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Meme'd

Jan 13, 2011 14:47

Meme seen at aralias and bagheera_san :

Pick a character and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them. Any and all characters welcome. (even ones i haven't written but might know about...)

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janeturenne January 13 2011, 20:16:26 UTC

Ainley!Master, please?

x_losfic January 15 2011, 04:46:39 UTC

OH MAN I AM SO MAD! I typed this once and it was long and nice and then LJ /ate/ it and I have to do it all over again! AUGH ( ... )

x_losfic January 15 2011, 04:46:55 UTC

4. I don't think he's MAD. Not madder than most Doctors--eccentric, amoral, unconventional, amused by /weird shit/, sure. But he's not at all incapable of grasping what's going on in the world around him/situation he's in and responding to it, taking advantage. There's a LOT of inconsistency between episodes like Castrovalva, where his plan is fucking incomprehensible but stuff goes along pretty sanely, barring a cry of My WEEEEEEEEB!!!, an episode like Time Flight where there is /nothing like/ a logical explanation for most of the Khalid bs, and episodes like Five Doctors and Planet of Fire, where he's chuckling and not-really-sadistic-at-all-per-se and sanely pursuing sane goals ( ... )

janeturenne January 16 2011, 16:14:49 UTC

1) Hell yes. I don't know that I've ever read a version of Ainley!Master who I can consistently hear in my head, and I think it has something to do with Ainley's delivery, which I generally love but find wildly unpredictable, and something to do with inconsistent writing (in canon). This being said, I think your version of him is the truest, canonically, of any I've read.

3) *grin* Also true, though psychologically I wish I could trace exactly what happens with the cake. Because Delgado could really have gotten that message sooner. "You're going to run away with me? Really? Oh, no, just a bluff. Right. But how 'bout now? If I give you a galaxy? The universe? No? Oh. But now? No. Right. Well, I'll ask you again next week." A bit of a Belle et la Bete, with a proposal every night before bed. But I wish I could pin down specifically why the tide turns in his head from "I must explicitly offer this cake whenever there's a pause in the conversation" to "I'll just let you stare at this cake for a while and see if you get ( ... )

aralias January 13 2011, 20:48:30 UTC

how do you write five?

With a computer, largely. x_losfic January 14 2011, 15:31:06 UTC

1. Five isn't more of a Failure than the others on a plot-points level. He's just more sensitive to failure, more prone to guilt, more able/compelled to take the responsibility for catastrophe onto himself. He's not even less capable than Four, just less blithe and unconcerned when things go to hell. Not that Four doesn't /care at all/, Five just cares in an overwhelming, personal way ( ... )