Long Ago and Far Away

Title: Anything At All
Rating: G
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Characters: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin
Relationship: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
Notes: This can, arguably, sit in either the MWPP time period or during Sirius’ period of incarceration in Grimmauld Place; for me, I think, it sits in the former. It’s flangst, or fluffy angst, which I hope will make sense to you once you’ve read it.
Summary: ‘You can tell me anything. You know that, don’t you?’

( Anything At All )

Title: Hope And Glory
Rating: G
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Relationship: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
Notes: Set somewhere between the Marauders’ Hogwarts days and the tragedy at Godric’s Hollow, with Remus and Sirius both a part of the Order of the Phoenix, this drabble tells of the slow but important changes taking place in their relationship as they gravitate towards each other.
Summary: It’s a gradual thing.

It’s slow to happen, when it does, with no particular point where you stop being just friends and become something more; it’s a gradual thing.

You find you grow closer to each other as time passes; each narrow escape, each brush with death, binds one to the other in ways no-one else understands.  And after a while, you stop trying to explain.

Always close, you become inseparable; it happens almost without either of you noticing.  You’re a couple in every way long before you acknowledge the fact and, from that point, your becoming lovers is a mere matter of time.

I identify with both of them, but for different reasons.  As far as a preference goes, Moony is my favourite character in the whole Potter fandom.  I know his lycanthropy was at least originally meant to be an analogue for HIV-AIDS and wasn't there something about how people treat those with disabilities?

I have invisible disabilities and have first-hand experience of how differently people treat you once they know you have them so, in a way, it's almost inevitable that I'd identify most strongly with Remus.  Fanon, at least, tends to portray Remus as reticent and with self-esteem/self-worth issues (I am less convinced of their existence in the canon), and as I have self-esteem/self-worth issues it's another reason to identify with Remus.

The reasons I identify with Sirius mostly surround his obvious mental health issues.  I've never been framed for murder or unjustly imprisoned, but I have spent most of the last twenty years battling against major depression and it's damn clear (to me) that Sirius is at the very least badly depressed while he's trapped in Grimmauld Place.