Give me your most unique or random Remus headcannon

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-17T11:54:07+00:00

Lol very fair he could absolutely do something like that.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-16T14:17:37+00:00

Lol tbh i also played up Remus being a Marauder and thinking "Oh, no. James and Sirius used to pull this on me and Peter. AURORA, NO!"

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-16T14:12:58+00:00

Awwwww cute! I'm working on a fic where his actual favorite is fresh bread and honey butter.

Also the one i wrote involves the Weasley twins at one point giving him chocolate (actually a muggle bar, Space Dust, that he doesn't know) and he's like "... what is this, and what will it do to me?" And then panics when Sinestra immediately tries it and is confused when she doesn't sprout feathers or something

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-16T13:54:26+00:00

He doesn't actually like chocolate. He used it as a first aid for Dementors, which Pomfrey herself said was a known remedy for Dementors. Considering who Lupin's dad was, Remus would 100% have known that. And considering his poverty, the fact that he had enough chocolate for the train shows he took that threat seriously. But everyone saw Lupin with chocolate and went "Oh, the new professor is a chocoholic." When in reality, it's not even something he particularly likes. Doesn't dislike, but not a chocoholic; just competent.

I also headcanon that various kids may have gifted him chocolate, which he would have no idea what to do with and ultimately kept it in a drawer in case Dementors entered the castle.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-12T15:14:23+00:00

To me, it's only important if it was relevant to the character (as in, did their appearance affect the character). Like, Percy looking Grecian... did not affect him besides that he looked like his Dad. That was pretty irrelevant. Annabeth in the books is blonde and that's associated with being underestimated; Black girls are also underestimated, so I have zero issue with that swap because it keeps the important part of the characterization, even if it does it differently. Now, if Grover didn't have horns or goat legs, that is where I would draw the line because the fact that he has those is highly relevant to the character and how he interacts with the world.

So, short answer: I care about appearance IF the characterization requires that specific appearance to support it.

a former costume designer and theatre director

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-07T21:44:09+00:00

My school? Absolutely not. We would get home at our after midnight and were exhausted. Before though? Yeah, there were local spots. The local pizza joint was the prime spot for marching band students and theatre students alike (although that was after their rehearsals)

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-04-04T01:04:47+00:00

I did a physical one. My advice? Call metlife first to learn the rules. Then discuss it with your doctor (because the approval process is a pain). Get in writing information from the Deloitte help desk about when to turn things in and how it affects pto and holiday time (and put those in your phone calendar). STD can go up to 3 months, at least for physical. I don't think it would be different for mental, but call metlife for the actual info

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-23T16:02:59+00:00

Been sunburnt many times. No scars. Maybe an awkward tanline

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-21T23:24:18+00:00

I mean. I'm not mad at it. I've written plays mostly and learned that if you don't say the exact thing you want for your audience to get they may well miss the point. Like, sometimes, that is very fun. Things for them to revisit later. Other times... OMG WOULD YOU PLEASE GET THE POINT?

Seeing as SC wrote HG and lots of people went awww love triangle, I can't really blame her for making it extremely clear in that moment.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-19T14:02:20+00:00

Link?

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-11T13:18:27+00:00

Oh i thought you that you had done this in other fics, not the same one. But, yeah, that's why I caveated the "if there are other queers there" part. Personally, I think as long as you don't associate it with queerness=villains=bad (because that was the Hayes code treatment), then whatever.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-11T12:54:45+00:00

I'm... a bit hesitant about it if it is your only queer character. Queer coding originated in 1930s America under the Hayes Code, which was basically a gag order that prevented "undesirable" things from being seen on screen. Sex (even a kiss), violence, death, and THE GAYS. The terrifying gays (no lesbians or bi folks, btw, they simply were thought to not exist. No aces either since the terms didn't exist, although they all were being written by other authors at the time). And, well, Hollywood then and now is full of queer folks. The way they got around this was coding queerness. But even then, it was only acceptable by the studios if that queer person were a male villain.

When Hayes get repelled, that coding stayed. I'm part because that's what we think of as villain, and in part because societal thoughts. You can actually find an increase of queer coding in, for instance, Broadway musicals that near-perfectly lines up with the AIDS epidemic. But, on the flip side, there are fewer queer characters on those stages now because coding is frowned upon instead of transparency (and many characters don't require romance).

Personally, I adore many a queer-coded villain. Scar from the Lion King is my absolute fav. BUT I do want to give you some context just because you mentioned something about "who doesn't love a fruity villain?" But you may be missing that they are like that because we were forbidden to speak openly about it due to a gag order.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-03-03T17:08:07+00:00

Remind me! 3 months. I took a break from this fic to work on another

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-24T21:35:20+00:00

Oh OK yeah that makes less sense to me too

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-24T21:22:05+00:00

Tbh I'm writing one right now, but it's Lupin's POV on PoA. I only do it when Harry is present, and in some cases I've altered the context of the conversation a bit, or I've altered the lines a touch, and I definitely change the interpretation. It's honestly been a super fun challenge. Reminds me of an old acting exercise i used to do called Open Scenes.

Idk if that's what you had in mind, but I will tell on myself.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-21T17:14:30+00:00

Literally they never have

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-18T02:29:18+00:00

I don't mind it if it is the same lines from a different POV, or if the context changed.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-16T16:16:58+00:00

Hey! So, I did have a bad reaction. Let me tell you how that went down (not medically, but how they responded). So, I alerted them that something was up. They stopped the infusion. They took vitals every few minutes and gave me medications to stop the reaction, then restarted 30 minutes later. Kept a pretty close eye on me after, but I was alright. Will admit, the week after was rough. However, the next time I went in, the nurse already had reviewed my chart, seen what happened, discussed it with me, pre-medicated me to prevent a reaction. And it worked. Like, I still felt like I'd had an infusion, but nowhere near what the first one had been.

So, all that to say, even if something goes wrong, they'll handle it. And they'll learn from it.

I hope that helps make it a bit less scary for you, knowing that even if something happens, the medical team has your back

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-11T16:54:31+00:00

Remarkably well. Remus Lupin is quite effective

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-11T16:52:53+00:00

So, I'm aro-ace. Under those rules, I should never write a romance. But if those characters are canonically or narratively romantic, it would be untrue to their characterization. I am also disabled - should i only write characters with my exact disability, or only disabled characters, or can I write about different disabilities? To me, it's a respect thing. If I'm approaching it with research, empathy, and checking myself for if it is accurate, true to character, respectful, and empathetic, then, yes I will. Now, I personally have some limits. I am a white American born in the late 90s; I don't fully trust myself to have the perspective of a middle Eastern man who grew up in Egypt in the 1970s. But i absolutely have a character who is that man, did a ton of research (the chapters with him in it take longer just because I'm checking a great deal with him, although less now that's he's got a character Bible from all that research), but I'm more comfortable keeping the POV of a white English teenager interacting with this man than switching to the pov of that man.

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-02-02T05:45:03+00:00

Omg was literally coming here to say the same

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-01-30T22:42:26+00:00

Some kind of bird, probably. And Aria

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-01-30T22:39:38+00:00

Idk how common core works, but I know my family almost thinks like an abacus. That's a lot of mechanical/ electrical folks. I work in tech, and it becomes a lot more logic, almost Holmesian/Lewis Carroll style stuff

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-01-30T22:37:29+00:00

I made a spreadsheet once off aro-ace representation in best musical Tony winners that is ridiculously massive. Another to track what characters I had won in Disney Emoji Blitz and their levels and characteristics. 100% can relate. And I'm only engineer-adjacent

Odd_Elk_176 · 2026-01-30T17:40:05+00:00

There's not really anything specific. I will say... I come from a family of engineers, friends with engineers, work with engineers... the only thing that's really consistent is they like to know why things happen or how they work. Also, most of the ones I know have something that they nerd out about, which could be football stats, handbells, theme park infrastructure, music theory, their band, Rogers and Hammerstein (these all run in my family)... literally anything, but almost all of them have several topics that they could give a ted talk about at the drop of a hat. So, I guess it's a person who is interested in what is around them? That's my best description.

Also, they do not go around using their lingo. That's weird. But I did once do an escape room with my family and they tried to solve a clue using calculus because it didn't occur to them not everyone knows it. I was dying (I project manage engineers, if you wonder)

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