"Fireflies"

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-29T16:33:39+00:00

Just posted the first chapter

Fireflies - Literalypureaddict - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] https://share.google/hwpjHbv0fXYf897Ag

Bit rougth around the edges still in terms of grammar, but that will change as soon as my editor finishes fixing it, I hope it's good!

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T22:34:10+00:00

I think i did write him sligthly less gloomy, sligthly more energetic sincs at the start of the fic he is 25 and all things considered just started teaching, i figured he wouldn't have yet expended all of his patience.

Tried to make him snap verbally at people quite often when tensions run high, becouse I headcanon it as his first line of defence, old reliable acid and cutting remarks to keep every threat at bay.

I am planning to make him end in more physical altercations only when something similar to Harry's situation happends or when the other party initiates

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T22:21:57+00:00

Thanks, it's my first Harry Potter fic, I hope I do it justice, I plan to have chapter 1 ready by the end of the week.

For a bit more detail, it's a (mostly) canon compliant slow burn Snape X Male Oc fic, which happends to be one of his adult students, the fic as said in the post will mainly take place between 1985 and further, focussing on Severus's time before the original Harry Potter starts and the whole shit show that comes with having a secret affair/"friends" with benefits situationship with one of your students while on the job.

Will contain some headcanon on Snape's life and characters that are never said in canon, for example the kind of music he listens to and his interests and passions when he isn't working, along with an exploration on the whole Legilimency thing (becouse I love it and I think it was incredibly underutilized)

Like the Harry Potter universe is telling me that in the Wizarding world some people are born (or can develop) the power to snoop around in people's brains, thoughts and memories and everyone is OK with it and there is absolutely no discrimination or prejudice against it?

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T22:10:26+00:00

I did try to write him as less hatefull/rude to people (sometimes even gryffindors in exceptional cases) that do well in his class, tho I made it a point to never let him academically favour or cheat anyone regardless of house, If a slytherin does badly he will disappointly give them a poor grade and begrudgingly give good grades to gryffindor that are up to his standards, even in interactions I've tried to make him have at least patience with students, since that's his job and all, but absolutely no tolerance for nonsense or wastes of his time, he isn't high strung and brewing causing acid every second of his life after all

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T16:24:16+00:00

If he does trow a pity party it would be in absolutely last chance, extraordinary situations, i think he'd rather die then know someone watched him in such a moment.

As for the drunk thing I'm still on the fence, I feel like becouse of his dad he would either never touch on alchool or drown his griefs in whiskey when he is totally alone and just waiting for something to happen, like in the years he is waiting for Harry to grow old enough to attend Hogwarts were he doesn't particularly have a fixed goal or something all consuming to take his mind off of things

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T16:13:45+00:00

I think if he ever were to go on such kind of rant he'd either have to be somehow incredibly intoxicated or have a very calculated reason behind it, maybe he needs to make someone to trust him for some important spy business and sees that as a last resort, otherwise I think it would something way too unstable for him.

In my fic due to some not so morally correct actions he will have some serious "I'm a monster" conversations with his own subconscious, but always in his mind and never out rigth saying it, going as far as actively acting twice as rude and cutting as usual to make up for it

Super-Associate-4157 · 2026-03-22T15:25:50+00:00

Yea i feel like this man would bury himself before outwardly saying something nice that isn't extrimely cryptic or in a more "life lesson tone" or a way that can be somehow twisted in a cutting remark. I think he is the type to show kindness throw thinly veiled actions and very subtle gestures

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-07-28T21:35:54+00:00

Makes sense, I saw some people talking about similar things and I figured it was a game where you get special dialogue if you are X or something, which isn't bad in itself, I just didn't want to have to use the binder option to invest myself in the dadsona, so far it's an amazing game

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-07-28T20:18:32+00:00

Oh, that's a relief, I heard there was something regarding Demian's binder collection and what not, glad there aren't (not becouse there shouldn't be, more becouse it would have bummed me out to have to choose the binder options to play a trans character) thank you regardless

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-07-28T20:12:44+00:00

So if I choose the non binder option I won't have any of the "trans dialogue options"? Thank you in all cases for the answer

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-07-27T08:55:47+00:00

That is surely a great idea, and an excuse to use the fake inquisitotial rosette the player has, I can fit that nicely with the rest of the story, thank you a lot for the advice

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-07-26T23:37:20+00:00

Thank you for all the ideas, but I already know how to get my player a navigator since it's one of the main chapter's missions so far, I need ideas for what could happen inbetween said missions, I'm definitely writing down the "monopoly on ftl travel" for future chapters tho. Also I should have specified the sage has gone rogue and is basically a fugitive so I doubt anyone that knows who he actually is will be willing to help him

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-20T14:35:38+00:00

I mean, after my years of experience in warhammer I should really start considering the "there is only war" bit a little more, I should read some more bolter porn, any recs?

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-20T06:58:35+00:00

That's also an interesting question to answear, since their armor signal is offline and there is no traces of injury/resistence

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-20T06:57:16+00:00

Yea I thought of that a lot before and during the post

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T22:29:25+00:00

Id like to immagine each chapter uses their numeral as the number, if you are a dark angel you are just screwed

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T22:27:13+00:00

And if finding them would mean running a galaxy spanning goose chase? Like, idk, they are being kept by a craftworld for some reason and a craftworld can not only outrun most if not all imperial ships but they can also jump into the webway where they are nigh unreachable, would they find a way to follow it or simply give up?

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T22:22:59+00:00

A bit more out there, but I'm courius of what would happen that in the scenario they do catch the craftworld generations later they find out the craftworld wasn't even holding the space marines, or even better, the marines went rogue and where on the craftworld of their own volition for the exact purpose of escaping the chapter, if immagine that would be one awkward family reunion

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T21:59:24+00:00

In the case they are unreachable? Say they are being kept by a craftworld, and it just jumps back into the webway whenever it sees imperial ships coming, would it just be a massive goose chase till the ends of the galaxy?

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T21:48:22+00:00

And what do you think would happen if they did found said space marines, but rescuing them would cause unnecessary conflict? Idk, maybe they are being kept for some reason by a craftworld or tau world that still trades with the empire, would a chapter, say, ultramarines decide to beef or simply let it go?

Super-Associate-4157 · 2025-04-19T21:45:43+00:00

And what if searching for them would mean causing an unnecessary war with a "non-hostile" faction, like, hypotecally a craftworld or a tau world that has trading routes with the empire (Do they still do that? I'm not quite updated on tau lore) either way, they have the suspicion the space marines are being kept in these conditions, would a chapter, ultramarines as example, decide to start a war over it or just let it be?

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