Pansy

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I find Pansy very interesting. She seems to have a solidly dysfunctional family background (most promising!); she's prickly; and she's the most conventionally Slyth-centric of the students we are meeting (yay for someone who feels canon-familiar!). I don't, by the way, mean that as a complaint about the other Slytherin characters: I'm very interested in the way this game is showing them to have developed differently than their canonical counterparts. Certainly their life experiences and perhaps their ideological training has been substantially different than in the books -- and I'm really enjoying the glimpses we are getting of cause and effect with regard to these (and other) pureblood children. It's just that I'm glad to have one character who reminds me of the fierce rivalry between the Houses.

Zorb, I think you were the one who prompted us to think about what difference the circumstances of this AU might make in the Slytherin children's ability to see beyond the ideologies of their parents. I'm still cogitating on this and am watching the game with great interest as we continue to get hints. (It will obviously be central to Harry Marvolo's experience in this game.)

But back to Pansy...
The other thing that has really struck me about this Pansy is that she calls other people's parents by their first names -- or, anyway, she calls Lucius Malfoy "Lucius". I can't wait to see what this is meant to signal about her or about her parents and their connections. (She refers to Lucius as her father's best friend.)

Comments

[angstalaska.livejournal.com]

I think the loneliness post really went a long way to show how she, and alternity is different from cannon. I assume that by now she would have become thick as thieves with the draco and crabbe/goyle crew in cannon. Maybe, if this had actually happened in cannon, draco would not have seen the tea situation as sharing and an undue strain on his stash, but as an opportunity for bribery to buy himself a new 'friend'. Thanks to the introduction of harry marvolo as the de facto leader of the slytherins she has been hedged out of being included in that group, and is now struggling to make up for the friends she was always 'meant' to have. It is as if pansy is a casualty in the re-shuffling of the the-world-that-was-meant-to-be into alternity's version.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Harry's presence -- and influence -- does certainly seem to make a difference in the way the Slytherin first years behave and interact with each other (and with students from other Houses).

I am interested to see whether we are really seeing a different alignment among the Slytherin girls or whether Sally Anne appears to be emerging as girl-to-know because her player is more active in this early stretch of the game. (I don't have a sense of how meta-planned these posts are or whether players have a free reign to run within a general plot line for the game.)

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Pansy wins my vote for funniest line yet! (http://alt-pansy.livejournal.com/1417.html?thread=7305#t7305)

She says of one of Crabbe's spectacular Potions disasters: "I don't even want to KNOW what he was trying to create. But it was asking for the right to form its own government."