Character Meme, Part II: The Answers
Five Things About Characters I've Written continued (feel free to add prompts if you'd like).
I.
ceitfianna asked for BBC Robin Hood (2006)'s Marian 1. Marian is irrevocably in love with Robin of Locksley. She may not always like him, agree with his plans, approve of how he treats people, but she will always be in love with him.
2. She is nye constantly surrounded by both people who are being killed, tortured, starved, and stolen from. Even worse, in her daily walks, she's is always right next to the remorseless people who are doing the killing, torturing, starving, and stealing.
3. She will always, always, always care and she will never think it is impossible to forgive or believe in the ability to be better in a person.
4. She is very deeply part-jaded by the following three things: a perfectly idyllic childhood, being jilted by her finance over a anything (even a war), and by being jilted from her entire life by a corrupt King and Sheriff.
5. It's always a running contest between which part of her is stronger and more unkillable -- her willfulness or inability to give up hope.
II.
bjornwilde asked for Marvel's Jean Grey1. Jean is always hearing more than she would like. This started with Annie's death and pretty much lasts until now, skipped only by the years her gift was locked away from her and during the reign of The Shadow King. Giving people the privacy of their thoughts is always more grace, and acceptance of people being human, than it is mental walls.
2. Jean can totally hold her own, no matter what you throw at her. She is Charles first student, and she was the only girl in the X-Men for endless years. She's had two clones, and three children, all of whom she had no hand in making, but chose to embrace each. Her husband married her twice (basically) and had an affair, and she still loved/respected him for who he was in the end, wished love and a future for him (and the world). And that's before you even get to --
3. Jean's heart is so big -- fully powered by a love that knows no bounds toward sacrifice -- that it attracted the attention, respect, and focus of one of the highest supremely powered beings in the Marvel Universe. That she still took back into her, and she orders around when it is being stupid. Yes. A mortal girl, half-feiry raptor, ordering the universe to shape up. She can totally handle whatever you throw at her
4. Jean is the heart and soul of Charles' Dream. Something so big, and so pure, and understand of all the foibles, forgiveness, and acceptance that requires. Who even when she gets scared and runs away (which, yes, she's totally done in canon two or three times) always comes back, always fights the big fight, always is willing to lay her life down for those she loves and those who hate her with the same faith.
5. (One of my favorites from the last five-ten years) Jean can't lie. Apparently, it's an inability to The Phoenix to speak anything but the truth.
III.
shoroko asked for Once Upon a Time's Snow White1. I think my first and most favorite trait of Snow (and the Snow & Charming pairing) is that Snow lacks the indomitable faith of her husband. It's so deep. No matter how many allies, how much reform, how much winning, she has a bone deep crack running through her that is positive ruin is still coming for her after having everything taken from her through her childhood-to-early adulthood.
2. She does not hold back. She's incredibly aggressive. She's the one who reaches for her husband's sword in the face of her mother, even in her own wedding gone. She's the one who storms castles, and plans revenge schemes, and is willing to jump between any person she loves and coming doom/destruction/assailant.
3. At the same time, Snow is still incredibly soft. Both in that she was incredibly (naively and) gracefully raised for at least the first eighteen or so years of her ife. And in that no matter what has happened to her she has never let it scar over or change her heart. She offers friendship, companionship, kindness, forgiveness, hope and happiness with the kind of ease that should come of someone who's never faced harrowing sorrow, but instead she's faced the worst and refused to let it change her core.
4. Snow has a deep sense of right and duty. She wants to live, and refuses to debase herself in her tactics towards getting to live, but she is always looking over her shoulder, setting what she might have aside for the people of her kingdom. Needing to free them from Regina's clutches (as, remember, it's her, not Charming, who state's they take back the kingdom's). Freeing their friends and subjects from The curse. Embracing people over and over and over who've just tried to kill her for whatever reason.
5. Snow may not ever actually be able to forgive herself for the horrible twenty-eight years Emma had to live through, alone and lonely and thinking no one wanted her, but she will never apologize for choosing to send her daughter through the tree. For saving her from Regina and The Curse.
[This entry was originally posted at http://wanderlustlover.dreamwidth.org/2208869.html. Comment on either at your leisure.]
I.
ceitfianna asked for BBC Robin Hood (2006)'s Marian 1. Marian is irrevocably in love with Robin of Locksley. She may not always like him, agree with his plans, approve of how he treats people, but she will always be in love with him.
2. She is nye constantly surrounded by both people who are being killed, tortured, starved, and stolen from. Even worse, in her daily walks, she's is always right next to the remorseless people who are doing the killing, torturing, starving, and stealing.
3. She will always, always, always care and she will never think it is impossible to forgive or believe in the ability to be better in a person.
4. She is very deeply part-jaded by the following three things: a perfectly idyllic childhood, being jilted by her finance over a anything (even a war), and by being jilted from her entire life by a corrupt King and Sheriff.
5. It's always a running contest between which part of her is stronger and more unkillable -- her willfulness or inability to give up hope.
II.
bjornwilde asked for Marvel's Jean Grey1. Jean is always hearing more than she would like. This started with Annie's death and pretty much lasts until now, skipped only by the years her gift was locked away from her and during the reign of The Shadow King. Giving people the privacy of their thoughts is always more grace, and acceptance of people being human, than it is mental walls.
2. Jean can totally hold her own, no matter what you throw at her. She is Charles first student, and she was the only girl in the X-Men for endless years. She's had two clones, and three children, all of whom she had no hand in making, but chose to embrace each. Her husband married her twice (basically) and had an affair, and she still loved/respected him for who he was in the end, wished love and a future for him (and the world). And that's before you even get to --
3. Jean's heart is so big -- fully powered by a love that knows no bounds toward sacrifice -- that it attracted the attention, respect, and focus of one of the highest supremely powered beings in the Marvel Universe. That she still took back into her, and she orders around when it is being stupid. Yes. A mortal girl, half-feiry raptor, ordering the universe to shape up. She can totally handle whatever you throw at her
4. Jean is the heart and soul of Charles' Dream. Something so big, and so pure, and understand of all the foibles, forgiveness, and acceptance that requires. Who even when she gets scared and runs away (which, yes, she's totally done in canon two or three times) always comes back, always fights the big fight, always is willing to lay her life down for those she loves and those who hate her with the same faith.
5. (One of my favorites from the last five-ten years) Jean can't lie. Apparently, it's an inability to The Phoenix to speak anything but the truth.
III.
shoroko asked for Once Upon a Time's Snow White1. I think my first and most favorite trait of Snow (and the Snow & Charming pairing) is that Snow lacks the indomitable faith of her husband. It's so deep. No matter how many allies, how much reform, how much winning, she has a bone deep crack running through her that is positive ruin is still coming for her after having everything taken from her through her childhood-to-early adulthood.
2. She does not hold back. She's incredibly aggressive. She's the one who reaches for her husband's sword in the face of her mother, even in her own wedding gone. She's the one who storms castles, and plans revenge schemes, and is willing to jump between any person she loves and coming doom/destruction/assailant.
3. At the same time, Snow is still incredibly soft. Both in that she was incredibly (naively and) gracefully raised for at least the first eighteen or so years of her ife. And in that no matter what has happened to her she has never let it scar over or change her heart. She offers friendship, companionship, kindness, forgiveness, hope and happiness with the kind of ease that should come of someone who's never faced harrowing sorrow, but instead she's faced the worst and refused to let it change her core.
4. Snow has a deep sense of right and duty. She wants to live, and refuses to debase herself in her tactics towards getting to live, but she is always looking over her shoulder, setting what she might have aside for the people of her kingdom. Needing to free them from Regina's clutches (as, remember, it's her, not Charming, who state's they take back the kingdom's). Freeing their friends and subjects from The curse. Embracing people over and over and over who've just tried to kill her for whatever reason.
5. Snow may not ever actually be able to forgive herself for the horrible twenty-eight years Emma had to live through, alone and lonely and thinking no one wanted her, but she will never apologize for choosing to send her daughter through the tree. For saving her from Regina and The Curse.
[This entry was originally posted at http://wanderlustlover.dreamwidth.org/2208869.html. Comment on either at your leisure.]