Meme: Character Writing
Dec. 2nd, 2012 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scribblemynameSnagged from likeadeuce:
Pick a character* I’ve written 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.
* Try to make it someone I’ve written either often or recently in order for me to answer. Original or fandom permitted. Multiple requests permitted.
** May not actually be five.
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2012-12-03 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-03 07:36 pm (UTC)1. Vulnerability
She's very sensitive to right and wrong and to normal and abnormal and what she wants vs. what she has. She tends to be easily hurt and cover it up with hardness, anger, or some other method of dealing. Vulnerability must be in balance in relation to coping mechanisms, whatever that balance is for the world I'm writing.
2. Sass
Usually the sass is inversely proportional to her vulnerability level, but it's always present, even when it's subtle: "I don't know. What kind of a name is Wolverine."
3. Stubborn
Good lord, is she stubborn and opinionated and totally stubborn. Admitting she's wrong ain't high on the priority list if you know what I mean.
And other than that, it kind of varies per universe and story arc. There's a lot of elasticity in a girl with so many different backstories and the epitome of a personality disorder.
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Date: 2012-12-06 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-06 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-03 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-03 07:40 pm (UTC)Kitty's a genius, though she rarely couches herself or presents herself that way, and she seems to expect a lack of consternation on the part of those who watch her genius in action.
2. Empathy
The girl cares, even when it's killing her to care, even when she wishes she didn't, even when it's not good for her to care or the object of her caring wishes she wouldn't. She cares.
3. Practical
Sometimes bubbliness aside, the girl is eminently practical—in fact, even when she's bubbly. I try to remember that even if her actions or ideas seem impractical to me, they are practical to her, so I have to look through her eyes to wrangle out how she decides to do things.
Hmm... I guess there's only 3.
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Date: 2012-12-03 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-04 04:16 am (UTC)