Bored.....AGAIN....

[darkangel_0410]

It's almost 2 a.m., I can't sleep and I'm bored, once again. So, I thought I'd post another meme. Here we go:

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

[sparkly-shiny.livejournal.com]

Alex Shelley. (does he count as a character?)

You know I had to do it. Mostly because I want to see your answer to d).

[darkangel-0410.livejournal.com]

Alex sure as hell counts as a character, lol -fuck, there's times I find it hard to believe he's actually real.

OK, here you go:
A. He's hot, no doubt, but it was that coupled with his attitude and talent that made me want to write him. He's such a gleeful, unrepentant asshole, it's awesome.
B. Hmmm, I'd say definitely his talent -I'd easily rank him as one of the top five technical wrestlers around today; the way he moves around a ring like he was born to it. It's always fun to watch him.
C. His worst trait? Depends on who you're talking to, I think; I know people who are completely turned off by what a dickhead he is. For me, though, I'd say his inability to let shit go; sure, his tenacity is partly why he's such a good wrestler, but, fuck, Shelley, once in a while, just drop some stuff instead of stewing about it for, like, years.
D. Shelley's pretty hard for me to write, actually. I always have trouble picturing his reactions clearly, the way he would do certain things; he's a complicated bastard and while that's part of the reason why he's so awesome, it also makes him a pain in the ass to get right. I'm never sure how he would say/do something, because he hardly ever acts consistently in real life.
E. Huh, that's a hard one, let me see.... "The last word was said almost pitifully and despite himself Alex smirked; he couldn't wait to rag on Chris about how girly he was sounding right now. But that didn't mean he wasn't seething inside at what Chris had just said; he wouldn't touch Jamie -royally pissed or not, he'd never hit a girl outside of a wrestling ring- but that didn't apply to Johnny." -A Year; that pretty much sums up Shelley for me. Even while he's planning revenge on someone for hurting his best friend, he's filing away information to torment said best friend with.
F. I'd love to be able to write Shelley again, but as of right now, I don't see it happening, tbh. I'll still read any fic with him and Sabin that I can get my hands on, but every time I try to write him, it ends up just going balls up.

Sorry about the editing, deleting, etc., of the comment -lj and my phone are a bad combo sometimes.

[sparkly-shiny.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that he'd smirk at this, or be offended. Who knows with him? LOL. You never know which side of Alex you're getting on a daily basis. Sabin has to be the most ungodly patient person in the world. I don't know how he hasn't hauled off and beat the fuck out of Shelley.

I think another one of his worst traits is that he's way too hard on himself. I'm a perfectionist, but damn. I'm not that hard on myself. And yeah, I agree with you, he just needs to learn to let shit go and move on. But him being a complete dickhead is what makes him Shelley, so I guess we have to take it :D

I would never have guessed that Shelley's hard for you to write, because every line that you write sounds exactly like him. I've heard a lot of people say that they find Sabin hard to write because he's so quiet and hard to read, but for me, that's exactly why I have no trouble writing him. Shelley's so random and I just never know what he'll say or do either. But you do a really good job with him.

[darkangel-0410.livejournal.com]

Man, I know -about the only thing you can count on with Shelley is that he will act like a dickhead whenever the opportunity presents itself. I'm convinced that half of the time Sabin's too stoned to care what the hell Shelley's saying and the other half he just keeps reminding himself that he'll be getting laid. Hell, for all we know Shelley likes it when people beat the shit out of him -it would explain so much, really.

The dickheaded-ness never bothered me, tbh; like, I said, it's one of the most attractive things about him, lol. He takes perfectionist to whole another level, serious. I bet he has ulcers like you wouldn't believe.

Thanks, that means a lot to me :) Sabin's easy for me to write, too; there's more leeway, too, with him because of how quiet he is, so you have more to work with than with Shelley.