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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I love the way you draw Severus's heir it make him more real. The bathtub one is my favorite I love the Rubber Snitch
I admit I have a soft spot for Snupin, and sometimes I like to give Snack (with Sirius as the Black involved) a chance. RxS is just my OTP.
I like the idea of Rabastan: we know so little about him, we can do pretty much anything with him - I usually use Evan Rosier, though.
Glad you like Sev's hair: greasiness is tricky.
Anyway, great work!
The amazing thing is: I still think they're more than an 'unlikely' couple. My idea of Regulus crashes with all was known of Severus at the time. Just, well..no. But then, they're cute..
I have a love/hate relationship with Severus' hair. I want it to be greasy. Because it IS greasy: we're told that every single time he's on scene. Sometimes, more than once. The fact is: how on earth are you supposed to make said hair look greasy with a pencil?! We (Sev and I) are still working on it with poor results...
Regulus is funny. Sure, he's more prone to be depicted as a 'normal' guy than Severus... Dark Lord (and Sirius) apart, he leads a quite ordinary life, especially at Hogwarts: studying, playing Quidditch, hanging out with Housemates; you can easily put him in silly poses and situations, make him laugh, joke and be a teenager.
As for saving paper, well..I just like collages^^
Glad you liked it, thank you!
Also I think you did a great job with Snape's hair! I think making it look stringy like you have here goes a long way to conveying how greasy it is, and really, it fits with how I, personally, imagine him very well (which is kind of a rare thing in drawings of Snape I find on deviantart haha).
As for depicting Regulus, well, he's probably (okay who am I kidding, definitely) the character I draw the most, and I just love the freedom you have to create a character for him without being too constrained by canon. I can see what you mean about him possibly being more "normal." At least, a more typical teenage boy. I think it would be hard to grow up a Black without coming out a little messed up, though. We certainly see that with Sirius (although that can be attributed to a combination of factors). I think that as a teenager Regulus was probably just better at covering up his stunted childhood than someone like Snape. There's definitely something a little serial killer-ish about all those Voldemort-centric clippings in his room, you know?
Uh anyway so now I've rambled on incoherently for long enough. You're welcome!
To me, the handicap in their relationship is Regulus himself. I've always seen him as a dirty little racist. In his scooldays, he's a Black at heart, he truly believes in his family's ideals; as you said: he collect articles about Voldemort's attacks. He's an aristocratic Pureblood confident in his superiority. Severus is a Half-Blood and every one of his features screams 'poverty' and 'neglect'. Regulus may have respected his interest and talent with the Dark Arts, but would never have wanted to be associated with such a shame, in my opinion. Then they were both Death Eaters, but Regulus' betrayal comes secretly and earlier than Severus', so at that point there was no ground for mutual interest, as well.
There are ways to make it work, and some good authors have succeeded, but I admit it's a lot of trouble. Drawing doesn't work that way, luckily.
Of course the adjective 'normal' is not the best to describe Marauders (except James and Lily, and Teenage Pettigrew, perhaps)...they're complicated (each in his/her own way) and definitely the Black Brothers did not have what we call a 'normal' childhood. But, just like Sirius, I can see Regulus hanging out with his gang, strolling down corridors, always behaving like a Black and a Slytherin, but a teenager one: something like a more mature version of Draco Malfoy, which for sure enjoys his sweets and presents at Christmas and sits with his friends in the Express. Something Severus can't do. At least, not with the same simplicity (because it's not natural for him being friendly and because he's not up to all Slytherin's standards).
Ok. Now *I* am rambling. Thanks for your words, anyway.
PS: About the hair - I actually let mine go over-greasy just to check on the mirror how it could look. I swear I've never craved shampoo more.
[Although in the realm of probably unreasonable justifications, and despite the fact that I was just calling those Voldemort clippings serial killer material, in my head-canon I imagine he kept collecting them even while he was going through his "change of heart" as a kind of obsessive self-torture type thing.]
I do imagine him (in school, anyway) a lot like Sirius in many ways--haughty, egoistic, reckless, pig-headed--which are the kind of personality traits that Snape hates (even though he shares many of them in his own way). And even so, I don't think a relationship--friendship or otherwise--is really all that implausible. I think that maybe in order to build that, you have to start from the infamous "gang of Slytherins" we hear about from Sirius. That seems to be Snape's only platform for social standing, and well, he'd have to have some kind of social credibility for Regulus to pay any attention to him. Although, I've seen a lot of fics that make Regulus kind of Sirius's polar opposite: weak, shy, quiet and socially invisible. Basically the forgotten Black. And I can see a relationship developing between them much more easily if Regulus were like that: outcast bonding and all. But of course I don't see Regulus as anything like that, so it's more difficult to find common ground for them if you don't write him that way. xD
ALSO about the hair: girl, that is some serious commitment! I have done a lot of weird things trying to figure out how to get some aspect of a story or drawing right, but I draw the line at sacrificing personal hygiene. I commend you for your dedication!
Aaaaaaand I could really talk about this stuff forever, but I am making less and less sense the more I go on. So anyway, thanks for indulging my overpowering urge to pseudo-psychoanalyze Harry Potter characters. (:
Precisely.
*click click* Let's fave it. Both. They so worth it. ^^