Friday DE: Pieces of you

[bjornwilde]

Yay, it's Friday!

What part of yourself have you brought to your characters? 

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[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Nothing really. He already likes horse-riding and happy endings.

Evelyn: my choices for her game, and some amount of my personality. That will be far more in evidence when she's not quite so much scared into inaction as scared into anger and action and then Thing Happen.

Lois: It might be easier to say what I don't bring: my math-leanings and my geekiness and my music/dance. Lois comes pretty naturally to me as she usually talks, well, surprisingly like I do in regular conversation. So with Lois I generally just write me, and then edit out the bits of me that shouldn't be there.

R2: My love of profanity~! And my love of technology such that every time I actually try to figure out what those beeps are saying, I keep on translating it not just into how we'd understand it, but the literal meaning of what he's said--eg, exhaust pipes instead of asshole, etc. It is a beautiful meeting place of profanity and tech geekery to inhabit.

Anakin: Dear fluffy bunnies. Maybe my deep set drive to find ways to show how Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader really aren't two different people and try to show the Vader lurking in Anakin and the Anakin still scattered through Vader? Maybe the part of myself he gets is that he is occasionally a bit of a dorky geek about building things. I may not be a mech-eng person, but I know how to geek.

Tavi: The people I've known. I mean, yes, the snark is me and the ability to write a huge geek enthusing is me and the love of magical theory is a) totally canonical and b) totally me, half the reason I clicked with him is that we have a rather similar set of interests all told. But while I'm not a genius or an engineer or a security person or social manipulating or deep into military history--and those kinds of people who have that much intelligence and that much breadth of interest, yes polymaths are amazing and intimidating? I've lived with literal geniuses, am friends with these kinds of people all around me, and while I know I couldn't react the way he does if it were actual life, because dear god I am not him? I know the people who are him, I've watched how they think, and if I'm having trouble wrangling Tavi, sometimes I ask myself "Okay, so what would [Friend] say?" or "How would [Other friend] analyze this?" or pull out the knowledge I've gained from watching and playing and talking with them. And then I write them instead of me.