Character meme!

[vulgarweed]

It's still music festival season, so I've hard hardly any quality time to spend with the new addition to the household. It doesn't even have a name or a wallpaper pic yet.

So I'll do a meme. (I've been tagged for another great one; I'll do that later.) This one I ganked from a bunch of people on the f-list.

1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic or RP.
2. I will comment telling you the following:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

And/or: Ask me anything fandom-related, and I will probably answer honestly.

Comments

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

LOL! Of course, I should have guessed. XD Hope you won't mind if I ramble a bit, I love jawing about this meta stuff...

a. That's really interesting, because the way I see it, she is bitter; terribly so about some things. But she's been coping with bitterness since she Fell, so she knows how to compartmentalize it and not let it cripple her in the here and now: hating angels in general but able to respond to Azi's genuine kindness, for example.

I absolutely hated how they handled her relationship with John in the comic in later issues. Actually I think half the reason I play John in this game is to fix stuff that the Hellblazer writers have bollocksed up. XD

b. *Snerks* Well, that's all in how you view it, now isn't it? One might just as easily accuse her of greed. ;)

c. Heh, I hadn't really thought of it that way, but yeah. I think a part of that as it's manifested in the game is due to one whopper of a thwarted maternal instinct. She's usually at her most forceful and decisive when she perceives that somebody (who she has reason to give a rat's ass about) needs her help. She also has no respect whatsoever for anybody's personal space, unless she's afraid of them or happens to be consciously trying, but that stems more from her profession than anything else...

d. I think Aziraphale's relationship with Crowley is one of the few that Ellie would genuinely feel bad about damaging, and will go out of her way to avoid doing so (and watch out...she may eventually get frustrated with them both for acting like blockheads and start plotting to get them back together! XD)

e. I agree. You hit the nail right on the head there, and also with the bit about "She loves them both. She wants them both dead, because neither should have to go through eternity without the other." That desire to see them succeed where she and Tali failed (as friends if nothing else) is...well, it's what originally got John involved in the whole situation, and it's one of the few genuinely hopeful things Ellie's got in her life these days. (She's trying not to hope too much about the kid, though it's very nearly too late.)

f. Me too. :D But you're always welcome to borrow her if a plot bunny demands it. ;)