karanguni: (BONTEN is sleepy)
K ([personal profile] karanguni) wrote2008-09-06 07:05 pm

WORLD DESTROYING MONSTERS AJlsfkjs

Studying, it eats me whole and makes me sweat, but it also makes me want to get up on my feet and destroy the world with huge chunks of information asfjlahsg keyboardsmash.

I want to do almost anything but revise right now; I want to write Tseng being unafraid and Sector 7ish, I want to write Dick being hugely angry and yet still bright, I want to write Bruce without the Wayne or the Batman, I want to write Reno as I first saw him walking over flowers with a magrod over his shoulder, I want (almost but not quite) to watch Estraven take the world down with him, freeze it up and make it Winter all over again.

Mostly I WILL DO THESE THINGS, but not until I eat my textbook.

Meanwhile, a shorter version of the above: memetime! Snagged off [livejournal.com profile] sister_coyote.

Pick a character that I have written -- or maybe even a character you could see me writing, if I know her -- then 5 numbers between 1 and 100. Comment with the character name and the five numbers, and I'll answer the five corresponding questions from this list.

For very best results, a character I've written more than once, as I have better headcanon the more I write someone, but I'll give other characters a shot. I'll take the same character more than once as long as the numbers are different.

My caveat lector is that my response to your question will probably not be standard-standard: the way I write a character fluctuates a whole lot, so the answers you get probably != the way characters are in any one of the fics I've done. 8D

[edit] Convenient happy fandom list (non-exhaustive): Final Fantasy VII/XII, Batman and family, Oceans and family, most of Tolkien, Fullmetal Alchemist, Baccano!, Samurai Champloo, most non-Earthsea Le Guin, Pratchett!

[identity profile] kabuki-chan.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
and I hate stupid lj tags in the early morning *gnarw*

*pat!*

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
22. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An identity as opposed to an occupation: I wanted to be affluent. There are few things that migrants and poor men can do. There are few things that rich men could not. The goal was material, the aspiration, less so.

36. What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

Being found less well-versed in - and less concerned with - my apparently native language than my erstwhile adopted one by a man who knew more about loyalties than I ever did, at that age.

51. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances? Why do you refuse to do it?

Not exactly the easiest question to answer in absolute terms. I'd say: go back upon an oath, and more than one person would call me a liar. But I differentiate it from lying - oaths are principle-bound, lies are provisional and occasionally part of obeying the rules of engagement.

Why? If you don't have principles in this line of work, you have, frankly, little else.

79. What, if anything, shocks or offends you?

Few things serve to shock. I've learnt to stop taking offense.

90. Name three things you consider yourself to be very good at, and three things you consider yourself to be very bad at.

Discretion, etiquette, competency. Obedience, volume, eloquency.