Characterisation

[lady_windermere]

Was having a chat about characterisation last night to a couple of people, and realised that I don't always use my own idea's on characterisation when writing. In some areas I am quite willing to allow a lot of OOC when I am reading as well. Especially with Angelus and William.

I write Daddy!Kink, and Baby Boy because my friends enjoy it, and use what I consider to be the fandom characterisation for that kink. So even if my Angelus and William the Bloody do not really fit into that, I will quite happily write it anyway, using the general characterisation.

I wondered if anyone else felt the same?

[Poll #984998]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Yes, I can see where people are coming from in wanting fic to stay true to character. These are the characters loved on the shows, and as such they are who we want to read about.

The trend to make Spike weak and a victim has been upsetting my just recently, hence the poll. I don't mind a little of it, but I just seem to be reading it constantly. Spike did have various times when he was disabled, such as the wheelchair, and the chip, but he always bouced back.

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree. And even when Spike was disabled in the wheelchair, he wasn't weak - he didn't sit around crying and feeling sorry for himself all day. He continued to snark and call Angelus on his rudeness, and secretely praticed getting out of the chair to attempt to walk when the others weren't there. Yeah, Spike is no-one's victim. I'm totally sure (i. e. the mine vignette in FFL) that although Angelus may have tried to dominate him, he wasn't a victim.

And I did write one Human AU for a ficathon (Xander/Angel) because I'm too much of a canon whore to be able to comfortably hook-up those two due to Xander's feelings about vampires in general, and Angel in particular. So I had to give them a fresh start and make them both human, but I still tried to retain their characteristics and make them recognizably Xander and Angel.