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caitri

Gratuitous Meme is Gratuitous

Jan 13, 2011 16:53

Shamelessly liberated from tocourtdisaster:

Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas/concepts/other I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting them accurately.

Five Things About Bones

Five Things About Mal Reynolds

Five Things About Richard Castle
(Yes, I KNOW I've never written Castle fic, ( Read more... )

castle, fanfiction, writing, memes

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sally_daer January 13 2011, 23:18:30 UTC

Bones, please?

Five Things About Bones caitri January 14 2011, 00:29:11 UTC

1) He thinks of himself as Leonard. Not Len, not Leo, not Lenny, not even Bones. Leonard. In fact, he won't tolerate nicknames, mispronounciations (well, okay, maybe if there's an alien involved and he has to be diplomatic), or the alteration of his name in any way, shape, or form. Jim, and Jim only, gets to call him Bones, and that's because Jim is special, and worse, knows it. Dammit ( ... )

Re: Five Things About Bones sail_aweigh January 14 2011, 02:19:42 UTC

#5! ::drops down dead from ♥::

Re: Five Things About Bones caitri January 14 2011, 02:20:48 UTC

<333

Thread 11

thistlerose January 14 2011, 00:06:27 UTC

Malcolm Reynolds!

Five Things About Mal caitri January 14 2011, 00:48:23 UTC

1) Mal will tell you he's an atheist, and that he doesn't believe in any God, Gods, or fat babies with feathers and harps. This is a lie. He does believe in God. He just thinks God's a nasty piece of work and they'd be better of if He, She, or It wasn't around mucking about with everyone.

2) He is an educated man. Self-educated. On his Ma's ranch, even with about forty ranchhands to help, there was more work than schoolin' had time for, but when he was a kid he read as many books on the cortex as he could get his hands on. Most folks assume he's not that smart, never mind he has a head for figures. That's fine by him. You wouldn't believe the gosse folks from the Core will spout if they think you don't understand 'em ( ... )

Re: Five Things About Mal thistlerose January 14 2011, 02:04:55 UTC

Perfect, and perfectly in character! ♥

Re: Five Things About Mal caitri January 14 2011, 02:06:14 UTC

<333

Yeah, we should probably worry that I write about a character...IN CHARACTER. O_o

Thread 7

tn_tiger January 14 2011, 02:08:18 UTC

Richard Castle!

Five Things About Richard Castle caitri January 14 2011, 02:34:17 UTC

1) He always wanted to be a Space Cowboy when he grew up. This is a true story. It has to do with being five years old, Halloween, a cowboy hat and a homemade laser gun. Eventually he was old enough (twenty-three) to discover that by writing he could be a Space Cowboy, or a superhero, or a detective, or (and best of all) the guy who gets the girl in the end ( ... )

Re: Five Things About Richard Castle gadgetorious January 14 2011, 05:14:10 UTC

Oh god, I think I actually want to write a fic about #5. FML.

Re: Five Things About Richard Castle caitri January 14 2011, 05:15:36 UTC

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thread 5

gadgetorious January 14 2011, 03:34:54 UTC

Willow Rosenberg.

Five Things About Willow caitri January 14 2011, 03:57:45 UTC

1) She truly loves Buffy. Not the way she loved Tara, or loves Kennedy, but not the way you'd love a sister either. She used to hate her a little too, though, in a way she could never even articulate to herself: How Buffy was power, even at her weakest. Even when Willow taps into the power of the Earth and can feel the Light infusing her, that kernel of darkness is inside her and the very opposite of her friend, and it scares her to death.

2) She never told Sheila about Tara. She's never told her about Kennedy either. But they talk maybe twice a year about nothing, and she knows she should feel guilty about that, too, but she doesn't.

3) She read The Mists of Avalon when she was ten. She things that explains quite a few things about her life, all of them after the fact ( ... )

Re: Five Things About Willow gadgetorious January 14 2011, 05:10:51 UTC

Eeee. #4 is my favorite. (But #3 made me laugh the most.) :D

Re: Five Things About Willow caitri January 14 2011, 05:16:04 UTC

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Thread 5

gadgetorious January 14 2011, 05:24:52 UTC

Simon Tam!

Five Things About Simon Tam caitri January 14 2011, 05:50:36 UTC

1) For the longest time, River was the world to Simon. They were the only people who truly got each other--the jokes and the games and the studies and--everything. It's funny how, when the world should've gotten smaller--when she lost herself in her own mind for a while--it got bigger too, because then there was Book to be wise and Wash to make jokes and Zoe to offer a word of advice, and strangely enough, Jayne to be there to save their lives. And of course, Mal looking on as he always does with that odd smile he has sometimes, like he gets something no one else does.

2) He tries to talk to Kaylee. He really does. Sometimes he rehearses whole speeches in his head but then he looks at her and every word goes straight out of his brain to be replaced by gosse, and even when the words are coming out of his mouth he know how horribly it's going, can see it on her face, but he can't stop. He supposes it means something that he finally gets the words right when he thinks they're going to die. But if they're gonna live, he's going to have ( ... )

Re: Five Things About Simon Tam gadgetorious January 14 2011, 05:54:20 UTC

<3333

4) He really hates that his sister is a telepath though. He tries really hard not to think about it too much.

Or anything, because of the whole telepathy thing... ;)