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ways_back_room2014-11-21 07:57 am
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DE: Riddikulus!
Don't you hate it when you think of something right before bed and then wake up late and have no idea what the idea was? I *know* I had a great topic for today's entertainment but I'll be damned if I remember it. Oh well.
Oh, I just remembered it!!! If your character were to face one of the boggarts from Harry Potter canon, what would they see?
Oh, I just remembered it!!! If your character were to face one of the boggarts from Harry Potter canon, what would they see?
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Javert - himself in a convict's smock and chains.
Valjean - Cosette dead.
Bruce Wayne - parents who are disappointed with his life choices.
Bruce Banner - the Hulk.
Courfeyrac - hard to say, now he's dead. His friends declaring him not worthy of the revolution, perhaps. Though he doesn't have doubts in that direction, so I don't know for sure. Will have a think.
Robin - himself old, and never having found out where he came from.
Pearly - I'm not sure I could adequately describe anything that could truly scare Pearly Soames.
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It's also just occurred to me that Valjean's biggest fear might be the disapproval of Bishop Muriel. Cosette dying would be the most painful thing that could happen to him, but disapproval from the Bishop means no redemption of his soul. On a spiritual level, far more terrifying.
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Shephard- Shephard has three actual fears (well, okay, four) and one primal underlying mortal terror, so unless a boggart can take on the form of a flood washing everything around him away somehow, I'm gonna go with Kate Shephard crossing her arms over her chest and saying "You have no idea how much trouble you're in right now, young man." Because he may be afraid of flying, clowns, and the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, but none of them can hold a candle to his mother when she's angry.
Stacker- as tempted as I am to say "a whole bunch of kaiju", I'm gonna go with the boggart taking on the form of that idiot American on the council telling him that they've not only yanked his funding but they're confiscating all the Jaegers and Shatterdomes as too dangerous to leave in non-governmental hands.
Santo- A mirror in which his reflection is too old, arthritic, and frail to handle the responsibilities of the silver mask.
Medic- the smuggest Grim Reaper ever to smug; it'll probably have Pyro's gas mask instead of a skull, too, just for kicks.
Edward- It's going to be a while before he's self-aware enough to realize he's afraid of being completely alone through his own actions, but a good start would be the boggart turning into Adewale and telling him that he and the rest of the crew were leaving him in port and taking Jackdaw in search of a better master.
Varric- No clue how you represent 'obscurity' as a boggart, but I'll settle for an editor telling him another dwarf's claimed credit for everything he's ever written and they're recognizing the other guy as the real author.
Ellen- I was originally thinking of the exceptionally monstrous mutants at Vault 87, the ones the game code calls Overlords, but that was exacerbated by the fact that her Geiger counter was screaming at her the whole time; she's had to face greenskins like that since then and it hasn't been near as bad an experience. I think it's more likely that the boggart would shift into her Vault history text's image of Genghis Khan, who would congratulate her on having become the new Scourge of God. That keeps coming back to her, and the prospect terrifies her, so.
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Tybalt - I'm torn between his father, Ainmire, or his sister Jill berating him for not being strong enough to save her. IN the future it would be either his dead wife or a dead Toby.
Andrea - Aunt B. I'm tempted to go with her mother's sister but I think Aunt B is the truer answer, although herself gone loupe is damn tempting.
Jess - Herself as an agent of HYDRA.
Ethan - Either a full moon or a Native America child; leaning more towards the child.
Quin - Either of his kids corrupted by the Dark Side.
Sam - Post movie, either the Winter Soldier or a dead Steve.
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Joly- Worst fear? been there, done that,it was called The Cholera Epidemic. People dying in agony faster than their bodies could even be counted, and no one knowing why or how to make it stop or who it'll hit next, being both helpless to do anything useful and in constant danger of a horrible death, yeah, that was pretty much his perfect nightmare. (and in the minor AU going on in Millicanon, he *knew* what was causing it, and still couldn't actually help anyone. Which...may be even worse. Augh. Sorry, kid.) Any boggart would just be playing a refrain on that, maybe with an added dose of "and it's got your friends".
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PRANK WAR
Prank War on infinite horrible rooms! The carnage will be absurd.
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Scary things
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Or Eric dead. Of course, seeing Eric dead would mean simply seeing a huge puddle of blood and goo.
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...Yep. There are other things he would intellectually call worse, but they're things he can set himself against; they're not the same kind of visceral, personal awfulness.
Thor: Gosh, that's actually kind of a hard one. Asgard in ruins seems too large a scale for a boggart; he's already faced his father dead, Loki dead, and Mjölnir rejecting him. All the same, it's probably Odin telling him that he isn't worthy and that he is no longer (considered) his son.
Cosette: ...A dark wood, looming all around, and a giant red-haired ogre-woman, and her father nowhere to be seen.
That isn't anything she'd consciously say was a fear of hers, but it's still back in her hindbrain.
Clare: Teresa dead again, and Raki dead alongside her.
River: She'd be pretty quick with the Patronus-equivalent these days, but I think it's still always gonna be two by two, hands of blue.
Regan: Hey remember that time Raguel nearly killed her husband? Yeah. Raguel, covered in blood, looking like that, and looking right at her.
Edit: whoops, forgot Trowa! For him... Cathy dead, by violence. No real contest on that one.
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Charles: Someone, I'm not sure who calmly telling him that's he's mad and has to be locked up.
Quentin: Toby dead by iron and its his fault.
Ivan: Being trapped underground with water rising.
Sameth: The quiet murmur of the river in Death.
William: His brother's coffin.
Jane: Her books being rejected.
Moist: A guard saying, "Hello, Moist von Lipwig, you're caught."
Demeter: Kore telling her that she's never coming back.
Tumnus: The White Witch.
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Bossuet: Hmm. "Your bad luck and/or carelessness genuinely harming someone else" isn't really a personifiable thing, but one of his friends--Enjolras, say--turning his back on Bossuet because of some fuck-up or perceived betrayal. THAT OR CHOLERA because cholera is always fun times.
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(Phoenix, oddly, is one of maybe a handful of exceptions to this rule. He lives out of Yugo's flat, but he never bothers actually pretending to be Yugo, and he seems quite uncomfortable with people bringing Yugo up.)
Wan: In the future, it'll be Vaatu, the Most Evilest Kite To Ever Fly. At the moment, though, I have no idea. Wan doesn't really have a healthy amount of fear. Maybe something like Yao, because as much as Wan adores the guy, he represents something that's more than a little frightening.
Sherral: Judge Magister Zecht - although whether that's because of Zecht himself or because Sherral doesn't know what he'd do if they ever met, he's not entirely sure.
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