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yakalskovich) wrote2009-10-09 12:19 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2009-10-09 12:19 pm
RP meme, stolen from sort of everybody...
A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?
(This one is a question from me to you!)
B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?
C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching/reading, and why!
(This one is a question from me to you!)
B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?
C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching/reading, and why!
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B: Hmmmmmm, Teja.
C: Supernatural.
(bonus D: your tag in our OOM? I literally burst out laughing at it. Just, *gleees*)
A, C, D
C: Fandom comments on Supernatural
I'm still watching. In fact, I've just downloaded the current episode and will watch the current episode when I get back from the necessary expedition into the rainy world outside. But I'm one of the people who don't know if the epic angels-and-demons arc was a good move, and I would be very put off if God really ended up a played character on that show. Conversely, though, I do like Castiel very, very much and see some potential for slashy subtext between him and Dean. Supernatural's producer's being wise to fan culture, and very, very meta, I still suspect that they put that in on purpose to offer an alternative to all that unspeakable, character-inappropriate Wincest. Also, the original explanation at the beginning of season 4 ('Dean was raised by the angel of Thursday because there must be SPN on a Thursday as another season was commissioned by the network, and we totally ran out of other reasons at the end of season 3') is still hilarious, even though now superseded by a complex, emerging mytholgy.
B
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for? His people -- those he loves, those he has promised his loyalty to.
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why? Rape anybody. Even in a setup where one of the inventive monsters from Jason's world held a gun to his head. Or even held a gun to somebody else's head. Just no.
3. What do they dream about? The past and the future. Teja canonically has prophetic dreams that come true.
4. What’s their biggest fear? At the moment, in Milliways? That one day, Charlie's door will go away and he'll never see his beloved again. Canonically, I'm afraid, Teja was afraid of nothing.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? His harp. Canonically, his harp and his battle axe, as they define who he is. But now, he has so many weapons, and several axes, so he'd part with his original battle axe for a good reason. In fact, he has both of them twice, as he faded in Carlotta's world and came back in from his death, so he'd part with one instance of his harp, but not the second. One of them, he would keep under all circumstances.
6. What is their fondest memory? From his life? Nights in Rome in the ruined park he liked to haunt, with Adalgoth, making music. From Milliways, it might be that one time in the forge, with Charlie, when they first spoke of love.
7. What is their worst memory? Myrtia's death, closely followed by Totila's death, and the massacre at Cumae. The things he suffered as a child while in the 'care' of monks and priests in Rome, he has successfully pushed down a hole in his mind where they exist as a theoretical, philosophical evil, not a personal painful memory.
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound. Old Hildebrand, who saved him from the monks in Rome as a child, and instilled that sense of duty in him, and of destiny, and of very, very long-range planning for the worst. Teja is nothing near as stone-age conservative as Hildebrand, but the strict demands Teja makes on himself come from that old man (who is already ancient when the book starts in 526, and still alive and fighting beside Teja in battle in autumn 552, so he must be something like a very sprightly 140...)
9. What do they believe makes a successful life? Keeping one's word, and keeping those that rely on one safe.
10. What makes them laugh? Canonically: only battle, or his own cynical comments. In Milliways, it's Carlotta murdering the Latin language, and Sameth's brilliant non-descriptions like "Baseball is very similar to cricket, but also completely different."
11. What are their religious views? Strict, angry atheist of the Dostoevsky (or more precisely, Ivan Karamasov) school. Poor Castiel recently caught the brunt of that. I don't know what Teja will do when he finally realises Castiel is an angel, but I do feel it will be remarkable.
12. What is their greatest strength?That he fears nothing, hopes for nothing, and has nothing to lose, canonically.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? That he fears nothing, hopes for nothing, and has nothing to lose. Canonically, that means he doesn't even dare hope that he can save his people, even though he saw the very end, and his own dirge, in a dream. Nobody is more surprised than Teja when Narses lets the Goths go away with the Vikings.
14. Who is the most important person in their life? Totila
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? He did die, heroically in battle saving everybody else, and the one to miss him most was Adalgoth, canonically so.
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B. Tell me about Donovan.
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2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why? He wouldn't give up one of his swanmanes to the big bad wolves of the Raina school. That's because he feels responsible for them, and will take better care of them than his predecessor.
3. What do they dream about? A totally normal life somewhere on the coast of New England, with a house, wife, and kids, and the added bonus of being able to turn into a swan and fly away.
4. What’s their biggest fear? Failing his people.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? There's nothing like that. He's from a world and a time when objects are plenty, and replaceable.
6. What is their fondest memory? Learning to fly.
7. What is their worst memory? Realising what Kaspar, his predecessor, had really been up to.
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound. His grandmother, who was a swanmane as well, and taught him all he needed to know.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life? Happiness with the outcome, whatever it is.
10. What makes them laugh? Pretty much that which makes most people laugh. He is quite willing to laugh, too.
11. What are their religious views? Pretty much unreflected vanilla Christianity. Religions are pretty real in his world; belief works on vampires, prayers on zombies, and so on. Different beliefs exist beside each other, but everybody believes something.
12. What is their greatest strength? A certain relaxed attitude.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? That he doesn't really like what he does; he does it to the best of his ability and with all his conscience, and will not let up, but he'd much rather not be the Swan King.
14. Who is the most important person in their life? There isn't one.
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? He'd be killed gruesomely by one of the many evil creatures of his world, and nobody would really miss him much. Swanmanes aren't very important in the overall scheme of things.
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B - er - no I won't ask about MM people because that would bore your Milliways readers
C - Wraethu.
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B: No, really, ask away -- pick whoever you want from MM.
C: The first three Wraeththu books were bloody brilliant, and something of my core fandom that got me into LJ. However, number four and five read like fan fiction: - number four followed the stories of some secondary characters from the original books, and number five was a strange lesson in sex magic that was so utterly unrelated to anything that could possibly matter to anybody
who is not Andras Toth, I simply didn't read the sixth. Storm Constantine's treatment of fan fiction is exemplary and very appropriate to the internet age, but actually, once you have given a world or a part of it officially to the fans, better invent a new one. She has written many utterly brilliant and quite bizarre worlds that are not Wraeththu. I do fear, from whatno subject
Non-Morningstar Manor people can avert their innocent little eyes.
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2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why? Quite plainly, she'd refuse to falsify something so it looks good, in a professional context. All those 'restored' works of art that are half fake? She abhors that. She'd probably rather lose a job than, say, make a historical ball gown look sparklier than it was, or testify that something belonged to a person of historical importance when there is no hard evidence. She detests fakes.
3. What do they dream about? She dreams of running her own museum about everyday culture where people can bring their family heirlooms (no younger than WW II!) to be restored, and displayed for a while until they are returned to a place of honour in their owners homes as she thinks it's important people are aware of their roots, and not every should vanish into museum stacks.
4. What’s their biggest fear? Accidentally destroying something she was trying to save.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? A simple brown woollen dress from the 1880s that she found in the attic of her parents' house. It is very well preserved, she takes good care of it, and it fits her well. She's very proud of it, and symbolises all her work is about.
6. What is their fondest memory? A costume party she held for her friends in her parents' home when it was freshly restored, and she was in love for the first time ever.
7. What is their worst memory? An incident in the girls showers in her high school gym, where several cheerleaders made merciless fun of her looks, and got physical. There were black eyes all round (for Sibyl as well).
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound. Her parents -- they believed in the value of history, and roots, and in her right to be herself exactly the way she is.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life? Getting recognition for what you're good at and are ambitious about; turning a hobby into a job and sticking to it; achieving enough material security to reach out for your life's great dream. Everybody can fail, but everyone should at least try once.
10. What makes them laugh? Old cartoons.
11. What are their religious views? She sometimes goes to church, but she doesn't really have any.
12. What is their greatest strength? Her great confidence in herself, her abilities, and her right to be the way she is.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? Sometimes, she is too sunny and forgets the world has nasty teeth that bite you on the rear.
14. Who is the most important person in their life? Still her parents; she's not in a relationship right now.
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? In an avalanche of falling books and boxes, or in a car crash -- and the one to miss her the most would be her mother.