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❝WRITE MY PROFILE!❞
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
I have... LOADS of characters. As I talked about (more like... exploded over the entry about) for Day 1, I do have the GCS, which has an awful lot of characters all on its own. My favorite is Dell. :3 I sort of adore him. He's very laid-back, very playful and witty, and he likes to leave people with a slightly incorrect impression - because that way they underestimate him and gain the upper-hand. He has a few issues with his father because he never knew him, and he's really open about sexuality because of how he grew up (his mother worked in a brothel). He's very ambitious and though he likes to hide the face, he's actually a very hard worker. He looks like that guy from Neon Genesis Evangelion - I think his name's Kaji? But yes. That's very similar to how I imagined Dell before I ever even watched that anime. I think it might be because the characters are in some ways similar.
I also love Xander, who is the protagonist of the GCS. He's very down-played throughout the story, partially for plot reasons and partially because he's not much of a talker. AND. Oh, he and Anna. ♥♥♥ EPIC ROMANCE. (Also, cliché time completely: he's a little like re: FMA the Roy to Anna's Riza WHICH DOESN'T MATTER, OKAY? JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH IN THE MILITARY, IT'S TOTALLY. DIFFERENT. ... Ha, no, really, though, Xander's not really like Roy at all (Dell sort of is, though...), but Anna is in some ways pretty similar to Hawkeye (that is such a badass name, now that I think of).
And Titian and Hans! Oh! XD They're the villains and their scenes are just rife with homoerotic goodness. Well, Titian's the villain. Hans is... to simplify things, Hans is his assistant. He's also the one who eventually kills Titian BUM BUM BUM. It's kind of heart-wrenching but in a way, really inevitable. Titian just... well, essentially he's so screwed up and he's grown so upset with his quest for the throne (which some might say is really just a quest to earn his father's love and respect, BUT. Oh, and sidenote, Titian shot his father when he was only thirteen. YES. He is very screwed up.) And Hans does love Titian. The actual entanglements of that love are very, very ambiguous and Hans won't even tell me if it's romantic, platonic, sexual, a weird mix, or something else entirely. But. He sees when Titian is too far out of control, when there's really no saving him. And for the sake of the country, and in Hans' mind for Titian's sake and for his own, he is the one to kill Titian. It's so sad! ;_; Ha, and I'm the one who wrote it. XP I think that's probably some really warped form of arrogance, but I just can't get over these two! It's so tragic! I have a nice little scene about them written somewhere, and maybe I'll link it later.
I'm rather partial to Carl, who is a private detective. He has a secretary named Marla. He's very apathetic about most things, and he also doesn't really believe in restraint. I only created them last summer, so there's not much there. Um um. Gah, I know I have more! There's also Dominic and Mary, who've I've done almost nothing with. (Mary a little more than Dominic, though.) And from junior high, my sort of period romance type story with Katelynn and Jonathon (oh my gosh, I haven't thought about them in so long! XD My friend Amber used to love them, and I'd write long scenes for her during my boring classes. :3) And in that same vein, there was Margaret and Stephan. That story was in Margaret's point of view. That's like... well, besides the fact that it sucks, it's nearly finished. I have about 120 pages (hand-written notebook pages, and I have small handwriting) done; I actually think that if I cleaned it up I could have a nice YA novel. XD Hmm, something to think about.
That's really about it. I work almost exclusively with fan-fiction, my GCS, or short stories which feature characters that I only use once (like Jack the night guard at the museum who defaces paintings, the guy who decides to live in an insane asylum so he won't have to do anything with his life, Mrs. Darling: the lady who turns children into books, Stevie and Shuffly: a boy and his closet monster, which is a story I was writing with paint_stains a significant while ago).
OH! But Jase and Tyler. Almost forgot about them. Jase and Tyler: the basketball couple. They're really adorable, though the story got kind of heavier than I wanted it to because I went into the high school politics of burgeoning sexuality - which sounds all impressive and stuff I guess, but really caused plot problems when all I wanted was for the boys to be cute and fall in love. Ha. Yeah. This was basically a goopy love story. I was planning to do it for the novel big bang, but I never got around to actually finishing it. And like I said, I don't have much of a plot; it's just a lot of scenes about them discussing their feelings, or refusing to discuss their feelings, or kissing, or trying to work out how they feel, or trying to have a relationship in the face of disapproval. Pretty cliché stuff. But still adorable, I don't care what anyone says. XP
OH! And Reg. I can't believe I almost forget Reg. He's... a character. He has green hair and he's asocial and incredibly paranoid. He lives with three beautiful female models because they all know he's not going to hit on them or bring creepy friends home. I have a scene - I have multiple incarnations of this scene, actually - of him in a store, buying mascara for his roommates. I somehow warped this into a story involving a group of time-travelling secret agents with code names of Greek gods. I never plotted far enough to glean anything out of that idea, though, so Reg remains perpetually in that same make-up aisle.
SO. I think that successfully answers the second part of that question. The majority of my characters are men, I'd estimate. I think it's because I am a woman, so I feel like I don't have as much of the psyche to explore - since I live it. I don't know, that's over generalizing the sex and it's not entirely true, anyway. I don't know. I can't say exactly why, because I enjoy writing female characters as much as I enjoy writing male characters, I just tend to write more male characters. (It might be because I'm afraid my female characters will be too much like me, I'm not sure.)
That feels really, really good. :) Just getting to have a nice long ramble about writing! That feels really good.
ALSO. Forgive my whininess from last entry (which... ¬.¬ may be locked to some filters, I'm not even sure which ones, I need to clean that out and sort through my f-list again)! I am still just as upset and just as hurt (I'm sensitive, so what - my feelings are hurt), but I mean... it doesn't really matter. In the long run, it's actually not that big of a deal.
❝WRITE MY PROFILE!❞
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
I have... LOADS of characters. As I talked about (more like... exploded over the entry about) for Day 1, I do have the GCS, which has an awful lot of characters all on its own. My favorite is Dell. :3 I sort of adore him. He's very laid-back, very playful and witty, and he likes to leave people with a slightly incorrect impression - because that way they underestimate him and gain the upper-hand. He has a few issues with his father because he never knew him, and he's really open about sexuality because of how he grew up (his mother worked in a brothel). He's very ambitious and though he likes to hide the face, he's actually a very hard worker. He looks like that guy from Neon Genesis Evangelion - I think his name's Kaji? But yes. That's very similar to how I imagined Dell before I ever even watched that anime. I think it might be because the characters are in some ways similar.
I also love Xander, who is the protagonist of the GCS. He's very down-played throughout the story, partially for plot reasons and partially because he's not much of a talker. AND. Oh, he and Anna. ♥♥♥ EPIC ROMANCE. (Also, cliché time completely: he's a little like re: FMA the Roy to Anna's Riza WHICH DOESN'T MATTER, OKAY? JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH IN THE MILITARY, IT'S TOTALLY. DIFFERENT. ... Ha, no, really, though, Xander's not really like Roy at all (Dell sort of is, though...), but Anna is in some ways pretty similar to Hawkeye (that is such a badass name, now that I think of).
And Titian and Hans! Oh! XD They're the villains and their scenes are just rife with homoerotic goodness. Well, Titian's the villain. Hans is... to simplify things, Hans is his assistant. He's also the one who eventually kills Titian BUM BUM BUM. It's kind of heart-wrenching but in a way, really inevitable. Titian just... well, essentially he's so screwed up and he's grown so upset with his quest for the throne (which some might say is really just a quest to earn his father's love and respect, BUT. Oh, and sidenote, Titian shot his father when he was only thirteen. YES. He is very screwed up.) And Hans does love Titian. The actual entanglements of that love are very, very ambiguous and Hans won't even tell me if it's romantic, platonic, sexual, a weird mix, or something else entirely. But. He sees when Titian is too far out of control, when there's really no saving him. And for the sake of the country, and in Hans' mind for Titian's sake and for his own, he is the one to kill Titian. It's so sad! ;_; Ha, and I'm the one who wrote it. XP I think that's probably some really warped form of arrogance, but I just can't get over these two! It's so tragic! I have a nice little scene about them written somewhere, and maybe I'll link it later.
I'm rather partial to Carl, who is a private detective. He has a secretary named Marla. He's very apathetic about most things, and he also doesn't really believe in restraint. I only created them last summer, so there's not much there. Um um. Gah, I know I have more! There's also Dominic and Mary, who've I've done almost nothing with. (Mary a little more than Dominic, though.) And from junior high, my sort of period romance type story with Katelynn and Jonathon (oh my gosh, I haven't thought about them in so long! XD My friend Amber used to love them, and I'd write long scenes for her during my boring classes. :3) And in that same vein, there was Margaret and Stephan. That story was in Margaret's point of view. That's like... well, besides the fact that it sucks, it's nearly finished. I have about 120 pages (hand-written notebook pages, and I have small handwriting) done; I actually think that if I cleaned it up I could have a nice YA novel. XD Hmm, something to think about.
That's really about it. I work almost exclusively with fan-fiction, my GCS, or short stories which feature characters that I only use once (like Jack the night guard at the museum who defaces paintings, the guy who decides to live in an insane asylum so he won't have to do anything with his life, Mrs. Darling: the lady who turns children into books, Stevie and Shuffly: a boy and his closet monster, which is a story I was writing with paint_stains a significant while ago).
OH! But Jase and Tyler. Almost forgot about them. Jase and Tyler: the basketball couple. They're really adorable, though the story got kind of heavier than I wanted it to because I went into the high school politics of burgeoning sexuality - which sounds all impressive and stuff I guess, but really caused plot problems when all I wanted was for the boys to be cute and fall in love. Ha. Yeah. This was basically a goopy love story. I was planning to do it for the novel big bang, but I never got around to actually finishing it. And like I said, I don't have much of a plot; it's just a lot of scenes about them discussing their feelings, or refusing to discuss their feelings, or kissing, or trying to work out how they feel, or trying to have a relationship in the face of disapproval. Pretty cliché stuff. But still adorable, I don't care what anyone says. XP
OH! And Reg. I can't believe I almost forget Reg. He's... a character. He has green hair and he's asocial and incredibly paranoid. He lives with three beautiful female models because they all know he's not going to hit on them or bring creepy friends home. I have a scene - I have multiple incarnations of this scene, actually - of him in a store, buying mascara for his roommates. I somehow warped this into a story involving a group of time-travelling secret agents with code names of Greek gods. I never plotted far enough to glean anything out of that idea, though, so Reg remains perpetually in that same make-up aisle.
SO. I think that successfully answers the second part of that question. The majority of my characters are men, I'd estimate. I think it's because I am a woman, so I feel like I don't have as much of the psyche to explore - since I live it. I don't know, that's over generalizing the sex and it's not entirely true, anyway. I don't know. I can't say exactly why, because I enjoy writing female characters as much as I enjoy writing male characters, I just tend to write more male characters. (It might be because I'm afraid my female characters will be too much like me, I'm not sure.)
That feels really, really good. :) Just getting to have a nice long ramble about writing! That feels really good.
ALSO. Forgive my whininess from last entry (which... ¬.¬ may be locked to some filters, I'm not even sure which ones, I need to clean that out and sort through my f-list again)! I am still just as upset and just as hurt (I'm sensitive, so what - my feelings are hurt), but I mean... it doesn't really matter. In the long run, it's actually not that big of a deal.