Fic: Primrose Path for alley_skywalker

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Title: Primrose Path
Author: aliciadances
Recipient: alley_skywalker
Character(s): Rabastan, Rookwood, Severus, Bellatrix, Narcissa, other assorted Death Eaters and socialites
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1858
Warnings: None
Summary: In 1980, Draco Malfoy's birth is celebrated in style. Four Death Eaters reflect on the party and on sacrifices of war.
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Comments

[bitchet]

The problem with fics about Death Eaters is that, too often, writers to humanize them by downplaying what it is they're doing, as if supporting and participating in a genocide were a minor character flaw like having a tendency to be chronically late. You've done a good job here of avoiding by showing the characters to have the ugly, monstrous opinions/behaviors they do in canon but still being believable people with hopes and dreams of their own. Well done!

[aliciadances]

wow, thank you so much! ♥ I think it's the hardest part of writing death eaters, but also the most interesting.

also, I'm going to fangirl for a second and tell you I adore your Malfoy fic :)

[bitchet]

Aw, thank you!

[fpb]

This is brilliant, and exactly the kind of writing we need more of. The portraits of these characters, their compromises, their self-lies, their downward spiral - and what is, at the end, the complete lack of human warmth between them - are so well made you can see and feel them.

[aliciadances]

i'm flattered - thank you so much :) so glad you enjoyed it.

[shiiki]

I enjoyed this a lot. The world you show us here is that other side to what we see in the books: the Death Eaters who are still human after all, with all their different worries, cares, personalities, and priorities. I like how you differentiate them and make them real.

[onehundredmoons]

Very compelling! I especially enjoyed Bellatrix's section. Great job. :)

[aliciadances]

bella's was so fun to write! thank you :))

[woldy]

Mmmmn, humanizing and chilling at once. Nicely done.

[aliciadances]

thank you! ♥