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: I like this a lot esp #1-3 :D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Poise, yes, precisely. He can afford to be impulsive, too, in a way normal ppl can't: TBD-verse, this is someone who's constantly criss-crossing the globe with no need to worry about 1) money and 2) not speaking the local language.

I can do Johnny... there actually is stuff to say about Crawford, mind you, so little of it came through in the actual fic. XD;

Re: I like this a lot esp #1-3 :D

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Crawford would be interesting because you actually seem to have a complete idea of Crawford where many people don't. I've been guilty of writing Crawford as a cipher because I'm not sure what his purpose and thinking style is - is he pragmatist or idealist; opportunist or meticulous planner? I tend to associate 'let's change things!' with 'heroic and dumb', and Crawford obvs isn't that, so ... ?

Johhny is less of a mystery, but I wouldn't have the first idea where to start writing him because I don't know how to reconcile 'derp derp derp this is a song about cheese' with 'OH MY FUCKING GOD WE'RE GOING TO DIE, genuinely traumatised here' XD Although at the same time that is what's awesome about SBR; the increasing interest in character psychology hasn't been accompanied by a reduction in capslocky WTF. Seriously though how /does/ Johnny go to the toilet? D:

n.b. I haven't read the scans for a while but apparently the dimensional portal has hit the fan, as it were. XD