Gakked from wisdomeagle and likeadeuce and yhlee

[alixtii]

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

[wisdomeagle]

Amy Madison!

A-D

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

A. My first Amy fic, is my third Buffy fic--second to be completed--written in 2004 when Angel was still on the air and I didn't even know that LiveJournal existed. It was, quite simply, a fanwank of "The Killer in Me." And that was and is a large part of what attracted and attracts me to Amy: she appears in every season but season 5, but it's never quite the same Amy Madison, and it's fascinating trying to fill in the gaps to figure out she got from the mild-mannered identity theft victim of season 1 (not to mention the brownie-loving friend of Willow who came before but we never got to see) to hex-throwing Wicca with coven we see in season 7 (not even to mention the season 8 comics!). Each version of Amy we see is fascinating and interesting and complex in her own way, and I love them all. True Love was a response to rewatching BB&B and reallizing just how much I loved Amy's role in that episode (it's one of the better parts of a so-so ep, IMHO).

Also, she's constantly invoking Hecate to work Her will, which I find fascinating.

(Ficlet!Amy--the Amy of About Power (Amy/Illyria) and other shorter pieces--is written by me as being a lot more power-hungry than Watcher!verse Amy, because I'm trying to get to the sex a lot faster.)
B. She is able to adapt. The Scoobies work by trying to twist the universe to meet their goals and objectives; Amy twists her goals and objectives to meet the realities of the universe.

C. She is selfish and doesn't care what happens to other people, or at least likes to act as if that were true, a la Faith (which is why the two of them would have such a fascinating dynamic together, and why they really worked as a pairing for me when I wrote Triangle).

D. Hmm. The words usually come. My assumption that she does know what she's talking about and does understand the balance between light and dark does need to be reined in sometime to keep her from becoming some type of noncanonically saintly figure. I had the most difficulty with this in Before Thee Let the Unclean Thing Crawl, in which Amy acts in a mentorship position towards Harmony.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

E. I think I like her in Divine Interventions best, in part because so much is going on that we get to see Amy being Amy naturally, rather than in context of a character piece which is centered on her, because she doesn't see herlife in epic or grandiose terms. If I had to point to a specific passage, I'd maybe give the line “Well, I’m not about to start singing, ‘Goddess loves me, this I know, because the Wiccan Rede tells me so,’ but I’ve learned things. How to avoid karmic payback, if nothing else.” in DI. Or maybe her final confrontation with Rack:

“You’ve come to kill me?” he asked. “Like your little dark friend, I suppose. Only now she’s locked up that part of her so deep we needed to use magic to get it out. Unlike you. You’re not afraid to use dark magicks, are you, Amy?”

No. She wasn’t.

He stood up, took a step towards Amy. “I have to admit, I underestimated you. So distracted by your friend Strawberry, with so much raw power, that I missed the true potential. Light and dark, together in a single witch. Vanilla and chocolate. You’ve matured, Amy. Beautiful.”

“And you,” Amy said, entering the room, “are still ugly.”

“So you’re going to kill me?”

“No,” said Amy. “I’m not Willow.” She walked up to him and raised her palm a mere six inches from his chest. “Уберите все, что отделяет этого человека от смертных, которые идут эта Земля,” she chanted, feeling the power drain out of him. When she was done, she turned towards the door.

“You should have killed me,” he called out to her.

Amy looked back at Rack, a smile on her lips. “I was sort of hoping you would say that.” She left the room, leaving him behind her, and reëntered the Inner Sanctum.

F. My timeline for the Watcher!verse goes on for six pages. In addition to the Amy/Rack/Drusilla piece she has a role to play in several of my planned, very possibly never to be written epics. For anyone familiar with The 4400, I have a plotline where Amy is the Mathew Ross to Madelyn's Isabel (Xander is Jordan Collier, and I guess that makes Dawn Nina Jarvis), and also I want to write Dark!Amy one day--real Dark!Amy, with black hair and everything. ("Just because I didn't go and try to destroy the world, you thought I was second-rate, without power. You thought I was jealous of Willow's power. As if.")

And I have no doubt she'll turn up again in one-shots as well.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

River Tam

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Supergirl.

Who I've recently seen described as the Paris Hilton of the DC universe.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

A. I have to agree with this review when it calls Kara "not so much a teenage girl as she was a metaphor for ALL teenage girls." There's a purity to the archetype, as with the Cuckoos, that I appreciate--even if I recognize the archetype itself to be problematic.

B. Kara has a honesty to her. It's partly due to her innocence and naivete--Bruce and Clark have learned that they have to keep secrets--but also partly due to a genuineness and sincerity which is endearing.

C. She's a teenager. Enough said.

D. N/A

E. N/A

F. Supergirl/Oracle!!!

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Supergirl/Oracle? My brain is broken, intrigued and deadly curious all at the same time.

Oh, and after reading your Amy response, I'm not sure if you've ever caught my Divide and Conquer Amy fic. I'd be curious as to your thoughts.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Well, I love Kara, and everyone loves Barbara. And Barbara manages to involve herself everywhere, which means that Supergirl/Oracle is easy to set up. So it seemed like a natural choice, especially because I don't read much DCU and don't have a long list of characters that I'm able to read/write. But in any case, I desperately wanted to read some Supergirl/Oracle and when I couldn't find any decided I would have to write it myself.

I think I have read "Divide and Conquer" before. It's a good fic and well-written, but my main thought is to remember seeing the idea that Amy was manipulated by the First elsewhere, and to wonder how that piece of fanon became so ubiquitous.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Huh. Honestly, that's not something I've actually ever seen elsewhere. Yet. Though when the idea hit me, it was a sorta-"That explains EVERYTHING!!" moment which I'm not too egotistical to deny couldn't hit other people as well.

Definitely seen other people using the same pheromones fanwank as I did to explain away The Girl In Question after all...

And now, I really, really want to read Supergirl/Oracle, because it's not a pairing that I've even thought of before, let alone could see working. I am officially intrigued.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

You see the way I see it, Barbara can be paired with anyone in the DCU.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Granny Goodness.

Space Cabby.

The Shaggy Man.

Wildfire.

Lady Shiva.

I challenge you. :P

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Shiva actually appear in Birds of UST Prey? I haven't seen the relevant issues, or anything she's ever been in, but I would have expected that one to be an easy one.

I don't know who the other people are, but I'm sure they could be made to work.

Oracle/Joker is about the only thing I don't see working (or if it did, it would be really, really dark, possibly too dark).

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

*reads Wikipedia articles*

Wait, why don't you think Barbara/Space Cabbie would work?

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Space... Y'know. Millions and millions of parsecs away. Hell of a long distance relationship.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

And time as well (although there seems to be issues as to that)? But think, Barbara's vast communications network somehow hooks into Space Cabbie's comm systems. Instant romance.

[faith-chaos.livejournal.com]

Say... Dawn?