WTF Did I Just Read? (a.k.a. Truly Disturbing Fanfiction Recommendations)
Quote from mmlf on August 9, 2024, 3:32 pmQuote from Robaku90 on August 2, 2024, 4:25 amQuote from mmlf on July 27, 2024, 2:16 pmQuote from Robaku90 on July 20, 2024, 12:19 pmNabokov's genius was that nothing in his novel was named or said directly! This word juggling was truly amazing! The film with Irons was already clearer, you know, it's a film. But the book... You really have to have talent! Additionally, it was placed on the index of banned books in many countries. This proves something. Besides, his hero didn't seem disgusting, unlike Severus from this story. I really liked your second idea for a sequel. I know you'll do it brilliantly because you write so beautifully. Thanks to this, you will also whiten the "real" Severus, it is very uplifting. When you wrote about the sequel, I thought about the Stockholm Syndrome thread. Despite the great harm, Lily would write letters to Severus in prison. The victim's psyche is very complex and everyone deals with trauma in different ways. I know that epistolary novels are not as interesting as they were in the 18th or 19th centuries, but the plot itself seems interesting to me. Great villains did not complain about the lack of attention, even though their behavior was sick. Of course, these are just my loose suggestions.I really like epistolary novels. Ironically, my favourite one is Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Choderlos de Laclos, about a scheming pair of seducers, one of whom is a man who becomes obsessed with a very young girl, seduces her, sleeps with her, and eventually ruins her. Might be another reference book for stories in this vein.
In a twist of fate, the role of the evil seducer was played on the theater stage by Alan Rickman himself!
Oh really? That is something I would have loved to see!
This play was performed in 1987 and Malkovich was based on the character created by Alan in the famous film adaptation. Alan couldn't play in it himself, which was a pity. I saw photos from the staging on Facebook, Alan was so demonic there! 😍😍😍 It's a pity it's not in Polish. 😪
Having read both "The Reward" and the fic Robaku90 mentioned, "The Redemption", I can easily say that the version of Severus in The Redemption is much worse. Even the version of Severus in The Reward
Severus in The Redemption, however
I have only seen one other fic where Severus is at the same level of evil he is in The Redemption, so while I personally don't like it when Severus is pure evil, if someone here does (or doesn't care if he is):
Masked prison by WriterSegreto
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Severus/Lily
Status: Incomplete
Author's Summary:
Voldemort finds out about the prophecy and goes after the Potters. His only objective is Harry, why kill Lily when he can take her as a prisoner? Without Lily sacrificing her life for Harry, he dies like any other one-year-old would when hit by the killing curse. There is no boy who lived, no one to stop Voldemort. Lily is taken to the death eaters' headquarters and interrogated. She knows what will happen to her, the same that happens to any Order member. After they will get as much information as possible out of her, there will be only three possible outcomes. She will be used as a training subject for young death eaters, as a guinea pig for curses research, or she will be gifted as a reward to some high accomplishing death eater who will do with her as they please. What will happen to her? Will she survive? Who will get to decide her fate?
Now here are some that, while similar to the ones above, Severus is not pure evil or a rapist:
Dark Hunger by maraudersaffair
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Severus/Lily
Status: Incomplete
Author's Summary:
To protect Harry, Lily marries Severus.
So Much of the Living, Love, is the Being Unknown by SevSnape98
Rating: Not Rated
Pairing: Eventual Severus/Lily
Status: Incomplete
Author's Summary:
In which Lily Evans very suddenly finds herself in the gruesome position of Severus Snape's trophy of war, and the future is frighteningly uncertain. Will she be raped and killed as expected, or has lost love found its way back to her?
