letters from characters

[arcanetrivia]

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

I'm having a hard time coming up with five, actually. Here's mine to sylvanawood -- I took Snape, of course.


Ms. Wood,

I suppose it was optimistic of me to expect that you might ask my opinion on what any putative group of my supporters should be called.

I should hex you either way, but unlike certain Gryffindors who shall remain nameless, yet heavily hinted at, I am not given to exacting petty revenge just because I think I can get away with it.

I must caution you, however, that continuing in this vein is surely leading towards a detention.

In deadly earnest,

Professor Snape


Dear Professor,

you see me a bit surprised that a man who works mostly in the Underground is giving the frivolous activity of finding a name for a group of your supporters the slightest attention. I know it is difficult to trust, but I can assure you that we have your best interest in mind, unlike certain, uh, masters you were forced to comply with in the past. We shall stand up and spread the praise of our Snape everywhere and defend him from the heathens who believe everything a certain vengeful, spiteful nameless person says.

Apart from that, I will suffer detention with you gladly. Often. Please?

Affectionately
Sylvana Wood


Ms. Wood,

With your mention of my "past masters" you have answered your own question about how and why I should be paying any attention at all. Suffice it to say that my schedule of activities is somewhat more open since the end of the recent unpleasantness; one must do something with oneself.

I assure you I am perfectly capable of defending myself from any such disparagements. You and your cohorts, of all people, should know that I have weathered much worse, and yet, here I am to tell the tale. Still, I must admit your fervor piques my interest, even if only as a study in the strange and inexplicable.

A certain vengeful person is refusing to see that there is a soft side to my tongue as well, but then, we must forgive her: she has certainly never done anything to merit its application to her.

Smirkingly,

Professor Snape

P.S. Eight P.M. Bring a friend.


(yeah, I know the last line rather breaks character, but I wanted to make the joke. I used the "no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas" icon on the comment too. ^_^)


Dear Sir,

a soft side to your tongue? I must say that I do look forward to that detention. Sadly, my friend can't come, so it will just be you and me. I am certain you will find something useful to do, for both of us, something that doesn't involve gutting horned toads or cleaning dirty cauldrons.

Droolingly,

Sylvana


Dear Ms. Wood,

I confess myself impressed that approximately ten percent of your recent missive was, as they say, "spot on". I leave it to your ingenuity to determine which six of those fifty-nine words ten percent I am specifically referring to. If you can successfully puzzle this out, it may quicken some things.

Mysteriously,

Professor S.


My dear Professor,

the unenlightened would undoubtedly think that the six words: "gutting horned toads, cleaning dirty cauldrons," are what you have in mind. I know better. You don't need many words, sir, the change in your address says it all.

Anticipatingly yours,

Sylvana


(and lo, indeed some things were quickened. but the rest is left as an exercise for the ... imaginative.)

Sooo... hmm.

1. Zaphod Beeblebrox.
2. Holly, the computer from Red Dwarf.
3. Dr. Clayton Forrester. (MST3K, that is. I likely wouldn't understand War of the Worlds context.)
4. Ted "Theodore" Logan.
5. Bah, I give in. Severus Snape. Dammit, I want one too. (Marauders-era, pwitty pweese? *bats eyelashes*)

Comments

[heartssdesire.livejournal.com]

Ms. Estrella,
I discovered your unusual book amongst my effects following D.A.D.A. class today. Although I am sure this was cleverly intended to appear accidental on your part, your image's behavior in the photo tucked inside the front cover, let us say, laid your plans bare. Clearly you would not wish anyone to imagine that you are in the habit of going about gazing at pictures of yourself engaged in such behavior. I have therefore divined that you intended it to be found by someone. And since the photo was slipped between the sheets of a book of this caliber, I also deduce that you did not intend it to be found by the likes of Potter or his ilk, who, obviously unlike yourself, interest themselves only in the most brutish and clumsy of schoolyard curses, and would never appreciate a book of such old and subtle magic.

As you do seem most eager for my attention, I felt I had better provide it by way of this note, lest I be responsible for any more desperate measures you might feel compelled to undertake in order to gain it. I do wonder at the necessity for such girlish antics when a simple conversation would have been easy enough - I do, after all, sit beside you three days in the week in D.A.D.A.; thus facilitating your little stunt with the book. However, I suppose I should assume that it is a more private exchange you are seeking with me, given the nature of the photograph.

In any case, since it would be ungenteel of me to ignore your plea for attention, or to fail to return your book, I shall be on the eastern path inside the Forbidden Forest, at dusk tomorrow. I trust that location is private enough for your taste.

Curious,
S. S.

P.S. I do look forward to discussing how you came by this most interesting book.

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(first my literal reaction: *blush* *squirmy feeling* Oh my. Severus.)


Dear Severus,

I ought to have known that there was no possible trick that would be subtle enough to impress a Slytherin. Alas, it seems my aptitude continues to be for useless facts wit, not cunning. Perhaps some private tutoring on the subject is in order?

Dusk tomorrow, agreed. I promise to bring a conversation with me, as long as you are willing to indulge me in bringing along some other things as well. I hope you will find them pleasing.

With implication,
Esme

P.S. Does that mean you aren't interested in the rest of the photo-shoot?

[heartssdesire.livejournal.com]

I forgot: Me too!

Characters I would like to receive a letter from:

Remus Lupin
Sirius Black
Eowyn
Morpheus (of Sandman, not Matrix or myself of course)
Jack Sparrow (then again, nevermind, he's probably illiterate)

I'd post these in my journal, but I realized you're probably the only person on my flist who would actually write a fic letter like that.

[arcanetrivia]

I'm not sure I can do any of those voices...

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...I cannot possibly write an answer that matches that in awesomeness. At least, not before coffee, I can't.

re: icon: Lookin' gooood, Ted!

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Dear Holly,

Hey! Great to hear from you.

Only four thousand IQ points? What happened to six? Living with the smeghead starting to drain on you? That's a shame. Still, I imagine you could beat the snot out of me in a game of postal chess, seeing as my own IQ only has three digits in it.

I'm sending along some other coloured bulbs. That should provide Goalpost-Head with several happy hours of cooking up complicated rules for the situations they're to be used in, and provide everyone else with many more happy hours of refusing to comply and watching him fume.

Until next time,
Esme

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Hee! Thanks for doing two of these, they were really great.