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1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I write in fic or RP.
2. I will comment telling you the following:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Comments

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

a.) Hoo man, you're making me think way back. XD Ruchiel was my very first character, and that was, oh, 9 years ago. At the time, I thought that for characters with specific spheres, the idea was to emulate that sphere in the character as much as possible. Therefore, my goal was to make Ruchiel wind incarnate. XD In particular, she emulates the little breezes and soft, unobtrusive winds. Thankfully, both she and I have grown since then, and she's gained some more dimensions and become a bit more real.

b.) I think one of her better traits is also the one that she's unaware of. XD She has a secret cache of inner strength that, even when she wants to run and hide and be her usual shy self, she can pull upon that pool and do what needs to be done. Ruchiel is convinced she is kinda useless and weak, but she's stronger than she thinks she is.

c.) The poor girl has no self-confidence to speak of. XD The whole interaction thing makes her very nervous, and has a tendency to hold herself back because she feels she can't do what needs to be done well. It takes coaxing to get her out of her shell.

d.) I think Ruchiel is one of my harder characters to write, because I've had her for so long, and I really want to get her right. The other problem is that she's so shy and withdrawn that I really have to reign myself in when writing, because I come up with bits of dialogue, but I have to not use them because they're simply not what Ruchiel would say.

e.) I think "Laundry Day" is a good representation of who Ruchiel is. It has her awkwardness and her uncertainty, but it also shows her ability to recognize she's needed and rise to the challenge. I think I managed to find that balance between the two in that story.

f.) There are lots of things I want to do with Ruchiel. I've got several stories in varying degrees of completion involving her. In particular, I want to do a couple of introspective stories involving her thoughts at pivotal points in the plot, such as just after she and Alexei get mystically tied together and what the implications might be, and her thoughts whilst talking to a comatose Metatron about everything that's happening with the other characters. She's been in my head a long time, and stories and developments continually pop up. ^_^;;