Meme Revival

[awanderingbard]

I was looking back through my journal and thought I'd give this meme a revival. Because memes are love.

1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic. Or geeked out about or talked about.
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.

Comments

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

Murphy. any member of the Murphy clan.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I think I answered for Murphy herself last go round (http://awanderingbard.livejournal.com/13412.html) of this meme, so I guess I'll do Anna?

a) Seeing as we never actually meet her on the show, I think what attracted me to her was the little bits we hear about her. Giving Murphy a kid was an odd choice, seeing as her book version is so alone all the time. I often wonder if they ever planned to do anything with her if they'd gotten another season. I like writing kids and so Anna was sort of blank canvas to play around with.

b) I'll have to answer these 'trait' things in regards to my own version of Anna. I'd say my Anna's best quality is her absolute trust in the grown-ups around her. I've always tried to write her as having a good relationship with both her dad and her mom, rather than being torn between them, and she accepts Harry for who he is and believes that he'll treat her mum right.

c) Anna's worst trait is her maturity, though that sounds weird. I picture her as having been shuffled back and forth since she was a baby and dealing with that and the fact that both her parents are in law enforcement, so dangerous professions where she worries about them being her. I think that makes her a bit older than her years and less inclined to act like a kid than she should be doing.

d) I find Anna pretty easy to write. I did initially have trouble since she was an older kid and I'd mostly written younger children. I found it hard to write her as mature, but still a kid and not too precious or twee.

e) I'm please with Heat Wave a lot, and her bits in Somnus.

f) My Dresden love isn't as strong as it used to be. It's still an old friend that I love, but I'm not as interesting in telling stories about it. I imagine she'll pop up here and there, but I don't know for sure if I'll write her again. I'd like to.