A meme, stolen in the usual fashion

[thisbluespirit]

Because why not? And I am still extra tired. (Though I really do have hopes of tomorrow now. Or the day after at least. *sigh*) Hopefully this will be in my capabilities and prove cheering! Memed from various flisters:

Name a character in any of my fandoms, and I'll answer these questions:

1. Do you love/hate/don’t feel strongly about this character?
2. What’s your favorite trait of this character?
3. What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
4. If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
5. Have you ever pictured this character naked?
6. When did you fall in love/hate with this character? If you don’t have any strong feelings toward them, why not?
7. Who’s your OTP for this character, if any?

My answer to 5 is in almost any case I can think of, a resounding: "No, I go to great lengths not to! People should have clothes on!! Clothes are good." or "Yes, *sob* can I have the brain bleach, please?" (Yes. I know. I'm v strange, sorry.) So if anyone wants an alternate question for that, feel free to give me one.

Comments

[john_amend_all]

Ray Defwydd!

(For Q5: Which show/book should she be in a crossover with?)

[seriesfive]

Vetinari :D

[thisbluespirit]

1. I do probably like her disproportionately to her screen time.
2. Her habit of carrying spanners. Being Welsh.
3. Her dancing with the Doctor, and spending the night with him in the laundry place. ;-)
4. Well, I'm not very technical, so some of her engine know-how would be useful. Might be a bit out of date, but probably still more than I know.
5. I don't know - I'd have just been intrigued to see how it'd have been if she had been a companion. But then, I couldn't do without Ace.
6. I think it was the dancing. I'm not sure how strongly I feel about her, but I do like her - I like Delta and Ray, and Mr Burton particularly.
7. Doctor/Ray, Ray/Motorbikes.

[thisbluespirit]

1. I don't think I do have very strong feelings about him, but I like him. He's certainly an interesting and entertaining character to read about.
2. His scary habit of knowing everything.
3. I think the bit in Feet of Clay where he's wearily waiting for the Watch to catch up with what he knows about who killed him and having to slice bits of candles until they do.
4. I'm not sure I'd want to be as clever and as devious as he is; it might take quite a bit of the fun out of life. Still, some of that wouldn't go amiss.
6. I think I don't have that strong feelings towards him because he's not as major a character as some, but I like him - I'm always pleased when he's in a Discworld novel.
7. Vetinari/Ankh Morpork. Or none. I do like Vetinari and Vimes, though. :-)

[john_amend_all]

Obviously we need some timey-wimey process to insert half-a-dozen new stories between Delta and Dragonfire, where Ray is the companion. You're quite right about her not replacing Ace.

(If she had, I think we might have ended up with Sophie Aldred playing Ray and Lynn Gardner playing Ace, which it breaks my brain to imagine).

Oh, and I thought of a patch for the nudity question to remove its Schmuck Bait qualities: "Before reading this meme, have you ever pictured the character naked?"

[seriesfive]

I think the bit in Feet of Clay where he's wearily waiting for the Watch to catch up with what he knows about who killed him and having to slice bits of candles until they do.

That was a very strange (and very entertaining) plot of his! And there's the scene were he topples over in stages - for some very strange reason, I love it ;)

[vilakins]

Am I too late to ask about Vila?

[vilakins]

Ha! I note you left out #5.

Vetinari/Ankh Morpork is definitely the OTP (even though some go for Vetinari/Drumknott which I find somewhat disturbing due to the power imbalance).

[thisbluespirit]

:-) I said at the start I was outlawing #5, and people could give me an alternate question if they wished.

I am wise to the ways of the meme! ;-)

[thisbluespirit]

Of course not!

1. I love him, definitely.
2. His sense of humour and thieving habits.
3. Oh, lots. His introduction, everything in City at the Edge of the World. (The whole episode is designed to show why Vila is so much better than all the bullies in his life, and he is. ♥)
4. I suppose it's not really very ethical to want to be able to steal things, but a bit of sleight-of-hand etc. might come in handy. Could be a temptation, though/
6. I loved Vila fairly immediately. It's a bit hard to recall, but I'm sure he was an instant favourite.
7. I don't know that I have an OTP for him. Vila/Staying alive, Vila/stealing. Vila/any sympathetic female who'll take pity on him. I have a platonic otp which is Vila-Avon, though.

[vilakins]

With you on all of that, including the OTF Vila & Avon; they're both so much fun to write too.

I don't think Vila is all that into the actual acquisition given how little he actually steals in the series; I think it's the skill and proving how good he is that matters to him, and Blake provided the opportunity and the praise that fuels his self-worth and identity. [hugs Vila] If only he know that we love him for plenty of other reasons.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, he doesn't really seem to be into the actual acquisition side, does he? Which makes him far more interesting. :-)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the tired! How about Ace McShane for the meme?

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! And Ace! ♥

1. She was my 11-yr-old role model. I adored her unquestioningly.
2. Plenty of things, really, but I can't help but appreciate her tendency to blow things up.
3. I think - and back to being an impressionable 11 year old again - I loved her killing Cybermen with gold coins. I should have a more sensible adult answer, because there are plenty of things to be said about Ace and her story. But... 11 year old me really liked that. And, you know, back-stage, Sophie Aldred was curing her fear of heights by running about atop a gantry... :-)
4. BLOWING STUFF UP.
6. As I said in the first 1; it was pretty much love at first sight.
7. I don't have an OTP for Ace - I love Seven and Ace as friends, and that's the nearest thing to one person for her, but it's not romantic (in my head anyway). I really don't know who I'd see as her OTP.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Bah @ being tired. Here, have a Donna Noble to answer memes with and hopefully you'll be less tired? :D

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Ace blowing stuff up is indeed pretty great. :)

[ikel89.livejournal.com]

Can I ask for Howl?:) And number 5 would be his favourite outfit, or something along those lines;))

[elviaprose.livejournal.com]

Del Tarrant.

Hmm. An alternative to 5. How would you feel if he had hair like Deeta's?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Liz Shaw & the Third Doctor (and given those cake fics - don't you DARE tell me you haven't pictured Three naked!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Delgado!Master, please. As an alternative number 5 - what's the weirdest thing you have imagined him doing?

And I hope you feel a bit better soon. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Howl! No, I don't mind at all, although it really is much too long since I've reread it.

1. Howl is one of those intentionally annoying characters, so I think I like him pretty well and find him amusingly annoying/interesting.
2. His vanity is pretty amusing and very characteristic.
3. Hmm. I think there was some stuff that particularly entertained me in the last book as being something only Howl would do, but I've forgotten what it is. I always like the different side of him we see when he's in Wales. (Clearly, I need to reread.)
4. Ha. Well, magic would be useful! (I think I'll do without the vanity and lack of a heart!) Or, actually, maybe the moving castle itself? Yep. Give me a moving castle.
5. I can't remember all the descriptions, but there was a blue and silver one, wasn't there? I like the sound of that, regardless of what Sophie may have done to it.
6. It takes a while to find out about Howl in the book, so I suppose it was pretty gradual - but I think he's pretty entertaining.
7. Howl/Sophie, who else could keep him in line? ♥

[thisbluespirit]

1. I quite like him, actually.
2. I love how he sees himself as the hero of this story, but he really, really isn't, and that the series can do that. (In any other show he would be, wouldn't he?)
3. I think the ending of Deathwatch. I do like Tarrant, but I didn't expect to be that moved by anything involving him, and yet I was.
4. Er. Well, I wouldn't mind being as healthy as he obviously is, and I could have some of his height and maybe some of his excellent Robin Hood S3 outfits.
5. That would be tragic. It's bad enough that it's not as pretty in S4 without being doomed to being forever in an Ace!Rimmer wig. Although, whether that would make him start behaving exactly like Ace, I don't know...
6. I don't think I really have that many strong feelings about him - I quite liked him from when we worked out what he was up to in Power Play (?), and liked him a lot more once he started getting missions with Dayna, because he's always more fun when he's with Dayna.
7. Tarrant/Dayna. Possibly also Tarrant/Robin Hood outfits and Tarrant/self-delusion. No, really, Tarrant/Dayna.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it was only Ten who was naked in cake!fic, so no, I really haven't - beyond what happened in the shower in Spearhead, which therefore I didn't even have to picture! 0_o

Liz:
1. I like her quite a lot. :-)
2. Her determination, her brains, her snarkyness, her chemistry with the Brigadier.
3. A few, but particularly when she tells her kidnapper not to worry, she won't hurt him.
4. I'd love to be as clever and scientific as she is.
6. I think actually when I started writing such a lot with her in, but then that coincided with me getting to see the rest of S7 properly for the first time, too.
7. Brig/Liz! ♥ (Liz/Science also. And Liz/Silver is fun, but not as an OTP. Silver'd never stick around for long enough and would be very annoying if he did!)

Three
1. Actually, while I do like him, of course, (he's the Doctor!!) slightly ironically, he's my least favourite classic Who Doctor. (But to make it up to him I've written him the most. :lol:)
2. His impressive sandwich eating skills.
3. Oh, hard. There are quite a lot. (He's the Doctor!) Everything where he and the Brigadier snark, and the lovely understated bit where they make up again in Ambassadors of DEATH.
4. I want his TARDIS! (Sorry, Doctor). If all that Time Lord intelligence doesn't fit inside a human mind, I'll think I'll pass. Actually... I don't want his TARDIS; it doesn't work properly. His velvet jacket? The ability to insult bureaucrats with impunity?
6. He's the Doctor! I already liked him before I saw him, because I'd seen a few other hims by then.
7. Three/TARDIS? I don't know. I don't know that I actively ship him with anyone. (Sorry, Three.) I like his relationships with several people, though - Three & Liz, Three & the Brig, Three & Jo, Three & the Master...)

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! So do I! :-)

1. Oh, I love him more than I should.
2. His charm and his approach to literature and children's TV.
3. Oh, so much of him I haven't even seen and it's still so hard to choose! Actually, just the first moment when he turns up in Frontier in Space. I cheer each time. (It's terribly dull till that happens.) No, wait - in Claws of Axos when he joins forces with the Brigadier. And where he's shocked at the Doctor's TARDIS. "Over weight, underpowered, might as well try to fly a second hand gas stove."
4. I'm not sure his abilities would be good for me. I don't really want to hypnotise people, shrink people, or make up rubbish plans to annoy the Doctor take over the galaxy. His suavity and charm, then. I'd be equal to anything.
5. I suppose it'd have to be that time in my cake!fic where I imagined him making cake from a packet mix and icing it. Really, you'd think I'd have come up with something odder, but I've spent shockingly little time picturing him doing anything. Possibly because of the dangers of getting hypnotised and losing hours in contemplating him. I shall go away and picture trying to fly a second hand gas stove.
6. I fell in love the moment he turned up in The Sea Devils (my first ever Three serial, courtesy of BBC2) and liked the Clangers. I haven't ever quite recovered since.
7. Well, he is obsessed with the Doctor, so Master/Doctor a bit, but not really. Master/Really Rubbish Plans? Worrying Master/Jo?

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! ♥

1. I like her quite a bit. :-)
2. Not standing for any nonsense and being very down to earth.
3. Probably the miming bit, because everything about that is amazing.
4. I'd like her courage and ability to stand up to people.
6. I liked her pretty much staright away in The Runaway Bride - she was fun and a refreshing change.
7. Doctor-Donna platonically. I don't know who I'd really, seriously ship her with as an OTP. I haven't thought about this enough, have I?