"Baaa," says she sheepishly...

[tree_talking]

It's goin' round!

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

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Blanche.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

a. Well, at first Blanche Malfoy was meant to be a foil for Molly Weasley in a schooldays Weasley-fic. She was nasty and mean, and at first, that's how she was going to stay.

And then she ate my brain. ;) I found that I liked writing her far more than any other 'canon' character. I found out what happened to her to make her mean and nasty, I figured out what happened to her post-fic. I was actually rather sad that she was destined for a tragic end.

And then I heard about the Dogstar RPG from Ara, and I tweaked a few things in her background (making it uber!angsty, but I can be forgiven for my first RPG, right?) and she turned out to be a nice, sweet kid. I found it fascinating that changing a few things about a character's backstory could produce such different results--though I suppose I should have known that. I still love her and sometimes I would love to still play her. (And there are a couple of little fic ideas bouncing around, too.)

b. Best traits of the original: Stubbornness and loyalty.
Best traits of the RPG character: generosity, loyalty, and kindness--Hufflepuff all the way, go figure.

c. Worst traits in both: Self-sacrificial to a fault. In the original: Holds a grudge forever.

d. She is really my first original character and she was always easier to write than any time I tried to write or play a canon-type character. I find it easy to play her because I do know her very well.

e. Original version: I actually have an unpublished fic of Blanche at Hogwarts, where she's finding it difficult to maintain her grudge.

And at the other board: the thread where Sirius and Genevieve help her to get out of her father's clutches. Unfortunately lost by EZ Board, but I like that one the best.

f. I hope to have a novel idea with her as the main character someday. Other than that...there are some fic ideas for the RPG character that I'd like to explore. I love writing her, so she'll never be completely gone. :)

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Elaine!

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

a. Well, when I first thought about joining Milliways, I knew that I'd have to find the "right" character. I wasn't quite sure what the "right" character was, but I would know it when I found it. I as reading some Malory one night and Elaine grabbed my brain and would not let go. Seriously, she kept me up all night and I wrote the app in record time and sent it off.

b. The best trait: she's utterly sweet. She's quite possibly the sweetest character I've ever written, which, if you account for all my characters...is saying a lot. ;)

c. Worst trait: impossibly naive. That and there's a certain amount of self-loathing that doesn't come out very often, but is there nevertheless.

d. She was very difficult to write at first. I had to keep looking up the histories of things like coffee, tea, chocolate, etc. And since I chose a more modern period than the other Arthurian characters in the bar, she didn't quite jive with anyone. Still, she had fun!

e. It's hard for me to choose one! There are so many that are just right on. But she's stripped down to no support and no familiarity in the Los Angeles plot. I think you really saw what she was made of in that storyline.

f. Well, she's soon to be retired. She's had a wonderful run at Milliways, and she's been fun to play. In the future, she will have a supporting character role in my Arthurian novels. Milliways has been a great proving ground for the character.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

La la la. Angela.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

a. Initially, she was just going to be a shared character in Milliways, played to be a cute baby, and that's all. And then I had the bright idea to play her as a teenager. She's been the most fun character to play. ;)

b. Best Trait. Hmmmmm...Loyalty. I think that's par for the course with anyone affiliated with the CTU-loyal-to-Jack Bauer crowd.

c. Worst trait? Being so damn convince able. She'll convince herself that anything asked of her is good, regardless of whether it's good for her or not.

d. Actually, Angela is really quite easy. She's almost completely an OC, after all. It's fun to take some traits from the Kim, Chase, and Jack characters, throw in a little of her drug-addled mother and see what comes out in a teenage girl.

e. Honestly, I like the OOM right before she makes her first in-bar appearance. It really set the tone for how I play her, this insecure (still!) teenage girl who's jealous of Kim, depressed at being abandoned by her mother, feeling generally unwelcome (even if it's not true) in her home. I'll often reference it to this day if I find her being too confident in herself. ;)

f. I'm going to play her in Milliways as long as is feasible. I know her 'end-game' as it were so unless something spectacular happens in the bar, she can leave at any time, go just about anywhere, and do...whatever she wants. :)

[ashavah]

Riiiiiiver!

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

*eyes your icon and spittakes*

a. She's *gorgeous*. I mean...wow, what a challenge. She's poetic and dangerous and insane. I could gush, but *you* know. She just captured my brain in a very...almost *cautious* way, sort of prodding me until I apped her. :)

b. Best trait: the fact that she loves Simon so very much. In a way, it's the key to the whole Serenity movie, that relationship. The line "My turn," always echoes with me, whenever we thread Simon and River.

c. Worst trait: This is hard to pin down! I mean, the girl's insane. Playing this sort of insanity is the most difficult part about the character.

d. River is difficult but enjoyable. Sometimes I have to wait for the right thing to tag back with. I can't force River, or have her just say some throwaway line. Each tag is something I have to think about and something that takes time. But I feel there's always something gorgeous in every one of her threads. That's a great feeling.

e. Well, there's River and Simon's first thread. I like how they interact with each other in it. :) And then there's this thread of River doing something appropriately genius-level. :)

f. I intend to keep playing her and playing her and figuring out what the character wants to tell me. It'll be interesting to see how her story progresses at the Outpost. ;)