Seeing as today is clearly a rambling day. I need to get something off my chest re: Harry Potter house assignments.
Headcanons differ.
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No I’m serious. I was scrolling tumblr last night, right before bed as I was procrastinating trying to sleep, and I saw this awesome gifset for Vala (Stargate SG1). It was one of those character identity ones with all the different personality things, including Hogwarts house obvs. and it was Vala and I love her so I was going to reblog but hesitated because Slytherin? No, no, no, no, I’m sorry, but no. In my head I’m afraid Vala can’t be anything but a Hufflepuff.
(this got long, dammit self)
Yes Vala is cunning and ambitious (the two traits listed on the gifset) but for me her most dominant trait is her heart. It’s not that she’s been hurt over and over and had to become the galaxies best thief/con-artist to survive. The true Vala is the one that flew the cargo ship into the supergate preventing the first Ori attempt at a beachhead. She did that even though they didn’t trust her, or even like her at the time. It’s the Vala that goes to sleep on Sam’s shoulder. Who refuses to give up on Daniel (even when he probably didn’t deserve her loyalty). Once Vala committed to SG-1, her loyalty was unshakeable. It’s the Vala that kept trying to heal those people, even when it didn’t work, even when it was taking too much out of her. She has a lot of defences, humour is one but her need for people isn’t. She craves companionship.
That made me think about other house assignments, and where my headcanon might differ from the usual fandom one.
Rumplestiltskin – I suspect fandom thinks he’s a Slytherin? Well, I have to say Hufflepuff because at his core he’s the spinner who’s loyalty and love for his son made him shatter his ankle, and work himself to the bone to provide for him.
I’m afraid I don’t headcanon Regina as Slytherin either. With her brashness, impatience and blunt-instrument I can’t see her as anything other than a Gryffindor. It must have also taken real courage to stand up to her mother for all those years and risk it all falling in love with Daniel.
This is making it seem like I don’t headcanon Slytherin and that’s not true. I totally do! I love Slytherin, the true Slytherin anyway with purity of purpose rather than blood.
For Once Upon a Time, when it comes to positive reasons, I think the best example of a Slytherin is Henry. His plots were quite advanced for a ten-year-old in trying to get Emma to believe/break the curse. He was sneaky and cunning and he’s persuasive.
Anyway, I’m going to shut up because I’m just rambling about headcanons being different and that being ok because we all see things in our way. This isn’t supposed to be an essay assigning Hogwarts Houses.