“One day I’ll give you a coat of lion’s skin, Severus. I promise.”
“Which lion?”
“Any of your choice”
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Man, I've gotten so used to reading fanfics where Severus is portrayed as a bottom. Reading stories with him as a top now feels kinda illegal.
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Can we talk about how Severus is portrayed differently in each of his ships?
I read fanfic of him paired with anyone and I've noticed that he is very different in every ship.
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Severus, to The Marauders: You guys don't want to mess with me.
Mulciber, beside him: Yeah. He will just start crying, like full on sobbing.
Severus: exac-
Severus: WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT??
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Mulciber: You are being awfully quite Sev.
Snape *looking at the marauders from across the great hall*: No one thinks out loud while plotting murder.
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Snape/Mulciber?
thank you very much for the ask, anon!
and i mean, snulciber is basically canon, isn't it - i'm sure we're all sufficient degenerates that we've deeped the bisexual potential of that interview where jkr's like "snape wanted lily and he wanted mulciber too"...
one thing i'm really taken with in pairings between snape and his slytherin schoolmates is the really interesting things you can do with the reversal of the implied power dynamic during their schooldays as snape is gradually accepted into voldemort's inner circle.
because it's clear in the prince's tale that snape is both somewhat deferential to mulciber and somewhat dismissive of him - he defends mulciber's use of dark magic against mary mcdonald, but he doesn't do so particularly vehemently, and he doesn't appear to care at all that lily's called his friend "creepy" because he's too busy seething about james and sirius. it's also clear that mulciber [and avery etc.] didn't care enough about snape to intervene against the marauders' bullying, and that snape was - throughout his schooldays - an easy target for the gryffindor four because he was usually alone, peripheral to the rest of slytherin.
and we can also see that one of the reasons snape became a target for bullying was because he was so demonstrably working-class, in contrast to the suspiciously well-heeled majority of the student body - so much so that i have a meta lurking in my drafts about whether hogwarts is a selective school. mulciber can be reasonably written as being yet another of the posh, well-off boys who snape is both incandescently jealous of and tremendously unimpressed with - and his attitude towards snape can be written as the same sort of faintly amused condescension we can sense from characters such as slughorn. which, of course, enrages snape because he considers himself - not without reason - superior intellectually to them, and wants to be awarded the status he considers himself to deserve on the basis of his magical power, rather than his name or background.
and then snape becomes a death eater.
my preferred view is that snape is very much voldemort's "exception" in terms of class [in the same way that bellatrix is his exception in terms of gender] and that he is the only death eater in the first war [since i also don't think wormtail receives the dark mark until he rescues voldemort from albania prior to goblet of fire] who isn't from an upper-class background. my preferred view is also that voldemort's recognition of himself in snape is the reason he makes this exception - and that he loves fucking with the pride of the posher death eaters by favouring a half-blood with a regional accent over them.
and - as i've said for the concept of snape/regulus - i really like the drama this can introduce into snape's relationship with mulciber, who spends his schooldays feeling superior to snape [and probably treating him quite poorly as a result] but is then confronted by the revelation that the dark lord... much prefers the man he essentially thinks of as a fucktoy to him, and that his father [who it makes sense to assume is also a death eater] wants him to suck up to the big boss' new favourite so they can profit from it.
and snape is a suitably horrible person that he would one hundred percent love the opportunity to lord it over mulciber as mulciber once lorded it over him.
think of the mess.
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Lucius: Sev, I'm out of cash. Can you tip the pizza guy for me?
Severus, not paying attention: I'm so poor I can't even afford to pay attention to you right now.
Narcissa: SEVERUS!!
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