adding to this NOTHING pisses me off more than ronan/sirius comparisons. or just pynch/wolfstar comparisons in general. get your slop away from me???
*stares at "new years resolution: be nice" sticky note* *sighs* *crumples and tosses out the window*
my main issue with the gangsey + marauders comparison is that what theyre doing is taking all the clever work mstief did to break down and extrapolate and twist common character archetypes and brings those stereotypes front and center, reducing the trc cast to the mold they were designed to break out of.
it assumes adam as the soft and timid abuse victim with ronan as a cocky rough around the edges rich kid from a prestigious family incapable of growing up. this is where I expose my preexisting Harry Potter knowledge which I only use for good (critiquing jkr) these days—sirius is ronan without depth, because sirius is solely a suave and one dimensional manchild who refuses to see the weight of the world around him, while this is a facade ronan puts on as a traumatized and griefing seventeen year old. from what I understand, too, marauders fans play into a certain dynamic between these character archetypes which is so distinctly NOT pynch it actually pmo. granted I have like one comedic video essay backing this but it is a painting of adam in a very timid and submissive light which makes me so fucking uncomfortable because a great deal of adam's arc is locating his sense of self, but marauders characterization insists he sinks within it. and sirius as a character was never fucking interesting to me because he fell so very flat. reducing ronan to this character archetype is so so so dull to me, if someone wrote ronan like that id exit off the doc so fast. not MY loverboy lynch cringefail. it paints remus/adam as a passive identity in a manner i once again stress as genuinely offensive to all the brilliant work mstief with these characters, who really ARE inequatable. ugh. blegh.
on the other hand, keep lily/james away from bluesey I actually will commit a crime.
