Friday DE

[bjornwilde]

As suggested by herr_bookman :
How about the introductory scene for your character? What are they like when they first show up in the narrative?

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[death_gone_mad]

Well, in the development timeline, Amascut's first appearance is as a lone nomad in the desert who accuses you of being a cat owner. So, she is a bit unhinged, but that might be because she was unfairly banished from every civilized place just because she is a redhead and has been out in the sun for a long time, so you take sympathy on her. In the now canonical timeline, you first meet her as the international crime lord/pirate queen behind the kidnapping of an al-Kharidian prince. So, she is all serious business until her hired thugs start demanding a pay raise and she pulls out mind-controlling magic instead of negotiating with them just before she sails off with the prince.

Both times, you don't actually meet Amascut; you meet one of her aliases. And so it is every time you meet her for the first time again.

Fairy Fixit is first encountered after the adventurer finds a way into Zanaris, and, well, she is just like she is always, chatty about her work, tending to use a bunch of jargon. As a caretaker and exposition NPC, she doesn't receive character development and her personality in Milliways is mostly all my headcanon. :D

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's introductory scene in 01 is during the highly unseasonal snowball fight that introduces everyone -- except he's not taking part in it, he's trying to convince Takeru that he'll catch a cold.

His introductory scene in the novels is a lot more interesting -- it's just him waiting at the bus to go to summer camp with Takeru, but it talks about how everybody at school knows him and is friendly with him, but he's also fundamentally separate from everyone around him, and isn't really friends with anyone.

This is his introductory scene in Tri, and basically just involves him and Taichi being dorks.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim gets two.

The first one, he shows up pretending to be someone entirely innocuous.

And then the real first meeting, in which he and Sherlock posture, size each other up, pique each other's interest, mutually threaten death and John wears a bomb vest.

So basically, he's introduced as someone clever, dangerous, and fascinated with Sherlock. It's the blueprint for the rest of his time in canon.

[bjornwilde]

Sam is first shown as running the Mall at Washington DC and then Steve is show to constantly be lapping him on his own morning run. Sam is also the first character we see in Winter Soldier. His first lines are friendly, "Uh huh, alright", and then competitive, "Don't you say it. Don't say it. Ah come on!"

Not sure what this says about Sam aside from that he will try his best to keep up with Steve.

Actual dialog quickly shows him to be quippy but caring, respectful of Steve and what he represents but not worshipful.

More later. I seem to be having a hard time remembering actual scenes.

[a1enzo]

First appearance via vidwindow: "Bob! We need you at Dot's! It's terrible!"

First appearance in person: "BOB!" *whump*

[student_of_impossibility]

Tavi is an undersized fifteen year old boy with a girl pressing against him and G-rated seducing him to convince him to do her a favor by making a somewhat irresponsible choice.

Preceded by an observation of Gaius Primus, founder of Alera, that it was impossible to tell which person would make whatever choice, big or small, that could change the course of history: "It is almost enough to make me believe in Destiny."

[have_no_mercy]

Tess arrived in the first episode of Season 8 as a cold hearted HBIC taking over the search for Lex and making his current lapdog hate her. It's okay, she kills him later.

Kylo kills an old man for no good reason.

Sikozu crashes her pod into John Crichton's ship, learns English in about 5 minutes and decides he's the stupidest thing she's ever met.

[protect_and_survey]

Simmons' opening scene is the punchline of a very deliberate play on words - Coulson tells Ward to go see 'Fitzsimmons' about communications gear - what was meant was the team Fitz and Simmons, letting Ward gape at two bebe!agents who are obviously very intelligent and very much used to being in each other's space and Greener. Than. Grass.

Oswin actually gets the opening scene of her episode, and she's painted as a castaway on a mysterious planet - worried, stubbornly and perhaps unrealistically optimistic about the whole thing, horrible at baking. Aaaaand then there's Daleks in the background making the whole thing more sinister, as they do.

Katya first appears in the narrative from the male protagonist's pov - and I suspect something is lost in translation from the original Russian because there's surprise in narration that Tiger Cub is, in fact, a young, somewhat innocent looking girl. Innocent until she tells the boss that she'd really rather prefer killing the vampires instead of arresting them, if that's alright with everyone. (Sadly, it isn't)

Bones first shows up in 'The Man Trap', a somewhat awkward, grumpy, romantic Southern boy. Also, somewhat gullible, geeze McCoy, get it together.

Glorfindel's first entry into the narration is one of my favorites of all time. I'm counting LotR here, not anything from the Silmarillion. The narration has been becoming increasingly dark - Frodo is injured and dying, the hobbits are exhausted, Aragorn is running out of options... and then there's hoofbeats on the road behind them. He's very literally a beacon of hope. ... And he put bells all over his horse's tack, because he's not about to sneak around. He wants Sauron's forces to know exactly where he is and that he's coming for them.

Lin is first cast as the Authority Figure. Or, at least the first authority figure who really doesn't give a hot damn if Korra is the next Avatar. (Turns out she secretly cares, she just doesn't think that gives Korra a carte blanche) (shhh, no one's supposed to know she cares about anything other than the laaaaaaw)