Top Five Lupin Tropes as requested by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
teigh_corvus
Mar. 28th, 2020 10:05 pmpaulamcgI’m not good with tropes. I can’t remember people using that term before my hiatus. I’ve thought of making one of those trope memes but found it hard. Let’s see now…
1. Remus is poor!
This goes with my weird cold and hunger kink, and I like my Remus properly poor, without so much as a cottage.
Leaning my head against the wall, I stare up, from where I’m sitting on my mattress, at the deadly night in ambush behind the frozen glass. I can ignore it when focused on remembering… just what Merlin College requires in the exam combining Wizarding History and Defence Against Dark Creatures.
(I Don’t Dream)
2. Remus is proud and finds it hard to accept help even from his friends.
“Listen.” Sirius sounds impatient. “Let’s grab some take-away lunch and go to your flat! I’m not sure if James has so much time, but...”
“Mine?” I adjust the strap on my shoulder, now fumbling for words. “I… I’ve moved out of that room.”
“Great, let’s see your new place then!” James doesn’t miss a beat, but perhaps he’s just missed the point, and more than once.
“I’m kind of… between flats.”
(The Angel of Charity or This Awfully Long Month)
3. Remus is comforted by Sirius around full moon.
Or is it more of a trope if I say Friends to Lovers? And Angst and Hurt/Comfort.
“Now I’m glad about yesterday’s boring first-aid lessons. I can make that arm better,” he mutters, opening my fly, “but I know this is the most urgent first aid for someone like you. I mean someone with a condition like yours: sex addiction.”
(There Is Some Hope)
(And all right, no more snippets. The links all lead to AO3, and feel free to comment on the list even if you didn’t click.)
4. Sirius is comforted by Remus after what was done to him by his parents, and after Azkaban.
I’ve even found a way to have Remus there to be the first to meet Sirius when he’s coming to James’s family. And the latter scenario must be a pairing-specific trope Lying Low at Lupin’s (in my case without the usual cottage). Also Angst and Hurt/Comfort just as almost everything in this list.
5. Another pairing-specific trope, the Lost Years.
While Sirius is in Azkaban, my cottageless Remus travels in Europe, Africa and Lebanon, meeting people who comfort him when he’s hurting, and learns about teaching and helping each other.
1. Remus is poor!
This goes with my weird cold and hunger kink, and I like my Remus properly poor, without so much as a cottage.
Leaning my head against the wall, I stare up, from where I’m sitting on my mattress, at the deadly night in ambush behind the frozen glass. I can ignore it when focused on remembering… just what Merlin College requires in the exam combining Wizarding History and Defence Against Dark Creatures.
(I Don’t Dream)
2. Remus is proud and finds it hard to accept help even from his friends.
“Listen.” Sirius sounds impatient. “Let’s grab some take-away lunch and go to your flat! I’m not sure if James has so much time, but...”
“Mine?” I adjust the strap on my shoulder, now fumbling for words. “I… I’ve moved out of that room.”
“Great, let’s see your new place then!” James doesn’t miss a beat, but perhaps he’s just missed the point, and more than once.
“I’m kind of… between flats.”
(The Angel of Charity or This Awfully Long Month)
3. Remus is comforted by Sirius around full moon.
Or is it more of a trope if I say Friends to Lovers? And Angst and Hurt/Comfort.
“Now I’m glad about yesterday’s boring first-aid lessons. I can make that arm better,” he mutters, opening my fly, “but I know this is the most urgent first aid for someone like you. I mean someone with a condition like yours: sex addiction.”
(There Is Some Hope)
(And all right, no more snippets. The links all lead to AO3, and feel free to comment on the list even if you didn’t click.)
4. Sirius is comforted by Remus after what was done to him by his parents, and after Azkaban.
I’ve even found a way to have Remus there to be the first to meet Sirius when he’s coming to James’s family. And the latter scenario must be a pairing-specific trope Lying Low at Lupin’s (in my case without the usual cottage). Also Angst and Hurt/Comfort just as almost everything in this list.
5. Another pairing-specific trope, the Lost Years.
While Sirius is in Azkaban, my cottageless Remus travels in Europe, Africa and Lebanon, meeting people who comfort him when he’s hurting, and learns about teaching and helping each other.
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Date: 2020-03-29 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-29 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-29 01:46 am (UTC)Ha! That's so James. Great line.
It's funny, the way a fandom comes to explore various tropes, isn't it? Not all of these were part of my headcanon when I started reading this pairing however-many years ago, but now they're inherently interesting--I want to see what someone has done with the Lost Years, for example.
Fun to read! M.
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Date: 2020-03-29 08:46 am (UTC)I’ve felt a bit out of place with my fic when I’ve looked at the trope memes I’ve seen recently (accidental marriage or arranged marriage, fake dating or secret dating…). I just don’t write (or read) fic because of an urge to explore any scenarios like that. You know – because I just continue to write the same story, in the single fictional reality I started exploring seventeen years ago. I feel my fics don’t fit in the tropes. But I’m getting curious to try how many they can fit in, after all. Friends to lovers at least.
Lying Low at Lupin’s and the Lost Years are phrases I must have seen in the Wolfstar fandom around 2004. So I suppose I joined tropes when writing my first short fics set in summer 1995 and in 1982 – 1993, but I think I’d have naturally written about Remus welcoming Sirius back to (his) life, and about my drifting Remus in places I’ve lived in or visited, even if I hadn’t seen anyone else doing anything like that.
Are Hurt/Comfort and Angst tropes? When starting to read a Remus/Sirius fic I often recognise a familiar hurt/comfort situation I could name immediately. And often the fic focuses on the intimate interaction without any need to explain the situation (related to full moon or Azkaban).
I guess I’ve joined some character-specific tropes – like Lupin’s poverty – and pairing-specific tropes in addition to writing about hurt and comfort. But I don’t share many popular fandom tropes because I don’t write so many various characters (in different versions of their lives, too), let alone in various fandoms.
Thank you also for the chance to ponder this!