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message in a monologue ([info]dreamandawake) wrote,
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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