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For the characters you love, what are the things you either ignore when writing fic, would write out if you were the showrunner/author, or just ignore?

I don't think there are any traits that I dislike in the sense of wanting to write out. I like my characters complicated and imperfect. The only things I would write out are when the writers don't acknowledge the faults of a character, and at that point i usually don't like the character.

Nothing. Not that they're perfect, but in the sense that I don't really want them to change.

But also, I think they're perfect.

Edited 2015-01-30 00:09 (UTC)

Greg Sanders on CSI is my favorite character but if I could, I'd get rid of his mob interest. I like how enthusiastic he is about it but I have zero interest in the mob and it hijacks a lot of his storylines. Also, it's like his only character trait these days. If he's going to have an episode about him, 9 out of 10 times, it's going to be mob-related.

A lot of that stems from his interest in Vegas history though doesn't it? And let's be real, Vegas and the mob go hand in hand.

Vegas history. Mob stuff. Whatever you want to call it -- that's what I don't care for.

Also, it's like his only character trait these days

Holy shit, that show is still airing? I've literally heard nothing about it in like two years (I haven't even seen commercials for it)

Yeah, it's on Sundays (maybe why you don't hear much about it). Since Langston left, I've enjoyed it. I don't weep if I miss an episode, but they're still fun.

They're getting a short season this year to make room for CSI:Cyber. This'll be the first CSI that I'm not going to watch. I don't like the main lady or the premise.

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The thing about Will on Glee, is the way he's described and the way the other characters talk about him is very different from how he often act. So I often feel like 'oblivious' is an actual character trait, but the greater heights of idiocy he reaches are purely thrown in by the writers in service of a cheap joke. So while I can appreciate why some people hate him, I can like him and ignore some of the greater ick.

It's not a trait I dislike, but a trait I'd add. Comics!Buck was, despite everthing, slightly funnier - or well, had a sense of humour. Even if sometimes understandably dark, which makes me love it more. MCU!Bucky...less so.

Well, we have only seen MCU!Bucky as Winter Soldier. He didn't really have much time to develop. Hell, he only had like...4 lines.

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Adam Parrish is kinda whiny. He's got good reasons, but still.

Xena could be harsh.

Abbie can be bossy.

Crane can be a know-it-all.

Ragnar is a jerk sometimes. Especially to Lagertha.

Ragnar is a jerk more often than you think. As much as I like him as a character, he's 85% calculating, looking out only for himself. I only say this because I'm conflicted, and otherwise find him an interesting character who I can't quite figure out.

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Haven't done fic in a good while, but I have a really hard time writing homophobia and blowhard masculinity anymore. I just find it so TEDIOUS and irritating, and I was willing to sometimes skip ahead to a point where I figured the character had chilled the fuck out and learned nobody was going to confiscate his manhood.

--Rogan

Nothing I can think of. If there was something truly awful, I probably wouldn't like them to begin with.

Well...I woobify the Snape. That pretty much sums it up.

I do that sometimes. I'm a huge fan of alternate character interpretations for my own amusement. So I'll daydream fanfics that I'll never actually write and in one Snape will be a cuddly woobie and in the next he'll be an irredeemable monster.

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speaking of him, i'd take away that shitty Lily love and just make him an asshole that simply could not co-sign voldy's fucked up actions and switched sides. but assholery has to stay intact, that's my favorite part of him.

Usually there's not traits I dislike, but sometimes there's something that appears to me as inconsistent writing or just doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the character, and those are the times I kind of just go "eeehh okay" and downplay it or ignore it when I write the character.

The one that comes to mind is Zaal'Koris from Mass Effect. He's an antagonist in the second game and an ally in the third game but I firmly maintain that his characterization is actually pretty consistent - his goals haven't changed, Shepard's and Tali's have. The one thing I can't quite reconcile with the rest of him, though, is the fact that he proposed posthumously exiling Tali if she didn't come back from the Alarei. Meanwhile it was established pretty firmly in other dialogue that he had no real ill will against Tali, she was just collateral damage in his crusade against Rael. Everything he does in both games is what he believes is best for the quarians, but demonizing Tali to the extent that he demonizes Rael doesn't seem to suit his purposes or have a real point beyond making the player thing "wow, what an asshole." Koris does some assholish things but he's got DEPTH, dangit, he doesn't just pull jerk moves for the sake of pulling jerk moves.

(And for that matter, neither does Han'Gerrel, but my thoughts on fandom's opinion of him are another rant entirely.)

(Why, yes, I think about quarian politics way too much, why do you ask?)

Garak from DS9 could be racist.

Tried to think of one, but came up with a big ol' goose egg.

Most of the time I like characters because I enjoy their annoying or irritating traits. ...Most of the characters I tend to hate are the flawless super geniuses who speak ten languages and also have a degree in particle physics but are an elite SFOD-D trained spy/operator who volunteers in orphanages on their days off.

I would write out any time the Doctor has been sexist or had very "human man" characteristics because it doesn't make sense to me that an alien who is (now) thousands of years old would have such archaic views on things, especially women.

I generally downplay or work around Pinkie Pie's tendency to go too far and make other ponies miserable. Her self-chosen role in life is as a bringer of happiness--it makes no sense for her to be that bad at reading others.

I've been told my version of House is too nice.

I love Rodney McKay and can't stand his disdain for fields outside of his interest. I think it's so narrow and silly.

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