Fanfic meme: 3. Favorite Characters

( 30 Questions )

3 – For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

OC-verse: Brains, a thirteen year old girl who's mutation was that her brain wouldn't stop growing, making her go from below average intelligence to a supergenius.

Highlander: my oc's? (ducks for cover), well them, and oddly enough, the Kurgan.

BtVS and Angel, Spike, I loved Buffy, but somehow at the time, Xander and Spike were easier to write. Though admittedly, this is the fandom where I started to grow up, grew out of my focusing too much on oc's stage and realized I was starting to use Xander as a Canon Stu, which led to me losing interest in him over time.  By the time I left fandom, I was primarily a Spike-writer.

Marvel, Peter Parker, no ifs or buts, Peter just hit me in a way that none of the other characters have ever managed to do. Which is why Dan Slott's ruination of the character pretty much ruined the fandom for me as well.

Criminal Minds Grimm, the Listener, NCIS, ... no particular fave, though I did love writing for Derek Morgan. And Nick is easy to write for in Grimm fandom

Supernatural (and spn rps), as mentioned before, Dean, Dean, Dean, and Jensen, and oh yes, some more Dean*g* And Victor Henriksen who's total fun.

Teen Wolf, Scott McCall.  He's the one character I most identify with, and who feels most unique amongst the Teen Wolf cast. Liam's fun too, but Scott is just so sweet and kind in how he deals with everyone, while completely insecure about his own worth. These days, on most shows, the main characters are either cynical jerks, or the broody manchild anti-hero, which I do like when done well (see Dean), but they've just become such clichés, that it's becoming hard to relate to new versions of the trope.

I mean, I like Derek, but if it weren't for Hoechlin, his char would be nothing but cardboard. It's like the writers were ticking off a list on what a brooding manchild char is suppsed to be like and then filled every single field.

With Scott, it's so rare to see a main character who's emotionally open, who accepts his feelings and emotions and supports others. Who to use Potter terms, is a Hufflepuff rather than a Gryffindor. Whose main emotional state isn't anger, or sadness, who can admit when he makes a mistake (often toth e point of his own detriment) and whose entire heroisme isn't based on some dead female relative/love interest, but on the example of still living role models. (aka Melissa and Deaton)
We saw Scott actually grow up, yet still keeping his same core values, which is soooo incredibly important to me. He feels like a combination of a younger version of Peter Parker and Steve Rogers and I totally love him for it.

Fanfic meme: 4,5 and 6. Muse characters

( 30 Questions )

4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

Thought that was question 3*g*
Ah well, uhm, I guess for me muses are the characters that pretty much make the fandom for me. Without those characters, I'd probably lose my interest in the fandom in question.

Temlan in Highlander fandom. He was this oc that I created, little brother to Methos. And somehow, even when he wasn't in the fic, he at the very least least got a mention. Of canon chars, I'd say Methos. Richie was admittedly more of a canon stu, but Methos was the canon char that at the time pulled me in the most. Which is funny, cause when I rewatched the show a few years ago, I realized that I now identify much more with Duncan, and think that Adrian Paul was the better actor of the cast. So if I ever write HL fics again, he'd probably be the char that would slip in, no matter what the subject of the story would be.

Spike in BTVS and Angel. It just doesn't feel like the Buffyverse to me, if Spike isn't there. Even when I read someone elses fic, I keep wondering where he is, or what he'd think of what's happening. Which is annoying since most btvs crossover writers don't seem to feel the same way  *pouts*

Dean in Supernatural, and Jensen in spn rps. I just can't read or write an spn fic that doesn't have Dean as its emotional core. It's also the main reason that I just can't read bottomSam. I just don't care enough about Sam, to read about him as the emotional center of a story. (and since the bottom char usually is the emotional center of the story in the majority of fics)

And I think I already explained about Scott in Teen Wolf. The lack of a decent amount of scott-centric fics, is probably the main reason that I never quite seem to be able to slip entirely into teen Wolf fandom, mostly because I lack any and all interest in Stiles. And don't even get me started on how boring I find Jackson.
I can't even imagine writing a Teen Wolf fic that isn't about Scott in some way or another.

5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?

Unless it goes too much against canon, I usually let them, after all, I'm more likely to follow where the story leads me, than to just plot things out in advance.


6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

I hate to admit it, but I usually go with male characters. I feel too close to female chars. I'll bring them in when I can, but since I usually write dark stories, esp. including non-con and slavery, I just don't want to write those with female chars in the submissive role, nor do I want to turn them into the bad guys. So they usually end up being outside observers to what's happening, which makes their parts less emotionally charged and thus smaller as a whole;