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My external HD is--refusing to be recognized by my computer. It has a mix of work and personal files on it.
I am very cranky as a result. *sigh* *hopes computing services will be helpful* *does not want to lose giant pile of papers*
Meanwhile, as a distraction (for me, and maybe you too!) have a meme, stolen from hordes of people in the past day or 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
Milliways and Wasteland are the primary sources of material, here.
I am very cranky as a result. *sigh* *hopes computing services will be helpful* *does not want to lose giant pile of papers*
Meanwhile, as a distraction (for me, and maybe you too!) have a meme, stolen from hordes of people in the past day or 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
Milliways and Wasteland are the primary sources of material, here.
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b). One of her best traits, I feel, really is that ability to cope, that ability to be springier psychologically than some children her age would be. Because she's seen a lot of really ugly crap, and she's still pretty much okay.
c. I think one of her worst traits is (well, there's sulking, but that's a kid trait more than a solely Jordan one) her choice, so often made, not to share what she knows and sees with her Dad. I think she's just so used to not talking about it, or not talking about it coherently, that when Dad or Mom don't ask her the right questions, she just doesn't offer the information. I think she'll grow out of that, but with playing a six year old? ANNOYING. *g*
d. I don't find it particularly difficult to write Jordan. There are kids in my neighborhood, and I remember my brother as a six-year-old, and I remember how I felt and reacted (at least somewhat) as a six year old. And I also check with people who know many six year olds, especially if I'm iffy on the behavior. But I think I do okay, and it's a fun mindset to settle into. Except when I make her wet her pants. Um. HI PHO.
e. Well, now. I think her first EP went very well, with that sudden shock. I think--honestly? I think the Sylar-thread with Santi was probably the most accurate portrayal of a very terrified small child I've ever written. So. There's that. And some of her OOMs with Catherine have been very accurate, I think.
f. Iiiii have to do something with the mountain-climbing thing post Bletch's death. That is really the next goal. And then I have to see how she will react to Milliways in the wake of . . . oodles of things. La? La la la?
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re: f: let's talk tonight? :)
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Sure. No rush! Seriously!
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b. I think one of her best traits is her stubbornness and her ability to stick by her convictions. I think it's been important for her as a cop, and then as a cop with a sister who is a criminal and a Slayer. Balancing that--I imagine (and imagined) she'd have an interesting time with that kind of thing. And I think it really did help her get to where she is from her position as a slum-kid with two younger siblings to support.
c. She is shit at compromise--it takes very drastic and irrefutable circumstances to make her even THINK of backing down, and even then it's like pulling teeth with your hands. It's caused her a lot of trouble and personal heartache, in the bargain. Moron. *pats her*
d. Early on I found Erin very easy to write. Her dialogue was looser than in the book, in Milliways, because I imagined her going back to her roots while there, because she wasn't on duty. It got harder as time went on, though, and I never could pinpoint why. I think a lack of direction and access to her Life's Work may have been a large part of that. She's not sure how to define herself without it, and I never did find a good substitute. Because Milliways security, while good for play the way it is, drove her UP A WALL.
e. I think a couple of the early threads with Mel and the arresting thread with Parker (I think it was Parker) and whoever else--I think that last one was the first time I really got to write Erin as the cop I thought she had been. Letting a little of that street-tough person spill out around the edges. It was fun.
f. I have no firm plans to write Erin any time soon, that I know of. I dropped her at Milliways, and I'm not going to pick her up. But I have volunteered to NPC her if people need/want, so we'll see.
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a. I was really intrigued by the whole redemption arc, and the bare bones backstory we got for him in canon. I wanted to flesh it out, I wanted to see how redemption would or could work for someone like him. How do you counteract over a thousand years of evil? I'm still working on that, but it's been fun. (As for one specific moment? The part where the plans for destroying the Paraiko were laid out. DUDE. THAT IS TWISTED.)
b. One of his best traits is his strength of will. It's what keeps him going, what lets him achieve his goals, and what makes him such a fricking terrifying and unstoppable opponent. It is brilliant, and I want to see what he'll drive himself toward in the future--via gameplay. I have ideas!
c. His single worst trait is his sheer emotional retardedness. He has no capacity to really understand feelings, particularly his own. He does not know how to react to softer emotions, and his reaction to feeling hurt is often magnified far beyond reason. (HI LISEN). I like to think he's getting better at showing and receiving affection, but it is a slow, nay, even glacial, process. Oh Galadan. You've been making life difficult for yourself from the get-go.
d. Galadan is not particularly difficult for me, except when he is being clever. For that--I chiefly need to rely on handwavey and vague, and a scope large enough to lend itself to that kind of thing. Otherwise I am screwed, because he is much more clever and political than I am capable of being. Woe.
e. I think I caught him best (in his pre-redemption state) in the thread with Kim were he was VERY CREEPY. The one in-bar. I think post-redemption, the one that crystallized a lot of his position for me was the conversation with Jen, wherein I was able to establish how NOT REGRETFUL or SORRY he was. Because he isn't. And I think that lack of remorse, that lack of weepy regret for some very terrible actions--that's very central to his psychology. Because he CHOSE them, and it's not like he thought it was for the greater good or anything, it's not like he was blinded by grief or rage. He chose deliberately. And there's no--anyway. Yeah. That.
f. My current plans for Galadan include him giving up his day job to teach languages to middle schoolers, settling down with a wife and maybe kids, and living in a spaceship that occasionally visits the equivalent of suburbs. Maybe he'll buy a pony, too. We'll see.
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*and is still full of shame*
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I'm rereading, so WoT's on the brain. *Grins*
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a. I absolutely fell head over heels for Nynaeve as a character way back when I first read the Wheel of Time series. About the time she stood up to Moiraine and went toe-to-toe for the Emond's Fielders, I was gone. *g* In terms of Milliways--I was asked to app somebody from WoT, and given my druthers. . . . yeah. Nynaeve rules over everyone ANY DAY. *g*
b. I think one of her best traits is her fierce determination to do what she thinks of as right, and to preserve as much of herself while being an Aes Sedai as she can. It's a hard road she's set herself up to walk down, and maybe conforming to the norm would be easier. But she is not the kind of woman that can do that, and I adore her for it.
c. Her worst trait? I am torn between her bizarro case of RJ-inspired misandry a lot of the time, or just her temper. It keeps a lot of people from seeing her better qualities, or from getting close to her. It isolates her a hell of a lot, and I think that does her a disservice. Fortunately, in Milliways some people do not mind befriending her anyway, at least a little. Lan seems to be helpful for this. I am amused.
d. Nynaeve can be very hard to write, as she is so angry and snippy and combative and forceful all the time. It can be exhausting to put that mindset on, to write reacting to every single comment as if it's a veiled attack, or the person speaking is stupid and obviously needs to be taught better. It's especially hard if I am cranky IRL--writing someone uber-cranky on TOP of that is often overkill, and will cement me in a shitty mood for days.
e. There's a lot of places, really. I think some of her own POV OOMs have showsn the softer inner core that not many know is there. I think lately the Duo and Mary-threads of the past few days (and the Angela-thread, too) have particularly showcased Nynaeve's prickly personality very well.
f. I have plans to keep writing her, both in EPs and in OOMs. I really do what to send her (and Lan) through the end of canon, even though the book that will describe it is not even close to being released. I just--there is only so long you can keep a pup in a holding pattern, and I think years more of this one might be overkill. *wry* But we'll see.
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a. I was idly browsing the comic book store, looking for something to read for an idle evening. I saw X-23: Innocence Lost, and was like. Wolverine-clone. Huh. I wonder how they handle that? And then I read it. And about the time that X-23, who barely spoke, was pretending to be a Girl Scout while dispatching a man who liked torturing and killing little girls--I was hooked. I bought Target X the next day, and then spent another couple weeks hunting down all her canon I could find. And then I apped her. Heh.
b. I think her best trait is her curiosity. She wants to understand--well, really, all the stuff about the world that she doesn't understand. She won't like all of it, and she won't accept all of it as something that should be important to her, but by god she wants to know, anyway. I think it's awesome. (Even if a lot of it is so she can blend better and be a more effective undercover operative for more than 20 minutes. STILL)
c. I think her worst trait is her insistence that she will only do things that are important. It leads her to be dismissive, a lot, and to shut down avenues of communication and future interest that might otherwise be open. It's who she is, and how she is, but man can it get annoying.
d. X-23 is oddly easy to write, even if I have to remember that her useful everyday vocabulary is maybe 100 words, and that she's not 'allowed' to speak in sentences that have a lot of commas or semi-colons in them. Or that have more than about ten words--at least not too often. Shorter is better, unless she's reciting something. Then length and vocabulary don't matter.
e. I think some of the best things for her mindset have been OOMs, but as far as in-bar stuff goes--I have caught some aspects I didn't realize I was going to in her threads with X5-494, and during the Christmas party at the brothel. Talk about left field, yo. *G*
f. Future plan-wise--I'm going to be running X through more of canon soon, with an option on going a bit AU with X-Force, though I won't decide that for sure until I see more than two issues of the book. I've got some stuff going down with fallout from several of her OOM adventures, and she has a couple friends in-bar that have been in more trouble than not lately, and so she's going to want to help with that, if she can. Aside from that, we'll see!
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What? I can't resist. Shut up.
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a. Well, I first fell in love with Dean as a character of immense complexity and crazy antics when watching The Benders--my first ever ep of SPN! The point at which he was leaning over to grab the antenna to use it to pick the lock so he could go and save police lady AND his brother? AWESOME. <33333 And the end of that episode, when they BOTH know she's killing that guy, and they're all . . . sure. We'll be over here. *g*
b. I think one of Dean's best qualities is his protectiveness--he's willing to go out there and keep people as safe as he can, because damned if he'll sit back and let stuff happen to other families the way it did to his. And he doesn't even think about it that way, most of the time. It's beautiful.
c. I think one of his worst qualities is, well, his capacity for denial. He does NOT help himself not win the fucked-up sweepstakes, you know? He makes his own life harder, and he kind of drives away potential friends or companions because of that. He just--yeah. He's also a lot more of an all-or-nothing guy when it comes down to relationships, which probably also doesn't make keeping friends around an easy prospect, even if he HAD that capability in canon, vis a vis not moving around every day.
d. Dean is scarily, SCARILY easy for me to write. I like to think I play him well, particularly in the dialogue, and in general it doesn't take me much time to write a tag as Dean. Not at all. I was totally not expecting it. In fact, when Aspen and I originally adopted Sam and Dean, we weren't sure who was going to play who. I think initially, tentatively, I was set up to play Sam. I AM SO GLAD ASPEN TOOK HIM INSTEAD. *hugs Sam so much* I so could not have written him. And I like to think my Dean is, you know, worth it. So!
e. Iiiii think a lot of Dean's lighter personality shows up with Lilly, particularly--that balance of jackass, cool guy, and actual friend. 's nice. But I think really, recently, where I best captured him was in the carsmashing ficlet OOM. Man. I just. Yeah. That right there? Is my Dean.
f. I've got some OOM stuff lined up for him, some case files, a distraction trip, and moving through episode 4. Man. That will be ANOTHER fun OOM to write, won't it?
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a. I think it was during her dream of dancing with the giant weasel or whatever it was. That was when I was like Wow, her brain is very strange. I wonder why she thinks that? I wonder what in her backstory leads her to look at hunting that way. And boom, when there was space for her at Milliways I grabbed her. *wry* Even if she did not stick around long.
b. I think one of her best qualities is her focus, the narrowing of her intent when she accepts a task, as that one thing becomes the ONLY thing motivating her. It's led her to become who she is, and that's a powerful thing.
c. I think her obsession with hunting has totally rendered her unfit for anything else, and has caused interpersonal difficulties--as you can see from the end of canon. Huge ones. I don't think she'd--even if she had not died, I think she'd always have been on the fringes, and liked it that way. And died 'young'.
d. I never had a very hard time writing Hunter. Getting her to interact with people, yes. Writing her actual responses? No.
e. I think her first post to Milliways showed a lot about her. I think the rescue Door plot was also fairly solid in establishing where she is and was.
f. I have no plans to write Hunter at all, except maybe as an NPC in London Below things. FUN.
and now--
Door!
a. I first fell for Door when she freaked Richard out by talking to the pigeons in his apartment. Poor Richard. Door was just matter of fact. I thought that was awesome. True story! I was sad that there was already a Door when I was thinking of Milliways characters to app, even as I loved what had been done with her.
b. I think one of her strongest character traits is her absolute unconditional acceptance of the kind of choices that are necessary in LB, even as she holds to her own interpretation of those strictures and traditions.
c. I think one of her worst traits is her possessiveness and her protectiveness that can ratchet up REALLY fast and make her a danger to other people, or at least lead her to write people off, essentially. HI MOIRAINE. She needs to make decisions quickly in the Underside, but she tends to hold on to old hurts a bit more than is strictly necessary when it comes to certain people. Poor kid.
d. She's one of the harder pups I have to write, really. Her voice is very subtle but particular, and I really need to be ready to write her unless I'm going to get some random mish-mash of voices and a bland, boring tag. Whee?
e. I think the best of my writing for her was during the Tom-Riddle doomplot thing. And when she took out the Gentleman. *solemn* That's--really defined who and how she is, to me. Those two posts.
f. I have her doing some OOM stuff with Tom right now. And I think we might be plotting an LB something or other sometime. Not the near future, but eventually.