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3 - For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?
Let's keep it to the later fandoms.
Mag7 - Ezra, by far. Technically, Ezra and Vin, but Ezra is clearly my favorite.
Wrestling - back during the WWE portion of my life, it was Triple H, Kurt Angle, and Steve Austin. For TNA, it was AJ and Daniels, of course, followed by Jarrett and Simon Diamond. Uh, Cypress notwithstanding, because Cypress is, well, Cypress.
Leverage - Nate and Eliot
Mentalist - Patrick Jane and all his fucked up glory
Trek RPS - Pinto
X-Men: First Class - Charles & Erik
4 - Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?
I don't have a centralized muse. There are individual characters of each particular fandom that speak to me more than others. Or speak more loudly and frequently. There is an interesting observation I had, for example, regarding Mag7. Back when I wrote for it in '98/'99, the character who talked the most was Ezra, and most of my stuff was from his POV. But when I dipped back in '08, for the completed fic and the sadly incomplete epic and all subsequent ideas, it was Vin who took over. Everything was from his perspective. And I wonder if maybe I got over using the manpain character as my primary voice, because I get nothing from Erik for XMFC when I know 10 years ago, I would've been endlessly churning out stuff from his perspective. It's possible that I no longer identify with that mindset, I don't know.
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 roll with it. I just had Alex Summers barge into "Incendium" and carve out a chunk for himself when none of the kids was meant to have any sort of a major role in the story. He doesn't get his own perspective and it's not a huge part, but he wants his conversations on the page, he wants to have a role, and there's not much I can do other than let him, because it was an organic development, and I always opt with going for what occurs organically than force the story from being what it wants to be.
Let's keep it to the later fandoms.
Mag7 - Ezra, by far. Technically, Ezra and Vin, but Ezra is clearly my favorite.
Wrestling - back during the WWE portion of my life, it was Triple H, Kurt Angle, and Steve Austin. For TNA, it was AJ and Daniels, of course, followed by Jarrett and Simon Diamond. Uh, Cypress notwithstanding, because Cypress is, well, Cypress.
Leverage - Nate and Eliot
Mentalist - Patrick Jane and all his fucked up glory
Trek RPS - Pinto
X-Men: First Class - Charles & Erik
4 - Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?
I don't have a centralized muse. There are individual characters of each particular fandom that speak to me more than others. Or speak more loudly and frequently. There is an interesting observation I had, for example, regarding Mag7. Back when I wrote for it in '98/'99, the character who talked the most was Ezra, and most of my stuff was from his POV. But when I dipped back in '08, for the completed fic and the sadly incomplete epic and all subsequent ideas, it was Vin who took over. Everything was from his perspective. And I wonder if maybe I got over using the manpain character as my primary voice, because I get nothing from Erik for XMFC when I know 10 years ago, I would've been endlessly churning out stuff from his perspective. It's possible that I no longer identify with that mindset, I don't know.
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 roll with it. I just had Alex Summers barge into "Incendium" and carve out a chunk for himself when none of the kids was meant to have any sort of a major role in the story. He doesn't get his own perspective and it's not a huge part, but he wants his conversations on the page, he wants to have a role, and there's not much I can do other than let him, because it was an organic development, and I always opt with going for what occurs organically than force the story from being what it wants to be.