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?

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Comments

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

I totally agree with everything you had to say. And my own personal characterisations are sometimes completely different to someone elses. Can on occasions make them difficult to read.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

And my own personal characterisations are sometimes completely different to someone elses.

In my opinion, that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Sometimes you run across something that upsets you-but that's why there are warnings and such. But I love to come across a fic that make me stop and think about a character or his motivations, especially if it's something I would never have thought to write and it's even better if the characterisation is so dead-on that I ca hear the actor's voice in the written words. It makes my day to read stuff like that.

Can on occasions make them difficult to read.

I've run across those too but for the most part? I think that depends on the reader's personal thoughts on characters.

For example, rape fics. Not my favorite thing to read but I have no problem (in relation to characterisation) with someone writing Angelus or Spike committing rape because such a thing is within the characters. However, I have a huge thing about rape fics where the attackers are Xander, Riley, Lindsey, Gunn or Wesley.

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

I do judge vampires differently from humans. What I can tolerate a vampire doing, or happening to a vampire, I cannot with a human. This extends into AU human, when either one or both of them become human. I then cannot let them be mistreated, or mistreat in human form.

I expect vampires to have a demon, and therefore to behave differently from a human. If it is Angelus or William the Bloody, I expect them to feed and be evil.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I expect vampires to have a demon, and therefore to behave differently from a human. If it is Angelus or William the Bloody, I expect them to feed and be evil.

I agree with you on that, totally. And by extension of canon storylines, I'd have to include both Lindsey and Riley as behaving differently.

I do judge vampires differently from humans. What I can tolerate a vampire doing, or happening to a vampire, I cannot with a human.


While I fully believe Xander, Riley, Lindsey, Gunn and Wesley capable of many brutal things (as indeed, they all were within canon), there are some things they would not do...ever. But that's just my opinion.