Day 2 - Favorite Canon Character (Female) - PANSY PARKINSON
I can’t even describe my excitement when Nadya took Pansy, because it felt like Octavus wasn’t really complete without her. There’s something so fantastically DARK about her and Nadya has done an amazing job bringing her to life, and giving her a backstory and reasons for why she is the way that she is. I praise her unabashed bitchiness and her scenes with other characters, particularly Slytherins, because there’s no other character quite like the catty Pansy Parkinson. <333
Day 1 - Best Friendship - PARVATI & LAVENDER
Welp, apparently Keri and I had the same idea for this one! I can’t help but love these two. Jenny and Shar are amazing at keeping Lavender and Parvati’s friendship true to the books while giving these girls unique personalities of their own. Their scenes are hilarious to read and I lovelovelove their girlishness and supportive friendship. OH YEAH PAVLAV YEAH!
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day 9 - crackship
richard orpik & merryl virtue -
This spans from my insane love of Liam and Annie on 90210. I think their charisma is amazing! And they look good together, am I right? I also think these two would be hilarious. While Richard and Merryl don’t hate each other, they are not a match made in heaven as far as HB and HB go. I love how they interact. As a couple, they would be flat out hilarious to write. <3
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day 7 - otp
As if you lot didn’t see this one coming. ;) It’s less because how much fun to play and how I massively doing any sort of scening with Britt, but mostly because, I mean, I will always love these two. Always. And also because I always have fun scening with Britt. It’s completely biased of me, again, to choose them, but I just can’t help it. Also, the “fuck you” was on the texture, and I wasn’t in the mood to remove it, so no one take it personally!
But to be fair and not so snobby, my other OTP is Blaise/Parvati because mmmmm, how absolutely luscious would these two be? If I could read it all day, every day, I would. Such twisted perfection.
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Day 8 - Couple you wish would happen
Dean/Luna (instead of Neville/Luna) -
Okay, rationalization time! I love Neville and Luna and think both Michal and Jelly write wonderfully, so that has no bearing on my thinking process. I was intrigued in DH by the firm bond Dean and Luna found after being held at the Malfoy’s and recovering at Shell Cottage. There are many sweet moments where Dean leads her away and pays attention to care for Luna. You can tell that Dean truly cares for her, which got me thinking of the idea. Someday, somewhere, I’d love to see what these two are like together.
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Day Two: Favorite Canon Character (Female)
I absolutely love Parvati Patil. Whenever I read her scenes, I just LAUGH because I can’t help but think how perfectly spot-on she is. There is literally nothing I would change about her. I think that Shar has done an unbelievable job with her. Parvati’s energy is just so fun and flirty. I’m usually really picky about my Parvatis/Lavenders, but Shar and Jenny have both really impressed me with how spot-on I think they are!!
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Day One: Best Friendship
My end-all favorite friendship in Octavus is Deamus. Aid is extremely easy to play off of, and she’s done an AMAZING job with Dean. While Seamus is crazy and ridiculous and just jumps off the page for me, Dean is hilarious with his insults and chill humor that just calms Seamus down enough. Their banter is absolutely hysterical. I really have to commend Aid on what a fabulous job she’s done with Dean! These two are one of my favorites to play.
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Day Six - Scene you’d show someone to get them hooked
Platform 9 3/4 -
Both threads - the entire opening! I was hooked from the get go. We meet so many fabulous characters in those launching scenes!
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Day 6 - Scene You’d Show Someone to Get them Hooked
I think it would be the train ride back to Hogwarts on the first day of school. There’s just a mess of emotions every where you go, from people who are glad to be returning for hopefully what will be a normal year, to apprehensive students still frightened by last year’s events, to those still grieving their losses, to friends making up, and enemies resuming their former hatred for the other. In every compartment, a new scene is taking place, with new characters and new problems, and new resolutions, and I think that reading any of them, and getting to go back on the train to the first day of school one last time, is just a fascinating scene to read, and often tugs at your heart strings, or drags you back down memory lane.
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Day 5- Favorite Original Character (Male)
I love Brad Jenners. Maybe it’s because of the friendship Hayley and I have developed between him and Lena, but he makes me laugh. He really does. It’s such a joy to respond to Brad and get to be ridiculously snarky and constantly annoyed at him, and in real life I might feel the same on occasion, but that’s what makes a good character good: when you can picture them in real life and have an idea of how you would act towards them. There are other tell-tale signs of a good character, but I think Hayley just pulled Brad off very well, and with all of his complexities and inner frustrations, I’ve really grown to love Brad as a character.
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