Mememememe

[adiva_calandia]

My Interp. & Argument teacher kept using the word "meaning" in class the other day, and I kept mishearing it as "meme," because "meme" would've worked almost as well in context.

Of course, the chances that any other people in my Interp. & Argument class know the actual definition of "meme" are slim. Not non-existent! I can think of a couple people who might be computer/sociologically geeky enough to know. But not many.

Now I am struck by a desire to find every excuse I can to use "meme" in sentences. There's gotta be a dramaturgical application for it -- there's a dramaturgical application for practically anything, if you look hard enough.


Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

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/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Comments

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

...*flails*

Um

I'll go with Ann, even though I wanted to ask Valerie.

[adiva_calandia]

Ann it is, then!

a. A couple things prompted me to write her -- the chance to write with you, dahling, for one. ;) But also the fact that she's a vaudeville actress (juggling ftw!).

What really got me, though, was the relationship with Kong. I'd never have apped Wray!Ann -- she's too much of a damsel, with a one-note relationship to Kong. Watts!Ann is a damsel, sure, but she can take care of herself, and she tries to take care of Kong. I love that. I love that she cares enough to try and fight the men.

I also love that she ends up with Adrien Brody. *innocent*

b. Resilience.

c. Stubbornness.

d. Depends on the situation. In a lot of ways, her character is defined by her relationships with people around her -- Carl, Jack, Kong -- so writing her with other people was a challenge for me, because I had no context for how she would react to them. Writing her off her Kanonmates was easier.

e. Kanon finale.

f. No plans to keep writing Ann, although every once in a while there are fic ideas that bounce around -- filling in plotholes, like what happened after they got back to the Venture.

They are, predictably, angsty liek wo.

[vivien]

Nita!

[adiva_calandia]

a. . . . Oh, geez, where do I start.

Okay -- the thing is, I identify very strongly with Nita. I never got beat up in school, or even particularly abused (everyone's got moments where they get called a geek in an unflattering way, right?), and I never read through the entire children's section of the library, though I think I probably got through a significant portion.

But that literary urge and love of words, the seperateness from her classmates, the desire to do something big with her life . . . those speak very strongly to me. And as the series progresses, there are more resonances, particularly in dealing with a mother having a chronic illness (I'm luckier than Nita there, but).

Nita is so strong, and I hesitate to say whether or not that resonates with me. I mean, I've never been asked to let myself be eaten by a giant shark. But I love her strength, and her determination, and her willingness to do whatever's necessary to see that goodness wins, and the unfortunate maturity that has forced on her. And yet, she manages to be such a teenager. She kisses a boy and she can't figure out what to do with her nose. I LOVE that.

b. Er. Kinda went on and on about that. But it's especially the willingness to do anything in the course of her work.

c. Temper and a big mouth.

d. Generally, it's pretty easy to write Nita, because I put an unprofessional amount of myself into her. *grin*

e. . . . Ummmm. Nita doesn't say much in this thread, but what she does . . . Yeah.

f. Nita's one of those headvoices that even if I rarely play her, I'll have trouble with retiring her. She's too persistent.

[ashen_key]

Guinevere

[adiva_calandia]

a. Well, what initially prompted me to write Guin at all was Rym asking me if I'd be up to it. *grin* So what I really liked was the challenge of writing her. Arthurian legend . . . to say that it's not my strong suit would be like saying that rain is kinda damp. But I knew enough, and found out enough, to fake it like a mofo. And any discrepancies, I could pass off as being a DiR thing. *cheerful*

As I kept playing her, though, I discovered that I really loved her pride and her intensity. She is very sure of herself, is our Guin, and although she may do things carefully, she doesn't do them by halves. There were two men in her life that she loved with her whole self, and two that she loved almost as much. And then there were the ones that she really thoroughly disliked. *grin*

b. Courage in the face of the unknown.

c. Pride.

d. Oh, Lord, she was hard to write. I was always afraid of screwing up and revealing my lack of knowledge of the background.

e. Wales. Also known as the Plot Outside Time, since we got it all done in a single evening. *grin*

f. No plans to keep writing Guin. Her story's done.

[genarti]

Hmm. Jennifer.

[adiva_calandia]

a. Honestly? Reading the scene where she and Arthur meet again and getting gut-punch character bleed from the Guinevere already in my head. And then finishing the series and getting bittersweet character bleed when Jen and Arthur and Lance all make it happy ever after, somehow.

But also, I love Jennifer because she's so, so wounded, utterly shattered in a way even most emo characters aren't -- and yet she still gets rebuilt, and gets a happy ending.

b. Loyalty.

c. I . . . am not sure how to verbalize it? But I kind of want to smack her when she's shoving Kevin away. Even though I know why she is.

d. It was actually easier to play her during the numb stage, I think, than after she and Arthur got together. I'm not sure why, exactly.

e. The first tag of this thread. I love that whole thread, but I am so damn proud of that tag.

f. No plans to keep writing her, except possibly in a few fill-in-the-blanks fics that pop up. They're so very angsty, though, that I'm a little reluctant to revisit them.