#wolfstar rant

can you please give me a remus who's short! whose body is WEAK and SMALL because of the constant transformations ravaging it (makes more sense than tall alpha remus...he was turned when he was FOUR. HE WAS FOUR. do you not think that the constant transformations would affect his development. omfg) give me a remus who's SHY because he's never been able to properly make friends because of the constant moving around?? give me a CANONICALLY QUIET shy maybe a bit snarky (he had to have been kinda funny to fit in with the marauders) remus.

give me a sirius who's flamboyant. who's STRONG and ANGRY and UPSET. give me a sirius who CAN SWITCH because he SO COULD??? i think sirius could definitely top? pls stop giving regulus's "uwu i love my family" traits to sirius 'cause sirius hated his family. he despised them. he wasn't constantly in need of a big sexy man to dom him and make him forget or whatever okay. give me a sirius who's PUNK and likes MOTORBIKES and fucking mcr or something. oh my god.

give me a wolfstar that isn't inherently heteronormative (big strong man x shy skirt-wearing bean?? nothing against sirius in a skirt i think it's cool as hell. but not if you reduce him to "o-oh remus🥺!" i think sirius could totally dom remus skirt or no skirt seriously...) and like. a lot of the time fem-presenting sirius is accompanied by alpha remus and his big strong muscles which is. okay :/ can i have skirt wearing sirius and our quiet remus please?

idk i just really miss the top punk sirius x soft remus days

OH AND

WOLFSTAR SHIPPERS. STOP MINIMIZING THE PLATONIC PRONGSFOOT. canonically sirius chose james over remus every time. sorry but it's true. james was literally everything to sirius, more than anyone else. i'm not saying you have to portray it that way, but at the very least have sirius's friendship with james be AS important as his relationship with remus. don't suddenly make remus the only one who gets sirius, the only one he can confide in, the one he always turns to.

when sirius ran, he ran to james. okay?? he ran to james.

"Harry had the distinct impression that Sirius was the only one for whom James would have stopped showing off" -OotP

js sayin...they were special to each other.

And this is why I love Accidentally in Love (which you can find by clicking here) so very much. This fic shows just how possible it is to love someone and suspect them of being a so called "traitor" at the same time. Why ever not distrust Remus? For the sake of those who haven't read this fic, I won't give the details. But it really hones in on the fact that Remus is a werewolf, that he's fated to take a very different stance in the war, one which he can't run from. The truth of the matter is, Remus was in a position to be easily compromised. Haven't we learned this from his involvement with werewolves in the Second Wizarding War? That's what makes him so useful to Dumbledore, and crucial to the Order's efforts to reach out to those who are normally denied a place in society. 

Sirius said it himself, the world is not divided into good people and Death Eaters. He may not have trusted Remus. He may not have told him valuable information. And I can see why he might not wish to be the Secret Keeper for Lily and James if he slept by the side of a man he believed to be involved with the enemy every night. But when has Remus ever been free from that association? Remus doesn't deny it either. From what we see of him, he's rather quick to admit to what he is, as if it's a step towards redemption. 

a) One in which there are secrets, and Emmeline can never know who Remus actually is. Thus Remus isn't a particularly nice guy, seeing as he allows himself to be with her regardless, setting aside his guilt for what?

or

b) It's the real deal, never to end, the one thing that keeps him steady through everything. In which case, what brings it to an end? Is it the fact that Remus is a werewolf? If so, then Emmeline is a bit of a bitch. Because some things are black and white; Remus is a good man, werewolf or not. 

My problem with Remmeline is that Emmeline is still alive by the time the Order of the Phoenix is re-established. It's awkward. Tonks is meant to be something unique. I always gathered that it was the first time he allowed himself to commit to a person fully. Sure, there may have been other women, women he loved from a distance or who kept his bed warm (to put it oh so politely), but I imagine it's a tricky ship to ship. With that in mind, I can understand shipping Remus with Marlene or Dorcas. At least then it leaves him a broken man, unable to trust himself to feel when it's only going to lead to tragedy. But even that is problematic, for reasons see my previous rants, filed under the Wolfstar link on my page.