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

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Asami. Srsly? XD ---And man, I have been doing this meme thus far completely wrong, since there is almost no Mirage fic written by ppl who read the books, and it's been eons since I've read WK fic, so I just barfed out the stuff informing my characterizations. In most cases I don't think generic-you have to write it exactly like me in order to be "getting it right" - some stuff pings me as wrong-wrong, but there's room to move around. Sometimes I even think other ppl have the better ideas.

I started to say, I would rather do Ten, but the thing about Ten is that ppl like him or don't like him as the case may be, but no one really gets his characterization wrong. XD;

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

IC and OOC are ranges, for sure, and it's not necessary for someone else's characterization to precisely overlap mine in order to fall within the IC range. Though for me the IC <--> OOC ranges are often pretty inextricable from OTPing. XD; Like, the other day I read this gen Spirited Away futurefic in which Haku had no place of significance in Chihiro's life or memory or subconscious or worldview or...or anything. In a sense it was the ultimate anti-ship fic. Didn't hold water for me obv because the author didn't account for Haku's non-importance, she just sort of took it as a given, whereas I assume a Chihiro for whom Haku is significant in some way, romance negotiable. ...Sry for tangent but I've been needing to get that off my chest ahaha.