#s&r

[anatomiadellamemoria]

La vita è un messaggio scarabocchiato al buio.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Fuoco pallido

[kniightslayer]

righteous for the unrighteous

[paladin-sioni]

Hello all!

The next chapter of my fan fiction, Scars and Rehabilitation, is out! It only took me almost 3 months to finish, but the wait is over. The story continues with Huntr/x trying to make sense of what's just happened to them. And their actions lead them into a direct confrontation with Gwi-Ma in the demon world.

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A big special thank-you to @cowsindisguise for doing the Beta on this one while she's taking a break and getting some much-deserved rest. She's done a lot to help make the story what it is, so be sure to give her a follow and check out her work!

[subira-stan]

400 words already.

Ladies, gentlemen, and transcendents, we are COOKING this fine morning.

[delicateseraphs]

spoilers! do not read if you're not willing to read potential spoilers about s&r.

i just wanted to get my thoughts out about exactly why i chose to create charlotte. she's a direct response to what the show did and didn't do.

the show talked a lot about hope being klaus' chance at redemption because he would finally have a child to love unconditionally and would love him in return. great story. except, their execution sucked and marcel was right there!!! what's even more important is that he's a SON, too. the themes the show had about klaus trying to overcome the difficult relationship with fatherhood from both sides should've been done with marcel. because he's not his son by blood, just like klaus wasn't mikael's son by blood either. (hope as a whole concept was a nonsense retcon to justify creating the originals and looping in hayley.) people don't talk about how much of marcel is moulded in klaus' image, except marcel began working on himself and healing much earlier than his sire. a lot of that way klaus raised marcel paralleled the way mikael raised him; that expectation of indomitable strength, that unwillingness to lose, the relentlessness. he even speaks like mikael when he's angry at marcel. it's a lot of toxic masculinity, but it wasn't always bad which was why marcel was helpless in the fact he loved klaus. he was much more protective of marcel and he clearly treasured him. he was also possessive of marcel's respect and love, the way he always is. you can see a lot klaus within marcel's character, which is exactly why charlotte is important in s&r.

i created charlotte to contrast marcel and klaus. there's a poem called this be the verse by phillip larkin and i think that's extremely relevant to klaus and marcel's dynamic. what i wanted to show was that this isn't always the case because marcel chose to break the cycle. he's pulling away from what's been taught to him and he's re-learning about what he wants in life. i hope everyone saw that when marcel didn't object to charlotte getting close to the mikaelsons because he knows he has a special place in her life. he doesn't need her to only have him. he's healed from his childhood wounds, but klaus hasn't.

i wanted to pose these questions with charlotte's existence: would klaus have given up power and riches for marcel? would he have placed himself in danger for him? would he have altered his entire life for him? would he have placed marcel above himself? (the latter is a no, but not consciously, because klaus always placed himself above marcel in terms of emotional safety. see his reaction to elijah and marcel being close in the latter's childhood.)

another thing is that i wanted to challenge the show's confusing thesis on family. they presented mikael as a monster for abusing klaus and justifying it because he was an affair baby unrelated to him by blood. how does that differ from how they treated marcel who they claim as family but isn't related via blood? because he evidently was treated worse compared to the blood relations. i think the show should've went the route of 'yes, family is important, but family is not always the people you're related to by blood, but also the people you choose to love and who choose to love you in return' and they should've done that with marcel's story line in regards to redeeming klaus. because he could've broken the cycle in which his 'father' inflicted upon him (even more relevant is that marcel was abused by his biological dad because he was his affair baby. their scenarios are inverted, which is potentially the incorrect word, but hopefully you understand what i'm saying.)

in s&r, marcel is doing all of that for charlotte which is important to the story... i think.

[dowot]

Suhol este pasalubong pala ng kapatid ko kasi ginabi na siya ng uwi sa gala niya 🍕🍕

[theresthesnitch]

I've recently had the realization that Step & Repeat Remus wrote fanfiction under a fake username, and he absolutely posted RPF about Sirius Black.