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1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic. Or geeked out about.
2. I will comment telling you the following:
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/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character*.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.
(By the way, I'll be a bit absent this evening, as we have friends coming over for dinner, but I should be back for an hour or two before bedtime.)
ETA Sorry, but obviously I don't have time to reply to these right away (friends are due in 45 minutes) but I'll try and think up answers while I shower and post them later on. :-)
fandom_me1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic. Or geeked out about.
2. I will comment telling you the following:
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/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character*.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.
(By the way, I'll be a bit absent this evening, as we have friends coming over for dinner, but I should be back for an hour or two before bedtime.)
ETA Sorry, but obviously I don't have time to reply to these right away (friends are due in 45 minutes) but I'll try and think up answers while I shower and post them later on. :-)
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a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her. Rewatching Utopia and just wondering what the Master would do upon his return to Earth. And the fact that he's such an interesting character.
b. One of his/her best traits. I'm not sure it's his best trait, but it's what I like best about him: he's evil. He's a good, old-fashioned villain who has it in for the hero (though the Doctor's a bit of an anti-hero, really, I guess). And he's fun!
c. One of his/her worst traits. The madness. I strongly dislike crazy characters, especially when it makes them act like kids, e.g. the Master zipping his mouth up in response to the American President. I just - silly craziness just isn't scary, and I want my baddies scary. Thus I vastly preferred the Master in LotTL to TSoD, because he was more serious. (Though second time watching, I liked him in both.)
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character. Scarily easily. For instance, everyone keeps commenting on the undertone of madness I give him - and it's not something I consciously do at all. I just write what sounds right. And I'm not sure it's good that such an evil character comes so easily to me! *g*
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character. I think this is my favourite bit so far. It didn't really stand out to me until I was looking for something to put as the summary for part 3, but once I'd extracted it, it seemed to sum it all up pretty well.
Jack looks unbelievably young, curled up in the corner with his arms wrapped around his body, long dark lashes lying spread against his pale cheeks. It seems almost a shame to wake him.
Well, it would if I wasn't evil!
Oh, and actually, I have to include this bit too. Because it just came out of my head complete and I love it.
“Take Captain Harkness to his room,” I order, and the soldiers march him away, but not so quickly that I don’t have time to see his reaction to that. Surprise turning to fear. Which is silly, because after all, what did he expect me to do with him? Kill him?
Well yes, of course, and with great pleasure. But after he comes back? I can’t spend my whole time standing over him with a gun ready to kill him again the moment he comes back to life.
Though I certainly plan to spend some of my time doing that.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future. Well, there's plenty more of Master Plan to come. I can't really see myself writing the Master in anything else, though.
And now it's twenty past midnight and I have to go to bed. I'll do the rest tomorrow.
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Yes! Yes, he is. Ooh, I especially love that second snippet in part e.
Your answer in c. is interesting to me, because I kind of adore the puppy-evil aspect of him. Not scary, no, but so very, very unpredictable. And it makes people underestimate him. Which is unhealthy for them. :) I like the intensity he's capable of, too, though.
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And I suppose in some ways those about-turns wouldn't be so unpredictable and scary if he wasn't so silly in between times. But those bits still annoy me.
(And I meant to use my appropriate icon in my last response but forgot - so have it this time instead *g*)
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a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her. Well, I was already mad about JB, ever since seeing him in Phantom and Sunset Boulevard, so there was a great deal of squee over here when the news came out that he'd be in Doctor Who. And his character, Jack, is just about my perfect character. He's complex and interesting and cool - and hot! - and flirty and fun and heroic and... but you already know all that :-)
b. One of his/her best traits. He's such a goddam hero. He really is.
c. One of his/her worst traits. I had a hard time trying to think of a bad trait. At the moment, the only thing I can think of that annoys me a little is the way he hung on for the Doctor so long - made his whole life about waiting for the Doctor. It actually took me quite a lot of the first series of Torchwood to realise how hung up on the Doctor he still was, because it hadn't occurred to me that he'd still be waiting, that in all that time he hadn't moved on. Because you can't recreate what went before. People change.
Which, of course, you have well and truly covered in Change and Orrery, but I'm realising now it's something I had thought about while watching Torchwood and just forgotten.
Of course, all that is me talking about canon and not about fanon, because of course I'm very happy to read about Jack not having moved on from the Doctor and having lots of hot sex *g*. But I'm glad in some ways that canon has let him move on a bit now, even if it didn't bother showing us how that came about (come on, couldn't they have given us just a little Doctor/Jack scene in LotTL?)!
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character. Dialogue = easy, because I've seen such a lot of JB that I can hear his voice very clearly in my head and I know how he talks. (He's about the only American character that comes easily to me, for that reason.) But trying to write from his POV isn't so easy, because I still haven't quite figured him out. As I said, he's so complex. I'm getting closer, though, I think.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character. Outward description, I still really like these two bits from Connection:
“May I buy you a drink?” he asks, hands in pockets, patent smile, casually charming.
and
Jack grins, heads for the bar, and manages in his usual effortless way to get served before anyone else.
(Oh dear, going back to find those, I've just noticed a typo that got past both me and Jadesfire!)
As for capturing his thoughts, I can't honestly think of anywhere I've really done that yet. If anyone else thinks I've managed it, though, I'd be interested to hear!
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future. Well, he's cropping up a fair bit in Master Plan... *g* There's also part 2 of Connection, which is drafted and just needs finishing off when the Master finally lets go of my brain. I also have an idea for a series of drabbles/ficlets inspired by the various songs in John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter (yes, more song-fic!) because so many of the songs make me think of Jack. (And yes, obviously the fact that John's singing them might have something to do with it!)
And I'm sure there'll be lots more in the future. There's so much to discover about Captain Jack Harkness.
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You do realise I've only written 100 words of Spike, don't you? So a lot of this is going to more about Spike on-screen and in other people's fic rather than mine.
a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her. Like Jack, Spike is a very complex character, which makes him interesting. There are times when I love him and times when he really annoys me, but he's usually fun.
b. One of his/her best traits. His irreverent cockiness. As I said, he's fun. And (by nature) evil. (Hmm, I'm seeing a trend here.)
c. One of his/her worst traits. The puppy-dog following of Buffy in S6. I know it's a big part of Spike, the blind following of someone stronger, but I prefer him strong, sexy and evil.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character. Surprisingly easy so far. Perhaps because he's English - however bad JM's accent and the stereotypical word-usage was at times, it's still a speech pattern I'm very familiar with. In-depth Spike, I might find more difficult because, like Jack, he's so complex.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character. Well, out of 100 words, there's not really much to choose from, but this felt pretty in character.
“Vampire, mate. And you?”
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future. Actually, there is a little ficlet with Spike and Giles I wrote a while ago and had forgotten about. Might see if that's worth posting. No other firm plans at the moment, but I dare say he'll crop up again at some point :-)
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I hadn't realized you'd only written about Spike once, I just just loved your little drabble between him and Jack, I guess I assumed you'd written Buffy or Angel fanfic with him that I hadn't read.
I have to agree completely with a,b and c. So cocky, so dark, yet there is this way he fights against his inner evil that is irrestible.
I hadn't realized James's accent was that bad. :(
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It's weird: Spike is definitely not one of my favourite Buffy characters to watch, but he's fascinating to write, so I suspect there'll be more. And if I ever get round to watching any more Buffy/Angel, I expect some Angel stuff might crop up too. I want to write more Buffy/Angel fanfic. It's just I'm so absorbed by Doctor Who/Torchwood at the moment.
His accent isn't terrible, but it does vary wildly and it's very much 'American Cockney'. And there are certain words that he just says wrong!
Put it this way: I didn't know Alexis Denisof wasn't English for years. I knew James Marsters wasn't English right from the start.
And don't even get me started on Juliet Landau *g*
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My facination with Spike is how is character's background is so rich. He was a poet for heaven's sake, back when he was human
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I definitely have a thing for long-lived characters, because having experienced so much makes them so much more interesting!
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I confess, however, that a lot of that is because the 'Spike iz fit' and 'Spuffy' fans put me off Spike in the same way as the 'Janto' (eurgh, what a horrible word!) have put me off Ianto.
Also, Angel came first. And he's tall, dark and handsome, which is my traditional crush-material :-)
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Re. Jack/Ianto - I'll read (and enjoy) anything if it's well-written *g*
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