RP meme, stolen from sort of everybody...

[yakalskovich]

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!

Comments

[yakalskovich]

A: Thank you! He grew on me, and then he grew character traits. It happens. I mean, you developed Gil from one and a half lines of throwaway joke by JKR! That was at least as impressive.

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 what wiebke tells, that Storm's brains have been eaten by WoW and will not be spat up again.-

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Okies, as discussed in IM, tell me about Sibyl since I'm going to need to get to know here to be able to offer her anything interesting to do.

Non-Morningstar Manor people can avert their innocent little eyes.

[yakalskovich]

1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for? Sibyl would most likely claim that she's opposed to killing, but would find out that she is capable of it after all is somebody attacks her with the intention to kill and/or rape. She wouldn't be willing to die for any idea, either, but risk her life for a stranger on the street or a kid drowning in a pond. Modern, unspectacular civil courage that should be a matter of course, but often isn't.
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.