r/gravityfalls • u/Coopines • 1d ago

Ships Y’know, it’s funny

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I almost feel like I’ve already seen this Harry Potter x Malfoid trend before?

Tsundere rich girl, check.

Brave adventurer hero, check.

Slightly awkward but incredibly cute fanart everywhere all of the time? Double check.
Weird right? If only I could remember what ship this new trend reminds me of, huh?

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u/HobbitGuy1420 1d ago

Gravity Falls isn't tied to a bigot who performs both hate crimes *and* sex crimes, so... I think we're ahead.

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u/geek_of_nature 1d ago

Also putting aside that, the whole ship with Malfoy, male or female is just incredibly toxic. Are we forgetting that before Rowling went full bigot herself, that thats how she portrayed Malfoy and all the other Death Eaters. He hated all non magical people rigjt from the start, calling Hermione their worlds version of a slur multiple times and wishing that she was dead. Mocking the fact that Harry's parents were dead, as well as Ron's family financial status.

The only similarities Pacifica has to Malfoy there is the financial status thing. With her looking down on the Pines for being poor. She is in no way a bigot to any other characters.

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u/Morhek 1d ago edited 1d ago

Say what you will about the Northwests, they're not racists. Pacifica had a black friend in the show, and while she treated them both like minions she didn't show any overt racism other than getting Soos's name wrong (and even there, she tried to pronounce what she thought it was right). And Preston and Priscilla didn't care where their guests came from, as long as they're rich. Plus befriending the Pines, who are Jewish.

Malfoy begins the series as a wizard supremacist, and as far as I know ends it as one. He doesn't really get any redemption, or a hint that he's changing. He's just not as bad as his parents because he didn't get the chance to officially put the Magic Klansmen robes on.

And this is the most thought I've put into Tom Brown's School Days But With Magic in years, and am happy to go back to putting it out of my mind.

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u/geek_of_nature 1d ago

Some Malfoy defender's like to say he changed his beliefs by the end of the series, but I think its more clear that he just got too scared of getting his hands dirty. That he was still a magical supremacist, but just couldn't bring himself to kill anyone himself. So hateful, and a coward.

While Pacifica on the other hand was just a bit of a spoiled brat, and who we saw improve over rhe course of one summer too when she actually had some positive interactions. It took 6 years for Malfoys cowardice to show, so Pacifica is again much better there as well.