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schmericaLately I have been thinking a lot about characters, and what makes a character interesting, and what makes a character someone I love.
Tonight I thought:
I like characters who are quiet. I like characters who are low-key. I like characters who are dry. I like characters who are intelligent. I like characters who are competent. I like characters who are genuinely nice. I like characters who are good, whether or not it's difficult to be so. I like characters who are those things, and can still be funny, or sarcastic, or playful.
Few characters fit all of that, of course, but a lot fit enough to make me love them.
I like Benton Fraser. I like s1 Clark Kent. I like Duck MacDonald and Dan Jarvis. I like Sam Vimes and Lady Sybil. I like Izzie Stevens. I like Hope Surdjic. I like Joanie Stubs and Charlie Utter and Sol Star and Trixie the whore. I like Linsday and Sam Weir. I like Samwise Gamgee. I like Millie Chant. I like Inara Serra. I like Anna Conroy. I like Teyla and Zelenka. I like Rupert Giles. I like Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood. I like Jane Eyre.
When I was younger, I loved Elizabeth Bennet and Jo March as much as anybody, but the older I am when I reread, the more I also notice the charms of Jane and Meg and Beth.
I'm surprised, a little, that this list is so heavily female -- I wonder if it's a combination of thinking so much about female characters lately, and that it's a type that lends itself to women quite a bit. I think my platonic ideal of the character type must be the smart, bookish, nice girl of YA literature, the one who doesn't need to go off and have adventures, thank you, she's perfectly fine right here.
There are plenty of characters I love who don't fit any of these characteristics, of course, but it really is true a lot of the time; I have some sort of consistency in type, even if others often randomly accost me. Often these characters come paired up, contrasted with the loud, the spunky, the feisty, the daring rebel. Nineteen times out of twenty, I'd find the former more interesting than the latter.
Tonight I thought:
I like characters who are quiet. I like characters who are low-key. I like characters who are dry. I like characters who are intelligent. I like characters who are competent. I like characters who are genuinely nice. I like characters who are good, whether or not it's difficult to be so. I like characters who are those things, and can still be funny, or sarcastic, or playful.
Few characters fit all of that, of course, but a lot fit enough to make me love them.
I like Benton Fraser. I like s1 Clark Kent. I like Duck MacDonald and Dan Jarvis. I like Sam Vimes and Lady Sybil. I like Izzie Stevens. I like Hope Surdjic. I like Joanie Stubs and Charlie Utter and Sol Star and Trixie the whore. I like Linsday and Sam Weir. I like Samwise Gamgee. I like Millie Chant. I like Inara Serra. I like Anna Conroy. I like Teyla and Zelenka. I like Rupert Giles. I like Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood. I like Jane Eyre.
When I was younger, I loved Elizabeth Bennet and Jo March as much as anybody, but the older I am when I reread, the more I also notice the charms of Jane and Meg and Beth.
I'm surprised, a little, that this list is so heavily female -- I wonder if it's a combination of thinking so much about female characters lately, and that it's a type that lends itself to women quite a bit. I think my platonic ideal of the character type must be the smart, bookish, nice girl of YA literature, the one who doesn't need to go off and have adventures, thank you, she's perfectly fine right here.
There are plenty of characters I love who don't fit any of these characteristics, of course, but it really is true a lot of the time; I have some sort of consistency in type, even if others often randomly accost me. Often these characters come paired up, contrasted with the loud, the spunky, the feisty, the daring rebel. Nineteen times out of twenty, I'd find the former more interesting than the latter.
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16/11/05 11:31 (UTC)NO!
*boggles*
(omg, me teasing you about this just NEVER GETS OLD.)
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16/11/05 13:27 (UTC)