OOC meme
Gacked from data_soong :)
1. What gender of character do you play more of, male or female? Why?
Male, invariably. I tend to find male characters more like me, easier to understand, and therefore more appealing!
2. Is this different or the same as your own gender?
Um...I'd say different sex, closer to the same gender :)
3. Do you find that your gender makes it easier or more challenging to play your characters?
Easier. I'm considering apping a female character to attempt to improve my ability to write women, but I would find it *extremely* challenging.
4. What sexuality / gender identity do your characters have?
Varies...I tend to go for characters with ambiguous sexuality or who are simply bisexual - I tend to play sci-fi characters from universes where sexuality has gone beyond simple dichotomy, and hence the sex of their partner isn't as important as his or her personality and behaviour. Avon, I think, doesn't care what sex his partners are as long as they're intelligent and strong. Travis is almost exclusively homosexual; he has had very bad experiences at the hands of cold, manipulative women, and he is attracted to messed-up guys like himself, people he can relate to, who won't use him. Harry is straight, plain and simple. Romo is more or less straight but, like Avon, probably more interested in personality than whether the sex organs are on the inside or out. Weyoun is the odd one out in that he's basically androgynous (though male in terms of biological sex) and asexual.
5. How does your character's sexuality and gender identity define / affect their personality?
I wouldn't say any of them are *defined* by their sexuality/gender, any more than a real person is. Travis and Weyoun are the only ones for whom sexuality and gender are issues, Weyoun because he's curious about, but afraid of, what might happen to him if he experiments with sex, and Travis because he's extremely sexually repressed, but has undergone a sort of sexual epiphany since arriving in the village. He's still figuring out how to cope with that.
6. Do you tend to predominantly play characters of a certain sexuality? If so, why?
As above, characters more interested in personality, and maybe gender of their partner than their biological sex.
7. To what extent to you write / play your character's sexual or romantic life?
Depends on character! If they meet somebody they fancy/are attracted to/fall in love with I'm more than happy to explore it to its fullest extent; what I don't like to do is involve a character romantically if it's entirely inappropriate to their personality. Weyoun isn't going to randomly start sleeping with people, for example. It isn't his nature. Travis won't try to seduce hot, confident women, though he might pick out vulnerable young men who don't scare him off. Harry will go after anything in a skirt. Romo will take what he can get when the mood strikes him, but he'll probably be thinking of his wife. Avon's in a monogamous relationship which is both intellectually and physically satisfying, so he's good :)
8. How has the character's romantic life affected his character development?
For three of them, not really; for two of them, quite a lot. Avon has been very much affected by his relationship with Data; it's given him a reason to live beyond his obligation to his dead crewmates, and has stopped him from spiraling into self-destructive stimulant-psychosis! Travis has experienced something of a sexual awakening, but his sexuality/romantic tendencies are those of a adolescent, immature and confusing. He conflates lust with love and friendship with romance, and doesn't have the self-insight to separate the two. But he's learning.
9. Do you set 'ships' or plan for your characters to be together with other characters, or do you allow their relationships to develop organically? Why?
I like to let everything develop as organically as possible. Realism is the name of the game for me :) I like to plot specifics, but relationships develop as they will. Surprise is fun!
10. Do you change the gender identities / preferred sexualities of canon characters? Why / why not?
I usually chose canons where the writers may not have chosen a particular sexuality for their character because of social issues etc, but it's still implicit. For example, B7 was barely able to include explicit het, let alone gay characters, but Blake/Avon was pretty blatant and indeed retrospectively canonised by one of the writers, so I feel safe in playing Avon as bisexual. Travis' homosexuality is again strongly implied - he is fixated on Blake in ways which clearly go beyond vengeance, he has more chemistry with men than women, and is the only male character in close contact with Servalan who is apparently utterly immune to her charms. There is some indication that he may have had a relationship with a woman years ago; in my fanon, she treated him very badly. His only other close relationship with a woman was with Servalan, who used him as a scapegoat, betrayed him and tried to have him executed. Understandable that he wants to avoid girls in future :) As for the others - Harry is hetero, plain and simple, since he's a womaniser in canon and shows no interest in men. We know Romo was married to a woman, but he also has chemistry with a male character in canon, so I'll stick with 'probably straight but see what happens if the right guy comes along'. Weyoun is and will remain asexual; if he experiments, it could be with either sex, a horse, an inanimate object, or pretty much anything else that takes his fancy :)
I could just have said 'no'. lol. And the reason is that the whole point of RPing a character for me is to do it as realistically as possible. If I'm going to chop and change them I might as well create original characters in the first place. I enjoy elaborating on and developing them, but making them inconsistent with canon is not the idea. They might be unrecognisable after a couple of years in the village, but the idea is that the change will be gradual and believable!
1. What gender of character do you play more of, male or female? Why?
Male, invariably. I tend to find male characters more like me, easier to understand, and therefore more appealing!
2. Is this different or the same as your own gender?
Um...I'd say different sex, closer to the same gender :)
3. Do you find that your gender makes it easier or more challenging to play your characters?
Easier. I'm considering apping a female character to attempt to improve my ability to write women, but I would find it *extremely* challenging.
4. What sexuality / gender identity do your characters have?
Varies...I tend to go for characters with ambiguous sexuality or who are simply bisexual - I tend to play sci-fi characters from universes where sexuality has gone beyond simple dichotomy, and hence the sex of their partner isn't as important as his or her personality and behaviour. Avon, I think, doesn't care what sex his partners are as long as they're intelligent and strong. Travis is almost exclusively homosexual; he has had very bad experiences at the hands of cold, manipulative women, and he is attracted to messed-up guys like himself, people he can relate to, who won't use him. Harry is straight, plain and simple. Romo is more or less straight but, like Avon, probably more interested in personality than whether the sex organs are on the inside or out. Weyoun is the odd one out in that he's basically androgynous (though male in terms of biological sex) and asexual.
5. How does your character's sexuality and gender identity define / affect their personality?
I wouldn't say any of them are *defined* by their sexuality/gender, any more than a real person is. Travis and Weyoun are the only ones for whom sexuality and gender are issues, Weyoun because he's curious about, but afraid of, what might happen to him if he experiments with sex, and Travis because he's extremely sexually repressed, but has undergone a sort of sexual epiphany since arriving in the village. He's still figuring out how to cope with that.
6. Do you tend to predominantly play characters of a certain sexuality? If so, why?
As above, characters more interested in personality, and maybe gender of their partner than their biological sex.
7. To what extent to you write / play your character's sexual or romantic life?
Depends on character! If they meet somebody they fancy/are attracted to/fall in love with I'm more than happy to explore it to its fullest extent; what I don't like to do is involve a character romantically if it's entirely inappropriate to their personality. Weyoun isn't going to randomly start sleeping with people, for example. It isn't his nature. Travis won't try to seduce hot, confident women, though he might pick out vulnerable young men who don't scare him off. Harry will go after anything in a skirt. Romo will take what he can get when the mood strikes him, but he'll probably be thinking of his wife. Avon's in a monogamous relationship which is both intellectually and physically satisfying, so he's good :)
8. How has the character's romantic life affected his character development?
For three of them, not really; for two of them, quite a lot. Avon has been very much affected by his relationship with Data; it's given him a reason to live beyond his obligation to his dead crewmates, and has stopped him from spiraling into self-destructive stimulant-psychosis! Travis has experienced something of a sexual awakening, but his sexuality/romantic tendencies are those of a adolescent, immature and confusing. He conflates lust with love and friendship with romance, and doesn't have the self-insight to separate the two. But he's learning.
9. Do you set 'ships' or plan for your characters to be together with other characters, or do you allow their relationships to develop organically? Why?
I like to let everything develop as organically as possible. Realism is the name of the game for me :) I like to plot specifics, but relationships develop as they will. Surprise is fun!
10. Do you change the gender identities / preferred sexualities of canon characters? Why / why not?
I usually chose canons where the writers may not have chosen a particular sexuality for their character because of social issues etc, but it's still implicit. For example, B7 was barely able to include explicit het, let alone gay characters, but Blake/Avon was pretty blatant and indeed retrospectively canonised by one of the writers, so I feel safe in playing Avon as bisexual. Travis' homosexuality is again strongly implied - he is fixated on Blake in ways which clearly go beyond vengeance, he has more chemistry with men than women, and is the only male character in close contact with Servalan who is apparently utterly immune to her charms. There is some indication that he may have had a relationship with a woman years ago; in my fanon, she treated him very badly. His only other close relationship with a woman was with Servalan, who used him as a scapegoat, betrayed him and tried to have him executed. Understandable that he wants to avoid girls in future :) As for the others - Harry is hetero, plain and simple, since he's a womaniser in canon and shows no interest in men. We know Romo was married to a woman, but he also has chemistry with a male character in canon, so I'll stick with 'probably straight but see what happens if the right guy comes along'. Weyoun is and will remain asexual; if he experiments, it could be with either sex, a horse, an inanimate object, or pretty much anything else that takes his fancy :)
I could just have said 'no'. lol. And the reason is that the whole point of RPing a character for me is to do it as realistically as possible. If I'm going to chop and change them I might as well create original characters in the first place. I enjoy elaborating on and developing them, but making them inconsistent with canon is not the idea. They might be unrecognisable after a couple of years in the village, but the idea is that the change will be gradual and believable!