Fanon Narcissa will never cease to baffle me. Narcissa was not some soft, sweet-spoken girl who just let people trample over her, who kept her head down, and never spoke like her lips were sealed shut. Sure, she was quiet; but not in the way she's soft, but calculating. Smart. Her mind is sharp, her words carry meaning, carry power, perhaps not in the stinging, blinding, painful way Bellatrix's does, but in the spaces between every word, something binding and searing lingers. She is a Slytherin Princess, essentially, the prime example of a Slytherin girl should be; sharp, fast, witty, powerful but not so exceedingly powerful it's obvious. She is the queen pawn in the chess board; the most powerful player, because she knows when to move to give her the right options. She is an ornated dagger that cuts far deeper than it should, she is the fuzzy bubble of poison in a silver wine goblet. She knows her place as a Black; she toys with that power like a Black would. She was spoiled by Druella, by her older sisters, always adorned in pearls and silver jewelry, black lace and silk dresses, anything she wanted she snapped her fingers and had serves on a silver platter. She was pureblood elegance. Thoughtful, charismatic. Perfect. She is quiet, yes, but not in the way people seem to be saying she is.
She shows time and time again that she KNOWS when to speak up, and yet the most popular characterization of her is this quiet, never-speaks-for-the-sake-of-the-family girl who sits there in silence like the emptiness of it is her own cage?
Don’t even get me STARTED on the mischaracterization of Lucius…ESPECIALLY in relation to Narcissa. People make him out to be this horrible abusive man when THERE IS NOTHING in cannon to even suggest that…now, mind you, disliking him because he’s a DE is a PERFECTLY REASONABLE! But this whole “abusive husband” characterization is NOT even close to how he’d ACTUALLY behave from what we’ve seen of him in canon. could yap abt it for hours but this post is abt Cissa, not her husband I’ll yap abt him another time
Mind you, you can still make Cissa sapphic without having to make her husband abusive and have her in some abusive or neglectful marriage that spawned as an idea out of nowhere in the fandom…you don’t need to butcher both of their characters in order to make her a lesbian or sapphic 😭
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