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gwynStolen from sholio:
Give me a character, and I'll tell you:
First impression
Impression now
Favorite moment
Idea for a story
Unpopular opinion
Favorite relationship
Favorite headcanon
I'm familiar with an awful lot of media out there, but I can't promise all the answers to something I'm not really into--though you can certainly try!
sholio:Give me a character, and I'll tell you:
First impression
Impression now
Favorite moment
Idea for a story
Unpopular opinion
Favorite relationship
Favorite headcanon
I'm familiar with an awful lot of media out there, but I can't promise all the answers to something I'm not really into--though you can certainly try!
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Date: 2016-10-27 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-27 09:15 pm (UTC)Impression now: I don't really have one?
Favorite moment: I haven't watched enough of the show to know, really, but I did like it when he turned evil.
Idea for a story: I think somewhere along the line, he'd wonder if Steve Rogers or Bucky Barnes weren't, in fact, immortals.
Unpopular opinion: I don't know enough about the popular ones to have an unpopular one. I guess I thought they really should have separated him from the original movie somehow.
Favorite relationship: I suppose I'll have to default to Methos.
Favorite headcanon: I honestly don't know enough to have one.
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Date: 2016-10-27 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-27 09:36 pm (UTC)Impression now: She's one of my favorite badasses in the MCU (I'm not as fond of what they're doing with her in the comics world, wow, it's awful), and she hits my competence kink big-time.
Favorite moment: Taking off the helmet when she rescues Steve, Sam, and Natasha, and saying "who's this guy?"
Idea for a story: I had a lot of thoughts rolling around in my head after I wrote This Guy, but the one that kept sticking with me was trying to find a way to write a Mr. & Mrs. Smith type adventure where it's Maria and Sam against the world but they have all this prickly, sassy resentment going on in their marriage at the time.
Unpopular opinion: I don't know enough about the opinions on her to know what might be unpopular. But I don't like it when people write her as cold.
Favorite relationship: With Sam, because SamHill is the best pairing name ever, and her canonical friendship with Natasha and Pepper and Melinda May.
Favorite headcanon:
And now I'm sad that I don't have a Maria icon.
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Date: 2016-10-27 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-27 11:22 pm (UTC)First impression: Not interested (seriously, I couldn't even remember his real name, I kept thinking it was some alliterative name like John Jones or something, he just did not interest me at all because I'd internalized all that right wing-Captain America bullshit growing up and didn't know anything about him, and at the time I first read about casting for the movie I didn't like Chris Evans at all)
Impression now: I love Steve Rogers so much I could die
Favorite moment: God, how to choose? In comics, it might be "No, you move" or when he's so excited that Bucky's alive and okay that he practically twirls Sharon around, and in MCU, one of many favorites is when he drops the flagpole and hands the drill sergeant the flag and says, "thank you, sir." Or when he rescues Bucky. Or when he says "on va voir" or when he tells Nat he trusts her. Or his stubborn "I can get by on my own" or…honestly, I can't choose.
Idea for a story: HA HA HA HA. I keep hoping to stop having ideas for stories and be done with this bullshit torture hobby but I keep getting them. Right now all I'll say is that I want to do something set in the '40s before Europe.
Unpopular opinion: I don't share a lot of opinions about Steve with fandom in general. But one thing that always bugs me is having Steve loudly proclaim in public that he's bi or gay or whatever--I see him as an intensely private person with a sometimes difficult relationship to his fame, who'd want to leverage it for good in some things (like sick kids or vets or whatnot), but he's not that modern type of share everything online or in front of a camera kind of person. He came here directly from a different era, and I do not believe for one moment he's going to talk about his sexuality willingly in front of people.
Favorite relationship: Well, duh--with Bucky.
Favorite headcanon: I think he had a fantastic relationship with the USO gals in every respect, and that he's not the virgin everyone thinks he is because of at least one of them.
Bucky:
First impression: What the fuck is this little kid running around the battlefields of Europe, this is ridiculous.
Impression now: Holy shit it's like they made him for me out of the gossamer threads of all my dreams and fantasies OMG and they cast Sebastian Stan in the role and how is this happening?
Favorite moment: "No, not without you!" or "Pick on someone your own size" or "You're a punk" or the entire fucking bank vault scene but especially "But I knew him" and also the tag at the end of Winter Soldier and the flip off the car and sliding across the pavement and braking with his metal hand or the motorcycle flip in CW or maybe "Yeah, but I did it." WWWAAAAHHHHHH.
Idea for a story: HA HA HA HA part 2. I still haven't written the timestamp of Bucky learning to use Sam's wings, so I suppose that's one of many. Or going to Asgard.
Unpopular opinion: This is where I also don't necessarily fall in line with a lot of the fandom. I don't think he was a brainless automaton as the Winter Soldier, and I hate how he's infantalized in a lot of fanon, or barely able to function on his own without orders and constant reconditioning.
Favorite relationship: With Steve, romantically, and as friends with Sam, or Clint, or Natasha, or Pepper. Or all of them.
Favorite headcanon: I've mostly been writing all my favorite headcanons for the past couple years, to be honest. But I really liked the one I did for In the Stardust of a Song, where music triggers memories in the Winter Soldier during the course of the movie.
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Date: 2016-10-27 09:14 pm (UTC)Jake Jensen.
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Date: 2016-10-28 05:29 am (UTC)Impression now: Pretty much the same, just with a lot more fondness for both of those characteristics!
Favorite moment: The scene with the Petunias t-shirt, singing Don't Stop Believin' and driving everyone away from the elevator.
Idea for a story: I don't really have one, it's something I worry about when I offer it for Yuletide if I were to get assigned it. I'd want to do something adventurey and actiony, I think.
Unpopular opinion: I don't know enough about the general fandom to know whether any of my opinions would be unpopular or not. But I do really wonder about those people who accept the original media's presentation of him as straight, because that boy is queer as the day is long.
Favorite relationship: Well, with Cougar, obviously, because they have broccoli despite Jake's motormouth tendencies.
Favorite headcanon: I like to think that Jake enjoys wearing things that are traditionally coded as female, and doesn't give much of a fuck about what anyone else thinks of that.
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Date: 2016-10-27 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-28 07:54 pm (UTC)Impression now: Adore. I love Natasha so much, especially in Winter Soldier, because it wasn't technically her fight but she was right there with Steve, helping him, without even questioning it because it was the right thing to do.
Favorite moment: The look on her face when Steve tells her to take her feet of the dash, the look on her face when she says "it's a good way not to die, though", when she figures out where Bucky will be and first saves Steve and Sam from getting shot and then does it again running under the overpass and assessing how to shoot Bucky--and then hitting his goggles. I also am really fond of her taking down Happy in the boxing ring after his sexist bullshit.
Idea for a story: Not much that I haven't already written, but I've sometimes fantasized about doing a The Professional-based story where Natasha's the young girl escaping the Red Room and Bucky's in the Leon role.
Unpopular opinion: I feel like, much as I like their relationship in the comics, it's always obvious that the movies feel they have to have heterosexual 'ships for the lead males to make sure everyone knows they're straight, dammit--and so honestly, deep down inside, BuckyNat isn't a true ship for me, or other straight pairings. Like, I like them and will read them, but I always feel like it's there because it HAS to be there by Marvel dictate and the ingrained homophobia. Plus, I just really like that Nat's her own person in the MCU and has an intense friendship with Steve and she doesn't exist because she's boinking someone. Well, except for Ultron, but let's not talk about that abomination.
Favorite relationship: I adore her friendship with Clint (I do ship them sometimes, but it's the friendship that drives me), and I LOVE her friendship with Steve so much. That's one of the things that made Winter Soldier a perfect movie to me.
Favorite headcanon: I've written this a couple times just as an aside in fics, but I love thinking about her being a stress baker--it's very methodical and precise, so it might be calming when she needs it, and she loves to give away the fruits of her labor.
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Date: 2016-10-29 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-30 12:01 am (UTC)Impression now: All that and more. His steadfastness while still playing devil's advocate in Civil War was one of the highlights of that disappointing movie, and I loved his prickly dynamic with Bucky while still being there for him and working with him. He is the glue that holds everyone together, I really believe that.
Favorite moment: How to choose? "I never said pilot" or bringing a knife to a gunfight and coming away with the guns, "Uh huh, on my left" and "Ultimate fighting? Just off the top of my head" or his smile in the hospital. "Did you write that down first?" and the whole scene in the VW.
Idea for a story: I have many, though the one I'd most like to do is still a Mr. & Mrs. Smith type thing with Maria.
Unpopular opinion: I see nothing wrong with Sam using his counselling skills to help his teammates with PTSD. It seems that if he's ever even nice to anyone or gives them advice, everyone's screaming "stop making him team therapist" but I think he can be wise and kind even in the comics, where he has no counseling background, and he doesn't have to be team therapist to help them or want to help them. Of course fans can carry things too far, they're fans, that's what they do, but I hate the abreaction to Sam using his knowledge or skills to help people he loves. He's one of the most grounded characters in the universe, and that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own bad days, but I also think he's generous and loving and sensible and knows when people need a slap upside the head or a hot beverage and wise words.
Favorite relationship: I love him with Steve in lots of ways, I love him with Bucky as prickly friends, and I like him as friends or in a romantic ship with Maria or with Natasha.
Favorite headcanon: That that giant bowl of wine corks behind Steve in the breakfast scene means he's an oenophile.
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Date: 2016-10-29 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-31 05:15 am (UTC)Impression now: Still hot as hell. And also tragic in the way I love, and complicated, and my poor little boo-boo that I would clutch to my bosom and tell him that everything's going to be all right if I could.
Favorite moment: That's a tough one. When he hugs David at the end. When he finds Joseph in the dark and they go back to his place, and when he leaves and says "you're the only real thing I've ever touched." When he's being a soldier on their covert mission to Gath, especially when he's interrogating Belial. When he cries on the steps of Unity Plaza after his father has told him he knows.
Idea for a story: I don't have any fully formed ideas I haven't written already, but I'm trying to come up with something. One think I've noticed is that there's really almost no genre type stuff in Kings fandom, and I'm trying to think of ways I might be able to work up a genre type story.
Unpopular opinion: I don't know if I have one of these--I'm not sure what would constitute an unpopular one, but I definitely don't see Jack as purely wicked, like it seems a lot of people do, only reformed by David's goodness. I think Jack's a pretty good guy when you peel away those protective layers of manipulation and deceit.
Favorite relationship: Maybe this is an unpopular opinion--with Michelle. I'm a twin, so I tend to be drawn to those stories.
Favorite headcanon: I kind of already wrote it in Strangers to the Fire, but I like thinking about a story that would have started with them not as antagonists but as soldiers and comrades, who were attracted to each other and who were allied against Silas and his paranoia, more in keeping with the biblical story but still keeping Jack's edge.
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Date: 2016-11-12 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-27 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-28 08:23 pm (UTC)Impression now: She's still one of my favorite characters ever, despite Joss and his crew ruing so much of what I loved about everything there at the end.
Favorite moment: Wow, that's a tough one to pick. Maybe talking about killing Angel--"so I told him I loved him, and then I kissed him and I killed him." She's so heartbreaking there, so practical and yet you can tell it's tearing her apart.
Idea for a story: I feel like I wrote everything I had to say so I don't really have any ideas left, but it might be fun to find a way to bring her into the MCU.
Unpopular opinion: Ha, well, most of my opinions were unpopular back in the day. But it's been so long that I'm not sure I remember what was popular anymore.
Favorite relationship: Buffy and Giles. Honestly, I started watching the show for him because I was smitten with Head from those coffee commercials and VR5. And that relationship just made me swoon--I love male-female friendships and I loved how they evolved from Watcher and Slayer to Mentor and Mentee to friends as she grew up. Despite writing pretty much almost all Spuffy fic, it was Giles and Buffy that meant everything to me.
Favorite headcanon: That she brings Spike into the fold and the whole crew continues to fight evil together.
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Date: 2016-10-29 12:32 am (UTC)That's my favorite headcanon, too. :)
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Date: 2016-10-27 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-28 08:26 pm (UTC)First impression: What the fuck is this little kid running around the battlefields of Europe, this is ridiculous.
Impression now: Holy shit it's like they made him for me out of the gossamer threads of all my dreams and fantasies OMG and they cast Sebastian Stan in the role and how is this happening?
Favorite moment: "No, not without you!" or "Pick on someone your own size" or "You're a punk" or the entire fucking bank vault scene but especially "But I knew him" and also the tag at the end of Winter Soldier and the flip off the car and sliding across the pavement and braking with his metal hand or the motorcycle flip in CW or maybe "Yeah, but I did it." WWWAAAAHHHHHH.
Idea for a story: HA HA HA HA part 2. I still haven't written the timestamp of Bucky learning to use Sam's wings, so I suppose that's one of many. Or going to Asgard.
Unpopular opinion: This is where I also don't necessarily fall in line with a lot of the fandom. I don't think he was a brainless automaton as the Winter Soldier, and I hate how he's infantalized in a lot of fanon, or barely able to function on his own without orders and constant reconditioning.
Favorite relationship: With Steve, romantically, and as friends with Sam, or Clint, or Natasha, or Pepper. Or all of them.
Favorite headcanon: I've mostly been writing all my favorite headcanons for the past couple years, to be honest. But I really liked the one I did for In the Stardust of a Song (http://archiveofourown.org/works/4165845), where music triggers memories in the Winter Soldier during the course of the movie.
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Date: 2016-10-28 11:07 pm (UTC)I also headcanon that the Winter Soldier is probably trained to be a high performing adaptable spy/assassin capable of going underground for long periods if need be, etc. So he doesn't need conditioning to function - but maybe his epic sadness makes it hard to function.
YAY bucky learning to use sam's wings :)
"You're a punk" and hand on pavement and the tag at the end of WS are some of my faves too.
Love this description:Holy shit it's like they made him for me out of the gossamer threads of all my dreams and fantasies OMG and they cast Sebastian Stan in the role and how is this happening?
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Date: 2016-10-28 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-28 08:34 pm (UTC)Impression now: Why do I love her so much, she killed the fucking dog. She's so amazing. I should hate her so much!
Favorite moment: The tear gas and the stick and "wotcha" and the look on her face when she rescues John.
Idea for a story: Man, I've been trying to come up with something for ages. I can never get past them just being on their travels after they throw his coat in the river, but I feel like there has to be something more than that. Also, I don't think I'm smart enough to write her, so it feels intimidating.
Unpopular opinion: I don't know enough about what the popular ones are! I don't believe for one moment she's dead, though.
Favorite relationship: Well, John, obviously.
Favorite headcanon: It's kind of like with the stories, I just can't come up with anything that isn't part of the show already. I wish I could!
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Date: 2016-10-28 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-28 08:43 pm (UTC)Impression now: I liked seeing her journey to a more aware person, to wanting to do good for good's sake and not just because there was a financial reward at the end. I liked watching her fall in love with Hardison and process all that.
Favorite moment: When she climbed around Hardison to save him from blowing up.
Idea for a story: I don't really have one, though if I were to write one, it'd probably be around my headcanon below.
Unpopular opinion: Probably that first impression--I only knew one other person who was as put off by how they introduced her character as I was, so it was pretty clearly not the accepted response. Also, I never invested in the idea of an OT3--for me, it was the friendship with Hardison and Eliot, not a sexual threesome.
Favorite relationship: Honestly, with Nate, which I suppose is another unpopular opinion. I liked how she recognized that he could be a mentor to her in a similar way to Richard Chamberlain's character, and that she pursued trying to understand more about how to run the cons.
Favorite headcanon: That she's asexual or demisexual, or at least biromantic ace, and that Hardison would be cool with that and that their relationship would be based on other things besides sex.