message in a monologue (dreamandawake) wrote,
@ 2008-09-04 00:50:00

{forty: heather freaks out
Comment with one of my characters (past or present) and I will tell you the following:

1. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
2. One of his/her best traits.
3. One of his/her worst traits.
4. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
5. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
6. My plans for the character in the near future. (In the case of previous characters, this question reads as "what I planned to do with them.")

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	colourexplosion 2008-09-04 06:01 am UTC (link)
	Oh oh oh oh oh. I can't think of one ahhh ahhh ah h JIMMY. (Reply to this)(Thread)

dreamandawake
2008-09-04 06:11 am UTC (link)

1. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.

Well, I've always been crazy for James Thurber, as he is HILARIOUS, but I really started giving him some serious thought when I was feeling very sick and tired of playing nothing but creepy macabre chars. I felt like playing someone silly and funny and adorable. And thus, a Jimmy was born.

2. One of his/her best traits.

His sense of humor! Jimmy's all about making people laugh, even at his own expense. It's sort of his personal mission to brighten the lives of those around him, even though it may not always work.

3. One of his/her worst traits.

He's hardly ever serious. Jimmy runs about a mile a minute, always too busy coming up with the perfect joke to really settle down and be serious for a second -- about anything. His humor is really a coping mechanism, and so without it, he feels very vulnerable and insecure.

4. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.

Jimmy's actually pretty easy. He's a ton of fun to write. They say every character is simply an extension of the author, and if that's true, Jimmy definitely has my sense of humor and my absolute whorish love for pop culture, which make him a very natural delight to write.

5. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.

THUG LIFE, YO

6. My plans for the character in the near future. (In the case of previous characters, this question reads as "what I planned to do with them.")

Well I want Jimmy to get a job at a grocery store where he can be hit on by old women. Mostly Jimmy doesn't have much Plot plot, he's just a very fun, very casual sort of character. For him, I like to go with the flow~

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	derkins 2008-09-04 10:19 am UTC (link)
	simone~ (Reply to this)(Thread)

dreamandawake
2008-09-05 12:55 am UTC (link)

1. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.

Well I was sitting in my Existentialism class last year, and Dr. Owen was talking about Simone de Beauvoir. And it was all fairly interesting and all that, until he mentioned de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex which is about this woman and her partner who both fall in love with the same girl. I thought that was terrifically interesting, and then when we started learning about de Beauvoir's life, I was sold.

2. One of his/her best traits.

Simone's independence. She has absolute faith in herself, which meansSimone doesn't need anyone to believe in her, or do anything for her. She's very self sufficient.

3. One of his/her worst traits.

Her arrogance. It really makes Simone sort of selfish, because she believes that she can and WILL achieve everything she wants, and can have anything she wants. So she sometimes takes other people's wants and needs for granted, coming across as a boyfriend stealing bitch.

4. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.

Simone is my darling, I've never had a problem writing her. Usually I write her BETTER if I'm not moping in my own inadequacies, of course, but other than that Simone is always very easy. The hardest part is deciding what she's going to wear in her scenes.

5. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.

Simone leans over her legs towards him then and takes his glasses off his face. "So don't think about it, love. No need to huff, you're here with me now. You can be angry when Evelyn is around." She puts his glasses on her face and goes immediately crosseyed, everything's a blur.

Simone went through a bit of a crisis as far as her manners of speech were concerned, as I experimented with different types of slang and accents for her, before settling here. This is probably a very bad example, but this is where she really settled into the Simone you see today.

6. My plans for the character in the near future. (In the case of previous characters, this question reads as "what I planned to do with them.")

Unfortunately right now Simone doesn't have very many plans. I'd love to get her into some very heated argument with someone about feminism or her own worth, but as of right now I don't see that really happening.

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	ow_mybrain 2008-09-05 04:42 am UTC (link)
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	lemonadeandgin 2008-09-05 02:23 am UTC (link)
	As requested earlier, Jacob! (Also Skip) (Reply to this)(Thread)

jacob

dreamandawake
2008-09-05 02:36 am UTC (link)

1. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.

Well, I'd been sort of idly considering playing another boy at the Springs (as I really do prefer them) when one day you lovely lovely mods put up that post asking if anyone would be interested in picking up a Grimm brother. And before I could even blink, there was Jacob all fully formed in my head, just waiting around for a PB and a journal.

2. One of his/her best traits.

His responsibility. If Jacob says he will do something, he will do it not only promptly, but to the very extent of his ability. He takes care of the people he loves, and would do anything for them, even at the cost of his own happiness and livelihood, without thinking twice.

3. One of his/her worst traits.

Jacob has such a freaking martyr complex. It's the darker half of the responsibility thing. Yes, absolutely he'd give up anything and everything if he was asked to by someone he cares for, but Jacob feels like he's been giving and giving and giving his whole life by this point, and so while he does continue, it's starting to become a source of bitterness for him.

4. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.

Well, Jacob USED to be very easy, but lately I suppose I've come to realize just how freaking annoying it can be for him to be so uptight.

5. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.

His first scene with Liam. It was so exactly what I had in mind for them.

6. My plans for the character in the near future. (In the case of previous characters, this question reads as "what I planned to do with them.")

Get him unvampired! Also I suppose I'd like to fix Jacob some how, someday. I'd like to see him more well-adjusted, but I'm not sure how to get him there.

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	ow_mybrain 2008-09-05 04:44 am UTC (link)
	SCOTT(Y DOESNT KNOW) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	colourexplosion 2008-09-05 05:11 am UTC (link)
	(SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW THAT FIONA AND ME DO IT IN MY VAN EVERY SUNDAY. TELLS HIM SHE'S IN CHURCH AND HE DOESN'T KNOW SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW, SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW, SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOWWWWWWW) (Reply to this)(Parent)

dreamandawake
2008-09-05 03:49 pm UTC (link)

1. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.

I believe it was you and I talking about how awesome it would be to major in American Pop Culture, and then we were talking about teaching, and then we were talking about teaching at Lowood and then somehow you ended up with Hemingway and I ended up with Fitzgerald, who both somehow sort of fulfill the dream of being Pop Culture whores.

2. One of his/her best traits.

For Scott, I would say his best trait is his charisma. He has a talent for speaking to people, and explaining things to them. He knows how to make his point and, better still, knows how to make other people see his point. I am fairly certain that the only reason he wasn't kicked out of Lowood on a few occasions was because of this charisma.

3. One of his/her worst traits.

Scott mopes. He gets caught up in these cycles of mind games, turning the situation over and over in his mind until it all looks infinitely worse and everything is ruined forever. Once something's gone wrong, Scott is more likely to complain and worry over it than to actually do something proactive towards fixing it.

4. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.

Scott is absolutely easy. I don't recall ever having had a problem with him, actually.

5. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.

Scott laughs. "If only you knew, Dot. If only you knew. Now." He leans in fractionally, as if telling a secret. "Here is the plan. I am going to order us one more round. Just one. And then you and I are going to leave." Pause. "And pretend we never encountered each other here. So tell me, Dot. What is your favorite drink?"

Seriously. Nothing but trouble. (We should scene Dot/Scott as her being TA.)

6. My plans for the character in the near future. (In the case of previous characters, this question reads as "what I planned to do with them.")

Haven't the slightest! Getting into more trouble, I assume. And fluffy little things with Zelda, I hope.

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