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Sunshine: It'd take the Sorting Hat a long time to choose between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor for her, but would ultimately go with Gryffindor, much to her consternation.

Yrael: Ravenclaw. Too clever and curious for his own good, without any real ambitions except what spurs his curiosity further.

Zelgadiss: Ravenclaw also, because he is, at heart, a geek. He loves being clever.

Assuming the mods are kind to me, Eriond is totally a Hufflepuff.

Henry could be either Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Gryffindor. But I just tested against a quiz and it has him as Ravenclaw first by a hair (then Gryffindor, then Hufflepuff). Given that his adventure is tied to a book, I agree.

Lois Lane is a Gryffindor.

Tavi is a Slytherin.

...Wow. Balance. Nice.

Funny, I tend to think of Henry as a Slytherin. He did learn from a master manipulator. But that's just me.

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Nicholas Angel (

diced_tartan) is such a Hufflepuff, it's almost disgusting. In fact, he's disgusted at least one person at the bar already with his attitudes toward fair play.

Gus Dickinson (

thanksrainman) is a Slytherin, definitely. Which is a little unfortunate, since he's just enforcing the stereotype that all Slytherins are dickheads, but there you go. Bro's cheated the law, and death, enough times that I think he qualifies as Slytherin by default, just from the sheer creativity he's employed in getting away with some of his stunts.

Tim Bisley (

notimewarp) and Travis Martin (

sergeant_deskjob) are both Gryffindors, I think. Tim doesn't exactly play fair sometime, but he's not going to throw his friends under the bus either (usually). Travis is much the same in many ways, but he'll make you like him even as he's being kind of a jerk. They can both be very charming, and will ultimately put those close to them first, but they may have to think about it before they do.

Gary King (

king_gary) is the only real outlier, and I think also in Gryffindor because he confounds the Sorting Hat. He'd be sorted based on where he wanted to be, and he'd want to be in Gryffindor. He's not particularly ambitious, he's not terribly clever, and he sure as hell isn't loyal, but he certainly thinks he's the modern King Arthur.

For the sandboxes:

Loki Odinson (

sonofjotunheim) is definitely a Ravenclaw. He could be a Slytherin, but I think Ravenclaw suits this version of him just a little bit better. His only ambition in life is to find a way to be left the hell alone, and I'm not really sure that counts for anything. He only shows bravery or loyalty when it suits him, but he will always jump at an opportunity to outsmart someone.

Harry Lockhart (

captain_fucking_magic) is another Gryffindor, I think. I almost said Hufflepuff, but he's a little too willing to let other people take the fall for his fuckups. However, his constant drive to prove himself and his willingness to put himself in the line of fire put him in Gryffindor.

Sherrinford Holmes (

technically_older) is another Ravenclaw. He's made it his job to outsmart and outwit everyone in the room, and like a true Holmes, he's an absolute genius at it.

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Ace: ... Gryffindor. I thought briefly that she could go in for Hufflepuff, but she's just too much of a risk-taker.

Oswin/Clara: Ravenclaw. So much Ravenclaw.

Katya: Gryffindor, hard core, the Hat didn't even hesitate.

Haymitch: The hat is going to sit there and be stumped. He's bright enough to be a Ravenclaw, naturally self-sacrificing enough to be a Gryffindor, and with enough self preservation to be Slytherin. Um. I know he's not Hufflepuff?

Balthazar: Gryffindor. Again, there isn't going to be much pausing going on.

Glorfindel: GRYFFINDOR. Like, with all the underlines. The Hat wouldn't even need to be within ten feet. Good grief.

McCoy: Ravenclaw. With maybe a side thought towards being Hufflepuff?

Blakeney: *squints* Maybe he can be a... Ravenclaw Gryffindor. Like Doctor Maturin. >.>

I'd say it'd be interesting to see whether pups would end up as Light or Dark in the Nightwatch-verse, but it's pretty much a given in canon that anybody can go in either direction, depending on what happens in that moment.

Blakeney: *squints* Maybe he can be a... Ravenclaw Gryffindor. Like Doctor Maturin.

Maybe he can be a sort of fighting naturalist!

...Like Doctor Maturin.

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Cata: Either Ravenclaw or Slytherin; I can never quite decide.

Sam: Hufflepuff, much to his chagrin.

Claudia: Hufflepuff. She would have expected to follow Joshua into Ravenclaw, but she embraces her 'puffitude.

Apollo: Hufflepuff by a hair over Ravenclaw. On the one hand, god of many and varied subsets of knowledge; on the other, if you hurt his sister so help Dad HE WILL END YOU.

Imp: Slytherin ("One day they will say I was the greatest musician who ever lived").

Regulus: The Sorting Hat wanted to put him in Ravenclaw, but after what Sirius did he didn't think he could take that chance and survive Christmas hols. He's in Slytherin largely on self-preservation, but he's a sneaky bugger in his own right. (I cannot conceive of an AU, short of one that drastically alters the dynamic within his parents' relationship, where Regulus would take a different House unless Sirius was in Slytherin.)

Red: Gryffindor all the way down. So is Ruby.

Potential apps for the month:

Woolly (aka Helena's W12 partner): Hufflepuff, but with the next deepest Gryffindor streak of any of my pool.

Rebecca St. Clair: Undecided between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

YOU HAVE ANGERED THE BADGER. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DID, BUT CHRIST FUCK SHE'S PISSED.

Tsu'tey is a Gryffindor, no doubt about it. With italics.

Noriko...this may be really debated, but I see her as a Slytherin. Resourcefulness is how she functions and how she got to be where and who she is, and while she doesn't have an evil streak, and she has bravery and occasional foolishness, those features come from the ability to work with what she's got, do it fast and so it well. People not dying kind of depend on her doing that.

Hal is stupidly easy to peg as a Gryffindor. Stupidly easy.

Finvarra...um. He's a hard one, but I say Slytherin because he's cunning and kind of a huge jackass and has the superiority complex that's pretty much a hallmark.

Ganymede I got nothin' for. He's too old to really say Hufflepuff, because he knows the world does not work on fair play and hard work but he's also not bookish enough to be Ravenclaw? Help me on this one, guys.

Sooraya is totally a Hufflepuff. She hits all four of the pings and hits them like a ton of bricks.

Jim's a bit hard to place. He could be a Gryffindor who's fallen from grace a bit, or a Hufflepuff who is intensely loyal to a friend. Either way, he stands with Bart before anybody else does. I don't think a Gryffindor would up and leave at the end of the film, though. He's in it for Bart if he's in it for anything.

Borgel is a Hufflepuff all the way.

Leela would almost certainly be a Gryffindor, though given her innate cleverness in spite of her lack of education, I could see her going to Ravenclaw as well. Ultimately though, I'd say it's her courage that defines her most.

Kane is a Slytherin. I don't think I need to explain why.

Caius is brave enough to be a Gryffindor, loyal and devoted enough to be a Hufflepuff, and cunning and sneaky enough to be a Slytherin. I'm going to go with Hufflepuff, though - for the Nine and for the Emperor.

Garyn I couldn't see as anything other than a Gryffindor. He's endured everything the world has thrown at him and received little in return, yet despite all his well-earned cynicism he has a strong sense of what's right and what's wrong, and a willingness to lay down his life for that belief. Fitting that he's going to end up leading the warriors of House Redoran.

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Spazz or Jack is fine, yeah. I ain't picky.

As for this DE, here are my answers from last weekend.

(Gryffindor: Protagonists Live Here.)

Jack! That was the other name. I knew I had it but my brainmeats weren't being helpful.

Hmm... Trixie's a tough one.

She's courageous and good enough to be in Gryffindor(She would go out of her way to help someone, even though she'd say it's just her protecting a potential audience member), Clever and creative enough to be in Ravenclaw(She's a charismatic storytelling magician), and ambitious enough to be in Slytherin(She wants to be remembered even well after her death and is incredibly prideful).

...Hmm... No idea which one she'd be in. Gryffindor, maybe?

I know there's a lot of fan speculation on what exactly the hat Sorts for, but I tend to favor the interpretation that it's based less on what qualities the person has than what qualities they value. Hence Hermione gets Gryffindor because she most strongly respects bravery and wants to be a brave person, when you get right down to it, even though she's obviously enormously intelligent and very bookish.

In case that helps with a tiebreaker?

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Joshua is the purest Ravenclaw to ever Ravenclaw. Well, maybe a tiny hint of Hufflepuff and a tiny hint of Gryffindor (boy did telport, after all) but at the end of the day, he's a Ravenclaw.

Helena is a Slytherin. Using people to further her ends, and bringing people 'round to her way of thinking.

Valentine is hard to place, but at the point she is in canon, she's another Slytherin. She has to be to compliment her brother who is the biggest Slytherin EVER.

Fantine's somewhere between a Gryffindor and a Hufflepuff. She'll fight for her daughter, but she throws herself into things SO COMPLETELY that there's a lot of Gryffindor there.

In potential app-land: Mark Cohen is also a Hufflepuff. He's there for his friends through ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.

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Both Felix and Fluttershy are slightly more Gryffindor than Hufflepuff, for different reasons.

Kain, I think, would be a Slytherin, but wouldn't fit well with the other Slyths.

Enzo's a toss-up between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

Thor strides around in a faintly glowing cloud of GRYFFINDOR GRYFFINDOR HI DIDJA GUESS I'M GRYFFINDOR. I have seen an AU where he was actually Godric Gryffindor and Loki was Salazar Slytherin, that's how Gryffindor he is. (Also, Gryffindor no longer looks like a word.)

Clare is Hufflepuff. I thought briefly about Gryffindor, but... yeah, Hufflepuff, no matter how reckless she also is.

Regan is either Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Probably Ravenclaw by a nose if we assume that they're being sorted as kids.

River, the Sorting Hat pondered for a while, because she could easily be in either Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. But I think it comes down on Ravenclaw, especially when she was younger.

Enjolras... Gryffindor pretty solidly. (And then he'd be a fervent crusader for inter-house unity and also other causes.) I thought briefly about Slytherin because of his ambition for society, but he doesn't have any personal ambition whatsoever, and he's a strategist but not a schemer.

Edit: OH AND TROWA. Trowa... is difficult, actually. Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor all have compelling arguments. I think I lean towards Ravenclaw on the "what do they most value in themselves and others" principle, though.

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Re: Trowa- If the only requirement was 'sneaky' he'd be a Slytherin in a hot minute. But I get the lack of ambition kinda takes that out at the knees.

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Like most DEs, only doing this for my recent two at the moment:

Yugo is Gryffindor. He's so Gryffindor he's practically incapacitated.

Sherral ... the most obvious choice would be Gryffindor? But he could very easily be a Hufflepuff or a Slytherin. The only house he wouldn't fit in is Ravenclaw - he's smart, but he's not an academic genius by any stretch of the imagination.

He's a really difficult one to place, and I'm a little stumped.

I just took a sorting quiz for Tommy, and he came out Slytherin with Gryffindor close behind. He's all about personal gain, but is conscientious enough (well, he HAS to be) to help others who can't help themselves.

Lou is totally a Hufflepuff.

Dean is Hufflepuff. Loyalty is his thing, though I bet a lot of people look at him and go 'Gryffindor'.

Michael is Slytherin. She's sneaky as all get out.

Nynaeve is Gryffindor. You can see it in her from book one, come on. She leaves everything she knows behind in order to embark on a dangerous venture to protect the people from her village from what she thinks is the equivalent of an evil and manipulative sorcerer person. Yeah.

Sam Tyler is -- probably as a kid he was Gryffindor. Now he'd be a Ravenclaw, I think, if he had to put the hat on.

Galadan is Hufflepuff. When he loves he loves completely, like a three year old -- and sadly has a three year old's emotional coping skills and swift viciousness of temper combined with an adult's ability to plan. Yeah. He is The Angriest Hufflepuff.

X is probably Ravenclaw, because she's very good at learning and her brain is essentially a computer. Her way of processing the world is also very computer logic-driven. So.

Wonder Woman is Gryffindor. I would say Hufflepuff, but she's way too into jumping into the middle of conflicts in order to try to work things out. So.

Raven is the Sorting Hat. *sage*

Raven is the Sorting Hat with sparkles on.

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Rather to Gordon's horror, I think canon makes it abundantly clear that he belongs in Gryffindor. He'd have preferred Ravenclaw, but you know how it goes. Once you pick up the crowbar it's never getting put back down.

Shephard's a different story. I realize we're talking about a man who deliberately jumped down an alien worm monster's throat so that he could kill it from the inside, but every time I try to put him in Gryffindor the headvoice informs me "semper fucking fidelis, asshole" and refuses to go anywhere but the loyalty and hard work house.

And I've got a ten o'clock appointment so I'll have to answer the others later.

Apparently I have a type. I've put Mia, Lucas, and Lohengrin through the same test I took and all of us came out some flavor of Hufflepuff. And I'd say it fits. All three of them are hardworking, loyal people.

I recently took the all Pottermore questions house quiz and still got Hufflepuff with Slytherin in second place, though. Make of that what you will about me.

Ben Grimm: Hufflepuff. No doubt. Loyalty and persistence is his core.

Val von Doom: Gryffindor. Courageous and impulsive.

Hank McCoy: Ravenclaw. Using his brain to solve everything is what he's about.

Jessica Drew: The sorting hat must have had a hard time with her cause I sure am. I thinking Slytherin with a big streak of Gryffindor. She was raised by a very Slytherin organization but she is trying to break that conditioning.

Andrea Nash: Hufflepuff. Despite all her badassness, she wants family and friends, and will do nearly anything for them. Then again, she isn't afraid to break rules or do stupid things when the need arises, so I can see her in Gryffindor as well.

Thalia Grace: I'm leaning towards Gryffindor with a broad Slytherin streak thanks to her fatal flaw.

Quinlan: Gryffindor. Courageous and ~~stupid~~ impulsive. I mean what other house would volunteer to infiltrate the sith?

Anton Gorodetsky: Another combo pack, either Ravenclaw or Slytherin. In canon he often uses his gile or wits to solve the case and is always questioning his and the Night Watches motives, yet isn't afraid to draw power to himself and damn the consequences. He's like the grayest Light Other you can find.

Will is a Gryffindor all the way.

Charles is either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff since he's intelligent and incredibly loyal. What are other people's thoughts on him?

William is a Gryffindor.

Sameth is Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff but he defines himself by understanding.

Jane is a Gryffindor.

Moist is a Ravenclaw though he could be a Slytherin but instinct is Ravenclaw. He's not ambitious enough for a Slytherin or his ambitions are of a certain size.

Demeter is Hufflepuff.

Tumnus is Hufflepuff.

The Pirate King is Gryffindor.

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For Charles, I'd lean towards Hufflepuff, largely because I see a similarity in ethos between Charles and Helga Hufflepuff. He's adopted fairness and acceptance for all as his main cause, which is pretty darn Hufflepuffy.

Carol is the Gryffindoriest of Gryffindors. No question. Charging into situations fists first and making stupidly noble sacrifices are the things she does best.

Similarly, Mary is Slytherin through and through. Not because she's a blue-blood—though that doesn't hurt her case—but because she's shrewd and ambitious.

Stiles is really difficult though, because he's got some significant traits that are valued by each of the four houses, so for him, it'd probably come down to what he values most in the moment of sorting or which house he'd want to align himself with. I could write you a whole essay about how my thoughts on which house he'd end up in change all the time, but for your sakes I'll skip to the end and say I've lately been leaning toward Hufflepuff. Why? Because Hufflepuff's are "just and loyal." Stiles's Dad is his only family and he doesn't have many friends, but he is unwaveringly loyal to the people he cares about, and it's what ends up driving so many of his actions.

I really like that reading of Stiles, it makes a lot of sense.

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Tom could have been a Ravenclaw, if not for the whole heir of Salazar Slytherin, evil ambition thing.

I have a hard time believing that Gilderoy was a Ravenclaw. I mean, seriously? I always pegged him as Slytherin.

Bela Talbot is the most Slytherin-y Slytherin that ever Slytherined!

Ingress, however, is a Gryffindor.

And my old character, Susan Pevensie, is a Hufflepuff.

Gilderoy's totally a Slytherin. He wants all of the credit for none of the work!

Steve and Bilbo are both Gryffindors.

Merlin, the Ice King, and Lydia are Ravenclaw.

Jack is Slytherin.

Cecil is hard to pin down. I want to say Hufflepuff, mainly because of the loyalty trait.

Alex Drake would be a Prefect for Ravenclaw. Oh god, would she ever.

Sherlock would have been a Ravenclaw. Except probably he'd be sorted into Slytherin only because his brother Mycroft figured out a way to actually bribe the Sorting Hat into putting them in the same house. (There's an AU for you. The Holmes brothers at Hogwarts.)

John Silver would have been Hufflepuff. Yeah, I know. Weird, huh?

Vlad in his lifetime, would have been Gryffindor. But it would have been a close thing for the Sorting Hat. (For some reason I see this as young, human Vlad, sitting at the First Year's banquet, and having the same moment that Harry had.) I'm beginning to understand that the Sorting Hat cheats.)

Earl? Hufflepuff.

Vlad would've been a terror on the Quidditch pitch. Mwahaha.

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