*shiftyeyes*

[newredshoes]

Hi.

Yoinked from frickin' everybody.

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you

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[buongiornodaisy]

Satine!

[newredshoes]

a) Her bravery, actually! The first couple of times I saw Moulin Rouge!, I wasn't that impressed with her. She seemed wishy-washy, and frankly pretty dumb. But winter of 2005, I watched it again for whatever reason, and I was suddenly struck by how resourceful and tenacious she was. Not only that, but how desperately she wanted love, and how she had totally compartmentalized that away from herself. I don't tend to gravitate toward romantic heroines, but I remember being shocked she wasn't in Milliways yet, and I wanted to see her played out as something other than sappy and sexalicious.

b) Best trait? Besides her waistline? Again, I think it's the bravery. She does the hard thing when she thinks it will save people she loves -- though she does have to be pushed into it.

c) Worst trait? Oh jebus. Her refusal to help herself, as re: FRICKING TB. Her willingness to deaden herself. And the fact that she will get men to do things for her just because she cand) Satine was so different from the characters I'm usually attracted to (snarky

[rymenhild]

Prometheus (who is, incidentally, SO MUCH LOVE.)

[newredshoes]

*grins* Mercy bucket! Oh, he is so my favorite at this moment.

a) You can actually see it happen in real time here.

b) His best trait is his conviction. His next best trait is his facial hair.

c) His worst trait -- where to begin? He's arrogant, selectively ruthless, and there are times when he thinks he has a monopoly on personal suffering. And he always has to be right.

d) Prometheus is scaryeasy to write. Sometimes I worry about this. I know we talk about headvoices, but his comes to me like my own thoughts do -- just, in Jon Spencer's voice. Stage voice, rather -- the real life Jon Spencer doesn't sound very much like the stuff on his records, in truth.

e) Oh jebus. I literally could not choose. I mean, I've got a weird concept of canon in that he's practically in OC -- between Aeschylus and Heavy Trash and Hesiod and the Blues Explosion, it just has to feel right in the moment. A lot of my favorite moments are hairpin turns: I've been noticing more and more that he can go from levity to intense with very little provocation

[adiva_calandia]

Gromit. :D

[newredshoes]

Hee!

a) Gromit was my first Millipup, and I wanted to take him on as a challenge, because he doesn't talk, and I like talky characters. It was the asides he'd have with the camera in the short films, where he'd just lift his eyebrows, so long-suffering -- but he loves Wallace. It's never a question of sticking by him; he's Dean Winchester, he's Nicholas Angel, he's fricking harcore, and he knits to relieve stress, dammit!

b) Best trait - loyalty. Caretaking. And also, being a dog genius!

c) Worst trait? He's nonconfrontational. Sometimes I wonder if maybe he can talk, but doesn't. It would make sorting out evil penguins and the like a little easier if he did more than get passive-aggressive and grouchy with Wallace.

d) Dude, Gromit is hard. He doesn't talk! I mean -- he doesn't talk! And writing mime into text-based tags... is hard.

e) Meeting the terrøristmøøse.

f) *laughs!* Gromit has been in the Bar almost two and a half years. Poor guy needs to finally be Unbound so he can get back to Wallace, whom he misses like crazy and

[nepheliad]

Josh.

(I may still be convincable to play Donna again. Uh. Someday.)

[newredshoes]

a) TWW 2x10, "Noël," without a doubt. I can't say more for the people who don't know the show, but those who have should know what I'm talking about.

b) Josh's best trait, besides his Fulbright and his delicate system and the way he looks like a badass in shades harrassing Congressmen by the Reflecting Pool? His desire to do right in the world. It manifests itself in ugly ways sometimes -- he really does know how to compromise -- but it's also responsible, I think, for his devotion to the people he loves and respects.

c) His worst trait, aside from his ability to both get on people's nerves and make them cry? The cocky humor as defense mechanism thing. It's great to be hilarious and it's fine to want to protect yourself, but after a point it gets a little Dean Winchesteresque pathological.

d) Josh is somewhere in the middle to write for me. The patter and the banter? Absolutely no problem, especially with other Sorkinpups (*hopeful eyes?*). The content is harder.

e) "How can you not detect a signal? You're a $200 phone, I should

[allfireburns]

Matt.

[newredshoes]

a) It was the Christmas show, when he took Harry aside for a note and kissed her. That was the moment my interest in the show coalesced into pure, burning Sorkinlove. Before that, yeah, I loved the Matt'n'Danny dynamic, and I really identified with a lot of Matt's issues (perfectionist, loopy, bitteridealistic), but it was that kiss that made me a Mattolyte.

b) Matt's best trait is the way he feels everything so intensely -- friendship, love, political passion, ideals, intelligence. Nothing is halfway.

c) This is also his worst trait. It gets him into more trouble...

d) Ahaha, Matt is easy. Matt is me! Just, you know. Male, and successful. And Matthew Perry.

e) Danny, Matt, and Suzanne are bound, and Matt cannot rule with an iron fist. Magnificent three-way banter. Also: Nothing brings Matt back to earth like Danny not making sense.

Basically Matt is at his best when Danny's around. But we knew that already.

f) ...we should talk about this when you're settled somewhere. 'Cause I miss our boys. "This town needs me!"