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Since things are finally starting to look up a bit at work (more on that in a locked post although that might end up being tomorrow) I now find myself getting more ideas for these again. Of course in typical timing, this is right before I go away, but then I'm used to getting ideas right before having no access to laptop to post from. (See also: "Jacob's encounters with the deceased" Lost fic which I ended up handwriting and taking home from Grandad's because his computer, named Trigger's Broom as every piece had been replaced at least once but it was still the same computer, bluescreened and died! Well, resurrected by my uncle after I had gone.)
So, my question to you today (was going to say this week, but actually want to do more before I go), do you have a character who is your muse, or one who tends to push their way into your fics? Or the flip side, any you struggle with?
As for mine, the most recent muse character is Mikkel Nielsen from Dark. His story has so much potential; we see him ending up travelling 33 years back in time and ending up in 1986, some attempts to get back home, but it is revealed early on that he never does make it back to his own timeline. There is so much that can be explored with his encounters with his family both in the 1980s and the 2010s, there's the aftermath of the time when he's eventually reunited with his father and their failed attempt to escape 1987, a lot that was never explored on the show. Right now I'm actually exploring the idea of an alternate timeline where he was rescued very quickly but finds himself in a very different 2019.
Yellowjackets' Shauna Shipman and Jeff Sadecki seem to be the easiest ones for me to write, Jeff gave me the opportunity to fill in some backstory about the situation back home after Flight 2525's crash.
Lost's Ben Linus is a favourite because there are lots of aspects to consider - his feud with Widmore and struggles for maintaining leadership of the Others, his whole history around DHARMA, while Hurley is one who is easy to identify with. And the Others have so much backstory to mine that the writers skated over. Frankly I'd have preferred seeing something like "Danny Pickett hated Sawyer because he hated LaFleur" over certain tattoos.
My original favourite, and he still is one, is Kol Mikaelson who managed to save one exchange fic I had back in 2013 by pushing his way into it, and his 1000 years of existence allow for lots of material, his struggle with no longer being a witch and then that brief period of time in another body, and he has some great snark.
Lastly there is Alison DiLaurentis from Pretty Little Liars - even when ostensibly I've been writing about someone else, she's such a central part of the story that I found that very often she was appearing in my fics in some form - back when I first started writing, I think she only really didn't appear in things like Byron's backstory with his brother which was before she was born, or one about Maya who didn't know her.
So, my question to you today (was going to say this week, but actually want to do more before I go), do you have a character who is your muse, or one who tends to push their way into your fics? Or the flip side, any you struggle with?
As for mine, the most recent muse character is Mikkel Nielsen from Dark. His story has so much potential; we see him ending up travelling 33 years back in time and ending up in 1986, some attempts to get back home, but it is revealed early on that he never does make it back to his own timeline. There is so much that can be explored with his encounters with his family both in the 1980s and the 2010s, there's the aftermath of the time when he's eventually reunited with his father and their failed attempt to escape 1987, a lot that was never explored on the show. Right now I'm actually exploring the idea of an alternate timeline where he was rescued very quickly but finds himself in a very different 2019.
Yellowjackets' Shauna Shipman and Jeff Sadecki seem to be the easiest ones for me to write, Jeff gave me the opportunity to fill in some backstory about the situation back home after Flight 2525's crash.
Lost's Ben Linus is a favourite because there are lots of aspects to consider - his feud with Widmore and struggles for maintaining leadership of the Others, his whole history around DHARMA, while Hurley is one who is easy to identify with. And the Others have so much backstory to mine that the writers skated over. Frankly I'd have preferred seeing something like "Danny Pickett hated Sawyer because he hated LaFleur" over certain tattoos.
My original favourite, and he still is one, is Kol Mikaelson who managed to save one exchange fic I had back in 2013 by pushing his way into it, and his 1000 years of existence allow for lots of material, his struggle with no longer being a witch and then that brief period of time in another body, and he has some great snark.
Lastly there is Alison DiLaurentis from Pretty Little Liars - even when ostensibly I've been writing about someone else, she's such a central part of the story that I found that very often she was appearing in my fics in some form - back when I first started writing, I think she only really didn't appear in things like Byron's backstory with his brother which was before she was born, or one about Maya who didn't know her.