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Nov. 14th, 2009 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeDear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you so much, whatever you choose to write! Hopefully this letter will help make things clearer, although I've not been in a terribly expansive mood lately. So.
Let's see... Likes: Dark, moody, plot-driven stories. Alternate realities of all shapes and sizes. Manipulation and mind-fucking. Hrrrm. Darkness having fun, and the bad guys winning.
Dislikes: Still mpreg. Just. Do Not Want.
Because I may not be able to describe what I'm wanting to clearly, but I can babble about characters with the best of them!
Lost Boys
David:Keifer Sutherland is hot. What, what?! Oh David. What a jerk you are! Of all the boys, I think he most got the tragedy of their situation; the rest of them seemed perfectly happy to be terminally immature, but there was a little more depth with David. He makes me think of a big dog trapped in a yard too small for it, which is what I think drew him to Michael, and led to the attempted recruiting instead of poor clueless Michael becoming a snack.
Michael: Except he's not entirely clueless, it's just he's still at that stage where you all alone of all living things are capable of rational thought. :P There is something there, something in the particular feel of his tormented disaffected teen-ness that promises a more complex personality - given enough time, perhaps?
Also, there's the going along with David's clearly insane suggestions.
Babylon 5
I do not believe I'm about to draw parallels between these two, but. I just realized there is a certain puppy-like quality in both Vir Cotto and Michael Emerson. Just, Michael is the puppy who will bite if you kick him.
Vir Cotto: Vir will follow you around and make deep, soulfully hurt eyes at you. Aren't you ashamed? Well, and depending on which point in the overall arc you kick him, he may also plot some devious political/social revenge on you.
Or order you executed. Emperor! XD
I really adore Vir's particular, quiet strength though. Even at the beginning, when he's a quivering little bundle of nerves, he'll try to stand his ground. And when he starts to come into his own, it is beautiful. His conversation with Morden : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0n2vurSBIQ&feature=related remains one of my favorite moments in any fandom ever.
Londo Mollari: Londo kind of breaks my heart. He had so much potential! And he's a wonderful little bastard, but he could have been a wonderful good person, too. There is so much good in him, and I love that Vir sees that when probably no one else does. I love that each of them believes he's in the right and is trying to guide and influence the other in his own way.
The thing is, I think Londo would really have been happier in 'the old days'. Usually when I see a character pining for something like that, I get the feeling they're deluding themselves? But I get the impression that Londo really could also have been the looting, warring, absolute sort of bastard that could've survived in the political climate of yore, and would have been happier doing so. He could've gone ahead and killed people when he deemed it necessary, without as much politcal mincing around. For all that he was appalled at what he'd done and become as things progressed, he did it anyway - that is the kind of extreme his personality leads him into.
It's, I don't know. I'm fumbling with what I'm trying to say here, but I think the best way to put it is: Londo is emotionally energetic but intellectually lazy. It's not that he can't think, it's that he wants to get a kick out of it, and if he doesn't... well. Everyone was better off when Londo was happy, you notice? Everyone.
She Wants Revenge
I dunno, such characters as there are in these songs are nameless? I just listen to them and it's like, ear candy versions of the things in my likes section above. :)
Parasite Eve
Aya Brea: There's a feeling I get with her, that she is looking for something besides what is obvious in the game. That she's missing a feeling of connection, and this is why she pauses at odd moments and repeatedly does not go for a kill shot when she has the chance.
Melissa Pearce aka Maya Brea aka Eve: First of all, identity crisis much? Second, I don't know, I like to think there is still something of Melissa in her, even if it's just that love of music and acting that led to her career. It's so clear even in those few diary entries that it is a driving passion that I find hard to believe no trace of that passion survived. The fact that she has her own theme which keeps recurring as a way to say you're on her trail only strengthened that belief. And the museum? That's a rather artistic choice for a hideout.
Thank you so much, whatever you choose to write! Hopefully this letter will help make things clearer, although I've not been in a terribly expansive mood lately. So.
Let's see... Likes: Dark, moody, plot-driven stories. Alternate realities of all shapes and sizes. Manipulation and mind-fucking. Hrrrm. Darkness having fun, and the bad guys winning.
Dislikes: Still mpreg. Just. Do Not Want.
Because I may not be able to describe what I'm wanting to clearly, but I can babble about characters with the best of them!
Lost Boys
David:
Michael: Except he's not entirely clueless, it's just he's still at that stage where you all alone of all living things are capable of rational thought. :P There is something there, something in the particular feel of his tormented disaffected teen-ness that promises a more complex personality - given enough time, perhaps?
Also, there's the going along with David's clearly insane suggestions.
Babylon 5
I do not believe I'm about to draw parallels between these two, but. I just realized there is a certain puppy-like quality in both Vir Cotto and Michael Emerson. Just, Michael is the puppy who will bite if you kick him.
Vir Cotto: Vir will follow you around and make deep, soulfully hurt eyes at you. Aren't you ashamed? Well, and depending on which point in the overall arc you kick him, he may also plot some devious political/social revenge on you.
Or order you executed. Emperor! XD
I really adore Vir's particular, quiet strength though. Even at the beginning, when he's a quivering little bundle of nerves, he'll try to stand his ground. And when he starts to come into his own, it is beautiful. His conversation with Morden : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0n2vurSBIQ&feature=related remains one of my favorite moments in any fandom ever.
Londo Mollari: Londo kind of breaks my heart. He had so much potential! And he's a wonderful little bastard, but he could have been a wonderful good person, too. There is so much good in him, and I love that Vir sees that when probably no one else does. I love that each of them believes he's in the right and is trying to guide and influence the other in his own way.
The thing is, I think Londo would really have been happier in 'the old days'. Usually when I see a character pining for something like that, I get the feeling they're deluding themselves? But I get the impression that Londo really could also have been the looting, warring, absolute sort of bastard that could've survived in the political climate of yore, and would have been happier doing so. He could've gone ahead and killed people when he deemed it necessary, without as much politcal mincing around. For all that he was appalled at what he'd done and become as things progressed, he did it anyway - that is the kind of extreme his personality leads him into.
It's, I don't know. I'm fumbling with what I'm trying to say here, but I think the best way to put it is: Londo is emotionally energetic but intellectually lazy. It's not that he can't think, it's that he wants to get a kick out of it, and if he doesn't... well. Everyone was better off when Londo was happy, you notice? Everyone.
She Wants Revenge
I dunno, such characters as there are in these songs are nameless? I just listen to them and it's like, ear candy versions of the things in my likes section above. :)
Parasite Eve
Aya Brea: There's a feeling I get with her, that she is looking for something besides what is obvious in the game. That she's missing a feeling of connection, and this is why she pauses at odd moments and repeatedly does not go for a kill shot when she has the chance.
Melissa Pearce aka Maya Brea aka Eve: First of all, identity crisis much? Second, I don't know, I like to think there is still something of Melissa in her, even if it's just that love of music and acting that led to her career. It's so clear even in those few diary entries that it is a driving passion that I find hard to believe no trace of that passion survived. The fact that she has her own theme which keeps recurring as a way to say you're on her trail only strengthened that belief. And the museum? That's a rather artistic choice for a hideout.
