of wishing sirius and james were not done so dirty.

anyway, again, thank you for your writing. it's truly beautiful. hope you have a great day!

omg hello 🥺 i’ve periodically opened tumblr, giggling like a loon, and logging off multiple times just to see this ask,,,,thank u sm , ur way too kind <3 and ur comment on ao3!!! i was just,,,,yeah,,,no words. thank u.

ooooooh i remember being asked something similar a while ago and i took the safe route and basically went ‘remus lupin-ification of regulus’ iirc. that still stands. but but. i’ve also got another answer here! all hail tumblr’s search system today!

i still basically stand by all of it, but adding onto the jegulus + sirius bits of it:

annoys tf outta me when regulus is turned into a victim and like sirius damned him to hell when he left . i have thoughts about the way both of them were treated (which,,,another time,,,this post is already getting too long lol) but i imagine the day sirius left to be a Good One for reg bc he thinks he’ll have his parents undivided attention now. i also think regulus is severely defanged in a lot of characterisations, as if he wasn’t a baby DE, as if he wasn’t a slytherin from the house of black, as if he wasn’t walmart sirius black. like man i’m almost offended on his behalf. i’m sure his shaking his lil fist up at us from wherever he is.

with jegulus…okay, i’ve only read a couple oneshots but that doesn’t mean i haven’t tried. i genuinely went thru so many fics trying to get something, anything to stick and i think the problem is me. fully. completely. without doubt. i just can’t deal with a situation where j&s aren’t each others no.1, or at the very least, equivalent to that. that’s where my issues w wolfstar started, same w this. jegulus also has the added horror of ‘james and reg sneaking behind sirius’ back’ which is just,,,,gosh,,,,i have So Many Thoughts ab that. all personal opinions, but still. they’re strong. it fucks me up just thinking about it. i also think the ship tries wayyyy too hard to fit the ‘best friend’s brother’ trope and ends up sacrificing characterisation for it. which,,,again,,,that’s fine but it’s all the ‘oh this is how it was!’ that gets to me. and then james :/// he gives off such weird energy lol. jegulus gives me drarry vibes, and james is treated almost exactly as harry is in a lot of those. reg also gets the saviour treatment, like draco, and both of their fuckery is toned down until they’re almost normal, like they never did any reprehensible shit. j&r, and d&h are placed on the same moral equivalence and it’s just a bit. hmm. okay. (my issue with this is how it leaks into the writing and suddenly i’m made to sympathise with draco bc harry slashed him w sectumsempra, but we conveniently forget he was gonna use an unforgivable, ykno?) so overall it just feels…pushing reg up and pulling james down to get them on equal footing. very similar to wolfstar lbr.

anyway. that’s a ramble and a half lmao.

also!! ‘a place of genuine dislike of them or from a place of wishing sirius and james were not done so dirty’ in my mind, both of these occupy a similar plane of existence. so very valid. for me, personally, hating remrem started as the latter and i eventually realised it’s also the former lol i was just mad a how sirius is bastardised to justify his ~deification and it eventually moved on to ‘wow i just. do not like him’. damn.

[jasper-unofficial]

Omg, this thing is humongous! 🤯 So here’s PART 1:

Dear Archer,

So, here is my theory. I can reveal another fun fact about me. 😌 I used to study English literature (with a minor in literary theory). And while 1.) film is obviously a different medium and 2.) I prefer to read poetry, I still have a lot of academic knowledge on analysing a story. 🤓

Disclaimer: I have a long and tragic track record of believing mean characters or bad plots “will change over time.” 🥺 So, please keep that in mind, reading into this. Seems my neurodivergent self found a way to force myself into seeing the good in everyone…except myself. 🤡 That same trait enables me to magnify details (such as Wai’s scheming ways and the theatre curtains) into major significant features of a 12 episode show called Bad Buddy. 🤦‍♀️ That being said, I’ll try to use my “literary toolbox” 🧰 as well as I can.

[Link to what inspired this theory]

This is precisely what I thought op! And since I am one of the few that suspects that Wai actually has a conscience, I think this will contribute to the drama. Let me explain: like op, I think nobody (except the technician next to Wai) knows Wai moved the curtains. And of course, it was a horrible thing to do. And it caused (albeit momentarily) a lot of damage. But from the perspective of those that still don’t know (i.e.: everybody), everything settled down eventually and all friends are on relatively good terms with each other. Now, I think we all know P’Aof well enough to know he wouldn’t just let this slide. Or come up with a “you actually helped me by outing me without my permission”. 💀 (I can’t believe I actually saw a character delivering these lines in 2020… 🤐) So, the fact that this is still untouched has a reason.

For the record: this isn’t a Wai apology post. I think what he did is essentially unforgivable. However, considering how the plot has developed, I am convinced there is something more to the Wai story. And that makes me curious about his character development. (❗️ I don’t necessarily mean a linear development into a better person -> I just hope they’ll delve more into the nuances of his character. Even if he’s still a petty bitch in the end, I hope I’ll know a little bit more about his “hidden depths” of that makes sense lol. 😂 By comparison, we’ve already seen hints of a similar process in Korn, who gained a more serious streak over the course of the last episodes. And I hope that thread will continue as well in the next three episodes. I love it when they go that extra mile for side characters. 🥲)

I’m not great a character analysis, but I will try my best. From what we have seen, Wai can be an aggressive character, like Korn. But whereas Korn is more straightforward with his approach (he’ll just kick your ass), Wai’s anger comes in a more sly way. This leads me to believe Wai tends to avoid confrontation -> he will get his revenge, but doing that in your face is not something he’s comfortable with. Also notice how Wai is verbally much stronger than Korn & co. He felt at ease with scolding the rugby opponent, but as soon as physical action came into play he backed down.

So, in conclusion, I think Wai has a serious problem with emotions. You could argue Korn’s straight to the point approach isn’t good either. But at least Korn seems fully in touch with his emotions. Wai, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to deal with emotions. (Which explains the pained expression on his face -> idk if anybody else noticed this but Wai’s eyes always seem to say something different than the rest of his face [which he can actually control].) Which is why, imho, those feelings built up within him and it becomes ressentiment.

This might be a very 🚨🚨unpopular opinion🚨🚨, but I think Wai had a point when he said it should’ve been his choice whether he was upset over Pran’s relationship. (That doesn’t diminish any guilt he had in deliberately outing not only his best friend’s relationship but also his queer identity!) And contrary to Pat and Korn, Pran and Wai met in different circumstances, when Pran was at the lowest point in his life and (visibly) really fragile. So, from Wai’s perspective, Pran’s lies started much earlier than in Pat’s situation. From the very start, a damaged Pran seemed to need shelter, protection. And all that damage was concentrated in one person. Not from his evil parents (the actual villains) or the pressure of being perfect or the demons of depression. But 1 person, Pat. From the get go, Pran relied much more on Wai than Pat did on Korn. So lying wasn’t just about his relationship with Pat, or what Pat meant to Pran. From Wai pov, Pran essentially lied about everything Wai perceived him to be. And Wai doesn’t have a healthy way of venting that emotion. It boils and boils, until he does something he can’t oversee the damage of.

TO BE CONTINUED

ah, operanon! an english major! you do have that energy 😌

i think the core of your theory and hopes for wai are all very interesting, and i wouldn't mind it if they get into it in the series.

however, i'm not sure how i feel about your unpopular opinion. from where i'm standing, nobody is entitled to a person's entire life. no matter how close you two are and no matter what you have shared, feeling entitled to all deep and meaningful details of their life that have no direct effect on you is selfish. pran's relationship with pat doesn't have anything to do with wai, and i don't think he has any right to be upset about not knowing this part of his life. just my opinion, though, obviously.