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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.

Comments

[varadia]

I fell in love with Nynaeve as a character waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in The Eye of the World when she stands up to Moiraine and calls her out (in private) about taking the children from the village. And at the way she just takes her responsibilities so seriously. Yep. Her crush on Lan was also not un-adorable. And her competence at tracking. I am easy!

I think one of her best traits is her practicality, whether it has to do with Healing and triage or village matters. She loses sight of that on the way, but later on she gets it back with a VENGEANCE. And it serves her so, so, so very well.

One of her worst traits--I think it's a toss-up between her vicious vicious temper that is often out of control and her weird-ass views on men, and how verbal she is about them. Both of them cause her trouble, in different ways, and I wish she'd just stop with the man-thing. Even when it's funny.

Writing her is hard for me. Very hard. She is so crotchety, and there is a delicate balance to keep between having her be funny and having her be respectable, and having her be a strong character even in the midst of irrational fits of temper. It--it's tiring.

I think her intro-thread with Rand and Moiraine, and then later her thread with Paul Atreides, I think those captured her character quite well. Her relationship with Lan--that's been hard to get to paper and feel RIGHT. Except when they don't talk. *g*

As for future-stuff. I have some plans with her, though most of those depend on getting the last volume of canon. *sigh*