Let's talk meme

[petronia]

From fahye:

Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas/concepts/other I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting them accurately. This includes both original characters and characters about whom I write fanfic.

Actually, you can extend that to any character I've read a lot of fic about... not that you'd know necessarily, of course. XD My voracious and not-particular-picky fic consumption is (among other things) a way of honing my own ideas of characterization against Fandom, like window shopping or a card-sorting exercise. Right, right, wrong, right, hmm, wrong, poor taste, right. Reading is what creates the model. Writing only introduces quirks.

Or, pick up the meme so I can ask you.

Or-or, I was taking Ask Me Anything questions on my Tumblr the other day - click link, ask me a question?

Comments

Re: correcting typos, I was nearly asleep writing this

[naiyad.livejournal.com]

Loved this. I'd never really considered your point in #4 before, and that's real food for thought. It's interesting to think about the balance of 'anti-authority' vs 'learned helplessness' in his personality. Probably because it clicks so well with how he seems to be able to survive anything and yet be so self-destructive at the same time.

Lady Jaida's Schuldig was the first Schuldig that really clicked for me, followed closely by Mami-san's. Speaking of Lady Jaida, would you happen to know where I could find her 'Unmitigated' fic? It's listed in her WK fic timeline list thing over at her ff.net account, but it's not actually there.

Also, Crawford needs to get a clue on the cuddling business. ♥

Re: correcting typos, I was nearly asleep writing this

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Rolling, I'm not sure I considered #4 per se before I wrote it down here. Not in as many words - I'm pretty sure that when I was writing TBD I didn't know the term "learned helplessness", and also not mature enough to have an adult perspective on how your childhood/adolescence can subtly warp your mentality. But I knew Schuldig was a product of his environment, yanno? And that a lot of the conflict between him and Crawford stems from authority and power issues.

Alas, I wouldn't know what had happened to Jaida's fic. >_> It's been a really long time since I'd reread!