Chr Meme: first four
In response to the Character meme, here are my first four lists.
Sarah Jane Smith for taiamu
1. I do not like Sarah Jane Smith. I adore her unreservedly.
2. I would have liked to see her SJA wardrobe be a bit quirkier like her whatever-fit-in-the-TARDIS-wardrobe clothes were. I LOVE the waistcoats and boots, though.
3. Her chin jutting upward in defiance when she's threatened or angry.
4. I'm going to be rubbish at the song ones, since my mental pool is so shallow. "Somewhere Down The Road"? Not right, too romantic and gooshy, but...??
5. brown; she looks quite good in that color
6. I wouldn't ship her with anyone. I would be glad to see her shag anyone who took her fancy, but she's just not the long-term-romantic-relationship type in my head. I don't ship her with the Doctor, though I think she had a HUGE hero-worship-crush on him for decades (I think she's settled into "impressed and fond" now). I don't ship her with Harry, as I think Harry would have wanted to settle down, and, despite what we've seen for this chunk of SJA, I don't think she settles.
7. "There are ways to do things that don't involve so much risk; be more careful." I think Alan did a decent job of saying this, but I don't think Sarah will ever listen.
8. I suspect she often dreams about both travelling with the Doctor and about being moments too late and not saving the world and the planet either being enslaved or destroyed.
9. I think Sarah always wanted to be writer--sometimes a novelist, sometimes a journalist--except for those few months where she dreamed of being a ballerina in layers of pink meringue, and she doesn't even think about those.
10. Sarah used to have a make-believe life that she carefully created where her parents never died and she had a younger brother and a younger sister. She never wrote any of it down so she could never be found out and considered ungrateful or fanciful, but she knew every detail of this other life, down to where her family's house gathered dust and what her parents' and siblings' clothes were like and even what her father smelled like when he got home from work.
Samantha Carter for binkii822
1. I like her very, very much--her intelligence, practicality, sensitivity, her flaws as those combine to work against her.
2. What I would most like to change is the reaction of fans to Sam in seeing her as more inconsistently written than, say, Daniel, as seeing her as "too perfect" and "too flawed" and something wrong with her no matter what.
3. Her resting her hands on the butt of her P-90. Her fiddling with dohickies. Her crying on the rare occasions the life they lead knocks her down. Her look that says so clearly, "I WILL eat you for breakfast if you don't stop being stupid."
4. I just don't know enough music. I thought first of "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah and then of Elton John's "Rocket Man" but I have no idea if those are even remotely fitting.
5. yellow
6. Jack, Daniel, Martouf, Janet, Pete, Cameron...I don't have an OTP for her, but want her to be happy and supported and get good sex. I would NOT ship her with Hammond or Rodney...
7. I think Sam needs to hear that she's good enough, that her best is enough and appreciated and that things that go wrong when she is working on them are not directly her fault. I think she needs to hear this from Jack and Daniel and Janet and Hammond and Cam and Teal'c and Landry and even Rodney. I think there is a possibility that she MIGHT believe it--a little, and occasionally--from Rodney.
9. We know she wanted to be an astronaut. But definitely a scientist.
10. After her mother died, she cooked for the whole family and burned every meal for a month. She's became quite a good cook, but still hates cooking because of how and why she learned.
Grace Balthasar for brightknightie
1. I like Grace and wish we'd gotten to see more of her.
2. I would most like to change that she was not around enough, that we didn't get to see or know her nearly enough and that Natalie didn't have her support as much as was needed.
3. Her big grin and raising of her eyebrows when telling Natalie to "enjoy your...gift."
4. The first thing that sprang to my mind was "You Light Up My Life," I suspect because I feel like she was a ray of sunshine in Nat's life that was so needed.
5. red
6. I have no idea, but doubt I'd ship her with any of the canon characters. Stonetree occurred to me briefly because I think their senses of humor would be complementary, but I don't actually think she'd be with someone who's in the department; I think she's wise enough to be careful to maintain a fully separate away-from-work personal life.
7. I think she needs to hear that Natalie needs her. I don't know enough about Grace herself to know what she needs to hear about her own life, but I wish that someone had managed to tell her (or that she had figured out) that Nat needed someone even when she was insisting otherwise. I think Grace would certainly listen...but I don't know if she'd be able to talk Natalie into doing the down-time things that would have been good for her.
8. I suspect Grace has wonderfully sensual dreams at times, as well as getting to take fantastically relaxing, fun-in-the-sun island vacations in her sleep.
9. I think she wanted to be an elementary school teacher but went for the better paycheck, the greater intellectual challenge.
10. Grace's grandmother came to live with her family when Grace was six and her grandfather died. Grandma stayed until Grace was 14, when she died peacefully at home, with Grace and her parents sitting quietly with her. Grace was never again afraid of natural death.
Natalie Lambert for brightknightie
1. Again, "like" is not even in the ballpark of an appropriately strong word. I adore Natalie, and still miss her.
2. I would most like to change Natalie's conviction that if she can't do something for someone who has asked, she has no value and that person will no longer like or love her or want to be around her.
3. White scrubs. Nat standing near Nick's door while he stands silently with his back to her. The HUGE, face-splitting grin when something went right with Nick.
4. First thing that came to mind was "Don't You Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
5. that green of her wonderful long raincoat (and her eyes)
6. Nick, sadly, though I don't think they were either in a position to follow through on that in any healthy way. I don't think there was anyone we saw on the show as a good match for her. For a while, in crossover land, I thought that Gary Hobson (Early Edition) would be a good match since he's still got the adventure element, is a nice, mostly stable guy, and Nat's used to secrets and could handle his. But in terms of not...never LaCroix, because he's too much of a bastard.
7. I think Natalie needed to hear so MANY things, but especially that she was not responsible for Nick and his Moods and his Cure and his Life and all the things that she ended up taking onto herself to the detriment of both of them. I think this could possibly have come from Schanke, but since he didn't know enough, it wouldn't have stuck. Coming from LaCroix or Janette, she would have assumed jealousy or bias, and coming from Nick...well, he wouldn't have been able to sell it because he wanted too much for her to be and stay responsible for him and to Fix It All.
8. Natalie dreamed often of being turned into a vampire...and sometimes it was all right and worked out, and most often the consequences were devastating to everyone. She dreamt of Nick leaving her, of losing everything and everyone she loved and being alone and it all being her fault.
9. When Natalie was a little girl, she wanted to grow up to be a pilot and fly planes. When she shifted to wanting to be a doctor, her grandmother told her that it wasn't a good job for a girl and that, anyway, she wasn't good enough with people to have a decent bedside manner. That seed of doubt was part of what led her to shift to working with dead people. She still wanted to fly, though, but could never get up the nerve to ask Nick...and regretted this even in the last moments of "Last Knight."
10. Natalie's dad died when she was five and from that time she felt like Richard was her responsibility and helped him get dressed and got him snacks and food and tidied up messes so her mother would have less she had to do.
Sarah Jane Smith for taiamu
1. I do not like Sarah Jane Smith. I adore her unreservedly.
2. I would have liked to see her SJA wardrobe be a bit quirkier like her whatever-fit-in-the-TARDIS-wardrobe clothes were. I LOVE the waistcoats and boots, though.
3. Her chin jutting upward in defiance when she's threatened or angry.
4. I'm going to be rubbish at the song ones, since my mental pool is so shallow. "Somewhere Down The Road"? Not right, too romantic and gooshy, but...??
5. brown; she looks quite good in that color
6. I wouldn't ship her with anyone. I would be glad to see her shag anyone who took her fancy, but she's just not the long-term-romantic-relationship type in my head. I don't ship her with the Doctor, though I think she had a HUGE hero-worship-crush on him for decades (I think she's settled into "impressed and fond" now). I don't ship her with Harry, as I think Harry would have wanted to settle down, and, despite what we've seen for this chunk of SJA, I don't think she settles.
7. "There are ways to do things that don't involve so much risk; be more careful." I think Alan did a decent job of saying this, but I don't think Sarah will ever listen.
8. I suspect she often dreams about both travelling with the Doctor and about being moments too late and not saving the world and the planet either being enslaved or destroyed.
9. I think Sarah always wanted to be writer--sometimes a novelist, sometimes a journalist--except for those few months where she dreamed of being a ballerina in layers of pink meringue, and she doesn't even think about those.
10. Sarah used to have a make-believe life that she carefully created where her parents never died and she had a younger brother and a younger sister. She never wrote any of it down so she could never be found out and considered ungrateful or fanciful, but she knew every detail of this other life, down to where her family's house gathered dust and what her parents' and siblings' clothes were like and even what her father smelled like when he got home from work.
Samantha Carter for binkii822
1. I like her very, very much--her intelligence, practicality, sensitivity, her flaws as those combine to work against her.
2. What I would most like to change is the reaction of fans to Sam in seeing her as more inconsistently written than, say, Daniel, as seeing her as "too perfect" and "too flawed" and something wrong with her no matter what.
3. Her resting her hands on the butt of her P-90. Her fiddling with dohickies. Her crying on the rare occasions the life they lead knocks her down. Her look that says so clearly, "I WILL eat you for breakfast if you don't stop being stupid."
4. I just don't know enough music. I thought first of "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah and then of Elton John's "Rocket Man" but I have no idea if those are even remotely fitting.
5. yellow
6. Jack, Daniel, Martouf, Janet, Pete, Cameron...I don't have an OTP for her, but want her to be happy and supported and get good sex. I would NOT ship her with Hammond or Rodney...
7. I think Sam needs to hear that she's good enough, that her best is enough and appreciated and that things that go wrong when she is working on them are not directly her fault. I think she needs to hear this from Jack and Daniel and Janet and Hammond and Cam and Teal'c and Landry and even Rodney. I think there is a possibility that she MIGHT believe it--a little, and occasionally--from Rodney.
9. We know she wanted to be an astronaut. But definitely a scientist.
10. After her mother died, she cooked for the whole family and burned every meal for a month. She's became quite a good cook, but still hates cooking because of how and why she learned.
Grace Balthasar for brightknightie
1. I like Grace and wish we'd gotten to see more of her.
2. I would most like to change that she was not around enough, that we didn't get to see or know her nearly enough and that Natalie didn't have her support as much as was needed.
3. Her big grin and raising of her eyebrows when telling Natalie to "enjoy your...gift."
4. The first thing that sprang to my mind was "You Light Up My Life," I suspect because I feel like she was a ray of sunshine in Nat's life that was so needed.
5. red
6. I have no idea, but doubt I'd ship her with any of the canon characters. Stonetree occurred to me briefly because I think their senses of humor would be complementary, but I don't actually think she'd be with someone who's in the department; I think she's wise enough to be careful to maintain a fully separate away-from-work personal life.
7. I think she needs to hear that Natalie needs her. I don't know enough about Grace herself to know what she needs to hear about her own life, but I wish that someone had managed to tell her (or that she had figured out) that Nat needed someone even when she was insisting otherwise. I think Grace would certainly listen...but I don't know if she'd be able to talk Natalie into doing the down-time things that would have been good for her.
8. I suspect Grace has wonderfully sensual dreams at times, as well as getting to take fantastically relaxing, fun-in-the-sun island vacations in her sleep.
9. I think she wanted to be an elementary school teacher but went for the better paycheck, the greater intellectual challenge.
10. Grace's grandmother came to live with her family when Grace was six and her grandfather died. Grandma stayed until Grace was 14, when she died peacefully at home, with Grace and her parents sitting quietly with her. Grace was never again afraid of natural death.
Natalie Lambert for brightknightie
1. Again, "like" is not even in the ballpark of an appropriately strong word. I adore Natalie, and still miss her.
2. I would most like to change Natalie's conviction that if she can't do something for someone who has asked, she has no value and that person will no longer like or love her or want to be around her.
3. White scrubs. Nat standing near Nick's door while he stands silently with his back to her. The HUGE, face-splitting grin when something went right with Nick.
4. First thing that came to mind was "Don't You Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
5. that green of her wonderful long raincoat (and her eyes)
6. Nick, sadly, though I don't think they were either in a position to follow through on that in any healthy way. I don't think there was anyone we saw on the show as a good match for her. For a while, in crossover land, I thought that Gary Hobson (Early Edition) would be a good match since he's still got the adventure element, is a nice, mostly stable guy, and Nat's used to secrets and could handle his. But in terms of not...never LaCroix, because he's too much of a bastard.
7. I think Natalie needed to hear so MANY things, but especially that she was not responsible for Nick and his Moods and his Cure and his Life and all the things that she ended up taking onto herself to the detriment of both of them. I think this could possibly have come from Schanke, but since he didn't know enough, it wouldn't have stuck. Coming from LaCroix or Janette, she would have assumed jealousy or bias, and coming from Nick...well, he wouldn't have been able to sell it because he wanted too much for her to be and stay responsible for him and to Fix It All.
8. Natalie dreamed often of being turned into a vampire...and sometimes it was all right and worked out, and most often the consequences were devastating to everyone. She dreamt of Nick leaving her, of losing everything and everyone she loved and being alone and it all being her fault.
9. When Natalie was a little girl, she wanted to grow up to be a pilot and fly planes. When she shifted to wanting to be a doctor, her grandmother told her that it wasn't a good job for a girl and that, anyway, she wasn't good enough with people to have a decent bedside manner. That seed of doubt was part of what led her to shift to working with dead people. She still wanted to fly, though, but could never get up the nerve to ask Nick...and regretted this even in the last moments of "Last Knight."
10. Natalie's dad died when she was five and from that time she felt like Richard was her responsibility and helped him get dressed and got him snacks and food and tidied up messes so her mother would have less she had to do.