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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.
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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Anyway! On to the answers!
I first fell for Maida and Zia in one of deLint's short stories--Jilly and a woman whose name I forget meet for coffee, and they see the crow girls, and then the woman has a transformative experience. I just loved that idea, and the expression of it, and reading Someplace to be Flying afteward just really cemented that love for me. Especially in the beginning, where they kill the cuckoo. It was such a transformation from the previous view of them, but it made so much sense, in some ways. So.
I think their best trait is their open-heartedness. They love everyone, well, most people, in some way, and you can just see it in the way they play, and the way that they want everyone to play with them. It is beautiful.
I think one of their worst traits is their intense desire to forget, to be . . . not less than they are, but far removed from their essence. It--sometimes it makes what they stand for harder to see, and in the world they inhabit, a clearer message is only to the good. Most of the time.
I found them really hard to write, actually. Not the lighthearted parts, but the greater meaning behind it. It was always tricky to tailor to the specific people they were talking to. Even moreso than with some of my other pups.
I think the Scarlett O'Hara thread was one where I got the clearest picture of them across, really. Which--odd, but true. They're hard for me to see clearly in RP, I think.
I have no real future plans to write them, not even in fic. I--I'm not sure why, but it's true. *wry*
So there you go!