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] sister-coyote.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I do a weird one?

Estraven, 5, 23, 68, 82, 91

(I picked truly at random, so if any of them assume background that isn't true of a Gethenian, I can pick more numbers. :) )

jfalsjf I love this man

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
EEE ESTRAVEN. *dies a happy death and ditches work to do this one*

5. Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.

Once, I lived in Estre. I think that is where I will always desire to live, within. In another time, I lived with a friend, a lover. Now I live with myself, in a corner dwelling of the Palace. It is a building dedicated to a love gone insane.

I think, personally, that it is exactly where I am meant to live. I have always lived without, in most senses that word brings to mind.

23. As a child, what were your favorite activities?

Rowing. We would go out to the ice lakes during the thaw, and see if we could beat out friends across to the other bank. In the winter, we would skate, or pull together. Endless long treks on our own. I enjoyed that. Other times we would go out in a group, and laugh at idle fantasies of crossing the Ice.

68. Do you like interacting with large groups of people? Why or why not?

These days I think I dislike it almost as much as I wish I could enjoy it. Politicians are cruel creatures, and when too many of them gather together everyone ends up tripping over someone else's shadow, or their own. But it is people that I love - and when I look back on days before I entered the kyoremmy, or at least before I was invested with the Prime Minister's chain, I think I enjoyed the art of laughter and conversation.

82. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?

I grow stupid in close situations. Planning - I am always planning. It is the only thing I can do well: all I have are my hunches, and the ability to work on them. I am not gifted with either guile or charisma. So I must make do, and plot my course through life.

91. Do you like yourself?

That is a frank question to ask, and requires more introspection than I think I dare indulge in. The accurate answer would take too long; the short answer - and the true answer - would probably be "no". I have not liked myself for an age, and my refusal to change comes entirely out of my own stubborness.

Re: jfalsjf I love this man

[identity profile] sister-coyote.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
*squee*

Re: jfalsjf I love this man

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
This man, he can talk all damned day in my head if he wants.