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author_by_night) wrote2005-04-26 07:41 am
In Defense of Remus/Tonks
[Bad username or unknown identity: Okay, early morning post, so I doubt anyone'll see it, but just in case... I've made a few points defending Remu/Tonks.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: I'm not telling people to ship it, just showing that Remus/Tonks shippers are not all twelve year old fangirls. ]
[Bad username or unknown identity: So...][Bad username or unknown identity: misconceptions (that I've seen) vs. the real deal (from what I've seen).]
[Bad username or unknown identity: 1. We Hate Sirius.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: think that). No, none of us do.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: A lot of the ships, actually, focus on Tonks and Remus's mutual closeness with Sirius as a backdrop. And in the ones that have Tonks not even]
[Bad username or unknown identity: having known him well... I disagreewith the notion she wouldn't have, but that's still not a bad theory. We do know Tonks's mother, Andromeda,]
[Bad username or unknown identity: to be a favorite cousin of Sirius's, after all. For all we know, there was a rift before Sirius went to Azkaban.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: 2. We think young girls should marry old men.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: Um, no. Not in the least. First, I want to point out that its not necessarily canon that Tonks is 21 - she acts young, but so does Bill Weasley, at least by the way he dresses. Tonks is described as being young, but so was Remus]
[Bad username or unknown identity: in PoA, when he would've been 33 or 34. I think its clear Tonks is in her twenties, since she'd just become an Auror, and she does still seem semi-young, but even if she is fourteen years younger... they grow up faster in the books, and besides, they all live]
[Bad username or unknown identity: so long that I'm sure after a while, age doesn't matter. They are both younger anyway - its not like Remus is 60. (And considering Tonks is an Auror and likely had a rough]
[Bad username or unknown identity: childhood, what with her family being DE oriented, I'm sure she's very mature in some ways).]
[Bad username or unknown identity: 3. We feel Remus and/or Tonks have to be with someone.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: There's probably shippers who do feel this way - but there's people like that with all ships. I think if we wanted Tonks and/or Remus to be shipped with]
[Bad username or unknown identity: a random person just because, I'd pair them with people like Hestia Jones or Charlie Weasley. But no, this is not about randomly shipping someone. Fics that are obviously afflicted with the]
[Bad username or unknown identity: "pair everyone off now" disease are ones that have ten ships (usually five of them are the same people - HP/HG, HP/DM, HP/CC, HP/GW, etc), not ones that have two.]
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[Bad username or unknown identity: 4. We're a bunch of Remus fangirls.]
[Bad username or unknown identity: You know what? Some of us are. Well, sort of - some of us are jokingly fangirls. But it doesn't mean we honestly think Remus has no flaws,]
[Bad username or unknown identity: or really want to snog him. (I have to admit that he seems like someone I'd end up dating, but I don't want to date]
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[Bad username or unknown identity: Okay, I need to go... I'm going to go write my one shot where everyone at Hogwarts together, and where Sirius used to threaten to throw Tonks off his motorcycle, and she runs to Remus for comfort.... in it, Tonks saves his life while wearing a Lara Croft outfit!]
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The age one is particularly interesting, as what it is to me is an interesting obstacle - it would force the author to write an intelligent, mature story wherein Tonks and Remus both would have to examine their motives somewhat and realize that their relationship isn't going to be terribly normal compared to other people. Things like that, which could in fact be interesting. If I could see them together, which I can't, so I don't read it. ;)
I have been guilty of being annoyed at the speed with which R/T was picked up after OotP, when it felt like "an available girl! Quick! SHIP HER!" given that to me it feels as far-fetched as pairing, I dunno, Ginny and Dean (which I know is actually canon, but if you think about it, we've never even really seen them interact with each other), but I have to give the R/T shippers credit for sticking with it and making it into a proper ship (even if it still gives me the WTF vibes).