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while my computer was broken. (By the way! My computer was broken! It is still broken but the actual problems this causes have been mostly solved.)
And, due to the way my crash-into-each-other fanthinging operates of late, this means I have been pondering what houses the sensates are in Harry Potter terms. Partly sparked by reading something on sortinghatchats.tumblr.com about the Hamilton characters and thus contemplating their model of primary House (nature) and secondary House (how one implements nature); I think there's a thing missing, there, but it's "the House that people get mistaken for in dim light", which is sort of partaking of both of these and neither.
Anyway. This results in my attempt to sort the sensates. This will be as spoiler-light as I can make it, but there will be some necessary references to the content of the show. :P Also contains commentary on some of the structure.
Capheus is hands down the easiest character to sort. He is a Hufflepuff. Loyalty, hard work, honesty, fairness, working on seeing the best in situations, you know. A classic Hufflepuff. (And I feel that he suffers from one of the standard problems with standard Hufflepuff characters, that being 'We don't know how to make you involved with the plot, you're too busy doing your fucking job to worry about shenanigans'; I am slightly concerned that this may also be that, well, the white characters got the A plot here; his plot is fairly self-contained within his environment in this season, though he gets a few lovely saves.)
Kala is also easy to sort: Ravenclaw. Not entirely sure how to deal with other people having feels around her, too, and thus sort of prone to going along with them because, uh, feels? This is not a part of her research. I was really hoping to see that her work was going to be a company involved with the financial plot situation and possibly get tied into the A plot as well, but that did not happen; I am hoping that some of these loose ends wind up being relevant, or at least that, for example, she and Sun get plot together because that seemed like an interesting hint at ongoing connectivity. I think she got the short end of the stick on demonstrating her actual skills in the show, though when she cracks out some "I have the knowledge to save the day here" it is in no way surprising - just her emotional stories got all the screentime and basically none of her skills. (Second brownest character. So, you know. Concerns.)
Will is some combination of Huff/Gryff and I'm not quite sure which one comes out on top though I lean towards the lion today. We've got loyalty and stubbornness and Being The Hero. It's not clear how much of his going into police work is related to his father being a cop, and how much of it has to do with [spoiler], but very clear that [spoiler] is a big part of that. I spent a lot of time thinking Huff, and then there was the bit where he stepped in for Kala and his Act Of Bold, Brave Do-Or-Die Derring-Do Involving The Injection and that tilted me more towards Gryffindor. Though of course both of those situations are also loyalty plays, so. Will is surprisingly complicated for the White Guy Obvious Protagonist. (Will, you had ONE JOB. ONE JOB. Snrk.)
The glorious melodramatic goofbucket that is Lito is the cluster's Slytherin. He is balanced between his personal ambition and his personal devotion to his beloved for his entire arc, and that is such a snake thing. He really desperately wants to be a Gryffindor, mind, even though he can't pull it off (as he says he is a coward), which is of course what motivates the roles he wants. "Lying is easy. It's what I do."
Some people would place the hacker as a Ravenclaw; some people would look at the black hat and say Slythering; my read on Noni is hardcore Hufflepuff. She orbits around her loyalty, primarily to Neets, but to others as well, who respond to her reliably with "After what you did for me, of course I'm helping you out". Also, in the art gallery, her [spoiler] speech is such a classic "Each individual unique human is valuable because of their individual specific nature" Hufflepuff speech that it is utterly fucking amazing. And we've got things like "If the government is spying on us, it's only fair that we get to spy back, right?" Hufflepuff. Morally complicated, nuanced Hufflepuff, but bone-deep badgerism there. (Which underscores the scene where one can see what it means for Noni to cut someone out of her loyalty.)
Sun is a Gryffindor. Straight up, no questions. Oh, she can put on a suit and pass for a hard-working businesswoman with the best of them, but in the end, she takes what she feels, she puts it into her fist, and she fights for it, and if that isn't pure Gryffindor what the fuck is? I mean. "If they want to stop us, they're going to need more men." Fucking lions. They're all stark mad, you know.
Sorting Wolfgang is a lot of fun, but I feel the key to him is a comment I made ages ago on an Alternity discussion thread: there is nothing quite like the terrifying inexorability of Ravenclaw logic. Wolfgang's not your classic Ravenclaw by any means; he's not an academic, not a nerd, for all that he gets called "smart guy" derisively, and he is clearly intelligent, a planner, and operating with a skillset that requires both intelligence and patience. But what Wolfgang has is the fucking personification of that terrifying, inexorable Ravenclaw logic: 'If this is going to happen, then these steps must be taken, and I will take those steps no matter what. Emotions don't get in the way; emotions don't matter compared to the overwhelming, demanding weight of my logic.' He doesn't understand why (such a fucking Gryffindor) Felix chose him as a brother, but, again, the weight of logic wrapped around that emotional core has its own requirements.
Riley is nearly impossible for me to sort, because she is so very much buffeted about by events in her life and rarely in any way the sort of proactive that would reveal her motivations and choices when she's choosing action. However, given that she is both destroyed and saved by her loyalty, I would place her as a badger.
And, due to the way my crash-into-each-other fanthinging operates of late, this means I have been pondering what houses the sensates are in Harry Potter terms. Partly sparked by reading something on sortinghatchats.tumblr.com about the Hamilton characters and thus contemplating their model of primary House (nature) and secondary House (how one implements nature); I think there's a thing missing, there, but it's "the House that people get mistaken for in dim light", which is sort of partaking of both of these and neither.
Anyway. This results in my attempt to sort the sensates. This will be as spoiler-light as I can make it, but there will be some necessary references to the content of the show. :P Also contains commentary on some of the structure.
Capheus is hands down the easiest character to sort. He is a Hufflepuff. Loyalty, hard work, honesty, fairness, working on seeing the best in situations, you know. A classic Hufflepuff. (And I feel that he suffers from one of the standard problems with standard Hufflepuff characters, that being 'We don't know how to make you involved with the plot, you're too busy doing your fucking job to worry about shenanigans'; I am slightly concerned that this may also be that, well, the white characters got the A plot here; his plot is fairly self-contained within his environment in this season, though he gets a few lovely saves.)
Kala is also easy to sort: Ravenclaw. Not entirely sure how to deal with other people having feels around her, too, and thus sort of prone to going along with them because, uh, feels? This is not a part of her research. I was really hoping to see that her work was going to be a company involved with the financial plot situation and possibly get tied into the A plot as well, but that did not happen; I am hoping that some of these loose ends wind up being relevant, or at least that, for example, she and Sun get plot together because that seemed like an interesting hint at ongoing connectivity. I think she got the short end of the stick on demonstrating her actual skills in the show, though when she cracks out some "I have the knowledge to save the day here" it is in no way surprising - just her emotional stories got all the screentime and basically none of her skills. (Second brownest character. So, you know. Concerns.)
Will is some combination of Huff/Gryff and I'm not quite sure which one comes out on top though I lean towards the lion today. We've got loyalty and stubbornness and Being The Hero. It's not clear how much of his going into police work is related to his father being a cop, and how much of it has to do with [spoiler], but very clear that [spoiler] is a big part of that. I spent a lot of time thinking Huff, and then there was the bit where he stepped in for Kala and his Act Of Bold, Brave Do-Or-Die Derring-Do Involving The Injection and that tilted me more towards Gryffindor. Though of course both of those situations are also loyalty plays, so. Will is surprisingly complicated for the White Guy Obvious Protagonist. (Will, you had ONE JOB. ONE JOB. Snrk.)
The glorious melodramatic goofbucket that is Lito is the cluster's Slytherin. He is balanced between his personal ambition and his personal devotion to his beloved for his entire arc, and that is such a snake thing. He really desperately wants to be a Gryffindor, mind, even though he can't pull it off (as he says he is a coward), which is of course what motivates the roles he wants. "Lying is easy. It's what I do."
Some people would place the hacker as a Ravenclaw; some people would look at the black hat and say Slythering; my read on Noni is hardcore Hufflepuff. She orbits around her loyalty, primarily to Neets, but to others as well, who respond to her reliably with "After what you did for me, of course I'm helping you out". Also, in the art gallery, her [spoiler] speech is such a classic "Each individual unique human is valuable because of their individual specific nature" Hufflepuff speech that it is utterly fucking amazing. And we've got things like "If the government is spying on us, it's only fair that we get to spy back, right?" Hufflepuff. Morally complicated, nuanced Hufflepuff, but bone-deep badgerism there. (Which underscores the scene where one can see what it means for Noni to cut someone out of her loyalty.)
Sun is a Gryffindor. Straight up, no questions. Oh, she can put on a suit and pass for a hard-working businesswoman with the best of them, but in the end, she takes what she feels, she puts it into her fist, and she fights for it, and if that isn't pure Gryffindor what the fuck is? I mean. "If they want to stop us, they're going to need more men." Fucking lions. They're all stark mad, you know.
Sorting Wolfgang is a lot of fun, but I feel the key to him is a comment I made ages ago on an Alternity discussion thread: there is nothing quite like the terrifying inexorability of Ravenclaw logic. Wolfgang's not your classic Ravenclaw by any means; he's not an academic, not a nerd, for all that he gets called "smart guy" derisively, and he is clearly intelligent, a planner, and operating with a skillset that requires both intelligence and patience. But what Wolfgang has is the fucking personification of that terrifying, inexorable Ravenclaw logic: 'If this is going to happen, then these steps must be taken, and I will take those steps no matter what. Emotions don't get in the way; emotions don't matter compared to the overwhelming, demanding weight of my logic.' He doesn't understand why (such a fucking Gryffindor) Felix chose him as a brother, but, again, the weight of logic wrapped around that emotional core has its own requirements.
Riley is nearly impossible for me to sort, because she is so very much buffeted about by events in her life and rarely in any way the sort of proactive that would reveal her motivations and choices when she's choosing action. However, given that she is both destroyed and saved by her loyalty, I would place her as a badger.
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