EUREKA!!!

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What's your template, what's the script that underlies everything? Or, if you don't have a story you keep telling, maybe there's a story you keep reading. Is there something that underlies all of your favorite fairytales and novels and television shows and fanfics?

~witchqueen by way of latxcvi

I'm encouraging all ya'll to go answer that in her journal...But!

I've figured out why the Sparrington wasn't working!! ::DANCE::

Namely: My 'One True Story' is Opposites Held by Golden Chord. It's pretty much the Pisces zodiac sign (two fish swimming in apart, tied together).

Or in other words, individuals (who are similar) that move in opposite directions but are held inextricably together and are forever circling each other despite themselves...

And, see, the only way that that the they can actively move in different directions is if they have complete identities in their own right. They are similar entities, but *separate*. They aren't joined because they *are* one another (ie. The Coin With Two Heads), rather, they are joined for a reason *beyond* that. They aren't *defined* by each other, be it in opposition or in similarity. They may be 'similar' or 'opposite', but they're not basing themselves on the 'presence' of the other.

And now everything make sense! Because, y'see, Jack and Norrington's existence *are* defined by each other, The Establishment and The Anti-Establishment. And THAT is also why I don't give two hoots about Sirius/Remus, Qui/Obi, Frodo/Sam, and the whole LotRPS!

And it makes the Sands/El, Superman/Batman, and the Qui/Maul make sense! ::DANCE:: YAY! so. incredibly. relieved!

[edit] and this might actually be why I love resurrection!fic so much, what more ultimate proof could you have that a pairing is tied together irrevocably than having them be reborn and finding each other again?

[edit2] y'know, this may be why I'm not especially interested in Jack/Bootstrap fic. Thing is, at this point, Bootstrap is almost purely defined through Jack, with bit here and there from Will and Pintel. But then because Bootstrap is delinated by Jack, I can't reconcile a relationship in my mind. It always feels flat or one-sided.

[edit3] and guede_mazaka totally rocks my OTS. Delivering stuff like The Mexico series and lines like these:

"Sands isn’t a wife, isn’t a soulmate, isn’t a missing half. He doesn’t fill anything that was absent in El; if anything, the little jackass tears out more holes. But then, so does El.
...
He’ll fight to keep that, to have the privilege of snarling and clawing and hurting this one man. And to let Sands snarl and claw and wound him back. He will turn the key in the lock and push open the gate, he will cross through and Sands will follow till they’ve torn themselves into one."

~ from Archetype: Gate


Exactly. ::happysigh::

Comments

[uguisubari.livejournal.com]

And especially with the Snivellus thing, I'm not sure that Snape is exactly the representation of what Sirius hates; he may *map* onto Snape that view, but it's not Snape *himself* that he's reacting to...

I wonder if in this case what a person maps onto another and what the other person really is really make a difference? After all what the person believes the other to be is what is curcical for the person himself. (isn't this what representing means anyway?). Snape must remind Sirius strongly of his own family, maybe even what he himself is supposed to be like (studying Dark Arts, being in Slytherin), the fact that he's also "weak" in turn offers Sirius the wonderful opportunity to let out all his aggressions toward his family on Snape. He's both all that which is evil and ... well a pathetic wimp. (Which only makes black magic even more unattractive)

Apart from this while his surrounding of course did affect Snape, I wouldn't underestimate Sirius's direct influence either. It was Sirius who played the prank on him, it was Sirius and James who humiliated him none stop for seven years (if you go by some theories 24 hours a day). I think that's more than enough reason to be a direct cause.

..... I think we don't separate the fishes from the indestructible-connection in quite the same way.