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[vivien]

OOH! Fun meme! As seen in viridian's journal:

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

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.


In other news, I am so ridiculously tired that I am going to bed and curl up with some graphic novels. For about five minutes before I pass out.

Comments

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

--you write McGonagall, right?

[vivien]

I certainly do!

a. I've liked her since the 1st book in a "yay, no nonsense teacher" way. I really started liking her after Chamber of Secrets when more of her emotions were on display. Plus, she's juts so wry and really... well, takes no nonsense!
b. She is a leader.
c. She is a very stubborn leader.
d. She comes fairly easily.
e. I think, even though it's an AU, kind of silly fic, my Tom/Minerva "A Beneficial Arrangement" captures a version of her. I like to write Minerva as being as strong as she is in canon, which can be a trick with Riddlefic.
f. Oh, I'll be writing her more. I have plans for vox_lacuna, and I am sure there will be more Tom/Minerva.

[jothra]

Missouri!

[vivien]

a. I wanted to app a Supernatural character because I love the show and to be very honest, I wanted to play with Sam and Dean, and Tom... just didn't click with either. :-P I thought seriously about Ellen, but then I decided Missouri would be way more fun.
b. She doesn't really want to whack anyone with a spoon. She has a kind heart and wants things to work out for folks.
c. She can butt in where she's not wanted/needed as a result of this.
d. She was very hard at first, especially since I was worried about being disrespectful. But then I decided to base a lot of her likes and mannerisms on my former supervisor, Stella, who is very much like Missouri. Then it became a whole lot easier.
e. This thread with all three of the Winchester boys.
f. I'll be RPing her, of course. Supernatural fic, however, is something that is not coming to me, so she will probably stay in an RP setting.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Ingress :)

[vivien]

a. Ingress was Lynette's character first (she also played Door originally), and Tom and I both fell in love with her. Lynette gave her to me when she realized she couldn't keep playing her, and I've taken care of her ever since.
b. She is more friendly and out-going than I will ever be.
c. She can drive you nuts with her energy.
d. At first, I was petrified, because I adopted her and I wanted to do right. I hadn't written a child in RP, though I'd written a lot of ficlets for Milliways with her. Now she's as easy as falling off a log, although I do have to have enough energy to tackle hers sometimes.
e. Hmmm. The threads in which I feel Ingress shines as a kid are ones with Puck and with Mary.
f. She's not going anywhere. I love writing her.

[innerbrat]

Tom!

[vivien]

a. Hahahaha... I'm so shallow. I was interested in the character in my vague "ooh, cool villain" way after reading the book, but after the movie I was enamored with the pretty. It was also about that time when JKR mentioned that Minerva was not that much older than Voldemort. And thus a ship was born for me, cos, DUDE, they had to have known each other. So I wrote nearly 40,000 words worth of Tom/Minerva. As you do.
b. He is smart, focused, and ambitious.
c. He is omg so arrogant and fallible.
d. He has always been easy. I can only play the younger version of him though. I fail miserably at the sheer evil of Voldemort.
e. The whole first few months of Milliways was SUCH a joy to write, as he began on the road to redemption. I think I liked his interactions with Barty Crouch, Jr. the best to bring out more canon Tom. I think I am the proudest of the consequences for Tom from end of the Academy plot, in which he had the brush with hardcore darkness in the Doorway Cave and was for all intents and purposes poisoned by it. Then coming back to find Door had been abducted - that whole plot gave me great happiness.
f. I am trying to do a little more with canon Tom, as Milliways!Tom was created before HBP. He isn't leaving my brain anytime soon.