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[varadia]

This meme entertains me. A lot. And I want to participate. So.

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

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[varadia]

I think I first fell in love with Raven in . . . was it ninth grade? Thereabouts, when I was reading a book of Native stories and hit how he stole the sun. I read heavily about him and Coyote and . . . I want to say Iktomi but I think it was probably actually Legba for a while. When it came to Milliways apping--I think I did a quick search of online stuff, and I was reminded of how much I loved him when I read the story about how he (and his wife) went to an island to steal all the treasures on it, and then Raven was held down by invisible people and FREAKED OUT. So. *grins* Yeah.

I think one of his best traits, in my portrayal of him, is probably his vast and immense affection for people. It really--it really gives him something to hold onto, and a way for him to make friends, or to keep making friends in light of everything else he is. So.

I think one of his worst traits is--*has to think about this, as there are so many potential answers*--I think it's his viciousness when cornered, particularly because his ideas of cornered are often different from those of other people. And I think his greatest tragedy is that he's never going to really understand what it is to be human, and it's always going to get in the way of him really fitting in and feeling like he's at home anywhere but what WAS home. So.

I find it horribly easy to write Raven. I can write him while I'm sick, while I have a headache, while I'm so tired I'm incoherent, whatever. It's nice. Even though a few people have pinged me to go 'omg it must be SO HARD to play Raven, he's exhausting'. I think it would be if he weren't my first character. Somehow.

Hmmm. I think--I think a lot of Raven's general conversational threads (and threads with Ace) get across the playful, trickster, troublemaker part of Raven. I think the . . . the Great Raven part I got to convey best during the Midsummer Blodwenstuff. I really do. And also in some of his Coyote-threads, where the violence and instability and love for home really come through.

I will never stop having plans for Raven. He's fun, and there are still things I want to do with him. So. Stay tuned!