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awanderingbard) wrote2014-07-26 11:18 pm
awanderingbard) wrote2014-07-26 11:18 pm
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Meme!
Found a new character development meme. Cheers all around. Took a few out that I wasn't keen on.
Toss a character and up to three numbers my way, I'll answer the corresponding questions.
1) If your character has a job, is he or she good at it? Does he or she like it?
2) What are your character’s bad habits?
3) What kind of person does your character wish he or she could be? What is stopping him or her?
4) What does your character think is his or her worst quality?
5) What do other people think your character’s worst quality is?
6) What is a talent your character thinks he or she has but is very wrong about?
7) What did his or her childhood home look like?
8) Who was his or her first love?
9) In what situation would your character become violent?
10) In what situation would your character act heroic?
Feel free to ask for more than one character. OCs and AUs welcome.
Toss a character and up to three numbers my way, I'll answer the corresponding questions.
1) If your character has a job, is he or she good at it? Does he or she like it?
2) What are your character’s bad habits?
3) What kind of person does your character wish he or she could be? What is stopping him or her?
4) What does your character think is his or her worst quality?
5) What do other people think your character’s worst quality is?
6) What is a talent your character thinks he or she has but is very wrong about?
7) What did his or her childhood home look like?
8) Who was his or her first love?
9) In what situation would your character become violent?
10) In what situation would your character act heroic?
Feel free to ask for more than one character. OCs and AUs welcome.
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Sherlock could give you a laundry list of things he feels to be 'not good' about himself. He is under no impression that he's easy to get along with or likeable. His worst quality, in his own mind, is his obsessive personality. If he could just be content to sit and be a normal person, his life would be much easier. He wouldn't be bored, he wouldn't be looking out for things to distract himself with, he could sleep better and be healthier. However, it isn't something he can change. In terms of qualities he could do something about, he does have a nagging sensation at the back of his mind, that he hasn't always been a very good older brother, nor indeed does not continue to be one. He doesn't dwell a lot on it, but he is aware he hasn't been there when Trevelyan needed him and is vaguely baffled as to why Trevelyan doesn't call him on that more often.
8) Who was his or her first love?
Sherlock has never been in love by anyone's definition of the word. He, as far as he knows, isn't built to have those sorts of feelings. Romantic love is not something he's ever experienced. He can see beauty, and can be drawn to a person in that he enjoys spending time with them, or at least, doesn't mind doing it. John has pointed out that 'that's what we call friendship, Sherlock'. The only love he feels is platonic, and the only love he has for anyone outside of his family is for John. Maybe Mrs Hudson. Molly and Lestrade fall into some category that's not quite love, but he does care for them.
He was also very confused by The Woman, but he wouldn't call that love. He might call it desire. He mostly calls it weakness.
10) In what situation would your character act heroic?
To save someone he cares about.
He wouldn't admit it, but he probably wouldn't leave anyone to die if he could do something to help them, either. He really doesn't think of that as acting heroically, as just...acting. He doesn't think much about it, he just does it. Which doesn't count as bravery, in his mind. Just stupidity. He occasionally acts stupid, and the media seems to have decided that makes him a hero. Bravery belongs more to someone like John, who knows what he's doing could kill him and does it anyway. Which is also stupid. But more admirable than just doing something and realizing afterwards it was dangerous, which is how Sherlock tends to operate.