[meme] characters are funny things

[wisdomeagle]

Not meaning to worry anyone by dropping off the face of the LJ. Keep writing up half-posts and then not posting them.

PIMP: 3some_ficfest: like it says on the tin. It seems the new way to do ficathons is prompt-battle style. I approve. It means I don't actually have to commit to writing things.

MEME: Y'all asked questions about my list of characters here. List of characters and answers to questions under the cut:


[spoilers for: end of S4 Angel, end of S4 House M.D., mid-S4 Farscape, S4 Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, S1 Ugly Betty]



Most recently via astrogirl2:
1) Make a list of 15 characters.
2) Assign each character a number.
3) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them, e.g., "If 5 + 9 had to rob a bank, could they pull it off?" (The more random the better!)
4) Post the answers and who was who on the list.

15 characters:

1. Derek Shepherd ("McDreamy") (Grey's Anatomy)
2. Stacey McGill (Baby-Sitters Club)
3. Abby Stevenson (Baby-Sitters Club)
4. Tara Maclay (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
5. Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)
6. Buffy Summers (eponymous)
7. Joss Whedon (RPF)
8. Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
9. Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
10. James Wilson (House MD)
11. Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1 S1-8)
12. Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
13. Thirteen (House MD)
14. Fred Burkle (Angel)
15. Daniel Meade (Ugly Betty)

From mari4212: Stacey McGill, Ron Weasley, and Joss Whedon walk into a coffee shop together. What do they order, and what do they talk about while they're enjoying their drinks?

Wow, awkward coffee date. Joss: I'm torn between guessing plain black coffee, large (hi Joss, secretly I'm you) or something appropriately girly (something chocolatey with lots of whipped cream). Ron would order something magical, like, um, I am so bad at creating quirky magical things, but anyhow, it would be embarrassing because they wouldn't have it and he'd end up getting whatever Joss had gotten. Stacey: unsweetened iced tea.

There would be definite awkwardness, because Stacey would be rolling her eyes over the geek alert (clearly obvious from the way Joss and Ron dress!) and Joss and Ron would get hyper-caffeinated and start mouthing about things they shouldn't, especially Ron re: magic. Loltastic and awkward.

For eponis: Stacey McGill and Fred Burkle go on a dinner date. Who pays, and how well do they tip?

Pre-S5 Angel, Stacey pays, being all richy rich from her high-powered NYC accounting job. While Fred's at W+H, they go dutch. They tip generously and accurately. :)

Just as they're leaving the restaurant, James Wilson bursts in, armed to the teeth. What does he want, and how do Fred and Stacey react?

Wow, Wilson, psychotic much? It's post "Wilson's Heart" and Wilson and House have been drinking and House dares Wilson to rob a restaurant. Stacey + Fred are on the ball with the pepper spray, and Fred might overreact a tad with the taser. (ps why did I forget VMars characters? ilu Keith!)

For invisionary: Derek Shepherd writes fanfic. What fandoms do they write in? Who do they ship? What kind of stories do they write?

Ahahahahahahaha. McDreamy. FANFIC. Ahahahahahahaha. I am trying to think of the meanest thing I can. Obviously, some canonish het pairing that is supposed to be hearts and flowers but if you look at it for longer than two seconds is actually dysfunction city. Maybe really, really sappy Spike/Buffy fic. Where Spike is all ~woobie~ and hurt because Buffy doesn't wuv him properly. *single emo tear*

Same question for Ron Weasley, Aeryn Sun, and Rupert Giles.

*snerrrrrk* Okay, so Ron watches really bad Muggle TV, obviously. I'm thinking Charmed, or maybe Bewitched reruns. And he tries to correct the magic and it comes out all garbled and confused and the writing is really bad and the characterization is really wooden because emotional range of a teaspoon. ♥ He ships canon pairings.

Aeryn reads classics. War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Homeric epics, Shakespeare -- basically everything John had to read in high school. She writes fanfic to practice her English and her grasp of Earth cultures. She's got a very tight, structured prose style, with more focus on plot and theme than characterization. She doesn't see the point of shipping.

Giles. O_O I find this extremely unlikely. But let's set it in the year of ennui, aka S4. He's watching lots of soaps and reruns and is so appalled by the emotional confusion of them that he writes fics where everyone behaves logically and rationally. He ships healthy, functional relationships if he ever sees them.

For piperrhiannon: Who does Aeryn secretly want to see naked?

Hm. I feel that if Aeryn wanted to see someone naked, she would. Or wouldn't angst about it if she couldn't. And wouldn't really be hung up about nudity. That said, um. Maybe D'Argo or Chi, for the experience of it.

For astrogirl2: Ron Weasley discovers fanfiction pairing them with Buffy Summers. How does Ron react?

lol. Wank fodder for WEEKS.

For bluerosefairy: Abby Stevenson wants to ask Joss Whedon on a date. How does he/she go about it, what do they do on their date, and how does it turn out?

Now I am overflowing with happiness. Joss! Abby! Abby! Joss! If they know each other, I think, "Hey Joss, [since Kai and the kidlets have been pastede off through the power of ~~handwavy~~] do you wanna hang out sometime?"

If not, I'm thinking fanletter that says basically the same thing. <3

Hmm. I'm thinking Abby's ideal date would involve lots of running jumping climbing trees (tm Eddie Izzard) or going to a carnival or something active and colorful, and Joss's ideal date would be, hm, reading Shakespeare with the B'verse gang.

WAIT. Okay. They go to Pride together! And Abby's all rainbowy and colorful and they're both all bi and prideful and flirty and funny and it goes fantabulously. <3<3 Although ultimately I think they're both so on and view conversation as a competative sport and always want to be the center of attention that the whole thing would end in one big firework of fail -- but it would be SO AWESOME.

For ctorres: Rupert Giles and Daniel Meade are on a roadtrip together. Where/why are they going, and how does the trip go?

... oh man, road trip from HELL, man. Road trip from hell. Family with old demon blood has an anti-Meade vendetta. The Scoobies and Alexis stick around in NYC for the ensuing fight; Giles and Daniel head west to the Mystical Cave of Mysticalness for the Magical Artifact that will unlock etc. (Phlabatnum is hard you guys.) Anyhow. ROAD TRIP FROM HELL. Daniel is a hard-drinking womanizing SOB. Giles nobly resists the urge to smack him for skipping out of the hotel every night to drink and get laid. Or to get laid in their shared hotel room. Also feels that hourly calls from Betty are a bit excessive. But eventually mutual lifesaving happens and they develop a tentative and nonslashy bond. (I have an aversion to crossover boyslash. YMMV, but it's not my thing.) Still. LOLARIOUS ROADTRIP FROM HELL.

For sage_theory: Derek Shepherd and Daniel Meade are on a deserted island together. Can they survive the island, and each other?

So I hate McDreamy with a fiery burning passion, whereas I can tolerate Daniel half the time because he realizes he's a jerk. McDreamy has no idea. That said. Um. Derek has some survival skills; Daniel has none. They're both kind of dickish, and they could probably get along okay -- although they're both used to having male friends who are even jerkier than they are, so it would be kind of tough for them to adapt, but they could be all oozy and charmeriffic and secretly hate each other and could not possibly get rescued soon enough.

Ron Weasley and Aeryn Sun are going on vacation together, where do they go?

Hm, Muggle USA? Where they're both amused by the wacky Muggle earthlings? I can't imagine two people more ill-suited to go vacationing together.

Would Stacey McGill and Joss Whedon be even remotely attracted to each other? If so, why? If not, why?

Hee, it is BSC x RPF crossover season! I think Joss would be attracted to Stacey because she's thin and blonde and smart and young and thus if she had superpowers, she'd be Joss's ideal woman. I don't think Stacey would have any interest in Joss, though, because he's not a ~~dreamy~~ and sophisticated urbanite.

Who could drink the other one under the table, Tara Maclay or Daniel Jackson? If they were at a bar, what would they order?

How much fun would this be? THIS MUCH. Daniel definitey wins the drinking contest at this point in canon, since I don't think Tara has a lot of experience with alcohol -- some, but not much. Daniel, otoh, taught the Abydonians to make moonshine. DANIEL. Daniel likes good beer and presumably has specific tastes in stronger liquor, too. I kind of imagine that Tara would be fine with ordering a beer if out with friends or having wine at dinner or whatever, but if she went out to a bar, she'd go there to get drunk. I think not a little-umbrella-style drink -- that's more for when she's out with the girls -- maybe rum and coke or a cosmopolitan? Or whiskey, neat.

Miranda Bailey and James Wilson are embodied by flavors of ice cream - what flavors?

Bailey is Death by Chocolate; Wilson is Rum Raisin.

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[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Who could drink the other one under the table, Tara Maclay or Daniel Jackson? If they were at a bar, what would they order?

How much fun would this be? THIS MUCH. Daniel definitey wins the drinking contest at this point in canon, since I don't think Tara has a lot of experience with alcohol -- some, but not much. Daniel, otoh, taught the Abydonians to make moonshine. DANIEL.

Hee!!

You know, I wouldn't have thought Tara would be a hard liquor kind of girl. It doesn't fit with my image of her as "soft". But then again, with her family background maybe it makes perfect sense. Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean. Maybe she *is* a rye whiskey kind of gal.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

Hee! Giles writing soap opera fanfic is priceless. (And even though I've never seen a single episode of Grey's, I know enough about McDreamy to find the idea of him writing fanfic hilarious, too. *g*)

Thanks!