First, as far as Lyall is concerned, my impression from the bio was actually not so much that he'd necessarily passed, but that he and Remus had a strained relationship, between some self-blame on Lyall's part and Remus just wanting to move forward from the past and only let people in so much. But it doesn't say for sure that he's alive, so having him be deceased works as well.
Backtracking...
Seriously, what's hard about this is I've always prided myself on being strictly canon-compliant (except for that pesky death thing), and now by definition Kaleidoscope can't be -- I've got too many specific details in there that we now know aren't what JKR imagined for them.
It's been a long time since I've dabbled in R/T verse - oddly reading the bio made me want to dabble again, that and re-reading PoA - but the bio pretty much threw my Remus backstory out the window, although some of it wasn't as canon compliant as I'd wanted it to be anyway. But there's still some things I just don't... like about the backstory, things I never liked in R/T fics and was disappointed to see become canon. (That is, if backstory can be considered canon in the same way as the books.) I guess I'm trying to find the middle ground in this case by staying true to the canon universe, but... tweaking things so the story fits better. Does that make sense?
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First, as far as Lyall is concerned, my impression from the bio was actually not so much that he'd necessarily passed, but that he and Remus had a strained relationship, between some self-blame on Lyall's part and Remus just wanting to move forward from the past and only let people in so much. But it doesn't say for sure that he's alive, so having him be deceased works as well.
Backtracking...
Seriously, what's hard about this is I've always prided myself on being strictly canon-compliant (except for that pesky death thing), and now by definition Kaleidoscope can't be -- I've got too many specific details in there that we now know aren't what JKR imagined for them.
It's been a long time since I've dabbled in R/T verse - oddly reading the bio made me want to dabble again, that and re-reading PoA - but the bio pretty much threw my Remus backstory out the window, although some of it wasn't as canon compliant as I'd wanted it to be anyway. But there's still some things I just don't... like about the backstory, things I never liked in R/T fics and was disappointed to see become canon. (That is, if backstory can be considered canon in the same way as the books.) I guess I'm trying to find the middle ground in this case by staying true to the canon universe, but... tweaking things so the story fits better. Does that make sense?