terabient

Almost forgot to post the last few days! :o

In the 'tentative plans' department I may be in the Boston area Monday-Tuesday to wallow in some schaudenfreude, get acquainted with the arcade versions of Beatmania IIDX: Lincle and Pop'n Music: Tone Street, and hopefully meet up with some old friends. Even more tentatively: I might be in Philadelphia in the first week of December for some extreme nerding out. Still unlikely as only a few of the details have been worked out.

Anyway, now it's MEME TIME.

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?

...I don't think I've ever had something like this happen to me. There have been times when I try to reduce or ignore a character that logically should be in a fic because of their relationship to the character I'm writing about - but that is always because doing so makes writing the fic easier, not because it's a good narrative choice. When that happens and I find myself admitting that I need to add in the ignored character, that's just me being a lazy writer, not the character trying to force their way into a story.

Though I should admit that I dislike thinking of writing in terms of uh...how to put it...sentient and separate entities, like muses. It has always struck me as a bit pretentious and uh...flighty? I know it's pretty mean to see it that way because it's a very common way for people to frame their writing process and there's nothing wrong with it but I can't help but get annoyed when I hear writers talk in terms of muses, characters/plots 'demanding' things of their authors, etc.

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30 Days Fanfiction Meme

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

hoooooo boy. Maybe I shouldn't have listed every little thing? For a lot of these it's going to be 'favorite character' just because I haven't written enough in the fandom. ^^;

Skies of Arcadia- Belleza and Enrique, for ANGST POTENTIAL. Also, Enrique's relationships with the main trio (Vyse, Aika, Fina) are...charming!

Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden- Ryu Hayabusa and Ein/Hayate, because they are sexy ninja boys, and DoA/NG's ninja clan storyline is like the bloodiest soap-opera ever, so there's lots of angst and slash and overwrought drama. It's a fun world to play in.

Soulcalibur- Raphael (oh surprise, surprise). I'm still a little bit annoyed by the decision to make him into a vampire-thing, but the more I poke at the subject the more I find it enjoyable and creepy, SO. but turning him into an incubus would have been more fun Amy and Siegfried are fun to work with, too...lots of internal conflict to mine there.

Left 4 Dead- Ohhh, tough one. Sweet Peanut is the most fun I've had writing a fic ever, buuuut I wouldn't say Nick is my favorite character to write. Ellis is fun, Louis is fun; I have some stuff I haven't posted about Rochelle and I do like writing her as an observant, reporter-type. HMMM. I think I might go with Ellis as a fave, then Louis - Ellis' voice is easy to pin down but it takes some care to keep him from becoming a parody of himself. Even Valve dropped the ball there (I'm looking at you, Passing campaign). So fun without being particularly difficult. Louis is more subdued and less crazy, and I think keeping him in character and interesting is harder.

Ghost in the Shell- Motoko's really the only character I care about. She's by far the best character to use to explore the possibilities in the Ghost in the Shell world - I guess Batou would work as well, but Motoko has a more appealing personality to write, I think. Also all of her bodies are hot (save the little boy one, okay. and her child body.)

Yuugioh- Uhhhh. I like Yuugi and Ryou Bakura - the sweet and adorable 'personalities,' not their yamis or other selves or whatever fanon term is least controversial and stupid sounding nowadays.

Final Fantasy 4/6/7/9/13- TERRA BRANDFORD FOREVER!!! uh I like writing Vanille as well.

Dead Rising 2- Chuck Greene is really the only interesting character. Leon Bell is mildly amusing as a foil/fanboy that wants to get in Chuck's pants.

Resident Evil- Sheva and Leon seem to be the easiest to write, although in Leon's case I kind of have to decide whether to go with his RE4 characterization or Degeneration characterization. Degeneration!Leon is pretty boring though so it's usually RE4!Leon. And I like writing about Chris, but not from his point of view, so much.

Resonance of Fate- Zephyr and Leanne. I actually haven't tried to write anything about Vashyron directly despite his awesomeness.

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let's try one of these again...

30 Days Fanfiction Meme

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

Whoa...I think the first thing I ever tried writing something for was for Sailor Moon, when I was just starting 6th or 7th grade. I didn't post it publicly, or even finish it, but that was the first piece of derivative fiction I ever wrote. IIRC it was supposed to be a parody of the dub version and also cliches in Sailor Moon fic, but the only event I can clearly remember is that Rei got stuck doing nothing but sweeping the temple floors. It's probably best it was never unleashed on the internet.

The first fic I finished and posted publicly was a shmoopy Skies of Arcadia Vyse/Aika fic. I think I was 16 at the time? I wrote it because there were like, 10 SoA fics around at the time, and all of the shippy ones were Vyse/Fina. I had to stick up for Vyse/Aika ;O Not really, of course, but at 16, shipping wars are SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Remarkably it still gets a steady stream of hits on fanfiction.net. I guess it's still one of the only Vyse/Aika fics around? :c OH WELL.

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