What do you do with a displaced Lynne? MEMES. Obviously.

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Given that this is my week of glorious vacation, and I am fed and comfortable and waiting for the workday to be over for people who are not as gainfully unemployed as I am so that we can all run free in the cold and the rain together --

Have a meme.

A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?

B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!

You can choose any or all of these options.

My fandoms include Milliways characters and fandoms (including broad DC and Marvel, but I am not an encyclopedia, so that will be a factor), most popular sci-fi/fantasy books/movies/tv, but anything that premiered in the last two years that is not sci-fi/fantasy, Life, or Dexter, I have probably not seen enough of to wax epic about it.

(We interrupt this news bulletin to say 'hey, cat, stop sitting on my hands! Ow. Claws.')

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Belated, but whatever!

B: Nynaeve. To be original.

... Or Raven. To be UTTERLY PREDICTABLE WTF. Also I solemnly swear I'm going to EP Bones again at some point, because I do actually like playing him.

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1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?

Nynaeve would kill any creatures of the shadow that she encountered and that tried to hurt her and hers. She'd kill to defend and she would kill in battle (and she has). It's not easy for her, she's a Healer through and through, but circumstances have not really allowed her to not have to make those kinds of choices. She'd die for -- well. Now that Lan is her Warder it would be difficult to make her die for anything unless he went first. She saw him after Moiraine 'died', and I don't think it's something she could handle doing to him. SO.

2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?

She -- um. She would not Heal someone badly or really use her healing ability as a method of getting people to do what she wants. Probably. Mostly. Unless Forsaken were involved.

3. What do they dream about?

Children. A life where she stayed Wisdom of Emond's Field and nothing else in canon happened. In the better versions of these dreams Lan ends up finding her anyway.

4. What’s their biggest fear?

Losing her sense of self and her ability to make her own choices. It's one of the reasons she still hates the Aes Sedai. Rules are not Nynaeve's favorite thing.

5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?

Lan's ring. One guess why. Her ter'angreal and angreal are also very nice, but now that The End Times are over -- the ring is once again in the top spot.

6. What is their fondest memory?

Her wedding.

7. What is their worst memory?

Five minutes before her wedding, or thereabouts. She thought she was dying. Augh.

8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.

Her father was definitely her most significant influence. He trained her in tracking, let her do things the girls of the village didn't get to, and I think her independence and determination stemmed both from that and then from the after-affects of his death. Being alone will either make or break someone, sometimes. So.

9. What do they believe makes a successful life?

Good, hard work, good friends, and the ability to have just a little fun sometimes, though she will never admit to that last one.

10. What makes them laugh?

Dancing.

11. What are their religious views?

She's not very religious, but she'll swear by the Light and knows the Creator and the Dark One exist.

12. What is their greatest strength?

Her fierce determination, that lets her do all that is necessary in pursuit of her goals.

13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?

It's a toss-up between her incredible temper and her utter disdain for most people. *wry* So.

14. Who is the most important person in their life?

Lan.

15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

I think by this point she is more likely to die of old age than anything else, especially if Lan predeceases her. It'll be hard but she'll keep on trucking. And at that point I think only her children and stuff will miss her. (They will also be kind of relieved that she's gone. Nynaeve will make for a scary matriarch.)

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And now Raven!

1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?

This one is hard for Raven, because they are not the terms in which he thinks. He will kill when it is necessary, or because he wants to, or because someone has transgressed into matters in which Raven takes an interest, or just as a consequence of other actions. He -- is not good at dying, so while his body can be destroyed, he can't. I don't think he'd die for anything. That journey is what happens to other people.

2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?

He will not willingly step into a cage of any sort. That is not what he is for.

3. What do they dream about?

Raven remembers when he sleeps. He does not dream.

4. What’s their biggest fear?

Cages. Being alone.

5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?

His coat. It is a reminder and a repository of a whole lot of useful and useless crap.

6. What is their fondest memory?

Hanging out and humming lullabies while Ace and Moiraine sleep. Sitting with Coyote shortly after she gave him a useful body. Every day he lived among his people.

7. What is their worst memory?

The inability to remember is the worst memory in the world, each and every time.

8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.

His people gave him a framework to build himself around, which led to everything that came after. Coyote is another big one, because they have played off each other for so long that -- yeah. Other half of himself, yo, to one degree or another.

9. What do they believe makes a successful life?

Living. That's all.

10. What makes them laugh?

Everything. Even pain or doom or despair. He is a sicko, I know.

11. What are their religious views?

Gods suck and are useless. Full stop.

12. What is their greatest strength?

Creation. Laughter. Behold the power of glitter.

13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?

Madness and overconfidence, which are heavily interrelated. (Also his deathwish, which is mostly on the back burner now YAY.)

14. Who is the most important person in their life?

Variously and at different times Ace, Moiraine, and Coyote. They are the current tripod upon which his sanity rests. *wry*

15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

He'd die by taking Death's hand (or Ace's) and stepping through into whatever comes next. Everyone else will predecease him, so that's all right. He will not be missed.

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a) Glor says he already knows about Nynaeve liking a bit of fun. And has plans regarding that. He isn't telling me what those plans are, but still.

b) I'm afraid of Ace being part of a tripod for anyone's sanity, let alone Raven's. :D