Your Honor. Is It Not Literally Them

your honor. is it not literally them

I was waiting for this scene at the end of Fionna and Cake.

a writer from another fandom (shoutout to entirelytookeen) was talking about sorting characters and said, "[Gryffindor] will do the right thing even if it kills her, [Slytherin] will do the right thing even if it kills everyone else." what do you think of that take on the Gryffindor/Slytherin divide?

That is very interesting. I’ve been thinking about it ever since you sent this. I mean, if we look at Harry, yes. Definitely. This fits. And if we look at, say, Voldemort. Or even Draco. Sure. Yes. (Although we need to be careful with what is the ‘right thing’ here. According to who? I might say ‘do what is important’)

It can be argued that Harry represents in many ways the best of Gryffindor house, while Voldemort (and possibly Draco) represent the worst of Slytherin house. So it isn’t quite a fair comparison. After all, there are canonical Slytherin who sacrificed themselves, or were willing to put their own lives in danger. (Regulus, Snape, Slughorn, for example.) Alternatively, Gryffindor’s reckless nature can cause harm to others when they are at their worst. It may not be their intention, bit it is often the outcome.

So maybe I would revise and say: Gryffindor tend more towards sacrifice, and Slytherin tend more towards preservation. Gryffindor focus on ‘how might my sacrifice be good for others, how do my actions make things good right now’ while Slytherin might focus on ‘what can be done so no sacrifice is needed, and what parameters do I use to decide what sacrifice will be needed.’ At their worst, this can mean throwing everyone but themselves in front of the curse, at their best, this can mean keeping anyone from getting hit by the curse. Just like at their best, Gryffindor’s sacrifice impulse can save lives at the cost of only their own, but at their worst, even more lives are damaged because of their impulsive, short-sighted sacrifice and lack of understanding of the full implications beyond their own heroics.

Or, even that Gryffindor focus on saving everyone, and Slytherin focus on saving what’s important. Which might even be a matter of idealism versus pragmatism. Which may come back to your friend’s very well-stated point: if it came down to it, a Slytherin would be able to sacrifice others if it was necessary, whereas a Gryffindor might not. Which is rather exactly the kind of role I had Ginny play in The Changeling during that last year with the DA. She made the tough decisions she knew her Gryffindor (and Hufflepuff) counterpart may not have been able to make. She understood that there are far more kinds of sacrifice than your own life. That living with it can be even harder than dying for it.

Through out your posts you indicate that you head-canon Rex as gay, but who’s he got a crush on and or how’d he figure it out?

he likes anakin. hes not happy about it either lmao

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