They don't feel love, they only negotiate love moments.

[wook77]

(title from a line from The Fisher King starring Robin Williams)

Forgive the rambly-ness of these thoughts but this is something that's been going through my head for about a week and I sort of need to talk this out to get my head on straight.

Can there be humor-genre story in a post-PoA world for Remus/Sirius?

This is something that came up while I was talking to a fellow participant at rs_games and I simply don't have a concrete answer.

I think, in a Hogwarts-era world, humor is a given genre. The boys prank and trick and it can be humorous. It's a given that there will be at least a few laughs sprinkled about, even in the angstiest of angsty fics. Thus - humor is to be expected and a humor-genre story would completely fit within canon.

However, post-Hogwarts, I don't know that I would, necessarily, expect a funny story. I would expect humorous moments. I wouldn't expect the entire story to be a laugh. First there's the war and then there's the distrust followed by the betrayal and years in Azkaban and then slowly rebuilding a relationship only to have Sirius die, Remus hook up with Tonks and then buy the farm himself.

For me, there is too much death, distrust and angst within the world post-Hogwarts for Remus/Sirius to have an across-the-board funny story.

What are your thoughts on the viability of humor-genre stories post-Hogwarts for Remus/Sirius?

Humor or humor moments? Neither? Both? Discuss. (*steals from coffee talk*)

Comments

[scarlet-malfoy.livejournal.com]

I think it would be hard to pull off and have it work, but I think it could be done. I don't know if across-the-board funny would be very realistic (unless it is meant to be crack, and then it would totally work!) but interspersed between other things... why not? I mean, there's no reason that Remus can't have a laugh over something really silly/stupid that Sirius did once, if he remembers it after he died... and there's no reason he couldn't look around at himself and Tonks and have a fit of uncontrollable laughter and sense of irony over what he can imagine Sirius saying about the entire situation. Even after all that time in Azkaban, during the time in which Sirius was alive, I can't imagine him being completely emo ALL of the time... it's just not in his character. And I can totally picture the two of them sitting around in whatever Afterlife they are in, just making fun of themselves, everything that happened, having a go at Dumbledore. Well... mostly Sirius, Remus would be kind of exasperated about the whole thing, which would be humorous in and of itself. =) So, yeah. I think it can be done!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Interspersed between moments is sort of what I was thinking. Sustained and long term? IDK, I can't buy it at this point... at least when they're alive.

I totes can see the afterlife thing :D. Did you know that there's a fest just for post-death remus/sirius? I found it and it's on the watcher's list for rs_prophet but I cannot, for the life of me, remember the name of it.