#harryluna

So I’ve been on a Harry Potter rewatch and you know how it is with rewatching a series getting you shipping the noncanon pairings and I’ve always liked Harry/Luna so when Hadestown came on my Spotify I thought they’d work as Orpheus and Eurydice (with perhaps it mirroring their non-canonness that those lovers are destined to be doomed).

However, the inspired part is it doesn’t matter which you make which as they both have equal claim to both roles (on the one hand with Orpheus!Harry and Eurydice!Luna you don’t just have genders lining up but a very obvious Hermes (who I shouldn’t even need to say) and Harry still doing the whole chosen one dramatic foil personal loyalty to the freaking extreme thing as well as (be it emotional angst or flirtations-with-the-dark-side) dark!Luna being fun to play around with in AUs but on the other hand Orpheus!Luna and Eurydice!Harry are a greater personality match (Luna being the idealistic dreamy one who simultaneously has that much insecurity in her own actions but faith things will work out and Harry being the comparatively more practical one yet also anxious enough to get “tempted by darkness” out of sheer need to protect his own tuches against an uncertain future) and Luna’s got the connection with nature and it being totally on-brand that she could do what Orpheus does if she had the power and Harry has a life governed by Weird Fate Shit and essentially having to raise himself)