pls please talk about ludora more i beg
i’ve been thinking a lot about them and their contrasting relationships to public image & how they’re more similar than they realize. LUDORA IS ALWAYS MATCHING EACH OTHER’S FREAK!!!
i like the fanon of pandora as luna-esque & quirky. but i think that unlike luna, pan actually really DOES care about what others think of her… she likes being eccentric and different! but she presents herself that way on purpose! she’s an inventor, she’s original, a visionary, and she has a pretty big ego about it. she’s quiet, but i think she might secretly disdain people who look down on her for being different (an “im smarter than them anyway” type of attitude)
that’s part of why i like pairing her with lucius, who is just as crazy about his public image, but NEEDS to be respected by conventional standards. essentially: if someone called him a weirdo he would kms.
the interplay between pandora as a wild/unconventional Genius Inventor & lucius as equally conniving but obsessed with Dignity and Looking Proper is really fun. imagine the mutual FRUSTRATION when your sole intellectual match has such different values. but i can’t stop thinking about how like…. despite his best efforts… he’s the only one who ACTUALLY matches her freak.
like… lucius owns albino peacocks and he walks around with a Pimp Cane. the man is BIZARRE. i like to think that lucius is trying SOO fucking hard to be a respectable pureblood & Unimpeachably Normal that it’s looped all the way around. he has a 12-step haircare routine and is a platinum customer at Borgin & Burkes <- this man is the biggest weirdo on earth and he doesn’t even realize it.
i think that pandora would be WAY more entranced by someone like that, rather than someone who is actively trying to come across as ~quirky~. lucius is organically insane because he doesn’t even realize he’s insane in the first place. he’s DEATHLY convinced that he’s perfectly fine and it’s everyone else around him who‘s crazy.