Fandom Meme

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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. :-)

Comments

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OK, I'll be very predictable and say the Master. :)

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OK, our friends have only just gone and I need sleep, but I'll do this one now because I think I figured out the answers earlier on...

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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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!

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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Well, the Master is growing on me, craziness and all. Having thought about it, I think it is now just the childish craziness that I dislike. The unpredictable, about-turn craziness, and yes the intensity, are things I love because they make him so much fun.

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*)