you mentioned in an ask that you’ve finally pinned down r/s, i’d love to hear what ur process is for characterizing them!! how you get into their silly minds etc!

also i just finished ilob and oh man oh man that love confession at the end had my jaw on the floor!! crazy good, i love your writing

hii hi babe! thank you so much! i'm so glad you liked it! i wanna start with the disclaimer that if you were to hold my characterisation of r/s up against canon...im SURE it falls to pieces, i am! most of who they are to me now is just whatever jumbled sediment has built up in my brain! and they continue to change and shift a little bit depending on the fic context/pov (i think ill end up writing a v different sirius when i get in remus' head for the post-prank fic, and removing remus' lycanthropy in the muggle au led to a slightly different remus there too imo) under the cut for my nonsense xox

i think for me characterizing sirius, rightly or wrongly, comes down to the intensity of his emotions? idk, i tend to write him as quite a desperate character and quite an angry one, and sometimes his intensity can boil over into a capacity for cruelty that i don't necessarily think remus has? taking ilob as an example of my r/s, the scene where they call off their arrangement originally had sirius doing the calling off. and i just could not get the scene to work, it was a nightmare, it just fuckin sucked. i switched the roles and i think that worked so much better because remus does have that self-sacrificial dimension, a propensity to consider the 'greater good' in any situation, that sirius does not. it made more sense to have sirius to fight to keep what he had that way--he really is quite doglike imo, both in his loyalty and his aggression. the same intensity that makes him loyal can make him dangerous, yknow?

remus is softer and a bit sadder and more subtle and considered, both when im writing as him or as sirius. they both have tempers but he has a much better handle on his (a desperation to be a polite/controlled 'model werewolf' blahblahblah), so where sirius boils down to anger remus boils down to sadness or a little self-loathing. he speaks slowly (lots of 'er'-ing) and he takes into account the impact of his words beforehand--my sirius, poor boy, never fucking does this--but he's also a bit of a coward, avoiding confrontation and such. sirius usually has to drag it out of him. when i'm writing from remus' pov i'm thinking, what is smart? what is for the best? what is most peaceful? and when i'm writing from sirius' pov it's, what is the problem right now? what is standing in my way? what is the truth?

and then in terms of like mannerisms and such...remus is my lovely fiddly little guy. he's scratching at his hair or picking his nails or a thread on his clothes or the armchair he's sitting on. he's a scribble in my head, whereas sirius is all sharp lines. sirius is draping himself over everything n everyone he's lounging about, he's more confident in himself and his body language is less awkward and reigned-in. which makes it even funnier when he falls to pieces in front of remus Just A Guy lupin. remus' speech is usually a little more formal (sirius already sounds like the queen, he doesnt need to speak like her too) and sirius is a bit more haughty. tips his chin up a lot, tosses his hair about a lot etc

yeah! i think those are the main consistencies between my versions of r/s. they change and develop the more i write them n every fic leaves me with a better idea of how i see them, but they're also very different between fics! when theyve got different forces acting on them n stuff. im not in any way saying these are correct or true to canon or anything but theyre just the sort of details i (consciously or not) tend to repeat when im writing them <3 thank u!!

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