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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.
Five Things About Bones
Five Things About Mal Reynolds
Five Things About Richard Castle
(Yes, I KNOW I've never written Castle fic, but when has that stopped me from anything, ever?)
Five Things About Willow
(Holy fuck, it's been ten years since I've written fannishly about Buffy. I...don't even know how I feel about that.)
Five Things About Simon Tam
Five Things About Éomer
Five Things About Jim Kirk
tocourtdisaster: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.
Five Things About Bones
Five Things About Mal Reynolds
Five Things About Richard Castle
(Yes, I KNOW I've never written Castle fic, but when has that stopped me from anything, ever?)
Five Things About Willow
(Holy fuck, it's been ten years since I've written fannishly about Buffy. I...don't even know how I feel about that.)
Five Things About Simon Tam
Five Things About Éomer
Five Things About Jim Kirk
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Date: 2011-01-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-14 12:06 am (UTC)Five Things About Bones
Date: 2011-01-14 12:29 am (UTC)2) "Do no harm" is his first and most serious vow, the one he will not foreswear for the world. This is the one rule even Jim will never ask him to break. Because he is in Starfleet, he will act in the defense of himself and his comrades, but he will never shoot to kill. However, just because he doesn't want to fight doesn't mean that he won't, or that he's not good at it.
3) He's a grumpy cynical bastard because the universe is an unrelentingly dark, cold place. Jim, though, is the warmest part of it. The kid looks after Leonard's back, and Leonard looks after his. Especially after that one time with Spock... But because the world is that crummy, he's very careful about how much he opens himself up to it. Luckily, after all these years Jim finally knows that every time Leonard calls him a "stupid infant" he's really saying "I love you."
4) He is a proper Southern gentleman because that's the way his Mama taught him. He treats women with respect. He treats men with respect too, once they've actually, y'know, earned it. Above all, no bond is tighter or more revered than that of family. What the Enterprise crew learns, some quicker than others, over the years is that Leonard considers them his family.
5) Jim gets him. He gets Jim. Not everyone gets them. That's okay. If someone asks him why he and the kid are together, he'll usually snort and say something rude. But if he's had a little too much bourbon, or hell, maybe he's just feeling sentimental, he'll quote Kipling's "The Thousandth Man" for you. The whole thing. And if Jim overhears, he'll grin that little grin of his, and get that look in his eye, and sometimes finish the recitation with him--in unison.
Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 12:48 am (UTC)2) He is an educated man. Self-educated. On his Ma's ranch, even with about forty ranchhands to help, there was more work than schoolin' had time for, but when he was a kid he read as many books on the cortex as he could get his hands on. Most folks assume he's not that smart, never mind he has a head for figures. That's fine by him. You wouldn't believe the gosse folks from the Core will spout if they think you don't understand 'em.
3) He don't believe in forgiveness. If you harm by accident, then it was by accident, and you atone or make do. If you harm a'purpose, that's somethin' else again. He does believe in fairness, though. And he expects his crew to believe in that as well.
4) Your crew is your family. You don't get that, you don't get nothin'. As Captain, the crew is his responsibility, which makes him the gorram Paterfamilias, which you better hold in mind.
5) He once told the moonbeam that the first rule of flyin' is love. He won't admit it to hardly anyone, but it is somethin' he believes with all his heart. The fewer that know that, the better.
Re: Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 02:04 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 02:06 am (UTC)Yeah, we should probably worry that I write about a character...IN CHARACTER. O_o
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Date: 2011-01-14 02:08 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Bones
Date: 2011-01-14 02:19 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Bones
Date: 2011-01-14 02:20 am (UTC)Five Things About Richard Castle
Date: 2011-01-14 02:34 am (UTC)2) Alexis actually reminds him a lot of himself at her age. This actually doesn't give him near as many nightmares as he wants others to think it does.
3) He thinks Beckett is the perfect woman. He's not sure which idea terrifies him more: her finding out or her never finding out. He works equally hard at both, because one day Something will happen and things will have to be Real one way or the other, and that terrifies him most of all.
4) He used to secretly be afraid that the only things he was good at were making things up and taking care of his daughter. Though fully aware that the latter is the most important thing he could ever or would ever want to do, he's likewise thrilled every damn day that he and Beckett close a case.
5) He really wants to write a science fiction novel. It's about an intrepid space cowboy and his crew as they fly around an almost-dystopian galaxy, and their adventures as they get in and out of trouble with the law. His love interest is a woman who keeps telling him how much she can't stand him, when she really means she loves him.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:34 am (UTC)Five Things About Willow
Date: 2011-01-14 03:57 am (UTC)2) She never told Sheila about Tara. She's never told her about Kennedy either. But they talk maybe twice a year about nothing, and she knows she should feel guilty about that, too, but she doesn't.
3) She read The Mists of Avalon when she was ten. She things that explains quite a few things about her life, all of them after the fact.
4) She used to really hate being the lovable fuzzy one. It was embarrassing and lame, and makes her think of all those years of Cordy and her Cordettes laughing at her in the hallways. But now Cordy's dead, and she helped raise Dawn through the teenage years, and now being the lovable fuzzy one seems like the safest thing in the world, and very, very far away.
5) She truly believes that one day she and Oz will run into each other again, when they are both old and Bayarmaa and Kennedy and the pains of the past are safely behind them. She particularly believes this when the world is at stake, because the idea of "after" is precious and true and necessary.
Re: Five Things About Willow
Date: 2011-01-14 05:10 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 05:12 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Richard Castle
Date: 2011-01-14 05:14 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Richard Castle
Date: 2011-01-14 05:15 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Willow
Date: 2011-01-14 05:16 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 05:16 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Willow
Date: 2011-01-14 05:17 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Mal
Date: 2011-01-14 05:19 am (UTC)Re: Five Things About Bones
Date: 2011-01-14 05:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-14 05:24 am (UTC)Five Things About Simon Tam
Date: 2011-01-14 05:50 am (UTC)2) He tries to talk to Kaylee. He really does. Sometimes he rehearses whole speeches in his head but then he looks at her and every word goes straight out of his brain to be replaced by gosse, and even when the words are coming out of his mouth he know how horribly it's going, can see it on her face, but he can't stop. He supposes it means something that he finally gets the words right when he thinks they're going to die. But if they're gonna live, he's going to have to figure the words out every day...
3) There's an old proverb that home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. But that night at the bar, when Mal picked up his sister and looked at her with that mixture of worry and confusion that was fatherly and brotherly all at once, he knew that's what it was. Simon never would have thought that Serenity would be home, but she is.
4) He really hates that his sister is a telepath though. He tries really hard not to think about it too much.
5) Simon Tam grew up lucky. He was smart and good looking and came of good family, and he had his whole life carefully planned out. He would be a doctor and find a smart, beautiful woman who was also of good family, and they would have travel and good jobs, and then at some point they would have children and River would be their doting auntie. And this is exactly what happened. Not the way he thought it would, of course, but the Fryes are really lovely people, and he's seen much more of the Rim than he ever thought he would, and River is a good aunt as is Zoe, and sure Mal and Jayne probably aren't the foster-uncles he would have picked out but the kids haven't turned out too wrong, but most importantly there is Kaylee, and that's that.
Re: Five Things About Simon Tam
Date: 2011-01-14 05:54 am (UTC)4) He really hates that his sister is a telepath though. He tries really hard not to think about it too much.
Or anything, because of the whole telepathy thing... ;)
Re: Five Things About Bones
Date: 2011-01-14 08:01 pm (UTC)