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e. Original version: I actually have an unpublished fic of Blanche at Hogwarts, where she's finding it difficult to maintain her grudge.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